Happy new year!
Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world.
3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET
Pls spread the word.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
@waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social
#AGU25 folks, there is a rapid- response town hall TODAY on the #NCAR dismantling at 1 pm, La Nouvelle Orleans ballroom C (per an AGU media advisory)
Very excited to be joining!
Maps show the relationship between peak snow water equivalent, date of peak snow, and four indices of streamflow spread across the western U.S. All show that lower snow yields wider spread.
New #GRL paper led by Kyla Bazlen shows that lower, earlier snow leads to streamflow spread out more over the water year. Proud to have worked on this with Kyla! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
New paper out led by Jeff Jenkins shows how snow extremes combine with reservation systems to drive visitor access in Yosemite ⛰️.
Fun to collaborate with Jeff and the team-always great to push forward understanding of how human and environmental systems interact.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Loved this work!
Our new research analyzing high-frequency soil moisture data from 40 NEON sites across 17 US ecoregions reveals the widespread occurrence of Preferential Flow (PF) & its drivers across continental scale environmental gradients. Published in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters
doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Maps of the US, showing trends in precipitation correlation distances over a 70-year observational record in each season. Summer correlation distances are decreasing.
🌧️ Correlation distances of precipitation gauges vary in both space and time! New work out in @agu.org's GRL, led by @alexayeo.bsky.social (with @lakeographer.bsky.social and me) examines precip correlation distances over the US. Check it out: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Hydrology Paper of the Day @akoshkin.bsky.social @hydro-adrienne.bsky.social on how wildfires affected by climate change remove trees and also affect snowpack hydroclimatology: changes in annual snow disappearance date related to location, radiation, temperature, elevation, and time since burn.
Nice article from @bloomberg.com summarizing @akoshkin.bsky.social's new work on snow-fire interactions: news.bloombergtax.com/health-law-a...
Super excited to have this work out showing how snowmelt timing changes in burned forests across the west. Big congrats to @akoshkin.bsky.social on leading this! 🎉
Calling all catchment enthusiasts! Do you have any catchment science or critical zone science updates to share? Please consider attending and supporting long-term sites by submitting an abstract to H046! #AGU2025
Feels like a weird time to be talking about regular stuff, but: if you're working on climate and snow and headed to AGU, consider submitting to our session! agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...
Lucky to be organizing with @mtnclimrhoades.bsky.social , Will Rudisill, Kate Hale, @akoshkin.bsky.social
Would you like to be part of the conversation at the first ever Overshoot Conference that will be hosted at IIASA from 30 September to 2 October this year?
⏰ We are happy to share that the abstract submission deadline has been extended to this Friday, 4 July.
Details available on the link below 👇
And R. It’s my best/only productivity hack
I get that this is not the main point but a great thing I learned from my PhD advisor: shift-option-8. ° works in more software places than you would think!
The official AMS logo.
The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.
Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk
Yesterday was the darkest day of my professional life so far. Many of NSF’s best and brightest people fired indiscriminately. The terms of their firing cruel. My colleagues matter, they are valued and they make a difference. I have no words. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
For any earth science grad students looking for a postdoc next year! ⚒️🧪
Stylized illustration of the water cycle of the lower 48 United States, showing the fate of water that enters through precipitation. Most of the water returns to the atmosphere through evapotranspiration, but much of the water ends up in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, in Canada, or in the Gulf of Mexico through streamflow.
Map of water limitation in the lower 48 United States by watershed. Areas with relatively high water limitation are in the high plains, Texas, California, and the Mississippi Embayment hydrologic regions.
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Vizlab has just released a new, interactive data visualization website about the USGS National Water Availability Assessment Report and Data Companion. Explore the data and the key findings of the assessment at water.usgs.gov/vizlab/water... #DataViz #rstats #USGS
Appreciate the opportunity to chat w/ @nytimes.com about how we can build smarter (and to code!!) after these wildfires. Suspending wildfire building codes only kicks the can down the road and invites another disaster. Hardened homes and defensible space for the win. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Extremely highly recommend working with Emily if you get a chance!
🚨job alert🚨
Would you, or someone you know, like to channel something into thinking rigorously about how safe and electrified housing for everyone might also save the grid?
I'm hiring a postdoc! 1-2 years, remote ok, $75k/year. Focus: model scenarios on deep building efficiency & grid impacts
How far back in time can you go to find the earliest climate science related warning re what we now call GHG emissions & their effect on climate change? It turns out, it's a very long time. The earliest I know of relates to the work of Eunice Newton Foote. 🧪🔌💡 www.climate.gov/news-feature... +...
Some new insights and possible solutions to grid interconnection issues in this new (free, open access) journal article from our team at @berkeleylabemp.bsky.social
We're also actively working on an update to the annual Queued Up report. Stay tuned! #energysky
Hydrology Paper of the Day @hydro-adrienne.bsky.social on how hydrological processes are affected by variability with respect to temperature changes that can exceed a future global warming target before declining to a threshold: infrastructure, glaciers, biogeography, and further research.
Excited about this one -- we've got a ton of great modeling work that tells us broadly what climate / energy transition might look like, but it's time to start looking closely at complexity. Here we talk about issues with the water system that are different if we see warming that's later reversed.
Not that this is a new or original thought but because these fires, like others, have harmed people I love and taken more of my history away: this (actually worse than this) is what net zero gets us. We need to go so much harder.
Drawing of the water cycle in a landscape with and without temperature overshoot. Impacts include forest cover, glacial contributions, infrastructure, geomorphology, water use for carbon dioxide removal, groundwater depletion.
New commentary paper out this week with @gruberte.bsky.social and Sara Warix in WRR - we argue that temperature overshoot has consequences for regional hydrology and water resources that bear consideration. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
