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Ashton Carter as Energy Secretary?
In kicking around names for a possible Energy Secretary with members of my Washington brain trust, the name of Ashton Carter has come up. With Steven Chu rumored to be... Read more »
What would a San Juan-Chama 2013 water shortage look like?
New Mexico water managers are still trying to sort out the details of what a shortage of San Juan-Chama Project water might mean, and how it would be handled. As... Read more »
Drought watch: maybe, soon, some wet for New Mexico
Kerry Jones showed a lovely satellite image during today’s weekly National Weather Service briefing that captures both New Mexico’s current dry weather and the promise of things to come: The... Read more »
New Mexico drought: thank heavens for the Rio Hondo Basin
If you were looking for a bright spot in New Mexico’s current drought conditions at last Friday’s Santa Fe meeting of the New Mexico Drought Task Force, it was the... Read more »
Evolutionary Anthropology talk, Thursday at UNM
University of New Mexico anthropologist Hillard Kaplan will give a talk Thursday on “Aging and Post-reproductive Life in a Traditional World: Behavior, Physiology and Theory”: 7:30 pm Maxwell Museum/Hibben Center,... Read more »
Monsoon watch: a shift in our summer rains under climate change?
One of the wild cards in thinking about the effect of climate change on the southwest is the summer monsoon, the rainy season that brings parts of New Mexico, especially... Read more »
Is Steven Chu’s emphasis on the “Energy” in “Department of Energy” responsible for the nuclear weapons management mess?
Coral Davenport has an excellent piece at the National Journal this morning looking at Steven Chu’s tenure at the Department of Energy. Chu came as a distinctly non-politician cabinet member to... Read more »
ICYMI, LANS paid $59.7 million to run Los Alamos in 2012
My colleague Mark Oswald has the rundown on the award fee paid to Los Alamos National Security LLC for last year’s management of Los Alamos National Laboratory: Federal officials have... Read more »
We still don’t know how much Tennessee uranium building will cost
The latest from Frank Munger at Knoxnews is that we still don’t know how much the Uranium Processing Facility, the big Tennessee nuclear weapons project, will cost. UPF was the... Read more »
New Mexico Drought Forecast: Dry Through July (At Least)
The Climate Prediction Center’s seasonal forecast, out this morning, offers little hope for drought relief in New Mexico at least through July. Here’s the critical map, which shows odds of... Read more »
On the Rio Grande, “Article VII” means “drought”
One of the most arcane but important measures of drought in New Mexico is found in Article VII of the Rio Grande Compact. Signed in 1938, the Compact divides up... Read more »
Using wind power to dismantle nukes
There’s something politically resonant about the National Nuclear Security Administration’s latest announcement: The National Nuclear Security Administration awarded Siemens Government Technologies a contract to build the federal government’s largest wind... Read more »
