Field Notes

Rain Gauge

Cyber Lake

Deer Watch

Dig Deep

Flood Alert!

Gizmos

H₂O Sleuths

Healthy River?

Microclimates

Mystery Lake

Recycling

River Kids

Runoff Effect

Tree Growth

Whaling Rights

In our two towns, Taholah and Adna, it seems like it rains more in Taholah than in Adna, but Adna floods much more often.

Amanda: The University of Washington paid for rain gauges for us to use to take our data and we set them up at our houses and we took rain data every morning usually before we left for school. And the months we collected data were the three months we flooded in Adna. We couldn't believe how much more it rained in Taholah. We did some more research on floods in the libraries and the Internet helped a lot.

Amber: The river goes past Taholah and into the ocean.I thought it was pretty strange how Taholah came up with four-to-five meters of rain and Adna only came up with one.

Amanda:We came up with the conclusion that it floods in coastal towns only with tsunamis or hurricanes, but river floods happen with almost anything like storms or ice melts.

Amber: In the future, we would like to investigate the topography and other factors that contribute to flooding in Taholah and Adna.

TAHOLAH H.S.
Taholah,Washington
3 young women researchers
Advisor: Anne Marie Morse

New Moon Magazine
January/February 1998
pg.21

New Moon Magazine is a magazine for girls that is written and edited by girls. Amanda and Kayci were asked to write about their research for the 1998 Science issue.

The Facts About Floods is the result of their combined writing talents.