Tag: Kira Zalis Waldman
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A Tributary Approach to Learning the Colorado River
By Kira J.Z. Waldman, Daniel Rothberg, and Lindsay Murdoch . . . A groundwater researcher, a water modeler, and a policy nerd walk into a gravel bar (on the Yampa River)… and decide to facilitate a seminar (at UC Davis) . . . If watersheds are dynamic systems, changing in flow and form over time,…
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Day 6 – Recharging Resilience: Balancing climate grief with curiosity and purpose
By Kira Zalis Waldman . . . Teaching hydrology means teaching in a world where climate awareness, and inherently climate grief, often walk into the classroom before I do. Our lectures revisit now familiar concerns: shrinking snowpack, overdrafted aquifers, and the uneven and unjust burdens so many California communities carry. The weight of that knowledge…