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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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? The risk of flooding…
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 the Lomond ridge above…
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 Bridge, and will help…
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 Scottish & Southern Energy’s…
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, I had only just…
Drought Risk and You – talking about drought, climate change and farming in Freuchie, Saturday 20th January 2018. Registration link here. Programme available here: Jan 2018 Eden DRY event v4 Scotland is considered by many as a wet country but…
Upgrading of the power supply required a field visit last Friday, in the interests of maintaining data completeness. Fortunately, Wildland as site owners have the logistical capabilities to deliver results. Visiting during wintry conditions allows processes to be observed at…
It was minus 10 C when our Eddleston field hydrometrist Boyd set off for his work this morning – but the work must go on! Indeed some flow meters might not cope with such temperatures, but our Flow Tracker –…
Maximum wind speeds at the Wildland Mountain Observatory reached 70.5 mph this morning (31.49 m/s) as Storm Caroline brought high winds and property damage to many parts of northern Britain. Temperatures at 900 m OD fell from a balmy 7.0…
Weather Rescue project is seeking volunteer citizen scientists to bring historic weather observations into the reach of digital science. Millions of meteorological observations are waiting for volunteers to enter them into digital format, and so make then accessible for climate…
Power availability is the big challenge at 900 m elevation. The Wildland mountain observatory on Druim nam Bo benefits from a 60 W solar panel and a wind turbine generator, with 220 Ah of battery capacity. Ben Pickering’s disdrometer, pictured…
After 10 days of continually freezing conditions at the Wildland mountain observatory on Druim nam Bo, warm air on Saturday brought a thaw to high altitudes – and significant melt. Some 41.2 mm of snowmelt was recorded through the rain gauge. …