jrlund.bsky.social
UC Davis professor emeritus of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Geography, and other things. Water, water, and sailing. https://faculty.engineering.ucdavis.edu/lund/
Democracy, public education, and science benefits believers and non-believers alike.
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One small step for a landscape; a large leap for geologists.
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Showing room to shift subsidies to less destructive and more environmentally beneficial rural activities.
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Respect for clear truths seems to be at a new low.
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The new alphabet has gained bipartisan support as leftists cite the old alphabet's use to enforce millennia of racial and gender oppression and rightists note the old alphabet's more recent use to articulate a "woke" ideologies of equity and human rights.
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Burning drafts of published papers.
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Committees are a popular method of side-lining otherwise potentially troublesome faculty.
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The other big trend is hydropower decreases substantially during drought - which increases natural gas use.
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Yet another example or the local perils SGMA must endure on the long road to sustainability. (Someone should make a clipping or casebook collection of the many little SGMA tempests - ironically near Teapot Dome, which are important for local folks.)
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Most of us learn about it many times.
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Imagine the cycles of air quality that went with these cycles of Salton Sea and Salton Sink.
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Among recent exciting things that are boring, and boring things that have become exciting.
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Actually, we keep getting libertines who call themselves libertarians.
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Most people who actually manage water are pretty competent. But they operate within constraints on competence.
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If this is true & it sticks, it would be a costly and deep reduction in federal capacity to support private and public water and flood problems. HEC perhaps the most useful & important water organizations in the world. Visiting foreigners are amazed that such a small group has such global impact.
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I can understand a wastewater utility's interest in clarity.
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This is what happens when the financial cost interests of ratepayers are well-organized and funded and the public health and environmental interests of residents (mostly the same folks) are not.
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Although the work is demanding, life is better on the other side of the desk.
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A very fine school in a beautiful place. Congratulations!