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.
Click on "Events" for conferences, workshops, seminars and other events related to climate-water transition.
Passionate about integrating numbers and lived experience - meet Jake Hawes January 6, 2025
In January 2025, UW is welcoming Jason "Jake" Hawes as Assistant Professor at the School of Computing and Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources.
Learning from the past: How prehistoric lake levels can help improve climate models December 2, 2024
In her thesis, Sara McCullough studied the changes in water level of a Wyoming lake, contributing to the improvement of climate models
UW Program Bringing Real-World Science to Classroom Starts Second Year November 26, 2024
The University of Wyoming’s Teacher-Researcher Knowledge Exchange (TRKE) program kicked off its second year of connecting science educators and scientific researchers with a five-day institute in Pinedale this fall.
November 25, 2024
Bryan Shuman will discuss “Increasing Wildfire and Declining Snow: Learning from the Past about the Future of Wyoming’s Rocky Mountains” at 2:10 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 3, in the Wyoming Union Family Room.
October 30, 2024
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.
October 25, 2024
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.
September 24, 2024
The University of Wyoming Biodiversity Institute (BI) has merged within UW’s Haub School of Environment and Natural Resources, effective July 1
September 20, 2024
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
What gets anglers hooked on fishing in the Snake River headwaters? August 30, 2024
In his thesis, Patrick Hofstedt analyzed “The preferences of anglers under alternative climate scenarios in northwestern Wyoming.”
Sarah Collins Named UW Research Institute Director at AMK Ranch July 30, 2024
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.
