What We Do

REDI is a hub for showcasing and integrating existing strengths and capabilities across campus. Collectively we have experience with a range of quantitative and qualitative research methods, high performance computing, and data visualization. Find our main research focal areas, and a list of our research projects below.

Water

The Water Focal Area includes projects that seek to use a range of tools to create predictive models for managers, increase data availability and accessibility, and assess existing management practices.

Active Projects

Integrated predictive water quantity and quality models to support healthy agroecosystems and water resource management (USDA, NIFA)

Completed Projects

Pacific Northwest Streamflow Catalog (Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center)
Assessing Idaho Power’s Cloud Seeding Efficacy

Coupled Natural-Human Systems

The Coupled Natural-Human Systems Focal area seeks to integrate multiple components of social-environmental systems by linking land use decisions with energy and water systems.

Active Projects:

Accelerating Water Consciousness: Equity in water information for community capacity building (National Science Foundation Convergence Accelerator)

Completed Projects:

Agent Based Modeling of Land Use and Land Cover Change

Expertise and Projects

Analytics

Modeling

Hydrologic Modeling (WRF-Hydro, ParFlow)
Statistical Modeling
Climate Modeling (WRF, CLM)

Computing

High Performance Computing
Reproducible Code Development
Cloud computing / Machine Learning …?

Visualization

3-D visualization of atmospheric dynamics
Spatial and temporal dynamics of big data
Conceptual models

Projects

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Title	Funding Organization	Collaborators	Description	Focus Areas	Start Date
Development of a Streamflow Catalog for the Pacific Northwest	Northwest Climate Adaptation Science Center	USGS	We are creating a catalog of streamflow data to identify where, how, and the duration of streamflow measurements outside of the USGS gaging network.	Water	September 2020
Predictive Streamflow Model for the Wood River Basin	Wood River Water Collaborative	WRWC	Working with the WRWC, we are developing a predictive model of annual runoff and water rights curtailment dates in the Big Wood River Basin.	Water	June 2020
Web-enabled Site Suitability and Visualization for Idaho’s Specialty Crop Industry	Idaho State Department of Agriculture		We are adding data layers and report generation capabilities to the existing Snake River Valley Climate Explorer.	Climate	January 2020
Integrated Multisector, Multiscale Modeling Scientific Focus Area	Department of Energy	PNNL	We are developing a flexible model and agent library for evaluating the effects of social networks and associated learning strategies in land use and land cover change across scales.	Multi-Sector Dynamics	October 2018
Modeling efficacy of Cloud Seeding in Idaho	Idaho Department of Water Resources, Idaho Power Corp.	IDWR, IPC		Water
Surface atmosphere integrated field laboratory				Climate