Monthly Archives: May 2020

How I taught Streamflow Generation online in Spring 2020

This post is part of a series in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more context about the course and … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, teaching

How I taught Soil Moisture and Infiltration online in spring 2020

This post is part of a series of posts in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more context about the … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, teaching

Moving Watershed Hydrology online in 3 days: how I did it, how it went, and how I’m working to make it better next time

When Kent State “pivoted to online” in mid-March, I was about half-way through my Watershed Hydrology class. For context, this class typically has about 20-25 undergraduate students, from geology, environmental studies, and conservation biology majors, and about 5-8 graduate students … Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, teaching

A Riverine Flooding Cookbook, Volume 1: Meteorological Floods

Meteorological floods are closely tied to the four mechanisms of atmospheric lifting (convection, frontal systems, convergence, and orographic) that produce cooling, saturation, and precipitation. As climate change warms the atmosphere, enabling it to hold more water, and shifts atmospheric circulation patterns, there is the potential for more severe flooding and flooding in new places to result from any of these lifting mechanisms. Continue reading

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology

At subduction zones, feeding a complicated plate means you get complicated earthquake behaviour out

What drives the occurrence of slow-slip events on subduction zones: “earthquakes”: that involve strain release over days and weeks rather than seconds? A new paper…doesn’t really answer that question, but it shows why it’s so complicated to answer.  The study uses … Continue reading

Categories: earthquakes, paper reviews, tectonics