#Anabranch

[fuckyeahfluiddynamics]

#anabranch #fluid dynamics #physics #rivers #satellite image #science

[thexgrayxlady]

WIP Wednesday

“C’mon, let me help with the parts for the water wheel,” Dashi said, resting his arm atop Jiang’s head.

“I need you to help with inventory,” she said, paying him next to no mind as she fixed her apron.

“I could make it better,” he insisted. “More efficient…”

“You could make it spit out pinwheel fireworks at regular intervals…”

“I mean, if you insist.” She laughed gently and pushed his arm off of her head.

“I wish I could, but unless it’s one of your projects, you always get too distracted,” Jaing said. “You can look at the plans later, tell me if we can make any improvements, but if you want to use the forge any time in the next century, I need you to do inventory.”

“You drive a hard bargain,” he sighed, sliding around and snatching the slate from her hands.

She set to putting her things in order and he resigned himself to counting nails.

One, two, three…

They fell from his hand into the empty bin with a satisfying series of plinks.

Twelve, thirteen, fourteen…

He brushed chalk dust onto his pants, then continued marking the slate.

Twenty-one, twenty-two, twenty-three…

Did he drop one or two nails? He groaned, pouring the nails back into the first box and wiping away the count.

One, two, three…

He went slower this time, careful to mark each nail before dropping the next one.

Twenty-seven, twenty-eight, twenty-nine…

At this rate, he’d barely finish this shelf by nightfall. The prickling monotony of each step dug at his mind. Keeping them separate enough to keep count required just enough focus to be a chore, but not enough to be interesting. The task had not become any easier since he was briefly apprenticed to the Jaing’s father as a child.

Thirty-four, thirty-six, thirty-seven…

There were four nails in his hand now, he should just drop them in and add them to the count all at once.

Forty-two, forty-three, forty-four, forty-five…

Wait. Was that an extra mark? Did he make it on purpose or was it just a stray mark? He’d made so much progress that he didn’t want to start again. How much of a difference would one nail make?

But Jaing asked him to do inventory so that she could have enough time to finish the water wheel before it was too deep into winter to replace it. It was just counting. It shouldn’t be this difficult to do a good job.

He dumped the nails back into the box and started again.

One, two, three…

#Gray Writes Stuff #Grand Master Dashi #Xiaolin Showdown #Anabranch #I promise I'm still working on it it's just been a busy year

[probablyasocialecologist]

North America once housed more beavers than humans — by a lot. Even before Europeans showed up and built an entire extractive economy on beaver pelts, estimates put the number in the hundreds of millions (during the Pleistocene, there were even giant species of beaver, as large as bears). The North American fur trade, which lasted for centuries, nearly wiped beavers off the continent — and, unknown to trappers, vastly changed its ecosystems from sea to sea. “There is evidence that riverscapes across the West were much more complex and ‘anastomosed’ prior to European colonization,” says Nicholas Kolarik, a Ph.D. student working with Brandt, who is focusing on mapping data sets of wetlands. Anastomosis denotes branches connecting two things, like organs in the body, but in this case, he means streams, since waterways in the U.S. West used to be much more interconnected. Today, they’re “starved of wood,” he says, but by adding wood into streams and rivers, especially by building dams, beavers slow water down significantly. “In doing so, sediment is stored, water infiltrates into the aquifers, riparian vegetation establishes, habitat is created, and carbon is stored,” Kolarik says.

[...]

“Beavers maintain healthy riverscapes which store carbon and water. Consistent access to water is key to mitigating the effects of climate disturbances like drought.” Beavers’ role as firefighters has already been documented in Idaho. A 2018 technical report by Anabranch Solutions, a river restoration company, found that beavers were a major factor in decreasing burn intensity along Baugh Creek during that year’s Sharps Fire. “Where active beaver dams were present, native riparian vegetation persisted, unburnt,” the authors wrote. In our hotter and fierier world, beavers are a buffer.

#beavers #ecology #ecosystem restoration #climate change

[1picaday2014]

before the floods

its a wounded country

This is a picture of the Little Murray River near Lake Boga which is close to Swan Hill in Victoria. My camp was very close to the Little Murray, which is an anabranch of the River Murray. I spent a lot of my time at Lake Boga walking along the banks of the river, which is a shadow of its original self. I was taken back by the extent of the low water levels of the river. This was a year or so…

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#River Murray #water

[fullofsunsetwhispers]

Thank you so much for your tags on that fic!! I can't stop reading them!

Oh, no problem! Thank YOU for such amazing writing! I love your old fics (especially Chuya ones) and newer ones, as well! I love Anabranch mostly because of how tragic the story of the three brothers is (sniff). I love how you get it that Dashi despite his happy-go-lucky attitude, in fact, is a very secretive and tragic character bound to failure. What hurts the most is no matter what he does, he always gets a bad result and hence he loses both Chase and Guan 😭

The snippets you upload on Tumblr are always exciting to read, too and they're nice supplementary fragments that make one understand your main fic better.

Looking forward to your future work, as always! ^u^

#asks #i'm just sharing love in my tags your honor #thexgrayxlady

[spacetimewithstuartgary]

Seasonal Flooding of the Diamantina River The Diamantina River in Australia runs southwest from northern Queensland toward Lake Eyre (Kati Thanda) in South Australia—the lowest point on the continent. It is one of several rivers in the Lake Eyre Basin, which is situated in Australia’s desert interior and drains approximately 15 percent of the continent. For much of the year, its beds remain dry. However, seasonal rainfall sends water coursing through its channels and transforms the otherwise parched landscape. These false-color images illuminate the results of this phenomenon. The Operational Land Imager (OLI) on Landsat 8 captured the images on April 7, 2023, as floodwaters from rainfall in February and early March flowed through the Diamantina River catchment. The images combine the shortwave infrared, near infrared, and red light (OLI bands 7-5-4). In this configuration, bare earth appears brown or reddish, vegetation is green, and sediment-laden water and saturated soil are shades of blue. Bursts of vegetation growth that tend to follow in the wake of the floodwaters appear to be cropping up. A similar pulse of green is visible in images acquired in 2018. The wide view (top) shows a textbook example of an anabranching river, according to Sara Polanco, an expert in landscape dynamics and a lecturer at The University of Sydney. In contrast to the channels of braided rivers, which shift around within the riverbed, the many channels in anabranching rivers are hemmed in by semi-permanent islands stabilized by vegetation. A detailed look at the lower-right portion of the wide view reveals other notable features. Here, some of the floodwaters divert into north-northwest trending ridges that are part of a fossil landscape of wind-formed dunes. As water flows through the troughs, it forms several small delta-like features, which some researchers refer to as floodouts. “They are ubiquitous in Australia,” said Polanco. “Sometimes it looks like the river channels just disappear, but when these systems are in flood, the connection between the channels and the surrounding landscape is finally revealed.” About every eight years, rivers in the basin reach Lake Eyre. The Diamantina River has historically provided 75 percent of the lake’s water. Floodwaters have yet to flow that far this year, and it’s uncertain if there will be enough water to reach the lake. Most is lost to evaporation and transpiration along the way. Recent observations and the three-month streamflow forecast, from Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, show levels near or slightly above the median, relative to historical records. On May 1, 2023, the bureau still had a minor flood warning in place for the town of Birdsville, about 130 kilometers (80 miles) downstream of these images. However, the report noted that flooding is easing and the river should soon dip below the minor flood level. NASA Earth Observatory images by Allison Nussbaum, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.

#space #science #earth observatory #nasa #news #queensland

[jobkash]

Registered Nurse (RN)

*Registered Nurse – Behavioral Health* *Join our team!* *Anabranch Recovery Center* is a 66-bed primary substance use disorder treatment facility serving adult men

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[alluneedissunshine]

chowilla sunrise - 0064 by bill doyle Via Flickr: sunrise over the western junction of the chowillla and monoman creeks, two of the major braided channels on the murray river floodplain chowilla game reserve, riverland, south australia

#anabranch #australia #australian #backwater #bill doyle #billabong #chowilla #chowilla creek #creek #evening #floodland #floodplain #game reserve #inland #landscape #monoman creek #murray #murray darling #murray darling basin #murray river #outback #park #pool #reserve #river #riverine #riverland #south australia #south australian #the river

[dualdeixis]

[Image description: Three dialogue-heavy digital drawings of Ventus and Vanitas. There are full image descriptions of all the drawings under the cut. End image description.]

anabranch (n.): a stream that splits from a main river, then rejoins it further downstream

[Image description: In the first drawing, Ventus is sitting down and looking pensively at his wooden Keyblade. He thinks, “Every time I see that guy I feel more and more like there’s something I’m missing… A hollow in my heart… Is he taking something from me? Or was it gone the whole time, and I didn’t notice…?” Next to him, Vanitas sits with his knees to his chest and his face buried in his arms. He is beginning to form an Archraven, which holds his thoughts: “It’s getting harder and harder to be apart… Everything in me is aching… I want to become myself already… I want to be whole… I want to be good…”

In the second drawing, Ventus and Vanitas are in their shared Dive to the Heart. They both have a hand tied to a cracked and dull χ-blade. Vanitas is looming furiously over Ventus, who kneels down and looks both terrified and angry. Both are shedding tears. They have a long exchange, with their speech bubbles being connected to each other rather than separating themselves according to speaker. Vanitas: “Come back to me!” Ventus: “I can’t! My friends—!” Vanitas: “Why is it always about them?! What about me?! What about US?! I know you can feel the ache now too! I know you want to be whole just as much as I do!” Ventus: “But I can’t! I won’t!” Vanitas: “You can and you will! This is what we’re supposed to be! It’s our destiny!” Ventus: “There’s no such thing!” Vanitas: “Of course there is! Why else were we made?! What else can we be except a weapon?! There’s nothing after this now! We’ll either fade into oneness or fade into death! So choose!” Ventus: “Then I’ll die! I’d rather die!!” Vanitas: “You… you selfish brat! You empty husk! I hate you!! I HATE YOU!!”

In the third drawing, the fused Ventus wears his Keyblade armor and wields the completed χ-blade. He has a manic smile and tears drip down his cheeks. His speech bubbles are all connected to each other in a web, muddying the sequence of his words; some bubbles hold contradictory statements with fissures drawn between them. He says, “Aqua! Look! I’m me! Finally! I didn’t know what I was missing!/I knew it all along! I’m so happy!/I’m so afraid! I’m what I was always meant to be! I’m going to remake the world!/I’m going to destroy the world! Nothing will ever hurt again! No more borders around or below or above—/Help—Help— Aqua! COME!/RUN!” The halo around his head reads, “Ciò che hai perduto diventerà uno solo.” End image description.]

#kingdom hearts #ventus kh #vanitas kh #unversed kh #drawings #scopophobia #vanitas thinking ‘i could feel you every step of the way. i bet you didnt notice me at all’ in the novel… #the desperation of seeing the end of your pain right there #‘if you only reach out and take it’ #but it won’t let you/you won’t let yourself… #tomoco kanemaki Understoood The Assignment (the terror and bliss of dissolution of the self) #its fascinating that even tho vanitas is like. constantly feeling every emotion at once hes really good at acting otherwise #but i wish he'd gotten to drop that persona during the end like cmon #cain instinct mixed with imperfect henosis?? let there be madness!! let him and ven be deranged!!!

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Young boy Uttar Kamalabari monastery Satra Majuli island

Majuli ou Majoli মাজুলি en assamais est une île fluviale située sur le Brahmapoutre dans l’état indien de l’Assam. Elle se trouve aux confins de plusieurs cours d’eau, au sud coule le Brahmapoutre tandis qu’au nord se joignent une anabranche du Brahmapoutre appelée Kherkutia Xuti et le fleuve Subansiri. L’île couvrait 1 250 km2 au début du xxe siècle mais elle souffre d’une érosion importante. Elle a été une des plus grandes îles fluviale au monde, et sans aucun doute la plus grande du sud-est asiatique. Méconnue des touristes, l'île est tenue pour un lieu saint par les hindouistes d’une tradition Vishnouiste particulière se rendent en pèlerinage sur l’île dans des monastères appelés Sattras, où les moines honorent le dieu Vishnou et sa principale incarnation Krishna, par le chant, la danse et le théâtre. L' Assam compte plus de six cents de ces monastères, mais c'est sur Majuli que leurs traditions sont conservées le plus fidèlement, comme dans celui d'Uttar Kamalabari. Deux cents moines vivent sur l'île, confiés au seuil de l'enfance par des parents trop pauvres pour les éduquer ou souhaitant s'attirer les faveurs du dieu. Il faut une quinzaine d'années aux novices pour maîtriser les arts du sattra. Majuli or Majoli মাজুলি in Assamese is a river island located on the Brahmaputra in the Indian state of Assam. It lies at the borders of several rivers, to the south flows the Brahmaputra while to the north is joined a Brahmaputra anabranche called Kherkutia Xuti and the Subansiri river. The island covered 1,250 km2 at the beginning of the twentieth century, but it suffers from significant erosion. It was one of the largest river islands in the world, and arguably the largest in Southeast Asia. Little known to tourists, the island is considered a holy place by Hindus. Hindus of a particular Vishnu tradition go on pilgrimage to the island to monasteries called Sattras, where monks honor the god Vishnu and his main incarnation Krishna, through song, dance and drama. Assam has more than six hundred of these monasteries, but it is on Majuli that their traditions are most faithfully preserved, as in that of Uttar Kamalabari. Two hundred monks live on the island, entrusted on the threshold of childhood by parents too poor to educate them or wishing to attract the favors of the god. It takes about fifteen years for novices to master the arts of sattra

#kids #inde #india #satra

[thexgrayxlady]

WIP Whenever

He sits across the ice from the little dragon. He’s shivering uncontrollably and making a pitifully sad chittering, his muzzle laid dejectedly across his front claws.

“Nice try,” he says. “Not falling for it.”

The dragon huffs and sits up proudly. He’s still shivering, but it’s less dramatic now. He’s reminded uncomfortably of Chase anytime Dashi’s caught him attempting to prank him. He can almost hear him insist that no, he wasn’t trying to trick him into drinking pond slime. He was a proud, serious warrior with no time for that sort of nonsense.

The dragon lowers his head and Dashi pulls the ice further up his legs before he can start gnawing at the broken foreleg. Chase’s eyes flash in anger.

“Yeah sure,” he says, with a dismissive wave. “You’re going to kill me. I get it.” As if he hasn’t already done it. As if Dashi doesn’t still sometimes wake up in a cold sweat, feeling jaws around his throat.

He still isn’t sure what to do with him. Drag Chase fighting every step of the way back to the temple? He still remembers the smoke, the screaming, the blood. He can’t take the chance of Chase getting loose and massacring the village again.

Just wait for him to tire himself out? He can’t trust a surrender anymore. Dojo and Guan will come looking for him eventually. It won’t matter how many times he tells them to stay in the temple with the villagers. They wouldn’t leave him to fight an unknown monster alone.

He could just let Chase go and fight him himself. For as monstrous as he is, he is still Chase. He’s still impatient and too clever for his own good. He could dodge and weave around and irritate him into making mistakes. But if there was any of Chase left in this creature, he suspects that it’s the part that would sooner die than be defeated.

He’s had years to come up with a solution and he still has nothing. There’s just been one crisis after another. From Wuya and Hannibal to the countless monsters and bandits that pop up one after another for so long that he’s hardly had a chance to think about protecting the people that matter most.

And maybe there was a part of him that hoped that this time would be different. There are enough little changes every time that maybe, just maybe, this long winter will come and go and his little brother will remain human.

Yet here he is again, watching while Chase tests his restraints, looking for any weakness. He won’t find any.

#Gray Writes Stuff #Anabranch #Grand Master Dashi #Chase Young #Xiaolin Showdown #Shameless Self Promotion

[thelionshoarde]

VLD Fic Rec

/emerges from the darkness~!

hello, lovely souls! i know i haven’t been around much lately but i had to come make a shout out to the lovely @zacekova who has just posted up a 50k+ monstrosity that YOU SHOULD DEFINITELY READ if you love Kuron, Shiro/Kuron, Shiro/Kuron/Lance, series AUs that deal seriously with the issues of clones, identity, sexuality, finding a sense of home and belonging, and ALSO SOME ADORABLE FLUFF AND DELICIOUS ANGST

Whitewaters a companion fic to her magnificent story Anabranch

complete with some STUNNING art from ImpendingExodus!

#i could say so much more about this fic #but my brain is fried lol #GO READ IT #it's complete i promise! #and also AMAZING #kuron #shuron #shurance #vld #awesome fics #voltron

[usfwspacific]

Learning from Nature: Beavers Provide Answers for Idaho Wildfire Recovery

By: Keri York - guest-blogger Keri York is the Big Wood River Project Manager for Trout Unlimited in Hailey, Idaho.

Beaver dams are being built... by people.

Just over the Pioneer foothills east of Hailey, in nearby Little Wood River watershed on Baugh Creek, Sheep Creek, and Hailey Creek, about 20 people used chain saws, trucks, generators, and hydraulic post-pounders to construct similar structures to those created by the industrious, river-loving rodents. The goal: to build over 100 ‘large woody debris structures’ along 5 miles of creek to help the entire watershed recover from this summer’s Sharps Fire and historic grazing impacts.

Partners constructing a large woody-debris structure utilizing locally sourced aspens from the project area. Credit: Trout Unlimited

“Our initial objective was to quickly construct many small, structures to catch sediment after the Sharps Fire, but the project evolved to improve stream health in the long run,” said Terry Gregory of the Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game. “These woody structures can also create floodplain and areas for the stream to meander in places that had been severely downcut.”

In fact, this low-cost, minimal-impact approach is aligned with the way nature typically works and is designed to mimic beavers.

Beaver dams have proven to be very helpful for improving water quality as well as increasing groundwater quantity. Nearby evidence of the benefit of beaver dam complexes can be seen in the upper sections of Baugh Creek. There, the creek and riparian vegetation were wet enough to escape burning during the fire. That habitat is now an oasis for the areas wild inhabitants, and a source of seed and nutrient regeneration. The woody-debris structures in a waterway encourage desirable erosion and stream sinuosity, help the river reach the floodplain during high runoff, recharge groundwater, and assist in sediment transport and deposition.

Large woody-debris structures implemented after the Sharps Fire designed to catch sediment and restore connectivity of the stream to the floodplain. Credit: Dan Brown

Large woody-debris structure designed to influence water and sediment deposition on a stream rehabilitation project after the Sharps Fire burned through the area in 2018. Credit: The Nature Conservancy

“Even before the fire we were excited about building beaver dam structures to help restore Baugh Creek's riparian habitat for wildlife and overall health of the land,” said Rebecca Patton, one of the private landowners. “But it became more critical after the fire to ensure we don't lose surviving vegetation while working toward the longer-term restoration goal. We are deeply appreciative of the collaboration between all of the organizations involved to make this innovative project happen during a short window before winter.”

Several agencies and organizations rallied to plan and construct these instream features to help with erosion control that is expected when spring run-off inundates the watershed. Agencies with an interest in fish, wildlife, rangelands and water quality partnered to get the work done. Contributors included Idaho Dept. of Fish and Game, The Idaho Soil and Water Conservation Commission, the Governor’s Office of Species Conservation, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, The Nature Conservancy, Trout Unlimited, private landowners, and volunteers. From the private sector, Anabranch Solutions from Logan, Utah was hired to design and help implement the restoration project. Anabranch Solutions has designed and implemented similar projects in the Pacific Northwest to restore hydrology and stream function in degraded areas.

Other post-fire restoration treatments the Little Wood River watershed have been implemented on public lands by BLM, the U.S. Forest Service and the Idaho Department of Lands after the Sharps Fire. Stewardship and restoration is one of the goals of the Pioneers Alliance, a group of landowners, agencies and organizations and community members that work to preserve the natural resources and cultural heritage of the Pioneer Mountains-Craters of the Moon landscape.

“I was really relieved to see this project take place and am thankful for the cooperation and support from all of the organizations,” said Dan Brown, one of the private landowners who helped gather trees and materials for beaver dam structures on his property. “I used to fish in this area when I was a kid, and I think this project will create habitat, in addition to stopping erosion. This should be a long-term improvement to the watershed.”

#USFWS #USFWS Pacific #beavers #fire #recovery #wild #conservation #restoration #river #landscape #genius

[ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender]

Anabranch

read it on the AO3 at Anabranch

by onoheiwa

The man Lance had thought was Shiro stands a few paces away, distant, precarious - he’s just had his whole existence torn apart and rearranged into an ugly, misshapen imitation of what it used to be - while the real Shiro and Lance pick themselves up from where they’d collapsed on the hanger floor. He’s stiff in parade rest, eyes averted, and Shiro’s gaze moves to him - rivets itself to him - and Shiro rests an elbow on his folded knee, his face lined with caution and uncertainty.

 “Who are you?” Shiro asks.

Words: 15990, Chapters: 1/1, Language: English

Series: Part 1 of What Came From The Headwater

Fandoms: Voltron: Legendary Defender

Rating: Teen And Up Audiences

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Categories: M/M

Characters: Lance (Voltron), Kuron (Voltron), Shiro (Voltron), Allura (Voltron), Keith (Voltron), Hunk (Voltron), Pidge | Katie Holt, Coran (Voltron)

Relationships: Kuron/Lance/Shiro (Voltron), Lance/Shiro (Voltron), Kuron/Lance (Voltron), Kuron/Shiro (Voltron)

Additional Tags: Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Post-Season/Series 05, Slow Burn, Fluff and Angst, Angst with a Happy Ending, Hurt/Comfort, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Kuron is Shiro (Voltron)'s Clone, Reunions, Inspired by Shance Fluff Week prompts, but I took too long to write it and it’s too angsty, Shiro is back!, Love Triangles, Love Confessions, Self-Indulgent, Polyamory

read it on the AO3 at Anabranch

#ao3feed #fanfic #voltron #voltron: legendary defender #ao3feed-voltronlegendarydefender

[existential-celestial]

[…]                        Let there be no mistake:        I do not believe things are reborn in fire. They’re consumed by fire & the fire has a life of its own.

Andrew Zawacki, from “Credo,” in Anabranch

#andrew zawacki #quote #lit #literature #fire #rebirth #life #existence #aaaah i like this poem a lot wow #*

[nurmilintunen]

Tag Game

Rules: answer 30 questions and tag 20 blogs you’d like to know better

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Zodiac: Western - Libra, Chinese - Dragon

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Age: 17

Time: 17:54

Favourite Bands: Imagine dragons, Queen, Scorpions, Faun (Idk, I don’t really listen to specific bands, just any song that’s sounds nice)

Favourite Solo Artists: Joyce Jonathan, Leo Rojas, Elvis

Song Stuck in My Head: Christmas songs... in the middle of April

Last Movie l saw: Eat pray love

Last Show I Saw: A korean odyssey

Last Thing I Googled: Snow white (for reference)

Other Blogs: @disneybirdunzel for disney, @reylobird for star wars, @dollishfriend for dolls and @the-mysterious-anabranch for aesthetics and moodboards

Do I Get Asks?: Not really

Why I Chose My Username: Nurmilintu (eng. “grass bird”) is a creature that is in an ancient finnish lullaby

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Average Amount of Sleep: 7 hours

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Dream Trip: Japan

Favourite food: Pasta

Nationality: Finn

Favourite songs: To name a few: Total eclipse of the heart (bonnie tyler), Can’t help falling in love (Elvis) and Send me an angel (scorpions)

Last book i read: Jane Eyre

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I’m gonna tag all my followers - you too!