In awe over the sea life here. I saw my first octopus 🐙 and sea cucumber today. Blood and leather sea stars too. Amazing.

A couple urban creeks in Tacoma drain into the Sound through pipes that you can only see at low tide. Here are two of the larger pipes during low tide this fall.

My new garden here in the PNW is growing! Lots of lettuce and arugula right now. Beets, carrots, cauliflower, and snow peas are also starting to take off. Enjoying the ☀️.

🚨 New publication 🚨 We present a method to remotely map headwater stream channel incision using repeat lidar. Provides detailed spatial info about channel stability across all streams in the watershed. Focuses on the Maryland Piedmont. Check it out, doi.org/10.1016/j.ge....

Brown water from a stream mixing with clearer water from a larger stream in a forested area.

Little Rock’s turbid water mixing with Walnut Creek upstream of State Street in Raleigh. The Little Rock watershed includes part of downtown Raleigh and has much of its headwaters buried underneath the city streets.

One more week to apply for this post-doc!

Large snapping turtle hiding at the bottom of a stream.

Can you find the snapping turtle and if so, do you think it is alive? I thought they bury themselves in the mud to hibernate.

Eroded stream channel

The channel continues to erode into the former lakebed. Can you spot the old tree stump in the second photo? A good reference for the former forest floor, it’s cut down another 3 feet or so.

Garden bed with colorful pinwheels.

Will pinwheels protect the peas this year?

Toy dump truck with Brussels sprouts

The only way to harvest Brussel sprouts!!

Yellow daffodils blooming

Purple crocus flowers

Spring is just around the corner!

Trash trap on Little Rock stream at the Walnut Creek Wetland Park.

Trappin trash on Little Rock Creek at the Walnut Creek Wetland Park. Check out the new trail that is on the other side of Walnut Creek, just walk down State Street to get to the trailhead.

Thinking about restarting #StreamStories. Are there any creeks around Raleigh/Cary/Durham that folks are interested in knowing more about? And what do you want to know more about?

I’ve always wondered about the origins of some of the names for creeks around here.

Here what’s the channel looks like at baseflow.

Got an inch of rain and the stream is up, up, up. The channel is over 5 feet deep but you couldn’t tell from the looks of it today. Totally full. The box culverts at the road crossing are totally underwater on the downstream side.

Yeah that would be nice too.

It just looks nicer, am I right? Lots of ways to integrate green spaces into all that pavement and filter stormwater too.

Mountain view this fall colors on the tree leaves.

Tall rock slab with a waterfall cascading down into a pool.

Enjoyed a much needed weekend in the NC mountains. And the leaves were still putting on a show. 🍂 🍂 Beautiful weather for hiking and camping.

@bkshriver.bsky.social and I are looking for a postdoc to work with us on developing models to predict benthic cyanoHABs in rivers. Come work with us and others on developing cool models with diverse datasets! Details here: blaszczaklab.weebly.com/current-open...

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Checking out the litter trap at the Walnut Creek Wetland Center. Catching some falling leaves right now 🍁 🍂. The trees are starting to show off here.

Getting a bit festive. 👻 👻 just some tomato cages, trash bags, frisbees, and lights.

Had a great visit at Temple University. Gave a seminar and had a great day checking out field sites with Dr. Toran. Thanks for the warm welcome!

Beaver lodge in a reservoir.

Beavers making their home among the people. 🦫 Noticed a lodge in Lake Johnson today.

Long leaf pine tree

Former champion long leaf pine tree.

Long leaf pine tree with woodpecker hole.

There is something magical about being next to the oldest known long leaf pine, dates back to 1548. Enjoyed exploring around Weymouth woods this morning.

What a soggy soggy day ☔️ today. Got about 3 inches of rain here from Ophelia according to the garden toad.

🚨Job Alert: Permanent USGS Hydrologist Position (GS9-GS11) based out of Raleigh, NC. Apply between Sept 21-27, 2023. Looking for someone with strong coding skills to apply statistical techniques to analyze hydrologic data (low/high flows) 💧 📉 usajobs.gov/job/749773700

Concrete stream channel lined with grass and trees.

What a beauty. What do you think was the goal for this channel design? The stream runs parallel to an elementary school. 💧 🧪 #StreamStories

Stream and vegetated floodplain.

Lots of matted down vegetation along the stream today, you can see the high water mark. The water got pretty high this afternoon after over an inch of rain.

Thanks! I don’t remember the species, I have three different kinds.

Raised garden bed with seedlings

Broccoli and Brussels are starting to get big.