Solar Trajectory

March 25

10 inch stick                         Tan O/A

10:30 a.m.
shadow 21 inches                 (10/21)=.476   invtan(.476)= 25.46 degrees
250 West

1:30
shadow 8 inches                   (10/8)=1.25    invtan(1.25)=  51.34 degrees
5 north

6:30
shadow 34 inches                  (10/34)=.294   invtan(.294)= 16.39 degrees
76 east

Topographical Map of Mount St. Helens

Mount St. Helens (Skamania County, Washington)

The blue path is around 5000 ft of elevation

The green path is around 6000 ft of elevation

The red path is around 6800 ft of elevation

Plant Update - April 28, 2013

My plant has progressed although a little bit of wilting. Hopefully it continues to sprout and grow. I will definitely be bringing it home in hopes that it continues to progress. I am hoping that I can find a better spot outside rather than my sheltered, dorm room window seal for it to gain full sunlight and un-wilt. Hopefully we will be able to see the actual sunflower soon.

Mystery of the Megaflood

The movie, "Mystery of the Megaflood," was about a place 200 miles east of Seattle in Washington that is a very weird terrain that is over 100 miles deep with large boulders scattered throughout it. There were different explanations on how the "scablands" got there. One was that there was a river running through it, but there was no river ever actually found. Another explanation was that a glacier had once been sitting on top of the area, but no evidence was ever found of a glacier. Scientist Harlen Bretz figured out that there was a huge flood that came pretty much overnight. People did not think this was possible because it was a "catastrophism". It turns out there was a glacier dam that was holding water from a lake in and it broke which released the water onto the scablands and this is how the scablands formed. This is how the "mysterious megaflood" occured.

Picture of the "mysterious megaflood"

Cemetery Demography Project

Kevin Canevari

Sydney Brogden

Cemetery Demography Project

Cemetery Demography Project

1960-1980

1917-1920

1960-1980

1917-1920

The Flood of Middle Georgia 1994

The flood of 1994 ended up killing 18 people. It was a flood that hit middle Georgia right in the face. About 500 people were evacuated from the downtown area of Macon, the telegraph reported. Macon's levee that ran from the Otis Redding Bridge south to an industrial park and curves inland ended up breaking. The levee was a mile long and 30 feet tall. The Savannah District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers put together 20,000 sandbags to help the broken levee. Prison inmates and city workers stacked these bags in hopes to help the levee. Interstates 16 and 75 were both shutdown and this had never been done in the history of Georgia. There were many counties that were actually short on water and supplies because of this flood. A lot having to do with the lack of travel capabilities. This was a huge weather disaster that affected many people in the cities of middle Georgia.

             
                                                             The flood of 1994

Plant Blog - 3/4/13

My plant is continuing to grow. It has started to wilt a little because we had games out of town this weekend and it couldn't get any sunlight but hopefully it will be alright. I'm looking forward to it continuing its growth.