A night photo of one of the dams Lafayette owns on the Bushkill Creek. This is the dam we looked at during class that Lafayette plans to remove. The crumbling wall that I was standing on did not feel at all safe and the slope to approach it was slippery. The plunge pool was also noticeable because as the water cascaded over the falls, the water travelled in all directions and would definitely be dangerous to be in.
This morning while registering for courses I was struck with how everyone registering for courses was similar to a dam stopping up a river. Many students experienced the site crashing and had delays while trying to log in. Like a river flowing through a dam, there were too many people trying to use the site at the same time, so the site kept crashing and only allowed some people in at a time, similar to how a dam only allows a small amount of water through at each moment, even though there is much more water trying to go through. Also similar to how a river flowing through a dam can produce energy, the frequent site crashes also caused a lot of frustrated energy from students!
I found this river while watching a video on youtube. It is called the Huang He River or the yellow river, which is the deadliest river in the world. In the last century, the river’s floods has killed about 5 million people. It is located in China.
Yeah, sorry I’m not seeing the resemblance
Erin the Irish Bear – fairly useless
1.8 MW wind turbine, Breisgau, Germany. Wind provides about 25% of Germany’s energy production
I recently found an old photo on my phone of a stream near my high school. One of my most memorable experiences with this stream was stuffing a netted bag full of dead leaves and leaving the bag in the stream for a week. When I returned the bag was full of minute creatures who had it made it a home for themselves, creatures we typically don’t get to see because of the fast moving water.
Over this past weekend, I went to a restaurant and found that the tabletop had a pattern on it that looked like rivers and their tributaries. 
This past week during crew practice on the Lehigh River, I spotted a great blue heron sitting under an overhanging tree on the shoreline. Although it flew away before I was able to snap a picture, I thought it was cool to see such a huge bird up close. Blue Herons typically grow to a height of 3.5-4 feet tall, and the main diet of the Blue Heron is small fish, and they hunt by waiting on shorelines or in shady areas then spearing passing fish with the help of their long neck. I had never been able to see a heron this close before, and I was really taken aback by the size of such a large and magnificent bird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCQiaT1KcPo
This is the video from the talk on 11/7/2019 about the removal of dams. I found it interesting to see the affect on the communities and how their views quickly change after seeing the river return to its natural state. Specifically lots of fishermen seem happy about returning fish.
Last week on a rainy night I noticed that there are some cracks in the sidewalk on campus that resemble rivers as if you were looking at a river from a plane or on a map. Also, the rain seeps through the cracks which actually makes the connected cracks into mini rivers, which is interesting to think about.
The Mojave River Dam in Southern California could be at risk of breaking down due to an extreme storm which would send water flooding into communities in the Mojave Desert which is home of thousands of people. The 200 ft dam has never been breached, however after a 2018 study after an extreme storm it was found that water could flow over the structure, causing it to erode and fail.
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