News and Highlights

April 15-18, 2013 is the 81st annual Western Snow Conference in Jackson, Wyoming. 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.

The first call for papers has an abstract submission date of January 15.

View the new iUTAH Program Poster. Availble in English and Spanish.

View the iUTAH Graduate Research Fellow posters. Research topics range from water quantity and quality monitoring to computer modeling to water resource decision-making.

Watch the presentation of The Red Butte Creek Project (RBCP). The RBCP was initiated by an interdisciplinary group of GCSC-affiliated graduate students in a course on Global Changes and Society (Spring 2012). This project-based course engaged graduate students from geography, civil and environmental engineering, city and metropolitan planning, geology and geophysics, mechanical engineering, biology, and mathematics.