Berkeley, Monday August 27, 2018 9:35 PM Starting the second week of the Fall semester. The following topics that this post I will cover today in this post: Discipline / schedule. Short meal save time and weight as well. Stay active by working, writing, making calculations, reading, summarizing, and the brain activates over the day […]
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 […]
Back to tennis and a quick overview on my sports history
Berkeley, Saturday August 25, 2018 5:47 PM Today, I went back to the tennis courts after 24 days of stop. Since the beginning of Spring 2018, I have been playing tennis quite consistently once or twice per week. My stop was because I went to the woods, at Sagehen Creek Research Field Station, for 7 […]
Figuring out actions and times to call it a day and to have a productive next day
Berkeley, Friday, August 24, 2018. 2:40 PM After a productive week, I stayed working yesterday until midnight. Part of the plan was to post an assignment later in the night. I already posted some work and instructions. A friend organized a seminar on campus today about the relationships between cities and rivers across time throughout […]
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 […]
Water cycle in California (simplified version)
“The amount of precipitation that falls in California has not varied significantly between the time of European contact and the present. Annual rainfall and snowfall produce approximately 200 million acre-feet”, which is equivalent to 250 billion cubic meters per year. “Most of this precipitation, about 65 percent, evaporates directly into the atmosphere, with nearly all […]
An adequate sleep is key for productive
Energy and discipline and gained by training. The body adapt to high pressure situations. In a current life, where we get a lot of noise with cellphone and technology, it is key to pay attention to small details that would boost our productivity. When I am tired a night in my dorm, perhaps about sleeping […]
Schedule and brunch
Berkeley, Saturday August 18, 2018 While this is a website to talk about my research or related issues, I also would like to write about my personal life. Writing is an art and a process for thinking clearly. While I have had been almost in a daily basis for 7 months now, I have not […]
