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Changing Hydrology for the Better
The effects of changing hydrology on wetlands have caught my attention this week. When I first came to Maryland, I remember hearing there are no natural lakes, a story repeated as this odd factoid about Maryland. Every body of water we have, that doesn’t move, is man-made. And here in
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A Story of Food Bringing Us Together
Years ago, I worked for a small telecommunications company located in Rockville, called Startec Communications. Startec provided (maybe still does, who knows?) long distance services targetting the immigrant community. This was cheap long distance and often poor quality connections. Considering how easy it is to get someone on the phone
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Rainfall Stationarity
There’s a really neat (and short) paper by Joseph P. Wilson that was presented at Stormcon in Atlanta this year focusing on the stationarity of rainfall. If you catch the weather forecast every day, you usually see something about how much rainfall was recorded the day before, or maybe during
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The Lowly Tilefish
Here in Maryland, we often think of the blue crab as our major seafood. But the best part of Maryland, if you love seafood, is its incredible variety. And more frequently, the fish on the menu is tilefish. The tilefish is found in the North Atlantic from Nova Scotia to
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Prepare for Hurricane Florence Like a Professional
Right now, the Mid-Atlantic is staring down Hurricane Florence. The best guess anyone has right now is that this will hit between Florida and New York…but wherever it hits, it will be a very powerful storm. And powerful storms bring damage from floods to downed power lines and collapsed buildings
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Teaching Research Methods This Fall
I am teaching research methods again this fall, this time for Penn State University. I do love teaching research methods, and despite having a busy fall (though not as busy as it could have been), I took Penn State up on the offer. Their approach to research methods, that I
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Do you mean to tell me this sucker is nuclear?!
This morning, Nina, Ducky, and I went down to APL to watch the liftoff of the Parker Solar Probe, initially scheduled for 03:53 local time. It didn’t happen, for reasons I never checked in to, but they will try again here in a few hours. The launch vehicle is amazing,
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