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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>SAN FRANCISCO — State wildlife officials say a new gray wolf couple appears to be courting in rural northeastern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article112147427.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Sacramento Bee reports\u003c/a> that officials confirmed Wednesday that the pair has been in Lassen County likely since late last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wildlife officials say an animal that appeared to be a wolf was captured on motion-activated trail cameras last fall. Since then, officials also received photographs, found tracks and received eyewitness sightings suggested that there were actually two wolves traveling together, the newspaper reported.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tests show the male wolf was born into the Rogue Pack of Southern Oregon in 2014 and most likely entered Lassen County in late 2015 or 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The founder of the Rogue Pack is OR-7, a well-known gray wolf who generated international interest when he became the first wild wolf in nearly 100 years to venture into Northern California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11158239\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-11158239\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-800x661.jpg\" alt=\"One of OR-7’s wolf pups -- and thus a member of the Rogue Pack -- photographed in 2014 in southwestern Oregon.\" width=\"800\" height=\"661\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-800x661.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-160x132.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-1020x843.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-1180x975.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-960x794.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-240x198.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-375x310.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/11/WolfPup-520x430.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">One of OR-7’s wolf pups -- and thus a member of the Rogue Pack -- photographed in 2014 in southwestern Oregon. \u003ccite>(USFWS/Flickr)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>OR-7's arrival led to a decision by state wildlife officials to \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/science/2014/06/04/california-to-protect-gray-wolves-as-endangered-species/\" target=\"_blank\">grant gray wolves endangered species protections\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>For year companies have targeted consumers with advertising that leverages social pressure – like saying seven out of 10 people prefer a certain brand of toothpaste or laundry detergent. More recently, that kind of thinking has been used not just to sell products, but also to change behavior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Behavioral economists assert that in the absence of price signals, policymakers can change people’s behaviors by harnessing their natural inclination to conform to social norms,” wrote Nola Hastings and Galib Rustamov in a 2015 \u003ca href=\"http://cuwcc.org/Portals/0/Document%20Library/Resources/Publications/Potential%20BMP%20Reports/2015%20Water%20Use%20Messaging%20PBMP%20Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report\u003c/a> on customer water use messaging for the California Urban Water Conservation Council. “For example, customers make decisions based on social cues, self-image, local values and identities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Basically, most of us just want to fit in with our social groups. And if given a little direction on how to do so, we’ll respond.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://opower.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Opower\u003c/a>, a customer engagement platform for utilities, took this philosophy and tested it in the electric utility sector. In 2008, it began sending Home Energy Reports to its utility partners’ customers, which showed people their energy consumption and how it compared to other similar households. The company now works with over 100 global utilities and its use of “social norms messaging” has begun to gain traction with water utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first \u003ca href=\"http://www.financingsustainablewater.org/resource-search/evaluation-east-bay-municipal-utility-districts-pilot-watersmart-home-water-reports\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">substantial research\u003c/a> that emerged from the water world on this front resulted from a June 2012 to June 2013 pilot project between 10,000 customers of East Bay Municipal Utilities District in the San Francisco Bay Area and \u003ca href=\"http://www.watersmart.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WaterSmart Software\u003c/a>. Much like Opower’s model, WaterSmart Software sends Home Water Reports, which tell customers how much water they’re using, how it compares to their own past use, as well as how much water similar households and similar efficient households are using. The reports also provide information on how to increase water efficiency, available rebates or other messaging from utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The project compared two groups to controls – the first being a random sample of customers and the other (referred to as the Castro Valley group) were those thought to be “good candidates” for the messaging (mostly higher income and higher water use households).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Researchers found that the random group on average increased conservation by \u003cspan class=\"caps\">4.6\u003c/span> percent and the Castro Valley group by \u003cspan class=\"caps\">6.6\u003c/span> percent compared to the control groups. The effects went beyond just conservation, though. They also found that households from both groups were \u003cspan class=\"caps\">6.7\u003c/span> times more likely to participate in a water audit program and \u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.7\u003c/span>times more likely to participate in a rebate program than those not receiving Home Water Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1130783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 719px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1130783\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter.png\" alt=\"Part of what a WaterSmart Software Home Water Report could include for customers. \" width=\"719\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter.png 719w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-160x144.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-240x216.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-375x338.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-520x469.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of what a WaterSmart Software Home Water Report could include for customers. \u003ccite>(WaterSmart Software)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another study is under way by \u003ca href=\"http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AgriculturalEconomics/buck_steven.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Buck\u003c/a>, assistant professor at University of Kentucky. Buck is examining how customers may be changing water use behavior in the city of Folsom, California, near Sacramento.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folsom’s water agency signed up to work with \u003ca href=\"https://dropcountr.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dropcountr\u003c/a>, mobile and online application that tracks and shares water-use information. Customers in Folsom can voluntarily sign up for Dropcountr and create a customized household water budget. They’ll also receive information about water usage, how that usage compares to neighbors, specific tips for reducing water use and notifications about abnormal water usage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are comparing households that enrolled versus households that didn’t enroll in the program and looking at what happened to consumption two months, three months, six months and 18 months after enrollment,” said Buck. Because the people who enroll may be more likely to conserve already, he said they are not simply comparing the difference between the two groups but, “we are taking into account the fact that there were baseline differences between the group that enrolled and the group that didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buck’s research has yet to be peer-reviewed, but his preliminary findings show that on average, those who enrolled in Dropcountr in Folsom had a 6 percent drop in their consumption since enrollment. And that number jumps to a 12 percent drop for the very highest water users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has roughly 24,000 accounts, and 3,300 have enrolled in Dropcountr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folsom customers also have the added bonus of having water meters that relay data every day, instead of monthly or bimonthly. “There is more to learn about the usefulness of having daily water readings,” said Buck. Without them “it’s harder to detect a leak and hard to see a response in consumption.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And Buck stressed that his research with the city of Folsom and Dropcountr is just beginning. He wants to look at how the results persists, if they would find the same results if it were not during a drought and which attributes of Dropcountr drove the effects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One thing is pretty certain in the industry – the typical format for water bills from many agencies aren’t very good at conveying important information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though you’ve received a water bill in the past, the info may not be so salient or transparent to the user,” said Buck. Many people receive water bills that measure use in units or cubic feet per second, which aren’t easily understood by most customers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dropcountr provides a simple visual on how much water was used and when it was used,” said Don Smith, Water Management Coordinator with the city of Folsom. “The daily use graph provides 24 hourly data points that show the customer how much they use. Dropcountr provides current information on how their conservation efforts are working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And, many people simply disengage from their bills altogether, said Jeff Lipton, director of marketing at WaterSmart Software. That’s why WaterSmart sends water reports separately from bills because they are more likely to be read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Increasing conservation and efficiency, however, isn’t the only helpful result from companies that increase customer engagement with their water utilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The reduction numbers of 6 percent to 12 percent are great, but are only part of the story,” said Smith. “Dropcountr provides a platform for customer engagement. We can communicate through email and mobile devices with customers who use Dropcountr and we can monitor usage of all our customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities can use these tools to communicate important information with customers – something that is especially useful during droughts, but not just limited to times of water shortage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Portland, Oregon, for example, is using WaterSmart’s Home Water Reports to try and reach low-income customers to help promote customer assistance programs and increase efficiency to reduce bills, said Lipton.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we see the need for in the water space is better customer education and engagement around a variety of topics and the ability to build political support for infrastructure investments so we don’t have Flint, Michigan, happening all over the country,” said Lipton. “In some cases the need to improve efficiency is important but there are lots of other things utilities need to address with customers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Utilities may want to communicate about how they are spending money on new infrastructure or the costs of maintaining quality service that may help customers better understand how their rates are set and the money spent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp class=\"fin\">“Social norms messaging can be used to drive behavior in different directions,” said Lipton. “It’s really important the way we’re able to leverage behavioral science insight to achieve measurable outcomes that utilities care about it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This article originally appeared on \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://mail.kqed.org/owa/redir.aspx?C=9e4bb0e1a7d74f24ba4684ef2533053d&URL=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newsdeeply.com%2fwater\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Water Deeply\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, and you can find it \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"https://www.newsdeeply.com/water/articles/2016/11/03/social-norms-messaging-how-water-agencies-can-change-our-habits\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">here\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. For important news about the California drought, you can \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003ca href=\"http://waterdeeply.us5.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=8b78e9a34ff7443ec1e8c62c6&id=2947becb78\">\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">sign up\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> to the Water Deeply email list.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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They also found that households from both groups were \u003cspan class=\"caps\">6.7\u003c/span> times more likely to participate in a water audit program and \u003cspan class=\"caps\">1.7\u003c/span>times more likely to participate in a rebate program than those not receiving Home Water Reports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1130783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 719px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1130783\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter.png\" alt=\"Part of what a WaterSmart Software Home Water Report could include for customers. \" width=\"719\" height=\"648\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter.png 719w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-160x144.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-240x216.png 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-375x338.png 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/11/water_counter-520x469.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 719px) 100vw, 719px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Part of what a WaterSmart Software Home Water Report could include for customers. \u003ccite>(WaterSmart Software)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Another study is under way by \u003ca href=\"http://www.uky.edu/Ag/AgriculturalEconomics/buck_steven.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steven Buck\u003c/a>, assistant professor at University of Kentucky. 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Because the people who enroll may be more likely to conserve already, he said they are not simply comparing the difference between the two groups but, “we are taking into account the fact that there were baseline differences between the group that enrolled and the group that didn’t.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Buck’s research has yet to be peer-reviewed, but his preliminary findings show that on average, those who enrolled in Dropcountr in Folsom had a 6 percent drop in their consumption since enrollment. And that number jumps to a 12 percent drop for the very highest water users.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The city has roughly 24,000 accounts, and 3,300 have enrolled in Dropcountr.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Folsom customers also have the added bonus of having water meters that relay data every day, instead of monthly or bimonthly. “There is more to learn about the usefulness of having daily water readings,” said Buck. 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"content": "\u003cp>A new study suggests some Los Angeles-area earthquakes in the 1920s and 1930s could have been caused by the oil boom at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The paper, scheduled to be published online Tuesday in the Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America, presents evidence that drilling around Los Angeles between 1915 and 1932 could have been associated with damaging earthquakes in the area, including the magnitude 6.4 \u003ca href=\"http://scedc.caltech.edu/significant/longbeach1933.html\">Long Beach quake\u003c/a> in 1933 that killed 120 people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Although the modern practice of hydraulic fracturing \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/01/05/144694550/man-made-quakes-blame-fracking-and-drilling\">has been tied to small man-made earthquakes\u003c/a>, right off the bat, the study authors — Susan E. Hough and Morgan Page of the U.S. Geological Survey — make clear this is not a study to draw lessons from today. 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That historical finding was more relevant to today's oil production activities than the California data. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/29/472232829/u-s-geology-maps-reveal-areas-vulnerable-to-man-made-quakes\">The USGS announced earlier this year\u003c/a> that pumping wastewater underground during oil production has caused parts of Oklahoma to be as seismically active as parts of California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hough and Page used a similar historical record analysis for the Oklahoma and California papers, but Thomas Heaton, director of the Earthquake Engineering Research Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology, told NPR he thought the Oklahoma research was more convincing than the new California findings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"There is a long history of earthquakes being triggered by increased fluid pressure,\" he wrote in an email after reviewing the new paper. \"Although we don't understand [the association] very well, it's as close as our community gets to consensus that fluid induction triggers earthquakes.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"The tricky part of the equation in California is that earthquakes occur regularly without fluid injection,\" he wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He did not go so far as to call into question the associations suggested by the paper — he thought it's certainly possible that oil drilling played a part in some or all of the earthquakes Hough and Page identified. 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"content": "\u003cp>[audio src=\"http://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/science/2016/11/Desal2GornWEB161031.mp3\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once thought to be the wave of the future, desalination is proving to be a tough sell in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The idea of turning ocean water into drinking water has long held promise, but the dream of sticking a straw in the sea and getting unlimited clean water simply by opening the spigot of technology — that’s looking less and less likely here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scarcely a decade ago, when “desal” was relatively new to the state and optimism was high, there were 22 different proposals for plants up and down the California coast. Since then, Marin, Santa Cruz and other coastal cities have scrapped their plans. A tiny desal plant has been constructed in Sand City, north of Monterey, but only one significant project has been completed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s in Carlsbad, 30 miles north of San Diego, and it’s the \u003ca href=\"http://www.poseidonwater.com/carlsbad-desal-plant.html\">largest desal plant in the nation\u003c/a>, built and operated by Boston-based \u003ca href=\"http://www.poseidonwater.com/\">Poseidon Water.\u003c/a> Peter MacLaggan looks up at the giant building like it’s a monument to common sense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t plan for the future and ensure you have an adequate supply,” says MacLaggan, a senior vice president with Poseidon, “you’re going to find yourself in a crisis that costs a lot more than if you plan ahead and do it right.”[edge_animation id=”19″ left=”auto”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one of the reasons the San Diego area managed to get a desal plant built is because of its location at the tail end of the state’s water pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at San Diego and where it’s located in the water supply system in California, it’s at the end of a very long plumbing system, 500 miles from its nearest source,” MacLaggan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That intensified the need for another water supply, he says. This plant supplies about 10% of the San Diego area’s water needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_421307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-421307\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2.jpg\" alt=\"The massive Carlsbad desalination plant is the biggest in the country, capable of supplying water to around 7 percent of the population of San Diego County--but has been cited several times for environmental violations.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sprawling Carlsbad desalination plant is the nation’s largest. It’s been online for less than a year but has been cited several times for environmental violations. \u003ccite>(Adam Keigwin/Poseidon Water)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmental Costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLaggan and other proponents hold up Carlsbad as proof-positive that desal works. But just 60 miles up the coast from Carlsbad, you get a different view; \u003ca href=\"http://www.poseidonwater.com/huntington-beach-desalination-plant.html\">another one of these gigantic plants\u003c/a> is proposed for a white expanse of sand at Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Hiemstra says this spot is the poster child for why desal \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to kill marine life, pollute your water, increase your rates and most importantly we don’t need it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiemstra works for \u003ca href=\"http://www.coastkeeper.org/\">Orange County Coastkeeper\u003c/a>, a South Coast environmental watchdog. He starts to run out of fingers as he enumerates all the other reasons to reject the plant proposed for Huntington Beach. There’s an active earthquake fault here. It’s in a tsunami zone. And its elevation is so low that rising seas might inundate the proposed site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big problems with taking the salt out of seawater, says Hiemstra, is what to do with it after it’s removed; that highly concentrated brine typically goes back into the ocean. At Huntington Beach, you can see the outflow pipe just a thousand feet offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s right there,” he says, squinting and pointing at the surf line. “There’s a couple of surfers out there, right by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1120579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3197px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1120579\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr.jpg\" alt=\"The proposed Huntington Beach desal plant would use the outflow pipe from the AES power plant (background) to deposit salt residue, known as brine, back into the ocean.\" width=\"3197\" height=\"2359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr.jpg 3197w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-768x567.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1920x1417.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-960x708.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3197px) 100vw, 3197px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed Huntington Beach desal plant would use the outflow pipe from the AES power plant (background) to deposit salt residue (known as brine) back into the ocean.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you increase the level of salt in the water, he says, even diluted to low levels, it disrupts marine life all around that spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that comes through here and realizes that brine plume and higher salinity, even a little bit higher salinity, it’s just going to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That area of less sea life and the water at the outfall can drift south, he says, affecting the food supply of the California least tern, a threatened bird living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s another problem with putting water from a desal plant back in the ocean: it may have residue from the chemicals used to treat the water, such as chlorine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There are some people who still hold onto it as the Holy Grail.’\u003ccite>Heather Cooley, Pacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Carlsbad plant isn’t even a year old but state officials have cited it a dozen times for environmental violations. That includes what they call “chronic toxicity,” from an unknown chemical used in water treatment that has been piped into the ocean. The company is still trying to identify, isolate and clean it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expensive Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their severity, environmental concerns aren’t the main barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, one of the big challenges has really been the cost,” says Heather Cooley, an analyst with the \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Institute\u003c/a> in Oakland. The nonpartisan research group recently issued a \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/publication/cost-alternative-water-supply-efficiency-options-california/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lengthy report\u003c/a> on the state of desalination in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond the environmental cost is the actual price tag: the plant in Carlsbad cost $1 billion to build, with a rough estimate of $50 million a year for the power to run it. The estimated cost of the water to San Diego is about $2,300 dollars an acre-foot — more than double the cost most Southern California cities pay for water. (An acre-foot is enough water to supply one-to-two California households per year.) And ratepayers need to pony up for that water even during rainy seasons when the price of water from more traditional sources plummets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooley says the expense is the main reason communities have turned away from desalination.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As many of these projects sort of went through the process and started looking more seriously at the cost,” she says, “there started to be concern that that was too high, that there very likely were other options.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those options include treating wastewater and putting it back into the water table, catching stormwater runoff, or simple conservation efforts. That’s the future most agencies are pursuing in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cooley says desal used to be high on the list of possible water sources, but now it’s closer to the last choice on the list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are some people who still hold onto it as the Holy Grail,” she says, “that thing you’re seeking that’s going to solve our problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, six years into the drought and counting, the demand for water sources is only liable to intensify. That could set the stage next year for yet another fight over approval for the Huntington Beach desal plant.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you don’t plan for the future and ensure you have an adequate supply,” says MacLaggan, a senior vice president with Poseidon, “you’re going to find yourself in a crisis that costs a lot more than if you plan ahead and do it right.”[edge_animation id=”19″ left=”auto”]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He says one of the reasons the San Diego area managed to get a desal plant built is because of its location at the tail end of the state’s water pipe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“When you look at San Diego and where it’s located in the water supply system in California, it’s at the end of a very long plumbing system, 500 miles from its nearest source,” MacLaggan says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That intensified the need for another water supply, he says. This plant supplies about 10% of the San Diego area’s water needs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_421307\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-421307\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2.jpg\" alt=\"The massive Carlsbad desalination plant is the biggest in the country, capable of supplying water to around 7 percent of the population of San Diego County--but has been cited several times for environmental violations.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-400x300.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-768x576.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2015/03/desal2-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The sprawling Carlsbad desalination plant is the nation’s largest. It’s been online for less than a year but has been cited several times for environmental violations. \u003ccite>(Adam Keigwin/Poseidon Water)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Environmental Costs\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>MacLaggan and other proponents hold up Carlsbad as proof-positive that desal works. But just 60 miles up the coast from Carlsbad, you get a different view; \u003ca href=\"http://www.poseidonwater.com/huntington-beach-desalination-plant.html\">another one of these gigantic plants\u003c/a> is proposed for a white expanse of sand at Huntington Beach.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ray Hiemstra says this spot is the poster child for why desal \u003cem>doesn’t\u003c/em> work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to kill marine life, pollute your water, increase your rates and most importantly we don’t need it,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hiemstra works for \u003ca href=\"http://www.coastkeeper.org/\">Orange County Coastkeeper\u003c/a>, a South Coast environmental watchdog. He starts to run out of fingers as he enumerates all the other reasons to reject the plant proposed for Huntington Beach. There’s an active earthquake fault here. It’s in a tsunami zone. And its elevation is so low that rising seas might inundate the proposed site.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the big problems with taking the salt out of seawater, says Hiemstra, is what to do with it after it’s removed; that highly concentrated brine typically goes back into the ocean. At Huntington Beach, you can see the outflow pipe just a thousand feet offshore.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s right there,” he says, squinting and pointing at the surf line. “There’s a couple of surfers out there, right by it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1120579\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 3197px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1120579\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr.jpg\" alt=\"The proposed Huntington Beach desal plant would use the outflow pipe from the AES power plant (background) to deposit salt residue, known as brine, back into the ocean.\" width=\"3197\" height=\"2359\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr.jpg 3197w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-160x118.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-800x590.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-768x567.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1020x753.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1920x1417.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-1180x871.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-960x708.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-240x177.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-375x277.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/IMG_3731corr-520x384.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 3197px) 100vw, 3197px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The proposed Huntington Beach desal plant would use the outflow pipe from the AES power plant (background) to deposit salt residue (known as brine) back into the ocean.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When you increase the level of salt in the water, he says, even diluted to low levels, it disrupts marine life all around that spot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Anything that comes through here and realizes that brine plume and higher salinity, even a little bit higher salinity, it’s just going to move away.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That area of less sea life and the water at the outfall can drift south, he says, affecting the food supply of the California least tern, a threatened bird living nearby.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And there’s another problem with putting water from a desal plant back in the ocean: it may have residue from the chemicals used to treat the water, such as chlorine.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘There are some people who still hold onto it as the Holy Grail.’\u003ccite>Heather Cooley, Pacific Institute\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Carlsbad plant isn’t even a year old but state officials have cited it a dozen times for environmental violations. That includes what they call “chronic toxicity,” from an unknown chemical used in water treatment that has been piped into the ocean. The company is still trying to identify, isolate and clean it up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Expensive Water\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite their severity, environmental concerns aren’t the main barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In general, one of the big challenges has really been the cost,” says Heather Cooley, an analyst with the \u003ca href=\"http://pacinst.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pacific Institute\u003c/a> in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 30:\u003c/strong> A little behind schedule, most of the Bay Area got a pretty good dousing Sunday morning from a fast-moving storm that's now moved across the Central Valley and into the Sierra Nevada.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The highest storm totals for our nine-county region: 1.52 inches at Venado in northern Sonoma County and 1.50 on Mount Umunhum, high above the Santa Clara Valley in the Santa Cruz Mountains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11152664\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 480px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween.png\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-11152664\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween.png\" alt=\"The National Weather Service forecast for Halloween. (Click for full-size image).\" width=\"480\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween-160x138.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween-800x689.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween-240x207.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween-375x323.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2016/10/noaahalloween-520x448.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The National Weather Service forecast for Halloween. (Click for full-size image). \u003ccite>(NOAA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Totals for places where people actually live include .57 of an inch at Charles M. Schulz/Sonoma County Airport in Santa Rosa, .68 in San Rafael, .73 at the Oakland Museum, .37 in downtown San Francisco and .17 at Mineta San Jose International Airport.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And now for a look at the all-important Halloween forecast for Bay Area trick-or-treaters. Another storm -- this one rather anemic compared to what we've seen the last few days -- is forecast to blow through the area late Monday afternoon and into the evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rain should begin first in Sonoma County, then sweep south through the course of the evening. The National Weather Service is forecasting precipitation totals ranging from .39 of an inch in Santa Rosa to .05 in San Jose.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Halloween bottom line: It will be damp, not a deluge.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the storm passes, forecasters say, most of the Bay Area should see a prolonged stretch -- at least a week -- of dry weather.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original post, Friday, Oct. 28:\u003c/strong> It's officially a really wet October in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The warm storm that arrived early Thursday morning gave an unusually even distribution of rain across the region through midday Friday, ranging from nearly an inch at most sea-level locations around San Francisco Bay up to 2 and 3 inches in the Sonoma County hills and Santa Cruz Mountains. (See \u003ca href=\"#raintable\">table\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More remarkably, the latest rains added to already remarkable precipitation totals from \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/10/13/bay-area-to-get-its-first-fall-rain-thanks-to-a-dying-typhoon/\">our mid-October storms\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Santa Cruz County hamlet of Ben Lomond, on Highway 9 in the Santa Cruz Mountains, has topped 12 inches of rain \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/mesowest/timeseries.php?sid=bndC1&num=672\" target=\"_blank\">this month\u003c/a>. That compares to an \u003ca href=\"http://www.wrcc.dri.edu/cgi-bin/cliMAIN.pl?ca0674\" target=\"_blank\">October averag\u003c/a>e, going back to 1937, of 2.76 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Venado -- little more than \u003ca href=\"http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5092497-181/sonoma-county-community-of-venado?artslide=0\" target=\"_blank\">a soggy hillside\u003c/a> in the Russian River watershed west of Healdsburg, has picked up more than 15 inches for the month. And that compares to a normal of. ... Well, I can't find a good data source for that, though the California-Nevada River Forecast Center publishes a data table that purports to show that Venado, hands down the wettest location in the greater Bay Area, averages 2.01 inches in October. Not buying that, but I'll have to figure out a better number.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(And if you want to talk about someplace that's really moist, let's talk about the Gasquet Ranger Station, on the Smith River in Del Norte County, up in the northwest corner of the state. Gasquet has gotten a dumping of 24.52 inches this month. It's normal rainfall for October is 5.60 inches.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less dramatically, San Francisco International Airport has seen 1.93 inches since the first of the month, almost exactly double the 30-year normal of .97 inches. Downtown San Francisco has gotten 2.31 inches, compared to a normal of 1.12 inches for October. The rain gauge at the Oakland Museum has recorded 2.70 inches, against the norm of 1.37 inches.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We're likely to see those totals grow significantly over the final three days of the month. The National Weather Service says a pair of storms are due to arrive over the next several days.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The first is expected to move into northern Sonoma County by late Saturday afternoon and bring rain to the entire region by Sunday morning. Rainfall totals are expected to range from a quarter-inch to half-inch in most of the central Bay Area and up to 2 inches in the hills north and south of the bay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Forecasters say the Saturday night-Sunday storm will be a snow maker, too, dumping about a foot of snow on Donner Pass (Interstate 80) and Echo Summit (U.S. 50), both about 7,200 feet above sea level. Several feet of snow are possible at higher elevations throughout the northern Sierra.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the weekend rain, a fast-moving storm is expected to bring more rain Monday evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick rundown of 48-hour precipitation totals through midday Friday, Oct. 28:\u003c/p>\n\u003ctable class=\"tg\">\n\u003ctbody>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">\u003cstrong>Location\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">\u003cstrong>Amount\u003c/strong>\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">Venado (Sonoma County)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">3.52\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">Soquel (Santa Cruz County)\u003c/td>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">2.29\u003c/td>\n\u003c/tr>\n\u003ctr>\n\u003ctd class=\"tg-baqh\">Henry Coe State Park (E. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s been a brutal forest fire season in California. But there’s actually a greater threat to California’s trees — the state’s record-setting drought. The lack of water has killed at least 60 million trees in the past four years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scientists are struggling to understand which trees are most vulnerable to drought and how to keep the survivors alive. To that end, they’re sending human climbers and flying drones into the treetops, in a novel biological experiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From a distance, the forests of the Sierra Nevada look blotchy, with patches of dead trees standing right next to healthy green ones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.werc.usgs.gov/person.aspx?personid=138\">Nate Stephenson\u003c/a>, an ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, says the drought and high heat combine to do things he hasn’t seen before. “We don’t really understand a lot of things,” he says, “like exactly how a drought kills a tree, or what’s going on underground. Where is the water flowing in areas we can’t see?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Stephenson and his team of ecologists pull into a designated spot in the mountains, near Sequoia National Park, with truckloads of equipment they’ll have to carry in. Their mission: to find out what separates the surviving trees from the dead. Their ultimate destination is down a steep slope — through a blanket of pine needles, rotting tree limbs and a few yellow-jacket nests they are careful not to walk on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The walk is worth it. Looming above is Odin, a green and thriving \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/seki/learn/nature/bigtrees.htm\">giant sequoia\u003c/a> that’s more than 1,600 years old. The top is 250 feet up. Its base is as wide as a city street. Odin was a sapling when Rome was still an empire and, for some reason, it and many other sequoias are resisting this drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hopes of finding clues to Odin’s survival, \u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/directory/detail/5622/\">Cameron Williams\u003c/a>, a researcher with the University of California, Berkeley, is heading up to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider myself a forest canopy biologist,” Williams says as he buckles on a climbing harness festooned with clips, carabiners, and an ascender — a kind of a clamp attached to the rope he will use to climb up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He practices his emergency communication system: “Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” he yells, then laughs. Williams can joke because he’s done this so many times. He and his climbing partner, \u003ca href=\"https://nature.berkeley.edu/dawsonlab/people/rikke-reese-naesborg/\">Rikke Naesborg\u003c/a>, also a research scientist at UC Berkeley, have spent hundreds of hours up in this tree. They take meticulous measurements, limb by limb, as though studying a patient etherized on a table. “Every single branch,” says Naesborg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She takes notes dangling from the rope. “You get used to it,” she says. They check the tree’s growth rate, and how much moisture is in each branch and in the needles and cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very laborious,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/dawsont\">Todd Dawson\u003c/a>, the plant ecologist from UC Berkeley who is in charge of the expedition, says what’s happening to these forests is shocking and abnormal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot more dead trees in this forest than I’ve ever seen since we’ve been working here — since 2008,” Dawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1112768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1112768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2.jpg\" alt=\"Left: Dawson's team is experimenting with drones, which capture images of light reflected off the canopy. This light helps scientists get a sense of how stressed the tree is. Right: Rikke Naesborg (left) and Cameron Williams have spent hundred of hours in Odin's branches, taking measurements. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Dawson’s team is experimenting with drones, which capture images of light reflected off the canopy. This light helps scientists get a sense of how stressed the tree is. Right: Rikke Naesborg (left) and Cameron Williams have spent hundred of hours in Odin’s branches, taking measurements. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dawson is like an epidemiologist — studying disease in a large population. In this case, the patients are trees. There are far too many to be able to climb each one, so while some members of the team take Odin’s measurements, Dawson is going to experiment with another approach. He’ll fly a drone around the giant sequoia — carefully avoiding branches on every side — and take detailed images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time for all of us,” says drone jockey Tom Jennings, who works for a company called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cloudd8ta.com/author/tomcloudd8ta-com/\">CloudD8TA\u003c/a>. “So we’re taking our time and trying to be very cautious. We’re dealing with the canopy, and that’s a new hazard that I’m not used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drones will fly to the top of the tree and then down around it in a spiral, taking many different sorts of images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the team hopes to do is compare what the climbers see with what the drones reveal. If drones can diagnose a tree as well as a climber can, they could cover a whole forest much faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black drone rises from the ground, equipped with sophisticated cameras. It’s about 3-feet square and looks like something Darth Vader would have on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It records, basically, the reflected light off the canopy,” Dawson explains. “And that reflected light give us the health of the crown itself — water content and other chemicals like chlorophyll content, which is related to photosynthesis and nitrogen content.” These readings reflect how stressed the tree is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the drone slowly descends from the top of Odin, Williams pulls himself up the tree, on a rope the size of his pinky finger. He narrates his climb into a microphone clipped to his shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we just reached 160ish feet above the ground,” Williams says. “Looks like a long way down there, and I can hear a drone overhead. Sounds like a giant bee’s nest. Looking around the landscape you can really see a lot of dead trees. Wow. There are hundreds — potentially thousands — of dead trees I can see in this one view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, from these sorts of measurements, Dawson has found that forests at low and mid-elevations — pine trees, fir, cedar — are suffering the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1112772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1112772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom.jpg\" alt=\"A patch of brown, dying trees stands out against the sky and treeline of Sequoia National Park. \" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-375x280.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A patch of brown, dying trees stands out against the sky and treeline of Sequoia National Park. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drought and heat can choke a tree to death, scientists have found, by causing gas bubbles to form in the trunk, and block the flow of water. The stressed trees also close their stomata — the pores they respire through in the leaves and needles. That conserves moisture, but at a high cost. They can’t take in the carbon dioxide they need to survive. In other cases, beetles detect the weak trees and single them out — like predators taking wounded prey on the Serengeti.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So how are giant sequoias like Odin different? It could be that sequoias tend grow where there’s more groundwater, Dawson says. Or maybe it’s the way they shed needles when stressed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Understanding how different species of trees respond is already helping scientists focus their rescue efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For starters, you might thin the forest in places, removing some small trees and underbrush, Stephenson says. Having fewer straws sucking water out of the ground, means more water, more light and more nutrients for the biggest trees in the landscape, he says. And that would help the survivors weather future environmental stresses.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California’s current drought is disaster, but also a huge natural experiment, the forest ecologists say. Any lessons they can glean from studying Odin — going strong despite the drought — could help them save the rest of the forest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=How+Is+A+1%2C600-Year-Old+Tree+Weathering+California%27s+Drought%3F&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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Odin was a sapling when Rome was still an empire and, for some reason, it and many other sequoias are resisting this drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In hopes of finding clues to Odin’s survival, \u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/directory/detail/5622/\">Cameron Williams\u003c/a>, a researcher with the University of California, Berkeley, is heading up to the top.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I consider myself a forest canopy biologist,” Williams says as he buckles on a climbing harness festooned with clips, carabiners, and an ascender — a kind of a clamp attached to the rope he will use to climb up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He practices his emergency communication system: “Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh,” he yells, then laughs. Williams can joke because he’s done this so many times. He and his climbing partner, \u003ca href=\"https://nature.berkeley.edu/dawsonlab/people/rikke-reese-naesborg/\">Rikke Naesborg\u003c/a>, also a research scientist at UC Berkeley, have spent hundreds of hours up in this tree. They take meticulous measurements, limb by limb, as though studying a patient etherized on a table. “Every single branch,” says Naesborg.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She takes notes dangling from the rope. “You get used to it,” she says. They check the tree’s growth rate, and how much moisture is in each branch and in the needles and cones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s very, very laborious,” Williams says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ib.berkeley.edu/people/faculty/dawsont\">Todd Dawson\u003c/a>, the plant ecologist from UC Berkeley who is in charge of the expedition, says what’s happening to these forests is shocking and abnormal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are a lot more dead trees in this forest than I’ve ever seen since we’ve been working here — since 2008,” Dawson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1112768\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1112768\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2.jpg\" alt=\"Left: Dawson's team is experimenting with drones, which capture images of light reflected off the canopy. This light helps scientists get a sense of how stressed the tree is. Right: Rikke Naesborg (left) and Cameron Williams have spent hundred of hours in Odin's branches, taking measurements. \" width=\"800\" height=\"449\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-768x431.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-240x135.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-375x210.jpg 375w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-duo2-520x292.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Left: Dawson’s team is experimenting with drones, which capture images of light reflected off the canopy. This light helps scientists get a sense of how stressed the tree is. Right: Rikke Naesborg (left) and Cameron Williams have spent hundred of hours in Odin’s branches, taking measurements. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Dawson is like an epidemiologist — studying disease in a large population. In this case, the patients are trees. There are far too many to be able to climb each one, so while some members of the team take Odin’s measurements, Dawson is going to experiment with another approach. He’ll fly a drone around the giant sequoia — carefully avoiding branches on every side — and take detailed images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is the first time for all of us,” says drone jockey Tom Jennings, who works for a company called \u003ca href=\"http://www.cloudd8ta.com/author/tomcloudd8ta-com/\">CloudD8TA\u003c/a>. “So we’re taking our time and trying to be very cautious. We’re dealing with the canopy, and that’s a new hazard that I’m not used to.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The drones will fly to the top of the tree and then down around it in a spiral, taking many different sorts of images.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What the team hopes to do is compare what the climbers see with what the drones reveal. If drones can diagnose a tree as well as a climber can, they could cover a whole forest much faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The black drone rises from the ground, equipped with sophisticated cameras. It’s about 3-feet square and looks like something Darth Vader would have on his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It records, basically, the reflected light off the canopy,” Dawson explains. “And that reflected light give us the health of the crown itself — water content and other chemicals like chlorophyll content, which is related to photosynthesis and nitrogen content.” These readings reflect how stressed the tree is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the drone slowly descends from the top of Odin, Williams pulls himself up the tree, on a rope the size of his pinky finger. He narrates his climb into a microphone clipped to his shirt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So we just reached 160ish feet above the ground,” Williams says. “Looks like a long way down there, and I can hear a drone overhead. Sounds like a giant bee’s nest. Looking around the landscape you can really see a lot of dead trees. Wow. There are hundreds — potentially thousands — of dead trees I can see in this one view.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, from these sorts of measurements, Dawson has found that forests at low and mid-elevations — pine trees, fir, cedar — are suffering the most.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_1112772\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1112772\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/science/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom.jpg\" alt=\"A patch of brown, dying trees stands out against the sky and treeline of Sequoia National Park. \" width=\"400\" height=\"299\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-240x179.jpg 240w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2016/10/trees-3_custom-375x280.jpg 375w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A patch of brown, dying trees stands out against the sky and treeline of Sequoia National Park. \u003ccite>(Chris Joyce/NPR)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Drought and heat can choke a tree to death, scientists have found, by causing gas bubbles to form in the trunk, and block the flow of water. 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