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...

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

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/...

"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. 📈🔬🍃🍋

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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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...

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. 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...