Invigorating.

So far this week: dendrometer, wood (stem) moisture sensor, and sap flow sensor, all surrounded with radiometers (4 components) above and below this tree, all this in 4 dominant trees. #UFRB #INSA #UFCG

Tree crown level radiometers installation this week in Brazil 👌🏽

Ranching, Resources and Resilience: Uncovering the Impact of Land Grabbing in the Amazon YouTube video by Rodolfo Nóbrega

Here is a new short and didactic video within the scope of our ESRC/UKRI 3R project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeX9.... Great contributions from @infracursions.bsky.social led by @amypenfield.bsky.social, narration by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social. PT version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXp... #watercycle

🤣... guilty as charged! 🫣

Fieldwork in a rural area in Brazil this month, where we are instrumenting water monitoring systems with local residents to understand the impacts of drought on community water supply and crop production.

Fresh dendrometer in a couple of Commiphora leptophloeos (locally known by the Indigenous name 'Umburana de Cambão'). Next month we will be installing below/above canopy radiometers and sap flow sensors.

Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures Colonialism continues to have an enduring impact on hydrological research, practice, and education. This paper examines the colonial legacy in hydrolo…

Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cats and I on a empty campus day due to Carnival. #notAI

Research Associate/Fellow in Amazon Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/yu073BU3...

Quote from our newest blogpost by Isabella Aboderin: “Multi-layered power imbalances continue to pervade and are reproduced through joint academic inquiry between actors in Africa and the global North.”

North-South research collaborations often reproduce structural inequities, privileging Northern research frameworks.

ISABELLA ABODERIN shows that only reflexive, deliberately designed partnerships can transform research, rebalancing knowledge and power globally.

verfassungsblog.de/reflex-and-t...

My current PC background is quite realistic and moves the entire time.

A good day to visit a flux tower and a giant cactus tree :)

I’m happy to announce our @hsj-iahs.bsky.social special issue on “Progress in coupled land–atmosphere systems for hydro-meteorological processes” is now open to submissions: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #ICCLAS @iahs-aish.bsky.social

#Cocreation in #Hydrology & #Water Resources Management at #EGU2026! Keynote: Seifu Tilahun (IWMI) Deadline: THIS THURSDAY Jan 15, 13h CET
We need communities, Indigenous peoples, NGOs & practitioners to make knowledge that works.
Part of #IAHS #HELPING decade.
Submit: lnkd.in/eBPk8kz8

Working with drylands and/or (semi-)arid catchments? Please consider our session on hydrological processes in dryland catchments www.egu26.eu/session/55943

This scientist is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease in Brazil Luciano Moreira is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.

Luciano Moreira is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease, such as dengue, in Brazil. He’s part of Nature’s 10. 🧪

Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session

HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis
Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911

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Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group The story so far, and how it developed We left you in part 1 of our blog (Hydrological Sciences | Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group) tw...

The second episode on the @egu.eu #Blog on our Working Group on co-creation:

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group

blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

@natalieceperley.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) , inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions...

Why should hydrologists pay attention to #co-creation?

In this @hs.egu.eu #Blog, we tell the story of the #interdisciplinary @iahs-aish.bsky.social Working Group "Co-creating water knowledge", active since 2023. This is the first part, so stay tuned for the second one on Friday:

bit.ly/443VXcV

Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!

At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions:

Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv

Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4

Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC

Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...

Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US.

Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.

doi.org/10.1080/0262...

@hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India.  Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...

Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT

The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!

Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).

Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios We assembled a large global dataset by combining several previous compilations to test eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) hypotheses about how plants allocate carbon above- and below-ground (root: sho...

Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....