Monthly Archives: September 2015

The banality of California’s ‘1,200-year’ drought

Posted on September 23, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay Lund California’s ongoing drought will continue to break records and grab headlines, but it is unlikely to be especially rare from a water policy and management perspective. Estimates of the current drought’s rarity range from once in 15 … Continue reading →

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How research programs stack up — a photo essay

Posted on September 21, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay Lund Riding into work the other day, I was thinking how our understanding of hard problems requires understanding a lot of pieces and how those pieces fit together – sort of like how a pile of bricks gets … Continue reading →

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For a change in Delta perspective, move a few feet

Posted on September 9, 2015 by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences

By Jay Lund Each year my family takes a week’s vacation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta on our old sailboat. We often follow some Delta veterans who show us new places. As an engineering professor working on California’s water problems, … Continue reading →

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