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Category Archives: geomorphology
Scenic Saturday: Upper Mississippi Islands
The last few weeks have seen me overwhelmingly busy with #sciwrite, #gradingjail, #proposalpurgatory, and #deathbydataanalysis, and it doesn’t look like I’ll come up for air for a little while longer. But to give the blog a little freshening, and help … Continue reading
Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, photos
Scenic Saturday: from desert to verdant grassland in 10 miles (and 1000 m)
Why large climatic contrasts occur over short distances on Hawaii – and why this is scientifically important. Continue reading
Categories: geomorphology, outcrops, photos, volcanoes
Scenic Saturday: The Temple
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
Categories: by Anne, fieldwork, geomorphology, hydrology, photos
Scenic Saturday: The pretty side of stream restoration
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: Mammoth Cave, where surface water and groundwater meet
It’s that wonderful time of year, as one semester finally gives up the fight and a new one waits in the shadows, pouncing on unsuspecting students and faculty just as they breathe a sigh of that they’ve won the first … Continue reading
Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology
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
Scenic Saturday: Whitewater rafting in Charlotte, North Carolina.
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
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
One recipe for flooding: Take a tropical cyclone and add steep topography
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
