Category Archives: by Anne

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

An Ohio Geo-Puzzle

Posted on September 13, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

I had the good fortune of going out in the woods a few days ago with colleagues here at Kent State University. We were in a second growth forest, probably fairly typical for this part of northeastern Ohio. The upland … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geopuzzling

The view from two weeks in

Posted on September 8, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

Over the summer, people asked me whether I was taking the summer off, and I had to explain to them that it wasn’t so much that I had a new job, as that I was simply moving my old job … Continue reading →

Categories: academic life, by Anne, Uncategorized

In slow-moving hurricanes, the danger comes from all the water

Posted on September 1, 2012 by Anne Jefferson

When Hurricane Isaac passed over New Orleans as a Category 1 storm on the seventh anniversary of the disastrous Hurricane Katrina, everyone in the US let out a big sigh of relief. A category 1 storm, the lowest level of … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology