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.
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.
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.
Studying toxic metals in fish in southeast Asia’s largest freshwater lake
In the largest freshwater lake in southeast Asia, Shorna Sabikunnahar (Future Rivers, 2020) is looking into the ecological and environmental drivers of toxic metals in resident fish.
