That’s right! That’s a mouthful isn’t it? Well, what we do can be summed up in this amazingly complex word OR we can bring it home by reminding everyone about their childhood.
Remember the sandbox and water hose days? You sat in your summer clothes dirty or sandy using the flow of the waterhose to make paths in the sand or dirt. You dug moats on the beach for the waves to fill to protect your castle. You splashed in puddles and connected them by digging runs from one to the other to see what would happen.
You practiced fluvial geomorphology. That’s right. Every kids in the world who moved sand or dirt with water had it going on!
If you want to extend it – think of how everything is connected. Without water (hydro) you have no stream or river. In that water are so many things. It includes chemistry (very fancy and complex science), flora (plants like little algae), and fauna (animals). These things make up the BIO part of our descriptive title.
Fluvial is of the river or stream. Geo is of the earth. Morphology is the study of changes.
There you have it…HYDRO-BIO-FLUVIAL-GEO-MORPHOLOGY
The science of how water changes the earth and what things exist in that water. It does so fancy – so use the fancy word to impress your friends and family. But know this – some time in your life, you were probably practicing a very special science!
So, a reminder that no matter how old you are, or where you live, you can be a scientist.
So get out there – AND GO ANYWHERE YOU CRAZY MAD SCIENTIST.
Oh that is a word, if I don’t get that into a conversation about advertising next week I will eat my own shorts. That has almost as many syllables as I have toes on my hands. This is so the place to be for a word fix. Love you guys
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John – any sharing of our words you want to do is fine as frogs with us!! Let me know if you need more wordage…I have plenty!
What type of advertising?? lol
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I run a small magazine in a small corner of the UK and I just have to get that word into my presentation to a carpenter or a heating engineer. Or maybe a nursery school, they could demonstrate it in their sand tray.
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Very cool – if you are anywhere near Weymouth or Bristol tell my dad in law hello! I just love the place….and, they are doing so much over there for there rivers….and much more to be done.
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Weymouth and Bristol would be a bit of a walk but I have an Aunt that lives near Taunton so I could stand on high ground and wave a hat about in the general directions of Bristol and the Weymouth. I am quietly confident that I would be noticed. We do have a bunch of folks here that operate “The Wildlife Trusts” this link is to a short video of the sort of thing our local team get up to http://www.peninsulatimes.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/kent-wildlife-trust/
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Might take a while to solve on “Wheel of Fortune.”
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But it would be so much fun to watch!!
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