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| Project highlights, researcher profiles, events, & more.
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| Go Behind the Science with the ASTER Lab Visit DRI’s Northern Nevada campus on a clear afternoon, and you may hear a near-deafening buzzing. A massive swarm of bees? Thankfully, no—it's an unmanned aircraft system (UAS), or drone, being flown by researchers from DRI’s Airborne Systems Testing and Environmental Research (ASTER) laboratory. Watch the video to hear from Adam Watts, Ph.D., fire ecologist and director of the ASTER Lab; Kellen Nelson, Ph.D., postdoctoral researcher; and Jayne Boehmler, research physicist, as they prepare new UAS smoke sampling equipment for fieldwork and explain UAS applications for wildland fire research.
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| Meet Nic Beres, Ph.D. Student in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences Nic Beres, a Ph.D. student in atmospheric sciences, is working with Hans Moosmüller, Ph.D., to study how light-absorbing impurities like dust reduce surface reflectance of snow and ice. "I am exploring the lesser-known effect that brown carbon aerosol, which is emitted through combustion processes like wildfire, has on the snowpack," Beres explains. "I find myself spending as much time in the field as I do in the lab or behind a computer, so I feel lucky to be where I am."
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| NWAL YOUTH DAY & TRIBAL SUMMIT
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| Native Waters on Arid Lands (NWAL) Project hosts Youth Day and Tribal Summit events in Reno The NWAL project hosted its 4th annual Tribal Summit in Reno last month, bringing together more than 90 researchers, extension experts, and tribal community members from across the American West. This event featured two days of presentations and interactive discussions related to climate change, water resources, agriculture, traditional knowledge, livestock and ranching, conservation practices, and other topics. The Tribal Summit also included Youth Day, a day-long event for students from Pyramid Lake Junior/Senior High School that featured hands-on activities, presentations, and discussions designed to engage students in thinking about how to embrace the challenges of the future related to climate, water, and agriculture.
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| NSHE COLLABORATIONS IN MEXICO
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| NSHE seeks international system-wide partnerships in Mexico Earlier this fall, DRI President Kristen Averyt, Ph.D., traveled with a delegation of NSHE leaders to Mexicali in Baja California to discuss potential collaborations between NSHE institutions and CETYS University. The delegation focused on three collaborative opportunities, including water research, business entrepreneurship, and engineering in terms of autonomous systems research and teaching opportunities.
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| SAVE THE DATE FOR #GIVINGTUESDAY
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| For the second year, DRI will be participating in the international day of giving, #GivingTuesday, on November 27th. Thanks in part to donors who gave on #GivingTuesday in 2017, eight teams of DRI researchers just launched innovative projects aimed at investigating complex environmental challenges, including: - Developing real-time snow drought tracking tools for use in river basins throughout the western United States
- Investigating the impact of microplastics in Lake Tahoe
- Creating new ways to evaluate the vapors from e-cigarettes
Your gift to DRI on #GivingTuesday will help researchers pursue impactful projects like these—are you with us?
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A Stories in the Snow kit covered in hail. Credit: Jesse Juchtzer, Field Technician in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences. | |
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| It may not feel like it yet, but winter is coming! If you'll be in the Reno-Tahoe region this winter, even just for a weekend ski trip, be sure to break out your Stories in the Snow kit! The citizen science project, which collected over 500 snowflake images last winter, is gearing up for another great season of science and snowflakes. With a Stories in the Snow kit, you can help researchers learn more about the dynamics of winter storms in our region by submitting images of freshly fallen snowflakes right from your smartphone. Plus, getting a kit for yourself also sends one to a local student. Get yours at the button below so you're ready when the first storm hits!
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