Dundee Hydrology
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There are quite a few good glossaries of hydrological terms already ‘out there’ and ready for you to use. The NIWA one is nicely written but doesn’t cover many terms. Two USGS ones (a, b) look…
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Delayed flow: calibration gaugings were undertaken today in the Eddleston Water catchment following 40 mm of rainfall over the past 24 hours. Here, a swan takes advantage of some still water in a re-meandered section at…
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It being the end of the academic year, I’ve pulled together this list of jobs and careers sites to help people looking for employment. Inevitably, this cannot be exhaustive; nor does it attempt to be. Please…
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How to respond to the terrible news of the atrocities in Sri Lanka and its connection to Glenfeshie? Today I want to share a few photos from my time in Feshie, as some sort of a…
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It was 9:55am and, scrolling through my emails, one particular message from Dr Andrew Black caught my attention: ‘Fieldwork Help Required Today’. It didn’t take me long to hit reply… >1 m standing waves dowstream of…
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We’re often surrounded by risks in our daily lives: Is it safe for me to cross the road now? Is the food at this burger van safe to eat? Is this web site safe to use?…
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We’re going to be taking down the rain-out shelters in the Eden catchment in reading week, w/c 15 October 2018. Student volunteers sought to lend a hand, do something different and see some new places on…
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We’re monitoring water levels on the upper River Feshie, and at two other sites lower downstream (and on some of the headwater tributaries too)! This is all nested within the catchment of SEPA’s gauge at Feshie…
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The exams are all finished now, so what better than a field visit to revisit some of the key themes of the semester just passed? More so when there’s the offer of a guided tour from…
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25 years ago, on 17 January 1993, a peak river flow of 2268 m3/s was recorded at Ballathie gauging station on the River Tay – the highest rate ever recorded in the UK. At the time,…