DHS News
DRI scientists help reconstruct 2,000-year-long global temperature record for individual continents

042213-wais-featureIn a new study, published this week in Nature GeoScience, DRI hydrogeologists and atmospheric scientists, led by Joe McConnell, Ph.D., analyze past climate variability using ice cores from West Antarctica. 

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Antarctic ice core extracted by DRI scientists contains extraordinary and detailed record of greenhouse gases and climate change

ken-taylor-homepagefeature-020513A team of U.S. ice-coring scientists and engineers in Antarctica, funded by the National Science Foundation and led by Dr. Kendrick Taylor, a research professor with the Division of Hydrologic Sciences at Nevada’s Desert Research Institute, have recovered from the ice sheet a record of past climate and greenhouse gases in the atmosphere that extends back 68,000 years.

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Desert Research Institute scientist selected to help guide next USGS, NASA Landsat Mission

A computer mockup of the Landsat Satellite collecting data from Earth’s surface.The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) has named Justin Huntington, Desert Research Institute assistant research professor, to the National Science Team supporting the new Landsat Data Continuity Mission Satellite, scheduled to launch in February from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.

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DRI Demonstrates Lake Tahoe Research to Senator Heller

susfalk-heller-tahoe-summitThe 2012 Lake Tahoe Summit provided an opportunity for Desert Research Institute (DRI) reaseachers to demonstrate to Sen. Dean Heller methods used to study changes in water clarity and invasive species.

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Thomas named Executive Director of the Division of Hydrologic Sciences

Hydrogeologist has played key role in water research projects throughout Nevada

RENO – Dr. Jim Thomas has been named the Executive Director of the Division of Hydrologic Sciences (DHS) at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). He was previously DRI’s Director of the Center for Watersheds Environmental Sustainability (CWES).

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