Don’t Let Texas’ Excess Water Go to Waste
June 16, 2015
The past few weeks have highlighted a challenge for water resource managers in Texas: we either have too much water when we don’t need it or too little when we do.
The recent devastating floods have underscored the need for better preparation in not only monitoring but also keeping as much of that water as possible.
The Texas Tribune’s TribTalk, June 15, 2015
Featuring: Bridget R. Scanlon, Senior Research Scientist, Bureau of Economic Geology, Jackson School of Geosciences
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FRIDAY: Oceans soak up a vast amount of greenhouse heat. At this week's #UTIGSeminars, Wenbo Wu @WHOI introduces a novel way to track the oceans' potential to absorb heat using seismic waves generated by rumbles in the Earth!
Starts 10:30am CT. Abstract:
https://ig.utexas.edu/utig-seminar-series/2025/utig-seminar-series-wenbo-wu-whoi/
In California, a record-wet winter helped alleviate a longstanding drought above the ground. But deeper recovery isn’t so simple, according to recent research by the Jackson School’s @ShujuanM.
Read more: https://www.jsg.utexas.edu/news/2025/02/new-method-for-measuring-groundwater-shows-californias-aquifers-remain-depleted/
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UTIG's Krista Soderlund was in Austin, Texas, to receive the award.
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