N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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Gloomy Winter NM Drought Forecast
updated with comments from this morning’s briefing from federal forecasters: With El Niño nearly El No Show, federal climate scientists issued a batch of forecasts this morning (Thurs. 10/18/12) that... Read more »
ABQ Water Use Continues To Decline
Albuquerque’s water conservation continues, with water use for the first nine months of 2012 down 2.5 percent from the same period last year, according to the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water... Read more »
The sandhill cranes are coming
The sandhill cranes are returning to New Mexico’s middle Rio Grande valley. Folks at the Bosque del Apache counted about a hundred last night at the pond along the highway... Read more »
“Plutonium, fun for the whole family!”
Geoff Brumfiel, a reporter at Nature, has run across a priceless Japanese video (made all the more priceless by the poorly translated subtitles) extolling the virtues of our friend, plutonium:... Read more »
2012 warmest on record so far in Albuquerque
The first nine months of the year have been the warmest on record in Albuquerque in a data set going back 81 years, according to the National Climatic Data Center.... Read more »
Southwest forests and rising temperatures
I’m working on a story about this paper by Park Williams and a big group of collaborators on the effect of rising temperatures on southwestern forests. The take-home message is... Read more »
Christy, Teller and wounds that will not heal
New York Times reporter Bill Broad had a lovely obituary in the paper last week for Robert F. Christy, one of the Manhattan Project pioneers. It’s a lovely read (done... Read more »
Refuge Day at the Sevilleta
This Saturday (Oct. 13, 2012) is “refuge day” at the Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge south of Belen. Tours planned, reservations required. More info.
Another dry year on the Rio Grande
Working on a “water year in review” column for tomorrow’s newspaper (Tues. 10/9/12), I ginned up this graph of annual Rio Grande native flow at Otowi (data courtesy the amazingly... Read more »
More details on UPF schedule problems
Frank Munger at Knoxnews had more over the weekend about the troubles facing the design of the Uranium Processing Facility in Tennessee (that’s the big nuclear weapons construction project that... Read more »
The Slow Pace of Nuclear Disarmament
Much of the current political/policy debate over funding for the US nuclear weapons program (and therefore Sandia and Los Alamos labs here in New Mexico) involves the commitments the Obama... Read more »
“The watershed will take its bite first.”
Phil King, the New Mexico State University hydrologist who also serves as an adviser to southern New Mexico’s largest irrigation district, has already warned farmers no to expect much water... Read more »
