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Conservation and Survey Division

Irrigation from a center pivot forms a rainbow.

Nebraska Water Leaders Academy boosts water management, leadership skills

November 5, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Aaron Young, a survey geologist with the Conservation and Survey Division, performs maintenance on a water well.

Nebraska groundwater levels continue decline after prolonged drought

April 30, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Sandstone-capped fluvial ridge in the Goshen Hole area of eastern Wyoming

Husker scientists deepen understanding of ancient rivers

February 12, 2024

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

A helicopter carries a large loop of wire whose electromagnetic signaling enables extensive imagery of subsurface conditions and the creation of a 3D geological model.

California turns to Nebraska know-how on aquifer analysis, groundwater management

September 19, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Books aligned in circle

Discussion-centered learning may spur more reading than lectures

April 14, 2023

Science & Technology

A University of Nebraska–Lincoln researcher takes groundwater samples from the Loup River in Nebraska’s Sandhills in September 2018.

Continued below-average precipitation reduces groundwater levels, report shows

April 5, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Matt Joeckel, a professor in the School of Natural Resources at Nebraska, headed the field work for a collaborative project at Utah’s Cedar Mountain Formation. The scientists expanded knowledge of ancient carbon-cycle changes relevant to understanding present-day environmental conditions.

Husker analysis of ancient carbon cycle deepens understanding of modern Earth

February 21, 2023

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

The rising sun appears to burn a hole through the flag of Cornhusker Marching Band color guard member Jaedynn Shively, a sophomore from Lincoln.

Achievements | Honors, appointments, publications for Oct. 14

October 14, 2022

Groundwater levels rose significantly across most of Nebraska from January 2019 to January 2020, according to the recently released 2020 Nebraska Groundwater-Level Report. The rain, snow and ice surpluses from 2019 were reflected in thousands of well measurements taken across much of the state in early 2020.

Groundwater levels were up significantly in early 2020, report shows

April 8, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

The journal Rangeland and Ecological Management recently published an article detailing the results of a survey of western South Dakota ranchers who endured a 2016 flash drought that significantly altered forage production in the area.

Study: Ranchers with drought plans make some pivotal moves sooner

January 5, 2021

Agriculture & Environment

Matt Joeckel

Joeckel contributes to Omaha bedrock tunnel project

May 15, 2020

Pockets of southwestern Nebraska and the Panhandle saw minor groundwater level declines, but the latest Groundwater-Level Monitoring Report shows a wealth of increases in groundwater supply across the rest of the state from spring 2018 to spring 2019. On average, wells measured in spring 2019 saw a 2.63-foot increase in groundwater levels statewide.

Nebraska groundwater levels rise following wet year

April 21, 2020

Agriculture & Environment