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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,…

  • Day 8 – Haikus

    We invited haiku submissions from CWS members and friends to be a part of the 8th day of our California WaterBlog series, “12 Days of CWS“. A haiku is a traditional Japanese three-line poem (5-7-5 syllables) that focuses on capturing a moment, feeling, or image. We hope you enjoy… and leave us your own haiku in the…

  • Representing interannual variability for environmental flow operations: the functional flow regime

    By Lindsay Murdoch, Sarah Yarnell, and Jay Lund California’s local communities and native ecosystems alike have adapted to cycles of flood, drought, and a healthy portion of everything in between. Our river management, on the other hand, has fallen out of natural balance and tends to oscillate between insufficient minimum flows and emergency flood responses,…