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Tara C. Smith is an Assistant Professor of Epidemiology. Her research involves a number of pathogens at the animal-human nexus. Additionally, she is the founder of Iowa Citizens for Science and also writes for The Panda's Thumb and WIRED SCIENCE's Correlations. Please note the views expressed on this site are Dr. Smith's alone and may not be representative of the groups mentioned above.

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Flood geology and the frequency of "X year floods"--a primer

Category: Iowa/area news • Misc.
Posted on: June 19, 2008 1:52 PM, by Tara C. Smith

In her guest post at Highly Allochthonous, hydrogeologist Anne Jefferson explains how one can have two "500 year floods" in short measure. Great reading...

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Thanks for this post/link. I was wondering about the source of the probabilities of flood predictions...

Good to know you're still bloggin', I appreciate you.

Hang in there.

Posted by: biopunk | June 20, 2008 12:46 AM

thanks all...

Posted by: Roja Karınca Yumurtası Yağı | July 29, 2008 1:28 PM

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