by Dr. Joan Morrison
Sarah Black (’16) braving the Park river to take stream flow measurements.
Even last night’s serious rainstorm did not deter Sarah and Helen from braving the raging torrents in the North Branch of the Park River to get the flow and depth data needed to calculate stream discharge, part of their Methods project. At least it was an exciting day, quite different from the past few weeks where the stream has hardly even been a quarter meter in depth and flow rates close to 0 cf/s.
Sarah and Helen Samuels (’16) stretching a measuring tape across the river.
Great time to be studying rivers in New England! Flow where I work in the Charles River in MA jumped from 300 cfs that day.