N.M. Science
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Saturday bird blogging
Inspired by an AP story about the bureaucratic travails of this year’s whooping crane migration effort, former KRQE reporter Mark Horner dug up some priceless old video from 1997 of... Read more »
First NM runoff forecasts middling
The first New Mexico river runoff forecasts, based on snowpack through the first third of the season or so, are middling, but the best advice I got today was to... Read more »
Salazar in Albuquerque this afternoon
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and his water policy posse (including Reclamation Commissioner Mike Connor) will be at the Rio Grande Nature Center this afternoon to talk about water and public... Read more »
The latest drought forecast: this can’t be good
The latest federal drought forecast, out today (Thurs. 1/5/12), looks grim for Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana. We’ll get a better feel for New Mexico water supply conditions... Read more »
The NM Tech advantage – no football!
In response to my column in yesterday’s Journal about the academic up side of UNM having a seriously losing football team, Van Romero at New Mexico Tech offered this: Enjoyed... Read more »
A dry 2011 on the Rio Grande
Based on a preliminary assessment from the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission, 2011 was the driest year since 2003 on the Rio Grande, with roughly 550,000 acre feet of native... Read more »
Around the tubes, water management edition
Some water management-related reading from around the ‘Net in recent days: E&E has a must-read account of the science, politics and policy of flood management on the Mississippi. If you... Read more »
Decent New Mexico Snowpack So Far
New Mexico’s snowpack is looking surprisingly healthy for the first week of January in a La Niña year. Southern New Mexico, normally the dry spot in a La Niña, has... Read more »
Sunday bird blogging
Judy Liddell, author of the terrific new book Birding Hot Spots of Central New Mexico, emailed me last night to alert me to a couple of rare birds that have... Read more »
Around the tubes, wrapping up
A few links from around the Internet: Via Bruce Katz, a look at how municipalities are responding to the decline of urban convention centers: “By building more convention centers, of... Read more »
Groundwater recovery: the silver lining has a cloud
File this under “no good deed goes unpunished”. As I noted in a Sunday story, we’re starting to see evidence that Albuquerque’s groundwater levels are responding to reduced pumping as... Read more »
