N.M. Science
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Preliminary eclipse forecast looks promising
The preliminary weather forecast for New Mexico viewing of Sunday’s eclipse looks promising, according to Deirdre Kann at the National Weather Service’s Albuquerque office, with a dry, warm, sunny weekend.... Read more »
Erosion following Las Conchas
One of the interesting phenomena that I saw up close (and repeatedly) during last week’s Las Conchas fire zone hike was the intense erosion across the burned landscape. I’ll have... Read more »
The most striking thing in the Las Conchas fire zone? There were no birds.
I am, by hobby, a bird watcher. That is why the lack of birds was striking Monday when Journal photographer Dean Hanson and I spent the day with a group... Read more »
Closing the Book on La Niña 2011-12
The federal Climate Prediction Center’s monthly report this morning (Thurs. 5/3) officially closes the book on the La Niña of 2011-12, the drought-bringer, and begins making tentative noises about the possibility... Read more »
On lab funding and bake sales
Some background reading on my column in this morning’s newspaper on a Pentagon memo criticizing spending at the U.S. nuclear weapons lab, and the planetary science community’s plans for a... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links relevant to things I’ve been following; In Orange County, a discussion about water rate hikes that sounds an awful lot like ours: “The hike was necessary because, for... Read more »
Translating a grim runoff forecast into a grim water operations plan
Ed Kandl of the US Bureau of Reclamation didn’t pull any punches this afternoon in a briefing on the federal government’s annual Rio Grande water operations plan. “If you want... Read more »
Air Force agrees to additional jet fuel monitoring
The Air Force, under pressure from state regulators, has agreed to drill additional groundwater wells to try to determine how close leaked jet fuel is to Albuquerque water supply wells.... Read more »
Gallows humor from southern NM farm country
Best ag report ever, from the USDA’s weekly New Mexico Crop and Weather report: Eddy: 60 mph winds. Pecans started to tassel, so that pollen is in Texas with our water.
Around the tubes
Some links for a warming spring morning: Christopher Sherman from the AP explains the argument over when to release Mexico’s water from Elephant Butte dam on the lower Rio Grande.... Read more »
Environment Department calls Kirtland jet fuel characterization “inadequate”
As I reported this morning, the New Mexico Environment Department is none too pleased with the Air Force’s efforts to figure out how far jet fuel from a decades-long leak... Read more »
Laguna to get new water system
Where other kids are used to getting time off for “snow days”, at Laguna Pueblo it’s sometimes “water days”, when the pipes serving the school break. At the pueblo west... Read more »
