As part of the Future Rivers program offerings, we disseminate a curated list of relevant resources to our students and faculty every few weeks. Here is a sampling of what we have recently shared.

Articles

• Baby salmon head out to sea. Then they do something unexpected, new research shows 
• What happens when Colorado River drought plans end in 2026? 
• Extreme changes in India’s summer monsoon threatens food sources in Bay of Bengal 
• A Crucial River Treaty Is Tangled in Trump’s Feud With Canada 
• Modeling the Past, Present, and Future of Drought 
• AI presents opportunities and challenges for sustainable water management 
• Climate change on your doorstep: Online tool shows future of regional and global water resources 
• Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas 
• Earth’s storage of water in soil, lakes and rivers is dwindling. And it’s especially bad for farming 
• America has a hidden 740-mile river adventure that’s finally being revealed – A season on the Northern Forest Canoe Trail 
• Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas 
• 90 Million at Risk: Scientists Warn of Looming Andean Water Crisis 
• Surprises in the Klamath: How disease, invasives, and warming waters are affecting redband trout
• Megadroughts Have Grown in Size and Scope 
• Gap between water supply and demand will increase as climate shifts 
• 5 Good Alternatives to a Faculty Career
• The Rivers Run Dry and the Lights Go Out: A Warming Nation’s Doom Loop 
• Water is in the spotlight at the UN climate summit. Here’s why that matters 
• The Delicate Balance of Permafrost in Arctic River Floodplains
• New Database Provides World’s Most Comprehensive Data on River Barriers and Reservoirs 
• Full cleanup begins at Lower Duwamish [River] Superfund site 
• A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights 
• Arctic Tundra Has Long Helped Cool Earth. Now, It’s Fueling Warming. 
• Bargaining with Nature over water reforms: the first independent assessment of the State of the Murray-Darling Basin raises serious concern 
• In a Major Reversal, the World Bank Is Backing Mega Dams 
• Cambodia’s giant lake shrinks as climate change, Mekong dams cut fish supply 
• New Insight into Inland Water Carbon Dioxide Emissions 
• How to Get an Academic Job: Here’s everything you need to know about finding a tenure-track position 
• Where Glaciers Melt, the Rivers Run Red: As the glaciers of South America retreat, the supply of freshwater is dwindling and its quality is getting worse 

• $25M Mass Audubon grant will fuel Connecticut River watershed conservation 
• The power of a logjam: A vision of the Northwest’s rivers of old 
• An Alarming Glimpse Into a Future of Historic Droughts
• The system that moves water around the Earth is off balance for the first time in human history 
• Half the world’s countries have degraded freshwater systems, UN finds 
• How Years of Government Failures Caused a Flood ‘Worse Than Boko Haram’ 
• Water demand is rising fast. Yet few realize how it impacts the climate crisis 
• Why the Earth’s water cycle is under threat 
• Designing and managing protected and conserved areas to support inland water ecosystems and biodiversity
• Loss of spring moisture a culprit for missing water in Colorado River 
• How can we save the ‘world’s most important’ river?
• An Alarming Glimpse Into a Future of Historic Droughts
• Hood Canal salmon run sees booming recovery as fish face extinction
• More Than Half of Contiguous U.S. River Water Comes from Ephemeral Streams
• Navigating the Rapid Rivers of Policy
• Inside the plan to build a new dam and reservoir in WA 
• Can continental transboundary compacts hold water? 
• Just add sewage: How a bone-dry river bed became a thriving haven for desert wildlife 
• Reframing the role of water for a more climate-resilient Middle East 
• The Intensifying Impacts of Upstream Dams on the Mekong 
• Conflicts Over Water Soared to New High Last Year 
• Peak water in an era of climate change 
• Protecting People & Property: The World’s Largest Dam Rehabilitation Program 
• Why isn’t Colorado’s snowpack ending up in the Colorado River? New research suggests the problem might be the lack of spring rainfall 
• Not politics, not interest rates: India’s surging economy at risk from water 
• Restoring chalk streams in a changing climate 
• There’s a new top fish of the Columbia River — and it doesn’t mind the warm water 
• Forests, Water, and Livelihoods in the Lesser Himalaya 
• Rivers of Ruin: Destructive Floods Ravage Tanzania 
• Water specialist, hydrologist, fisheries technician. These jobs are on the front lines of responding to climate change. 
• Breaking the menstruation taboo to make fieldwork more inclusive
• Unraveling the Scientific Mismatch: The Amazon’s Surprising Drought Response 
• When Hydropower Runs Dry 
• NASA’s New Global Accounting of Earth’s Rivers Reveals “Fingerprints” of Intense Water Use 
• When rivers run low: Unraveling the hidden consequences of damming and hydrological drought 
• Failure to share scientific data is undermining efforts to protect major Asian rivers
• Understanding the Water Flows of the Nile River
• Klamath River Reservoirs Drained for World’s Largest Dam Removal Project 
• How Climate Change Will Transform River Flows and Landscapes
• Scientists confine, study Chinook at restored Snoqualmie River habitat 
• Unlocking Tomorrow’s Water Secrets Through Sci-Fi 
• How one river in south Puget Sound tells the story of salmon’s plight 
• River Recovery from Drought Can Take Years
• Climate Change Turns African Rivers into Epicentres of Conflict
• The Great Sediment Shortfall: Why Rivers Can’t Rescue Coastal Wetlands
• Water is central in achieving all 17 SDGs. But how?
• Rivers Are Warming Up and Losing Oxygen 
• Rethinking river restoration: a challenge for freshwater ecology
• The Rio Grande isn’t just a border – it’s a river in crisis 
• Unlocking the Secrets of Floods: Breakthroughs in Riverine and Coastal Modeling
• Rivers at Risk: How Climate Chaos Is Tainting Our Waters
• As the Arctic Warms, These Rivers Are Slowing Down
• Bangladesh, a river delta nation, is on the front line of climate change. Its coping strategies could offer lessons for the wider world.
• Can you put a price on one of the most important rivers in the world? Some researchers are giving it a shot
• The Colorado River Is Shrinking. See What’s Using All the Water.
• Scientists Chart Transformation of Klamath River and Its Salmon Amid Nation’s Largest Dam Removal Project
• Europe’s next crisis: Water
• A Severe Drought Pushes an Imperiled Amazon to the Brink
• A New Age of Water is Dawning
• Uruguay Wasn’t Supposed to Run Out of Water
• In Cambodia, a Battered Mekong Defies Doomsday Predictions
• How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the West
• Is building more dams the way to save rivers?
• A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news
• Reimagining river futures by reshaping water infrastructure
• ‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years
• The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River
• Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst. Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington
• For business, water scarcity is where climate change hits home
• A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
• Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?
• Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and how it happens
• Why a Global Price on Freshwater Might be Needed in the Climate Change Era
• To Revive a River, Restore Its Hidden Gut: Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive life 

Academic Papers

Future Rivers faculty and student authored

• Lake Surface Temperatures: Influencing Factors and Their Effects on Columbia River Basin Reservoirs (Dr. Hossain)
• Towards a comprehensive river barrier mapping solution to support environmental management (Dr. Olden)
• A new look at Earth’s water and energy with SWOT (Dr. Hossain)
• GRILSS: Opening the Gateway to Global Reservoir Sedimentation Data Curation (pre-print; Dr. Hossain)
• Human barriers fragment three-quarters of all rivers in the Mekong basin (Dr. Olden)
• Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity (Dr. Olden)
• Climate and landform interact to control the source and transport of nitrate in Pacific Northwest rivers (Liz Elmstrom)
• Unpacking Climate Policy: A guide to assessing policy effectiveness and applying insights to climate solutions journalism in five steps (Ashli Blow)
• A Network Design Approach for Citizen Science-Satellite Monitoring of Surface Water Volume Changes in Bangladesh (Dr. Hossain)
• Past and recent anthropogenic pressures drive rapid changes in riverine fish communities (Dr. Olden)
• Examining the Impact of Stream Permanence on Headwater Stream Carbon Emissions (Dr. Butman)
• ResORR: A Globally Scalable and Satellite Data-driven Algorithm for River Flow Regulation due to Reservoir Operations (Dr. Hossain)
• The future of global river health monitoring (Dr. Olden)
• Integrating terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems to constrain estimates of land-atmosphere carbon exchange (Dr. Butman)
• Restoring the Mesopotamian Rivers for Future Generations: A Practical Approach (Dr. Hossain)
• Quantification of wetland vegetation communities features with airborne AVIRIS-NG, UAVSAR, and UAV LiDAR data in Peace-Athabasca Delta (Dr. Butman)
• Global investigation of lake habitat coupling by fishes (Dr. Olden and Dr. Holtgrieve)
• Shifting taxonomic and functional community composition of rivers under land use change (Dr. Olden)
• A Network Design Approach for Citizen Science-Satellite Monitoring of Surface Water Volume Changes in Bangladesh (Dr. Hossain and Sanchit Minocha)
• How low can you go? Widespread challenges in measuring low stream discharge and a path forward  (Dr. Olden)
• The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers  (Dr. Butman)
• Optimizing Amazonian damns for nature  (Dr. Holtgrieve)
• Predicting the Likely Thermal Impact of Current and Future Dams Around the World  (Dr. Holtgrieve)
• Coupled CH4 production and oxidation support CO2 supersaturation in a tropical flood pulse lake (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia)  (Dr. Holtgrieve)
• Declining Greenness in Arctic-Boreal Lakes  (Dr. Butman)
• Multi-scale threat assessment of riverine ecosystems in the Colorado River Basin  (Dr. Olden)
• A Multidecadal Analysis of Reservoir Storage Change in Developing Regions  (Dr. Hossain)
• Modeling the freshwater ecological response to changes in flow and thermal regimes influenced by reservoir dynamics (Dr. Olden)
• Ecological stability propagates across spatial scales and trophic levels in freshwater ecosystems  (Dr. Olden)
• Reimagining the Surface Water and Ocean Topography Mission as the “Landsat” of Surface Water  (Dr. Hossain)
• Causes, Responses, and Implications of Anthropogenic versus Natural Flow Intermittence in River Networks  (Dr. Olden)
• A reconstruction of parasite burden reveals one century of climate-associated parasite decline (Dr. Wood)
• Operational forecasting inundation extents using REOF analysis (FIER) over lower Mekong and its potential economic impact on agriculture  (Dr. Hossain)
• River–lake connectivity, wetland, and human stress factors shape fish diversity (alpha and beta) patterns in the middle and lower Yangtze River, China (Dr. Olden)

Other papers of interest

• Ten new insights in climate science 2024
• A Review of the Effects of Climate Change on Visitor Use in Us Public Lands and Waters
• The financialization of rivers: Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) subsidized hydropower in the Mekong Region’s basins at risk 
• Deepening water scarcity in breadbasket nations 
• Global Water Monitor 2024 Summary Report
• Economics of drought Investing in nature-based solutions for drought resilience – Proaction pays 
• Sustainable land and irrigation management to limit loss of hydropower in the Andes-Amazon headwaters 
• To Understand Climate Mobility, Follow the Water 
• Future Scenarios for River Exports of Multiple Pollutants by Sources and Sub‐Basins Worldwide: Rising Pollution for the Indian Ocean 
• The Global Youth Statement Declaration for Climate Justice 
• Europe’s state of water 2024: the need for improved water resilience 
• Incorporating Natural Infrastructure in Bogotá’s Water System
• Planetary Health Check: A Scientific Assessment of the State of the Planet
• Tracking Agricultural Transitions in the Colorado River Basin
• Yaa Heen Koosge: Indigenous Peoples and Water Wisdom 
• Evolution of river regimes in the Mekong River basin over 8 decades and the role of dams in recent hydrological extremes
• Anthropogenic climate change has influenced global river flow seasonality
• Resilient riverine social–ecological systems: A new paradigm to meet global conservation targets
• Analysing and evaluating environmental flows through hydrological methods in the regulated Indus River Basin
• Quantifying the effects of institutional shifts on water governance in the Yellow River Basin: A social-ecological system perspective
• Water-energy-food planning and operations framework for river basins with a case study on the Blue Nile
• Recent intensified erosion and massive sediment deposition in Tibetan Plateau rivers 
• A triple increase in global river basins with water scarcity due to future pollution
• From local knowledge to decision making in climate change adaptation at basin scale. Application to the Jucar River Basin, Spain
• Large sinuous rivers are slowing down in a warming Arctic
• Rethinking river water temperature in a changing, human-dominated world
• Data, knowledge, and modeling challenges for science-informed management of river deltas
• Global river water quality under climate change and hydroclimatic extremes
• Modelling the climate change impacts on river discharge and inundation extent in the Magdalena River basin – Colombia
• The future of global river health monitoring
• Cooperative adaptive management of the Nile River with climate and socio-economic uncertainties
• Rapid changes to global river suspended sediment flux by humans
• Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration
• Transboundary river basins: Scenarios of hydropower development and operation under extreme climate conditions 
• Integrated modelling to assess the impacts of water stress in a transboundary river basin: Bridging local-scale water resource operations to a river basin economy
• Global prevalence of non-perennial rivers and streams
• Global rates and patterns of channel migration in river deltas 

Science Communication Resources

• This urgent ad shows how climate change visuals are changing 
• How prominent science communicators on YouTube understand the impact of their work
• Science in ASL is a whole different language: Interpreters in STEM
• The power of storytelling for water and climate
• Going beyond “just the facts” towards a narrative in your science communication
• A key ingredient for SciComm: listening 
• What Hollywood can teach researchers about scientific storytelling 
• Science Communication: What Does Your Online Presence Say About You?
• Step back from scientific hubris: Q&A on water research
• Engaging Science Communication Books
• What do we mean by SciComm anyway?
• Half-life your message: A quick flexible tool for message discovery
• Top tips for getting your science out there

Books

• Urban Cascadia and the Pursuit of Environmental Justice edited by Nik Janos and Corina McKendry
• Pushing the Paradigm of Global Water Security edited by Victoria Anker; Rachael Maysels; Maria Valasia Peppa
• Big River: Resilience and Renewal in the Columbia Basin by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
• Keeping the Chattahoochee: Reviving and Defending a Great Southern River by Sally Sierer Bethea
• Black Earth Wisdom: Soulful Conversations with Black Environmentalists by Leah Penniman
• Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
• Indigenous Environmental Justice Edited by Karen Jarratt-Snider and Marianne O. Nielsen
• Rivers of Power by Laurence C. Smith
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples by Linda Tuhiwai Smith
• The River That Made Seattle: A Human and Natural History of the Duwamish by B.J. Cummings
• Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
• There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Ingrid R.G. Waldron
• Mississippi Solo by Eddy Harris
• Rivers Lost, Rivers Regained: Rethinking City-River Relationships Edited By Martin Knoll, Uwe Lubken and Dieter Schott
• Globalization of Water: Sharing the Planet’s Freshwater Resources by Arjen Y. Hoekstra and Ashok K. Chapagain
• Water: A Biography by Giulio Boccaletti
• Underflows: Queer Trans Ecologies and River Justice Cleo Wolfe-Hazard
• Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of drought and Deluge by Erica Gies
• To Be a Water Protector: The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers by Winona LaDuke
• The Flow: Rivers, Water, and Wildness by Amy-Jane Beer
• In the Watershed: A Journey Down Maumee River by Ryan Schnurr
• Walking on Water: Black American Lives at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century by Randall Kenan

Storymaps

• Urban Waters Learning Network Art and Environmental Awareness – Fostering Community Connection and Collaboration
• The Economics of Water: Valuing the Hydrological Cycle as a Global Common Good
• Resilience on Seattle’s Waterfront
• International Watersheds Initiative Storymap
• The Hardest-Working River in the West
• Montana’s Legacy of River Protection: Six Dams That Were Never Built
• Imagining Climate Resilience in the Pacific Northwest
• The Andean Amazon
• Explore Our Great Rivers

Media

• The Sound of Water: Environmental Flows in Nap Nap Swamp
• Cities With Water Webinar Series and Photo Competition 
• River Histories Lecture Series
• Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice  
• The Green Desert 
• 14 extraordinary photos show the importance of freshwater habitats 
• Rivers are Connected. Actions to Protect Them Must Be Connected Too 
• UW Center for Environmental Health Equity Environmental and Energy Justice in Tribal Communities Webinar Series 
• Audacious Water: A podcast about how we can build a world of water abundance for everyone 
• Wild Hope Series: The Beautiful Undammed (Elwha River)
• Into the Amazon
• At the Water Table: Conversations with River Network
• The Indigenous Planetary Health Podcast
• Climate Creators to Watch in 2024
• Covenant of the Salmon People
• Freshwater
• Imagine 2200: Climate Fiction for Future Ancestors
• The International River Foundation and the Australian Water Partnership First Nations Voices for Rivers series
• Fifth National Climate Assessment Art x Climate Gallery
• The Water Talk Podcast
• Understanding the Global Supply of Water
• Power of the River
• The River Radius Episode 48: What is a River 2022? 
• Countermapping 
• TEDxSeattle: Connecting to climate change through music 
• Indigenous Knowledge Meets Science to Solve Climate Change
• Paya: The Water Story of the Paiute
• Virtual Water Gallery
• Rio Grande: A Photo Essay
• Building Resilient Communities with Indigenous People Podcast: Impact Earth – Water
• Lost Women of Science Podcast

Other Resources

• Circle of Blue’s Designing Water’s Future: A new operating system for fresh water 
• Mastering the Grant Lifecycle: From Prospect to Execution 
• One Earth Bioregions Map: Nature’s Map of the Earth 
• World Water Map Insights: Visualize and download global water shortage data 
• Utrecht University and National Geographic World Water Map
• Intermittent Rivers: A Graphical Overview
• STREAM: Satellite-based analysis Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Aquatic environMents 
• Water Hub 
• Climate & Health Evidence Bank
• Pacific Institute Water Conflict Chronology
• Indigenous Women’s Leadership Network
• America’s Most Endangered Rivers of 2024: A Call to Action for Clean Water
• 2024 Value of Water Index
• Water & Equity Mapping Tools
• Native Nations Institute Indigenous Governance Database
• Resilient Rivers Hub: Connecting physical and social science datasets
• Water Loop: a nonprofit media outlet covering sustainability and equity in water
• Field Inclusive: Amplifying and Supporting Marginalized and Historically Excluded Biologists and Researchers
• Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange
• Center for Indigenous Fisheries
• Community of Women in Water
• WhiteSwan Environmental Digital Ecocultural Mapping Project
• The Internet of Water Coalition 
• The Global Flood Database
• Water Tracker for National Climate Planning 
• Games for Sustainability: Water Games
• OpenET: Filling the Biggest Data Gap in Water Management
• Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
• The Freshwater Health Index
• The Fisheries Blog
• gage: Women and Gender Diverse Professionals in STEMM
• The Nature Conservancy Sustainable Rivers Program
• Transboundary Water Portal