Mekong Basin Research

Tonle Sap Lake featured in NYT Magazine

Admin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:51:54 +0000

The NY Times magazine has a very interesting article on some of the social strife among fishing villages on the Tonle Sap Lake. Check out the drone video of many of our field sites!

Mekong research featured on the cover of Science

Admin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:47:55 +0000

A new article published in Science offers a potential way to mitigate tradeoffs between hydropower development and fishery yields in the Lower Mekong Basin. Using 17 years of data, the researchers developed an algorithm to predict fishery yields from river flow and used it to design an ideal flow regime that would provide ample water for hydropower and also support the fishery. The result is a management strategy which may actually increase fishery yields in the Mekong River and other tropical rivers facing similar pressures worldwide.

Science, 8 December 2017, Vol. 358, Issue 6368

This publication, led by Dr. John Sabo at Arizona State University and co-authored by University of Washington’s Dr. Gordon Holtgrieve, made the cover of Science.

To read the UW News coverage of this article, click here.

To read the original research article, click here.

RiverINFEWs Workshop

Admin — Thu, 16 Aug 2018 21:30:08 +0000

RiverINFEWs: Workshop to explore the nexus between food, energy and water in a large international river system.

The University of Washington and Florida State University, with funding from the National Science Foundation, are hosting a workshop to explore the nexus between food, water, and energy systems (FEW) in the Mekong River basin with the goal of identifying key emergent properties and future scientific questions in the context of sustainability.

Thank you to everyone who participated in and helped organize a very successful workshop!! We are currently compiling our notes and planning the next steps. Stay tuned…we will be in touch soon.

Workshop Schedule

Objectives & Outcomes

Workshop Participants

Workshop Venue

Press Release

Questions about the workshop itself please contact Gordon Holtgrieve (gholt@uw.edu or 206-227-9930) or John Felkner (jfelkner@fsu.edu ).

INFEWS researchers to hold workshop

Admin — Sun, 23 Aug 2015 16:21:19 +0000

The University of Washington and Florida State University have been awarded grant to hold a workshop to explore key scientific questions around Food, Energy and Water in the Mekong Basin. The workshop will involve 30-40 scientists and stakeholders and will be held fall 2015 in Seattle. Contact Gordon Holtgrieve (gholt@uw.edu) or John Felkner (jfelkner@fsu.edu) for more information.

NSF Press Release