News and Events

Here, you will find the latest updates on the WyACT project and its team members. To find out what other say about us, please go to In the Media.

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2024

UW Releases Research on Methods to Encourage Market-Based Conservation

University of Wyoming Extension has released a new publication that describes a problem with market-based conservation programs where companies pay landowners to meet certain conservation goals.

UW Signs New Agreements with Tunisian Universities

A delegation from UW, including WyACT Co-PI Bart Geerts, traveled to Tunisia to sign four separate memoranda of understanding with the Universities of Tunis, Sfax and Jendouba, and the National Institute of Agronomic Studies of Tunisia and the National Institute of Agricultural Research of Tunisia.

UW Biodiversity Institute Joins Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources

The University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute (BI) has merged within UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, effective July 1

UW new CASC Consortium Partner

The University of Wyoming is a consortium member of the latest 5-year cooperative agreement between the United States Geological Survey (USGS) and the University of Colorado Boulder to host the North Central Climate Adaptation Science Center (NC CASC). UW contact: Corrie Knapp

Young woman standing in a stream fly fishing What gets anglers hooked on fishing in the Snake River headwaters?

In his thesis, Patrick Hofstedt analyzed “The preferences of anglers under alternative climate scenarios in northwestern Wyoming.”

Sarah Collins Sarah Collins Named UW Research Institute Director at AMK Ranch

Sarah Collins, an associate professor in the University of Wyoming Department of Zoology and Physiology, has been appointed as the new Research Institute director of the UW Research Center at the AMK Ranch in Grand Teton National Park.

UW graduate student Pallavi Pokharel interviews Robert Lundy for her thesis. Rivers of Resilience: UW Grad Student Takes Deep Dive Into Relationship With Rivers and Lakes

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.

Jeff Hamerlinck Leads University Consortium for Geographic Information Science

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).

Shawna McBride Named Director of UW’s EPSCoR/IDeA Office

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.

Indigenous youth camp participants (photo: London Bernier/GYC) “When the Elder prayed, the buffalo appeared to listen in” – Janna Black organizes Indigenous youth camp as thesis project

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.





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