tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-86199346717109724012012-01-06T13:50:37.808-05:00Hydrology and Water Resources in the News and Science MediaM. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.comBlogger1611100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-62039084138126073362011-12-28T13:13:00.001-05:002011-12-28T13:30:20.879-05:00

So my posting schedule sure fell off there once my first Ph.D. semester started at the University of Wisconsin... sorry about that.  Classes kept me busy, and I worked on a little bit of start-up research toward my dissertation program.  On a positive note, much of what I did this Fall semester will lay the groundwork for one or more ongoing collaborations and projects. In one class I looked at

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“Blue Revolution: Unmaking America’s Water Crisis” By Cynthia Barnett Published in 2011 by Beacon Press, Boston MA ISBN 978-0-80700-317-6 Buy this book at Amazon.com (hardcover) or on your Kindle Full disclosure: I solicited via e-mail and received a copy of this book for free in exchange for my promise of a published review. I have racked my brain, and Google Maps, over the past weeks in a

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Editor's Note: the following text is quoted verbatim from a statement issued by the convening organizations at the Stockholm World Water Week conference and exposition that was last held during 21 - 27 August 2011.  That annual event is organized by the Stockholm International Water Institute (SIWI), which also hosts the UN Development Program (UNDP) Water Governance Facility (WGF) and the

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The Federal Water Pollution Control Amendments of 1972, also known as the Clean Water Act, became law in the United States 39 years ago today.  Early in the day I opened my Twitter account to find some strangely aberrant claims about what the CWA does (e.g., "drinkable waterways"), and what we should "do for its birthday."  Well, anything that was later suggested would come too late and

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Today is World Food Day, as designated by the United Nations on the anniversary of the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization in 1945, and as such is this year's Blog Action Day on the topic of food. Last year around this time, I posted my commentary on the U.N. Resolution on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation on the occasion of the 2010 Blog Action Day on the topic of water.

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So, it's been a little while since my last post, that long examination of Brian Fagan's "Elixir" into which I delved so deeply and with such care that I've worked my way backward into some of his earlier works, including his absolutely fascinating "Long Summer."  More about those later - you will definitely see pieces from "The Long Summer" later as individual vignettes here, with such a wealth

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"Elixir: A History of Water and Humankind" By Brian Fagan Published in 2011 by Bloomsbury Press, New York NY ISBN 978-1-60819-003-4 Buy this book at Amazon.com Full disclosure: I solicited via e-mail and received a copy of this book for free in exchange for my promise of a published review.  Author's note: A consolidated map including many of the locations that pass through Mr. Fagan's

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-87471011016086348422011-07-25T23:59:00.012-04:002011-07-28T03:25:08.015-04:00

Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  21 July (Thursday) NOT resilient -- MT @riverkeeper_ny: NYC sewage treatment

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I am proud to announce that, along with the blogs of numerous friends and colleagues, my own Hydro-Logic has been named one of Seametrics.com's "Top 25 Water Conservation Blogs."  The full list of their selections includes some that I also follow closely, including: Project WET WaterWired Aguanomics Water Crunch The AWRA Blog There are many others that I haven't listed here but that I do

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  16 July (Saturday) Sounds familiar, but from so long ago... RT @EI_Water: A

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  11 July (Monday) Super-costly at €378M... RT @waterpowermag: EIB confirms

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  6 July (Wednesday) Friends and colleagues, Part 2 of my "Forests and Water"

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Author's Note: the following is derived from a project proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) that I co-authored in 2009 with a colleague at Northern Arizona University (NAU).  More context on the narrative given here is provided in part 0 of this series.  A brief review of forest - water connections, forest health, and fire susceptibility is given in part 1 of this series. ASTER

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  1 July (Friday) Cute poster -- RT @CentralBasin: Cerritos Student Selected as

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  26 June (Sunday) Cynthia Barnett and photographer John Moran examine Florida's

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  22 June (Wednesday)  Friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related to

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Author's Note: the following is derived from a project proposal to the National Science Foundation (NSF) that I co-authored in 2009 with a colleague at Northern Arizona University (NAU).  More context on the narrative given here is provided in part 0 of this series. Photograph of the 2011 Wallow Fire in eastern Arizona by John Burfiend, provided by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC)

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-25689114804815026992011-06-22T00:01:00.063-04:002011-06-22T01:14:34.237-04:00

Yes, indeed, I did post on forests and water earlier this year for World Wetlands Day.  This series is connected, in some ways, to things that I wrote there. This is also still the UN International Year of Forests.  And last, but not least, a big chunk of Arizona is still burning... In 2009, while working at the University of Arizona (UA), I co-authored with a colleague at Northern Arizona

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  18 June (Saturday) Dear friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related

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"The Big Thirst: The Secret Life and Turbulent Future of Water" By Charles Fishman Published in 2011 by Free Press, New York NY ISBN 978-1-4391-0207-7 Buy this book at Amazon.com Resorting only minimally to the standard statistics of water scarcity in various regions around the world, Mr. Fishman dives in to several specific case studies intended to help the reader understand the reasons for

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!  13 June (Monday) Friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related to

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro!   Note: #FF is a hashtag on Twitter that usually denotes "Friend Friday" or "

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NASA Omnibus Announcement of Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2011 Science Mission Directorate NASA Research Announcement Earth Science Applications: Water Resources Solicitation NNH11ZDA001N-WATER Released 18 February 2011 Amended 3 June 2011 Notice of Intent to Submit Proposal (NOI) Due 1 July 2011 Proposals Due 30 September 2011 The full text of this amended

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 8 June (Wednesday) Friends and colleagues, my collected tweets related to

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In a tradition that I shall borrow from friend and colleague Dr. Carin Bondar and her "Cool Biology Jobs" postings, I found this listing for a "Cool Water Job" and wanted to pass it along to everyone. It's also relevant to point out here a long-ago post of my own about ethnic Kurdistan in northern Iraq. It's an area of fascination for me, watching how the regional balances of power evolves and

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-50467949522086798562011-06-07T23:59:00.027-04:002011-07-01T14:51:13.797-04:00

Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 4 June (Saturday) RT @highlyanne: New post: Lingering flooding along the Middle

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 1 June (Wednesday) MT @columbiawater Water Matters: Uncertainties of Groundwater

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 29 May (Sunday) Just 11 yrs from conference coinage to mainstream media... RT @

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 26 May (Thursday) At request of developer, though he's not done yet - RT @

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“The Future of Water: A Startling Look Ahead” By Steve Maxwell, with Scott Yates Published in 2011 by the American Water Works Association, Denver CO ISBN 978-1-58321-809-9 Buy this book at the AWWA or Amazon.com   Full disclosure: I answered an open solicitation via e-mail for reviewers of this new book and received a review copy for free in exchange for my promise of a published review. I

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 22 May (Sunday) MT @RiverLifeUMN: "...by no means the end of it." USACE warns

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 18 May (Wednesday) Friends and colleagues, collected tweets related to

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With my apologies for the long hiatus since parts 3.1 and 3.2 of this series, our story continues... In part 2 of this series, when I discussed the Arizona Department of Water Resources (ADWR) and its origins in the state Groundwater Management Act of 1980 (GMA), I introduced state water luminary John Mawhinney into this discussion with an excerpt from his op-ed column on 19 April 2010 that was

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 14 May (Saturday) MT @oppiella: New policies needed to save Canadian forests http:

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 11 May (Wednesday) RT @kzelnio @SFriedScientist: Millions Of Barrels

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 7 May (Saturday) Friends and colleagues, collected tweets related to

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 3 May (Tuesday) Friends and colleagues, collected tweets for 30 April

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On a day that the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) has once again made dramatic use of their long-planned, but now outdated (by many opinions), strategy for easing flood flows along the middle Mississippi River by "activating" the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in southeastern Missouri, I wanted to reach back into the archives for a statement that was published more than 75 years ago by Mr.

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 30 April (Saturday) Floodway home to 200 + 130k acres farmlamd... MT

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With many thanks to a diverse group of new friends and colleagues on Twitter, I've just had a book review published on the Scientific American Guest Blog!  Today was "Ducky Day" for several of us, centered on the recent release Moby Duck by Donovan Hohn.  One reviewed that book itself, one interviewed the author, and another provided a detailed and informative overview of the science and history

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-34707973706112569422011-04-29T23:59:00.012-04:002011-05-02T00:28:48.482-04:00

Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 27 April (Wednesday) Xayaburi in limbo; US Senator forms opinion! RT

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 24 April (Sunday) MT @CAPArizona: CAP is pleased to host delegation

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 20 April (Wednesday) From Pakistan Dawn: "Pak-Afghan water talks

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Near the end of part 3.1 of this series, I discussed a couple of the imaginative water-swapping solutions developed by the Central Arizona Water Conservation District (CAWCD) for the use of Central Arizona Project (CAP) water in order to offset groundwater mining in several areas of the most populous parts of the state.  One of these methods implemented a trade mechanism in which member

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Author's Note: this post got to be a bit more of a bear than I had anticipated, so I broke it into two parts.  To keep the numbering of my other parts of this series on Arizona water issues as originally planned, I've simply called this part 3.1 and made it available while I work to complete part 3.2, which will follow soon. The story of the Central Arizona Project (CAP) is lengthy and has

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 17 April (Sunday) Ladies and gents, a week of collected water tweets

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 14 April (Thursday) Friends and colleagues, edition 6 (past 4 days)

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Following on part 1 of this series on water and related institutional issues in Arizona, today's topic might be considered part of both the problems, and the possible solutions.  In time, as the series progresses, all will become more clear... John Mawhinney is a luminary for reasoned approaches in Arizona water, at one time the majority leader in the state Senate and later a leader in more

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OK, so we're not exactly on the same topic as What's the Matter with Kansas?, but I think I've borrowed a good title for this series of posts.  I worked on water information and issues in Arizona for a couple of years, and I've read up on many of the topics and projects under which Arizona's treatment and governance of water has been based, and I worked for and with some of the most

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 10 April (Sunday) Friends and colleagues, for your Sunday reading

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 7 April (Thursday) RT @watersecurity: Impacts to food production? RT @

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 4 April (Monday) Friends and colleagues, edition 3 (past 3 days) of curated

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd, MT'd, or HT'd in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  You can follow me on Twitter to get these in real time, and I welcome contributions by comment, e-mail and @MGhydro! 1 April (Friday) Friends and colleagues, edition 2 (past 2 days) of curated

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Continued from the previous edition, these are items appropriate to this blog that I have tweeted, RT'd (re-tweeted, from someone that I follow), MT'd (a modified RT), or HT'd (a "hat-tip" in the parlance, usually sourced from friends, also sometimes "h/t") in the past few days up through the evening of the date in the post title.  Again, remember that you can follow me on Twitter to get these

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One of the questions I have received, on more than one occasion after explaining the "GWater" idea, has been an obvious one: "What does that look like?" Well, it looks a lot like Google Maps or (eventually) Google Earth, actually, and I'll get to that in part 3 of this series on the GWater concept. The important part is the content of the maps, the information that is made available for display

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Yesterday (Tuesday, 29 March) seemed to be a really good day for water-related news on Twitter, at least through the many outlets and friends that I follow there.  I had already been thinking of a way to transfer some of that here to the blog, since there is so much great news that passes through Twitter.  Though I do read the things that I pass on to my followers, I can't blog substantively

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Author's Note: the following may not be appropriate reading for flag-waving conservatives, or even flag-waving liberals for that matter, especially those currently taking medication for high blood pressure.  This commentary is almost certainly not in the avowed interests of set-minded neoconservative imperialists or, quite the opposite, Americans who disavow interest in or knowledge of foreign

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Beginning today, 23 March, with their arrival in Nairobi, Kenya, a multinational team have dedicated themselves to raise awareness of the water crisis and to helping the mission of the Water School by climbing Mount Kilimanjaro.  The Water School is a Canadian-incorporated non-profit organization whose mission is to provide clean, sustainable water to villages around the world for life. There

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In support of Canada Water Week (14 - 22 March) I pledged to Water Canada that I would post an article on the status of hydro-electric projects in the western province of British Columbia (BC), including the potential impacts of climate change on the operation of current facilities and the feasibility of planned projects.  I may range a bit beyond that planned topic, however, with some more

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) seems to be getting so little respect these days, with massive budget cuts threatened by Congress and enormous political, institutional and industrial opposition to its very purposes in regulatory enforcement.  So, in honor of the EPA's WaterSense partnership program and "Fix a Leak" Week (14 - 20 March), besides pointing out their cute little

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What is that thing? Last week (6 - 12 March) was National Groundwater Awareness Week in the United States.  Did you notice?  Were there lots of events and celebrations in your area, public agencies and private water companies getting out to spread the word, giveaways and picnics (weather-permitting) and frivolity and whatnot in honor of groundwater? Did you tell your neighbors and friends about

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Not a tsunami, but you get the idea... (credit Wikimedia Commons) While our hearts and thoughts are with the Japanese people and everyone who has suffered from the massive earthquake that capped several days of seismic activity off the Pacific coast of Japan last night, we can make contributions to many organizations that will be assisting the Japanese in their relief and recovery efforts.  One

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My co-blogger, Dr. Carin Bondar My partner for this first experiment in co-blogging is Dr. Carin Bondar, a rising starlet in popular biology who has developed a video blog series called "Biomusings." Her fifth, most recent episode of Biomusings focused on the research of an M.S. student who is looking at the ecological recovery of mountain lakes in Banff National Park in the decade since the

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Continuing from part 1 my list of topics on which I think discussion will follow in the UNFCCC process over the next several decades... 7. Following a long discussion and possible agreement on tropical forests (item 2 in part 1 of this list), the temperate mixed forests and subarctic boreal forests (taiga) will become an issue to be addressed for the global north.  This will likely come

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The US Geological Survey (USGS) has just made available for public review and comment a draft of their new Open File Report 2011–1033 (web abstract) titled "USGS Global Change Science Strategy: A Framework for Understanding and Responding to Climate and Land-Use Change" (pdf).  The review period is open until 8 April 2011.  The draft abstract follows: This U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Global

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The following open letter appeared on the Climate-L mailing list earlier this month and was published on their website in association with the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) on 8 February 2011.  The author, Bruce Campbell, is the Director of the Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS), a strategic partnership between the Consultative

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Following on my last post regarding the the UNFCCC COP process, and how I think it might make better progress over time, what next?  Allow me to put on my futurist hat and make a list of topics, somewhat in chronological order but interrelated, on which I think discussion will follow in the UNFCCC process over the next several decades.  Let me state clearly that I don't think that the UNFCCC

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This started as something of a rant on the ill logic of the UNFCCC COP process, following on my post on 14 December 2010, but I have elected to reframe this conversation in a more constructive tone.  Hopefully this will be better-received in the community than the mere rantings of a young(ish), topically- and socially-aware scientist with global aspirations.  I developed much of this discussion

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There is a disturbing pattern emerging from the US President's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP).  This is the principal group with access to the President's ear when it comes to such important issues as science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), in both education and practice.  Along with the numerous federal agencies that support basic and applied research across the

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-31785447768597141952011-02-14T12:25:00.000-05:002011-02-14T12:25:55.028-05:00

If Apple made water: Thanks to Twitter friends for the link!

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This story of newly published results came from press releases on 24 January 2011 from the ScienceDaily and PhysOrg.com science news networks.  A study by researchers at the University of British Columbia with co-authors around the world has just been published in the AGU journal Geophysical Research Letters describing a nested dataset of surface soil permeability to a depth of 100 m.  The

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The NGO charity: water has an ambitious agenda: "charity: water is a non-profit organization bringing clean and safe drinking water to people in developing nations. We've set an aggressive goal: to provide clean water to 100 million people in the next ten years and solve 10% of the global water problem. To do this, we're building a staff of passionate and creative people to join our mission."

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Two years ago I put up a decent, now "sticky" post on the background and origins of World Wetlands Day, celebrated every year on 2 February as the date the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands (site available in English, Français and Español) was signed in Ramsar, Iran, in 1971. As I wrote then, a 2002 document stated that ''the Convention's mission is the conservation and wise use of all wetlands

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For my many friends in the Baltimore/Washington area (and others with interest in the goings-on around there), this announcement just appeared regarding the beginning of the Spring Seminar Series for the Global Water Program at Johns Hopkins University, to begin 1 February 2011. The Seminar Series is now named for the late M. Gordon "Reds" Wolman, a second-generation Professor of Hydrology in

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From my long rant in three parts a few weeks ago, which were some of my most productive and creative several days ever by the way, part 2 issued a challenge based on a science- and president-bashing Slate journalist's apparent misinterpretation of President Obama's recent appearance on the Discovery Channel series MythBusters: "Obama tasks the Mythbusters to take a stab, their second, at

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A short time ago I posted a statement from the EOS Institute at the University of New Hampshire calling for applications to an available Ph.D. program in Water, Sustainability and Climate funded by the National Science Foundation. The student's program would be focused primarily on water resources and related societal issues in Central, South, East, and Southeast Asia. Readers of this blog have

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Editor's Note: This opening was originally posted a while ago (1 December 2010), but the deadline for applications is still later this month (26 January 2011).  I would think this may be one of the most challenging jobs in water education and administration out there today, given the advanced bureaucratic and mixed economic state of water management in California... Organization California Water

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A notice from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) appeared on 6 January 2011 in the Federal Register (76 FR 777) (pdf) announcing the establishment of a National Wetland Plant List (NWPL).  In summary, "The National Wetland Plant List (NWPL) is used to delineate wetlands for purposes of the Clean Water Act and the Wetland Conservation Provisions of the Food Security Act. Other applications

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The UK Department for International Development (DFID) and the UK Met Office (UKMO) Hadley Centre have established a Climate Science Research Partnership (CSRP) that has just announced their Call for Applications (pdf) for fellowships in African climate science. The CSRP goals are "to improve the understanding and prediction of African climate on monthly, seasonal and decadal timescales and to

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In the midst of budget uncertainty and predicted funding losses, and expected attacks from the incoming Republican-dominated Congress, the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) is reaching out in a "Dear Colleague Letter" to the community to illustrate what is important in looking forward into America's future in science, engineering and education.  Without the cultivation of innovation and the

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This part of my summary of hydrologic extremes in 2010 is organized a little differently from that for floods, posted in part 1.  As flood events occur more discretely in time, that list was organized month-by-month over the year.  Meteorological and hydrologic droughts are more of a creeping phenomenon over time, and it is geography that distinguishes one drought from another over the same year.

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WaterLink International recently posed the question "2010: Year of the Floods?" with an overview of just four major events that happened this year.  Granted, they picked out four of the larger flood events, but those were just the exemplars that got stuck in the short memory of the media.  Many of the links here are to Wikipedia articles, which retain much more than local media outlets.  It

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Editor's Note: the following was just announced as part of NASA's Research Opportunities in Space and Earth Sciences (ROSES) 2010 announcement, which was first released much earlier in the year. Where I once worked at the Goddard Space Flight Center, one of the NASA research facilities, we pushed eagerly for more proposal opportunities like this within NASA because, while contractors were

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-39150618976267916872010-12-25T00:01:00.000-05:002010-12-25T00:01:01.820-05:00

A brief philosophy of teaching by Matthew Garcia, a son of my mother It is said in business that "the customer is always right." That does not necessarily mean that the customer is always correct, but instead that the customer’s needs are of the highest priority in the successful transaction of business. In education, the student is the customer, and the needs of the student must always come

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A.S. (that's ante script, as opposed to P.S. or post script.  Hey, I'm a writer, I have authorial license!): For those of  you looking for my answer to the challenge posed in rant no. 2 of 3 last week, I have had no responses as yet, so I'm extending the explanation for a day or two in order to give my readers more time to exercise your imaginations, and to give me some time to address other

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This story, worded as a newspaper article, may have made its rounds more than once, but it's been a long time since I last saw it. Do you remember usenet newsgroups like rec.humor.funny? Were you even on the internets when newsgroups, a kind of text-based on-line sharing forum that is actually still popular, came into widespread use? Are you too young to have any idea what, if anything, came

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If you have not tried your steak tartare, I do recommend the experience, even if just once.  My experience was actually by mistake, during a trip to France, decades ago...someday, again, hopefully soon.  But I digest...er, digress.  For now, continued from part 1 and part 2 of my cathartic rant, onward to the third and final item... According to a press release from Arizona State University that

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My apologies for such a pause in the conversation--I took some time to get some sleep, and still have not returned to my outside reading.  Yes, I traded reading cyberpunk and writing science for some sleep--what was I thinking?  It appears that I bit off a little more than I could chew through in one late evening of writing. Anyway, continued from part 1 of my escalating rant, onward to the

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Just playing with the title there: "medium rare" as opposed to "rare," as in "how well cooked would you like your steak?"  Also as in how often I really rant on anything--I prefer to call it "posing an argument" or something more civil.  But when three different things, each of which might just plain irk me on their own, all pop up in my innocuous web browsing within minutes of each other, it

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It was during my brief initial review of available documents that I published the first part of what will become a short series on the polluted travails of citizens in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. In the course of that review, I came to several concerns and observations regarding what seems to be going on around the seemingly innocuous extension of a runway at the Pittsfield Municipal Airport. At

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This call for applications was found on-line at http://www.wsag.unh.edu/WSCPosition.html. The University of New Hampshire seeks a PhD student to join a collaborative project (UNH, Boston University, Penn State University, University of Alaska-Fairbanks), funded by the National Science Foundation’s Water, Sustainability, and Climate Program. The project will generate an integrated assessment of

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A project just tendered by the Latin American Energy Organization (Organizacion Latinoamericana de Energia, or OLADE) with funding from the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) seeks to determine "Vulnerability to Climate Change in Hydroelectric Production Systems in Central America and Adaptation Options in Guatemala" with a specific "Study on Climate Change Vulnerability of Hydroelectric

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From xkcd this past Wednesday, 8 December, 2010: A great view on the phenomenon from a fellow geek. I can testify that this seems to happen all too often...especially when it's a person with any academic background in meteorology watching the weather radar, or wherever students and/or professionals in meteorological sciences gather in any number for classes, conferences, parties, whatever. At

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Many congratulations to Charles Duhigg, journalist at the New York Times and this year's recipient of a Science Journalism Award from the Kavli Foundation and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for his recent reporting series that began in August 2009. As listed in his bio, this is just the latest of several awards for the series: "In 2009, Mr. Duhigg was the author

M. Garciahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10250179080143878991noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8619934671710972401.post-71186373284614003352010-11-18T00:37:00.013-05:002010-11-20T17:58:55.568-05:00

OK, so I finally feel comfortable enough to talk about some ideas that have been sitting around in my archives for a while, on which I've been procrastinating far too long, but that have occupied my thoughts and ambitions and work for (literally) years. I don't know why I've not yet put these ideas out to a wider audience already. As it is now, just some friends, colleagues and co-workers have

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This vacancy announcement also came across my inbox today: Organization State University of New York (SUNY) College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) Department of Environmental Resources Engineering Position Assistant Professor in Water Resources Engineering Location Syracuse, New York, USA Duration Indefinite (tenure-track) Closing Date 17 January 2011 for full consideration,

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This vacancy announcement recently came across my inbox and is closing soon:OrganizationCSIRO Land and WaterSurface Water Hydrology ProgramPositionHydrological ModellerLocationHighett, Victoria, AustraliaDurationIndefiniteClosing Date19 November 2010The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia's national science agency and one of the largest and most

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In the spirit of DZ's "Monday Funnies" (which are, more often than not, exactly as advertised) here's a comic that was sent to me by a fan (read: wife). I continued the conversation for us, tongue-in-cheek of course:Scientist: "So I can use human subjects for testing?"NIH administrator: "Only if they're brain-dead and beyond hope."Scientist: "Great! Call your co-workers and ask them to come over

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Hosted by Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, CNBC Anchor and Reporter Televised by CNBC First aired 30 September 2010 at 9 pm EDT Links: official website Our host welcomes us on location just above the Arizona side of the Hoover Dam complex, where intake towers are framed by the rarely-seen backside of the dam and the bright "bathtub ring" around Lake Mead is obvious. The Colorado River originates in

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And finally, this vacancy announcement also came across my inbox recently:OrganizationUniversity of ArizonaWater Resources Research Center andDepartment of Agricultural and Resource EconomicsPositionAssociate Director and Associate/Full ProfessorLocationTucson, Arizona, USADurationPermanent, renewed on a year-to-year basisClosing DateOpen until filled; application review begins 29 November

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