Must brag....
Sep. 26th, 2014 10:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nlbarberI got a credit in National Geographic! Sort of funny how much of a thrill that is, or maybe not given how iconic that magazine has been for all of my lifetime. It's not a big credit line--in the print version, the text is <1 mm tall. But still!
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west-snow-fail/
I gave them the water-use data for the "Tapping the West" illustration, and along with others on the USGS water-use leadership team, reviewed the resulting graphic. We did tell them to put the capital of Nevada in there...
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west-snow-fail/
I gave them the water-use data for the "Tapping the West" illustration, and along with others on the USGS water-use leadership team, reviewed the resulting graphic. We did tell them to put the capital of Nevada in there...
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Date: 2014-09-29 04:37 pm (UTC)That article is pretty disturbing. As someone who wrote her master's thesis on the death of the Aral Sea in the former Soviet Union, I find it distressing that we seem intent to doing some of the same things here that they did there.
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