News and Blog

Freshwater Student Leadership Opportunities

Calling all student leaders!
Interested in learning more about Freshwater Initiative student leadership opportunities?  We are recruiting new members to our Student Steering Committee.

Our student leadership is the heart of Freshwater Initiative, planning events, organizing training opportunities, and promoting water science on campus. 

Anthropocene Film Salon

You’re invited!
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. 

Freshwater Students Explore Skagit River Hydroelectric Project

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. 

Cybertraining Grant Supports WaterHackWeek at the University of Washington

By Julia Hart
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.