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Welcome friend! If you’re new here to The River Seers, you’re starting at just the right spot. This page holds a collection of the most read stories and writing, segmented out by theme.

Where does the name "River Seers" come from? 

What is a "seer"?

Advice
10 Mottoes for travel and life
5 Tips for traveling and living
5 Favorite travel gadgets
Advice to students interested in studying overseas

Hydrologic oddities
Turf blisters
Upward flowing rivers

A river of garbage (Egypt)

An underground dam (Miyakojima, Japan)

The Yangtze turns blood red

The river whose flow nearly never changes (Dismal Creek, Nebraska)
Upward flowing waterfall (South Australia)

Disappearing waterfall (Silverband falls, Australia)

A river with a carved river bank (Bali, Indonesia)

A lake that changes color (Linow lake, Indonesia)

A river that flows from a cave of bat poop (Gomantong Caves, Malaysia, Borneo)
The only dam used for military purposes (Peace Dam, South Korea)
A river of corpses (Pashupatinath Temple, Kathmandu, Nepal)
An underground river (Sinks Canyon, Wyoming)
The loss of happiness (Disappearing river in France)
Qanats (Ancient water management structures in Iran)
Where two rivers become a creek (Australia)

Flood chasing

Streamchasers Chasing streamgages in New England (a Storm Chasers parody)

We were in Manila the week that two typoons struck, back to back.

The Manila hydrologists sorting out the forecasts, Part I and II

Flood chasing, Bangkok style  and what does Google have to do with it?

Behind the scenes

Inside Iran's largest earthen dam
The Manggarai Gate Part I and II The gateway to the world's dirtiest river in Indonesia 

In the Shadow of the East Floodway What life is like on the banks of that river? 

Queensland Australia Operational River Forecasting Center

Operation Watermark (a simulated flood disaster in the UK).This includes links to a week of posts about it. 

Thinking like a forecaster
Forecasts at the airport (why knowing uncertainty isn't necessarily a good thing)

If only we knew (and would anyone believe us?)

On being a forecaster, on being a scientist

Weighing myself every day for three years

Meditating at the river's source 

Interesting characters
The magic man of Shiraz (Iran)

The observer at the Ciliwung Gate Part I and II (Indonesia)

The first forecaster I ever met (Dallas Reigle, Salt River Project, Arizona)

The manager of the dam with the world's largest morning glory spillway (Indonesia)