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TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 20 - 26 March 2021

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The links below represent the week's water news as represented by my Tweets. I do not pretend that this survey is a comprehensive survey of the water news; it's my attempt to keep my readers informed to the best of my ability and available time.

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Coronavirus and COVID-19
It's @nature Briefing - 26 March 2021. Today we watch an octopus enjoy some active sleep, discover the first known gene transfer from plant to insect and hear that the Oxford–AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine is back on track. https://bit.ly/2P9AY5b

It's @nature Briefing - 25 March 2021. Today we boggle at a stunning new black-hole image, discover the mechanism behind our big brains and explore growing evidence of convergent evolution in #SARS_CoV_2 variants. https://bit.ly/3coOxqd

It's @nature Briefing - 24 March 2021. Today we learn what scientists do and don’t know about the Oxford–AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine. Plus, enjoy ten great environmental books and hear a call for the USA, European Union and China to form a climate club.https://bit.ly/31hAfRL

It's @nature Briefing - 23 March 2021. Today we examine the ‘paper mill’ problem, learn about the world’s oldest wooden sculpture and discover flexible circuits inspired by human skin. http://bit.ly/3lJOzMh

It's @nature Briefing - 22 March 2021. Today we explore the future of variant-proof vaccines, learn that carbon emissions from bottom trawling exceed those from air travel and meet@JoeBiden's pick for the next head of @NASA. http://bit.ly/3tLL6j6

From @KTVN: Predicting #COVID19 Spikes: @unevadareno Wastewater Study Can See Trend One Week Ahead of Positive Tests https://bit.ly/3lLOwjd #globalwater

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management -22 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3d0H7s6

Top Thirty (More or Less)
From @CA_Water_News: @CA_DWR announced a revision to the initial State Water Project (SWP) allocation for the 2021 water year: 5 percent of requested supplies https://bit.ly/3cowHDG

From @USATODAY: Climate Point - 26 March 2021. The Wright brothers make it to Mars; no super bloom this year; Concern on the Colorado River; More! https://bit.ly/3tZLrz4

From @AGU_Eos Glimpsing the Ins and Outs of the Arctic Atmospheric Cauldron http://bit.ly/3lBv5JR #globalwater

Employers/Supervisors - Please Take This Survey: Employer Perceptions of Career Training in the Geosciences Career https://bit.ly/38z9AnF #PNWater #cawater

The @WaterNetwork1 Newsletter - 26 March 2021. Essential Industry Trending Technology~Editor's Choice~Articles & Knowledge Exchange~Featured Jobs~Online Course~Events~More! https://bit.ly/39hTE9T #globalwater 

It's Season 2 Episode 6 of @SarniWilliam & @TomFWater's 'The Stream'. The rock 'n' roll and digital twins welcome asset manager Mark Kaney as their guest https://bit.ly/3rprMGM #globalwater

Free! @AWRAHQ's March/April 2021 Water Resources IMPACT magazine. Guest editor @mikeantos: "Arguably, managing water separately from land was one of the great missteps of the 20th century." Read the full issue now. https://bit.ly/3rdhAkw #globalwater

CRS InFocus Report: 'Army Corps of Engineers: FY2021 Appropriations' https://bit.ly/3d3RZWq

 

From @EFCatUNC: Alternative Metrics to Examine Financial Capability to Implement Clean Water Act Controls https://unc.live/3rkktQD

 

From @CGIAR: Groundwater depletion in India could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead https://bit.ly/2Pvpadu #globalwater

 

From @AZWRRC: Video and Presentations - World Water Day Special Webinar-'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' https://bit.ly/3sOl6TW #SWUSwater 

 

V.B. Price Column: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland https://bit.ly/3d3eA5d #globalwater

 

TGIF! Weekly Water News Summary 13 - 19 March 2021 https://bit.ly/38UcdRd

 

Next @AWRAHQ Webinar: Martin Doyle of @DukeEnvironment: 'Water Affordability and Equity in the United States', 24 March, 10 - 11 AM PDT. Register now - can view archived version later! http://bit.ly/3loj2iZ

 

Come hang out with us. @LISABEUTLER and I are going to do a special IMPACT issue on CA Groundwater & looking for authors. Easy lift of 800-1400 words in conversational text. See sample attached. #cawater #groundwater https://tinyurl.com/2f42feau

 

From @WaterintheWest: America’s Drinking Water Future http://stanford.io/31chak4 #cawater

 

Via @hppr: A Colorado River Showdown Is Looming. Let The Posturing Begin https://tinyurl.com/yzagsm5h #SWUSwater #cowater

 

From @KTVN: Predicting #COVID19 Spikes: @unevadareno Wastewater Study Can See Trend One Week Ahead of Positive Tests https://bit.ly/3lLOwjd #globalwater

 

Publication from @CaliforniaEPA, @CDFAnews & @calnatresources: '2020 Water Resilience Portfolio': https://bit.ly/3954KyN

 

CRS Report: 'U.S. Energy in the 21st Century - A Primer' https://bit.ly/3txMGoO

 

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management -22 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3d0H7s6

 

The @UN_Water World Water Development Report 2021 ‘Valuing Water’ http://bit.ly/3tLbCJz #globalwater

 

The @USGAO Report: 'Nuclear Waste - Congressional Action Needed to Clarify a Disposal Option at West Valley Site in New York' https://bit.ly/3sbMxXL #globalwater

 

From @BCWaterNews: Top Water Stories 15 - 19 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3lyIzWO

 

From @UCDavisWater: That Time Warren Buffett Got Involved in California Water https://bit.ly/3s9YL3g

 

From @AGU_Eos: The New River Gorge: Ancient River, Old Mines, New National Park http://bit.ly/3c3vhyc #NEWater

 

NV town sues @USBR to stop planned canal repairs. Residents say leakage has been relied upon to fill wells for decades. A federal judge denied Fernley’s bid last year to delay plans to line parts of the Truckee Canal with concrete. https://bit.ly/3lAQ7YY

 

The @uproot_project Launch! Join us as we discuss the need for more journalists of color in environmental journalism, and our plans to help diversify the industry! http://bit.ly/311sDTt #globalwater

 

Via @KPBSnews Dust Up Over Salton Sea Project At Red Hill Bay. http://bit.ly/3s9MRGD #cawater

 

From @TiffDowell: Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up -26 March 2021. Maryland trial court ruling on ammonia emissions and the Clean Water Act draws concern;. Internal @EPA memo says EPA ignored science in 2018 dicamba registration decision. More! https://bit.ly/3sx8noQ #txwater

Books, Reviews and Related
The @UN_Water World Water Development Report 2021 ‘Valuing Water’ http://bit.ly/3tLbCJz #globalwater

Bottled Water, Beer, Drinking Water/TapWater
Next @AWRAHQ Webinar: Martin Doyle of @DukeEnvironment: 'Water Affordability and Equity in the United States', 24 March, 10 - 11 AM PDT. Register now - can view archived version later! http://bit.ly/3loj2iZ

In @reporterherald: Citizen panel will air water fluoridation concerns during Loveland commission meeting Wednesday. City drinking water contains about 0.7 mg/L fluoride http://bit.ly/399sZf0

From @WaterintheWest: America’s Drinking Water Future http://stanford.io/31chak4 #cawater

Bullshit and Crap Detection
"You want clarity on tenure and promotion standards? How is this? Convince a majority of the septuagenarians and octogenarians who run your department that your research, teaching, and service record is as good as they think their record was five decades ago." - @ass_deans

California
From @CA_Water_News: @CA_DWR announced a revision to the initial State Water Project (SWP) allocation for the 2021 water year: 5 percent of requested supplies https://bit.ly/3cowHDG

In @CA_Water_News: @Cadiz_Inc CEO @ScottSlater issues call to action on California's water supply crisis. https://bit.ly/2P3hmzB #cawater

Come hang out with us. @LISABEUTLER and I are going to do a special IMPACT issue on CA Groundwater & looking for authors. Easy lift of 800-1400 words in conversational text. See sample attached. #cawater #groundwater https://tinyurl.com/2f42feau

From @WaterintheWest: America’s Drinking Water Future http://stanford.io/31chak4 #cawater

Publication from @CaliforniaEPA, @CDFAnews & @calnatresources: '2020 Water Resilience Portfolio': https://bit.ly/3954KyN

From @UCDavisWater: That Time Warren Buffett Got Involved in California Water https://bit.ly/3s9YL3g

From @AllDENews via @JayLund113: R.I.P. Larry Brown of  @USGSwaterCA. Met him when I was on  @theNASEM Bay-Delta Committee in early 2000s. One of the good guys. http://bit.ly/3lFGtUX #cawater

Via @KPBSnews Dust Up Over Salton Sea Project At Red Hill Bay. http://bit.ly/3s9MRGD #cawater

Canada
From @CanadianWater: 'The Droplet' Newsletter - 22 March 2021. Award-Winning Water Steward—City of Vancouver’s Melina Scholefield; Dam Operations, Flood Management Adjust to Changing Climate Patterns; More! http://bit.ly/3f5ab4t #globalwater 

Climate, Climate Change, and Meteorology
From @USATODAY: Climate Point - 26 March 2021. The Wright brothers make it to Mars; no super bloom this year; Concern on the Colorado River; More! https://bit.ly/3tZLrz4

From @AGU_Eos Glimpsing the Ins and Outs of the Arctic Atmospheric Cauldron http://bit.ly/3lBv5JR #globalwater

Conferences,Webinars, Workshops and Calls for Abstracts/Paper
SOON! Webinar on #WorldWaterDay by @AZWRRC! 'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' 22 March, 3:30 - 5 PM PDT. Moderated by @SbmWater. http://bit.ly/2P74DeM #globalwater

11th Annual @OSUHydrophiles' Pacific NW Water Research Symposium 12-13 April! It will be free and feature keynoters,workshops,career panel,networking, & trivia night! Register: http://bit.ly/3cnujvR #PNWater

Conflict, Cooperation, and Security
NV town sues @USBR to stop planned canal repairs. Residents say leakage has been relied upon to fill wells for decades. A federal judge denied Fernley’s bid last year to delay plans to line parts of the Truckee Canal with concrete. https://bit.ly/3lAQ7YY

Disasters: Droughts, Floods, Wildfires and More
Seems like it's been there for quite a while. From @capitalandmain & @highcountrynews: New Mexico’s Coming Megadrought Highlights Farmers’ Control of Water http://bit.ly/3eVMjQV 

Daily Water Newsletters
California Water Daily
California Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/2P132Yx #cawater

California Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3tV1ePk #cawater

California Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/39bxoOy #cawater

California Water Daily - 23 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3r9UyLy #cawater

California Water Daily - 22 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3c7t1WT #cawater

California Water Daily - 21 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3cXyHlg #cawater

California Water Daily - 20 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3lytVyI #cawater

Colorado Water Daily
Colorado Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3vWM0LL #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3vXuhDV #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/2NQwJec #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 23 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3vSjqed #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 22 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3d0x0Ue #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 21 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3cSN8XR #cowater

Colorado Water Daily - 20 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3s6eRed #cowater

Florida Water Daily
Florida Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3rooO5C #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/31fDUzC #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3vWQ5iL #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 23 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3sePNBG #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 22 March 2021. http://bit.ly/2PeuUIq #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 21 March 2020. http://bit.ly/3tL23Kr #FLwater

Florida Water Daily - 20 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3vMXW2G #FLwater

Northeast US Water Daily
Northeast US Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/2QIQuW8 #NEWater

Northeast US Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3szVLgV #NEWater

Northeast US Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/31fepys

Northeast US Water Daily - 23 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3lKebsn #NEWater

Northeast US Water Daily - 22 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3sdps70 #NEWater

Northeast US Water Daily - 21 March 2020. https://bit.ly/3vMMggc #NEWater

Northeast US Water Daily - 20 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3s4YOgx #NEWater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily
Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/31mlQ6Z #PNWater #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3d93BqX #PNWater #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3f9XZ2p #PNWater #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 23 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3vW3rMc #PNWater #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 22 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3f4LC7W #PNWater #EUGwater

Eugene Water Weekly - 22 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3r80RiF #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 21 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3cXvFOb #PNWater #EUGwater

Pacific Northwest Water Daily - 20 March 2021. https://bit.ly/2NytLuy #PNWater #EUGwater

Southwest US Water Daily
Southwest US Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3rlXHYV #SWUSwater cc: @AZWRRC

Southwest US Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3sjb0dM #SWUSwater

 

Southwest US Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3vYkKMC #SWUSwater

 

Southwest US Water Daily - 23 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3tMLTQN #SWUSwater

 

Southwest US Water Daily - 22 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3sgfQbK #SWUSwater

 

Southwest US Water Daily - 21 March 2020. https://bit.ly/390l97q #SWUSwater

 

Southwest US Water Daily - 20 March 2021. https://bit.ly/38ZwGUx #SWUSwater

Texas Water Daily
Texas Water Daily - 26 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3lWuEK5 #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 25 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3feUWGs #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 24 March 2021. https://bit.ly/3d0Nrju #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 23 March 2021 http://bit.ly/31foqLO #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 22 March 2021. http://bit.ly/2NErzSk #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 21 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3vFQKoK #txwater

Texas Water Daily - 20 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3vN3utJ #txwater

Education, Events, and Opportunities
From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 26 March. 1914: Typhoid in Rockville, MD. https://bit.ly/3rkFpHq #TDIWH #NEWater

From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 25 March. 1639: First U.S. Water Power Canal https://bit.ly/3copJid #TDIWH

 

From @CaptDocMike- 24 March. 1909: Disinfecting Water at Poughkeepsie, NY https://bit.ly/31gsziW #TDIWH

 

From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 23 March. 1842: Birth of Clemens Herschel http://bit.ly/2P0dKhQ #TDIWH

 

From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 22 March. 1905: Owens Valley Only Viable Source; 1993: World Water Day; 1733: Carbonated Water Invented http://bit.ly/3c7FYzQ #TDIWH

 

From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 21 March. 1912: Philadelphia Filters Overtaxed http://bit.ly/3s4mH82 #TDIWH

 

From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 20 March. 1847: Ignaz Semmelweis Takes on Childbirth Fever http://bit.ly/3122xzC #TDIWH

 

Employers/Supervisors - Please Take This Survey: Employer Perceptions of Career Training in the Geosciences Career https://bit.ly/38z9AnF #PNWater #cawater

 

From@OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 26 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3rlIqas #PNWater #EUGwater

 

22 March! From @TheWaterChannel and @UN_Water: Happy #WorldWaterDay2021! Theme: 'Valuing Water' See you in Dakar in a year

@WaterForum9 http://bit.ly/396ulqZ #globalwater

E-Newsletters and E-Newspapers
From @USATODAY: Climate Point - 26 March 2021. The Wright brothers make it to Mars; no super bloom this year; Concern on the Colorado River; More! https://bit.ly/3tZLrz4

From@OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 26 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3rlIqas #PNWater #EUGwater

From @AZWRRC 'Weekly Wave' Newsletter - 26 March 2021. IN THIS ISSUE: MAR, LTSCs, IMPACT, APW, AZ Water, WWD Report, More! https://conta.cc/2QCVjQB #SWUSwater

From @BCWaterNews: Top Water Stories 15 - 19 March 2021. http://bit.ly/3lyIzWO

It's @nature Briefing - 26 March 2021. Today we watch an octopus enjoy some active sleep, discover the first known gene transfer from plant to insect and hear that the Oxford–AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine is back on track. https://bit.ly/2P9AY5b

It's @nature Briefing - 25 March 2021. Today we boggle at a stunning new black-hole image, discover the mechanism behind our big brains and explore growing evidence of convergent evolution in #SARS_CoV_2 variants. https://bit.ly/3coOxqd

It's @nature Briefing - 24 March 2021. Today we learn what scientists do and don’t know about the Oxford–AstraZeneca #COVID19 vaccine. Plus, enjoy ten great environmental books and hear a call for the USA, European Union and China to form a climate club.https://bit.ly/31hAfRL

It's @nature Briefing - 23 March 2021. Today we examine the ‘paper mill’ problem, learn about the world’s oldest wooden sculpture and discover flexible circuits inspired by human skin. http://bit.ly/3lJOzMh

It's @nature Briefing - 22 March 2021. Today we explore the future of variant-proof vaccines, learn that carbon emissions from bottom trawling exceed those from air travel and meet@JoeBiden's pick for the next head of @NASA. http://bit.ly/3tLL6j6

Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management -22 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3d0H7s6

From @TiffDowell: Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up -26 March 2021. Maryland trial court ruling on ammonia emissions and the Clean Water Act draws concern;. Internal @EPA memo says EPA ignored science in 2018 dicamba registration decision. More! https://bit.ly/3sx8noQ #txwater

Ethics, Gender, Indigenous People, Rights
V.B. Price Column: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland https://bit.ly/3d3eA5d #globalwater

The @uproot_project Launch! Join us as we discuss the need for more journalists of color in environmental journalism, and our plans to help diversify the industry! http://bit.ly/311sDTt #globalwater

Great Hannah @SperoGeology @BoiseStateGeos ! CANNOT BELIEVE IT, BUT I WAS AWARDED THE @NSF GRFP!! I am so grateful for the opportunity and so thankful for the mentorship I have received throughout my undergraduate career. I cannot wait for graduate school! #PNWater

Support Women in Water Scholarship Fund-Donate Now! https://bit.ly/2S63TVr

 

Florida Water

In @Fla_Pol: Senate proposes money for Everglades, sea level rise https://bit.ly/3fgl9nK #cawater

Global Water
From @USATODAY: Climate Point - 26 March 2021. The Wright brothers make it to Mars; no super bloom this year; Concern on the Colorado River; More! https://bit.ly/3tZLrz4

It's Season 2 Episode 6 of @SarniWilliam & @TomFWater's 'The Stream'. The rock 'n' roll and digital twins welcome asset manager Mark Kaney as their guest https://bit.ly/3rprMGM #globalwater

From @CGIAR: Groundwater depletion in India could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead https://bit.ly/2Pvpadu #globalwater

From @AZWRRC: Video and Presentations - World Water Day Special Webinar-'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' https://bit.ly/3sOl6TW #SWUSwater 

The @fundacionbotin's Water Observatory announces its Sustainable Water Management Prize (4 categories). 2021 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: open 22 March to 31 July 2021. http://bit.ly/2FL8VkF #globalwater

From @CanadianWater: 'The Droplet' Newsletter - 22 March 2021. Award-Winning Water Steward—City of Vancouver’s Melina Scholefield; Dam Operations, Flood Management Adjust to Changing Climate Patterns; More! http://bit.ly/3f5ab4t #globalwater

SOON! Webinar on #WorldWaterDay by @AZWRRC! 'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' 22 March, 3:30 - 5 PM PDT. Moderated by @SbmWater. http://bit.ly/2P74DeM #globalwater

The @UN_Water World Water Development Report 2021 ‘Valuing Water’ http://bit.ly/3tLbCJz #globalwater

22 March! From @TheWaterChannel and @UN_Water: Happy #WorldWaterDay2021! Theme: 'Valuing Water' See you in Dakar in a year @WaterForum9 http://bit.ly/396ulqZ #globalwater

The @uproot_project Launch! Join us as we discuss the need for more journalists of color in environmental journalism, and our plans to help diversify the industry! http://bit.ly/311sDTt #globalwater

From @AGU_Eos Glimpsing the Ins and Outs of the Arctic Atmospheric Cauldron http://bit.ly/3lBv5JR #globalwater

Groundwater and Hydrogeology
From @CGIAR: Groundwater depletion in India could reduce winter cropped acreage significantly in years ahead https://bit.ly/2Pvpadu #globalwater

From @AZWRRC: Video and Presentations - World Water Day Special Webinar-'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' https://bit.ly/3sOl6TW #SWUSwater 

In @CA_Water_News: @Cadiz_Inc CEO @ScottSlater issues call to action on California's water supply crisis. https://bit.ly/2P3hmzB #cawater

Come hang out with us. @LISABEUTLER and I are going to do a special IMPACT issue on CA Groundwater & looking for authors. Easy lift of 800-1400 words in conversational text. See sample attached. #cawater #groundwater https://tinyurl.com/2f42feau

SOON! Webinar on #WorldWaterDay by @AZWRRC! 'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' 22 March, 3:30 - 5 PM PDT. Moderated by @SbmWater. http://bit.ly/2P74DeM #globalwater

Hydrofracking, Shale Gas, and Energy
CRS Report: 'U.S. Energy in the 21st Century - A Primer' https://bit.ly/3txMGoO

The @USGAO Report: 'Nuclear Waste - Congressional Action Needed to Clarify a Disposal Option at West Valley Site in New York' https://bit.ly/3sbMxXL #globalwater

NE Water #NEWater
From @CaptDocMike This Day in Water History - 26 March. 1914: Typhoid in Rockville, MD. https://bit.ly/3rkFpHq #TDIWH #NEWater

From @EFCatUNC: Alternative Metrics to Examine Financial Capability to Implement Clean Water Act Controls https://unc.live/3rkktQD

Personal, People, Interviews, and Quotes
V.B. Price Column: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland https://bit.ly/3d3eA5d #globalwater

“Many drops are needed to create a pond, but one drop can create a ripple.” - Unknown (via Steve Werner)

"You want clarity on tenure and promotion standards? How is this? Convince a majority of the septuagenarians and octogenarians who run your department that your research, teaching, and service record is as good as they think their record was five decades ago." - @ass_deans

"Arguably, managing water separately from land was one of the great missteps of the 20th century." - @mikeantos

Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them." -John von Neumann

"Eternity is a terrible thought. I mean, where's it going to end?" - Tom Stoppard (quoted in @thetimes via @TheWeek)

"The best advice on aging is this: what's the alternative?" - @WhoopiGoldberg (quoted in @TheCut via @TheWeek)

From @AllDENews via @JayLund113: R.I.P. Larry Brown of  @USGSwaterCA. Met him when I was on  @theNASEM Bay-Delta Committee in early 2000s. One of the good guys. http://bit.ly/3lFGtUX #cawater

"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde

"Statistics always remind me of the fellow who drowned in a river whose average depth was only three feet." -- Woody Hayes, former @OhioState football coach

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed, yet.” - William Gibson (tnx @SarniWilliam)

Great Hannah @SperoGeology @BoiseStateGeos ! CANNOT BELIEVE IT, BUT I WAS AWARDED THE @NSF GRFP!! I am so grateful for the opportunity and so thankful for the mentorship I have received throughout my undergraduate career. I cannot wait for graduate school! #PNWater

"We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make." - @SecDebHaaland

The @fundacionbotin's Water Observatory announces its Sustainable Water Management Prize (4 categories). 2021 CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: open 22 March to 31 July 2021. http://bit.ly/2FL8VkF #globalwater

PNW Water
11th Annual @OSUHydrophiles' Pacific NW Water Research Symposium 12-13 April! It will be free and feature keynoters,workshops,career panel,networking, & trivia night! Register: http://bit.ly/3cnujvR #PNWater

From@OSUCEOAS: 'On the Horizon' Newsletter - 26 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3rlIqas #PNWater #EUGwater

Policy, Planning, Law, Governance, Economics, IWRM, and Management
Free! @AWRAHQ's March/April 2021 Water Resources IMPACT magazine. Guest editor @mikeantos: "Arguably, managing water separately from land was one of the great missteps of the 20th century." Read the full issue now. https://bit.ly/3rdhAkw #globalwater

22 March! From @TheWaterChannel and @UN_Water: Happy #WorldWaterDay2021! Theme: 'Valuing Water' See you in Dakar in a year @WaterForum9 http://bit.ly/396ulqZ #globalwater

From @EFCatUNC: Alternative Metrics to Examine Financial Capability to Implement Clean Water Act Controls https://unc.live/3rkktQD

Positions Open  #JobWaWi
Josh's Water Jobs and More! 23 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3tSm4iz

Check out jobs @ @OregonState's Water Resources Graduate Program https://oregonstate.edu/gradwater/jobs #JobWaWi

Check out @WaterDistJobs! https://waterdistrictjobs.com  #JobWaWi

For the latest @TVAjobs Employment opportunities visit https://tva.me/4mRN6k  #JobWaWi

Amazing resource! Follow @joshswaterjobs and visit his website: https://www.joshswaterjobs.com  #JobWaWi

Check out @FLWaterDaily #FLwater jobs! https://tinyurl.com/jpffgoh  #JobWaWi

Positions: @CA_DWR - Various locations and types: enviro science, geology, engineering, restoration, etc.https://bit.ly/1XaG4sw  #JobWaWi

Positions: @SeaGrant - Various positions across the USA. Updated regularly. https://1.usa.gov/1SYL5RQ  #JobWaWi

 @BCWaterNews Jobs Click 'View Jobs' at https://bcwaterjobs.com 

@EcologyWA - Current Openings - Updated every few days https://1.usa.gov/1evxlPd

Current Positions: @NYCDEP (New York City & environs) - Various. https://tinyurl.com/zoq6jqc

Positions (many): @nature_org - Various locations and duties. https://jobs.nature.org/jobs/  #JobWaWi

Previous Weeks' Positions Open    #JobWaWi
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Previous Weekly Water Summaries - Go To #WaWiNews
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Reports, Publications, and Journals
Free! @AWRAHQ's March/April 2021 Water Resources IMPACT magazine. Guest editor @mikeantos: "Arguably, managing water separately from land was one of the great missteps of the 20th century." Read the full issue now. https://bit.ly/3rdhAkw #globalwater

CRS InFocus Report: 'Army Corps of Engineers: FY2021 Appropriations' https://bit.ly/3d3RZWq

The @UN_Water World Water Development Report 2021 ‘Valuing Water’ http://bit.ly/3tLbCJz #globalwater

CRS Report: 'U.S. Energy in the 21st Century - A Primer' https://bit.ly/3txMGoO

The @USGAO Report: 'Nuclear Waste - Congressional Action Needed to Clarify a Disposal Option at West Valley Site in New York' https://bit.ly/3sbMxXL #globalwater

Publication from @CaliforniaEPA, @CDFAnews & @calnatresources: '2020 Water Resilience Portfolio': https://bit.ly/3954KyN

Science, Medicine, Health, and Technology
Elaine J. Hanford's Bulletin Boards: 1) Geoscience; 2) Environmental Science; 3) Coastal Zone Management -22 March 2021 https://bit.ly/3d0H7s6

Southwest Water  #SWUSwater
From @AZWRRC: Video and Presentations - World Water Day Special Webinar-'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' https://bit.ly/3sOl6TW #SWUSwater 

NV town sues @USBR to stop planned canal repairs. Residents say leakage has been relied upon to fill wells for decades. A federal judge denied Fernley’s bid last year to delay plans to line parts of the Truckee Canal with concrete. https://bit.ly/3lAQ7YY

Via @hppr: A Colorado River Showdown Is Looming. Let The Posturing Begin https://tinyurl.com/yzagsm5h #SWUSwater #cowater

Seems like it's been there for quite a while. From @capitalandmain & @highcountrynews: New Mexico’s Coming Megadrought Highlights Farmers’ Control of Water http://bit.ly/3eVMjQV 

From @AZWRRC 'Weekly Wave' Newsletter - 26 March 2021. IN THIS ISSUE: MAR, LTSCs, IMPACT, APW, AZ Water, WWD Report, More! https://conta.cc/2QCVjQB #SWUSwater

Streams, Wetlands, Dams, Lakes, and Ecosystems
Via @KPBSnews Dust Up Over Salton Sea Project At Red Hill Bay. http://bit.ly/3s9MRGD #cawater

From @AGU_Eos: The New River Gorge: Ancient River, Old Mines, New National Park http://bit.ly/3c3vhyc #NEWater

Texas   #txwater
From @TiffDowell: Texas Ag Law Blog Weekly Round Up -26 March 2021. Maryland trial court ruling on ammonia emissions and the Clean Water Act draws concern;. Internal @EPA memo says EPA ignored science in 2018 dicamba registration decision. More! https://bit.ly/3sx8noQ #txwater

Visuals, Audios, Podcasts and Infographics
It's Season 2 Episode 6 of @SarniWilliam & @TomFWater's 'The Stream'. The rock 'n' roll and digital twins welcome asset manager Mark Kaney as their guest https://bit.ly/3rprMGM #globalwater

From @AZWRRC: Video and Presentations - World Water Day Special Webinar-'Managing Aquifer Recharge: A Showcase for Resilience and Sustainability' https://bit.ly/3sOl6TW #SWUSwater 

Water/Land Quality and Contamination
From @EFCatUNC: Alternative Metrics to Examine Financial Capability to Implement Clean Water Act Controls https://unc.live/3rkktQD

From @KTVN: Predicting #COVID19 Spikes: @unevadareno Wastewater Study Can See Trend One Week Ahead of Positive Tests https://bit.ly/3lLOwjd #globalwater

Water Supply, Quantity, Reuse, Conservation, Infrastructure
From @CA_Water_News: @CA_DWR announced a revision to the initial State Water Project (SWP) allocation for the 2021 water year: 5 percent of requested supplies https://bit.ly/3cowHDG

In @ColoradoNewsCCM Castle Rock OKs water pipeline deal https://bit.ly/3vYMtwX #cowater

In @CA_Water_News: @Cadiz_Inc CEO @ScottSlater issues call to action on California's water supply crisis. https://bit.ly/2P3hmzB #cawater

Via @hppr: A Colorado River Showdown Is Looming. Let The Posturing Begin https://tinyurl.com/yzagsm5h #SWUSwater #cowater

WTF?
From @UCDavisWater: That Time Warren Buffett Got Involved in California Water https://bit.ly/3s9YL3g

"Arguably, managing water separately from land was one of the great missteps of the 20th century." - @mikeantos

CRS InFocus Report: 'Army Corps of Engineers: FY2021 Appropriations'

From Anna E. Normand and Nicole T. Carter comes this latest (24 March 2021) version of this CRS report 'Army Corps of Engineers: FY2021 Appropriations' .

Download CRS_InFocus_ACE_FY2021_Appropriations_24March2021

Click on the graphics to enlarge them.

Introduction
Congress generally funds the civil works activities of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in annual Energy and Water Development appropriations acts. These activities include the planning and construction of authorized water resource projects and the operation and maintenance of infrastructure and navigation improvements managed by USACE. For USACE civil works, President Trump requested $5.97 billion for FY2021. As shown in Figure 1, Congress typically funds USACE above the President’s request. For FY2021, Congress provided $7.80 billion (31% above the FY2021 request and 2% above FY2020 enacted) in Division D, Title I of P.L. 116-260. At times, Congress also provides USACE with supplemental appropriations, typically for flood response and recovery (see CRS In Focus IF11435, Supplemental Appropriations for Army Corps Flood Response and Recovery).

USACE Funding and FY2021 Request
Unlike many of the federal agencies that support infrastructure investments by distributing federal funds to nonfederal entities by formula or through competitive grant programs, USACE directly commits funds for project planning and construction. It uses most of its appropriations for work on specific studies and projects authorized by Congress. These activities are often cost shared with nonfederal project sponsors or users. For more on the USACE appropriations process and related issues, see CRS Report R46320, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Annual Appropriations Process and Issues for Congress.

President Trump’s FY2021 budget request prioritized maintaining the performance of existing infrastructurereflected by the share of funds requested for operations and maintenance (i.e., the O&M account; see Figure 2), and completing ongoing construction projects (i.e., the Construction account). The request proposed no new studies or construction projects (referred to as new starts). In response to budget requests with no new starts in recent years, Congress has provided funding and required USACE to start a specified number of new construction projects and new studies. In FY2021, Congress has required seven new projects and nine new studies.

Be sure to read the second page, which covers the following topics:

Navigation, Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act, Ecosystem Restoration and Flood Risk Reduction, Continuing Authorities Programs, Environmental Infrastructure Assistance; and Backlog and Alternative Financing and Delivery. 

 Enjoy!

“Many drops are needed to create a pond, but one drop can create a ripple.” - Unknown (via Steve Werner)

V.B. Price Column: Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

by V.B. Price

I share with many New Mexicans a feeling of immense pride in the appointment and confirmation of our Congresswoman Deb Haaland from Laguna Pueblo to be America’s 54^th Secretary of the Interior. She joins former New Mexico Congressman Manuel Luján, Jr., who served as Interior Secretary from 1989 to 1993, in holding that most powerful and influential office that affects the well-being and quality of life of people across the United States and particularly in the water-starved American West.

Haaland and Luján, Jr. have many sterling qualities in common, not in policy and politics, but in style and affability. Both represented Albuquerque’s 1st Congressional District. Both had a bipartisan temperament while being highly partisan, a quality that endeared them to many and helped make them effective congressional players. Both were master practitioners of the art of constituent service, blessed with personal political skills.

Even though I disagreed with Republican Luján, Jr. on almost every issue, I considered him a friend. So now to have an environmental conservationist and climate change warrior such as Deb Haaland, a person with whom I agree about so many crucial issues in the West, as Interior Secretary fills me with a sense of relief and a sense of optimism.

Haaland’s influence on energy generation, Native American rights and water planning in the West is potentially tremendous. The Colorado Compact, which delivers Colorado river water to 40 million Westerners in seven states, will be renegotiated during her tenure and completed in 2026. The fate of urban growth and agricultural sustainability will depend on how equitable the new Compact turns out to be. And hovering over the process will be water hedge fund managers and investors looking to privatize as much water in the West as they can.

As an example of the power of the Secretary of Interior over Western water issues, consider arch libertarian and oil and gas champion Gale Norton, secretary from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush, and her historic action to cut off a vast amount of Colorado River water — nearly 650,000 acre feet (or over 75 percent of what the whole state of New Mexico gets a year) — to Southern California’s cities of Los Angeles and San Diego and to farmers in the Imperial Valley.

The story is complicated, but it boils down to this: blue state California was using water that belonged to red state Arizona under the Colorado Compact. California had to give up using that water when the Central Arizona Project, which delivers Colorado River water to Phoenix and Tucson, was completed. The Department of Interior was willing to wean California off Arizona’s water over a 15-year period if Southern California cities could work a deal with Imperial Valley farmers to buy more water. If they couldn’t, the water would be turned off all at once in two years on January 1, 2003. And they couldn’t.

As the New York Times reported, “Three of the eight pumps that tap into the glistening reservoir of Colorado River water (at Lake Havasu)…are sitting idle, by order of the federal government. With the pumps switched off since 8 a.m New Year’s Day, less water is churning down the 242-mile aqueduct toward coastal Southern California, where 17 million people rely on snowmelt from the Rocky Mountains for washing dishes, flushing toilets and watering lawns.” It was Interior Secretary Gail Norton who turned off the spigots in a historic move that had been threatened, in one way or another, for nearly 40 years.

Deb Haaland will have that kind of potential power. Her actions could determine not only how much Colorado River water New Mexico and other western states get in a protracted and worsening drought but also the momentum of growth in Denver, southern Utah, and other burgeoning cities and states in the West.

The Department of Interior manages one-fifth of the land in the country, along with 476 dams, 348 reservoirs, 410 national parks and monuments and 544 wildlife refuges. It oversees water storage and distribution, along with hydroelectric power, through the Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau of Land Management controls permits for oil and gas drilling and is in charge of all federal lands not controlled by the U.S. Forest Service. The Bureau of Indian Affairs is the federal government’s principal point of contact with 574 sovereign Native American tribes, which includes two disastrous centuries of negotiating and breaking treaties. Interior also has the Environmental Protection Agency under its administrative umbrella. Only the Departments of Energy and Defense have even marginally comparable influence in New Mexico and the West.

Haaland will have the opportunity to do an immense amount of good for western states and their people, protecting tourist economies around national parks and monuments and supporting the creation of alternative energy industries, among many other initiatives. She might even be able to make significant inroads fixing the intractable problem of cleaning up groundwater pollution on federal lands, which has become not only a health risk but economic poison all over the West.

The Department of Interior will also have much to say about how successful President Biden is in dealing with what he considers to be four major domestic challenges — COVID-19, economic recovery, racial equity and climate change. It will be a leader in what is being called a clean energy revolution to wean the country from fossil fuels and their pollution by 2035.

It will take all of Deb Haaland’s interpersonal skills, political savvy and devotion to sound environmental planning to squeeze the most out of the massive bureaucracy at Interior. And she’ll have to clean out the nest of Trumpian holdovers that have infiltrated the establishment there over the last four years.

As we’ve seen — with the appointment of conservative Secretaries like President Reagan’s James Watt, President Bush’s Gail Norton and President Trump’s Ryan Zinke — the damage inflicted on the environment by the Department of Interior is all about policy and expectations, about setting a course and a destination, about fundamental values and dispositions, about knowing how to get along with people to avoid unnecessary and destructive friction.

Deb Haaland is a legitimate Green New Deal advocate with unbending environmental and social justice values. But she is not an all-or-nothing, dismissive, hate-driven partisan zealot, like those politicians who call her a “radical.” She is willing to listen meaningfully and respectfully to those who oppose her, and, if possible, make accommodations. But her record tells us that she’ll never roll over either. If there’s anyone we can trust to do the right thing in the next four years, it’s her.
 

*Nullius in verba: take nobody’s word for it

Originally published on 21 March 2021
(Photo by Shane Balkowitsch)

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"We must shift our thinking away from short-term gain toward long-term investment and sustainability, and always have the next generations in mind with every decision we make." - Deb Haaland

Josh's Water Jobs and More! 23 March 2021

From AWRA: Tips & Tricks for Standout Resumes! Get details & more at #AWRA2021 Young Professional Workshop Series. Click here.

From Josh:

This week was a little slow in terms of the jobs… Hopefully next week back up to normal numbers.

Happy belated World Water Day!

We will have an update with regards to the platform later this week on social media…

1) Josh's Jobs

Deadline today (23 March)!
 
1) Spanish speakers: Legal Expert – United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Peru): 23 March
 
2) Portuguese speakers: WASH Program Officer – IsraAID (Mozambique): 23 March
 
3) Uganda nationals: Assistant Hydrologist – Danish Refugee Council (Uganda): 23 March

Jobs by Region 

Africa jobs

Asia-Pacific jobs

Europe jobs

Latin America and Caribbean jobs

North America jobs

Home-based/Remote jobs

Minimum years experience requested:

3-4 years
 
7) China nationals: Program Officer (Nature-based Development) – ICLEI - Local Governments for Sustainability (Beijing): 28 March
 
8) Telugu speakers: Project Associate - Water Management – Sehgal Foundation(TG, India): 26 March
 
9) Telugu speakers: Field Assistant - Water Management – Sehgal Foundation (TG, India): 26 March
 
10) Program Director – Friends of the River (Sacramento, CA, USA): 31 March
 
11) Voting Rights Program Manager – League of Conservation Voters Education Fund (U.S.A., Home-Based): 5 April

5-7 years
 
12) Deputy Project Director (Project Position) – DevWorks (Various): Until filled
 
13) Fisheries Officer – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)(Rome): 30 March
 
14) Programme Management Officer – United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Nairobi): 16 April
 
15) Programme Management Officer – United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Montreal, QC, Canada): 25 March
 
16) Local recruitment: NSW Oceans Coordinator – The Nature Conservancy (TNC)(Sydney, NSW, Australia): Until filled
 
17) Chispa Arizona Development Director – League of Conservation Voters(Phoenix, AZ, USA): 1 April
 
18) Philanthropy Director – Whatcom Land Trust (Bellingham, WA, USA): Until filled
 
19) Earth Research Scientist – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)(Berkeley, CA, USA): 31 March
 
20) Natural Climate Solutions Policy Lead – World Resources Institute (WRI)(Washington, DC): Until filled

8-9 years
 
21) Local recruitment: Senior Climate Change Specialist – The World Bank (New Delhi, DL, India): 31 March
 
22) U.S. nationals: USPSC Support Relief Group (SRG) Hydrometeorological Hazard Advisor – U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) (Various): 25 March

10+ years
 
23) Laboratory Head (Isotope Hydrology) – International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) (Vienna): 26 March
 
24) Senior Natural Resources and Agriculture Specialist – Asian Development Bank (ADB) (Philippines): 25 March
 
25) Dutch speakers: Senior adviseur/onderzoeker milieuchemie – Deltares(Netherlands): 28 March
 
26) Khmer speakers: Team leader in Integrated water resource management – Office International de l'Eau (OIEau) (Cambodia): 31 March
 
27) Cambodia, Lao PDR, Thailand and Viet Nam nationals: Chief Hydrologist (re-announcement) – Mekong River Commission (MRC) (Laos): 26 March
 
28) South Africa nationals: Country Representative (South Africa) – International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) (South Africa): 26 March

Not specified:
 
29) Dutch speakers: Junior hydroloog – Deltares (Netherlands): 28 March
 
30) Netherlands nationals: Surveyor waterkwantiteit – Rijkswaterstaat (Netherlands): 31 March
 
31) Netherlands nationals: Coördinerend adviseur waterbeheer – Rijkswaterstaat(Netherlands): 31 March
 
32) Australia nationals: Manager Environmental Water – North Central Catchment Management Authority (Huntly, VIC, Australia): 26 March
 
33) Australia nationals: Senior Hydrogeologist – Government of South Australia(Adelaide, SA, Australia): 29 March
 
34) Local recruitment: Senior Project Officer (River & Catchment Restoration) – South East Rivers Trust (SERT) (U.K., Home-Based): 26 March
 
35) Local recruitment: Water Resources Lead – South East Rivers Trust (SERT)(U.K., Home-Based): 5 April
 
36) Executive Director – Freshwater Biological Association (United Kingdom): 12 April
 
37) U.S. nationals: Analyst in Environmental Policy (Climate Science) – U.S. Library of Congress (Washington, DC): 25 March
 
38) Executive Director – Puget Soundkeeper Alliance (Seattle, WA, USA): 26 March
 
39) Water Policy Analyst – Western Resource Advocates (See description, USA): Until filled
 
40) U.S. nationals: Supervisory Hydrologist – U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)(Lawrenceville, NJ, USA): 24 March
 
41) U.S. nationals: Hydrologic Technician – U.S. Agricultural Research Service (East Wareham, MA, USA): 31 March
 
42) Local recruitment: Executive Director – Protect Our Aquifer (Memphis, TN, USA): Until filled
 
43) Grindstone Lake Invasive Species Monitor – Grindstone Lake Association (GLA)(Hayward, WI, USA): Until filled

Not specified (academic):

• Professors/lecturers

44) Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Water, Sanitation and Hygiene – Cranfield University(United Kingdom): 18 April

45) Career position (tenure-track) in the field of Hydrology and Water Management with a focus on Ecohydrological Modelling and Integrated Water Management – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences (Vienna): 30 March
 
46) Assistant Professor Water and Climate Information Services – Wageningen University & Research (Netherlands): 30 March
 
47) Professorship for Hydrology and River Basin Management – Technische Universität Braunschweig (Germany): 31 March
 
48) Assistant Professor of Aquatic Ecology – Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA): 16 April
 
49) Assistant, Associate, or Professor in Smart Water Infrastructure and Systems – Penn State University (University Park, PA, USA): Until filled
 
50) Assistant Research Professor of Aquatic Science – Penn State University(University Park, PA, USA): 1 April
 
51) Assistant/Associate/Full Professor (Geospatial Earth Sciences) – Washington University (St. Louis, MO, USA): 1 April
 
52) Assistant Professor in Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change – University of Guelph (Guelph, ON, Canada): 1 April
 
53) Assistant Professor (m/f/d) in Geographical Human-Environment Research – Universität Osnabrück (Germany): 25 March
 
54) Assistant Professor in Environmental Policy and Ecology – University of Georgia(Athens, GA, USA): 1 April

• Postdocs

55) Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Environment, Water Quality and Behavioural Change – Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) (Dublin): 29 March
 
56) Post-Doc - Developing electrical tomography for in situ monitoring of DNAPL-contaminated aquifer treatment – University Bourgogne Franche-Comté (France): 30 March
 
57) Postdoctoral Researcher, Groundwater Resources: Surface Water Intrusion as a Risk for Water Utilities in Cold Climate – University of Oulu (Finland): 31 March
 
58) Post-doc “Wastewater Treatment for Reuse in Industry and Agriculture” – IHE Delft Institute for Water Education (Netherlands): 30 March

• Researchers/other

59) Research Fellow: Wetland Ecosystem Management Specialist – Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) (Bangkok): 28 March
 
60) Research Assistant or Research Fellow in Drinking Water Microbiology – Cranfield University (United Kingdom): 27 March
 
61) Pro-Vice-Chancellor for the School of Water, Energy and Environment – Cranfield University (United Kingdom): 26 March
 
62) Climate Adaptation Scientist – Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)(Berkeley, CA, USA): 26 March

WASH:

0-2 years

63) Yemen nationals: National Professional Officer (WASH) – World Health Organization (WHO) (Yemen): 25 March
 
64) Niger nationals: WASH Officer – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)(Niger): 25 March
 
65) Afghanistan nationals: Project Officer/WASH Engineer (UNICEF) – United Nations Volunteers (UNV) (Afghanistan): 27 March
 
66) Hindi speakers: Community Facilitator – WaterAid (India): 26 March

3-4 years
 
67) Emergency Preparedness and Response (EP&R) WASH Program Manager – Solidarités International (South Sudan): Until filled
 
68) Hindi speakers: Technical Officer – WASH Institute (Hindaun, RJ, India): 25 March
 
69) Hindi speakers: City Technical Specialist – WaterAid (India): 26 March
 
70) Hindi speakers: City Coordinator – WaterAid (India): 26 March
 
71) Area Coordinator - Rural Water Supply Scheme Project – Aga Khan Foundation(UP, India): 31 March
 
72) Content Officer – WaterAid (DL, India): 30 March
 
73) Chad nationals: Chef de Projet AFIYITNA – International Rescue Committee (IRC) (Chad): Until filled

5-7 years

74) Sanitation Expert (Water Operators’ Partnerships) – Global Water Operators’ Partnerships Alliance (GWOPA) (Germany): 14 April
 
75) Spanish speakers: Apoyo a la Implementación de las Agendas Economía Circular, Reciclaje Inclusivo y Reducción de Pérdidas y Desperdicios de Alimentos para la División de Agua y Saneamiento – Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)(Washington, DC): 29 March
 
76) Consortium WASH Specialist (Syria) – Solidarités International (Iraq): Until filled
 
77) Hindi speakers: Senior Programme Manager for Urban Water (Sanitation Programme) – Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) (Delhi): 25 March
 
78) Mozambique nationals: Gestor de Projeto - Água, Saneamento e Higiene – SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (Mozambique): Until filled
 
79) Mozambique nationals: Assessor de Água, Saneamento e Higiene – SNV Netherlands Development Organisation (Mozambique): Until filled
 
80) Iran nationals: Shelter / WASH Project Manager – Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) (Iran): 10 April
 
81) Local recruitment: Coordinador de Agua y hábitat (WatHab) – International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) (Mexico): 31 March

10+ years

82) Team Leader (Waste water management and water supply) – Niras (Kenya): 31 March
 
83) Chief of Party (Tanzania Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene Market Systems) – DAI(Tanzania): 31 March
 
84) Hindi speakers: Director / Senior Programme Manager - Urban Water and Sanitation Programme Support Unit – Centre for Science and Environment (CSE)(India): 25 March
 
Not specified
 
85) Shelter and WASH Officer – Social Development International (Turkey): 25 March
 
86) Local recruitment: Project Manager – Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) (Bangladesh): 31 March

Consultancies:

87) Hand Hygiene for All (HH4A) Regional Coordinator – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Home-Based): 26 March
 
88) French speakers: Consultant individuel pour l'enquete WASH in school – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Gabon): 29 March
 
89) WASH specialists – Chemonics (Washington, DC): 30 March
 
90) WASH Consultant – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Greece): 24 March
 
91) Spanish speakers: Consultoría para la Elaboración de Módulos de Género y Diversidad del Sistema de Certificación Aquarating para la división de Agua y Saneamiento – Inter-American Development Bank (IADB) (Washington, DC): 24 March
 
92) Consultancy Service for Preparation of the Shared Aquifer Diagnostic Analysis (SADA) Report for the Gedaref-Adigrat aquifer system – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI)(Home-Based): 31 March
 
93) Consultancy Service for Preparation of the Shared Aquifer Diagnostic Analysis (SADA) Report for the Mt Elgon aquifer system – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (Home-Based): 31 March
 
94) Consultancy Service for Preparation of the Shared Aquifer Diagnostic Analysis (SADA) Report for the Kagera aquifer system – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (Home-Based): 31 March
 
95) Consultancy Services to Support Preparation of Shared Aquifer Diagnostic Assessments for Selected Transboundary Aquifers in the Nile Basin- National Consultants – Nile Basin Initiative (NBI) (Home-Based): 31 March
 
96) Water Demand Management Specialist (Non-revenue water) – Niras (Kenya): 31 March
 
97) Hydraulics Engineer / Water Supply Engineer – Niras (Kenya): 31 March
 
98) Wastewater / Sludge Treatment Expert / Sanitation Engineer – Niras (Kenya): 31 March
 
99) Irrigation Expert – Niras (Kenya): 31 March
 
100) French speakers: Climate Security Project in Central Africa - an in-depth assessment of climate-related security risks in the sub-region – United Nations Office in Central Africa (Gabon): 25 March
 
101) Call for Consultancy: White Paper on the Future of Environmental Peacebuilding – Geneva Peacebuilding Platform (Home-Based): 24 March

102) Consultant – Learning study on Sanitation Livelihoods for Urban Collectives – International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) (DL, India): 31 March
 
103) Nepali speakers: Climate Change Adaptation Monitoring and Review Expert – United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment) (Home-Based): 27 March
 
104) Ukrainian speakers: Hydrology Expert – Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) (Ukraine): 28 March
 
105) Portuguese speakers: Consultant – Sanitarian Engineer – United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) (Brazil, Home-Based): 28 March
 
106) Kazakhstan nationals: National Expert on modeling the impact of climate change and water management on water resources of Kazakhstan projected until 2100 – United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) (Kazakhstan, Home-Based): 31 March
 
107) Eswatini nationals: Irrigation Specialist for Irrigation Systems Design – United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) (Eswatini): 31 March
 
108) Bangladesh nationals: National Consultant (WASH (Water Supply)) – United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) (Bangladesh): 31 March
 
109) Philippines nationals: Inclusive Sanitation – Asian Development Bank (ADB)(Philippines, Home-Based): 24 March
 
110) Philippines nationals: Project Coordination – Asian Development Bank (ADB)(Philippines, Home-Based): 24 March

RFP:

111) Technical Support to Agriculture in Kosovo in the context of IWRM – Skat Consulting Ltd. (Home-Based): 7 April
 
112) River Basin Management Plans for Kosovo – Skat Consulting Ltd. (Home-Based): 5 April

Internships:

113) French speakers: Communication Internship – Faso Koom/World Waternet(Burkina Faso): Until filled
 
114) French speakers: Intern (m/f/d) in the field of Water and Sanitation: support of the bilateral Programme of Burundi and the Sub-Saharan Africa Sector Network – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (Germany): 31 March
 
115) Water Quality Technician – Columbia Riverkeeper (Portland, OR, USA): 9 April

Scholarships/Assistantships:

116) Doctoral / PhD position on modelling the impact of blue-green infrastructures on pluvial urban floods – ETH Zürich (Zürich): 26 March
 
117) PhD: Delivering safely managed water supply and sanitation during rural-urban transition – University of Leeds (United Kingdom): 30 March
 
118) PhD: New smart data approaches for ageing pipe networks – University of Sheffield (United Kingdom): 20 April
 
119) U.K. nationals/PhD: Stuck in the Mud: The Role of Saltmarshes in the Long-Term Accumulation and Dispersal of Microplastics across Urban Catchments – University of Nottingham (United Kingdom): 26 March
 
120) U.K. nationals: EPSRC PhD Studentship in: Real time forecasting of catchment water quality to improve supply resilience – University of Sheffield (United Kingdom): 29 March
 
121) U.K. nationals: EPSRC PhD Studentship: Achieving Biologically Stable Drinking Water – University of Sheffield (United Kingdom): 29 March
 
122) E.U./U.K. nationals: PhD: Soil as a Core Infrastructure to Support Catchment and Water Supply Resilience – Cranfield University (United Kingdom): 31 March
 
123) Graduate Research Assistant in Wetland Biogeochemistry (via Society for Freshwater Science) – Murray State University (Murray, KY, USA): 25 March

Fellowships:

Fellowships:
 
124) Clean Water Policy Fellow – River Network (U.S.A., Home-Based): 29 March
 
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125) Position: @TAMU (Temple, TX) - Blackland Research Center - Asst. Professor, Digital Agriculture. OUF. http://bit.ly/3eGgwTU #JobWaWi

 

126) Position: @OregonDEQ (Hillsboro, OR) - Water Quality Permit Data Steward (Natural Resource Specialist 2). Closes: 30 March. http://bit.ly/3c0erk5 #JobWaWi

127) Position: State of NM (Santa Fe) - Environmental Scientist & Specialist - Operational. OUF. http://indeedhi.re/3jqUWDl #JobWaWi

128) Position: @USACEGALVESTON (Galveston, TX) - Civil Engineer. OUF. http://indeedhi.re/36RNeNr #JobWaWi

129) Position: @USDA (Monticello, UT) - Soil Conservationist (Resource Conservationist) http://indeedhi.re/2Z8AyNR #JobWaWi

130) Position: @OSUCEOAS (Corvallis, OR) - Instructor (Academic Teaching/Research Faculty - Geography). Full consideration: 15 March; Closes: 30 June. http://bit.ly/2Z9c1Iu

131) Position: Marion Soil & Water Conservation District (Salem, OR) - District Manager. OUF. https://bit.ly/3s11AmI #JobWaWi

132) Position: @newmexicotech (Socorro, NM) - Hydrogeologist. OUF. https://bit.ly/3ds1zUD #JobWaWi

133) Position: Wheeler Soil & Water Conservation District (Fossil, OR) - District Manager. OUF http://bit.ly/3kioCCI 

134) Position: @CSUChico (Chico, CA) - T-T Assistant Professor of Ecohydrology. OUF; Closes 1 April. http://bit.ly/3sne0Fu 

135) Position: @WMGeology (Williamsburg, VA) - T-T Assistant Professor of Geology (broadly trained). Review begins: 15 March http://bit.ly/304kpJU #JobWaWi

136) Position: @UNIGRAC (Delft, The Netherlands) - Junior/Medior Groundwater Specialist. Deadline: 20 March. http://bit.ly/3r7gN5G #JobWaWi

137) Position: SPF Water Engineering (Boise, ID) - Civil Engineer. Closes: 1 April. https://bit.ly/3sFwmC4 #JobWaWi

 

138) Position: @IdahoDEQ (Coeur d'Alene) - Water Quality Engineer (Engineering Intern). Continuous. https://bit.ly/3bPUkn5 

 

139) Position: Marion Soil & Water Conservation District (Salem, OR) - Conservation Planner. OUF. https://bit.ly/3b4C5Lr #JobWaWi

 

140) Position: @TroutUnlimited (Twisp or Wenatchee, WA) - Project Manager – Western Water and Habitat Program. OUF. http://bit.ly/3b70r7n #JobWaWi

 

141) Position:@OregonDEQ (Bend or Pendleton, OR) - Clean Water State Revolving Fund Project Officer (Program Analyst 2). Closes: 16 March. http://bit.ly/308hXBW #JobWaWi

 

142) Position: INTERA (Houston, TX) - Hydrogeologist / Groundwater Modeler. OUF. http://bit.ly/30rDohr #JobWaWi

 

143) Position: Skagit County (Mount Vernon, WA) - Agricultural Lands Coordinator. Closes: 23 March http://bit.ly/2PH7Bab #JobWaWi

 

144) Position: @CA_DWR (Sacramento, CA) - Environmental Program Manager II. Closes: 2 April. http://joburl.ws/14518581 

 

145) Position:@TAMU (Prineville, OR) - Project Manager Crooked River Watershed Council. Closes: 19 March. https://crwc.info 

 

146) Position: Deschutes Land Trust (Bend, OR) - Executive Director. Closes: 31 March. https://bit.ly/2P18UjR #JobWaWi

 

147) Positions (2):@forestservice (Great Falls & Missoula, MT)- Soil Scientist. Closes: 30 March. https://bit.ly/3vXp8M8 #JobWaWi

 

148) Position: @USDA_NRCS (Palmer, AK) - Hydrologist. Closes: 30 March. https://bit.ly/3riHlAb #JobWaWi

 

149) Postdoctoral Position: @LosAlamosNatLab (Los Alamos, NM) - Arctic land-surface modeler. Apps reviewed as received. Hope to fill by May 2021. https://bit.ly/39dAUbo #JobWaWi

 

150) Positions(2): @NOAA (Tuscaloosa, AL) - Physical Scientists - GIS Specialists (flood/water forecasting). Closes: 8 April. https://bit.ly/3lW1UBf 

 

151) Position: @UNL (Lincoln, NE) - Geoscientist with Conservation & Survey Division (non T-T, 12 months, 75% research, 25% extension). App review: 1 April.
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152) Position: @OregonDEQ (Portland, OR) - Air Quality Manager (Principal Executive/Manager E). Closes: 19 April. https://bit.ly/3u7OZzk #JobWaWi

 

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Geoscience Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Pacific Ocean cooled faster than continent of Africa due to plate tectonics over past 400 million years

• https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/one-side-earth-rapidly-getting-141800651.html

World Meteorological Organization considering redefining length of hurricane season

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/assumptions-hurricane-season-face-winds-151500599.html
• https://www.khou.com/article/weather/severe-weather/you-could-hear-about-tropical-activity-earlier-this-year-due-to-a-change-at-the-national-hurricane-center/285-9d4e9f20-344b-4670-bb47-d08bb07f7970

NWS releases names of storms for Hurricane Season 2021

• https://www.silive.com/news/2021/03/hurricane-season-2021-what-are-the-names-of-this-years-storms.html

Measuring geothermal heat flux in Antarctica

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/taking-the-temperature-of-antarcticas-crust

Dense seismic network in operation in seismically active Himalayan regions

• https://eos.org/science-updates/discerning-structure-and-seismic-hazards-in-the-sikkim-himalayas

CRUTEMS - New land surface air temperature global data set updated to 2019

• https://eos.org/editor-highlights/new-land-surface-air-temperature-global-dataset
• Paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2019JD032352

Seafloor sediment proxy yields high-resolution record of early Paleozoic climate

• https://eos.org/articles/geologists-have-a-new-tool-for-reconstructing-the-ancient-climate

Newest version of Community Earth System Model

• https://eos.org/opinions/building-a-better-model-to-view-earths-interacting-processes

Sea cucumbers provide significant excremental contribution to reef habitats with bioturbation rates

• https://eos.org/articles/sea-cucumbers-the-excremental-heroes-of-coral-reef-ecosystems

Diatoms evolved to substitute zinc for cadmium and vice-versa

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/how-did-diatoms-evolve-to-swap-zinc-for-the-toxic-metal-cadmium

Angstrom-scale view of physical and chemical weathering processes

• https://eos.org/research-spotlights/the-first-angstrom-scale-view-of-weathering

Ground radiant temperatures increase prior to volcanic eruptions

• https://eos.org/articles/volcanic-lands-warm-before-eruptions

Visualizing gold exploration potential in the Pacific Ring of Fire & in Québec, Canada

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/erupting-gold-exploration-potential-the-pacific-ring-of-fire/

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/gold-exploration-quebec-cartier-benoist/

Visualizing the drainage basins of the 30 longest rivers

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-drainage-basins-of-the-worlds-longest-rivers/

Massive dust storm hits across China

• https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/148052/early-season-dust-storm-hits-beijing
• https://www.npr.org/2021/03/15/977397941/desert-dust-sweeps-into-beijing-causing-chinas-worst-sandstorm-in-10-years

Large fast-moving asteroid 2001 FO32 will pass by Earth on the Spring Equinox

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/golden-gate-bridge-asteroid-buzzing-earth_n_604d752bc5b672fce4ed337a

NASA using Navajo language to name features & rocks on Mars

• https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nasa-mars-navajo-names_n_604be458c5b672fce4eca2d8

Understanding reversals of the magnetic field of Earth

• https://www.spacedaily.com/reports/When_North_was_South_and_South_was_North_999.html

Pressure accumulated over a decade triggered eruption of Kilauea

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302313&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-19190-1

Arctic freshwater affecting marine environments & currents in Atlantic Ocean

• https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=302312&org=GEO&from=news
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21470-3

Camp Century ice core from Greenland reveals million-year-old plant fossils

• http://www.sci-news.com/paleontology/greenland-plant-fossils-09455.html

Late Pleistocene glaciers & enigmatic stone stripes in the highlands of Ethiopia

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210312155451.htm
• Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabb6826

New insight into formation of copper deposits – crystal mush kikes at Yerington, Nevada

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-insight-formation-copper-deposits.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-021-00128-4

Imagining into ferro-volcanism

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-volcanoes-metal.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21582-w

Transform faults play active role in shaping ocean floor – extension & crustal accretion

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-faults-role-ocean-floors.html

Responses of biocrusts in arid regions to warming & drought

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-scientists-reveal-responses-biocrusts-drought.html

Quantifying movement of water from rivers to aquifers across the country – gradient driven

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-reveal-extent-rivers-country-aquifers.html

Latest cycle of geothermal exploration in Nevada – this time using UAV magnetometry

• https://www.mining.com/university-of-nevada-ramps-up-exploration-for-geothermal-systems/

Human-caused most-powerful non-nuclear explosion of ammonium nitrate in Beirut created atmospheric wave that led to electron disturbances in ionosphere

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-blast-shook-ionosphere.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-82355-5

Ocean trawling destroys seafloor & releases massive amounts of emissions from marine sediments

• https://www.zmescience.com/science/ocean-trawling-doesnt-just-destroy-ecosystems-it-also-releases-massive-emissions/

Deep-sea buoys trigger tsunami warnings

• https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/124569006/how-deepsea-buoys-trigger-tsumani-warnings-after-big-earthquakes

About 125,000 years ago during last interglacial Greenland was green and lush

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210317141654.htm

Geologist calls for exploration of “elephant country” in South Africa

• https://www.miningweekly.com/article/northern-cape-elephant-country-needs-exploration-boost-says-geologist-2021-03-17/rep_id:3650

Still debating “the golden spike” that defines beginning of the Anthropocene – maybe they should recognize it began at the beginning of the Holocene

• https://www.npr.org/2021/03/17/974774461/drawing-a-line-in-the-mud-scientists-debate-when-age-of-humans-began

Meandering rivers create point bars

• https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-03/uota-mrc031621.php

“river of rocks” influencing tectonic activity in the Caribbean – low-viscosity asthenosphere flow

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-geologists-powerful-river-caribbean.html
• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-21723-1

Armored mud balls in Franklin County, Massachusetts

• https://www.recorder.com/my-turn-little-GeologicalMudBalls-39431869

Book Review:  “Notes from Deep Time”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00660-5

The origins of the largest aquamarine crystal

• https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2021/03/16/how-worlds-largest-aquamarine-gem-came-be/

Traces of primordial magma found in rocks in Greenland

• https://www.iflscience.com/environment/traces-of-the-primordial-magma-ocean-found-for-the-first-time/
• Paper: https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/7/11/eabc7394

PEACH is 5-year project to monitor the Gulf Stream off Cape Hatteras – 10-minute video

• https://vimeo.com/279906819

Benthic habitats & communities of islands & seamounts of Nazca Desventuradas Marine Park

• Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-85516-8

Stratus Ocean Reference Station buoy launched in tropical Pacific

• https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/buoy-deployed-in-tropical-pacific/

After 6,000 years of dormancy, Mount Fagradalsfjall erupts in Iceland

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/a-6-000-year-dormant-icelandic-volcano-just-erupted-and-it-s-awesome/ar-BB1eNjp2

Exploring the plumbing of Steamboat Geyser

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315160708.htm
• https://www.ksl.com/article/50127248/yellowstones-steamboat-geyser-much-deeper-than-old-faithful-researchers-say-but-still-a-science-mystery

Even before the Brunt Ice Shelf calved, the ocean floor was teeming with life

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/the-calved-brunt-ice-shelf-reveals-a-seafloor-teeming-with-life-hidden-for-50-years/ar-BB1eNefO

Environmental Science Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

World Water Day – 22 March 2021 – images of polluted waters around the world

• https://widerimage.reuters.com/story/seen-from-the-sky-polluted-waters-around-the-world

CRISPR - regulation, public trust and question of ethics regarding gene editing – “model embryo”

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00672-1
• https://www.smh.com.au/national/scientists-create-model-embryos-in-lab-raising-major-ethical-questions-20210317-p57bkc.html
• https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-s-embryo-research-laws-face-strain-after-monash-breakthrough-20210318-p57c0s.html

US Dept of Interior announces details for public forum on federal O&G program

• https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/interior-department-announces-details-public-forum-federal-oil-and-gas-program

Webinar:  Quantifying Ecosystem Functions to Facilitate Wetland Monitoring & Assessment

• https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/technical/nra/ceap/?cid=NRCSEPRD1576043

No such thing as a “natural disaster” – we’re doing it to ourselves

• https://www.undrr.org/news/sendai-framework-6th-anniversary-time-recognize-there-no-such-thing-natural-disaster-were

Permanent daylight savings time would reduce human health risks – Sunshine Protection Act of 2021

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/daylight-saving-time-ends-sunday-185500890.html
• https://www.timeanddate.com/time/dst/daylight-saving-health.html

K2 Gold mining company wants to transform 22,500 acres of public lands into open pit cyanide heap leach mine between dusty Owens Valley floor and Death Valley National Monument

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/a-corporation-wants-to-mine-for-gold-near-death-valley-native-tribes-are-fighting-it/ar-BB1ezCAF

Influx of firefly tourists is harming the species along with habitat loss, light pollution & insecticides

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/firefly-tourism-has-a-surprising-dark-side/ar-BB1eB9xm
• https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/csp2.391

Intense sand storm turns skies orange in Beijing, China

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/most-intense-sandstorm-decade-turned-160545214.html

Outflow from Glen Canyon Dam will drop to 4,000 cfs – about one-third average release rate

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/parts-grand-canyon-visible-first-155541632.html

15 countries with highest per capita carbon emissions – if that matters

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/15-countries-highest-average-carbon-161359972.html

Gas prices at the pump are significantly increasing

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/biden-blame-rising-gas-prices-144600669.html

Strong winds are churning up deep water in the Great Lakes – impacting water quality

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/scientists-climate-whipped-winds-pose-180653142.html

Drinking water crisis in Jackson, Mississippi

• https://www.clarionledger.com/story/news/2021/03/07/more-communities-helping-jackson-mississippi-water-crisis-continues/4619598001/
• https://news.yahoo.com/crumbling-infrastructure-leaves-water-buckets-100058315.html
• https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/14/us/jackson-mississippi-boil-water-tests-winter-storms/index.html

Soil erosion is a problem at solar farms

• https://www.smartbrief.com/original/2021/03/solar-farms-embrace-new-tool-fight-soil-erosion

Bad policies proposed in the CLEAN Future Act

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/biden-s-climate-rhetoric-doesn-t-excuse-bad-policy/ar-BB1eBElz
• CFA hype: https://energycommerce.house.gov/newsroom/press-releases/ec-leaders-introduce-the-clean-future-act-comprehensive-legislation-to
• HR 981-page Bill: https://energycommerce.house.gov/sites/democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/files/documents/CFA%20Bill%20Text%202021.pdf

You are what you eat – but what fish are you really eating?

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/bait-and-switch-fish-fraud-rampant-worldwide-new-study-shows/ar-BB1eCfX7
• https://sustainablefisheries-uw.org/sustainability-mislabeled-fish-usa/

Tourists get upset when lion kills wild dog – guess we better go kill all the lions for being territorial

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/video-shows-lion-killing-wild-dog-pup-in-front-of-tourists-all-hell-broke-loose/ar-BB1eDVeK

Book Review:  “Under a White Sky” – can engineers fix the environmental problems they created?

• https://blogs.sciencemag.org/books/2021/03/15/under-a-white-sky/

FEMA grants for flood-prone areas not being used because of the financial strings that are attached (cost-sharing)

• https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/environment/article_1182c514-7ac1-11eb-a026-cff7d68cf2af.html

US Forest Service to receive $285M for maintenance & recreation infrastructure on national forests & grasslands under Great American Outdoors Act

• https://aashtojournal.org/2021/03/12/usda-investing-285m-in-transportation-infrastructure/

UN report “Making Peace with Nature” urges valuing the fundamental “natural capital”

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/a-new-un-report-proposes-a-radical-shift-in-the-way-we-think-about-nature/ar-BB1dOknw
• UN Report: https://www.unep.org/resources/making-peace-nature

$98M solar farm proposed for Louisiana

• https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/business/article_fc89377e-85a6-11eb-a2ab-8f770fd05470.html

Wanting clarification of “policy” on conservation goals – especially in Western states

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/democrats-republicans-recommend-more-input-detail-on-biden-conservation-goals/ar-BB1eDXWn

US Army COE says Detroit Dam in Oregon could fail during seismic event

• https://apnews.com/article/oregon-dam-could-fail-in-large-earthquake-640a51f1b5050ec00bd6a09d8f6632b5

China to crackdown on sand mining in Yangtze River

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/china-vows-crackdown-sand-mining-001648335.html

Attempting to battle Chronic Wasting Disease in white-tailed deer in Ohio

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/outdoors-deer-disease-biologists-high-183100259.html

American High-Speed Rail Act proposes $205B introduced into Congress – despite other projects that have not yet succeeded

• https://www.smartcitiesdive.com/news/american-high-speed-rail-act-introduced/596741/

New River Gorge in West Virginia is most recently designated National Park – but geology is ancient

• https://eos.org/features/the-new-river-gorge-ancient-river-old-mines-new-national-park
• National Park Service info: https://www.nps.gov/neri/index.htm

Visualizing “green energy” investments – lots of hype but still only 11% of energy output

• https://www.visualcapitalist.com/capturing-the-renewable-energy-shift/
• US EIA: https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/us-energy-facts/

Exploring Ivvavik National Park in Arctic Canada

• https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2021/03/exploring-canadas-most-accessible-arctic-national-park

Two excerpts from “The Monsanto Papers” which chronicles life of exposure to Roundup herbicides

• Part 1: https://www.ehn.org/monsanto-papers-2650517822.html
• Part 2: https://www.ehn.org/monsanto-papers-book-2650597124.html

Previously unknown bacterial species found on ISS

• http://www.sci-news.com/biology/methylobacterium-international-space-station-09458.html
• Paper: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2021.639396/full

Air pollution levels in 2020 exceeded WHO recommendations for small particulate matter

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Lethal_pollution_high_in_2020_despite_lockdowns_report_999.html

Development continues to cause urban flooding

• https://www.terradaily.com/reports/Combination_of_climate_change_development_to_fuel_urban_flooding_999.html

Recent summer droughts in Europe repeating conditions of a few thousand years ago

• https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/03/210315132141.htm

Humans live in chemical soup – newly detected chemicals include 55 never reported & 42 “mystery chemicals” found in residents of San Francisco, California

• https://phys.org/news/2021-03-evidence-chemicals-people.html
• https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2021/03/420061/ucsf-study-finds-evidence-55-chemicals-never-reported-people

Perspective:  the 30x30 campaign – “protecting” the ocean from people

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00673-0

Dem blocks effort to adjust flood insurance rates – adjustment would more accurately reflect risks, reduce vulnerability & discourage construction in high-risk areas

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/senate-leader-stalls-climate-overhaul-135429850.html

States sue to overturn “illegal” government action to stop Keystone XL Pipeline

• https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-donald-trump-ken-paxton-lawsuits-montana-0cf1a378a99ade52cd8b24bb61313ba9

Endangered birds losing their songs & cannot find mates

• https://www.zmescience.com/science/this-endangered-bird-is-losing-its-song/
• https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56417544

March 2020 M5.7M earthquake in Utah – “no one is coming to save you”

• https://www.deseret.com/utah/2021/3/17/22325628/earthquake-lessons-from-a-year-ago-no-one-is-coming-to-save-you-utah-salt-lake-county-magna-disaster

Advanced nuclear reactors are not safer than conventional plants

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/advanced-nuclear-reactors-no-safer-044827082.html

Dams in Hawaii that date to the sugar cane plantations need repair or removal

• https://www.civilbeat.org/2021/03/relics-of-sugars-past-hawaii-dams-will-take-years-to-fix-or-remove/

Lessons to be learned from millennia of history of the Nile River - adapt

• https://theconversation.com/innovations-on-the-nile-over-millennia-offer-lessons-in-engineering-sustainable-futures-156801

Legal battle over 115-year-old Truckee Canal – to line or not to line – municipal water supply & water rights

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/nevada-town-sues-rights-water-153956947.html

Lake in SW Turkey is turquoise from heavy metal pollutants from Yatagan power plant

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-environmentalists-want-destroy-lake-100109279.html

Plague of mice hits rural eastern Australia

• https://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-mice-idUSKBN2BB0VX
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/australasia/australia-mice-plague-farmers-harvest-b1819574.html
• https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/mar/03/are-poison-packed-drones-the-answer-to-eastern-australias-mouse-plague

CRS Report:  US Energy in 21^st Century – a primer

• https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/R/R46723

Lazarus taxon - video

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/animals/the-return-of-extinct-species/vi-BB1eOh9E

CORONAVIRUS

Coronavirus COVID-19 statistics by country (click on USA to get State statistics)

• https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/
• https://time.com/5800901/coronavirus-map/
• interactive maps: https://geodacenter.github.io/covid/map.html

Pandemic now impacting demographics – with 7.8+B people on the planet that may not be a bad thing

• https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-baby-drought-covid-19-000000504.html

News media finally realizing Florida pandemic response was a good one

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/boomtown-feel-floridas-pandemic-response-100015420.html

Fauci backed study that found 3-foot as good as 6-foot social distancing – but debate continues

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fauci-backed-a-study-that-found-3-foot-social-distancing-in-schools-was-as-good-as-the-recommended-6-feet-at-stopping-the-spread-of-covid-19/ar-BB1eBB2b
• Paper: https://academic.oup.com/cid/advance-article/doi/10.1093/cid/ciab230/6167856
• https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/03/study-finds-3-ft-distancing-in-schools-is-enough-but-debate-is-far-from-over/

Understanding VAERS

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/vaccine-death-reports-are-not-what-they-seem/ar-BB1eLypl

Perspective:  Preparing for the next pandemic – will it truly be a deep dive into failures of the pandemic? Or the antibiotic resistance now being nurtured by human activity? Or re-emerging disease?

• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01291-z
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01264-2
• https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-021-01237-5

Italy seizes 400K doses of AZ vaccine after man dies hours after receiving shot

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/italy-seizes-nearly-400k-astrazeneca-doses-starts-investigation-after-man-dies-following-shot/ar-BB1eEbmG

It is time to restore our freedom rather than further attempts at compliance and control

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/one-coronavirus-time-restore-freedom-200004927.html

Questioning reports of vaccine efficacy – more data needed along with transparency & access to raw data

• https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/04/peter-doshi-pfizer-and-modernas-95-effective-vaccines-we-need-more-details-and-the-raw-data/

AZ vaccine halted in Europe after link to deadly blood clots – resumed after determination that the benefits outweigh the risks

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/astrazeneca-vaccine-linked-to-blood-clots-report/ar-BB1eLJZK

Herd mentality reflects concerns for AZ vaccine – blood clots & fatalities in Europe

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-europes-astra-zeneca-vaccine-fumble-could-be-bad-news-for-the-us-090020186.html

Coastal Zone Management Bulletin Board – 22 March – compiled by Elaine J. Hanford

Residents on Outer Banks may face 50% increase in taxes to “protect” coastal property

• https://www.yahoo.com/news/tiny-town-big-decision-willing-121315761.html

Environmental group objects to Mumbai coastal road clearance

• https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/other/eac-did-not-consider-our-objections-on-mumbaicoastal-road-clearance-green-group/ar-BB1eGVrd

Proposal to increase Louisiana share of offshore O&G revenue and for wind energy

• https://www.nola.com/news/environment/article_0c2320e6-82a5-11eb-92f3-533f128ba00b.html

Dispute between Somalia & Kenya over stretch of Indian Ocean believed to hold O&G deposits

• https://www.africadaily.net/reports/Sea_of_troubles_The_Somalia-Kenya_marine_border_spat_999.html

• https://www.standardmedia.co.ke/kenya/article/2001406589/kenya-will-lose-lamu-if-somaliawins-case

• https://www.modernghana.com/news/1068137/kenya-v-somalia-maritime-dispute-thedifficult.html

Manatee County considering rolling back some regulations for development in coastal areas vulnerable to flooding & storm surge

• https://www.statesman.com/story/news/local/manatee/2021/03/16/manatee-considersrelaxing-regulations-coastal-development/4715259001/

New market report on Territorial Border and Coastal Surveillance System Industry

• https://www.marketwatch.com/press-release/territorial-border-and-coastal-surveillancesystem-market-overview-market-by-type-by-manufacturers-regions-industry-analysisforecast-by-2025-2021-03-17

Call for Congressional action to keep coastal waters free from sewage

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/day-congress-must-act-to-keep-coastal-waters-freefrom-sewage/ar-BB1etN1A

Computer modeling suggests coastal wastewater infrastructure (sewer lines & cesspools) may flood

• https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2021/03/14/wastewater-leakage-coast-water/

California Coastal Commission unanimously rejected appeal of Riverfront Project

• https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/coastal-commission-rejects-riverfront-project-appeal-insanta-cruz/ar-BB1exmBu

Surigao del Sur coastal road bypass may be beneficial to Lianga economy

• https://news.yahoo.com/surigao-del-sur-coastal-road-000000577.html

Opportunities for public input to coastal resiliency planning & Meganticook River Watershed

• https://www.penbaypilot.com/article/coastal-resilience-planning-and-megunticook-riverwatershed-public-invited-community-/144701

Residents challenge permit to pump ocean-access waterway dredge material to Sunset Beach disposal site

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/residents-appeal-south-jinks-creek-permit/

Efforts to improve water quality in coastal fishing communities in North Carolina

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/groups-launch-fisheries-water-quality-effort/

Dare County approves process to help recover cost of $11M beach nourishment project

• https://www.coastalreview.org/2021/03/plan-to-fund-avon-nourishment-advances/

Delaware launched Coastal Corridors Study to assess travel routes for beach-resort access

• https://www.capegazette.com/article/deldot-begins-coastal-corridors-study/216547

Legal petition asking to extend offshore oil leasing halt

• https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/legal-petition-asks-biden-administrationto-extend-offshore-oil-leasing-halt-2021-03-16/

Norwegian Petroleum Directorate revises offshore Norway resource estimate

• https://www.offshore-mag.com/regional-reports/north-seaeurope/article/14197900/norwegian-petroleum-directorate-revises-offshore-norway-resourceestimate

Discussions to continue between Greece & Turkey toward fair sharing of resources in Eastern Mediterranean

• https://www.dailysabah.com/politics/diplomacy/greek-fm-dendias-to-visit-turkey-next-monthfor-east-med-talks

Politics amid the South China Sea dispute

• https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/amid-south-china-sea-dispute-philippines-palawan-isbesieged-by-political-split/

Greymouth Beach “starved” of gravel from river beds becomes more vulnerable to storms

• https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/ldr/438640/west-coast-council-accused-of-letting-companiestake-too-much-gravel-from-rivers

• https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/politics/local-democracy-reporting/300255579/greymouthbeach-starved-of-gravel-becoming-more-vulnerable-to-storms

UK issues updated Marine Science Research (MSR) guidance

• https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/marine-science-research-msr-guidance/marinescience-research-msr-guidance

Primer for operational staffs and tactical leaders (Part 1) on Chinese Maritime Militia & Fishing Fleets

• https://www.armyupress.army.mil/Journals/Military-Review/English-Edition-Archives/January-February-2021/Panter-Maritime-Militia/

Efforts to eradicate European green crabs from Stinson Beach Seadrift Lagoon in California was unsuccessful – species responded with dramatic population increase – lesson learned

• https://scienmag.com/when-eradicated-species-bounce-back-with-a-vengeance/

• Paper: https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/fee.2277

Florida Governor recommends $260M for relief for seaports

• https://www.wesh.com/article/relief-for-seaports/35866572

"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde