How to Study Coastal Evolution - Eos Researchers reviewed what’s known about how coastlines are changing and made recommendations for how to learn more.

How can we predict how coastal landscapes will change? These researchers have some suggestions.

eos.org/research-spo...

Drought a huge concern this summer. Palmer drought severity index (PDSI) by state for March 2026 had 6 states with their worst drought on record, with 22 others experiencing a top-10 worst drought. Only Michigan had an above-average lack of drought. From: www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monit...

Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns: Implications for Stream Thermal Regimes Shallow groundwater temperatures are controlled by ground surface temperatures and are influenced by climate change and land cover changes. Deeper groundwater temperature is constant year-round, maki...

Paper led by @dalhydro.bsky.social on Groundwater Temperature Processes and Patterns, Implications for Thermal Regimes in WIRES Water. #openaccess #hydrology 🧪💧

wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

🏝️The Bay Area's most populous island, Alameda, is among the most vulnerable to flooding (a risk that is growing worse because of human-caused climate change)🌊🌧️🚰

It's cool to know that leaders are taking a proactive role to protect the island. Here's a 🧵

@kqedscience.bsky.social @kqednews.kqed.org

Cracks appear in Pacific nuclear tomb as sea levels rise Cracks have appeared in a concrete dome holding 120,000 tonnes of contaminated soil and debris from Cold War-era nuclear bomb tests.

'Cracks appear in Runit Dome [that entombs radioactive debris from Cold War-era nuclear tests] amid sea level rise in Marshall Islands.

Experts worry the dome will not stand the test of time. Multiple recent studies have cited cracks present in its concrete cap.'

www.abc.net.au/news/2026-03...

What is groundwater and how much do we really have? YouTube video by UNSW

And also this YouTube Short that didn't make the 'long read'. Hopefully useful for groundwater educators: youtube.com/shorts/57smo...

Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. Underground hydromusicology: subjective interpretations of groundwater-inspired electronic music.

My first job was DJing, starting in high school and occasionally into my 20s. Years later, I found electronic music tracks called “Groundwater.” That curiosity has now become a Media Spotlight article in Groundwater journal. In press.

Since 1984, 500 acres of beach area has been added across Southern California, the most urbanized and dammed part of the California coast

More beaches are widening than narrowing

So, we have enough sand, but not where we need it most

Work led by Jon Warrick, USGS

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

GEARS 2026 Registration Now Open - Leeman Geophysical Registration is open for GEARS 2026, a hands-on instrumentation workshop for scientists in physics, geology, biology, meteorology, and engineering.

World class beginners and up sensors and electronics workshop for scientists 3-7 August run by our local Leeman Geophysical folks. Please share widely, and ping me if you're coming to town. leemangeophysical.com/gears-2026-s...

PhD "Integration of flux measurements in groundwater models" PhD "Integration of flux measurements in groundwater models"

Interested in groundwater fieldwork, novel flux sensors, groundwater modelling and interdisciplinary research?

We have an fully-funded PhD position on “Integration of flux measurements in groundwater models”.

Find more information and apply through this link: jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-P...

A Response to the Decision to Rescind EPA's 2009 Endangerment Finding The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

@ametsoc.org:
* The impacts of climate change are harmful to people and nature, including to the people of the United States and the nation itself.
* A stable and primarily beneficial climate is a foundation of life as we know it.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

The Current State of Undergraduate Hydrology Courses in North America: A Path Forward Examined syllabi for introductory courses in hydrology The titles, topics, and approaches to assessment varied widely across courses Found limited consensus in how hydrology courses are taught a...

@hydrochrista.bsky.social @domciruzzi.bsky.social, and I asked hydrologists across the country for their syllabi so we could investigate how instructors were teaching hydrology courses and think about the future...

Here’s what we found + suggestions

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

VOLUNTEER ON A DINOSAUR DIG: We run one of the only free dinosaur digs in the USA. We work public land and the fossils go in our public museum, forever. It's hard work, but we find some cool things. If this sounds like you, we're taking applications. Link in comms. #dinosaurs

What is groundwater flooding and why Dorset is seeing 'historic highs' With a Met Office yellow warning for rain in effect people are being warned about the dangers of groundwater flooding.

UK

'What is groundwater flooding...

”When the water table rises and reaches ground level, water starts to seep through to the surface and flooding can happen,” the EA says. That means it may rise up through floors or underground rooms such as cellars and basements.'

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

'Govt estimates suggest as much as half of U.S. households have some level of PFAS in their water… But while federal officials have put strict limits on water provided by utilities, those rules don’t apply to the roughly 40 million people in the US who rely on private drinking water wells.'

New postdoc opportunities in my group at Rutgers-New Brunswick, working on sea-level rise projections and/or coastal climate risk assessment & management

How to lead a journal club you won’t be embarrassed by later One of the jobs facing an early-career scientist, and a developing writer, is to learn what their field’s literature looks like. One of the best tools to that end is the journal club. If you’ve nev…

Love this from @stephenbheard.bsky.social on how to prioritize learning and useful discussion over tearing apart papers, and look forward to using some of these question prompts in future lab meetings: scientistseessquirrel.wordpress.com/2026/01/13/h...

The Paperwork Trick Letting Factory Farms Pollute With Impunity The practice called ‘manifesting’ lets CAFOs make manure pollution legally invisible and evade liability.

On paper, factory farms can make manure pollution legally invisible. This little-known loophole is called "manifesting" and it's part of why 70% of CAFOs in the US don't have discharge permits: @sentientmedia.org sentientmedia.org/trick-lettin...

As Sea Levels Rise, What Will It Take to Protect the Bay Area From Flooding? | KQED We talk about the floods and what it will take to adapt to rising sea levels in the Bay Area.

Worth a listen! Caught part of today's forum with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social talking with @kzhill.bsky.social, @climatedaddykqed.bsky.social , and others about SLR in the SF Bay Area.

Great #CAwater discussion highlighting how complex planning, mitigation, and adaptation all are.

Study: Air pollution causes 200,000 early deaths each year in the U.S. New MIT study finds vehicle emissions are the biggest contributor to these premature deaths.

When thinking about the news that Trump's EPA no longer views American deaths as a problem, it isn't a few lives here or there. It is hundreds of thousands.

This series, jointly hosted by the EarthScope-operated NSF National Geophysical Facility & CUAHSI aims to highlight the work being done at the intersection of hydrology & geophysics & foster collaboration between geophysicists & hydrologists to broaden CZ scientific communities. lnkd.in/erj5NDtt

Marin County Looked Like ‘a Lagoon’ After King Tides, Heavy Rain | KQED Flooding in Marin County this weekend foreshadows a far wetter future due to human-caused climate change.

🌧️Marin County Looked Like ‘a Lagoon’ After King Tides, Heavy Rain

“We’re seeing stronger storms as we go forward, and the predictions are that we are going to continue to see more intensity in the storms and wilder swings,”

@kqednews.kqed.org @kqedscience.bsky.social

www.kqed.org/news/1206864...

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

📢We are organising an #EGU26 session dedicated to groundwater-dependent ecosystems! 🌱

📅 Abstract deadline: 15 January
🔗 Session: shorturl.at/FtcXO

Please share with colleagues working at the interface of groundwater, ecology, biodiversity, and/or conservation across local to global scales!

King Tides to Flood Bay Area Shorelines This Week. Here's Where and When to Safely See Them | KQED This week’s extra high tide could flood shorelines across the Bay Area, offering a preview of how rising seas could reshape the region.

www.kqed.org/science/1999... #KingTides

King Tides are coming soon Email from California Coastal Commission We need your help to photograph king tides King Tides are Coming Soon! December 4th & 5th, 2025 and January 2nd & 3rd, 2026 Plus: Nov. 6th and Dec. 6th in Sout

California #KingTides are coming soon!
We need your help to photograph the highest projected tides of the year, to create a record of changes to our shoreline while helping us understand what's vulnerable to flooding now and how sea level rise will impact California in the future. conta.cc/3Jb1S8Q

AI reveals vast ‘ghost forests’ along U.S. coast Machine learning method counts nearly 12 million dead trees, many likely killed by rising seas

Summary of recent fieldwork in coastal NC - We ground truthed part of a massive new dataset of ghost forests along the US east coast. First paper of the project, led by Henry Yeung (UVA), should be out soon.
www.science.org/content/arti... #hydrology #remoteSensing #geosky

Assistant Professor of Hydrogeology About Western: Western Washington University, with over 15,000 students in seven colleges and the graduate school, is nationally recognized for its educational programs, students and faculty. The campus is located in Bellingham, Washington, a coastal community of 90,000 overlooking Bellingham Bay, the San Juan Islands and the North Cascades Mountain range. The city lies 90 miles north of Seattle and 60 miles south of Vancouver, British Columbia. Western has additional sites in Anacortes, Bremerton, Everett, Port Angeles, and Poulsbo. Western is recognized nationally for its successes, such as being named one of the top public master's-granting institutions in the Pacific Northwest for 25 years in a row by U.S. News & World Report. About the Geology Department: The Geology Department has 17 faculty, offering BA, BS and MS programs in Geology, Geophysics, and Science Education, serving approximately 190 majors. The department has strengths in field and lab-based teaching and research in geomorphology, igneous petrology, geophysics, hydrogeology and envionmental/engineering geology, planetary geology, sedimentology, science education, and structure/tectonics. Additional information about our programs can be found at https://geology.wwu.edu/. The Geology Department strives to further Western's identity as an institution that welcomes and embraces diversity and encourages applications from diverse candidates. About the Position: The ideal candidate will support our department's ability to produce workforce-ready geoscientists. We seek individuals who are enthusiastic about teaching and who will establish a productive research program that involves undergraduate and Master's-level students. Broad areas of research interest may include, but | are not limited to, groundwater-surface water interactions, environmental hydrogeology, and groundwater systems (e.g-geothermal, fault zone, coastal, mountain). Teaching responsibilities will in…

The Geology Dept at WWU is hiring an Assistant Prof in Hydrology! Come be my colleague in a great department! More info in the attached flyer, and at hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

The dried-out subdivisions of Phoenix - High Country News A groundwater crisis halted the construction of thousands of homes and pitted affordability against environmental concerns.

The past and future of water, primarily groundwater, and housing in the Phoenix metro. I learned some new things - including that it took 39 years (!) for Arizona's 1980 groundwater law to halt any growth. Thorough reporting from Tony Davis @highcountrynews.org www.hcn.org/issues/57-10...

A person taking a photo of splashing waves against a staircase and rocks at the ocean

Hi King Tides Community! We need your help to photograph the upcoming King Tides. Your photos help us understand what's vulnerable to flooding today, plan for future sea level rise, and get us all talking and thinking about the impacts of the climate crisis. What can we do to make a difference?
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