The high salinity of the Colorado River, which causes more than $300 million in damages per year according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, was the focus of Tanya Petach’s winning entry into the 2010 Thacher Environmental Research Contest. The contest, an activity of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), awards cash prizes to grades 9-12 students whose projects show the best use of satellites and other geospatial technologies or data to study Earth. Read More
