News and Highlights

On July 2, 2013, a tower and precipitation pedestal was installed at the Knowlton Fork site.  A big thank you to the 13 people who were on hand to help move the heavy equipment up the trail. 

Joe Crawford, former GAMUT technician and iUTAH research focus area 1 team member from Brigham Young University, was interviewed for this article in Fondriest.com.

Read the "iFellows Field Note" submitted by Stephanie Mitt.

April 9-10, 2013 is the Ninth Annual Utah State University Water Initiative Spring Runoff Conference at the USU Eccles Conference Center. The theme this year is: "Water, People and Sustainability:   Integrating Physical, Social and Ecological Dimensions."  The Spring Runoff Conference provides a forum for interdisciplinary sharing and exchange of ideas on water-related issues in Utah and the Intermountain Region extending to all aspects of water science, ecology, policy, engineering and management.  Students are particularly encouraged to attend and present papers. The conference typically has about 150 participants from regional universities, state and federal agencies, as well as some invited National and International speakers.

If you are interested in submitting an abstract for a presentation (poster or talk) abstracts are due March 8, 2013.

Registration is now open for the 81st annual Western Snow Conference to be held in Jackson, Wyoming, April 15-18, 2013. The theme for this year's conference is "Wild Weather in the Wild West".

The Conference will begin Monday, April 15th with a short course and panel discussion on "New Strategies and Techniques in Long Range Streamflow Forecasting" with several invited experts in the field.  Tuesday and Wednesday will include formal paper and poster presentations on a variety of topics, including climate variability, climate change impacts on snow and runoff, water management, water supply forecasting, and modeling and climatology of snow.  Thursday will include a technical tour of natural resource management facilities in the Jackson Hole area.

April 23-25, 2013 in Logan, Utah. Integrated Theme: Climate Information for Natural Resource Management

Organizers invite abstracts demonstrating a broad array of climate information applications in water, energy, land, forest, wildlife, habitat, and other natural resources management. Presentations may illustrate the use of climate prediction in special-purpose programs such as wildfire risk reduction, species recovery, ecosystem restoration, and flood and drought response. Special emphasis may be on the synthesis of scientific information for user applications, various aspects of social sciences as a cross-cutting discipline for extended range preparedness, vulnerability assessments, or scenario development and planning. Presentations may focus on examples of web-based tools for climate-sensitive decision support, sustainability of resources, product usability, and performance evaluation. We encourage submission of abstracts on topics of environmental data stewardship including data access, distribution, quality, and availability, and their impact on decision support. We also invite discussions on climate science and service partnership between government, non-government, public and private organizations.

Abstract deadline is January 15, 2013.