Noah Fraser, Mar. 2013 Featured DRI Graduate Student

march-featured-grad-noah-fraserMeet Noah Fraser, a Ph.D student in hydrologic sciences. His current area of study involves utilizing high resolution datasets of ephemeral streams to analyze flooding in non-instrumented river basins across the Southwestern U.S.

 
Harry Reid, U.S. Senate Majority Leader highlights DRI in speech to the Nevada Legislature

022013-senator-reid-greenpowerSenator Reid discusses the success of DRI's GreenPower Program and its K-12 teacher training workshops specifically.

 
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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2-2013-terra-cotta-statue-atDRI2/8/13: Chinese Terra Cotta Warrior unveiled at Reno’s Desert Research Institute.

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2013 DRI NV Medal

2013 DRI Nevada MedalistDRI proudly honors Dr. Nina Fedoroff for her pioneering research as the 2013 DRI Nevada Medalist this spring in Reno and Las Vegas.

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