Author Archives: Anne Jefferson

One recipe for flooding: Take a tropical cyclone and add steep topography

Posted on September 11, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

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

Call For Posts, Accretionary Wedge #38: Back to School

Posted on September 8, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

‘Tis the season when professors write their syllabi and lead their first classes, when students decide whether to take that elective in geophysics or the one in hydrogeology, and when professional and armchair geologists…well, I don’t know what they do, … Continue reading →

Categories: bloggery, by Anne

Scenic Saturday: Ropy pahoehoe on a biogenic beach

Posted on August 27, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

In this inaugural Scenic Saturday post, I offer up very happy volcano/landscape nerd enjoying the stunning geologic scenery on Isabella, Galápagos Islands, July 2011. I was there as a participant in the Chapman Conference on the Galápagos as a Laboratory … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geomorphology, hydrology, photos, volcanoes

Anne’s suspended summer

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

It was always going to be a trick for me to feed the blog in the latter bit of the summer, as I’ve been planning almost 5 weeks of travel, much of it without internet access. A few days ago, … Continue reading →

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Flooding around the world (3 July edition)

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Anne Jefferson

Here is a brief update on the floods I covered in the last edition of flooding around the world. Note that there has also been flooding in Xiengkoung, Viengtian, Boolikhamxay, and Xayaboury provinces of Laos, as a result of heavy … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology