Watershed Natural History: How Does One Make Sense of This?
Understanding the role of natural disturbances in ecosystems, like fires, hurricanes, floods, and landslides, is daunting because the relevant time of decades to centuries is too long and the scale of thousands of interacting streams and hills is too large. In a watershed over a couple of years, one can’t reasonably engage the whole dynamic system. Add to that, human disturbances, including climate change, that intermingle or change the natural ones.
Conventional approaches to understanding dynamic watershed natural history are inadequate because science overlaps with philosophy and psychology, a nexus that remains a terra incognita in journal articles, conferences, and textbooks. Another medium is required to bring the natural history of extremes into the light of day, into the public mind’s eye, and into the watershed practitioner’s portfolio.
The Watershed Three-Body Problem explores an alternative approach, one that unifies philosophy, science, mystique, and art into a full spectrum.
Conventional approaches to understanding dynamic watershed natural history are inadequate because science overlaps with philosophy and psychology, a nexus that remains a terra incognita in journal articles, conferences, and textbooks. Another medium is required to bring the natural history of extremes into the light of day, into the public mind’s eye, and into the watershed practitioner’s portfolio.
The Watershed Three-Body Problem explores an alternative approach, one that unifies philosophy, science, mystique, and art into a full spectrum.
Dr. Lee Benda is a principal researcher at TerrainWorks. Visit them to check out other cutting-edge watershed science.
