Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous A few weeks ago, I was asked to answer some questions for a career profile section of a website aimed at students looking at college degree options. The website creators wanted to use me as their profile of a hydrologist, maybe because hydrology has been dubbed …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous Last week, the journal Nature published two research papers on the effects of human-caused global warming on extreme precipitation events. I’m working on a post on the papers, and they’ve already received quite a bit of attention in the media. As glamour mag journals often do …
As scouted out by students in this semester’s Earth Sciences Seminar. Historical trends, emissions and sinks Happy 35th birthday, global warming (Real Climate, blogging on peer-reviewed research) Forest carbon stores may be massively overestimated (New Scientist, UK magazine for science enthusiasts) Reducing soot might be shortcut to reverse climate change, …
I’ve got a light teaching schedule this semester, in compensation for a killer load last spring. I’m planning to do a fair amount of field and lab work on Thursdays and Fridays. Here’s where to find me the rest of the time…but you might want to click to embiggen to …
Cross-posted at Highly Allochthonous M. Gordon “Reds” Wolman was a towering figure in 20th century fluvial geomorphology, fundamentally shaping our understanding of river forms and processes, profoundly influencing environmental education and river management, and educating scores of students that continue to push the boundaries of our scientific understanding of landscape …
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]
In our small but enthusiastic hydrogeology class, we’ve installed piezometers, measured groundwater levels and calculated flow directions, and conducted slug tests in a monitoring well hidden away in a wooded area on campus. We also had a field trip to the Langtree Peninsula Research Station, where hydrogeologists Andrew Pitner and …