Category Archives: environment

Scenic Saturday: The pretty side of stream restoration

Posted on February 4, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Some days, working in restored urban streams is quite enjoyable. The picture below is one of our field sites for a multi-year study of the downstream effects of stormwater management. This is Edwards Branch, and it is one of the … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, fieldwork, geomorphology, photos

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

When a tree falls in a stream, there’s always something around to make use of it.

Posted on June 24, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Allochthonous may have some obscure usage related to rocks, but in ecology, allochthonous material is a major concept that underpins thinking about nutrient cycling and food web dynamics. In its most general definition, allochthonous material is something imported into an … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, photos

New at Erratics – Biofuels: What would you say you do here?

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Will Dalen Rice finishes his series on the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, by talking about the state of biofuels technology: Although there is still significant future distance to travel, the technology had come a long way. The leader of the … Continue reading →

Categories: conferences, environment, links

New at Erratics – Biofuels: We Need the Money

Posted on May 20, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Will Dalen Rice continues his series on the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, by talking about the ins and outs of financing biofuel development: The ALBC was more of a business conference than it was a technology conference. Many technologies have … Continue reading →

Categories: conferences, environment, links

New at Erratics – Biofuels: state of the science and industry

Posted on May 16, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Will Dalen Rice becomes our fourth contributor to Earth Science Erratics with the first of three posts on The Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, held in Washington, DC in April. Will offers the newbie’s perspective on the state of the biofuels … Continue reading →

Categories: conferences, environment, links

Snow days

Posted on February 3, 2011 by Chris Rowan

Snowed in in Chicago – even a city with a fleet of 300 snow ploughs has its limits… Continue reading →

Categories: environment, photos, society

Ten million feet upon the stair

Posted on January 4, 2011 by Chris Rowan

During my time in Edinburgh, I lived in an apartment in a nice old tenement building: several floors of individual flats, all connected by an internal communal staircase. The building is at least a century old, and because this was … Continue reading →

Categories: deep time, environment, geomorphology

The Gulf of Mexico spill is bad enough without turning it into a disaster movie

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Debunking the methanepocalypse. Do we really need to pretend we’re in a Michael Bay movie? Continue reading →

Categories: environment, geohazards

Today’s Hot Topic? Bottled Water

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

On this hot, hot day, when much of the eastern United States is beset by a record-breaking heat wave, what could be more refreshing than a nice cold, fresh bottle of water? After all, that’s exactly what is recommended by … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, ranting