Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
For the water geeks in the audience, I highly recommend this movie, which my sister, Lisa, Netflixed for us this weekend: (h/t Karl Flessa for suggesting it)
Archive of entries posted on September 2009
Ghost Meter
Some time ago I purchased an Actron CP7875 PocketTherm Infrared Thermometer from Amazon. It’s a cool gizmo. I highly recommend it. You point it at whatever, and it tells you the object’s temperature based on infrared emissions. Today, Amazon informed me that people who bought the Actron PocketTherm also might like this: The accompanying description …
Stephen B. Davis Jr., Back From the Dead?
There’s some water geek hilarity over on the New Mexico Independent today correcting V.B. Price on a point of history and water law. First Price: New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming — the “upper basin” states in the Colorado Compact of 1922 — have “junior” water rights to California, Arizona, and Nevada, the states that …
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If Stationarity Dies, How Will We Know?
When Milly et al. pronounced the death of stationarity in Science magazine last year, lots of folks in the water world took notice. Stationarity is the idea that the envelope of variability we’ve seen is the envelope of variability we’ll get in the future. Not so in a climatically changing world? Now come Gabriele Villarini …
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