joel sholtes

River Scientist, Hydraulic Engineer, Civil Engineering Professor, Lover of the Hydrologic Cycle.

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@GJCity I hope that this is not the final street view of this new commercial development on Horizon and G.

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@cprwarner hoping we can be there!

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

The snow is melting, our rivers are up.... but we've only melted 20% of the measured snowpack in the Upper CO River Basin #UCRB (higher elevation). Just getting started... hang on to your hats! @USDA_NRCS @NWSGJT

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@denversnow Let it #snow!!! (It takes above median snowpack to get median runoff these days 🙄)

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@NYTGames I’ve recently become addicted to #Wordle. Just a note from a fan: can we avoid the adjectives? Please? So many five letter words out there that don’t end in “y”. 🙏🏼

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

PS. If you haven’t read this novel and you are interested in water in the West, check it out for a wild read that alludes to many of the storylines playing out now. #coloradoriverbasin

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

Are we on our way to @paolobacigalupi ‘s dystopian vision of the West under a permanent megadrought in The Water Knife? Maybe not, but our growth will have to get a lot “smarter”. https://t.co/YzFZMMnx92

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

I’m adding a week or so on sediment to my hydraulic engineering course. I feel like undergrad civil students are not exposed to designing infrastructure with erosion/deposition in mind. Thoughts on what to cover??? #civilengineering #sediment #fluvialgeomorphology

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@LukeRunyon Wait… the CAP is a trans (ish) basin diversion. What other basins??? Don’t look that the Rio Grande… Gulf of California?

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@6figga_dilla at #AGU2022 connecting history and science. Racial covenants (blacks and browns can’t buy or lease in some neighborhoods) and which were split by highways, leading to environmental justice movement that started here. Know your history -> inform your science.

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@rodlammers Using this in hydrology class tomorrow. Thanks for turning me on to this activity. My students always struggle with UH.

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

This is like how our weather forecast for Grand Junction last month predicted mid to high 90s when we ended up with 100+ degree days. Data from the cooler, wetter past may be biasing our models and predictions.

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

Projections of Lake Powell levels (many different outcomes) with the top 90%, 50%, and 10% predictions highlighted. Andy Mueller of @ColoradoWater points out that the in the river reality is often that 10% (red) outcome bc our models are based on a wetter past. 10% = 50% now(?)

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

Just posted a photo @ Grand Junction, Colorado https://t.co/FQs9U4qwFG

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@pogo15 Kari and Saul caught this downstream. Right by our house!

[KKCO 11 News @KKCO11News]

VIDEO: A flash flood near Lunch Loops. Have you ever seen a flash flood before?

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

Learn about the Colorado Fluvial (Geomorphic) Hazard Mapping Program in a newly produced intro video: https://t.co/qbZqw9FNmi via @YouTube @CWCB_DNR @femaregion8 @CasfmOrg @ASFPMfoundation #floods #naturalhazards #hazards #fluvialgeomorphology #rivers

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

@ColoradoWater's State of the River on #coloradoriver water supply. This is @bradudall and @GreatLakesPeck's Hot Drought! (Also when do we stop calling this the megadrought and just new normal w/ climate change? @peedublya et al. say it's ~ 50% climate change & 50% megadrought).

[Peter Skidmore @restoringrivers]

Even Colorado's Largest Wildfire Was No Match For Beavers https://t.co/Usq0kV1BjZ #naturalinfrastructure #riverrestoration

[joel sholtes @jsholtes]

I've been a long time permanent daylight savings (yes I use an s) time proponent until Prof. Wright laid out the research supporting permanent standard time. Let's do it @GovofCO! Permanent MST for CO!
https://t.co/Ta5VaS1mcg