Albuquerque Wastewater Treatment Plant Outfall Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. You’re looking at one of the largest tributaries in the Middle Rio Grande – the discharge from Albuquerque’s sewage treatment plant. I don’t know the exact numbers, but we’re putting something in the neighborhood of 60,000 acre feet of water per year into the river. Currently, …
I can’t figure out how to embed a YouTube video (WordPress/TinyMCE insists on editing my html until it doesn’t work) so you’ll just have to click through to enjoy It’s a Wonderful Life in Los Alamos.
Los Ranchos Rail Runner Station Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It was beautiful this morning, and I didn’t need my car today for work, so I rode. I did not, however, check the weather forecast re the return trip. When I looked up the weather at 4 p.m. and saw 25 mph (40 kph) winds out …
Eggs Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. Also from the bike ride: traditional holiday decor at our neighbor’s house.
Dust BowlOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. It’s reasonable to think that most of the folks in sub-Saharan Africa didn’t celebrate the release of the latest grim Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report by heading out to the ballpark last night. But that’s what Lissa and I did, the beneficiary of a pair of free tickets to …
DitchOriginally uploaded by heinemanfleck. I’m stretching the point a bit, but standing at the edge of an alfalfa field in Albuquerque’s South Valley this afternoon, I was reminded of Bruce Smith’s description in last Friday’s Science of the co-evolution of humans, dogs and the bottle gourd: In Asia, for example, the domestication of two utilitarian …
Japanese Garden Originally uploaded by heinemanfleck. On the bike ride today, I spied the new Japanese Garden, under construction at the botanical gardens. I’m not sure about the opening date, but if you can’t wait, walk (ride?) up the bike trail north of Central a little less than half a mile and peek through the …
reading: Preparing for a talk at UNM in a couple of weeks, I’m rereading a couple of old sciency favorites: Thomas Kuhn’s Structure of Scientific Revolutions and The Golem, by Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch. paper of the day: Abrupt changes in rainfall during the twentieth century, by some UW-Madison folks, offering a new and …
Apropos of nothing except that I’m fascinated by the interplay between agriculture and urbanization in the West, I ran across this data this evening in the Census of Agriculture (and if I blog it here, I can Google it and find it later): Irrigated agricultural acreage in Bernalillo County (that’s the county in which Albuquerque …
Of possible interest to New Mexicans, on the price of uranium.