Events

In August 2021, we launched the Get to Know Our Rivers trip. We began with a guided tour of Flaming Gorge Dam, and hit the water at Lodore Canyon on the Green River, the chief tributary of the Colorado River.

Jack Schmidt offers the keynote at the 16th Annual Berkeley River Restoration Symposium in December called "Restoring the Colorado River."

Sara Goeking and David Tarboton (Director, Utah Water Research Lab), reviewed 78 recent studies of streamflow and snowpack response to forest disturbances, and reassessed the question: Does water yield or snowpack increase after forest disturbance?

The Returning Rapids Project seeks to document the recovery of river resources. Peter Lefebvre and Mike Dehoff, principal investigators of the project and professional river guides in Moab, Utah, are working to record these changes.

Representatives Brent Osiek (Power Marketing Manager) and Clayton Palmer (Environmental Specialist) made a presentation to students of the Large River Management Class taught by Jack Schmidt and David Rosenberg on March 10, 2020.

Join us, and a panel of experts, to start a conversation about long-term issues associated with management of Lake Powell. Since the Colorado River began filling Glen Canyon in 1963, the future of Lake Powell has been up for discussion.

Science be Dammed: how ignoring inconvenient science drained the Colorado River on October 2, 3:30 pm in ENGR 201. From his new book, Eric Kuhn discusses the management and mismanagement of water in the west.

The Center for Colorado River is partnering with the Escalante Canyons Festival to bring a slate of speakers to cover the art, science, and politics of the Colorado River system.

Join us for our next installment of Colorado River Science: Moab. We partnered with the Moab Festival of Science to have a conversation with Mike and Jenny Fiebig about their fall 2018 boating tour from the Wind River Range down to Mexico.

Students from the Center for Colorado River Studies headed to the field in April, 2019 to get in-person experience on the river. The USU class called "River Planning and Management" is a collaborative course for water resources and engineering students

As you may know, 2019 marks the 150th anniversary of John Wesley Powell's 1869 expedition. We'd like to share with you a number of outstanding and thought provoking projects, resources, articles and events that celebrate JWP's Sesquicentennial.

Students from the Center for Colorado River Studies headed to the field in April, 2019 to get in-person experience on the river. The USU class called "River Planning and Management" is a collaborative course for water resources and engineering students.

When you consider the historic harm done by mining operations to rivers in the West, it is tempting to speculate—if people then could only understand what we know now about how river systems work … could we have avoided ecological upheaval and disaster?

On October 13, 2018 we asked national experts -- can you rehabilitate a stressed river ecosystem and still meet the water needs of 40 million people? Find out what they said.

Check out our colleagues' presentations from the fall AGU meeting held in Washington DC in December 2018.

An on-the-water field experience for stakeholders, tribal, NGO staff, and river scientists to learn about and discuss water-supply policy, river ecosystem health requirements, reservoir operations, and the aspirations of users of the River’s water.