Latest sign of growing trouble on horizon in San Joaquin watershed: SJ River near Vernalis is now expected to exceed "Danger Stage" on Sunday and stay there indefinitely. This is a more significant development than just exceeding flood stage due to risk to levees. #CAwater (1/3)
ALT CNRFC prediction for San Joaquin River stage @ Vernalis. It is depicted as exceeding "Danger Stage" on Sunday and staying there indefinitely.
Our latest offering with @egies and @gefogg@NASAJPL 's Felix Landerer is a REALLY important one. Damming rivers and storing water above ground is fraught with problems. There is a better way... mynspr.org/show/blue-dot/202…
California Water Watch cww.water.ca.gov/
Water conditions are only vaguely apparent to most locals, so this new site on the state of regional and local CA water resources is an important step. #hydrogeology#cawater@CA_DWR@WaterWired
Putting solar on roofs, parking lots, canals, other disturbed land provides multiple benefits. Think natural lands (biodiversity), productive farmland (food). Rooftop solar important for distributed electricity production & resilience, much more. nytimes.com/2022/01/24/busin…
The Agricultural Water Center @ucdavis has several open postdoc positions. For more info please visit the center website at the link below and scroll down to Job Openings. agwater.ucdavis.edu/
Thanks, @RadioBWatt! Paleo valleys are special underground features through which water wants to travel. Hydrogeologist @gefogg says they can help California deal with drought and floods.
That's coming up at 8:22 AM.
"Tens of thousands of years ago, California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains wore upon their shoulders the ancestors of today’s rivers..." -@egies in @BayNaturebaynature.org/article/captur…
/3 U.C. Davis hydrogeologist Graham Fogg @gefogg has been trying for 40 years to explain to state water managers that the underground is predictable -- so we can find these secret weapons to balance California's water highs and lows. Now they're starting to listen.
KCRA 3 Special Report: The Floods of ‘97 kcra.com/article/kcra-3-spec…
A great hydrologic remembrance of the massive rain-on-snow flood event of 25 years ago in CA’s Central Valley… a reflection on humility, awe and hope… Happy New Year! @kcraFinan
Thought-provoking work suggesting forests depend more on groundwater than typically assumed. Fits with hypothesis that forest desiccation and fires are being forced both by surface and groundwater phenomena. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…@reedh2o@AjamiHoori @LCofthesesert @WaterWired
Our ability to pump a lot of groundwater is brand new in the arc of human history (last ~70yrs). Imagine if we’d put as much energy into deposits (recharge) as the withdrawals (pumping). Join the #floodmar Forum today thru Wed.! @ca_dwr#cawaterwater.ca.gov/News/Events/202…
My favorite description of a hydrologic event… genius.com/John-steinbeck-ch…, even tho it lacks terms like “bomb, cyclone, atmospheric river, runoff, infiltration & recharge”. @UCWater
Finally, I'm excited to be moderating "Learning From Our Dry History: Lessons for a Drought-Prone California" at 9:15 am on 10/14 at #ELSYosemite21, w/ the incomparable
-Clifford Lee (our LAA honoree!)
-@FeliciaMarcus
-Valerie Kincaid
-@VickySueEspipheedloop.com/yosemite21/sit…
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ALT Title slide for the panel "Learning from Our Dry History: Lessons for a Drought-Prone California" at the virtual 30th Annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite on October 14, 2021.
ALT Slide listing panelists, their titles, and affiliations: Vicky EspinozaPhD Candidate, Environmental Systems, UC Merced; Clifford Lee(Retired) Deputy Attorney General, California Department of Justice; Valerie Kincaid Partner, O’Laughlin & Paris LLP; Felicia MarcusWilliam C. Landreth Visiting Fellow, Stanford University Water in the West Program; and moderator Nell Green Nylen – Senior Research Fellow, Wheeler Water Institute at the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment, UC Berkeley School of Law.