A team of researchers from Utah State University, the University of Utah and the U.S. Geological Survey is looking at the journey of groundwater — from rain or snow to well and all the rock in between ...

The award recipient of both the Eldon J. Gardner Teacher of the Year Award as well as the Diversity Faculty Award is Beth Buyserie. The Eldon J. Gardner Teacher of the Year Award recognizes USU's most ...

USU Researchers Find Relationship Building, Local Cultural Knowledge Key for Indigenous Learners Read the Story June 02, 2025 2488 ...

The future is uncertain, but the agreements for water management in the Colorado River Basin are expiring in 2026, and new agreements need new solutions. To find these solutions, decision makers have ...

Water markets allow water to be leased or sold, without changing or selling water rights. This strategy, when managed well, can encourage water conservation and allow willing sellers to lease extra ...

Numerical models can help predict karst spring discharge, but they are resource-intensive and geographically constrained, making them impractical for consistent use. Because the specific structure of ...

More than 160 stakeholders contributed to this large-scale effort to understand the diverse measurement needs in the Great Salt Lake basin. The report, titled " Measurement Infrastructure Gap Analysis ...

A railroad causeway divides the waters in the Great Salt Lake except for a small opening known as the West Crack Breach. The State of Utah recently funded researchers at the Utah Water Research ...

USU Associate Research Professor Randy Martin, along with students from his air quality lab, are currently studying halogen concentrations around the Great Salt Lake. The lake is a site for industrial ...

Wastewater is a melting pot of different contaminants — heavy metals, antibiotics, and microplastics. As all these things enter a treatment plant, they aid in the development, persistence, and ...

“Notably, the report shows that 20% or 452,000 miles of water pipes in the U.S. and Canada are beyond their useful lives and need to be replaced but have not been due to lack of funds,” Barfuss adds. ...

Within our wintertime inversions in the Cache Valley, pollutants and emissions become trapped, and photochemistry begins to combine and condense different chemicals into fine particulate matter — ...