Freshwater “flows” across many disciplines. Today’s freshwater issues are complex, and no single discipline can tackle them alone. That’s where we come in. The Freshwater Initiative promotes community interaction and facilitates new and creative applications of freshwater research in the water science and engineering communities.
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The Simpson Center for Humanities and EarthLab are proud to present the Anthropocene Film Salon, a film event-series which seeks to improve understanding across environmental fields of the humanistic, social, biophysical, and artistic dimensions of contemporary environmental challenges.
The Freshwater Exploration Series provides an opportunity for students from any discipline to collaboratively explore a water theme through a series of events. During the 2018-2019 academic year, the series will explore “Dams in the Pacific Northwest.” Here, Freshwater Exploration Series leader Claire Beveridge describes the series’ first event: a field trip to the Skagit River Hydroelectric Project.
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Recent technological advances in sensor and satellite instruments used in water research generate “big data,” high volume datasets that enable researchers to investigate earth systems at larger scales and finer resolutions.
Thursday, Nov. 15, 2018
UW Freshwater Initiative and eScience Institute host weekly Data Science Drop-In Hours, Thursdays 9:30-10:30am, in eScience.
Event DetailsWednesday, Nov. 28, 2018
Anthropocene Film Salon: Chasing Ice
The Simpson Center for Humanities and EarthLab are proud to present the Anthropocene Film Salon, a film event-series which seeks to improve understanding across environmental fields of the humanistic, social, biophysical, and artistic dimensions of contemporary environmental challenges.
Event DetailsThursday, Nov. 29, 2018
UW Freshwater Initiative and eScience Institute host weekly Data Science Drop-In Hours, Thursdays 9:30-10:30am, in eScience.
Event DetailsThursday, Dec. 6, 2018
UW Freshwater Initiative and eScience Institute host weekly Data Science Drop-In Hours, Thursdays 9:30-10:30am, in eScience.
Event DetailsIdentifying Novel Contaminants and Toxicants in Our Stormwater In rapidly urbanizing areas of the Unites States, stormwater runoff is a major water quality and treatment problem because it accumulates many harmful chemicals from our homes, roads, and cities as it flows downstream. However, the chemical make-up of urban stormwater runoff is poorly understood, even though it is known to be harmful to fish and aquatic ecosystems (often called “urban stream syndrome”). A new, NSF-funded project led by UW Freshwater Initiative faculty Ed Kolodziej will focus on identifying toxic chemicals in urban stormwater, especially focusing on understanding the link between stormwater…
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