Just published!
PhD student Jed Dale pairs time-lapse imagery and terrestrial lidar to monitor nuisance flooding at the neighborhood scale - Give it a read!
hess.copernicus.org/articles/30/...
In absolute disbelief St Louis did not advance
First paper from my recently defended PhD student, Vivian Grom, is out in @geomorphica.bsky.social! This work was an outgrowth of the month that Vivian spent at @csdms.bsky.social and if you're interested in landscape evolution modelling, I encourage you to take a look!
And check out this recent story about the ongoing water quality issues in Cahokia Heights here: www.stlpr.org/health-scien...
New pre-print out now from our group!
PhD student Jed Dale develops a slick, terrain-aware approach to invert flooded image fractions from quantitative flood metrics - and applies it to 300,000+ images from our local monitoring network!
Check it out here: shorturl.at/GkOzW
📣 New preprint alert! 📣
PhD Student Robert Kostynick demonstrates that flow history effects and riverbed strengthening is enhanced between floods at steep slopes with some super slick experiments in our lab's tilting flume.
Check it out here: shorturl.at/flphF
🌟 Editor's Pick! 🌟
“Statistical analysis of western United States shore evolution provides hints of long-term tectonic and seismic cycle effects on modulating coastal erosion.”
🔗 eos.org/editor-highl...
#AGUPubs @eos.org
Hi Christina!
The codes to extraction of channel width and slope can be applied to any lidar dataset and you can download them here: zenodo.org/records/1753...
and check out Kostynick et al. (2026) for a summary.
The Eel is special because its topobathymetric lidar so we can get depth too!
New preprint out!
We tracked the trajectory of channel adjustment along the SF Eel River - showing that sediment mobility increases drastically downstream.
By decomposing modes of channel adjustment, we highlight the critical role of channel width in regulating shear stress.
shorturl.at/D99zw
A photo of a gravel bed river with hills in the background, superimposed with the text: Gravel Bed Rivers 10, from grain to globe. Registration and abstract submission now open. Aviemore Scotland, 7th - 11th September 2026. For all information, go to our website: https://www.gbr10.uk/
We are delighted to announce that registration and abstract submission for Gravel Bed Rivers 10 are now open! See our website for all information: www.gbr10.uk
We just experienced the most extreme case! An AE asked a reviewer who *never submitted their first review* to re-review our revised MS 😵💫😵💫😵💫. The impact of stuff like this on time to publication really impacts both phd students and TT faculty in a way that cannot be overstated.
New paper out now! PhD Robert Kostynick uses a new automated tool for measuring river width to reveal new styles of river channel adjustment to local changes in channel slope in concave and knickpoint-bearing river channels. Give it a read!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Watch this space for Cesar's ongoing work, where we're modeling how the timing and magnitude of the next megathrust EQ will affect wave energy delivery and coastal retreat across Cascadia. Here's a sneak peek at some preliminary model output 👇👇👇
Hot off the presses!
PhD Student Cesar Lopez leads a new paper from our group focused on the role of tectonic uplift in buffering coastal retreat over decadal timescales and the potentially under recognized role of EQs over millennia.
Give it a 👀 at
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
@topoismyforte.bsky.social - Update: It was not only a 🧟, but a very snarky 🧟 ... 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫 ... minor revisions now due on CHRISTMAS EVE
What does it look like when you put a DAS system in a river? New study led by Danica Roth (CIRES) out now! seismica.library.mcgill.ca/article/view...
Ugh, both of these stories are awful for your postdoc and so so frustrating. How can we have such high demands for productivity and at the same time let things languish in purgatory for so long?
Even if we are just particularly unlucky, the system isn't working, especially for ECRs
The entire thing is so baffling, the 1st review was so minor we were able to reply within 48 hours with a <4 page response.
It feels so unfair that my student may get a brand new review +130 days after submission for a journal that boasts an average time to decision of 33 days...👀
The real questis is how long we will need to wait to find out if the reviewer is a 👻 or a 🧟!
These sorts of delays really suck for EC people, especially students that are close to graduation and looking for their next gig.
Why ghost a first review request and then accept the request to review a revision?
Why request someone who ghosted the review in the first place to review again? 😵💫
@topoismyforte.bsky.social you'll love this one
late July: submit paper to short format journal
early Aug: 2 reviewers found
early Oct: 1 review submitted
late Oct (100 day mark): 1 reviewer ghosts; editor does review 2
early Nov: revisions submitted
mid Nov: paper goes to re-review and... 👻 REVIEWER AGREES TO REVIEW REVISION?
How? What? Why?!
Application closes on Friday! Come work with us!
@cuahsi.bsky.social @csdms.bsky.social @ciroh.bsky.social @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguepsp.bsky.social
📣 📣📣 We are seeking a postdoc join our team in January 2026 to lead community-engaged flood monitoring and modeling efforts as part of a convergent research team linking flooding to health risks.
Apply here: tinyurl.com/floodPostdoc
Review of applications will begin Oct. 31
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🚨⛈️ New pre-print from our group ⛈️🚨
We present a novel 2D/3D data fusion method to derive flood depths and extents from trail cameras. Our flexible, low-cost set-up helps track urban, pluvial flooding often missed by flood risk assessments and remote sensing.
Check it out! shorturl.at/hpW9W
🫠🫠🫠🫠🫠 Ugh I'm sorry. It's so frustrating, especially with student authors where a timely turnaround is extra important.
I've gotten about 5 in the last three weeks. Meanwhile, one of our submitted papers has been without an editor for over a month 🫠
🌊🌊🌊 New pre-print from our group linking modern shoreline retreat rates across the US West Coast to tectonic uplift rates. Faster uplift buffers shoreline retreat with longer-term implications for shore platform development + highlighting the potential role of the seismic cycle. shorturl.at/6Fmpc
Thanks, Nicole!