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The Fracking Truth About Hydraulic Fracturing
Read about differing opinions about the hydraulic fracturing "fracking" technique used for shale gas extraction.
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The Other Extreme : the Measurement of Water Flow
Most conversations about extreme measurements focus on flood flow. However, I recently had a conversation with Emily Huxter about her…
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A Hydrologist’s Holiday
A 3-day hike in July on the Wapta Icefield in the Canadian Rockies with my son took us up the Bow Glacier, briefly onto the...
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The Weaponization of Water Data
Every change in the expected pattern of variability of water supply and quality poses a threat to the security of the water, food and energy...
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How to Get Better Flow Measurements Using the Rising Bubble Method
One objective of the Hydrology Corner is to provide a forum where hydrometric problems can be discussed and clever solutions to those problems can be...
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Data Rounding and Why You Should Care
To understand why modern data management systems store data to double precision we must consider the distinction between storing and reporting of data.
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Extreme Gauging – How to Extend Rating Curves With Confidence
Extreme flows are extremely hard to gauge, hence we get very few gaugings to accurately define the top-end of stage-discharge rating curves. This is a...
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Drones – Providing a New Perspective on Hydrometry
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) also known as drones, can be used for Large-Scale Particle Image Velocimetry to provide cross-sectional hydrometry info.
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Stage-Discharge Rating Curves – Geophysics or Religion?
Almost everything we know about our global freshwater resources is due to the humble stage-discharge rating curve. The vast majority of all flow data ever...
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Messy Rivers are Healthy Rivers
Dr. Ellen Wohl provoked the audience to give thought to how we evaluate river health in her keynote address to the Riverflow 2016 Conference in...
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USGS Goes Live With AQUARIUS Time-Series Software
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) has replaced its custom, in-house developed, Automated Data Processing System (ADAPS) originally designed in 1985 with the commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)...
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Hydrometry & Hydrology – The Next Generation
At Aquatic Informatics, we are encouraged to take an active role in the community and so I was quick to agree when I was recently...