Legendary fluvial geomorphologist Reds Wolman once said “Floods come from too much water,” and that’s the phenomenon distilled to its core essence. But this bit of wisdom doesn’t give us much to go on if we want to understand what creates floods or why some areas are more flood-prone than …
The Watershed Hydrology Lab will be at the Geological Society of America annual meeting in early November. Anne will be giving a talk in the session on “Human Alterations of Landscape Connectivity” on Sunday, November 4th from 10:55-11:10 am. The session (which she’s also co-convening) at the Indiana Convention Center …
Two Graduate Assistantships to study urban streams We are seeking two graduate assistants for an NSF-funded collaborative project aimed at understanding how stormwater management decisions translate to hydrologic and environmental outcomes in urban streams in Cleveland (Ohio) and Denver (Colorado). These funded graduate student researchers will join an interdisciplinary team …
Garrett Blauch defended his MS thesis on “Abundance, Mobility, and Geomorphic Effects of Large Wood in Urban Streams” on June 19, 2018. He then won 3rd place in the University Council on Water Resources conference poster competition less than two weeks later. Garrett spent hundreds of hours in 11 stream …
Green infrastructure, groundwater and the sustainable city Larry Band, Institute for the Environment at University of North Carolina Watershed context and the evolution of urban streams Derek Booth, Bren School of Environmental Management at UC Santa Barbara The Little Stringybark Creek project Tim Fletcher, University of Melbourne Contaminants of emerging …
Next week, the Watershed Hydrology Lab will be well represented at the CUAHSI 2014 Biennial Colloquium. We’ll be presenting four posters, so here come the abstracts… Stormwater control measures modify event-based stream temperature dynamics in urbanized headwaters Grace Garner1, Anne Jefferson2*, Sara McMillan3, Colin Bell4 and David M. Hannah1 1School …
I’m super-excited! Super super excited. I’ve just found out about a new documentary on Lost Urban Rivers! The trailer looks great (see below). And it’s showing in Kent! This week! Lost Rivers is a new documentary by Montreal-based Catbird Films, and it tells the story of how cities built around …
Combined sewers are pipes that catch both sewage and stormwater and route it to a waste water treatment plant. In dry weather, it’s all sewage in the pipes. In small rain storms, the pipes carry sewage mixed with stormwater and it all goes to the wastewater treatment plant to get …
Image credits: SOPAC, where the image is attributed to SEQ Healthy Waterways Partnership (http://www.healthywaterways.org) and US Green Building Council, where it is attributed to NC DENR.