The Wyoming Water Resources Data System (http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu) and its State Climate Office (http://www.wrds.uwyo.edu/wrds/wsc/wsc.html) branch are the single largest providers of water and climate-related data in the state.  Housed within the Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering at the University of Wyoming (http://www.uwyo.edu), WRDS and the SCO are funded primarily through the Wyoming Water Development Commission.  

 

The WRDS-SCO office provides a variety of services, ranging from the development of enhanced drought-monitoring products to the online dissemination of water and climate data.  WRDS and the SCO also support a variety of stakeholder groups by assisting in the development of the State Water Plan and helping to coordinate long-term climate and hydrologic monitoring efforts throughout the region.   WRDS and the SCO are active in several fields of research including:

- Impacts of climate variability/change on water resources

- Design of climate monitoring systems/networks for high-mountain areas

- Long-term history of Wyoming and western U.S. climate

- Tree-ring based reconstructions of river flow

- Glacial dynamics in the Central and Northern Rockies

- Ecosystem impacts of drought

 

WRDS/SCO Staff:

Chris Nicholson, Interim WRDS Director

Tony Bergantino, Assistant State Climatologist/Systems & Programming

Barbara Muller, Water Librarian and Archivist

Jodi Preston, Office Administrator and Data Manager

Michelle Ogden, Research Associate

 

A sampling of products from WRDS and the SCO can be found at: