Category Archives: by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Wood in Streams

Posted on November 12, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

One of our field trips in my Fluvial Processes class takes the students to the lower reaches of Mallard Creek, the urban stream that drains the northern portion of Charlotte, including our campus. For most of its length, Mallard Creek … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, geomorphology, photos, publication, science education

Writing Challenge, Week 1: Are you making progress?

Posted on November 6, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

It’s been a week since I issued the initial challenge to join me in a month-ish of intense writing activity. I’ve seen use of the #sciwrite hashtag pick up on Twitter, and 41 of you have now publicly committed to … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Whitewater rafting in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

This semester I am teaching a class on fluvial (river) processes that encompasses aspects of both hydrology and geomorphology. One of my goals is to take my students to as many of sizes and shapes of river as possible over … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology, science education

Scenic Saturday: Minnesota, Land of Lakes

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

In Minnesota, two Saturdays ago, the weather was ridiculously warm, but the trees knew it was autumn and were well into their fall foliage fireworks. It was the perfect afternoon to enjoy a walk around one of Minnesota’s most famous … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, photos, Pleistocene

Show me the data!

Posted on October 3, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Some of my favorite memories of interacting with my Ph.D. advisor involve long sessions at our conference table, looking at data. I’d come to these sessions armed with many graphs showing data I’d collected and different ways of displaying relationships … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Lyme Regis

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Two-hundred years ago, a young woman by the name of Mary Anning walked along this shore, using her keenly self-trained observation skills to spot fossils eroding out of these cliffs. The cliffs are the blue Lias, Jurassic mudstones filled with … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, fossils, outcrops, photos

Scenic Saturday: Pinnacle in the Piedmont

Posted on September 17, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The peak of Big Pinnacle at Pilot Mountain State Park rises more than 450 m above the surrounding North Carolina Piedmont. Big Pinnacle is just the most eye-catching of series of peaks, called the Sauratown Mountains, that are a tectonic … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geology, hydrology

One recipe for flooding: Take a tropical cyclone and add steep topography

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The past few weeks have brought two tropical cyclones* to the eastern seaboard of the United States. They serve nicely to illustrate the topographic controls on flood generation that we were been talking about in my Fluvial Processes class recently. … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, geomorphology, hydrology

Call For Posts, Accretionary Wedge #38: Back to School

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

‘Tis the season when professors write their syllabi and lead their first classes, when students decide whether to take that elective in geophysics or the one in hydrogeology, and when professional and armchair geologists…well, I don’t know what they do, … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Ropy pahoehoe on a biogenic beach

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

In this inaugural Scenic Saturday post, I offer up very happy volcano/landscape nerd enjoying the stunning geologic scenery on Isabella, Galápagos Islands, July 2011. I was there as a participant in the Chapman Conference on the Galápagos as a Laboratory … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology, photos, volcanoes