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- On And the ScienceSeeker Award for best physics, astronomy, or earth science post goes to…:
- Silver Fox: Very nice! Read
- Carol Jefferson: Most excellent, Chris. Read
- Chenjian: Cool! Congratulations! Read
- Eric Bilderback: As noted in other comments, the three axis plot is a graphical representation of some of the... Read
- Damian Grant: This is exactly the representation of risk used in the risk literature, where Vulnerability is... Read
- Gaythia Weis: I agree that vulnerability is key. This could be quite useful in such things as future development... Read
- Anne Jefferson: The Pennsylvania and Ohio canal was constructed around 1840 and went out of use in ~1857. A... Read
- Lab Lemming: How long since the locks were navigated? They look early 1800′s from the channel size. Read
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Author Archives: Anne Jefferson
Happy New Water Year! For hydrologists, it’s already 2013.
There’s nothing particularly deterministic about starting a new year on January 1st. Our wall calendars happen to do so because of the circumstances of history. For hydrologists in the northern hemisphere, January 1st is not a great time to declare … Continue reading
An Ohio Geo-Puzzle
I had the good fortune of going out in the woods a few days ago with colleagues here at Kent State University. We were in a second growth forest, probably fairly typical for this part of northeastern Ohio. The upland … Continue reading
The view from two weeks in
Over the summer, people asked me whether I was taking the summer off, and I had to explain to them that it wasn’t so much that I had a new job, as that I was simply moving my old job … Continue reading
In slow-moving hurricanes, the danger comes from all the water
When Hurricane Isaac passed over New Orleans as a Category 1 storm on the seventh anniversary of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina, everyone in the US let out a big sigh of relief. A category 1 storm, the lowest level of … Continue reading
Stuff we linked to on Twitter last week
Actually, two weeks’ worth here – and mainly from Anne, since Chris has been on Twitter vacation (despite Anne probably being the more busy out of us…). Enjoy! Volcanoes Ten swimming pools of travel chaos. Only a tiny volume of … Continue reading
