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Kevin Vranes has a phud in Physical Ocean- ography and Cli- matology. He now studies sci- ence policy and politics at the CSTPR. (More in the about.)
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Water:
There's an article in yesterday's Daily Camera that starts off like this: If global warming brings serious droughts to Colorado in the next century, Boulder's water planners don't want to be caught off-guard. Boulder is one of the first communities...
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Posted on September 26, 2006 11:19 AM • 3 Comments
See here for yesterday's hurricane rundown and here for yesterday's climate rundown; see here for all the previous briefings. Integrating stakeholder values with multiple attributes to quantify watershed performance by Shriver and Randhir of UMASS-Amherst. There's a lot going on...
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Posted on September 19, 2006 11:05 AM • 0 Comments
I've been putting together scheduled posts for next week while I'll be in the mountains. Each day a new post will appear on something substantive, concluded by photos of where we anticipate being in the eastern Sierra (west of Bishop,...
Posted on August 25, 2006 4:14 PM • 2 Comments
The lessons for this region that West illustrates are as valid now as they were in the second half of the 19th Century. Ever since I moved to the Front Range I've had a subtle, mostly latent, uneasy feeling about life here. After reading West's book I know why.
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Posted on August 23, 2006 12:25 PM • 0 Comments
Eloise Kendy and John Bredehoeft (both private hydrology consultants) have a nifty new paper in Water Resources Research titled Transient effects of groundwater pumping and surface-water-irrigation returns on streamflow. Eloise is a former Congressional fellow (making this the second time...
Posted on August 14, 2006 10:00 AM • 3 Comments
Best quote I've seen in a while comes out of this story about acid-dead lakes in the Adirondacks making a comeback. Recovery is a dangerous word in the hands of politicians The full quote is: "Recovery is a dangerous word...
Posted on August 4, 2006 5:17 PM • 1 Comments
Two days ago I snuck a post out about the WRDA bill getting to the Senate floor calendar. (Today five posts that I wrote last night are coming out, then it's back to hibernation.) I warned you insiders to read...
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Posted on July 21, 2006 12:46 PM • 1 Comments
I'll try to get into some analysis on this later, but for now the news: The Supreme Court today issued a complicated ruling limiting the scope of the Clean Water Act, sending lawmakers and environmentalists scrambling on how to respond...
Posted on June 19, 2006 2:33 PM • 0 Comments
Excellent article in the Boulder Weekly on western water politics. Whether you're a seasoned vet or a newbie on western water issues, the long article is well worth your time as it intelligently uses a local dispute to illustrate broader...
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Posted on June 16, 2006 2:10 PM • 7 Comments
