Hands-on research connects classrooms with local conservation efforts The Cottonwood School District has partnered with Friends of the Verde River to launch an exciting new educational initiative: the Verde Watershed Fellowship Research Project. This program offers students a unique opportunity to engage in hands-on, real-world science while helping protect one of Arizona’s most important natural […]
Recently on a field trip to Montezuma Well, Dr. Larry Stevens, Director of the Springs Stewardship Institute, explained that it took up to 13,000 years for water to flow underground from the San Francisco Peaks to the well and theoretically the water in well could possibly include mastodon DNA. That opened a larger discussion of […]
An impressive 48,000 physical and online attendees from 130 countries participated in Esri’s 43rd annual user conference. One of the online attendees included Shannon Murphy from Friends of the Verde River. This conference provides education and resources for geographic information systems (GIS) users. The conference theme “GIS – Creating the World You Want to See” […]
Why is this study important? It represents a critical first step in characterizing the streamflow requirements of habitat and wildlife along the Verde River. Haney, J.A., Turner, D.S., Springer, A.E., Stromberg, J.C., Stevens, L.E., Pearthree, P.A., and Supplee, V., 2008, Ecological Implications of Verde River flows: A report by the Arizona Water Institute, The Nature […]
Why is this study important? This modern geologic map synthesizes the work of dozens of geologists over decades into a unified, comprehensive map of the upper and middle Verde River watersheds. DeWitt, Ed, Langenheim, Victoria, Force, Eric, Vance, R.K., Lindberg, P.A., and Driscoll, R.L., 2008, Geologic map of the Prescott National Forest and the headwaters […]
Why is this study important? It represents the most recent published groundwater-flow model analysis specifically for the Little Chino Sub-basin. Timmons, Daniel, and Springer, Abe, 2006, Prescott AMA model update report: Arizona Department of Water Resources, 77 p. In 1995, the Arizona Department of Water Resources developed a regional groundwater-flow model to quantify the impacts […]
Why is this study important? This report combines data collected from boring deep narrow holes into the ground with new aeromagnetic and gravity measurements. This combination of data provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the thickness, shape, and boundaries of basin-fill aquifers of the Big Chino, Little Chino, and Verde Valley sub-basins. Langenheim, […]
Why is this study important? The report applies multiple lines of evidence to examine contributions to the baseflow of the upper Verde River. It concludes that the Little Chino aquifer provides approximately 14 percent and the Big Chino aquifer system provides between 80 and 86 percent of the Verde River baseflow measured at the Paulden […]
Why is this study important? This report represents several years of fieldwork and analysis by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Arizona Department of Water Resources. It provides well-documented, fundamental geologic and hydrologic information essential to the more recent development of the northern Arizona regional groundwater-flow model. Blasch, K.W., Hoffmann, J.P., Graser, L.F., Bryson, J.R., […]
Why is this study important? This is a brief summary and explanation of the more comprehensive report by Leake and Pool (2010). It is written in a style with the general public in mind, rather than an audience of scientists. Leake, S.A., and Haney, Jeanmarie, 2010, Possible effects of groundwater pumping on surface water in […]
