A group of visitors surround the Em2 during the networking reception Monday night. Nathan and I hauled an Emriver Em2 into downtown St. Louis Sunday — in the middle of a record-setting spring snow storm that brought more than 12 inches to the area — to...
Imagine it’s March, late in the season for planting rooted seedling trees in the Midwest. You see hundreds of #2 pencil-sized twigs, each with a few pitiful roots on one end, laying in the sun on a stream restoration site in suburban St. Louis. It’s...
Nobody’s measured it, but I’m sure tens of thousands of miles of small urban channels have the unresolved problems I study. I’ve just finished a couple of days in the field with Nick Nelson of Inter-fluve. We’re doing a geomorphic study of a...
We installed an Emriver Em4 model at the St. Louis University (SLU) Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences on Friday. Several faculty members there are interested in the model. Since we’re only two hours away, and there really is no substitute for seeing...
Andrew Revkin, in the New York Times Dot Earth blog, writes about a collection of large urban streams being “daylighted,” i.e. unearthed from massive underground pipes they were routed into. The article is very link-rich, go take a look. Here’s...
