N.M. Science
A science & weather blog by John Fleck
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Seven minutes of terror
If all goes well Sunday night, University of New Mexico scientist Horton Newsom will get what amounts to his first close-up looks at the surface of Mars next week. But... Read more »
Monsoon Watch: Arizona wins the drought relief lottery
What southwestern drought relief the summer monsoon rains will be able to offer over the next month to six weeks are likely to be focused mostly on Arizona, with western... Read more »
GAO calls out nuke project budget problems
In her opening statement at a nuclear weapons budget hearing earlier this year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said this about the National Nuclear Security Administration’s perennial cost overrun problems: At... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some recent links from around the web: The Y-12 weapons plant in Tennessee is in stand down after an 82-year-old nun slipped past the security systems that were supposed to... Read more »
NM Water’s Grangerfords and Shepherdsons
One of the funniest chapters in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn chronicles Huck’s time off the Mississippi visiting the Grangerford family, an extended clan locked in a hilariously mortal feud... Read more »
Monsoon Watch: “dreaded drying”
Looking for your missing monsoon? I recommend a road trip – maybe Yuma in southwestern Arizona, or across the border to Death Valley in California. The moist air needed to... Read more »
Monsoon watch (such as it is)
Arizona’s gain in the coming week is apparently our loss, monsoon-wise: This afternoon’s forecast discussion from the crew at the Albuquerque National Weather Service office explains what’s going on (all... Read more »
Former Energy Secretary Watkins dies at 85
James Watkins, who steered the United States Department of Energy through the first years of the post-Cold War era, died Thursday at the age of 85, according to the Washington... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links to things I found worth reading: From the Atlantic, The Triumph of the Family Farm, a look at 21st century technology and the modernization of American farming Roger... Read more »
B61 cost overruns
I’ve joked that the B61 nuclear bomb is the Volskwagen bug of the US nuclear arsenal – versatile, reliable, and these days quite old. Work is underway (including at Sandia... Read more »
Kirtland groundwater monitoring wells delayed
About those new monitoring wells the Air Force is drilling to try to figure out how close contamination from a jet fuel leak is to municipal drinking water wells? You’ll... Read more »
Monsoon Watch: summer rains offer little drought relief
Three weeks into our summer monsoon season, the rains have brought little relief for New Mexico’s drought conditions, according to the latest federal Drought Monitor, published this morning: The explanation... Read more »
