Institute for Water and Watersheds, Oregon State University

WCMT students visited the Grande Ronde Model Watershed.

Featured Program

The Water Conflict Management and Transformation Program includes a capstone field course where students explore water governance hands-on.

The Institute for Water and Watersheds (IWW) is Oregon’s federally-designated water resources research institute. It coordinates water and watershed activities at OSU, connects students, staff, and faculty with stakeholders and statewide water issues, and pursues solutions to the water and related environmental problems of Oregon, the Pacific Northwest, and the world by assembling research teams from a broad spectrum of disciplines. Over 125 faculty from six colleges and numerous departments are affiliated with the IWW.

News

November 17, 2009
Flooded farmlands are boost to native fish and healthy habitat, study says(Oregonian; see also story in the Albany Democrat Herald and the related journal article) - article features research by the OSU Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.

November 9, 2009
Lessons in Oil for Groundwater Conservation? - (New York Times)article features research by Todd Jarvis, IWW associate director.

October 29, 2009
John Selker professor in the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, will be co-teaching a pre-AGU workshop on measurement of temperature with fiber optics.

October 2, 2009
Cody Hale, PhD student in Water Resources Science and the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources and Management, has won this year's Horton Research Grant from the American Geophysical Union. This award is for "best PhD proposal in hydrology" and carries with it a $10,000 prize.

September 23, 2009
Desiree Tullos, assistant professor in the Department of Biological and Ecological Engineering, was awarded a National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award. She is examining the potential impacts of climate change on river ecosystems and identifying opportunities to mitigate those impacts.

Upcoming OSU Water Events

Monday, November 23, 2009
Stream Team Seminars

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
Heat Budget in the Hyporheic Zone on the Willamette River -- Implications for Aquatic Habitat

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