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Future Rivers student wins 2022 AWRA Annual Conference Poster Competition
Year 3 Future Rivers student Sanchit Minocha won the People’s Choice Graduate Award in the 2022 AWRA Annual Conference Poster Competition. The poster showcased his work on developing a Reservoir Assessment Tool (RAT) to monitor reservoirs worldwide using remote sensing and hydrologic modeling. Congrats! See the announcement here.
Read moreFuture Rivers Outstanding Graduate Recognition
A big congratulations to Amirah Casey, one of our incoming trainees and first year University of Washington graduate student, who was recently named the first Outstanding Graduate of Western Washington’s Marine and Coastal Sciences undergraduate program. We are so happy to have Amirah bring her passion, drive, and expertise to Future Rivers! See the announcement and her incredible story here.
Read moreFuture Rivers Elwha River Summer Institute
In late August, our 2022/23 Future Rivers trainees spent a week in the field learning about the Elwha dam removal and subsequent restoration efforts. The group shared toured the lower and upper dam removal sites, the mouth of the Elwha, and Lake Crescent; visited the Elwha Klallam Museum; watched and discussed the movie Return of the River with the Co-Directors; and heard from guest speakers representing the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, WDFW, NPS, and USGS.
Read moreWelcome Future Rivers 2023/24 Cohort!
This September, a record sixteen new graduate students – along with six new faculty advisors – will be joining our program as our Year 4 cohort, representing seven departments in four colleges across the University of Washington.
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