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Thursday, 09 April 2020

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Examining How Early Humans Responded to Climate Change 

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Kevin Uno, a Center for Climate and Life Fellow, studies how abrupt changes in climate affected Neolithic human settlement, diet, and abandonment in northwest

Zooming out: how climate and landscapes control streamflow generation 

Highly Allochthonous [22:42:05]  recommend  recommend this post  (88 visits) info
As you watched the videos about flow generation mechanisms, one of the things that you should have noticed is that climate and landscape characteristics influence the way water gets to streams. (And the way water gets to streams influences the … Continue reading →

Zooming out: how climate and landscapes control streamflow generation 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [22:13:07]  recommend  recommend this post  (55 visits) info
As you watched the videos about flow generation mechanisms, one of the things that you should have noticed is that climate and landscape characteristics influence the way water gets to streams. (And the way [...]

RSVP for the Spring 2020 Earth Institute Research Showcase 

State of the Planet [17:43:21]  recommend  recommend this post  (112 visits) info
See interviews with Earth Institute students and join us virtually for the Earth Institute Research Showcase on April

How flow generation controls stream hydrographs 

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The streamflow generation mechanisms working in the landscape control how quickly the stream responds to precipitation - and how quickly the stream responds to precipitation controls how high the peak flow [...]

Remote Summer 2020 Internships With the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment 

State of the Planet [15:54:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (116 visits) info
Interns will assist the center in its mission to develop and disseminate solutions that maximize the impact of international investment for sustainable

Updated method and forecasts 

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I've tweaked the method just a little since my earlier forecasts.  You may have noticed that the initialisation of my short-term forecasts was fairly poor. This is an inevitable consequence of naively [...]

How does water that falls on land get to streams? 

Highly Allochthonous [04:23:27]  recommend  recommend this post  (225 visits) info
It’s a rainy day and you can see that the water level is rising in your local stream. That’s because of the rain falling on the stream channel and its tributaries, right? Wrong. In most watersheds, <1% [...]

C19 update 

Seismos [19:51:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (134 visits) info
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I have made some progress on the plots. It turns out that running the plots with the current Johns Hopkins data, which is real time, introduces an issue. Specifically, the current day point is a partial value [...]

Live Animals of HMNS Thrive During Social Distancing 

BEYONDbones [17:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (63 visits) info
These days the Houston Museum of Natural Science is a quiet place. The field trippers are all at home, the teachers, too. The grand hall has an eerie stillness. Luke Jerram’s Moon hangs lonely in the [...]

How flow generation controls stream hydrographs 

Watershed Hydrogeology Blog [15:54:16]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
[Watershed Hydrology students: You should read the whole thing, but if you want to see the TL;DR version first, scroll way down.] The big picture Now that you’ve learned all about the four different ways to [...]

Bomb Cyclone 

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Yeah, Toronto misses this! You can see that over the past 5 days, Pacific plumes have slashed down and brought up Gulf warmth.  But that isn't the whole story, since a storm needs cold air as well. These [...]

Los escenarios de fantasía dinosauriana de Rodrigo Vega 

Koprolitos [13:41:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (60 visits) info
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Rodrigo Vega es un ilustrador nacido en 1990 en Buenos Aires (Argentina), que desde bien temprana edad se sumergió en el mundo del dibujo y la imaginación. Su padre, que estudiaba Bellas Artes y trabajaba [...]

Covid-19 

Seismos [01:27:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (141 visits) info
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Well my goodness, it has been a while since I posted to this blog. October 2019 seems like a lifetime away, a different world of normal classes, normal activities, happy hours, eating out, all the rest. Now it [...]
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