Writings by Andrea Watts

I am a freelance writer/editor who specializes in covering forestry and natural resources issues. What I bring to each project are undergraduate degrees in English and forestry, a master’s degree with coursework in silviculture and science communication, and on-the-ground experience managing the family tree farm.

Category: hydrology

  • Going with the flow: New insights into the hydraulics of high-energy fluids

    Municipal water managers need to know if water will be reliably available from watersheds. Civil engineers need to calculate stream discharge to construct bridges to withstand 100-year floods. A hypothesis proposed in 1997 by Gordon Grant, a research hydrologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station, underlies a method for getting this information…

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