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Category Archives: Watersheds
From Lake Superior to the Mississippi River – a renewed commitment to fresh water
This week we are beginning our Full Length Mississippi series, and we will team back up with Mike Link and Kate Crowley. Link and Crowley highlighted pieces of their Full Circle Superior journey with the GLOBE Scientists’ Blog last year … Continue reading
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Part 5. Postscript to Missouri Puddles Blog
(If you are interested in the Pole to Pole videoconference, just scroll down – it’s just below this one. I’m finishing up the puddles blog so that I can write a blog or two on inquiry, using the puddles as … Continue reading
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Watersheds Part 3
On the surface, we have something similar called “watersheds.” If the water isn’t soaking into the ground, hills act like our roofs, and the water flows on the surface until it hits a stream or river. If you look at … Continue reading
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Icicles and Watersheds Part 2: How much water flows off the top of two houses
What about the total amount of water coming off the roof? Suppose it is raining, so insulation doesn’t make any difference. Again, about twice as much water would flow off a given spot along the eaves for our house. But … Continue reading
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Icicles and Watersheds: Part 1
Why are the icicles so long on our house? On a recent walk just a day or two after our first snow, my husband and I noticed that we had the longest icicles in the neighborhood. Some houses built the … Continue reading
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