N.M. Science
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An Elephant Butte history lesson
My colleague Greg Sorber, a senior photographer here at the Journal, brought in some treasures earlier this month – old family photos of Elephant Butte Dam nearly a century ago.... Read more »
Saturday Bird Blogging: the Patagonia Effect
Matt over at Albuquerque Birding has a post on the grand convergence of rare birds in the Albuquerque bosque over the last month: rusty blackbirds, winter wrens and Pacific wrens... Read more »
Sandia: 512 retirees in late 2011
Sandia National Laboratories lost 512 people to retirement in the final three months of 2011, an unusually large number as workers moved to lock in retiree health and pension benefits... Read more »
Expect Some 2013 Shrinkage in N.M. Federally Funded Workforce
New Mexico receives $3.35 for every $1 it sends to Washington in federal taxes. So it stands to reason that efforts to reduce federal expenditures will be felt here. My... Read more »
Spent fuel enthusiasm – does Carlsbad have competition?
The Carlsbad-SE New Mexico folks have long grasped that their enthusiasm for things nuclear gives them an economic development advantage. Do they now have some competition from Arizona? State Sen.... Read more »
New Mexico Oil Production Booming
Oil production in New Mexico is the highest it’s been since the late ’90s. From the EIA: Kevin Robinson-Avila, writing in the New Mexico business weekly, explains: Production is gushing... Read more »
Albuquerque Water Use Drops
My story this morning on the drop in Albuquerque water consumption was good news if you think we need to do a better job of conserving the scarce resource that... Read more »
VLA: Meet the new name, only slightly different from the old name
The managers of the National Radio Astronomy Observatory heard you loud and clear, you who think “Very Large Array” is a just fine name for the Very Large Array. But... Read more »
Renaming the VLA: today’s the day
Today’s the big day. After last fall’s tempest over the National Radio Astronomy Observatory’s decision to rename the Very Large Array, officials will announce their decision at a scientific meeting... Read more »
Around the tubes
Some links for which my clicks were well rewarded: CLIMAS southwest drought tracker, an excellent monthly summary of the state of play in Arizona and New Mexico: “More typical, dry... Read more »
How big is the US nuclear weapons budget?
If all goes well, we should get a much clearer look come early February of what happens at the intersection of the New START arms control treaty and efforts to... Read more »
Around the Tubes
Some string saved from a weekend of web reading: MIT study concludes “moon shot” analogy is wrong, that little and local is the path to US energy innovation. (h/t Kevin... Read more »
