N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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Around the tubes, drought edition
Some drought links for a dry Friday: Drought gets serious in Wisconsin: “The drought has caused a shortage of flattened, dried cow manure — or cow chips — for the... Read more »
New Mexico Drought Conditions Improve
You know it’s been bad when having 62 percent of New Mexico in “severe” drought or worse counts as good news. But it is. That’s down from 83 percent of... Read more »
Harrison Schmitt on Neil Armstrong
Harrison Schmitt, former New Mexico Senator and moon-walking geologist, shared a nice remembrance today of his colleague Neil Armstrong: One of my many favorite Armstrong memories from Apollo relates to... Read more »
Around the tubes
A couple of links on New Mexico issues: David Correia at La Jicarita looks at the history of the pit rules, aimed at curbing groundwater contamination at New Mexico oil... Read more »
New Mexico’s diverging water supply and demand curves
Rio Grande flow at the Central Avenue Bridge is back up to near 200 cubic feet per second this morning after dropping to 122 for much of Tuesday evening. In... Read more »
Rio Grande dropping, Albuquerque shuts down drinking water diversions
For the second time in less than a week, Albuquerque is shutting down its drinking water diversion from the Rio Grande after the river dropped too low. John Stomp, chief... Read more »
What we can learn from the Maya “collapse”
The best part of my job involves calling up smart people and asking them to explain things to me. This past week’s particularly enjoyable example comes from Jerry Sabloff, and... Read more »
Irrigation supplies dwindling
With its supplies of irrigation storage water exhausted, the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District is throttling back its diversions at Angostura, its dam north of Bernalillo, and water in the... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some reading from around the web: Fascinating Elaine Grossman piece about how advanced conventional weapons might actually increase nuclear weapon risks. Hans Kristensen notes that STRATCOM commander Robert Kehler isn’t... Read more »
Irrigators bailed out for now by rain
The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District is completely out of irrigation water in upstream storage. But a suddenly active monsoon rain pattern has bailed middle valley farmers out for now,... Read more »
Washington Post critical of B61 costs
The Washington Post, in an editorial over the weekend, raised (cautious) questions about the cost overruns for refurbishing the US arsenal of B61 nuclear bombs: Congress and the administration should... Read more »
Kirtland fuel spill meeting Tuesday
Kirtland Air Force Base is hosting its quarterly Citizens Advisory Board meeting Tuesday (Aug. 14 21) to provide an update on work to characterize and clean up base-caused jet fuel contamination... Read more »
