Water Resources in the West: Assessing Tradeoffs in a Changing Climate
July 13, 2009

ESA co-sponsored a congressional briefing on status and future of freshwater resources in the American West, and the role of ecological science in efforts to prevent and adapt to water shortages.

Featured speakers:

• Jill Baron, Ecosystem Ecologist, US Geological Survey, Colorado State University
• Darrel Jenerette, Assistant Professor of Functional Landscape Ecology, University of California, Riverside
• Diane Pataki, Associate Professor of Earth System Science and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine