News and Highlights

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.

With support from the National Science Foundation, the International Network of Research on Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS-Net.org) offers CHANS Fellowships each year.

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.

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.

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