Film Screening: A Reflection of Life
To commemorate World Water Day on March 22, Future Rivers is hosting a free virtual screening of this recently released film. Register today and we will email you a link on April 12 to watch at your convenience any time before April 26.
Science in Action: Dispatches from the Field
Future Rivers Trainee Sage Fox and PI David Butman recently traveled to Chile to support Sage’s research estimating the export of nutrient and ions to the coastal ocean of Patagonia. With collages from Centro de Investigación en Ecosistemas de la Patagonia (CIEP), and the Universidad Católica de la Santísima Concepción, they drove from Puerto Montt to Coyhaique meeting with citizen science collaborators that were responsible for weekly water quality sampling.
Register for an exclusive screening of Hollow Tree
Future Rivers is hosting another film series this academic year to bring forward concepts of community, climate and fresh water. We will open the series on Tues., Nov. 26 with an exclusive screening of Hollow Tree: Growing Up at the End of the Earth.
The program’s final year
Future Rivers is a National Science Foundation program funded through a five-year grant. Since the start, program leadership has been pursuing various paths for sustainable funding to allow the program to continue beyond the grant period, with an ultimate goal of creating a Center for Freshwater Science at the University of Washington.
Student Internship Support
This summer, Future Rivers is helping to support graduate student alum Sophie Hammond’s internship with the USGS Western Fisheries Research Center. While there, she is conducting research using a Y-maze to study the effects of 6PPD-Quinone on olfactory mediated behaviors in cutthroat trout.
Dispatches from the field
Summer “break” is relative around here. Incoming student Grace Brennan has been leading fish removals along the Washington coast, ensuring the safe capture and relocation of fish during culvert replacement projects.
Congratulations Athena Bertolino, UW College of Environment 2024 Awardee for Outstanding Community Impact
The Awards Committee was impressed with the breadth and depth of Athena’s work and the impact that she has, which was highlighted in her nomination letters. Her nominators note that she is absolutely essential to the success and impact of Future Rivers; she is completely dedicated to making the UW and College of the Environment a world leader in transdisciplinary environmental science research and education; and her extraordinary commitment to excellence.
Elwha Summer Institute Product
Year 3 cohort students attending last year’s Summer Institute studying the Elwha River in Washington State’s Olympic Peninsula recently completed their joint project. If you are on campus this summer or fall, stop by the School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences building on Boat Street along the waterfront to check it out.
Facilitating Advanced Training
Current Future River student Emma Boudreau received support funding to participate in the CUAHSI Snow Measurement Field School in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire this past winter. In this course, she received fundamental training in making and analyzing snow measurements like depth, density, water equivalence, grain shape, stratigraphy, temperature, and hardness.
UW-WSU Collaboration and Yakima River Trip
This spring, University of Washington’s Future Rivers NRT teamed up with Washington State University’s Rivers, Watersheds, and Communities NRT to connect and share ideas, resources, and research grounded in a mutual focus of enhancing freshwater science in the state of Washington.