John Fleck

John Fleck is director of the University of New Mexico's Water Resources Program. Fleck is Professor of Practice in water policy and governance in the university's Department of Economics and has been the Water Resources Program's writer-in-residence since January 2015. For 25 years, he covered science and the environment for The Albuquerque Journal. He is author of The Tree Rings’ Tale, a children’s book about the climate of the West. 

My book is now a thing that exists in the physical world

By John Fleck / On July 26th, 2016
There was a weird moment this afternoon when I was writing something and needed to dig out a reference from my book. (I do this a lot. It’s all there, the book has a lot of footnotes.) For a split second I started to follow the usual path on my hard drive to the final page proofs…. Click…. Pause….

On the need for better water data

By John Fleck / On April 14th, 2016
A student in one of our University of New Mexico Water Resources Program classes asked last week what the magic trick was to finding water data. We’d asked the students to do some really challenging modeling of the flow of water through New Mexico’s Middle Rio Grande watersheds, and one of the biggest difficulties was finding usable data to plug into their models.