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
- Beaver dams overshadow climate extremes in controlling riparian hydrology and water quality
- The definitive climate fiction reading list
- The Hardest-Working River in the West (2023 Update)
- How Native Americans Will Shape the Future of Water in the West
- Is building more dams the way to save rivers?
- Will the Mekong River Really Become the Next South China Sea?
- Valerisa Joe-Gaddy on tribal water justice
- Life Was Built Around Snow. What Happens When It Vanishes? The melting of the snowpack in the high Cascades has long been a predictable source of sustenance in the Pacific Northwest. But the old patterns are changing. [nytimes.com]
- For the Common Good: Upstream and Downstream Communities Join Forces to Protect Water Supplies [lincolninst.edu]
- How the 100-Year-Old Colorado River Compact Laid the Foundation for the West’s Current Water Crisis [5280.com]
- Is building more dams the way to save rivers? [nationalgeographic.com]
- How We’re Reshaping Global Water Storage [eos.org]
- As Himalayan Glaciers Melt, a Water Crisis Looms in South Asia [e360.yale.edu]
- Working Daughter: a community for women balancing eldercare, career, kids and life [workingdaughter.com]
- Desalinating seawater sounds easy, but there are cheaper and more sustainable ways to meet people’s water needs [theconversation.com]
- A new method assesses health of Chile’s headwaters, and it’s not good news [news.mongabay.com]
- Reimagining river futures by reshaping water infrastructure [globalwaterforum.org]
- ‘This is what a river should look like’: Dutch rewilding project turns back the clock 500 years [theguardian.com]
- Surprise Hydrological Shifts Imperil Water Resources [eos.org]
- China’s Growing Water Crisis [reader.foreignaffairs.com]
- Pakistan’s Flood Disaster Shows the Perils of Climate Shortsightedness [foreignpolicy.com]
- The Controversial Plan to Unleash the Mississippi River [wired.com]
- Why Do Rivers Jump Off the Beaten Path? [eos.org]
- Climate Change Is Ravaging the Colorado River. There’s a Model to Avert the Worst. Success in the Yakima River Basin in Washington. [nytimes.com]
- The Colorado River drought is so bad you can see it from space [vox.com]
- Tribes take a central role in water management as drought and climate change effects worsen [azcentral.com]
- How are floods and droughts happening at the same time? [vox.com]
- New Park Offers a Glimpse of a Healthier Duwamish River [theurbanist.org]
- Shut out from talks on Colorado River crisis, tribes want inclusion and ‘transformation’ [latimes.com]
- An endangered fish’s story follows the vanishing waters of the Rio Grande [popsci.com]
- World could fall short of 10 million water professionals [worldwaterweek.org]
- Climate change journalism is finally getting its day in the sun [poynter.org]
- For business, water scarcity is where climate change hits home [economist.com]
- Rhine River – Europe’s Second-Largest River – Runs Dry [scitechdaily.com]
- A growing movement to reclaim water rights for Indigenous people
- Slow water: can we tame urban floods by going with the flow?
- A Waterway Project in Brazil Imperils a Vast Tropical Wetland
- How ‘water detectives’ are protecting cities from flooding and scarcity, one stream at a time
- Rivers can suddenly change course – scientists used 50 years of satellite images to learn where and how it happens
- Science must overcome its racist legacy: Nature’s guest editors speak
- Indirect effects of climate change adaptations on alpine and pre‐alpine freshwater systems
- Why a Global Price on Freshwater Might be Needed in the Climate Change Era
- Sockeye among ‘biggest unknowns’ for Elwha salmon recovery
- Testing Justice: New Ways to Address Environmental Inequalities
- The climate risk for hydropower
- How ‘spongy’ is your city? Report calls on cities to better assess how they absorb water
- A Deep Dive Into Shallow Waters: Understanding and Responding to Climate-Induced Impacts on Stream Permanence in the Northwestern U.S.
- Satellites over the Amazon capture the choking of the ‘house of God’ by the Belo Monte Dam – they can help find solutions, too
- Time, tradition and trust: The Navajo Nation takes on climate change
- To Revive a River, Restore Its Hidden Gut: Radical reconstruction in Seattle is bringing nearly dead urban streams back to productive life
- A New Tool Shows How Much Dams Will Alter River Temperatures, Threatening Native Fish
- Satellite-based irrigation advisory system in Pakistan
- Data exposes flaws in Mekong Delta resilience plans
- Traditional Water Management Practices in Pakistan Threatened by Climate Change and Globalization
- No, There Will Not Be a War for Water
- Mountain glaciers may hold less ice than previously thought – here’s what that means for 2 billion downstream water users
- Ecologists use selective watering to combat more frequent climate-induced droughts
- Shape Our Water: Pah-Tu Pitt
- How one Northwest tribe aims to keep its cool as its glaciers melt
- Mapping transboundary groundwater: taming the beast
- One Year from Launch: US-European Satellite to Track World’s Water
- Study decodes impact of climate change, damming on Ganga basin
- Weaponization of water in South Asia
- Nature-Based Solutions for Resilient Watersheds
- Increased attention to water is key to adaptation
- Stop blaming the climate for disasters
- Water is the middle child in global climate policy
- Water Resources Research Center, Arroyo 2022: Water Resilience: Indigenous Perspectives
- New Studies by A&S Researchers Illuminate Best Practices for Inclusion in STEM
- Towards ‘just resilience’: leaving no one behind when adapting to climate change
- Under Threat: The World’s Rivers Are Rapidly Changing, Here’s How
Academic Articles & Reports
- A watershed moment for healthy watersheds
- Fingerprinting historical tributary contributions to floodplain sediment using bulk geochemistry
- Enhancing Tribal Water Management Capacity in the Colorado River Basin: A Baseline Assessment
- The “water machine” of Bengal
- Modeling multiple ecosystem services and beneficiaries of riparian reforestation in Costa Rica [sciencedirect.com]
- Dismantling barriers faced by women in STEM [nature.com]
- Elevating the role of water resilience in food system dialogues [sciencedirect.com]
- What do we mean by justice in sustainability pathways? Commitments, dilemmas, and translations from theory to practice in nature-based solutions [sciencedirect.com]
- Valuing the contributions of non-native species to people and nature [sciencedirect.com]
- How to Make the Most of an Academic Conference: Advice on navigating professional meetings in all formats [chronicle.com]
- Decoupling environmental water markets from water law [iopscience.iop.org]
- Fisheries Management and Ecology Special Issue: Managing Fisheries within a RAD Framework [onlinelibrary.wiley.com]
- Using Game Theory to Identify Critical Watersheds based on Environmental Flow Components and Hydrological Indicators [europepmc.org]
- Regime shifts, trends, and variability of lake productivity at a global scale [pnas.org]
- A set of principles and practical suggestions for equitable fieldwork in biology [pnas.org]
- Permafrost thaw drives surface water decline across lake-rich regions of the Arctic [nature.com]
- Riverscapes as natural infrastructure: Meeting challenges of climate adaptation and ecosystem restoration
- Universal Access to Clean Water for Tribes
- 2021 Pacific Northwest Water Year Impacts Assessment
- Transboundary river basins: Scenarios of hydropower development and operation under extreme climate conditions
- The United Nations World Water Development Report 2021: Valuing Water
- The Land-Water-Energy Nexus of Ruzizi River Dams (Lake Kivu Outflow, African Great Lakes Region): Status, Challenges, and Perspectives
- Women are Credited Less in Science than are Men
- The Imbalance of the Asian Water Tower
- The origins of global biodiversity on land, sea and freshwater
- Spatial Heterogeneity of Neighborhood-level Water and Sanitation Access in Informal Urban Settlements: A Cross-Sectional Case Study in Beira, Mozambique
- The importance of hydrology in routing terrestrial carbon to the atmosphere via global streams and rivers (Future Rivers co-author)
- Observed poleward freshwater transport since 1970
- Atmospheric Rivers Bring More Frequent and Intense Extreme Rainfall Events Over East Asia Under Global Warming
- Optimizing Amazonian damns for nature (Future Rivers author)
- Predicting the Likely Thermal Impact of Current and Future Dams Around the World (Future Rivers authors)
- Coupled CH4 production and oxidation support CO2 supersaturation in a tropical flood pulse lake (Tonle Sap Lake, Cambodia) (Future Rivers author)
- Declining Greenness in Arctic-Boreal Lakes (Future Rivers author)
- The Individual Water Insecurity Experiences (IWISE) Scale: reliability, equivalence and validity of an individual-level measure of water security
- Decolonizing climate change–heritage research
- 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
- Diagnosing challenges and setting priorities for sustainable water resource management under climate change
- Environmental Flow Estimation of Brunei River Based on Climate Change
- Global rates and patterns of channel migration in river deltas
- Glacier retreat creating new Pacific salmon habitat in western North America
- GLOBathy, the global lakes bathymetry dataset
Science Communication Resources
- How prominent science communicators on YouTube understand the impact of their work
- A New Study Confirms: Structural Racism in STEM Programs Needs Fixing [blog.ucsusa.org]
- Climate Adaptation Knowledge Exchange [cakex.org]
- Center for Indigenous Fisheries [cif.fish]
- Community of Women in Water [cwiw.org]
- Women in science face authorship disputes more often than men
- Black Americans’ Views of and Engagement With Science
- 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
- Replenish: The Virtuous Cycle of Water and Prosperity by Sandra Postel
- A Drum in One Hand a Sockeye in the Other: Stories of Indigenous Food Sovereignty from the Northwest Coast by Charlotte Coté
- The Intersectional Environmentalist by Leah Green
- Racial Ecologies Edited by Leilani Nishime and Kim D. Hester Williams
- 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
- Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry by Camille T. Dungy
- 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
- The Rise of the American Conservation Movement: Power, Privilege, and Environmental Protection by Dorceta Taylor
- Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors by Drew Lanham
- There’s Something in the Water: Environmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities by Ingrid R.G. Waldron
- The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by J. Drew Lanham
- 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
- Water and Human Societies: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
- Resolving Water Conflicts Workbook Edited By Lynette de Silva and Chris Maser
Media
- Montana’s Legacy of River Protection: Six Dams That Were Never Built
- Power of the River
- Climate change could make WA streams too hot for fish, report shows
- Karuk Tribe/SWCASC Intentional Fire Podcast
- Inequitable Climate: Hurricanes, Flooding, and Vulnerable Communities [woods.stanford.edu]
- Washington State Office of the Insurance Commissioner: 2022 Climate Summit Series: Climate Change in the American Mind [youtube.com]
- The River Radius Episode 48: What is a River 2022? [theriverradius.com]
- How Can We Turn Climate Anxiety into Action [waterbear.com]
- Voice of The Sea: Hawai’i’s Fresh Water Initiative
- NW CASC Environmental Science with (not at) Society Recorded Webinar
- Countermapping Film Short
- The Intersectional History of Environmentalism
- TEDxSeattle: Connecting to climate change through music
- Greening the Ghetto
- Indigenous Knowledge Meets Science to Solve Climate Change
- Paya: The Water Story of the Paiute
- Virtual Water Gallery
- Imagining Climate Resilience in the Pacific Northwest
- Rio Grande: A Photo Essay
- Building Resilient Communities with Indigenous People Podcast: Impact Earth – Water
- Lost Women of Science PodcastThe Andean Amazon Story Map
- Battle for the Nile: An Arab News Deep Dive
Other
- Colorado River Science Wiki
- Puget Sound Integrated Modeling Framework
- WhiteSwan Environmental Digital Ecocultural Mapping Project
- Harvard School of Public Health’s Climate Optimist Newsletter
- The Internet of Water Coalition
- Groundwater Puzzle Game
- 500 Women Scientists Fix the Gap Speaking Engagement Honoraria Database
- The Global Flood Database
- Global Program on Nature-Based Solutions for Climate Resilience
- Water Tracker for National Climate Planning
- Games for Sustainability: Water Games
- UN FAO Guide to Forest-Water Management
- OpenET: Filling the Biggest Data Gap in Water Management
- Freshwater Ecoregions of the World
- Imagine a Day Without Water
- The Freshwater Health Index
- The Fisheries Blog
- gage: Women and Gender Diverse Professionals in STEMM
- The Nature Conservancy Sustainable Rivers Program
- Transboundary Water Portal
- Integrating Land and Water: Tools, Practices, Processes, and Evaluation Criteria
- A Resource Guide for Fish-Friendly Infrastructure Funding
- Exploring Climate Change and Mental Health: A Toolkit for Educators
- National Geographic Freshwater Teaching Resources