Tree rings and

My venerable colleague at The Albuquerque Journal, John Fleck, has a new book out, his first. "The Tree Rings' Tale - Understanding Our Changing Climate" explores dendroclimatology and what it tells us about water in the Southwest. It is written for middle schoolers, with plenty of photos, graphics and short, readable chapters. I suspect a lot of adults could learn a thing or two by reading it as well. Published as part of the Worlds of Wonder Science Series for Young Readers, the book starts with John Wesley Powell's raft trip down the Colorado River to the impacts cities and climate change are having on the river today. Well done, Fleck. I expect to see the adult version from you soon!

And here's your chance water geeks to help edit a water book (what could possible by more exciting!):
Richard J. Heggen, prof emeritus of civil engineering at the University of New Mexico has written Underground Rivers: From the River Styx to the Rio San Buenaventura and put his draft online for readers to critique. His story explores aquifers from Greek mythology to constructed waterways and more. I'll be reading it with much interest.

Tags: Colorado, Fleck, Heggen, River, dendroclimatology, rings, tree

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Comment by billp37 on January 18, 2010 at 6:29pm: US Weather Bureau Report

The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in
some places the seals are finding the water too hot, according to a
report to the Commerce Department yesterday from Consul Iffy, at Bergen,
Norway. Reports from fishermen, seal hunters and explorers, he
declared, all point to a radical change in climate conditions and
hitherto unheard-of temperatures in the Arctic zone. Exploration
expeditions report that scarcely any ice has been met with as far north
as 81 degrees 29 minutes. Soundings to a depth of 3,100 meters showed
the gulf stream still very warm. Great masses of ice have been replaced
by moraines of earth and stones, the report continued, while at many
points well known glaciers have entirely disappeared.. Very few seals
and no white fish are found in the eastern Arctic, while vast shoals of
herring and smelts, which h ave never before ventured so far north, are
being encountered in the old seal fishing grounds.

Oh, sorry! Neglected to mention that this report was from November 2, 1922, as reported by the AP and published in The Washington Post.

Comment by Eric Perramond on January 15, 2010 at 3:04pm: It was good to see this right before attending the NM Water Dialogue (were you there?) yesterday in Albuquerque. John Fleck was moderating a panel session, and kept them on their toes!