The AWRA Utah Section if pleased to announce our 2017 Annual Conference, “Data for Water Management – More Exciting than it Sounds…and Far More Critical!” Tony Willardson will be speaking on Western Water Data topics during the morning session. This single day conference will be held on Tuesday, May 16, 2017. The conference will be […]
The Aspen Institute has released it’s long anticipated publication that summarizes a year-long dialogue series. WSWC participated quite a bit in the dialogue and helped with some of the findings and recommendations. Many who are familiar with WaDE will find language in the report that is similar, especially regarding principles of data-sharing. AI’s Press Release: […]
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.
2017 Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims The Western States Water Council and the Native American Rights Fund held their fifteenth biennial Symposium on the Settlement of Indian Reserved Water Rights Claims on August 8-10, at the Best Western Plus Heritage Inn in Great Falls, Montana. A number of topics were […]
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 […]
Workshop Goals: WSWC is re-introducing the WIMS to increase dialogue among not only member state appointees, but among their IT and program staff also. The intent is to discover the needs of WSWC members and their highest priorities regarding water data acquisition, quality control, and publication. Jointly hosted by WSWC and NASA’s Western Water Applications […]
Improving Sub-seasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Precipitation Forecasting to Support Water Management Decision-making The Western States Water Council and the California Department of Water Resources cosponsored workshop in a recurring series continuing a dialogue among western states and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the research community on improving sub-seasonal to seasonal (S2S) precipitation forecasting to support water […]
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 […]