Tag Archives: hydrology

Measuring precipitation: rain gauges and point precipitation data sources

Posted on March 11, 2020 by Anne Jefferson

As watershed hydrologists, we care a lot about precipitation, especially when it reaches the land surface (or the vegetation just above it). Precipitation is the dominant input to our water balances and a major driver of streamflow and water table … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, teaching

Where is Anne at AGU?

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

I’ve abandoned my family for the week and flown to San Francisco to join ~26,000 geoscientists at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting. It’s a big, spectacular, and exciting meeting, and I might have gotten a little too excited about … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, conferences

Stormwater management is all around you. Can you #SpotTheSCM?

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

On Thursday of @highlyanne’s week @realscientists, she was putting finishing touches on a research proposal to do new, cool science on stormwater managment. She also wanted to get people to realize that stormwater managment is already happening in their neighborhoods, so #SpotTheSCM was born. Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, public science

What is stormwater? And how did we get to where we are today?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

For a week in October 2016, I had over 38,000 twitter followers as I took a turn hosting the @realscientists account. Of course, I spent a bunch of my time preaching the gospel of stormwater management. Here are tweets over two days synopsizing its history in 140 character bites. Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology

Happy New Water Year! For hydrologists, it’s already 2013.

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

There’s nothing particularly deterministic about starting a new year on January 1st. Our wall calendars happen to do so because of the circumstances of history. For hydrologists in the northern hemisphere, January 1st is not a great time to declare … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology