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Wet Lands: Where does the Earth’s rain fall? http:// geographical.co.uk/places/mapping /item/1528-wet-lands   … @ GeographicalMag

Chapter 3 of RAH's (Robert Heinlein) Have Space Suit will Travel, Scribner's Juvenile from the 1950's in which hero Kip in  great expository RAH style refurbishes a used space suit.   A great book along with A Door into Summer for a young engineer of any age. ""But I didn't get tired of it; a space suit is a marvelous piece of machinery-a little space station with everything miniaturized. Mine was a chrome-plated helmet and shoulder yoke which merged into a body of silicone, asbestos, and glass-fiber cloth. This hide was stiff except at the joints. They were the same rugged material but were "constant volume" -when you bent a knee a bellows arrangement increased the volume over the knee cap as much as the space back of the knee was squeezed. Without this a man wouldn't be able to move; the pressure inside, which can add up to several tons, would hold him rigid as a statue. These volume compensators were covered with dural armor; even the finger...

    I am afraid, judging by the gingerly manner in which we went down the shaft, that we should not have been much good had any great difficulties been encountered. It was a primitive sort of ladder we had to go down, merely consisting of iron rings driven into the wall at intervals, and in our cumbrous and unaccustomed attire it was not a very comfortable job. However, we got down without any casualties, and, arrived at the bottom, found one of the sewermen waiting for us. He provided us each with a wooden sconce holding a candle, and thus provided we went along a short, sloping passage, at the end of which stood another guide, who assisted us to step down into the sewer itself. 

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If you ever wondered how many people visit SWMM5.NET it is currently 1500 sessions, 1200 users and 2500 pageviews per month according to the ever changing Google Analytics.  Thanks to one and all for visiting!

By  Boonsri Dickinson I spent 6 and a half years studying chemical engineering at the University of Florida and the University of Colorado at Boulder, writing out flow charts for industrial processes. Much of my time was spent thinking about oil rigs and pharmaceutical companies. Earlier… Here’s a photo of my dad holding me when I was super little outside my childhood home at The University of Florida. Yes, I actually grew up on campus! And the other photo is of me at the pool we always went to.  Read about  my dad’s obsession with water . My Dad is Obsessed with Water He always has been now that I think about it. When I was a little girl living in Gainesville, FL, he would take me down a path less traveled to get to the pool. We’d walk in the creek and through a tunnel, instead of walking on the sidewalk and on the crosswalk. He showed me that you can make your own rules. Through the daily treks in the creek, I learned that what is important is the adventure that you mak...

What would be the perfect format for a Water Related Engineering Blog? A note for my readers.  I am having an internal public discussion with myself.  If you have other ideas or suggestions please email me.  I get a lot of emails and very little non spam comments on my blogs. It is probably a characteristic of engineers who work for a living.  What would be the best or perfect format for a  Water Blog? A general introduction to why the blog matters to the reader and what will either be explained or demonstrated in the blog. An introduction to the feature discussed in the blog. An equation or psuedo code to illustrate the fundamentals of the item discussed in the blog, A few images showing how the feature discussed is used in the Water related Software. Sensitivity Analysis for the feature or a least a mention of how sensitive the parameter of feature is in the model Drawbacks of the feature, or known workarounds. Related Blogs and URL's Summary of what was ...

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New work from Olafur Eliasson: he installed a huge riverbed in a Danish museum http://t.co/dDKPxZSTDs pic.twitter.com/H2gdBYKh6U — Robert E Dickinson (@RDickinson) August 24, 2014

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If This Then That IfThisThenThat is an actual webite   https://ifttt.com   and allows you much control over gmail, linkedin, twitter, blogspot and wordpress.  It even has rain gauge IFTTT recipes. Netatmo Rain Gauge lands with #IFTTT support (and eBay too) http://t.co/304ZDoskr3 pic.twitter.com/SR3pj5VPZR — SlashGear (@slashgear) May 22, 2014

Clouds and Water in NYC via @Boonsri # nyc pic.twitter.com/IaVCAe1k75 # clouds pic.twitter.com/KxXQgs9Zcw # bk bridge pic.twitter.com/xhtq7bdfbP

Urban frogs adapting to Urban Stormwater Networks in Taiwan "The frogs have learned to overcome that limitation by calling from within storm drains, since the drains enhance both volume and duration, allowing the frogs' calls to reach receivers both nearby and farther away. "Concrete drains are miniature canyons, but are not analogous to anything in Mientien tree frog natural habitats," the researchers say. "Therefore, it is interesting to find those frogs preferentially calling in the drains." The frogs have taken the human built environment and turned it into a tool, rather than an obstacle to overcome, allowing their species to survive an environment dominated by our species."

I love Snagit and Jing, which are very good screen capturing and editing programs.  The 2nd Tweet allows you to download a PDF file of Tips from Snagit Tweeted from @Snagit http://t.co/pVRPqkv6lT http://t.co/QlP9BH02l5 Tips for Snagit — Robert E Dickinson (@RDickinson) April 19, 2014 Top 10 #tips and tricks for Snagit in a short, illustrated PDF guide that you can download here: http://t.co/OcI943LJsM #smb — TechSmith Snagit (@Snagit) April 18, 2014

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Zhiqiang Yu  who is a  Visiting Fellow at Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada posted an interesting link on LinkedIn called  S ingle Document about Compiling and Debugging SWAT with GFortran and Eclipse - Please give comments with this table of contents.   Personally, I am interested as I would like to modify some of the tools in SWMM 4.4 and have lost my original Fortran Compiler. 

47th Annual International Conference Toronto, Canada February 26-27, 2014 Interested in any aspects of urban drainage or watershed engineering? Do you use computer models in your work? If so, you should consider attending this conference, where you will hear about 50 presentations related to your interests, and talk to over 100 like-minded, friendly and thoughtful professionals. The annual International Conference on Urban and Rural Water Systems Modeling is a forum for professionals from across North America and overseas to exchange ideas and experience on current practices and emerging technologies. This is the 47th annual SWMM Users Group Meeting, the 23rd in the current series of annual Toronto conferences, and the 34th to be held in Canada. The atmosphere is relaxed, presentations are of a high standard and by accepting papers up to the last few weeks before the event, a spontaneity is achieved which gives this conference special character. ...

EPA Releases Climate Assessment Update to National Stormwater Calculator WASHINGTON –Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released phase II of the National Stormwater Calculator and Climate Assessment Tool package. The updated calculator includes future climate vulnerability scenarios. The calculator, a part of President Obama’s Climate Change Action Plan, is a desktop application that estimates the annual amount of stormwater runoff from a specific location. The calculator now includes changes in seasonal precipitation levels, the effects of more frequent high-intensity storms, and changes in evaporation rates based on validated climate change scenarios by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “Climate change threatens our health, our economy, and our environment,” said Gina McCarthy, EPA Administrator. “As part of the President’s Climate Action Plan, this tool will help us better prepare for climate impacts by helping build safer, sustainable, and more resi...