Future Rivers A Retrospective

The Future Rivers graduate student training program at the University of Washington has reached its end. It's been a wild and scenic 5 years! Thank you to all who have been involved. See the awesome program retrospective here: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/1738...

De Visdeurbel — De Visdeurbel Zie je een vis? Druk op de Visdeurbel dan opent onze sluiswachter de sluis en kunnen de vissen doorzwemmen.

Need something both mindless and mindful to do? Watch the livestream and ring the doorbell if you see a fish and the lock operator in the Dutch town of Utrecht will let it through to help reach its spawning ground. visdeurbel.nl 🐟

📣 Calling all nature lovers!

Join TNC as we take on the City Nature Challenge from April 25–28. Download the iNaturalist app to snap photos of the plants, animals and insects you see, then upload these observations to your city’s iNaturalist project. 📱🦋🌼

Get involved here: nature.ly/3RyIy61

Trinity River's remarkable transformation: From pollution to restoration The Trinity River in North Texas has transformed from a heavily polluted waterway to a healthier river over the past century. Efforts from the community and environmental regulations, including the Cl...

Hear from our Southwest Regional Director, Matt Rice, on the impact of growing populations, rising temperatures, and extreme drying events on Texas rivers. Protecting rivers and investing in water infrastructure is not a partisan issue: www.cbsnews.com/texas/video/...

Los Angeles River restoration could face setback due to climate change, wildfires Restoration for the Los Angeles River has been underway for several decades, but the recent wildfires and drier climate could put progress in jeopardy.

"When fires burn cities and impact homes and communities, the impact to the river lasts a long time...can make our beaches unswimmable our water undrinkable." -Ann Willis, California Regional Director, American Rivers www.cbsnews.com/losangeles/n...

We area so pleased to have helped support this awesome work by Amirah! Glad to see it highighted here.

Neat #SciComm from Amirah Casey in my lab group.

Our Program Manager was in Ashland, OR last week giving a highly attended talk on how we strucutred our successful traineehsip at the 2025 River Management Symposium. Maybe some of you were in attendance! 🎉We are always happy to share what we have learned over the past 5 years. 👐

Two of our student's from last year's cohort - Kelly Neal and Amirah Casy - just returned from participating in Auburn University's 4th annual Climate Symposium, where they presented their research, toured labs, walked the arboretum, and sampled lemondade at Toomer's. 📈🔬🍃🍋

Three book covers side-by-side. The River's Daughter by Bridget Crocker; Is A River Alive by Robert Macfarlane; The River Knows Your Name by Kelly Mustian

As many of you, we read a lot for work, but we also read a lot for fun. We are looking forward to the multiple non-academic books with rivers as a central theme being released this year! Any we missed? What river-based book is your current favorite? #books #newyearsgoals #reading #rivers

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70% OFF Water Always Wins: Thriving in an Age of Drought and Deluge Nearly every human endeavor on the planet was conceived and constructed with a relatively stable climate in mind. But as new climate disasters remind us every day, our world is not stable—an...

For Audiobook listeners in your life, an uplifting world travelogue about water problems -- and solutions!!! www.audiobooks.com/promotions/p...

Well deserved - congrats! 👏

Ryan's book is exceptional!

uncpress.org/book/9781469...

An AI generated image of a school of fish wearing santa hats swimming in a serene river surrounded by a snowy forest holding a sign saying Happy Holidays from Future Rivers

A River in Washington State Now Has Enforceable Legal Rights - Inside Climate News Voters in the city of Everett chose to grant the Snohomish River watershed rights to exist, regenerate and flourish as part of a November ballot initiative.

Residents of a Washington city voted to give enforceable legal rights to the Snohomish River. Individuals, agencies and groups can now bring lawsuits to keep the ecosystem healthy: insideclimatenews.org/news/0512202...

Agreed.

Sea Grant is accepting applications for NOAA Fisheries-Sea Grant
Graduate fellowships in population and ecosystem dynamics & marine resource economics. Deadline = Jan. 23. Applicant guides at lnkd.in/dyggpSR9

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Local folks, please join us on campus tomorrow, November 26 for an exclusive film screening! 🎞️🍿https://futurerivers.uw.edu/news-and-events/film-series-resources/future-rivers-2024-25-film-series/

Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Hydropower is a renewable energy source that can contribute to growing energy demands. This Review considers the ecological consequences of hydropower plants on riverine systems and emphasizes the urg...

Hydropower impacts on riverine biodiversity. A paper recently out in Nature Reviews - Earth and Environment with @fengzhihe.bsky.social @scjaehnig.bsky.social jcsvenning.bsky.social and others! A good one-stop shop for understanding the impacts of hydropower dams. www.nature.com/articles/s43...