How flow generation controls stream hydrographs
The big picture Now that you’ve learned all about the four different ways to generate streamflow, you might be asking yourself why they matter. Here’s why it matters: The streamflow generation...
View ArticleZooming out: how climate and landscapes control streamflow generation
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...
View ArticleA Riverine Flooding Cookbook, Volume 1: Meteorological Floods
Legendary fluvial geomorphologist Reds Wolman once said “Floods come from too much water,” and that’s the phenomenon distilled to its core essence. But this bit of wisdom doesn’t give us much to go on...
View ArticleMoving Watershed Hydrology online in 3 days: how I did it, how it went, and...
When Kent State “pivoted to online” in mid-March, I was about half-way through my Watershed Hydrology class. For context, this class typically has about 20-25 undergraduate students, from geology,...
View ArticleHow I taught Soil Moisture and Infiltration online in spring 2020
This post is part of a series of posts in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For...
View ArticleHow I taught Streamflow Generation online in Spring 2020
This post is part of a series in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more...
View ArticleHow I taught Streamflow online in Spring 2020
This post is part of a series in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more...
View ArticleHow I taught Flooding online in Spring 2020
This post is part of a series in which I provide the details of each unit I taught post-transitioning to online in Spring 2020 in the Watershed Hydrology class at Kent State University. For more...
View ArticleWatershed Hydrology – Complete Compendium of my Online Teaching Resources
In Spring 2020, my Watershed Hydrology class transitioned to online in mid-March. This spurred me to create more blog posts and YouTube videos to provide content for the remaining units of the course....
View ArticleThe Cuyahoga River burned today for the first time in 51 years. Here’s what...
Cuyahoga Falls Fire Department photo of the August 25, 2020 fire on the Cuyahoga River. This photo was published by the Akron Beacon Journal. How many of you had “Cuyahoga River catches fire” on your...
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