Colorado Water Oct 2005

• Year: 2005
• Title: Colroado Water
• Author: Water Center of Colorado State University
• Description: October 2005 Issue
• Publications - Doc Type: Newsletter

be incomplete without mentioning the family
papers included. Beyond Delph Carpenter, the
collection extends to ancestors, who were Union
Colony pioneers, and offspring, primarily the
late Weld County Judge Donald A. Carpenter.
In -laws and other branches of the family are also
documented through correspondence, diaries,
photographs and personal items such as gradu-
ation announcements and teaching certificates.
The final series in the collection contains the
family's artifacts, including Delph Carpenter's
briefcase. It is well-worn black leather, giving
signs of a hard - working owner.
The finding aid describing the complete contents
of the Carpenter Papers, available for public use
in mid- October, will be on the Water Resources
Archive website at http: / /hb.colostate.edu/
archives /water /. For a printed copy or other
information, contact the author at 970- 491 -1939
or Patricia.Rettig @ColoState.edu.
Next for the Collection
"Much work" has been done, but that is not to
say it is finished. The collection will be used to
create exhibits, both physical and virtual. Ad-
ditionally, portions of the collection will be
digitized as time and money allow. Any virtual
exhibits or searchable digitized documents cre-
ated will be available on the Water Resources
Archive's website.
Next up though is an event! To celebrate the
opening of the Carpenter Papers, the Water Re-
sources Archive is hosting a reception at Morgan
Library on Friday, November 18, 2005, at 4:30
p.m. Featuring exhibits and brief talks by archi-
vist Patty Rettig and author Dan Tyler, it will be
the perfect opportunity to find out more about
the collection and Delph Carpenter. See the box
on the previous page for more information.
Drought 2002 Topic of Article by Colorado Researchers
n article entitled "Drought 2002 in
Colorado: An Unprecedented Drought
or a Routine Drought ?" is available from
http://springerlink.com. The 2002 drought
in Colorado was reported by the media and by
public figures, and even by a national drought-
monitoring agency, as an exceptionally severe
drought. In this paper we examine evidence
for this claim. Our study shows that, while the
impacts of water shortages were exceptional
everywhere, the observed precipitation deficit
was less than extreme
over a good fraction of
the state. A likely expla-
nation of this discrepancy
is the imbalance between
water supply and water
demand over tithe. For
a given level of water
supply, water shortages
become intensified as
water demands increase
over time. The sobering
conclusion is that Colo-
rado is more vulnerable
to drought today than
under similar precipitation deficits in the past.
The article was written by Roger Pielke, Nolan
Doesken, Odilia Bliss, Tara Green, and Jose Salas
of Colorado State University along with Clara
Chaffin at University of Idaho, Connie Wood-
house and Klaus Wolter of NOAA, and Jeffrey
Lukas of University of Colorado.
Pure appl. geophys.162 (2005) 1455 -1479
0033 - 4553/05/091455 -25
DOI 10.1007/ s00024 -005- 2679 -6
Pure and Applied Geophysics
University of Colorado at Denver and Health Sciences Center
Downtown Denver - Continuing Engineering Education Program
Introduction to Paleohydrology
Thursday and Friday, November 3 and 4, 2005;
8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Auraria Campus, Downtown Denver
For more information go to: www.cudenver.edu /engineer /cont