A glossary of hydrological and related terms
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 very comprehensive, but don’t…
Natural flood management, lag time and catchment scale: Results from our Eddleston Water empirical nested catchment study
Delighted to see our first Eddleston Water surface water empirical results paper published today in the Journal of Flood Risk Management. To avoid dependency on uncertain flow calibrations in high flow conditions, our paper focuses on hydrological lag as a…
Employment opportunities for graduating geographers and environmental scientists
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 regard this as a…
Space and sanity around Glen Feshie
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 response to those acts…
How do we Measure That…
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… Two hours later Finlay and I were driving north on…