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14 June 2018
E6 – Bonus Clip: Newspaper is the New Duct Tape
Check out this clip that didn’t make it into our recent episode, The Secret Lives of Tide Gauge Operators, with Stefan Talke about some correspondence he found on how operators treated their equipment. [thirdpodfromthesun id=34770974] Transcript Shane Hanlon: Hey, Nanci. Nanci Bompey: Hi, Shane. Shane Hanlon: Alright, I wanted to ask you. What’s your fix-all material of choice? Like duct tape, but you have- …
1 June 2018
E6 – The Secret Lives of Tide Gauge Operators
In the 1800s and early 1900s, dozens of men stationed at harbors around the United States would record water levels and send them to a central office in Washington, D.C. where they were used by engineers building the country’s infrastructure.
15 May 2017
Squeezed by gravity: how tides affect the groundwater under our feet
While we don’t tend to notice Earth and atmospheric tides, they do affect both the land and the world’s largest freshwater resource located underneath our feet: groundwater. This occupies the pores that exist in geological materials such as sand or soil, much like water in a kitchen sponge.
