University of Oregon
University of Oregon is a university that is part of the pulse of the water sector. Here we bring together everything it publishes on Smart Water Magazine: its news, its blogs and the events it takes part in.
New research shows where water injustice plays out in the United States
Roughly 2 million people in the United States do not have access to running water or indoor plumbing in their homes. Another 30 million people live in areas where drinking water systems violate safety regulations. One University of Oregon researcher, along with co-authors, has mapped those hot spots in a first-of-its-kind study combining geospatial analysis […]
Research team finds a huge buried aquifer atop the Oregon Cascades
Oregon’s Cascade Range mountains might not hold gold, but they store another precious resource in abundance: water. Scientists from the University of Oregon and their partners have mapped the amount of water stored beneath volcanic rocks at the crest of the central Oregon Cascades and found an aquifer many times larger than previously estimated — […]
An 1867 Washington deluge shows the region’s potential for flooding
An 1867 flood in western Washington surpassed anything that the region has seen in the last century, new University of Oregon research shows, offering a foreboding look at what storms fueled by climate change could now produce. In that long-ago flood, an atmospheric river combined with snowmelt to deliver record amounts of precipitation over a three-day […]
Researchers use lasers to get a new view on Oregon’s glaciers
The latest technology to study glaciers fits in a backpack and can be carried up steep mountains. University of Oregon researchers have developed a portable tool that uses lasers to measure the composition of glacial ice, data that can help determine how fast that ice is melting. The instrument can be used to study glaciers in remote wilderness […]
As atmospheric carbon rises, so do rivers, adding to flooding
When it comes to climate change, relationships are everything. That’s a key takeaway of a new UO study that examines the interaction between plants, atmospheric carbon dioxide and rising water levels in the Mississippi River. Published recently in the Geological Society of America’s journal GSA Today, the study compared historical atmospheric carbon data against observations of herbarium […]
Underwater glacial melting is occurring at higher rates than modeling predicts
By Carolyn Levinn and Jim Barlow, University Communications.