Water

A collection of 66 posts

Industry

INDUSTRY: A Global Overview

Aiming for the proverbial ten-thousand foot view both in terms of geography and categories. Introduction What do we mean when we talk about Industry? In this post (and others on the same theme that I have planned for this year), I'm using "Industry" in its narrower

Water

Big Well(s)

I spent quite a bit of time in southwestern Kansas last year, on account of a couple of projects with my work. On one of these trips, I had a bit of extra time on the (long) drive from Wichita, so I stopped at a small-town museum built around a

Water

Two Rivers in Asia

Travel, geopolitics, and water—this post is a review of two books that sit at the convergence of several of my interests. It can also be seen as the inland accompaniment to this post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/monsoon-prospect/] covering coastal areas in the same general region. The River at

Research

Batch Test to Evaluate Microbial Disinfectant Decay...

During 2020 - 2021, when there was less going on than normal, myself and the research group at the University of Waterloo where I did my Master's studies took the time to finally get a draft manuscript that had been sitting on the back burner for a while

History

Monsoon Legacy

This post is the first part of a two-part series I have planned. It is about the history of trade on the western Indian Ocean and is based on reviews of a couple of books I read this year. Part two [https://danbscott.ghost.io/monsoon-prospect/] will look forward at

DIY

Greenland Paddle

In this post, I wanted to share a project I did this year: building a kayak paddle. The paddle I built is more-or-less in the Greenland style. I adapted the instructions/dimensions from here [https://www.kayarchy.com/html/01equipment/021greenlandpaddles.htm]. Here is a summary of the steps I

environment

Harvesting Algae and Other Parts of the Biosphere

This post is a rambling review of a couple of books and a technical paper that are all around a common theme of obtaining renewable resources from photosynthesis. The books I'll be covering in this post are Harvesting the Biosphere by Vaclav Smil [http://vaclavsmil.com/2012/12/

Water

Wilderness Water Treatment Workshop

At a camping symposium [https://www.canoekayaknb.com/2019canoe] this fall, I had the privilege of leading a workshop on wilderness water treatment. I figured it would also be of interest to share my notes here. Note: This information is only provided for educational purposes. Drink water in the backcountry

Book

Polynesian Pacific

Sorry about having such a long gap between posting. I've been on a couple of business trips, and when I've been home my social calendar and the hot weather haven't left many good opportunities to sit down at my computer and write. Sea People:

History

Irrigation, untitled

Recently I read a few journal articles analyzing some historical instances of irrigation. My notes and some thoughts are shared below. The first article [https://doi.org/10.3406/rbph.2013.8411] was "Rome and Agriculture in Africa Proconsularis: Land and Hydraulic Development" by Arbia Hilali in Revue

Water

Pitot

This is a short post about a simple device I tried making for measuring the velocity of water. A pitot tube [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitot_tube] is a device for converting a fluid velocity to a pressure (which is easier to measure). Recall from this post [https://danbscott.

Water

Open Channel Hydraulics for Paddlers

This post combines two of my interests: engineering and paddling. During my undergrad studies (at the University of New Brunswick) I took a course called "Open Channel Hydraulics". Recently I decided to re-read some of my notes and textbooks and think about how they could provide insight for

General

Assorted Links (Fall 2018)

Now and then [https://danbscott.ghost.io/assorted-links-spring-2018/], I like to share some links I've been saving up, especially ones that relate to topics I've blogged about before. To start with, here is some musical accompaniment: One of my posts [https://danbscott.ghost.io/ticket-to-rides-adjacency-matrix/] got

Water

Words on Biofilm

The past couple of weeks I've been on some business trips and haven't had time to write any posts. However, I did have time on a flight to read a technical paper that I want to discuss below (I also finished reading a book that I&

Outdoor Adventures

A Day Off of Deer Island

The weekend that just passed was the New Brunswick Day long weekend here. As in previous years [https://danbscott.ghost.io/nb-day-2015/] I wanted to get out and enjoy some of the natural beauty in the province. Deer Island is one of the inhabited islands in the Bay of Fundy

Travel

fietspaden en droge voeten

This is my final post based off of my trip to the Netherlands. It focuses on reviewing a book about land reclamation and flood control infrastructure in the Netherlands and sharing a couple of bike trips I took out into the countryside around Amsterdam [https://danbscott.ghost.io/noord-holland/] and

Museums

Four Maritime Museums

In my posts about travelling to Copenhagen [https://danbscott.ghost.io/five-days-in-denmark/] , Amsterdam [https://danbscott.ghost.io/noord-holland/], and Rotterdam [https://danbscott.ghost.io/zuid-holland/], I mentioned that I'd be discussing some maritime museums I visited in a separate post. This is that post. Introduction Seafaring has been

Travel

Noord-Holland

After Denmark [https://danbscott.ghost.io/five-days-in-denmark/], I travelled to the Netherlands, where I spent some time around Amsterdam and Rotterdam. In this post I'll share about what I did in the Amsterdam area; I plan to feature the Rotterdam area in my next post. Amsterdam flourished during

Art

A New Twist On Familiar Vistas

Last weekend I visited the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to check out a couple of exhibits. It had just re-opened after being closed due to flooding. First of all, here is what the art gallery looked like at the end of April 2018. The flood waters were up to the building,

Book

Salt makes you Thirst

This post contains reviews of a couple of history books that I read this fall: Salt and Thirst. The former is about salt as an ingredient, preservative, and commodity; the latter is about approaches to water management in various ancient societies. Salt Salt: A World History [https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/

Professional

Delving into the fundamentals of anaerobic digestion

On the heels of my previous post [https://danbscott.ghost.io/weftec-2017/], I wanted to write something else related to the science of wastewater treatment. The two papers I discuss below are ones that I've read in the past, but haven't shared any notes on before.

Professional

WEFTEC 2017

At the start of the month, as I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, I attended a big wastewater conference in Chicago. Note: everything on this blog is solely my own view and is written in my own capacity. I was one of over 22,000 people to attend WEFTEC

Water

Arctic Salinity

This post is an informational .gif that I put together about annual variability in the salinity of the Arctic Ocean (and North Atlantic/Pacific). As I noted in a recent book review [https://danbscott.ghost.io/putting-civilization-in-the-sea/], I've read a number of books about the sea this year.

Book

Putting Civilization in the Sea

This post is a book review. The title is an allusion to another one [https://danbscott.ghost.io/putting-the-sea-in-civilization/] I wrote earlier this year. Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity from Politicians was written by Joe Quirk with contributions

Research

Research on MBR Costs

This post is a review of a paper reviewing the costs of membrane bioreactor (MBR) and reverse osmosis (RO) technology and how research could positively influence those costs. "Membrane technology costs and me [http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0043135417303846]", by Dr. Simon Judd was published in