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Working to Solve our Most Challenging Environmental Problems
DRI’s research calls on the expertise and methods of scientists from multiple scientific disciplines. More than 600 highly-skilled scientists, engineers, technicians, students, and staff work collaboratively within and across three research divisions, focused on understanding and answering critical science questions about global climate change, water quality and availability, air quality, the sustainability of desert lands, life in extreme environments, education, and more.
International Consortium of Scientists Propose New Naming System for Uncultivated Bacteria and Archaea
International Consortium of Scientists Propose New Naming System for Uncultivated Bacteria and ArchaeaRENO, NEV.JUNE 8, 2020MicrobiologyNomenclatureTaxonomyThe long-standing rules for assigning scientific names to bacteria and archaea are overdue for an update,...
DRI Air Quality Experts Awarded Prestigious Haagen-Smit Prize
April 30, 2020 (RENO) – Drs. Judith Chow and John Watson, research professors in the Division of Atmospheric Sciences at the Desert Research Institute in Reno, were awarded Elsevier Publisher’s 2019 Haagen-Smit Prize for outstanding paper published in the journal...
Prescribed Fire Science Key to Sustaining Fire We Use
A team of leading fire scientists, including DRI’s Adam Watts, PhD, are advocating for fire research to place a priority on the area of prescribed fire science. In a recently published article in Frontiers in Fire Ecology, Watts and colleagues argue that while the...
Dr. Naresh Kumar appointed to lead Atmospheric Sciences at the Desert Research Institute
Reno, NV (April 7, 2020): The Desert Research Institute (DRI) proudly announced today that Dr. Naresh Kumar has been selected to lead the Institute’s Division of Atmospheric Sciences. Dr. Kumar comes to DRI from the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Palo...
Healthy Nevada Project participants report on COVID-19
14,000 Nevadans quickly report on signs and symptoms to enhance predictive public health models for Nevada. Reno, Nev. (April 1, 2020) – The Healthy Nevada Project, a first-of-its-kind, community-based population health study combining genetic, clinical,...
What is your COVID-19 story?
New study collecting human experiences emerging from the global pandemic Reno, Nev: (Tuesday, March 31, 2020) – As the number of people and communities impacted by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) continues to grow by the hour, a group of social scientists has turned...
DRI Hydrologist Mark Hausner Receives 2020 Rising Researcher Award
Reno, Nev. (March 5, 2020) - Today, the Nevada System of Higher Education (NSHE) Board of Regents awarded the 2020 Rising Researcher Award to Mark Hausner, Ph.D., of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno. This honor is given annually to researchers from DRI, the...
Nevada Gold Mines donates $100,000 to DRI’s Nevada Robotics State-wide Teaching Training Program
Reno, Nev. (Feb. 27, 2020) - Robotics clubs and competitions have become popular in many Nevada middle and high schools in recent years, but opportunities for participation at the elementary school level have so far been limited. This is set to change, thanks to a new...
Desert Research Institute to lead Nevada’s new Regional STEM Networks
Reno & Las Vegas, NV (Feb. 6, 2020): The Desert Research Institute (DRI) and the Nevada Governor’s Office of Science, Innovation, and Technology (OSIT) today announced the creation of three new Regional STEM Networks across the state. With a growing need for a...
Meet Julie Albright, DRI’s Technologist of the Year
The cutting-edge scientific research that happens at DRI wouldn't be possible without the Institute's many technologists: non-faculty employees who have special technical experience and training to support instrumentation design, laboratory and fieldwork,...
DRI Foundation Appoints New Trustees, Welcomes New Officers for 2020
Las Vegas, NV (December 6, 2019): The Nevada System of Higher Education Board of Regents today approved the following appointments and election of officers to the DRI Foundation Board of Trustees. The DRI Foundation proudly welcomes Mrs. Starla Lacy as a new Trustee...
DRI Launches Two New Projects to Study Hydrology at The Nature Conservancy’s 7J Ranch
Scientists will investigate water quality and flow in critical desert wetland habitat LAS VEGAS, NEV. (Sept. 30, 2019) —The Desert Research Institute (DRI) is pleased to announce the launch of two new research projects to study hydrology at The Nature...