Visuals
Our research as Original Cartoons | Smile Makers | Photos
Original Cartoons
Provide basin actors a choice of new management paradigms from which to improve. | |
Multiple Colorado River actors say they want more reliable, resilient, sustainable, adaptive, actionable, and equitable management | |
Build more human connections to increase system equity | |
Provide finaniceal incentives to turn a subtraction problem of large mandatory water use reductions into an addition activity. Pay farmers and ranchers more to voluntarily adopt and sustain water use reduction technologies. | |
I feel scientists use slingshots to try to insert their findings into policy discussions with mixed results. | |
Bring people together to solve complex water problems. | |
New Federal leadership to reduce Lake Powell release by 0.5 million acre-feet in April and May and reach a larger conservation goal by August. | |
I drew this cartoon in the Las Vegas airport after leaving the 2021 Colorado River Water Users conference. There are many reasons to hope and lots of work to do. | |
Basin events around the western U.S. are moving fast. Develop plans even as they are already in motion. | |
Plan for a basin becoming more arid, not a temporary drought. Follow numerous messages by Brad Udall and others. | |
I hear lots of Colorado River talk about including more people in management like First Nations, environmental organizations, and other groups. | |
A first step in a collaborative process is to define the word collaborate. | |
Starting a new collaboration takes time and effort to figure out how your partner(s) move. | |
Great choices of which stakeholder breakfast to attend at the Colorado River Water Users conference. | |
With more money, the 500,000 acre-foot plan for Lake Mead can scale up to larger water conservation targets. |
Smile Makers
- Manhole
covers from around the world, several taken by me on various
work and travel trips
- Many, many more manhole pictures from the Sewers of the
World, Unite! Project
- Life as a graduate student by PhD
Comics
(with permission from CartoonChurch.com)
Photos
Research group dinner, Tandori Oven, Logan, Utah, November 2019 | ||
Hadia Akbar's thesis defense, Logan, Utah, August 2019 | ||
River Basin Management field trip, Lee's Ferry gage, Colorado River, Arizona, April 2019 | ||
Research group visit, Tony Grove Road snotel, Logan Canyon, Utah, March 2019 | ||
Paria Stream Gage just above Lee's Ferry, Arizona, April 2018 | ||
Glen Canyon Dam and Tailwater, Colorado River, Arizona, April 2018 | ||
Water Treatment Plant Tour, Park City, Utah, August 2017 | ||
Old water meters and registers, Park City, Utah, August 2017 | ||
Soda Springs reservoir and hydropower generating station, Bear River, Idaho, July 2016 | ||
Chris Ford presenting his iFellow research, iUTAH Symposium, July 2017 | ||
Nour Atallah testing new registers on a 4" compound meter, Utah Water Research Lab, March 2017 | ||
Todd Brown presenting his flow-stage measurement uncertainty work, iUTAH summer symposium, July 2016 | ||
Research group field trip, Last Chance Canal, July 2016 | ||
Bear River Fellows measuring flow, Bear River, Utah-Idaho border, August 2015 | ||
Sunset, Bear River, Utah, August 2015 | ||
Adel Abdallah giving a workshop on the Water Management Data Model (WaM-DaM), CUASHI Annual Conference, July 2015 | ||
Adda River high head hydropower generation facility as part of travel-by-bike trip, Valtalina, Italy, July 2015 | ||
Low head hydropower generation facility as part of travel-by-bike trip, Adda River just upstream of Tirano, Italy, July 2015 | ||
Left: Fedaia dam and reservoir with Marmolada in background (March 2015), , Right: before the dam and reservoir (1932), Dolomites, Italy | ||
Research group ski day, Beaver Mountain, Utah, February 2014 | ||
Measuring flow, Cub River, Utah, May 2013 | ||
Measuring snow density at an NRCS snotel site, Logan Canyon, February 2013 | ||
Group snowshoe hike up the trail from the snotel site, Logan Canyon, February 2013 | ||
Preparing an accoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) to measure flow, Bear River, Utah, August 2012 | ||
Paddling a canoe with ADCP to measure flow at a difficult to access site, Bear River, Utah, August 2012 | ||
Short hike, Angel Island, Great Salt Lake, Utah, August 2011 | ||
Ozonator at water treatment plan, Point-of-the-Mountain, Utah, August 2011 | ||
Water conserving cats, Logan, Utah, August 2011 | ||
Trying to ski avalanche debris, Logan Canyon, UT, May 2011 | ||
Skiing and flooding, Cache Valley, Utah, May 2011 | ||
Skinning up to …, Bear River Mountaints, Utah, April 2011 | ||
Discussing fish flow releases with Fremont-Madison Irrigation District general manager and Henry's Fork Foundation conservation biologist, Island Park Reservoir, Henry's Fork, Idaho, August 2010 | ||
Center pivot irrigation systems for potato farming. Research group trip, Henry's Fork, Idaho, August 2010 | ||
Research group field trip stop, Upper Mesa Falls, Henry's Fork, Idaho, August 2010 | ||
Canoe camping, Jackson Lake, Wyoming, June 2010 | ||
Research group field trip to gateway turbine, Weber Basin Water Conservancy District, Weber Basin, Utah, May 2010 | ||
Research group visit, Willard Bay Reservoir, Utah, May 2010 | ||
Backcountry skiing in the Wellsville Mtns, Logan, Utah, April 2010 | ||
Research group ski trip, Beaver Mountain Ski Area, UT, February 2010 | ||
Research group field trip, Cokeville Meadows Bird Refuge, Wyoming, August 2009 | ||
Bicycling from Mountain View, WY back to Logan, , July 2009 | ||
Sea kayaking, Resurrection Bay, Seward, Alaska, May 2009 | ||
Backcountry ski tracks near Bunchgrass Yurt, Bear River Mtns, Utah, March 2009 | ||
Chopping wood, Steam Mill Yurt, Bear River Mtns, UT, March 2009 | ||
Canoeing, Bear River near Benson, Utah, August 2008 | ||
Ovoo (religious cairn) above Buddhist monastery, Orhon River, Mongolia, April 2008 | ||
Morning paddle, Lake Solono, California, December 2006 | ||
Tele skiing the Hotlum-Bolum glaciers, Mt. Shasta, California, July 2005 | ||
Burqa castle and reservoir, eastern Badia desert, Jordan, December 2005 | ||
Remnants of churches, Madaba, Jordan, December 2005 | ||
Water truck refilling rooftop tank, Amman, Jordan, December 2005 | ||
Rappelling a waterfall, Wadi Mujib, Jordan, July 2004 | ||
Tour of waste-water treatment plan with Dr. Samer Talozi, Wadi Musa near Petra, Jordan, July 2004 | ||
Bowling with 3000-yr cannonballs, Shobak Castle, southern Jordan, July 2004 |