Animal Agriculture and the Environment Team at Michigan State University has just released their latest "The Scoop" newsletter with a nice article titled Tracking the Raindrop Can Help Manage Runoff. The article explores farmscape to watershed runoff - and how the hydrologic characteristics of the raindrop can help reveal landscape level tendencies for increased environmental emissions. Check it out at: " http://animalagteam.msu.edu/BackflowPreventionandBoomSprayerCalibrationW/July2009Scoop/Trackingtheraindrop/tabid/362/Default.aspx