scholarly journals Occurrence and Distribution of Ordinary High Water Mark (OHWM) Indicators in Non-Perennial Streams in the Western Mountains, Valleys, and Coast Region of the United States

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew K. Mersel ◽  
Robert W. Lichvar ◽  
Jennifer J. Gillrich ◽  
Lindsey E. Lefebvre
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
High Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Coast Region

Welsh Emigration to the United States

1959 ◽  
Vol 8 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Alan Conway
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Twelfth Century ◽  
High Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Just In Time ◽  
Frank Lloyd Wright ◽  
High Water Mark ◽  
Roger Williams

There is a story told in Wales of a certain John Jones, a stalwart of the local choir, who died and arrived up above just in time for a Heavenly Choir practice. He immediately took his place and, looking around, found that there were a thousand tenors, a thousand sopranos and a thousand contraltos but only himself in the bass. Nothing daunted, he gave of his best in the opening chorus until suddenly the Heavenly Conductor rapped on the podium and turning to John Jones, said, “Not quite ao loud in the bass, please, Mr. Jones”. It has been much the same in the field of emigration; for every John Jones who went to America, whole choirs of other nationalities flooded in, and, with a few exceptions, subsequent narrators of the story of the Welsh in America, have sung, on both sides of the Atlantic, very loudly in the bass. The quality of the Welsh contribution to the United States as against the quantity of that contribution has been bolstered by filio-pietistic writers who have claimed for the Welsh nation, Roger Williams (who was not a Welshman), many of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson, Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davies, John L. Lewis and Frank Lloyd Wright among many hundreds of other “eminent Welshmen”. Possibly the high water mark of such claims has been that of the discovery of America by Prince Madoc in the twelfth century, and the legend of the Welsh-speaking Welsh Indians, which was taken up again with great zeal in the nineteenth century and has lingered on to the present day despite the researches of Thomas Stephens which have reduced the claim to that of a romantic legend.

scholarly journals Establishing Climate Change Resilience in the Great Lakes in Response to Flooding

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn E Gallagher ◽  
Ryan K Duncombe ◽  
Timothy M Steeves
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
United States ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Great Lakes ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
High Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Water Levels ◽  
Storm Events ◽  
Freshwater Resource

Over the past decade, both the average rainfall and the frequency of high precipitation storm events in the Great Lakes Basin have been steadily increasing as a consequence of climate change. In this same period, cities and communities along the coasts are experiencing record high water levels and severe flooding events (ECC Canada et al. 2018). When cities are unprepared for these floods, the safety of communities and the water quality of the Great Lakes are jeopardized. For example, coastal flooding increases runoff pollution and contaminates the freshwater resource that 40 million people rely on for drinking water (Lyandres and Welch 2012, Roth 2016). Since the Great Lakes are shared between two nations, the United States and Canada, the region is protected by several international treaties and national compacts, including the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA) and the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). In order to increase climate change resiliency against flooding in the region, we recommend the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) work with Environment and Climate Change Canada to relocate the GLRI under the GLWQA in order to guarantee consistent funding and protection efforts. We additionally recommend expansion of both agreements in their scope and long-term commitments to engender cooperative efforts to protect the Great Lakes against climate change.

scholarly journals Geographic Differences in Population Health and Expected Organ Supply in the Gulf Coast Region of the United States Compared to Non-Gulf States

2020 ◽  
Vol 104 (2) ◽  
pp. 421-427 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rhiannon D. Reed ◽  
Brittany A. Shelton ◽  
Margaux N. Mustian ◽  
Paul A. MacLennan ◽  
Deirdre Sawinski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Population Health ◽  
Gulf Coast ◽  
The United States ◽  
Gulf States ◽  
Geographic Differences ◽  
Gulf Coast Region ◽  
Coast Region

scholarly journals CONVERSE TRENDS OF THE TERRESTRIAL AND GROUND WATER STORAGE CHANGES IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W13 ◽  
pp. 1793-1796
Author(s):  
H. Wang ◽  
L. Xiang ◽  
H. Steffen ◽  
P. Wu ◽  
L. Jiang ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Snow Water Equivalent ◽  
Water Storage ◽  
High Water ◽  
The United States ◽  
Water Usage ◽  
Grace Data ◽  
Terrestrial Water ◽  
Snow Water ◽  
Satellite Altimetry Data

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> We study the terrestrial water storage (TWS) and groundwater storage (GWS) changes in Canada and United States. We employ the separation approach from Wang et al. (2013) together with the improved GRACE data of Release 6 for a longer time span until December, 2016. The TWS signals from lake levels are derived from satellite altimetry data over the lakes while TWS signals due to soil moisture (SM) and snow water equivalent (SWE) changes from hydrology models. There are four significant trend anomalies in North America for both TWS and GWS changes. Two positive anomalies are found in Canada with their centers in the provinces of Saskatchewan and Quebec, respectively, due to increased precipitation and/or increased runoff in their surroundings. Two negative anomalies are shown in the United States with their centers in California and the northwest of Texas, respectively, which are due to decreased precipitation and, especially for California, high water usage for agriculture.</p>

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