Water-based activities and studies are too much a part of our academic and leisure lives to allow a little thing like location to deter us. Penn State wants to make sure our faculty and students are exposed to and can participate in cutting-edge research and activities, so we use our creativity and innovation to get us there.

We bring the oceans here through classroom activities and visiting speakers. We do 'oceanography' in nearby lakes, and we travel.

Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

The overland water no longer is going over (North Dakota) Highway 18 in any spot. And you can start to see some of the county and township roads to farms out west.

The U.S. strategy is to water down the document rather than to strengthen it.

The part of the canyon I loved the most is still under 500 feet of water. I was lucky enough to have seen it in its pristine state.