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May 12, 2014
KTSM - NBC - “The plan can’t make there be more water in the aquifer,” said Ken Rainwater, a professor at Texas Tech University in Lubbock who specializes in water resources management. Residents may hope that current levels of farming in the Southern High Plains can continue through 2060 and even expand, he said, but “that’s just not going to happen.”
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May 12, 2014
Tech Investor News - Today the very big technical news for me is dual-doppler meteorology radar applied to create very high precision wind maps of operational wind farms. Brian Hirth of the Texas Tech University and his team have applied technology typically used for high-accuracy real time imaging of storm fronts to wind farms. Before I arrived in Vegas, I didn’t expect that radar would turn out to be the most exciting story of the week, but at least from a technical perspective it is. ...
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May 8, 2014
Yahoo! News - Even though the nation's average temperature has risen by between 1.3 and 1.9 degrees since record-keeping began in 1895, it's in the big, wild weather where the average person feels climate change the most, said co-author Katharine Hayhoe, a Texas Tech University climate scientist.
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May 8, 2014
Chronicle of Higher Education - At least one university leader shares that view and hopes that Rutgers’s loss will be his institution’s gain. Just two days after Ms. Rice said that she would bow out of speaking at Rutgers so that she wouldn’t be a 'distraction' at the ceremony, the chancellor of Texas Tech University, Kent R. Hance, sent her an invitation to speak at one of three graduation ceremonies coming up there over the next year. The first opportunity would be on August 9 at the university's summer commencement.
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