During another summer I worked on a National Science Foundation Grant studying the water quality of the Niagara River, through which all the water of the Great Lakes flows on its way to Lake Ontario, the St. Lawrence, and the Atlantic. The water quality being what it was, I ended up with blisters on my legs from so much time submerged sampling soil, water, and plant biomass.

            

 

This was where and when I (think) I may have discovered that rivers have something akin to a seiche, which is the rhythmic ‘sloshing’ or rocking back and forth of water in lakes, like water rocking back and forth in a bathtub. As I spent my hours in the river, I noticed a periodic rise and fall of a couple inches in the water level.

 

 

 

Maybe I was right, maybe not. Maybe I discovered something, maybe not. But the rivers water level did vary regularly.

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