At two am on the morning of 4 August, 2014, a tailings pond at Imperial Metals’ Mount Polley gold and copper mine broke through an … Read more
The disconnect between government policies and public opinion is hardly newsworthy, but it seems the divide has reached Grand Canyon proportions around Canadian environmental issues, … Read more
Well my op-ed in Al Jazeera English just came out today. Check it out here. Huge thanks to Colin Schultz for editing help prior to … Read more
I ran across a press release recently for a paper on snowpack and climate change in Oregon. It caught my attention because it was written … Read more
Some readers may have noticed that this topic came up on my Twitter feed. I thought I could try what the editors at Nature Chemistry … Read more
In a recent Easternblot post by Eva, she played around with Google nGrams. I though it would be fun to use the same tool to look at the use of some of my favourite science terms: ecohydrology and hydroecology.
People who spend a lot of time around streams and rivers – fishing, kayaking, canoeing, or just being – know how to ‘read’ these watercourses, whether it’s to find the best fishing holes or to pick the best line to run a set of rapids. Even just to find the perfect spot where the rush of water drowns out the noise of the world around you. I’ve spent a lot of time in the mountains, studying and observing stream systems and understanding how they interact with the landscape and biota. In this post we’ll look at the differences – and similarities – between two stream systems, and the clues we observe that help us define these differences.
As interesting as an idea can be in and of itself, what’s also curiously exciting is the path taken by the mind from the initial … Read more
For the letter H, I posted about the hydrograph – a deceptively simple plot that represents the complex integration of the many processes that occur … Read more
The hydrograph is a time series plot of water flow in a river, and is to hydrology what a symphony is to classical music. It … Read more
