Battle Over Colorado River Water Ends In A Draw
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https://cleantechnica.com/2026/02/18/battle-over-colorado-river-water-ends-in-a-draw/ <-- shared technical/media article
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https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2021/08/us/colorado-river-water-shortage/ <-- shared 2021 media article, with infographics and visualisations
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https://youtu.be/gBqgIkdwlIw?si=rY9ZOOXqLNwaXQku <-- shared media/news video
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#water #hydrology #stalled #negotiations #ColoradoRiverCompact #1922Compact #waterresrources #ColoradoRiver #USWest #watersecurity #watermanagement #irrigation #agriculture #overpumping #groundwater #states #agreements #magicwater #acrefoot #acrefeet #Colorado #Wyoming #Utah #NewMexico #Nevada #Arizona #California #Mexico #dams #LakePowell #LakeMead #natural #naturalresources #federaldeadline #noresolution

Western senators propose wastewater program renewal. #wastewater #reclamation #USWest https://www.themountaineer.com/news/national/western-senators-propose-wastewater-program-renewal/article_7ab81c18-3257-55a4-9e09-04555eeb287a.html

Western senators propose wastewater program renewal. #wastewater #reclamation #USWest https://www.themountaineer.com/news/national/western-senators-propose-wastewater-program-renewal/article_7ab81c18-3257-55a4-9e09-04555eeb287a.html

Analyzing Impact Of Heat From Western Wildfires On Air Pollution In The Eastern US
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https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/analyzing-impact-heat-from-western-wildfires-air-us-eisenstadt-fzk1e/ <-- shared LinkedIn technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.ads1957 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea7430 <-- shared technical article / perspective
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https://scitechdaily.com/see-how-californias-intense-wildfires-are-making-their-own-weather/ <-- shared technical article
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#fire #wildfire #climatemodels #heat #fireheat #release #atmosphere #convection #weather #weatherpatterns #airquality #publicsafety #risk #hazard #publichealth #USA #USWest #spatialanalysis #smoke #model #modeling #factors #pollution #emissions #updraught #particulates #downwind #regional #firemanagement #mitigation #extremeweather #cost #economics #damage #planning #policy #rainfall #pluvial

Sentinel-2 Based Estimates Of Rangeland Fractional Cover And Canopy Gap Class For The Western United States
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-06160-9 <-- shared paper
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https://rangelands.app/products/rap10m/ <-- shared 10 metre Range Analysis platform overview
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[aside & totally anecdotal - I have ridden on the road in that last picture - near Sheridan, WY]
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #fedscience #fedservice #feddata #opendata #usecase #publicgood #rangeland #ecosystems #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #US #USA #vegetation #satellite #remotesensing #earthobservation #Sentenial #Sentenial2 #canopy #fractionalcover #canopygap #landcover #landuse #grass #pinyon #juniper #opendata #raster #USWest #WesternStates #landsurface #tools #fielddata #model #modeling #BLM #USDA #statistics #geostatistics #RangelandAnalysisPlatform
@USDA @BLM

Unravelling The Dance Of Earthquakes - Evidence Of Partial Synchronization Of The Northern San Andreas Fault And Cascadia Megathrust
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https://doi.org/10.1130/GES02857.1 <-- shared paper
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“Previous paleoseismic work has suggested a possible stress triggering relationship between the Cascadia subduction zone and the northern San Andreas fault based on similar event timings. Turbidite successions correlated to both systems may support this hypothesis. Historic earthquakes in 1980 and 1992 in the Cascadia subduction zone and the 1906 earthquake on the northern San Andreas fault left turbidite records that are temporally well constrained by bomb-carbon−supported age-depth models..."
#geology #USWest #Seattle #Washington #California #earthquake #engineeringeology #fault #faulting #SanAndreas #Cascadiasubductionzone #linked #Cascadia #research #sediment #sedimentology #Turbidite #paleoseismology #historic #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #model #modeling #stress #subduction #dating #radiocarbon #Holocene

Thirsty For Power And Water, AI-Crunching Data Centers Sprout Across The West
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https://andthewest.stanford.edu/2025/thirsty-for-power-and-water-ai-crunching-data-centers-sprout-across-the-west/ <-- shared technical article
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“With promises of jobs and hopes for tax breaks, server farms are reshaping local grids, plumbing, and politics. Are they a boon for communities, or a burden?...”
“… “I consider data centers to be the tapeworms of the city.”
~ Lance Saleme, Santa Clara planning commission chair…”
#mapping #spatial #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #power #energy #water #hydrology #waterresources #USWest #USA #datacenters #impact #resources #serverfarm #consumption #grid #utilities #research #AI #emissions #heat #cooling
#StanfordUniversity