Vim, tennis, not good sleep, or what took away my energy from Saturday to Sunday morning?

Berkeley, Sunday August 26, 2018 11:40 PM Before the day ends, I must fulfill my daily writing challenge. Soon, I will split my research webpage and my personal blog on two pages. I founded SOWAMAR last year, on October 26, 2017. The story behind is beautiful, while Sowamar means Soil and Water Management Research. There […]

Dams and reduction of water storage capacity

Excerpt from the description of a colloquium that I am organizing on Water Infrastructure: There are 59,000 dams in the world; 1,400 in the state of California alone. While these dams provide fundamental services, such as irrigation (36% of the dams), hydropower (17%), water supply (15%), flood control (13%), recreation (8%), and the remaining part […]

The power of praying

There are many things in life where we would be able to solve by rational and analytical analysis. However, how those situations have come to our life does not necessarily depends on us. I pray to God to give the courage to change the things I can; the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; […]

First day of teaching

Today, it was my first day teaching at UC Berkeley. Although the class it quite simple because it is a colloquium of series about Rivers and Water Infrastructure, the schedule of series of lectures is not fully finished yet. So I did not handed in that part, which is the core of the course. I […]