Utah State University News and StoriesFrom the Ashes: Complex Changes in Wildfire Patterns Detailed in Great Basin's History Wildfire patterns in the West are changing, but according to new research, ...

When it comes to counting tart cherries and estimating yield, USU researchers are adopting YOLO: You Only Look Once. YOLO is an object detection algorithm that uses cameras to capture an image of the ...

Wildfires and other watershed disturbances are becoming an increasing concern for natural resource managers. Since 2000, an average of 7 million acres across the U.S. have burned each year due to ...

LOGAN, Utah – Utah State University and the Northern Utah Water Users have announced the 2025 Northern Utah Water Users/Spring Runoff Conference, set to take place on March 25-26. This year's theme is ...

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 ...

As concerns about water supply in the West have grown in recent years, the value of good water data has become more evident. The latest USU Research Landscapes event, hosted Sept. 12 in Salt Lake City ...

The researchers identified several types of channel changes following post-fire debris flows, ranging from channelized and braided incision into deposits to bank erosion and no change. These ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 2022, Utah Water Research Laboratory graduate student Megan DiNicola and USU Professor Belize Lane began mapping 3D-printed replicas of freshwater mussels to study their preferred physical habitat ...

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 ...

Microplastics — they’re everywhere. As plastic production around the world increases exponentially, the reach of these broken-down, less than five-millimeter-wide plastic particles surges. We ingest ...