Personal Water Calculator

Follow this Link to the personal water calculator.

http://www.csgnetwork.com/waterusagecalc.html

Local Drinking Water

Watch this short clip to begin learning about Portland's drinking water.


Now visit the Portland Water Bureau's website to get the rest of the details.

http://www.portlandonline.com/water/index.cfm?c=29332


When you done check out this video to see what exactly a watershed is:



Visit the Portland Bureau of Environmental Services to learn about the watersheds inside Portland: http://www.portlandonline.com/bes/index.cfm?c=32184

Newsflash: Mount St. Helens Is Shaking It Up for Valentines Day!

Could the Earth know about the day of love? Perhaps the beautiful maiden Loowit (Mount St. Helens) is pining for her old suitors Wy'east (Mt. Hood) and Klickitat (Mt. Adams).

• Read about the Northwest Legend of St. Helens
  

One thing is for sure: this morning at 10:35am pacific time, there was a Moment Magnitute 4.3 earthquake three and a half miles East of Mount St. Helens. Then there was a 2.3 MM aftershock a little before noon.

• KATU.com "Feel That? Quake hit Mount St. Helens, Rattles Portland"
• USGS Website "Magnitude 4.3 - MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON"
• USGS Website "Magnitude 2.3 - MOUNT ST. HELENS AREA, WASHINGTON"

What where you doing this morning? Did you feel the quake? If you did, you can help the USGS make their shake map by providing information about when and where you felt it.

• 4.2 MM - 10:35 am: REPORT IT.
  
• 2.3 MM - 11:35 am: REPORT IT.

Do you want to stay up to date on recent quakes? Check out the USGS Latest Earthquake map: (Click Here). While you will hear a fair amount about the Helen's earthquake because its relatively close to populated areas, you probably won't hear about events like the 5.2 MM quake of the Oregon coast last Tuesday. That's nearly ten times stronger that the earthquake that happened this morning!

Hydrological Cycle

In order to complete the list of major processes in the hydrological cycle (water cycle) please visit the following link. The animation includes more than simple definitions of each process, so you need to condense the information into a simple explanation. In doing so, describe where the water is moving to and whether it undergoes a phase change from one state of matter to another.

The Hydrological Cycle (flash animation)
The Hydrological Cycle (text version) - try this if the flash version doesn't work.

**********UPDATE: the links above aren't working! Try one of the options below to complete your definitions.*******************

Try this First: http://polaris.umuc.edu/cvu/envm/hydro/hydrologic-flash.html
Try this Second: http://epa.gov/climatechange/kids/water_cycle_version2.html

In order to make the flash animation you need to have Adobe Flash player installed. This free web application can be downloaded here: http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/otherversions/