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Scenic Saturday: Wood in Streams
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.
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?
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
New at Erratics – Biofuels: We Need the Money
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
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
Snow days
Snowed in in Chicago – even a city with a fleet of 300 snow ploughs has its limits… Continue reading
Ten million feet upon the stair
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
The Gulf of Mexico spill is bad enough without turning it into a disaster movie
Debunking the methanepocalypse. Do we really need to pretend we’re in a Michael Bay movie? Continue reading
Today’s Hot Topic? Bottled Water
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
Urban streams with green walls
For large urban streams, decades of infrastructure development have often pinned the stream into a narrow corridor. There are ways that existing artificial structures can be put to work to mitigate some of the ecological impacts of urbanization.
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