The Department of Watershed Sciences offers comprehensive educational opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students in the hydrologic and ecological sciences pertaining to watersheds.
Our faculty provide expertise in all aspects of the hydrologic cycle, in the conservation, restoration and management of aquatic ecosystems, and in the remote sensing and geographic analysis of the earth's landcovers.
Graduates of our programs become teachers and researchers at major universities, scientists and managers for natural resource agencies, and professionals with consulting and non-profit environmental firms.
Sediment fingerprinting is a way to measure and identify sources of sediment in waterways. It defines unique physical and chemical tracers in sediment samples and matches them to specific locations upstream. Although smaller-scale efforts to track sedimen...
To meet a statewide conservation goal of 16%, the decade-long effort aims to reduce the water used in homes, schools and businesses. Individual targets were set for each county to make it happen. Farm irrigation isn’t part of it — there are other ways to ...
New work from Scott Hotaling with Eric Gilbertson, used satellite data, laser measurements and historical photographs to document the ways ice-capped summits in the Western United States are being impacted by climate change.
Rising ocean temperatures, heatwaves and dwindling prey are forcing marine mammals into new and more dangerous waters, scientists warn.
