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From: Greg Reis
Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 5:05 PM
Subject: Mono Basin Clearinghouse Updates for 1/9/03
 

Dear Friends,

I hope you had happy holidays and wish you a happy new year. Along with the new items listed below, we've also added a testimonials page
(http://www.monobasinresearch.org/praise.htm) so you can read about what others think of the Clearinghouse, and Past Updates
(http://www.monobasinresearch.org/updates/) so you can delete your old copies of this update but still look them up if you want to find something you read about in here.


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RAW DATA

Lee Vining weather summaries for Nov, Dec, and the year 2002. November and December each were the wettest since our internet weather station began keeping precipitation records in 1998 (since 1996 according to NOAA records). December snowfall (not measured in these summaries, but measured for NOAA) was 53.5 inches, the most recorded since 1988 in Lee Vining for a single month except January 1995 and possibly February 1998 (some Feb. 98 days were missing). Lee Vining's December 2002 snowfall surpassed that of any single month recorded at the Mono Inn from 1950 to 1988. See http://www.monobasinresearch.org/data/weather.htm

Piezometer Readings updated for 2002- For Lee Vining Creek, I'm using a standard height above ground for the piezometer and show the changes in ground level over the years in a separate table. I have not done this yet for Rush Creek--most heights change in 2002, which makes it hard to compare this year to past years. I'll fix this soon. Some really interesting dry year trends are showing up! It is hard to describe the trends without getting into too much detail--you could look at these graphs for hours. I'd risk saying that we have a foundation for understanding groundwater dynamics in the Lee Vining Creek bottomlands, for anyone to build on that wants to spend the time and energy analyzing the data! I wouldn't say this about Rush Creek yet--a few more high flow years in the dataset would be nice. See http://www.monobasinresearch.org/data/#HYDROLOGY


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LEGAL DOCUMENTS

WB testimony from 1993-94 hearings volumes VII, IX, XII, XXII, XL have been added (although some data was unrecoverable). Testimony includes Casaday, Beschta, Tillemans, Calkins, Jehl, Reid, Stine, Kondolf, Vorster, Payne, Li, Milliron, Parmenter, and Messick. More interesting than Court TV! See http://www.monobasinresearch.org/images/legal/text94.htm


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REPORTS AND STUDIES ONLINE

PRBO's Results of the 2002 Season for the Eastern Sierra Riparian Songbird Conservation Project. See http://www.monobasinresearch.org/onlinereports/esrscp.htm


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LINKS (http://www.monobasinresearch.org/links/)

Center for Watershed Protection
NDOW Sage Grouse Conservation Program
North American Cowbird Advisory Council
Invasivespecies.gov - A gateway to Federal and State invasive species activities and programs Halophilic Microorganisms and their Environments - A new book "intended for researchers and students interested in microbial physiology, microbial ecology, environmental sciences, and extremophilic biotechnology." Chapter 16 is on Mono Lake and Big Soda Lake.


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Thanks for your interest in Mono Basin research,
Greg

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Greg Reis, Information Specialist, (760) 647-6386 x41
Mono Lake Committee, ph (760) 647-6595, fax 647-6377
Hwy 395 & 3rd St., P.O. Box 29, Lee Vining, CA 93541 USA
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