This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on connections between indigenous rock art and the Balcones Escarpment, freshwater inflows and estuarine health, and a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious acronym for pesticide identification methods.
Category: think+water
think+water: Measles in wastewater, flu alerts triggered by wastewater, and who pooped at the beach?
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications on sequencing for measles detection in U.S. wastewater, the creation of a school-based virus alert system in Houston, and the identification of fecal contamination sources along the Texas Gulf Coast.
think+water: Water and the White Shaman, biochar and cucumbers, and a pain in the ash
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering water’s role in indigenous cosmology, biochar’s ability to boost saturated hydraulic conductivity, and an invasive beetle species wreaking havoc on ash tree populations.
think+water: Cities sinking, lakes sedimenting, and lower albedo’ing
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering land subsidence in surprising Texan cities, sedimentation’s effects on reservoir firm yields, and low planetary albedo’s connection to aerosols and increased temperatures.
think+water: Detention basins, well integrity, and AI-driven flood statistics
This month, Dr. Robert E. Mace explores academic publications covering the role detention basins play in protecting groundwater, contributing factors in well integrity failures, and AI’s data-driven probabilistic flood mapping.