News from the WyACT project
Rivers of Resilience: UW Grad Student Takes Deep Dive Into Relationship With Rivers and Lakes July 22, 2024
Understanding how Wyomingites think about and relate to water is the topic of Pallavi Pokharel’s master’s thesis. For this, she interviewed 43 farmers/ranchers and recreationists in the Snake River and Green River basins. Her research is one component of UW’s WyACT: Wyoming Anticipating Climate Transitions project, a five-year program funded by the National Science Foundation.
July 17, 2024
Jeff Hamerlinck, University of Wyoming School of Computing associate director and senior research scientist, has become president of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS).
July 12, 2024
Shawna McBride, who has served as interim director of the University of Wyoming’s EPSCoR/IDeA and Research Development Office, has officially been appointed senior director of that important resource to the state.
“When the Elder prayed, the buffalo appeared to listen in” – Janna Black organizes Indigenous youth camp as thesis project May 3, 2024
As part of her Master of Science in Environment, Natural Resources & Society degree, Janna Black planned and organized three-day camps at the Shoshone buffalo herd pasture.
WyACT workshop with stakeholder groups at the UW-NPS Research Station, AMK Ranch November 3, 2022
The purpose of this workshop in September 2022 was to understand the Teton context and stakeholder concerns in order to design a integrated pilot project that is relevant, legitimate, and salient.
