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2 months ago | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
Southern California has seen some of the most destructive wildfires in the state’s recorded history in recent weeks, with the Los Angeles communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades experiencing unprecedented loss. While fire has always been a feature of California’s landscape, the size and intensity of blazes is known to be increasing due to a number of climatic and societal factors.
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2 months ago | 
aaas.org | Elyse DEFRANCO |Elyse DeFranco
“That’s when I found the AAAS fellowship,” he said. As a fellow in the NSF’s Division of Graduate Education, Bixenmann helped develop and launch the Graduate Research Internship Program (now the INTERN program), which provides graduate students the opportunity to experience non-academic careers.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
This summer and fall, DRI brought twelve students from Nevada’s community and state colleges to the Las Vegas and Reno campuses for a paid, immersive research experience. Over the course of the 16-week program, students worked under the mentorship of DRI faculty members to learn about the process of using scientific research to solve real-world problems.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
dri.edu | Diana Setterberg |Elyse DEFRANCO |Elyse DeFranco
Reno, Nev. (January 15, 2025) – DRI scientists Joe McConnell and Nathan Chellman co-authored a new study that examines a 6,000-year-old forest preserved in a Rocky Mountain ice patch. The research, which was led by the USGS and Montana State University, used the fossil wood to develop tree-ring based temperature estimates of the mid-Holocene period.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
Reno, Nev. (January 13, 2025) – The Reno-Sparks Heat mapping project team is thrilled to announce the successful completion of our community’s temperature mapping campaign and the release of the campaign’s data and modeled temperature maps! This effort, covering nearly 200 square miles of our Truckee Meadows communities, was led by the Nevada State Climate Office at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) with support from climate scientists at the Desert Research Institute (DRI).
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO |Elyse DeFranco
Reno, Nev. (Jan. 6th, 2025) – Lead exposure is responsible for a range of human health impacts, with even relatively low levels impacting the cognitive development of children. DRI scientists have previously used atmospheric pollution records preserved in Arctic ice cores to identify periods of lead pollution throughout the Roman Empire, and now new research expands on this finding to identify how this pollution may have affected the European population. The study, published Jan.
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Dec 3, 2024 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO |Elyse DeFranco
Reno,Nev.(December3,2024)– New research builds on scientific understanding of how air pollution and cancer risk are distributed throughout the U.S. Air pollution, often resulting from industrial or vehicle emissions, can travel for hundreds of miles and impact the health of communities through higher rates of asthma, respiratory infections, stroke, and lung cancer.
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Nov 14, 2024 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
Tyler Doane, Ph.D., started in May 2024 as Assistant Research Professor in the Division of Hydrologic Sciences. He works remotely from Cleveland, Ohio, where his wife teaches bioethics at Case Western Reserve University’s medical school. Doane is a geomorphologist who received his Ph.D. at Vanderbilt University before completing a postdoctoral position at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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Oct 30, 2024 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
Reno, Nev. (October 30, 2024) – DRI scientists are recruiting fifteen Fallon residents with private wells to participate in a water quality study. All fifteen study participants will receive free water quality results, and a subset of the well owners will receive water filtration systems.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
dri.edu | Elyse DEFRANCO
DRI’s annual awards and recognition ceremonies were held at our Reno and Las Vegas campuses in early October to honor scientists and staff members for their achievements. Along with the below awardees, several faculty and staff were recognized for their long-term service to the institute. DRI prides itself on fostering a fulfilling workplace that builds internal community and inspires scientific discovery. Peter B.
