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June 5, 2023 | Stanford News Service
Scientists have long suspected that the weight of snow and ice in nearby mountains could throw off groundwater assessments tied to elevation changes... Read More
January 26, 2023 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford and local experts discuss ways to mitigate risk to communities and infrastructure amid dramatic swings between flood and drought.
June 30, 2022 | Stanford News Service
Stanford's Sustainability Accelerator drives solutions generated through collaborations and scales them through partners locally and globally to... Read More
June 2, 2022 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy and Environmental Sciences
A Stanford University study simulates 65 years of land subsidence, or sinking, caused by groundwater depletion in California’s San Joaquin Valley.... Read More
October 27, 2021 | Water in the West
Stanford water experts discuss lessons learned from previous droughts, imperatives for infrastructure investment and pathways for the state to... Read More
June 15, 2021 | Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences
Stanford scientists demonstrate a new way to assess sites for groundwater storage using soil measurements and a geophysical system towed by an all-... Read More
March 23, 2021 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
In 2020 wildfires ravaged more than 10 million acres of land across California, Oregon and Washington, making it the largest fire season in modern... Read More
March 23, 2021 | Water in the West
Naming priorities such as better land management, an evolved portfolio of 21st-century solutions and more funding for research and development,... Read More
December 4, 2020 | Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Stanford researchers, in collaboration with groundwater managers, are leading an airborne survey effort to investigate where water from the Sierra... Read More
