Category Archives: fieldwork

Scenic Saturday: The Temple

Posted on March 10, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Right now I have a graduate student working on a project to understand the effects of stream restoration in altering patterns of groundwater-stream exchange. She’s working in four stream reaches with varying restoration patterns and watershed land uses. In one … Continue reading →

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

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 →

Scenic Saturday: Year End Reflections

Posted on December 31, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

The last day of the year saw me doing field work in my very favorite spot in North Carolina, a short drive from Charlotte which takes me to a place that feels worlds away. I was collecting the final dataset … Continue reading →

Our Highly Allochthonous travels in 2011

Posted on December 29, 2011 by Chris Rowan

As 2011 draws to a close, ’tis the season for retrospectives, and we’re surprised that no-one this year seems to have started up the travel meme that has been so popular in the geoblogosphere in the past. After all, it … Continue reading →

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Backyard science: isotope hydrology style

Posted on April 14, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

A few days ago, someone asked me whether I’d done any Citizen Science projects with my 4 year old daughter. I said “no”, but then spouted off a couple of projects I was looking forward to starting in the next … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, fieldwork, hydrology

When it rains a lot and the mountains fall down

Posted on May 29, 2010 by Anne Jefferson

Warm heavy rainfall + glaciers + steep mountain flanks + exposed unconsolidated sediments are a recipe for debris flows in the Cascades Range. Let me tell you the story of one.
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Macro rock photography with the iPhone

Posted on May 8, 2010 by Chris Rowan

and a little help from a hand lens…
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Oman’s view of the Snowball Earth

Posted on March 27, 2010 by Chris Rowan

Evidence from my field area of extreme climatic fluctuations 700 million years ago – but does it support the notion that the whole planet froze over?
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