A long-term collaboration with good friends and colleagues has resulted in an exciting (I think) new synthesis paper and a nice companion news release in the WSU Insider. Very happy to see this paper out in the world! Harrison, J. A., Beusen, A. H. W., Bouwman, L. (A.F.)., Wang, J., & Liu, X. (2026). Coastal […]
A new paper in Limnology and Oceanography Letters by Ted Ballenger and John Harrison uses two years of data from the Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems: Dams as Adaptive Management Systems (DISES: DAMS) project to highlight and characterize water-level management and trophic status controls on methane emissions in Columbia River Basin reservoirs.
We are seeking a full-time field/lab manager to help coordinate the DAMS DISES Project. If you are interested in a great opportunity to work in beautiful places and do interesting work and think you are qualified, please apply. We will evaluate applications starting in mid-September, 2022.
We are currently seeking students (graduate and undergraduate) to participate in a recently-funded, 4-year NSF Dynamics of Integrated Socio-Environmental Systems (DISES) project focused on reciprocal interactions between reservoir management and aquatic ecosystems, and other projects. See the DISES project website for more information. Interested students may also want to view the recently funded NSF National […]
Our group has recently published a few exciting papers characterizing methane emissions from reservoirs, at scales ranging from meters to the globe. Here are the papers: The first paper, led by former GCWB Lab PhD student Sofia D’Ambrosio, shows the first ever results of a non-invasive “flux gradient” method for characterizing benthic fluxes in lakes […]
We have recently started a new, interdisciplinary, NSF-funded, 4-year, $1.6M project aimed at achieving an integrated understanding of the dynamic, reciprocal relationship between environmental and social (institutions and values) systems by examining dam and reservoir operations, the decision-making process governing those operations, and feedbacks between this decision-making process and the environment. We are looking for […]
Terrific participation all around from BLAB graduate students(!), and congratulations to Corey Ruder, who was awarded runner-up for her talk comparing her work on internal waves in lakes to a hunt for “Nessie.”
Sarah Kintner (co-advised by Harrison and Moffett) and Phil Steenstra (co-advised by Harrison and Strigul) both successfully defended their MS theses last Friday (4/5; Big Day!) and were celebrated with now customary “thesis cakes.” A hearty congratulations, thanks, and best wishes to both Sarah and Phil as they move on to new challenges and adventures!!!
In the past few months, our group has published several papers, including: