Joe Mason

Looking at the hydrographs on the right side more closely, the spike for both rivers (much larger for the S Loup) is the bomb cyclone rain-snowmelt event of spring, 2019. The largest peak in the N Loup record is May 2010, when extreme rainfall flooded roads and a rail line across the Sandhills.

There has been some seismic work recently in the Sandhills, I believe, focused on the Ogallala Group.

Also maybe the drainage divides in NHD are not the same as groundwater divides

I would say more of the water that infiltrates gets past the root zone in the dunes.

Yeah, that's interesting.

Doesn't even really work within one or the other of these basins. The upper end of the S Loup basin has lower drainage density because parts are in the dunes and parts are undissected loess tablelands.

Yep. Also Late Pleistocene and Holocene dune migration has blocked and/or buried earlier drainage networks. Streams are extending headwards into the Sandhills, but slowly and mainly by spring sapping.

Data retrieved and map plotted with dataRetrieval and nhdplusTools R packages, both from USGS.

Heading says "Tale of two rivers: North and South Loup Rivers, Nebraska." Maps of the stream network within basins of the North Loup River upstream from Taylor, and the South Loup River upstream from St. Michael. The North Loup, in the Sandhills dune field, has a very sparse drainage network (low drainage density). The South Loup, in thick loess terrain, has a dense drainage network

Plot of daily discharge for the South and North Loup rivers, 1940s to 2024. The South Loup has large spikes of discharge separated by intervals of minimal flow. The North Loup has much steadier flow.

A tale of two rivers, acting the way you would expect them to, based on their basins.

(not the full basin of each river, used the parts above gages at Taylor and St. Michael which are roughly the same area)

The Brassica rapa vegetables are more stylish and tastier.

Somehow, every six weeks or so, people reinvent the concept of subsistence agriculture on here

It's not new, the Whole Earth Catalog reinvented it on every other page.

I love to see this UVA faculty response to Trump's plans for a hostile* takeover of some of America's best universities. Thread. 👇🏽

"The compact is a threat." That's all that needs to be said.

"Second-best hipster neighborhood in the Midwest" after Wicker Park in Chicago, according to some ridiculous list published 10-15 years ago.

St Vincent de Paul is full of people on this rainy evening, the last remnant of 1970s Willy Street. (I know the Crystal Corner Bar is still there across the street, but it's not the old Crystal, for better or worse).

Only 0.03% Opt Out Of LGBTQ+ Education In Maryland After SCOTUS Gives Them A Right To After SCOTUS gave families a right to opt out of LGBTQ+ education, Montgomery County, Maryland is reporting only 43 families took them up on it.

"99.97 percent of families, even when given the option, chose to let their children learn about LGBTQ+ people."
Nice result, and it reinforces everything Montgomery County said to SCOTUS before its theocrats made their dehumanizing ruling. open.substack.com/pub/erininth...

Things are really looking up for tax cheats, polluters, greenhouse gases, and infectious diseases.

Copies of bound dissertations on a shelf, including one labeled "Mason, Joseph A -- 1995". The dissertations date from 1951 to 2016.

Still feels kind of strange to teach in this room.

But Pascal is older. Although even in 1992 it was one of the three languages they had basic programming courses in here at UW Madison (other two were C and Fortran).

The 13th Largest Army in World Is Unleashing Violence in Chicago As federal agents kill and use extreme force in Chicago, their budget surges.

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

The storm system that produced this tornado eventually made it to Wisconsin and we measured a 78 mph wind gust at 3-meters in Bayfield.

A map of the world showing how levels of worry in most countries are greater than 70%. Source: Yale Program on Climate Change Communication, International Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2023.

Two of the most common climate misconceptions I see, even among knowledgeable folks, are that (1) most people aren't worried about climate change, and (2) if they were, they'd act.

Not true! Data show (1) most people are worried, but (2) they won’t act if they don’t know what to do-and most don’t.

This is what is always problematic about polling on immigration. People genuinely have no actual understanding of the immigration system!

They also default assume "illegal immigrant = criminal" in any question because the word "illegal" conveys that, but then oppose the realities of R policy.

Is that the old Saxony apartments at Johnson and Frances? Hard for the new building to not be an improvement over that.

He needs to spend more time with his rental properties.

Z (1969 film) - Wikipedia

rolling text saying what happened to the prosecutor and those who worked with him after the military coup ("killed trying to escape" etc.). Like, yes there is justice!...no there isn't. Just learned that Ebert called it best movie of the year. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z_(1969...

Curious how many here have seen the movie Z (1969) directed by Costa-Gavras. I saw it in a theater when I was in junior HS and it made a huge impression on me. Especially the last scene where the generals and colonels are marched past the prosecutor to hear the charges against them, followed by

or forgets to turn it off?

The products and broader impacts of this particular research include students seeing real soil profiles in the field and watching me be surprised by what we found at one site.