diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index defb37ec8aa..4ebd4f392a9 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ matrix:
         - libhdf5-serial-dev
         - netcdf-bin
         - libnetcdf-dev
+  - env: CONDA_ENV=py36-dask-dev
   - env: CONDA_ENV=py36-pandas-dev
   - env: CONDA_ENV=py36-bottleneck-dev
   - env: CONDA_ENV=py36-condaforge-rc