WESTERN CONSORTIUM

A Western Consortium consisting of Idaho, Nevada and New Mexico successfully completed a Watershed Analysis, Visualization and Exploration project resulting in a physically-based, virtual watershed platform. This work assembled a collaborative team of faculty and students with computational expertise and watershed processes and modeling expertise... Mountain watersheds provide a large proportion of water and ecosystem services to communities in the intermountain west. Climate change impacts affect the ability of these watersheds to improve water quality, groundwater storage, and flow moderation. Even subtle changes in climate may lead to cascading impacts on interactions between precipitation, vegetation growth, soil moisture, and other landscape properties, but the mechanisms responsible for observed and projected change are poorly understood. In order to address the challenge of understanding hydrologic change in high-elevation watersheds, the EPSCoR jurisdictions of Idaho, Nevada,..

Primary location: Moscow United States