Tinted detail of a photo: Fast-flowing white water rushing over mossy boulders in a rocky stream through a tall green conifer forest.
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Hydrological Sciences

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Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

Overlooked tips for the lost art of fieldwork

Not so long ago, almost all hydrologic data depended almost exclusively on fieldwork.  Today, sure, you can download data from repositories, there are satellites that beam you magic numbers that you can interpret to give you almost any variable, and some (less than we might hope) long-term monitoring has been outsourced to governments (or in …[Read More]

Inclusive fieldwork: issues to care about

Inclusive fieldwork: issues to care about

Imagine it is your first time going on a field trip. After spending hours in the lecture theatre, you are excited to get outside and see those environmental processes that so far you have only seen in graphs and figures. You get off the bus, and the first thing your professor says  is: “people less …[Read More]