Newsmakers

“Being on a ship and getting to do science: This is what I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid.”

“It had lots of rain or snowmelt to fill those channels and lakes. Now it’s completely dry. We’re trying to understand how much water was there and where did it all go.”

“This is one of the important remaining issues we need to address before promoting the implementation of long-range (up to two years) ENSO forecasts.”

“It would be the United States that would have to come and take care of the remediation, take care of stopping the spill. So certainly, we need something on paper that says who’s going to be in command.”

“Their cultural heritage and their welfare is integrated and intricately linked to their environment. There’s an immediate need to understand what’s happening in these lagoons.”

“California’s whole water infrastructure is built around the idea of having this natural reservoir of snowpack. Since 1915, the western U.S. snowpack has declined by more than 20%. Climate models project that in the next 50 years, California could be left with just a third of its current snowpack.”