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Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 31 August 2015

Last one of the month!

Looking forward to seeing Elaine this coming Labor Day weekend during my visit to Reno. She reports that there are already:

...tinges of Autumn beginning though it is officially several weeks before the Autumnal Equinox .... yellow leaves swirling about in the gusty winds....critters mad-dashing for all the food they can eat!  Hoping these are good omens for a heavy winter with LOTS of snow in the Sierra!

 Let's all hope there is a lot of snow in the Sierra for this coming winter....

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Geosciences Bulletin Board – 31 August 2015. Compiled by Elaine J. Hanford. Compilation of selected current news articles pertinent to the discipline. 

 Just for fun:  A unique maps of the continents, according to a geologic perspective

• http://www.earthmagazine.org/article/hazardous-living-maps-according-geologists  

Wildfires continue to rage across the State of Washington (video)

• http://news.yahoo.com/smoke-grounds-aircraft-battling-washington-wildfires-083016239.html

New NASA model of sea level changes from satellite data…but wait… where is the effect of El Nino with warmer waters in the mid and eastern Pacific?

• http://news.yahoo.com/nasa-model-maps-sea-level-rise-never-video-213847122.html
• Video:  http://www.space.com/30375-22-years-of-sea-level-rise-measured-from-space-video.html

History of the Snowball Earth glaciation

• http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v8/n9/full/ngeo2531.html

Tempest Anderson became a volcanologist and took some amazing photographs

• http://mentalfloss.com/article/67793/see-amazing-photography-pioneering-vulcanologist

A better multi-dimensional approach to measuring water in the Sierra = Sn’o Water

• http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Sno_water_in_Sierra_Nevadas_999.html

Is the mineralogy of Earth unique in the cosmos?

• http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/ci-emu082615.php

Not just in California…Groundwater pumping in Phoenix, Arizona, causing ground subsidence at rate of about 1 inch per year

• https://asunews.asu.edu/20150811-groundwater-subsidence-phoenix-area

Second ice age during Cryogenian period prior to 635 mya ended with regular advances and retreats of the ice caused by axial wobble of Earth…not rapid melting

• http://phys.org/news/2015-08-snowball-earth-period.html

Sea level and tectonics of the West Coast of the US

• http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/New_data_changes_ideas_about_sea_level_and_coastal_uplift_along_Pacific_Coast_999.html

USGS releases report assessing landslides and predicting landslide prone areas in Nepal

• http://www.scidev.net/south-asia/disasters/news/quake-leaves-nepal-prone-to-landslides.html
• Report:  http://pubs.usgs.gov/of/2015/1142/ofr20151142.pdf

Understanding landslides and the destabilizing effect of EQ shocks on the landscape

• http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Self_healing_landscape_Landslides_after_earthquakes_999.html

With ongoing drought, there is still concern about viability of levees in California

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825083921.htm

The wide geographic range of the woolly mammoth was limited by climatic dependent and independent factors

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825083839.htm

A map of all the wildfires currently burning across the US

• http://www.onearth.org/earthwire/smoke-western-wildfires
• Map & tools:  http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=topics.smoke_wildfires

Connecting geology and Native American traditions in New Mexico

• http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/25/8/pdf/i1052-5173-25-8-26.pdf

How old is the Antarctic Circumpolar Current?

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825132758.htm

Computer model shows potential for significant tsunami in southern California

• http://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/30986

New ortho-image and topographic maps released for Wyoming

• http://www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=4299#.Vdzf4vlViko

Major EQs & tsunamis in Indonesia have recurrence interval of about 600 to 900 years

• http://phys.org/news/2015-08-geologic-ancient-earthquakes-tsunamis-future.html

Were toxic metals in the ocean the reason for the end of Silurian extinction event?

• http://news.sciencemag.org/chemistry/2015/08/death-metal-ancient-oceans

Sediment tracer study may help reduce cost of coastal protection and reduce beach erosion

• http://www.bymnews.com/news/newsDetails.php?id=146064

Is there potential for an earthquake on Staten Island?

• http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2015/08/how_likely_is_an_earthquake_to.html

Developing a plan to remove trash from the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch”

• http://news.yahoo.com/researchers-sample-enormous-oceanic-trash-vortex-ahead-clean-100228947.html

OTEC (105 kilowatt ocean thermal-energy conversion) demonstration power plant goes online in Hawaii

• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-08-21/makai-builds-ocean-thermal-energy-demo-plant-in-hawaii

Warm-blooded dinosaurs….or cold-blooded dinosaurs….or maybe both (nerdy video)

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/were-dinosaurs-cold-blooded-or-warm-blooded_55d777e6e4b04ae4970335e2

Variations in monsoon patterns over time, with cycles lasting over decades to millennium

• http://www.scidev.net/south-asia/environment/news/monsoon-patterns-have-varied-through-history.html

Enviro-Sciences Bulletin Board – 31 August 2015. Compiled by Elaine J. Hanford. Compilation of selected current news articles pertinent to the discipline. 

Two important court rulings:  States win suit over EPA surface water grab & US Army Corps of Engineers must bear cost of restoring Mississippi River-Gulf Outlet wetlands

• http://af.reuters.com/article/commoditiesNews/idAFL1N1122RS20150827
• http://www.nola.com/environment/index.ssf/2015/08/federal_judge_to_corps_restore.html

Yersinnia pestis that causes the plague is endemic to the US, but more human cases are occurring and resulting in deaths amongst a total of 12 cases

• http://www.terradaily.com/reports/US_reports_unusual_spike_in_human_plague_cases_ 999.html
• https://www.yahoo.com/health/as-another-person-dies-of-the-plague-a-look-at-127790496977.html

The reality and myth about kudzu in the US

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/true-story-kudzu-vine-ate-south-180956325/

As urban environments grow, so too does the urban heat island effect…can it be cooled?

• http://www.nature.com/news/how-cities-can-beat-the-heat-1.18228

Duke University “Doomsday Equation” model predicts when unsustainable growing population and water use will change

• http://www.asce.org/magazine/20150818-doomsday-equation-points-to-change-in-water-use/

Public petition unsuccessful in getting road changed to protect koala population in NSW

• http://www.coffscoastadvocate.com.au/news/government-unswayed-on-pacific-highway-koala-fears/2755413/

Geographic impacts of change in California….from population growth to invasive species (interactive map)

• http://stanford.maps.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingTextLegend/index.html?appid=dafe2393fd2e4acc8b0a4e6e71d0b6d5

Serious impacts of human migration…European countries have dire situations

• http://finance.yahoo.com/news/photo-sums-slow-motion-tragedy-123900141.html

Battling Lyme disease, one mouse at a time in the war against ticks

• http://www.nature.com/news/the-growing-global-battle-against-blood-sucking-ticks-1.18227

Emergency plan to construct pipeline to deliver Diablo Canyon desalinated water to San Luis Obispo County residents in California

• http://www.sanluisobispo.com/2015/08/25/3777708_desalinated-water-diablo-canyon.html?rh=1

In Louisiana as hurricane season is underway, first responders are receiving training on animal rescues

• http://www.lsureveille.com/daily/news/emergency-response-teams-train-to-protect-animals/article_b359bb3e-4b62-11e5-a548-13c8c3f2b606.html

Nanotechnology is touted as the next big thing…but a risk assessment is necessary

• http://www.technology.org/2015/08/25/big-questions-risk-assessment-nanomaterials/

Carbon credits under the Kyoto Protocol resulted in 600 million tonnes of excess emissions rather than lowered emissions

• http://phys.org/news/2015-08-credit-scheme-backfired-hiking-greenhouse.html

A warning that degraded air quality in developing megacities in West Africa could seriously impact human health, meteorology and regional climate

• http://phys.org/news/2015-08-scientists-air-pollution-megacities-west.html

What would biodiversity look like if humans had never existed?

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150820212652.htm

Just how did the brown widow spider get to Tahiti?

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825083607.htm

New tool to estimate impacts of estuary flooding on surrounding communities

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825111225.htm
• Paper:  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4339835/pdf/pone.0117030.pdf

Ability of Ebola virus to survive in wastewater may have been underestimated … that means transmission of the disease without direct human contact

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825115038.htm

Ebola vaccine to protect wild chimpanzees and gorillas seems promising

• http://www.theadvertiser.com/story/news/local/2015/08/25/ebola-vaccine-wild-apes-tested-new-iberia/32355601/

Some forms of antibiotic resistance may be result of adaptive evolution

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150825143926.htm

Ants know when to take drugs….ingest peroxide after being infected with fungus

• http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/08/150824064919.htm

Nothing is ever all good or all bad…in this case it is war versus cleaner air

• http://www.terradaily.com/reports/War_in_the_Mid_East_curse_on_humanity_boon_for_clean_air_999.html

WHO calls for dramatic changes in global epidemic response

• http://www.terradaily.com/reports/WHO_chief_calls_for_urgent_transformation_of_global_epidemic_response_999.html

One year later, Napa still trying to recover from the earthquake

• http://www.dailydemocrat.com/general-news/20150825/earthquakeaposs-fallout-still-felt-in-napa

Judge set deadline for release of thousands of illegal immigrants…without word on the impacts

• http://www.allgov.com/news/controversies/federal-judge-orders-obama-administration-to-release-children-held-in-immigration-detention-centers-by-october-23-150825?news=857269

Failed plan to re-introduce flesh-eating turtles to clean up corpse pollution in the Ganges

• http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/indias-government-once-released-25000-flesh-eating-turtles-ganges-river-180953384/

Lots and lots of genetic diversity exhibited by human eyes

• http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/eyeballs_55d38035e4b0ab468d9ea9a9

Endocrine disrupting chemicals (industrial chemicals and pesticides) in North Carolina river waters are causing male fish to develop female parts

• http://www.treehugger.com/animals/chemicals-north-carolina-rivers-are-giving-lady-parts-male-fish.html

9 years without US landfall of a Cat 3+ hurricane…but is that reason to celebrate or not?

• http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/08/21/433474250/yes-the-u-s-is-on-a-historic-lucky-streak-in-dodging-major-hurricanes

International tribunal says arrest by Russia of 30 Greenpeace activists was illegal

• http://www.canberratimes.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/russian-arrest-of-greenpeace-arctic-30-activists-illegal-tribunal-says-20150825-gj79xr.html 
• http://www.spacedaily.com/reports/Russia_must_compensate_Dutch_over_Greenpeace_ship_international_court_999.html

You might not see them, but urban areas are full of wildlife

• http://www.canberratimes.com.au/victoria/documenting-the-wilds-of-melbourne-20150820-gj43yh.html

Report predicts we will lose a massive amount of our tropical rain forests

• http://www.canberratimes.com.au/environment/climate-change/earth-is-on-track-to-lose-an-indiasized-chunk-of-its-tropical-forests-by-2050-20150824-gj6saz.html
• Report:  http://www.cgdev.org/sites/default/files/future-forests-complete-8-21-jo.pdf

New tool for estimating cost of nuclear energy

• http://phys.org/news/2015-08-interactive-tool-veil-nuclear-energy.html
• Interactive calculator:  http://thebulletin.org/nuclear-fuel-cycle-cost-calculator

Turning feedstock and manure into jet fuel? 

• http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/08/20/433193445/food-waste-and-beef-fat-will-be-making-airplanes-soar

How London foresees handling its sewage

• http://www.theconstructionindex.co.uk/news/view/super-sewer-construction-starts-next-month
• Thames Tideway Tunnel Project:  http://www.thamestidewaytunnel.co.uk/

Weather conditions promote likelihood of mycotoxin outbreak in soy and cereal grains in US

• http://www.wattagnet.com/articles/23900-steps-for-facing-a-mycotoxin-outburst-in-the-us

Is our health care system ready for a new wave of tropical diseases?

• http://www.cnn.com/2015/08/13/health/america-tropical-disease/

Perhaps the animals should be more concerned about catching antibiotic resistant bacteria from humans

• http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/ehs-hcm082415.php
• http://www.kctv5.com/story/29866539/investigation-finds-ground-beef-frequently-contaminated
• Related:  http://feedstuffsfoodlink.com/story-facts-antibiotics-75-71786

Study to determine the long-term health impacts of surviving Ebola

• http://news.yahoo.com/many-ebola-survivors-ailing-doctors-evaluate-situation-131738493.html

10 years after Hurricane Katrina….many lessons learned…but still trying to engineer floods

• http://cenews.com/article/10131/schooled-by-katrina
• A man-made disaster:  http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/broken-promise-levees-failed-new-orleans-180956326/

Algae bloom in Lake Erie continues to expand

• http://news.yahoo.com/living-carpet-green-slime-expands-across-lake-erie-205619651.html
• http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/capital-weather-gang/wp/2015/08/07/lake-erie-is-in-the-midst-of-yet-another-dangerous-disgusting-algae-outbreak/
• Related:  http://www.lakeeriewaterkeeper.org/

First US-Mexico cross-border wind farm completed in Baja California with power to go to San Diego County, California

• http://www.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/news/2015/08/20/first-u-s-mexico-cross-border-wind-farm-completed.html

"The earth ... the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need..." - Edward Abbey

Lock and Load - It's 'Cadillac Cataclysm'! My Ten Cents - Book Review: 'The Water Knife'

Disclosure notice: I did not receive a free copy of this book. The SNWA sent me a copy, but I forwarded it to the City of Phoenix with my condolences. It was returned, stamped 'No Longer at This Address'. Along with fellow WaterWonks John Fleck, Charles Fishman, and John Orr, I'm in the acknowledgments. Thanks! [Note: sentences 2 and 3 strain credulity.]

Here goes...

Cut to the chase: Read it! Compelling, frightening, violent, dark. Two books in one: a great mystery, and a water book to boot. It may be too close to reality for some. 

When I first heard of award-winning (Hugo, Nebula, Locus, Compton Crook, John W. Campbell Memorial Awards, etc.) author Paolo Bacigalupi's second novel (The Windup Girl was his first) The Water Knife and its subject matter, I immediately thought of his 2006 short story, The Tamarisk Hunter, that first appeared in the High Country News. That piece mesmerized me and made a deep impression because I read it after leaving my beloved Southwest, home for 35 years, for the greener, wetter clime of western Oregon. I thought to myself that I had made the right decision, although I'm still unaccustomed to all this green stuff covering up the rocks.

So what's The Water Knife about? It's foremost a mystery (roman noir, if you will) involving water - Southwestern water. Does any other kind matter?

It's the near future. The Southwest is being battered by Big Daddy Drought, presumably the 'new normal'. The USA is in a state of disarray, the federal government is ineffectual, and states are now empowered to control and patrol their borders with their own militias and troops ('guardies'). Aquifers have been drained. Mexico now has the Cartel States. 

The story is loaded with familiar players. Las Vegas and the Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA) loom large, the latter headed by Catherine Case, aka Queen of the Colorado, a Pat Mulroy on PEDs. Ms. Case has an air force with attack helicopters, missiles and troops, should anyone (especially Arizona and its 600-pound gorilla, Phoenix) try to take water that she thinks is SNWA's, which, by the way, is in the arcology business.

California (the Calies) lurk about, blowing up dams, seeking more water and trying to prevent Las Vegas and others from acquiring more. Texans, New Mexicans and Arizonans (Zoners) seek to reach the promised lands - those with water and some semblance of a future. You'll also meet swimmers - those whose only future is to be killed, mutilated. and tossed into empty swimming pools, which abound in Phoenix.

Angel Velasquez, former Mexican prison-dweller, is Catherine Case's top 'water knife' - the black ops guy who takes the tough assignments and is amply rewarded with a living permit in one of the arcologies and a Tesla. The term 'water knife' derives from his ability to 'cut' water for SNWA but one could argue it has several more graphic meanings. Velasquez is very good at what he does. With guys like him around, Case has all the tools she needs: lawyers, guns, and money - and water knives. 

Angel swings into action when it appears that there may be some available substantial water rights that are lying around somewhere. Is it true or just some old myth? But others - mainly California and Phoenix - are after them as well. Velasquez fires up (metaphorically, of course) his Tesla and heads to Phoenix, which, despite its own Chinese-built arcologies and economy partially based upon the yuan, is sliding into anarchy and beneath the sands of Arizona.

There, in the Valley of the Sun, he butts heads and other body parts with a variety of characters, most like him - operating on the dark side and capable of doing anything to get what they want. He joins forces with a journalist from the Northeast, Lucy Monroe, out to enhance her stature by reporting on 'collapse porn' - the bloody swimmers and others who illustrate the breakdown of society and death of a region.

Suffice it to say that the rumored water rights do exist, so the race is on in earnest. Bodies accumulate at an alarming rate. Gratuitous violence in spades. Fires burn. Phoenix seems doomed. Who gets those rights? Will someone's 'good side' come to the fore, if only for a few moments? Perhaps Angel lives up to his first name. Nahhhh... Read it - you will not be able to put it down.

The book is well-written. Great dialogue. Again, it's a mystery that involves water, so I suspect that this book might have been enjoyed by the likes of Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett, who might even have accepted Bacigalupi into their circle.

But despite its fictional designation The Water Knife has terribly unsettling elements of reality and a future devoid of any beneficent authority to keep the lid on. It does have a healthy dose of discussions on ethics and morality (wonder what Chandler and Hammett would say about that?). For a WaterWonk who spent most of his adult life in the arid Southwest, the picture it crafts cuts much, much too close to home.

It's on my bookcase between Collapse and The Sixth Extinction. 

Paolo Bacigalupi's novel doesn't cut like a knife. It mutilates like a machete.

Read it. You'll great two great books in one.

You know, this would have made a helluva graphic novel. I'll wait for the movie.

'Send lawyers, guns and money
The shit has hit the fan'
-- Lawyers, Guns and Money, by Warren Zevon

Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 29 August 2015

World Water Week in Stockholm ended yesterday and Josh has a boatload of jobs to post. He sent these on 28 August 2015.

 

I have added some jobs of my own - #35 and above.

Josh's and other job notices are archived here. All the jobs I post are archived at Twitter; the hashtag is #JobWaWi.

Dates shown are closing dates unless otherwise indicated. 'None' means no closing date was indicated. 'Soon' means, well...soon!

1) Chief Executive Officer - Great Lakes Water Authority (Detroit, MI, USA): None

2) Consultancy: International Waters - UNOPS/GPSO (New York): 30 August

3) Director of Knowledge Management and Communications - The Water Institute at University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC, USA): ASAP

4) Latin American and Caribbean Region Program Officer - Living Water International (Houston, TX, USA): None  Download Latin America and Caribbean Region Program Officer

5) Secretariat Director - Global Public-Private Partnership for Handwashing (Washington DC): None

6) World Bank Group Recruitment Drive for African Nationals: 31 August (This is the link to the water sector, but there are other sectors advertised as well)

7) Call for Resumes: Water COPs/Project Managers and Technical Experts - AECOM (Arlington, VA, USA): None

8) Program Director (Water) - IIASA (Vienna): 15 October

9) Human Dimensions of Water (Professor) - West Virginia University (Morgantown, WV, USA): Screenings start 15 September  Download HDH2O at West Virginia Uni_FINAL AD

 

10) Consultancy: Environmental and Sustainable Development Advisor - UNDP (Myanmar): 30 August

11) Consultancy: Environmental Lawyer and Advisor - UNDP (Cambodia): 30 August

12) Project Officer - ADB (Tajikistan Resident Mission): 2 September 

13) Water and Sanitation Economics Senior Specialist - Inter-American Development Bank (Washington DC): 10 September

14) Water and Sanitation Lead Specialist/Senior Specialist - Inter-American Development Bank (Washington DC): 10 September

15) Assistant Professor (Hydrologist) - Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA): None

16) Program Assistant (Mississippi River Delta) - Environmental Defense Fund (Washington DC): None

17) Manager (California Ground Water Program) - Environmental Defense Fund (San Francisco): None

18) Secretary - Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Geneva): 19 September

19) Regional Adviser on Climate Change - UNESCAP (Bangkok): 4 September

20) Fellowship (French Speakers): "Building River Dialogue and Governance in Africa" - IUCN (Bonn, Germany):  Download T O R BRIDGE Fellowship FR

 

21) International Environmental Negotiations Specialist - UNEP (Afghanistan): 30 September

22) WASH Preparedness and Continuity Specialist - World Vision (Geneva): 31 August

23) Global WASH Advisor - GOAL (Kenya/UK/Ireland): ASAP

24) Advisor (International Water Stewardship Programme) - GIZ (?): 7 September

25) Campaign Officer - WaterAid (Pakistan): 7 September

26) Director - UNU-INWEH (Hamilton, ON, Canada): 15 October

27) Consultancy: Expert in Environment, Climate Change and Sustainable Development - UNDP (Mauritius): 30 August

28) Water and Sanitation Governance Adviser - Oxfam (Oxford, UK): 22 September

29) Freshwater Ecologist - Bush Heritage (NSW, Australia): 9 September

30) Associate Specialist (Watershed Reports) - WWF-Canada (Toronto): 11 September

 

31) Reminder: Director - The Water Institute at Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA): None

 

32) Events Coordinator Intern - The Freshwater Trust (Portland, OR, USA): 4 September (Internship)

33) WASH and Equity - UNICEF (Bangkok): 6 September (Internship)

 
34) WASH and Gender - UNICEF (Thailand): 6 September (Internship)

 

The Following Were Added During 28 August - 4 September

 

35) Position: @AGI_GeoIssues (Alexandria, VA) - Program Associate - Critical Issues. App review: 8 Sept; OUF http://bit.ly/1KXfbOW  #JobWaWi

 

36) Positions: @EPA (Boston) - Life/Physical Scientists (Recent Grads). Closes: 4 Sept. http://1.usa.gov/1X5PeG4  #JobWaWi

 

37) Position: @CIRESnews & @WWAnews (Salt Lake City,UT) - Professional Research Assistant. OUF http://bit.ly/1PJ7yiz 

 

38) Position: @FurmanU (Greenville, SC) - T-T Asst Prof, Earth & Env Sciences, Earth Systems Sci. Closes: 1 Dec http://bit.ly/1N7Bx6g  #JobWaWi

 

39) Position: @OSUCEOAS (Corvallis,OR)-Asst Prof-Cartog & Geovisual Analytics. Full Cons: 27 Oct; Closes: 27 Nov http://bit.ly/1VufEiZ  #JobWaWi

 

40) Position: @OSUCEOAS (Corvallis,OR) - T-T Asst Prof - Natural Hazards. Full Consider: 27 Oct; Closes: 27 Nov http://bit.ly/1PJwzdn  #JobWaWi

 

41) Position: @USDA_ARS (W. Lafayette,IN) - Res Ag Engr/Ecologist/Hydrologist/Soil Scientist. Closes: 16 Sept http://1.usa.gov/1hvvF9o  #JobWaWi

 

42) Position: MT Dept Natural Resources & Conservation (Helena) - Water Planner. Closes: 21 Sept http://bit.ly/1L2sCwM  #JobWaWi

 

43) Postdoc Position: @GRI_LSE (London, UK) - Climate/environmental change and more. Closes: 20 Sept. http://bit.ly/1VxfG9C  #JobWaWi

 

44) T-T Assistant Professor - Environmental Scientist. U of Oregon (Eugene, OR). Review of apps: 2 November  Download ES_UOregon

 

45) Position: @ucsc (Santa Cruz,CA) - T-T Asst Prof,Global Environmental & Reso Politics. OUF; App rev: 15 Sept http://bit.ly/1O0V7jS  #JobWaWi
Download UCSC_Pol

46) Position: @ucsc (Santa Cruz,CA)- Chair, Water Resources & Food Systems Sustainability. OUF; App rev: 16 Oct http://bit.ly/1O0V7jS  #JobWaWi
Download UCSC-Chair

 

 

”It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.” - Peter Ustinov (thanks to Faruck Morcos)

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 22 -28 August 2015

 The USA and many others are recalling the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina this week. Please remember all victims and loved ones.

Not one of my country's finest moments. 

Good article from the New York Times.

Hurricanes and floods don't worry me in my area, but western Oregon is subject to disasters of another kind - earthquakes, and we are 'overdue' for The Big One. In order to become a bit more prepared I had this gizmo installed on my gas line yesterday - about $500. What does it do? Check this out. Hope I never have to have its utility tested.

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User's Guide - if you are new to this summary: Each of the items here is a Tweet from my WaterWired Twitter account for the week ending today, arranged by category. It is not a comprehensive summary of the week's water news; it is my summary. 

To access a story, click on the link beginning with 'http://', 'is.gd', or 'bit.ly' (usually). Clicking on a link beginning with '@' will take you to that person's Twitter account;  clicking on a link beginning with '#' (hashtag) will take you to a Twitter list containing Tweets about a particular topic. Some items may not have a hot link to a story, which is fine - it may have been just an informational item or a personal message to someone. Or, I may have screwed up and forgotten the link!

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Scroll down to 'Positions Open' to see the jobs. All my individual job Tweets are archived at #JobWaWi. Previous weekly summaries are archived at:  #WaWiNews or click here.

Animas River Spill  #AnimasRiverSpill
In @ajam: #AnimasRiverSpill creates rift between Navajo Nation, @EPA http://bit.ly/1fCHj0L 

In @denverpost: @EPA: Animas River surface water returning to pre-spill conditions. http://dpo.st/1JRUt8i  #AnimasRiverSpill

Via @highcountrynews Five Western waterways worse than the orange Animas http://bit.ly/1Kiczza 

Via @denverpost: @EPA works to identify mines like Gold King http://dpo.st/1JX50z9  #AnimasMineSpill

In @Oregonian: @AP - @EPA knew of 'blow out' risk for tainted water at gold mine http://bit.ly/1h42Kci  #AnimasRiverSpill

 

Fabulous Fifteen + Four
Via @WaterEdFdn Allocating Water in a Time of Scarcity: Is it Time to Reform Water Rights? http://bit.ly/1Ea2ovd 

@jfleck The Lower Colorado: no shortage for now, but that pesky structural deficit's still there http://bit.ly/1hRBtKI 

Via @SmithsonianMag Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know http://bit.ly/1PMXnu7 

Water Games! Papers:1) 'Computer-supported Games & Role Plays in Teaching Water Management'; 2) 'Irrigania' & More! http://bit.ly/1NLvx02 

Via @geoblogfeed Environment Writer Interview by @SnowHydro: The Amazing & Talented @cynthiabarnett http://bit.ly/1h9qEmM 

RT @MySAWS L.A.'s shade balls go viral — but the Internet has mixed opinions http://ow.ly/Rifbr  via @latimes

Great post on @PLOSBlogs by @SLuckettG: The Narrative of Privilege - Public Health http://bit.ly/1EhFsdS 

RT @theAGU Whither field hydrology?Need for discovery science & outrageous hypotheses #AGUpubs http://ow.ly/Rc5Lc 

 RT @PlacesJournal The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River http://nyr.kr/1hXj4w5  @NewYorker @peterhessler via #PlacesWire

From @PNWClimate: A New Approach to Tracking Hydrologic Responses to Climate Change - Déjà Vu? http://bit.ly/1KhV95J 

RT @PlacesJournal Photos of California Aqueduct by Katherine Jenkins; intro by @deltanatlpark http://bit.ly/1fDWvec 

By @AP in @thenewmexican: Judge rules Obama administration Clean Water rule should be halted http://bit.ly/1PDh7zC 

Water,7 (8) - Aug 2015: Special Issues+GW,Footprints,Ag, Modeling,Runoff,Urban & More! Free! http://bit.ly/1WTs7hR 

@siwi_water #WWWeek fantastic prize winners: @ch2m #SIWA2015 & Perry Alagappan #SJWP2015 & @watermanofindia #SWP2015  View this photo

Via @Law360: @EPA's Clean Water Rule Halted By ND Federal Judge http://bit.ly/1F0DJVa 

@AGU_Eos Buzz - 28 August 2015 - the Latest Earth & Space Science News http://bit.ly/1F2XCuI 

RT @ThisIsFusion The American lawn is now the largest single ‘crop’ in the U.S. http://fus.in/1LGLmb4   View this photo

Great @ElizKolbert piece in @NewYorker on @CFigueres: 'The Woman Who Could Stop Climate Change' http://nyr.kr/1Lp3D9H 

@nytimes: 10 Years After Katrina http://nyti.ms/1PxZyRi 

Books, Films, and Reviews
Amateur Filmmaker Records 'Amazing Monstrous Whirlpool' in Latvia. http://bit.ly/1EfcoDE  via @theSFGlobe

RT @openDemocracy Will raging white guys succeed in hijacking sci-fi’s biggest awards? http://bit.ly/1hPJVKu 

MT @americanrivers Colorado basin water supply & drought featured in new short by @TzuChiUSA. Full film 9/22 http://ow.ly/RmeR6 

New Book: 'Reining in the Rio Grande: People, Land & Water' by Fred Phillips et al. http://bit.ly/1PVV5Zu 

@ryanrmorrison I have not yet read the RG book by Phillips et al. so I cannot give a 'true' rec. But I know Fred & Em and suspect it's VG.

Bottled Water, Drinking Water/TapWater, and Source Water Protection
From @governing & @TexasTribune: Texas on Trial for Undrinkable Water http://bit.ly/1LsMvQu  #txwater (tnx @AWRAHQ)

RT @MySAWS El Paso purification plant will make wastewater drinkable http://ow.ly/RhXI1  via @elpasotimes #txwater

RT @MySAWS Making Ocean Water Drinkable Is Much Harder Than You Think http://ow.ly/RigTO  via @popmech #desal

RT @raulpacheco Bottled water: Commodifying the human right to water http://buff.ly/1Ji8EQR  #WWWeek

@digitaljournal Opening of @CrystalGeyserCG water bottling plant in Calif. opposed http://djour.nl/XyqWEV5 

 

Bullshit and Crap Detection
Via @SmithsonianMag How a Farming Project in Brazil Turned Into a Social and Ecological Tragedy http://bit.ly/1hWMb2G 

Such great experience? Cheap? RT @TheEconomist Why doesn't the @UN pay its interns? http://econ.st/1hQiLmT 

 

California
@MavensNotebook San Luis & Delta Mendota Water Auth & Westlands file suit to stop Trinity River water > Klamath R. http://bit.ly/1V0xWrR 

California Climate Change Symposium 2015 - 24-25 August, Sacramento Web coverage - scroll to bottom http://bit.ly/1fBydBn 

RT @MySAWS L.A.'s shade balls go viral — but the Internet has mixed opinions http://ow.ly/Rifbr  via @latimes

RT @PlacesJournal Photos of California Aqueduct by Katherine Jenkins; intro by @deltanatlpark http://bit.ly/1fDWvec 

Hey, @cfishman! Via @markgrossi Again,even in #CAdrought, Fresno County sets record in 2014 crop report @FresnoBee http://bit.ly/1JwQfAV 

@CA_DWR #cawater Plan eNews 26 Aug 2015~Drought Res~UWMP Mater~GW Webinar~Grants~@NASA Report~Sustain Sym~Delta Plan http://bit.ly/1NBDdF2 

@digitaljournal Opening of @CrystalGeyserCG water bottling plant in Calif. opposed http://djour.nl/XyqWEV5 

@PacificInstitut Report: 'Impacts of California’s Ongoing Drought: Agriculture' http://bit.ly/1VdSoFC  #cadrought #cawater

RT @WaterDeeply Climate change researchers say California will become increasingly dependent on storm whims http://nwsdp.ly/wiz02 

In @sacbee_news: @JerryBrownGov -California’s groundwater management ‘not aggressive enough’ http://bit.ly/1I8Xc5Y  #cawater @MavensNotebook

@highcountrynews The Peeshamer & 5 other pitches for disrupting #CAdrought from @PacificStand http://hcne.ws/1EavjQ2   View this photo

Canada
@OttawaCitizen User's guide to the islands, falls, Zibi & the Windmill development http://ow.ly/Rg7jD  #ottnews

@globeandmail fr @GlobeBC Mines minister seeks to ease Alaskans’ concerns after waste spill http://trib.al/Cd9QH2P 

@WCELaw from @CBCNews: #Fracking halted temporarily after 4.6-magnitude earthquake near Fort St. John, BC http://bit.ly/1NFbUbT 

@CalgaryHerald Water expert astonished by proposed location of CalgaryNEXT along Bow River http://bit.ly/1LzpfmN  (via @WaterPortal)

Via @CanGeographers in @TheTyee: Maintaining Secrecy on @UBC President's Resignation Is Bad PR http://flip.it/LwId2 

Awesome! Congrats to the talented & wonderful @KBalp who joins @CanadianWater as Editor! http://bit.ly/1K3t83e   View this photo

RT @HuffPostCanada Alberta government accused of trying to blow off U.S. delegates' visit to the oilsands http://huff.to/1hlslxx 

RT @CanGeographers The most eye-catching campus buildings in Canada http://flip.it/vzZfJ 

Climate, Climate Change, Adaptation, and Meteorology
Great @ElizKolbert piece in @NewYorker on @CFigueres: 'The Woman Who Could Stop Climate Change' http://nyr.kr/1Lp3D9H 

@douglasmperry In @Oregonian: Chemist calls new CO2 breakthrough a 'viable solution' to climate change http://bit.ly/1LqLUie 

RT @NatureNews Can Islamic scholars change thinking on climate change? http://ow.ly/RckS6 

RT @ClimateCentral This El Niño could be among the strongest in the historical record dating back to 1950: http://buff.ly/1hymeXp 

RT @mashable The world's fastest-melting glacier lost another massive chunk over 2 days http://on.mash.to/1NNOCP5 

California Climate Change Symposium 2015 - 24-25 August, Sacramento Web coverage - scroll to bottom http://bit.ly/1fBydBn 

Es verdad! @LimaCop20 "El agua es el tema central en el debate climático" @manupulgarvidal en #WWWeek #Action2015 http://goo.gl/Vg180b 

From @NASA RT @SkyTruth Oh look, twins. http://ow.ly/RoYPK   View this photo

RT @theatlantic What will our planet look like in 100 years? http://theatln.tc/1VakkKB 

RT @theAGU Barskoon Mtn Glacier Retreat, Tien Shan Range, Kyrgyzstan http://ow.ly/RoJKT  @realglacier via @AGU_Eos

@MTScientists It's not polar bears, it's people! @KHayhoe @TexasTech why we should care about our climate http://bit.ly/1EluSSX 

@CFigueres applauds the Islamic leaders' call to 1.6 billion Muslims to step up #climateaction http://bit.ly/1gTwPLE  #COP21

Conferences, Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Papers
World Water Week and Beyond https://shar.es/1vWXsU  via @CSRwire #WWWeek

@USWP Webinar, 28 Sept, 11 AM EDT: 'Are Water Wars Next? Addressing Transboundary Water Conflicts' http://bit.ly/1i1MNEi 

Are you ready for Stockholm #WWWeek? We are! Find out what @GWPnews will be up to next week http://eepurl.com/bwHSRP 

The @GWPnews booth, B17, at #WWWeek is now ready for you - please stop by and say hi, and write on our #TwitterWall!

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
RT @WLE_CGIAR Are wetlands the solution to global food security? An example from Bangladesh http://bit.ly/1MGMfiq  #WWWeek @IWMI_

Iran's Urmia Lake - Desiccation, Diplomacy & Disaffection: Is Everyone at the Table? http://bit.ly/1WNhxsw  #WWWeek

@USWP Webinar, 28 Sept, 11 AM EDT: 'Are Water Wars Next? Addressing Transboundary Water Conflicts' http://bit.ly/1i1MNEi 

MT @oxfordwater - @GWPnews & @OECD_ENV: New model of water scarcity for every large river basin in the world #wwweek http://po.st/pYza75 

Droughts, Floods, Fires, and Disasters
@NewYorker City of Water: Photographing New Orleans, A Decade After Katrina http://nyr.kr/1Ps8FmN 

@nytimes: 10 Years after Katrina http://nyti.ms/1PxZyRi 

Waiting for The Big One: got a California valve installed on my gas line today. http://bit.ly/1IlzHXw 

@brianstelter Never forget haunting report by @JeanneMeserve. She upended ppl's impressions that "NOLA's been spared"http://bit.ly/1JrXoCI 

Via @isciences Levant & Middle East: Widespread Water Deficits Expected through Oct 2015 https://lnkd.in/eutSPBj 

Lots of smoke here in Willamette Valley @Oregonian Interactive: Real-time wildfires map http://bit.ly/1MGPh6k 

@EdJoyce @CapRadioNews: #CAdrought & 4 other western states to intensify & persist thru Nov http://www.capradio.org/55652   View this photo

Via @lorihuntoon - @CraterLakeNPS, 23 August 2015  View this photo

Thinking of Katrina folks: "Statistics are people with the tears wiped away." - Unknown

RT @westgov Via @OregonGovBrown: #Wildfires affect entire state & every #Oregonian. More info here: http://www.wildfire.oregon.gov  #ORFire #Oregon

Education and Communication
Via @kirkenglehardt by @sarahkaplan48: Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak. http://ow.ly/R3v8s 

Via @kirkenglehardt #SCICOMM 25 - 21 August 2015 http://ow.ly/RcZnL 

Via @Evolutionistrue 'Warning' sticker from Cobb County, AL, textbook. http://bit.ly/1I314FI   View this photo

RT @NCGE1915 The Daily Geography Educator is out! http://paper.li/NCGE1915/1389553352?edition_id=58b34830-49b9-11e5-80b3-0cc47a0d15fd … … Stories via @BobalScience @TheEducator_UK @MarkKoyama

Such great experience? Cheap? RT @TheEconomist Why doesn't the @UN pay its interns? http://econ.st/1hQiLmT 

Water Games! Papers:1) 'Computer-supported Games & Role Plays in Teaching Water Management'; 2) 'Irrigania' & More! http://bit.ly/1NLvx02 

Via @geoblogfeed Environment Writer Interview by @SnowHydro: The Amazing & Talented @cynthiabarnett http://bit.ly/1h9qEmM 

@impeller_news Congrats to Perry Alagappan,Stockholm Jr Water Prize winner http://bit.ly/1KL0nTl  @XylemInc #wwweek

Via @kirkenglehardt Interesting look at teaching about what we DON'T know - in addition to what we do http://ow.ly/RofTd  @nytopinion

Via @CanGeographers in @TheTyee: Maintaining Secrecy on @UBC President's Resignation Is Bad PR http://flip.it/LwId2 

RT @Newsfromscience In brief, papers with shorter titles get more citations, study suggests http://bit.ly/1NUqPx1 

@OSUCEOAS 'Making Waves' Newseltter - 28 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hl8eQ3 

@MTScientists It's not polar bears, it's people! @KHayhoe @TexasTech why we should care about our climate http://bit.ly/1EluSSX 

@kirkenglehardt How open records requests may be used to harass researchers http://ow.ly/RrxVH  by Jack Payne @US_Conversation #scicomm

Audio: Geography Game based on Al Green's 'Take Me to the River' - Take Me To This River @OPB http://bit.ly/1JoqeTb 

Via @kirkenglehardt 10 Steps to PhD Failure http://ow.ly/Rrxub  @timeshighered #postdoc #scicomm

Students! Check out @CUAHSI Pathfinder Graduate Student Travel Fellowships. Apps due: 16 October http://bit.ly/1NIlsmD 

Awesome! Congrats to the talented & wonderful @KBalp who joins @CanadianWater as Editor! http://bit.ly/1K3t83e   View this photo

RT @Davos Which are the world’s best young universities? http://wef.ch/1PTjyih 
View this photo

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
RT @CGIAR-on-Twitter Daily is out! http://paper.li/CGIAR/1323244172?edition_id=aa886b90-48f6-11e5-822d-0cc47a0d164b … …

RT @NCGE1915 The Daily Geography Educator is out! http://paper.li/NCGE1915/1389553352?edition_id=58b34830-49b9-11e5-80b3-0cc47a0d15fd … … Stories via @BobalScience @TheEducator_UK @MarkKoyama

RT @WhoDat35 The Environmental Daily is out! http://paper.li/WhoDat35/environmental?edition_id=4c5a2820-49ea-11e5-822d-0cc47a0d164b … … Stories via @afreedma @ElizKolbert

RT @WhoDat35 The Environmental Daily is out! http://paper.li/WhoDat35/environmental?edition_id=4c5a2820-49ea-11e5-822d-0cc47a0d164b … … Stories via @afreedma @ElizKolbert

Catch up! Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 24 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1KHRI40  #EJHBB #WWWeek

@PauldeDigitect's Water paper is uit! http://paper.li/pauldedigitect/water?edition_id=67c2e120-4b06-11e5-ab63-0cc47a0d1605 … … … Bijdrages door @onedrop @henkovink @WaterWired

@IISDRS Natural Resources Update - 25 August 2015 - Natural Resources Policy & Practice http://bit.ly/1fE4Dve 

The @WaterTanks Daily is out! http://paper.li/WaterTanks?edition_id=17c6c120-4b95-11e5-822d-0cc47a0d164b … … Stories via @ozzywood @ABCRural

From Florida Section of @AWRAHQ: August 2015 Watershed Newsletter http://bit.ly/1NUHfp6  #FLwater

@OSUCEOAS 'Making Waves' Newseltter - 28 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hl8eQ3 

Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up - 28 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hl6V3z  (tnx @TiffDowell)

@AGU_Eos Buzz - 28 August 2015 - the Latest Earth & Space Science News http://bit.ly/1F2XCuI 

@IISDRS Natural Resources Update - 27 August 2015. http://bit.ly/1UfEPmO 

Pub from @TxIRNR & @TxWRI 'Conservation Matters' - August 2015 http://bit.ly/1fIhYCR  #txwater

@CA_DWR #cawater Plan eNews 26 Aug 2015~Drought Res~UWMP Mater~GW Webinar~Grants~@NASA Report~Sustain Sym~Delta Plan http://bit.ly/1NBDdF2 

 

Ethics, Gender, Spirituality, and Rights 
Great post on @PLOSBlogs by @SLuckettG: The Narrative of Privilege - Public Health http://bit.ly/1EhFsdS 

Via @SmithsonianMag Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know http://bit.ly/1PMXnu7 

Great @ElizKolbert piece in @NewYorker on @CFigueres: 'The Woman Who Could Stop Climate Change' http://nyr.kr/1Lp3D9H 

 

Events and Opportunities
Try @AWRAHQ for Half Price for remainder of 2015! http://bit.ly/1Lv8bvd 

Who knew? It's National Waffle Day! Who cares? Waffle iron received US patent 24 August 1869. http://yhoo.it/1NPyhJK 

@PacificStand Happy 99th, @NatlParkService! Why parks are still 'America's best idea.' http://ow.ly/RlIK0 

Oregon Water Resources Dept: Water Supply Development Account Grant and Loan Opportunities http://1.usa.gov/1KhM5PR 

Florida
From Florida Section of @AWRAHQ: August 2015 Watershed Newsletter http://bit.ly/1NUHfp6  #FLwater

@tmtall tells all: Most common Florida lake name http://bit.ly/1NBBWh8  #FLwater

@ScienceDaily Is too much fresh water used to water Florida lawns? http://bit.ly/1JjyLEA  #FLwater

@tmtall Why are Florida tirades against new @EPA water rule so extreme? We can identify some of the sources http://bit.ly/1JvWyR2  #FLwater

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
@KamranNChoudhri Groundwater mining trends in Pakistan today - very brief highlight @LinkedIn http://bit.ly/1NMNqvk   View this photo

In @sacbee_news: @JerryBrownGov -California’s groundwater management ‘not aggressive enough’ http://bit.ly/1I8Xc5Y  #cawater @MavensNotebook

RT @TiffDowell Old wells causing major problems in Pecos County, potential contamination,who is responsible? http://bit.ly/1hhByH3  #txwater

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
@WCELaw from @CBCNews: #Fracking halted temporarily after 4.6-magnitude earthquake near Fort St. John, BC http://bit.ly/1NFbUbT 

RT @SmithsonianMag Utah has the first tar sands mine in the U.S. http://smithmag.co/UVayfj 

Personal, People, and Quotes
@usfs_srs From Fan > Fellow: Research Hydrologist Honored by @AWRAHQ that Inspired his career http://1.usa.gov/1MSUBmZ   View this photo

Waiting for The Big One: got a California valve installed on my gas line today. http://bit.ly/1IlzHXw 

@siwi_water #WWWeek fantastic prize winners: @ch2m #SIWA2015 & Perry Alagappan #SJWP2015 & @watermanofindia #SWP2015  View this photo

Thinking of Katrina folks: "Statistics are people with the tears wiped away." - Unknown

@impeller_news Congrats to Perry Alagappan,Stockholm Jr Water Prize winner http://bit.ly/1KL0nTl  @XylemInc #wwweek

Via @geoblogfeed Environment Writer Interview by @SnowHydro: The Amazing & Talented @cynthiabarnett http://bit.ly/1h9qEmM 

'All good work is done in defiance of management.' - Bob Woodward (tnx @danfagin)

Awesome! Congrats to the talented & wonderful @KBalp who joins @CanadianWater as Editor! http://bit.ly/1K3t83e   View this photo

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
By @TiffDowell in @ProCattlemag: Waters of the United States: Where are we now? http://bit.ly/1PWYmI9 

RT @UNDP What are the proposed #GlobalGoals & why are they important? http://on.undp.org/R49b6  #SDGs #Action2015  View this photo

@AWRAHQ blog: Discussing Public-Private Partnerships: Is this the Future of Water Resources Management? http://bit.ly/1PsDvLY 

@dezaraye_b @AWRAHQ PPP = Privatize profits, socialize losses. 

Via @jeremyj_schmidt Leaked EU memorandum reveals renewed attempt to privatize water in Greece @TNInstitute http://bit.ly/1hWlnQb  #WWWeek

@scelg Policy Brief: 'Good Transboundary Water Governance & the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals' http://bit.ly/1h992Y8  #SDGs #WWWeek

@IISDRS Natural Resources Update - 25 August 2015 - Natural Resources Policy & Practice http://bit.ly/1fE4Dve 

@IISDRS Natural Resources Update - 27 August 2015. http://bit.ly/1UfEPmO 

Via @GabrielEckstein from @HDNER: Ancient ‘water law’ unearthed in Laodicea http://bit.ly/1KSf8Uh 

Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up - 28 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hl6V3z  (tnx @TiffDowell)

Positions Open #JobWaWi
All are contained in the following posts.
Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 29 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1Ip6rPF  #JobWaWi

Megan Kogut's Washington State Water Jobs & More (OR, CO, TX, VT, KS, ON, AB, IT & IND) - 26 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hGIxu7  #JobWaWi

Positions: @EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated: 26 August 2015 http://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd  #JobWaWi

Previous Weeks' Positions Open- Go To  #JobWaWi
Then click on 'Top' and 'Live' for #JobWaWi'
Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More (Stockholm WWW Drinks!) - 18 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1PvWber #JobWaWi

Megan Kogut's Washington State Water Jobs & More (CO, WV, PA, UT) - 20 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1PC3yB7  #JobWaWi

Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 12 August 2015.  http://bit.ly/1L3DcX9  #JobWaWi

Joshua Newton's Water Jobs & More - 4 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1McbjiA  #JobWaWi 

Megan Kogut's Washington State Water Jobs & More (CO & CA) - 5 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1SWavSP  #JobWaWi
 

Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
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TGIF Weekly Water News Summary, 15 - 21 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1KArBfj  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 8 -14 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1PdfBUs  

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 1 - 7 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1hoP8sH  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 25 - 31 July 2015 http://bit.ly/1DegZVY  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 18 - 24 July 2015 http://bit.ly/1MrZftj  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 11 - 17 July 2015 http://bit.ly/1Oc6QJY 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 4 - 10 July 2015 http://bit.ly/1CuLc2E  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 27 June - 3 July 2015 http://bit.ly/1JD7amE  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 20 - 26 June 2015 http://bit.ly/1KfJKSZ  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 13 - 19 June 2015 http://bit.ly/1NakihJ #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 6 - 12 June 2015 http://bit.ly/1GyS4fg  #WaWiNews

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary, 30 May - 5 June 2015 http://bit.ly/1RPjz85  #WaWiNews


Reports, Publications, and Journals
@scelg Policy Brief: 'Good Transboundary Water Governance & the 2015 Sustainable Development Goals' http://bit.ly/1h992Y8  #SDGs #WWWeek

Water,7 (8) - Aug 2015: Special Issues+GW,Footprints,Ag, Modeling,Runoff,Urban & More! Free! http://bit.ly/1WTs7hR 

@PacificInstitut Report: 'Impacts of California’s Ongoing Drought: Agriculture' http://bit.ly/1VdSoFC  #cadrought #cawater

Science, Medicine, and Technology
Via @kirkenglehardt by @sarahkaplan48: Major publisher retracts 64 scientific papers in fake peer review outbreak. http://ow.ly/R3v8s 

On @drshow: The Science of Resilience and How it Can Be Learned http://bit.ly/1JgcHNo 

Catch up! Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geosciences; 2) Enviro-Sciences - 24 August 2015 http://bit.ly/1KHRI40  #EJHBB #WWWeek

Via @SmithsonianMag Ten Historic Female Scientists You Should Know http://bit.ly/1PMXnu7 

RT @theAGU Whither field hydrology?Need for discovery science & outrageous hypotheses #AGUpubs http://ow.ly/Rc5Lc 

@kirkenglehardt How open records requests may be used to harass researchers http://ow.ly/RrxVH  by Jack Payne @US_Conversation #scicomm

@AGU_Eos Buzz - 28 August 2015 - the Latest Earth & Space Science News http://bit.ly/1F2XCuI 

Streams, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
@EPoDHarvard How is your country doing in environmental transparency? @WorldResources http://bit.ly/1Ktfcym 

@americanrivers The Undamming of America http://to.pbs.org/1MKGgL9  via @novapbs

Iran's Urmia Lake - Desiccation, Diplomacy & Disaffection: Is Everyone at the Table? http://bit.ly/1WNhxsw  #WWWeek

From @reviewjournal Erosion project may speed up as Lake Mead sinks http://bit.ly/1MOUKcL 

@USGS Insecticides Similar to Nicotine Found in about Half of Sampled Streams across US http://on.doi.gov/1Pv4aYu 

@business China's Building a Huge Canal in Nicaragua, But We Couldn't Find It http://bloom.bg/1JvshpM 

RT @PlacesJournal The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River http://nyr.kr/1hXj4w5  @NewYorker @peterhessler via #PlacesWire

Via @WyoFile $72 million in dam projects advance http://ow.ly/RmuAu 

rom @BCWaterNews in @ajam: Rising River Temperatures Put Salmon in Hot Water http://bit.ly/1U6v6EH 

Audio: Geography Game based on Al Green's 'Take Me to the River' - Take Me To This River @OPB http://bit.ly/1JoqeTb 

@CdnWaterNetwork #ResearchSpotlight Can aquatic organisms recover after being exposed to contaminants? http://bit.ly/1LDnXqU 

RT @SharedValueCA By 2018 Sweden to include ecosystem services value in financial, political decisions http://ow.ly/RpEJr  @grist
 

Visuals and Infographics
@NewYorker City of Water: Photographing New Orleans, A Decade After Katrina http://nyr.kr/1Ps8FmN 

Via @lorihuntoon - @CraterLakeNPS, 23 August 2015  View this photo

RT @PlacesJournal Photos of California Aqueduct by Katherine Jenkins; intro by @deltanatlpark http://bit.ly/1fDWvec 

RT @PlacesJournal The Many Lives Along the Yangtze River http://nyr.kr/1hXj4w5  @NewYorker @peterhessler via #PlacesWire

RT @CanGeographers The most eye-catching campus buildings in Canada http://flip.it/vzZfJ 

WASH and Development
@GWPnews: Groundbreaking water research in Zambia http://bit.ly/1MKG52p  via @lusakatimes

 

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
By @TiffDowell in @ProCattlemag: Waters of the United States: Where are we now? http://bit.ly/1PWYmI9 

Via @EI_Water Toxic Algae Invade Guatemala’s Treasured Lake Atitlan @Environment_New http://bit.ly/1PsIn3O   View this photo

@USGS Insecticides Similar to Nicotine Found in about Half of Sampled Streams across US http://on.doi.gov/1Pv4aYu 

Via @highcountrynews Five Western waterways worse than the orange Animas http://bit.ly/1Kiczza 

Via @denverpost: @EPA works to identify mines like Gold King http://dpo.st/1JX50z9  #AnimasMineSpill

By @AP in @thenewmexican: Judge rules Obama administration Clean Water rule should be halted http://bit.ly/1PDh7zC 

Via @Law360: @EPA's Clean Water Rule Halted By ND Federal Judge http://bit.ly/1F0DJVa 

RT @XHNews Water pollution, a tricky issue for #Rio2016 #Olympics http://xhne.ws/eF5Ot 

Water Supply, Quantity, Use/Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
RT @joshnewtonH2O Rebuilding New Orleans into America’s finest water city http://gu.com/p/4bgtp/stw 

@jfleck The Lower Colorado: no shortage for now, but that pesky structural deficit's still there http://bit.ly/1hRBtKI 

MT @IWMI_ One-third of irrigation schemes in Southern Africa have failed http://bit.ly/1f6OrCg 

RT @MySAWS El Paso purification plant will make wastewater drinkable http://ow.ly/RhXI1  via @elpasotimes #txwater

RT @Veolia_NA Does water become more valuable when it can power its own treatment? http://goo.gl/2MKgPZ  #wwweek

@TheWaterChannel Resisting Corrupt Practices in the Water Sector: Lessons (video) http://bit.ly/1JwK6F1 

RT @ThisIsFusion The American lawn is now the largest singl 

MT @oxfordwater - @GWPnews & @OECD_ENV: New model of water scarcity for every large river basin in the world #wwweek http://po.st/pYza75 

Pub from @TxIRNR & @TxWRI 'Conservation Matters' - August 2015 http://bit.ly/1fIhYCR  #txwater

Via @WaterEdFdn Allocating Water in a Time of Scarcity: Is it Time to Reform Water Rights? http://bit.ly/1Ea2ovd 

WTF?
Via @Evolutionistrue 'Warning' sticker from Cobb County, AL, textbook. http://bit.ly/1I314FI   View this photo

Such great experience? Cheap? RT @TheEconomist Why doesn't the @UN pay its interns? http://econ.st/1hQiLmT 

@business China's Building a Huge Canal in Nicaragua, But We Couldn't Find It http://bloom.bg/1JvshpM 

@OnwardState @amy_galford Same reason we call Corvallis & @oregonstateuniv 'The Happy Bubble'?

RT @AWRAHQ In case you missed it! http://conta.cc/1MIHhSb 

"Statistics are people with the tears wiped away." - Unknown. allegedly said by an attendee at a conference about the response to Katrina

Water, 7(8) - August 2015: Special Issues + Groundwater, Footprints, Ag, Modeling, Runoff, Urban Water and More! (Open Access)

Now available! Water, Volume 7, Issue 8 (August 2015), Pages 4026-4592

All articles are freely downloadable. If you cannot download the articles here, visit the issue's WWW site.

Special Issues. You'll note there are several 'Special Issues' in this issue, some with
  just one or a few papers and some of which have appeared before. Water has many special issues in progress at any given time. What happens is that when a special issue paper is accepted, it immediately goes into the next online issue of Water. If you click on the special issue title, it should take you to all the current papers in that special issue. 

Enjoy!

Table of Contents 

Special Issue Sustainable Water Management and Decision Making under limited Data Availability

Article: Spatiotemporal Correlations between Water Footprint and Agricultural Inputs: A Case Study of Maize Production in Northeast China
by Peili Duan, Lijie Qin, Yeqiao Wang and Hongshi He
Water 2015, 7(8), 4026-4040; doi:10.3390/w7084026

Article: Evaluating Groundwater Management Sustainability under Limited Data Availability in Semiarid Zones
by Javier Senent-Aparicio, Julio Pérez-Sánchez, José Luis García-Aróstegui, Alicia Bielsa-Artero and Juan Carlos Domingo-Pinillos
Water 2015, 7(8), 4305-4322; doi:10.3390/w7084305

Special Issue Use of Meta-Heuristic Techniques in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling

Article: Daily Runoff Forecasting Model Based on ANN and Data Preprocessing Techniques
by Yun Wang, Shenglian Guo, Lihua Xiong, Pan Liu and Dedi Liu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4144-4160; doi:10.3390/w7084144

Article: Daily Reservoir Runoff Forecasting Method Using Artificial Neural Network Based on Quantum-behaved Particle Swarm Optimization
by Chun-tian Cheng, Wen-jing Niu, Zhong-kai Feng, Jian-jian Shen and Kwok-wing Chau
Water 2015, 7(8), 4232-4246; doi:10.3390/w7084232

Article: Heuristic Methods for Reservoir Monthly Inflow Forecasting: A Case Study of Xinfengjiang Reservoir in Pearl River, China
by Chun-Tian Cheng, Zhong-Kai Feng, Wen-Jing Niu and Sheng-Li Liao
Water 2015, 7(8), 4477-4495; doi:10.3390/w7084477

 

Special Issue Water-Energy-Food Nexus in Large Asian River Basins

Article: Transferable Principles for Managing the Nexus: Lessons from Historical Global Water Modelling of Central Asia
by Joseph H. A. Guillaume, Matti Kummu, Stephanie Eisner and Olli Varis
Water 2015, 7(8), 4200-4231; doi:10.3390/w7084200

 

Special Issue Study, Development and Management of Water in Volcanic Areas

Communication: Influence of Policy Making in the Profitability of Forage Production Irrigated with Reclaimed Water
by María del Pino Palacios-Diaz, Vanessa Mendoza-Grimón and Alberto Del Villar Garcia
Water 2015, 7(8), 4274-4282; doi:10.3390/w7084274

 

Special Issue Water Resources Assessment and Management in Drylands

Article: Spatiotemporal Distribution of Soil Moisture and Salinity in the Taklimakan Desert Highway Shelterbelt
by Yuan Huang, Yongdong Wang, Ying Zhao, Xinwen Xu, Jianguo Zhang and Congjuan Li
Water 2015, 7(8), 4343-4361; doi:10.3390/w7084343

 

Special Issue Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems

Article: Field Evaluation of a Stormwater Treatment Train with Pit Baskets and Filter Media Cartridges in Southeast Queensland
by Darren Drapper and Andy Hornbuckle
Water 2015, 7(8), 4496-4510; doi:10.3390/w7084496

Communication: Agricultural Rivers at Risk: Dredging Results in a Loss of Macroinvertebrates. Preliminary Observations from the Narew Catchment, Poland
by Mateusz Grygoruk, Magdalena Frąk and Aron Chmielewski
Water 2015, 7(8), 4511-4522; doi:10.3390/w7084511

Article: Transferability of Monitoring Data from Neighboring Streams in a Physical Habitat Simulation
by Byungwoong Choi, Sung-Uk Choi and Hojeong Kang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4537-4551; doi:10.3390/w7084537

 

Special Issue Hydrologic System Analysis, Patterns, and Predictions for Arid and Semi-arid Environment

Review: Vapor Flow Resistance of Dry Soil Layer to Soil Water Evaporation in Arid Environment: An Overview
by Xixi Wang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4552-4574; doi:10.3390/w7084552

 

Further Publications

Article: Simulation of Summer Hourly Stream Flow by Applying TOPMODEL and Two Routing Algorithms to the Sparsely Gauged Lhasa River Basin in China
by Dingzhi Peng, Ji Chen and Jing Fang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4041-4053; doi:10.3390/w7084041

Article: Identifying the Physical Properties of Showers That Influence User Satisfaction to Aid in Developing Water-Saving Showers
by Minami Okamoto, Minoru Sato, Yoshihiko Shodai and Masayoshi Kamijo
Water 2015, 7(8), 4054-4062; doi:10.3390/w7084054

Review: Urban Evolution: The Role of Water
by Sujay S. Kaushal, William H. McDowell, Wilfred M. Wollheim, Tamara A. Newcomer Johnson, Paul M. Mayer, Kenneth T. Belt and Michael J. Pennino
Water 2015, 7(8), 4063-4087; doi:10.3390/w7084063

 

Article: Uncertainty in Various Habitat Suitability Models and Its Impact on Habitat Suitability Estimates for Fish
by Yu-Pin Lin, Wei-Chih Lin and Wei-Yao Wu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4088-4107; doi:10.3390/w7084088

Article: Seawater and Freshwater Circulations through Coastal Forested Wetlands on a Caribbean Island
by Luc Lambs, Félix Bompy, Daniel Imbert, Dov Corenblit and Maguy Dulormne
Water 2015, 7(8), 4108-4128; doi:10.3390/w7084108

Article: Analysis of Urban Drainage Networks Using Gibbs’ Model: A Case Study in Seoul, South Korea
by Yongwon Seo, Junshik Hwang and Seong Jin Noh
Water 2015, 7(8), 4129-4143; doi:10.3390/w7084129

Article: Comparison of the Physical Properties of Showers that the Satisfaction of Shower Feeling among Users in Three Asian Countries
by Minami Okamoto, Ryohei Yaita, Minoru Sato, Masayoshi Kamijo, Kanako Toyosada, Yasutoshi Shimizu, Kyosuke Sakaue, Wan-Ju Liao, Meng-Chieh Lee and Cheng-Li Cheng
Water 2015, 7(8), 4161-4174; doi:10.3390/w7084161

Article: Reconstruction of Lake Level Changes of Groundwater-Fed Lakes in Northeastern Germany Using RapidEye Time Series
by Iris Heine, Peter Stüve, Birgit Kleinschmit and Sibylle Itzerott
Water 2015, 7(8), 4175-4199; doi:10.3390/w7084175

Communication: Traceability of pH to the Mole
by Maria Filomena Camões and Bárbara Anes
Water 2015, 7(8), 4247-4255; doi:10.3390/w7084247

Article: Model Spin-Up Behavior for Wet and Dry Basins: A Case Study Using the Xinanjiang Model
by Mohammad Mahfuzur Rahman and Minjiao Lu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4256-4273; doi:10.3390/w7084256

Article: Modeling of Breaching Due to Overtopping Flow and Waves Based on Coupled Flow and Sediment Transport
by Zhiguo He, Peng Hu, Liang Zhao, Gangfeng Wu and Thomas Pähtz
Water 2015, 7(8), 4283-4304; doi:10.3390/w7084283

Article: A New Spatiotemporal Risk Index for Heavy Metals: Application in Cyprus
by Christos G. Karydas, Ourania Tzoraki and Panos Panagos
Water 2015, 7(8), 4323-4342; doi:10.3390/w7084323

Article: Warning Model for Shallow Landslides Induced by Extreme Rainfall
by Lien-Kwei Chien, Chia-Feng Hsu and Li-Chung Yin
Water 2015, 7(8), 4362-4384; doi:10.3390/w7084362

Article: Fractal Dimension of Cohesive Sediment Flocs at Steady State under Seven Shear Flow Conditions
by Zhongfan Zhu, Jingshan Yu, Hongrui Wang, Jie Dou and Cheng Wang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4385-4408; doi:10.3390/w7084385

Article: Evaluation of an Empirical Reservoir Shape Function to Define Sediment Distributions in Small Reservoirs
by Bogusław Michalec
Water 2015, 7(8), 4409-4426; doi:10.3390/w7084409

Article: Impacts of Land Use on Surface Water Quality in a Subtropical River Basin: A Case Study of the Dongjiang River Basin, Southeastern China
by Jiao Ding, Yuan Jiang, Lan Fu, Qi Liu, Qiuzhi Peng and Muyi Kang
Water 2015, 7(8), 4427-4445; doi:10.3390/w7084427

Article: Simulation of Water Level Fluctuations in a Hydraulic System Using a Coupled Liquid-Gas Model
by Chao Wang, Jiandong Yang and Håkan Nilsson
Water 2015, 7(8), 4446-4476; doi:10.3390/w7084446

Article: Forms of Nutrients in Rivers Flowing into Lake Chaohu: A Comparison between Urban and Rural Rivers
by Lei Zhang, Shiguang Shao, Cheng Liu, Tingting Xu and Chengxin Fan
Water 2015, 7(8), 4523-4536; doi:10.3390/w7084523

Article: Impacts of the 2013 Extreme Flood in Northeast China on Regional Groundwater Depth and Quality
by Xihua Wang, Guangxin Zhang and Yi Jun Xu
Water 2015, 7(8), 4575-4592; doi:10.3390/w7084575

 

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