Author: James Schoudel

Bike lock structure looks like a meandering river

As I was walking to class today I was looking at the bike lock structure and I noticed that then I looked at it from an angle it looked like a meandering river.  A meandering river is when the current of the river erodes the bands of the side of a river giving it bends.  Once this anomaly occurs it may lead to a river looking like the bike lock structure.  Sometimes when a river forms this meandering look Oxbow lakes form. A Oxbow lake is formed when a s shaped river will straighten out forming bowed looking lakes where the river one was before it straighten out.

 

 

Sights of rivers on campus while walking back to dorm

While walking back to my dorm over the weekend I noticed sights that reminded me rivers.  The cracks on the road reminded me on the flow of water working it way down hill, the cracks are also caused by freezing water.  Besides the cracks on the road I also noticed the vines growing on the tree to look very similar to rivers was well as the wind up and down the bark of the tree. 

Crown Shyness

As I was going through my social media the other day I had come across a phenomenon called crown shyness,”In which the crowns of fully stocked trees do not touch each other, forming a canopy with channel-like gaps. ”  This Phenomenon usually happens with trees of the same species. Although I have not seen this happening on campus I found the channel gaps looking very similar to a river map with its contributing tributaries.

Leigh River dam

The Lehigh river dam is 590 feet long and 30 feet deep.  If the dam was to be removed it would cost 10-18 million dollars and produces electricity for 300 homes (about).                                                                                                           

Lehigh river fish elevator

I found it interesting when I found out that some fish can travel upstream in a way of water steps. A few years ago Easton was given 1.4 million dollars in seeking to improve the new fish elevator. Still, fish find it hard to maneuver up the rapids because the fish are traumatized by the warmer water and the faster unfamiliar rapids which affect their reproducing.

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Bushkill Bug Symposium

Over the weekend I went to the Bushkill Bug Symposium and I found it very interesting. As I said before in class I met some fly fishermen and they described what its like flyfishing on the Bushkill. They told me how complex this way of fishing was, everything needed to be right to catch the fish. Things like what the Ph of the water, what type of bugs are underwater what bugs are on top of the water, that the temp of the water is, what time of day it plays an effect on what type of fish will bite the fly. 

pictures of rivers

Living in a flood plain I experienced some overflow from the Goodwives Rives. My whole neighborhood was once a farm built upon a flood plain then about 90 years ago, what was my backyard today was dredged out to raise the land in my neighborhood. Flooding on both sides of my house can be found in the first 2 pics. The Goodwives River use to be the center of my town about 100 years ago, they would import lumber into the down of Darien and people didn’t want to have to transport the lumber that far from where they picked it up, now the center of Darien has moved more northwest about a mile as the crow flies. The pictures that follow are from when I went to Hawaii.    

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