Andrew Hautzinger (WestFAST) and Mike Higgins of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will brief WestFAST on agency structure and priority water-resource related issues including (1) Fisheries and Aquatic Conservation, (2) Ecological Services/Endangered Species, (3) Wildlife & Sport Fish Restoration Program, and (4) the National Wildlife Refuge System. Click here to view presentation slides.
On April 7th, at 2:00 (eastern), WestFAST will be briefed on progress in the development of the WSWC Water Date Exchange (WaDE). WaDE is a framework developed to allow various groups better ability to share state water data including information on water allocation, supply, and water demand data. WaDE is a cooperative effort between the […]
USGS Research Hydrologist Matthew Miller provided a briefing on a recent study describing how scientists used a new method to more accurately estimate the percentage of groundwater in streamflow, finding that more than half of the streamflow in the Upper Colorado River Basin originates as groundwater. A model has been developed to assess the spatial […]
The Western States Water Council (WSWC) believes that the current accuracy of forecasts (generally referred to as forecast skill) for the sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) time frame is not adequate to support water management decision-making. S2S forecasts include environmental predictions with forecast ranges from 2 weeks to 12 months. The WSWC has asked that the […]
WestFAST hosted a webinar with EPA’s Water Infrastructure and Resilience Finance Center, the USDA’s Rural Opportunity Investment Initiative, and the Department of the Interior’s Natural Resource Investment Center (collectively, the Finance Centers). This webinar was a follow up action from the WestFAST principals meeting held in March of this year in Washington, DC. We see […]
Daniel Wood presented an update on the use of satellite data for water management, and the tools that NASA is developing to assist with hydrology modeling. For the presentation, click here. For a recording of the webinar, please click here.
Water Innovation Fund The Water Funder Initiative is (WFI) is a collaborative effort to identify and activate promising water solutions through strategic philanthropic investments in the U.S., starting in the West where the scarcity and reliability of clean water are urgent issues. The goal of the Water Innovation Fund (“the Fund”) is to accelerate the adoption […]
Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESUs) provide research, technical assistance, and education to federal land management, environmental, and research agencies and their partners. Their broad scope includes the biological, physical, social, cultural, and engineering disciplines needed to address natural and cultural resource management issues at multiple scales and in an ecosystem context. Overhead costs are limited […]
The first few seconds of the webinar was truncated for some reason, and didn’t catch all of the introduction for Robin O’Malley who is the Director of the North Central Climate Science Center in Fort Collins Colorado. Robin is originally from the Northeastern United States and is finding the west a very interesting challenge. This […]
The introduction is missing from the recording – here are the basic – Steven Wallander and Marcel Aillery of USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) along with members of the WestFAST and WSWC on a new Survey of Irrigation Organizations under development by ERS and USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) with additional support from USDA’s […]