Posts for tag "friday followup"
Friday Follow-up: Sampling aquatic insects in Glacier National Park
Last December, I talked to USGS aquatic entomologist Joe Giersch about his work tracking down the western glacier stonefly, an incredibly rare insect that lives only in the cold, glacier-fed streams of Glacier National Park. Those bug...
- Posted February 20, 2015
Friday Followup: Travels of a wayward YSI sonde
Anyone who spends enough time deploying environmental monitoring equipment understands that eventually, one of their instruments will likely end up missing. Well planned and secure installations can fail against curious passersby, outright vandals or even exposure to...
- Posted January 23, 2015
Friday Followup: Kīlauea Volcano lava flow approaches town
In the Summer 2014 print edition of the Environmental Monitor, we featured a photo of a laval flow from the Kīlauea Volcano on Hawaii’s Big Island creeping dangerously close to some U.S. Geological Survey’s monitoring equipment. As...
- Posted December 12, 2014
Friday followup: California drought spoils waterfall erosion field research
In January 2012, I talked to Joel Scheingross, a geology graduate student at California Technical University, as he was getting ready to instrument a waterfall plunge pool with pressure transducers. His plan was to measure how storm...
- Posted November 21, 2014
