Thursday, July 21st After our 14-hour workday in Mexico, we were all ready to catch up on sleep once we arrived in Yuma, Arizona. The next morning we had another early wake-up in order to get to our meeting at the Yuma Desalinization Plant, the world’s largest reverse osmosis system. The plant was completed in […]
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Day 11: Mexico and the Colorado River Delta
We exited the exquisite Best Western John Jay Inn in Calexico, CA at 4:40am, just early enough for the previous day’s high of 113ºF to drop to a balmy 95ºF. In the refreshingly ‘cool’ air we departed from the Imperial Valley and headed out to visit our neighbors to the South in Mexico. At […]
Day 9: The Imperial Valley
Another early morning start took us south. We followed the Colorado River (now essentially a series of reservoirs) south, briefly stopping at Parker Dam (Lake Havasu). After the Hoover and Glen Canyon Dams, Parker was not terribly impressive, though the reservoir it created is still enjoyed by large multitudes of people every year. We will […]
Days 8 and 9: Las Vegas, Boulder City and Hoover Dam
Day 8: Sunday, July 17 North Rim of the Grand Canyon to Las Vegas, NV Leaving the grandiose expanse of open canyon country was no easy feat Sunday morning, especially as we knew our next stop, the indulgent metropolis of Las Vegas, would present us with a very different environment. The North Rim of the […]
Days 6 and 7: Dam and Canyon
Lake Powell and Glen Canyon Dam We left the Canyonlands early and began a long travel day to Lake Powell. After a late arrival at the Wahweap campground, we went down to see the lake and then decided to get some rest in preparation for our morning tour of Glen Canyon Dam. As we descended […]
Rockies Research Trip Day 5: The National Park Service and Canyonlands National Park
Moab, UT and Canyonlands National Park After enduring a lengthy night of perpetual mosquito harassment we departed from the riverside campsite at the BLM Goldbar campground and made our way three miles south of Moab to the National Park Service’s Southeast Utah Group Headquarters. The Southeast Utah Group is the centralized administrative unit in charge […]
Rockies Research Trip Days 3 and 4: Canyons, Hydrology and Utah
Tuesday, July 12 Paonia to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park While parting with the idyllic Orchard Valley Farms was tough, we had much to look forward to as we packed up early Tuesday morning to head off to the North Rim of the Black Canyon of the Gunnison. We were there to investigate, […]
Rockies Research Trip Day 2: Raft, Ski and Farm
Monday, July 11, 2011 Avon-Glenwood Springs-Aspen-Paonia Morning on the Colorado Departing early from the Hillman’s in Avon, we followed the Eagle River to the confluence with the Colorado. Continuing on to Glenwood Springs, we arrived at our outfitters for the morning: Whitewater Rafting, LLC. After a brief safety talk featuring the […]
Summer Research Trip is underway!
The State of the Rockies Summer Research trip has begun. The Rockies research team left Colorado Springs today and are on their way to Avon, CO. Along the way we’ll witness the remainder of this years record high snowpack levels and the high runoff that has been produced in Colorado and the rest of the […]
Summer Research for the 2011-12 Rockies Project has begun!
This year’s 5 student researchers are already well under way in their investigation of this year’s project topic- The Colorado River: Agenda for Use, Restoration and Sustainability as if the Next Generation Counts. Our researchers draw experience from their diverse educational background with two environmental policy majors, an environmental science major, a physics major and […]
