User talk:Salmo13

Hyporheic zone
Hi Salmo. Thanks for the contributions you are making. I noticed you deleted this uncited paragraph Since you are clearly knowledgeable on streams, I am sure your deletion was entirely warranted. However, as someone with a passing interest, but with no particular knowledge in this area, I am curious about your deletion. I think the paragraph seemed reasonable to uninformed readers like myself. It would illuminate and make a valuable addition to this (almost nonexistent) article if you replaced the paragraph with a cited explanation of what really controls the flow dynamics in this zone. You may well be the current Wikipedian best positioned to expand articles like this in a meaningful way. Regards. --Epipelagic (talk) 08:38, 14 January 2012 (UTC)

Hello Epipelagic. To get a second opinion, I just passed the deleted paragraph by my wife, also an aquatic biologist. She and I are of like mind, which, if you will please excuse a cheeky description, we find that the verbiage is more obfuscatory than illuminating. In light of the comment from the uber-editors that the piece seemed overly technical, my feeling was that the challenging syntax applied to a fine point of the dynamics of the system was more apt to discourage readers than inform them. In fact, I'm not entirely certain, myself, what the first part meant. I assume it is on the order of that changes in drag coefficient and permeability of the stream bed mediated by transient influences (fauna, fine sediment, etc.) are controlling the exchange of water between the surface and hyporheic stream flows. While it may well be the case that these are influential, I have always been of the opinion that the second item mentioned -- ground water levels in the adjacent terrain -- were a more powerful driver of the system, at least on a macro level. But I will defer to any actual hydrologist who wants to shoulder the rewrite.

On a second point, I hope the photo on your page is the view out your window. It reminds me of how much I enjoyed your country!

Cheers--Salmo13 (talk) 05:18, 27 April 2012 (UTC)