The Environmental Management Research Group (EMRG) is a research unit of the Utah Water Research Laboratory (UWRL) focused on integrated watershed management and systems analysis of environmental problems. Founded in 1998, EMRG combines the research talent and experience of several UWRL professors, research engineers and graduate and undergraduate students in civil and environmental engineering, biological and irrigation engineering, computer science and other disciplines. EMRG provides software development, watershed and water quality modeling, and GIS data analysis service to internal and external entities directed at solving integrated watershed and environmental management-related problems of a variety of scales.

EMRG projects have included TMDL water quality modeling and data analysis in both Utah and Idaho, water quality and quantity modeling training seminars (specifically using the EPA BASINS software package), development of a sourcewater protection analysis tools, and the development of custom GIS and data visualization and analysis tools for integrated watershed information management. Additionally, EMRG researchers have developed probabilistic modeling approaches for integrated stakeholder-based watershed management, and continue to do research in new and innovative areas of physical and statistical modeling.