When I started field work in the late 70s, the ratio of women to men that I knew in stream hydrography was about 1:50. The conventional wisdom at the time was that women couldn’t handle the heavy lifting involved with field work....
Happy holidays from all the contributors here at Hydrology Corner! It’s been another busy year at Hydrology Corner with over 34 insightful and important discussions on a range of themes such as the future of hydrology, rating curves and industry conferences. Here are our Top 5 Most Popular Posts...
In my Hallowe’en post I presented various ways in which better rigor in tracking data provenance can do many things — up to and including — saving the world during a zombie apocalypse. Today, I would like to focus on a much more immediate and pragmatic benefit of improving traceability of data to source.
Our negligence in communicating and preserving primary and intermediate states of our...
Drought is a large-scale problem. Droughts of high severity, long duration, and broad spatial extent happen infrequently enough that ecological and economic dependencies on water are bound to develop during the between-drought intervals. The trick for drought resilient societies is to develop a long-term memory that serves to limit over-enthusiastic exploitation of water resources when water supply is relatively abundant.
Most indigenous societies that are highly...
Hydrology is the science of sciences.
There is no science that is as dependent on the other sciences and there is no science that is so fundamental to every other science. In fact, it is rarely the case that you would find a dedicated department of hydrology in any university, yet some aspects of hydrology are taught in almost every science department at every university.
Water is...