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County Libraries Present Discussion By Author Laura Paskus On New Mexico’s Changing Climate Thursday
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From forests to farm fields, reservoirs to rivers, the impacts of climate change are obvious all around the state of New Mexico. How does warming intensify environmental problems, exacerbate inequity, and change how we relate to our landscapes? What hope is there for the future?
Join the discussion with Los Alamos Public Libraries and author and journalist Laura Paskus in this live-streamed program via Zoom, 7 p.m. Thursday, July 8. Register on the library events calendar.
Paskus is a longtime reporter based in Albuquerque and the environment reporter for New Mexico PBS, where she produces the monthly series, “Our Land: New Mexico’s Environmental Past, Present and Future”. She covers climate and the environment for “New Mexico In Focus”, and has been looking into the military’s contamination of groundwater
UNM Softball Signs Birkinshaw to 2022 Roster
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. University of New Mexico head softball coach Paula Congleton and staff have added Olivia Birkinshaw to the softball program.
A utility player from Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif., Birkinshaw attended Mission Viejo High School and played for the Firecrackers Brashear club team.
In her senior year of high school, Birkinshaw played in 17 games with a .233 batting average and a .431 on-base percentage, hitting three home runs and two doubles, and driving in eight runs on 10 hits.
Additionally, Birkinshaw earned Orange County Athletic Directors’ Female Athlete of the Year for the CVAA in 2021 as a dual sport athlete, playing both softball and soccer as a goalkeeper.
Verhines to head University of New Mexico Water Resources Program July 06, 2021
Amid a risk of the Rio Grande going dry through Albuquerque this summer and growing threats to the state’s water supplies, The University of New Mexico has named Scott Verhines to be the next director of the UNM Water Resources Program.
A New Mexico native, Verhines brings a lifetime of experience in water management to the job, culminating with service from 2011-2014 as New Mexico State Engineer and Secretary of the New Mexico Interstate Stream Commission – the state’s top water management jobs.
“Scott has worked on water resources challenges in every part of New Mexico for over three decades,” said UNM Dean of Graduate Studies Julie Coonrod, who oversees the program. “His experience ranges from holding public meetings with different interest groups in rural areas to serving as the State Engineer whose office is charged with administering the state s water resources. Verhines’ focu
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The Colorado River provides water to 40 million people around the West, including New Mexico, but the historic drought gripping our region has prompted a 20 percent drop in flows in the river. Reservoirs are drying, with Lake Mead at its lowest levels since it was filled in the 1930s. As scientists incorporate these changes into future projections, an article in Science magazine urges them to plan for even greater declines in the river. Co-author John Fleck says there are important lessons to learn from a hydrologist who studied the river a century ago. Fleck is director of the Water Resources Program at the University of New Mexico. His co-author is Brad Udall, senior water and climaate research scientist in the Colorado Water Center at Colorado State University.