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Condit Dam Removal video

No excited Gordon like at Marmot Dam, but this is one exciting “blow and go” dam removal video. This was Condit Dam on the White Salmon River in Washington in October 2011. Spectacular to watch, and even neater knowing that there was important (and hair-raising) science being done both upstream …

Marmot Dam removal video

My favorite way to get students excited about dam removal is this video produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting, on the removal of Marmot Dam, near Portland, Oregon in 2008. Part of the reason I love this video is it shows off Gordon Grant‘s enthusiasm for river science.

A nice British video explaining the connection between rivers and groundwater. I can’t get the embed to work, so you’ll have to click through to watch: http://www.groundwateruk.org/How-Rivers-Work-Role-of-Groundwater.aspx This is why I say I study rivers AND groundwater – if you want to understand how water moves through a watershed, you’ve got to …

Videos of Open Channel Flow phenomena

Boundary Layers and the no slip condition [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUTkqZeiMow] Laminar Flow in a Pipe [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KqqtOb30jWs&NR=1] Turbulent Flow in a Pipe [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NplrDarMDF8&NR=1] Subcritical and supercritical flow over a weir (video courtesy of Little River Research and Design) Standing Waves [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFOt-oOUzJY]