Tag: Lake

Located in southern Siberia, it outshines us with its pristine beauty and magnificent natural balance along its more than 636 km long and 80 km wide coastline. It is also surprising to know that, according to scientists, Baikal contains almost 20% of our planet’s unfrozen fresh water...

It’s official, a little Canadian lake called Crawford Lake has been designated the Golden Spike which marks the beginning of a new geological time where humans have significantly modified the Earth’s environment called the Anthropocene. Could this also mean the beginning of the end? ...

The freshwater fish Lake Sturgeon experienced drastic population declines across North America beginning approximately 150 years ago. Although commercial harvest has since ceased, many populations have been slow to recover. Stocking programs have been used to help recover the species, but they need ...

Originally, this cave was called “Hands and Knees Cave” because explorers crawled to get in. Ancient remans were excavated here and it became Utah’s first state monument. The archaeological history and human remains date back 11–12,000 years. Elmer Smith began scientific work...

I worked in the tiny tourist town of Lake Louise, Alberta for two summers and those summers remain the most unreal and memorable months of my life. I loved the experience so much that I constantly encourage friends and acquaintances to think about spending a summer season there and I hope through th...

A Sunday morning hike with a couple of friends turned out to be just what I needed. The woods at Chicot State Park provided just enough wildlife to be interesting but not creepy. Armadillos crossed our path more than once, and Double-Crested Cormorants rattled out their...

It’s safe to say that Ivory Lake as a destination has a bit of a reputation. Tales abound of parties aiming for the lake coming unstuck, beaten by big weather, big terrain, big scrub, or a combination of all three. Such are trampers that this is its attraction, its a challenge. I can’t p...

Introduction In this article, we will walk through the process of building a data pipeline using Delta Lake and Databricks. We will use COVID-19 data for the USA, available on Kaggle, as our dataset. This pipeline will demonstrate how to ingest raw data, clean and transform it, and finally v...