Jun 2, 2023
Ode to the Eddy Muffin Ode to the Eddy Muffin Foam and duckweed in one of Julie’s research sites above the JC Boyle dam cover the surface of the water. Foam swirls and builds into pillows as it follows the many currents in the eddy. As a whitewater kayaker, we called the foam “eddy muffins.” I hadn’t known what the eddy muffins were or why they were found in some rivers but not others. The Klamath River is full of them, but the nearby Smith and Trinity Rivers do not have eddy muffins. It was a mystery. Eddy muffins are a result of eutrophication which occurs in water with high nutrient...
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