DRI NEWS RELEASE Senior Scientist comes from USGS National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center in Las Vegas Dr. K. Bruce Jones has been named the Executive Director of the Division of Earth and Ecosystem Sciences (DEES) at the Desert Research Institute (DRI). He...
RENO, Nev. – From the highest peak in the continental United States, Mt. Whitney at 14,000 feet in elevation, to the 10,000-foot-peaks near Lake Tahoe, scientific evidence from the University of Nevada, Reno shows the entire Sierra Nevada mountain range is rising at the...
UNR NEWS RELEASE Updated approach gives state, local agencies and public easier process to follow The Nevada State Climate Office, Division of Emergency Management and Division of Water Resources have updated the plan responsible for state agency communication and coordination on drought monitoring, response...
Planetarium’s special viewing event to be held at the MacLean Observatory on the Redfield Campus in south Reno Solar eclipses are not rare events, but perfect eclipses visible from our backyard are. On Sunday evening, May 20, 2012, Reno will be one of only...
UNR NEWS RELEASE While we may brush and floss tirelessly and our dentists may regularly scrape and pick at our teeth to minimize the formation of plaque known as tartar or dental calculus, anthropologists may be rejoicing at the fact that past civilizations were...
Nevada Geodetic Lab operates largest GPS network processing system in world GPS technology developed and implemented at the University of Nevada, Reno will be the centerpiece of a major test this year by NASA to pinpoint the location and magnitude of strong earthquakes along...
UN PRESS NEWS RELEASE George E. Gruell and Sherman Swanson will be signing copies of their new book, Nevada’s Changing Wildlife Habitat, at Sundance Books and Music in Reno at 1 p.m. May 5. For millennia the ecology of the Great Basin has evolved...
Desert Research Institute, Reno DRIVE6 virtual reality facility to provide unique learning environment for students Steven Squyres, Ph.D., this year’s recipient of the Desert Research Institute Nevada Medal, will take a group of students from Dilworth STEM Academy on a tour of the surface of...
MOANA NURSERY NEWS RELEASE There are many signs this month that winter has ended and better weather is on the way. One is that the internal clocks of many North American songbirds send a message that it’s time to head north. “More than 300...
DRI NEWS RELEASE Steven Squyres, Ph.D., this year’s recipient of the Desert Research Institute Nevada Medal, will take a group of students from Dilworth STEM Academy on a tour of the surface of Mars in DRI’s DRIVE6 virtual reality facility, Tuesday, April 24 from...
