Future generations, if they are able to exist, will look back on decisions like these with disgust.

Lewis Fry Richardson, often considered the father of numerical weather prediction, turns out to have been a fascinating guy: scientist, Quaker, pacifist, visionary. I wrote a short piece about his legacy: earthcastings.ghost.io/a-roomful-of...

Some chemists build molecules incrementally. Others make risky moves to discover new chemistry. Both succeed. We call it methodology. But it's style. And we act like acknowledging different approaches threatens scientific rigor.

If you care about fluvial sediment transport, this is a must read. A solid statistical physics foundation on which one (or many) could build a lifetime of work...

Curious about the glacial geomorphology? Recent undergrad Regan Collins made this amazing ArcGIS Storymap about the formation of the Finger Lakes Region, complete with a map for a self-guided field trip to see some of the best examples of glacial geomorphology in the world! tinyurl.com/7w4asmwc

New publication alert! Congratulations to Patel and @rachelglade.bsky.social for their paper "When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York ". Take a look here journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

We had a great experience publishing with @geomorphica.bsky.social! Using a simple glacial erosion model, recent undergrad Div Patel found that lithologic differences alone may be enough to explain size differences of the Finger Lakes in Western, NY. Check it out! journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

This book will change the course of geomorphology as a field- get a head start and see what's here!

Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9! Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪

I'm incredibly proud of PhD student Nacere Mohamed Samassi for submitting her first ever paper, as well as the first experimental paper from the DRIP lab! Check out the preprint here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/

FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."

A beautiful paper about a ubiquitous pattern- I'll never look at ripples the same way again!

Kurt Vonnegut man

I am happy to share a fresh out of the oven preprint where we are connecting some granular mechanics to the fabrication and performance of solid state batteries! Check it out!

PhD student JohnPaul also visited DC last week as an AGU Local Science Partner to talk about arctic soil erosion to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Never has there been a more important time in history to talk to congress about science. Way to go JP!

Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2

NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...

Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?

This is essential reading. It is an example of the required, new style of thinking about doing science.

Very useful explainer.

I'm enjoying this whole special issue about the doing of science: www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122/5

A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!

So many rocks! Postdoc Anshul Yadav and helpers have collected and drilled 1000+ rocks for RFID tracking in a local creek. We're measuring shape, size, density and volume of each rock before placing them in the field to see how grain shape affects fluvial sediment transport.

Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

The University of Rochester is a highly ranked research university, and the Rochester area's low cost of living and cultural, educational, and recreational assets frequently place it among the best places to live, work, and raise a family in the United States.

We are especially interested in candidates who use these techniques to interrogate the (1) atmosphere, (2) cryosphere, (3) terrestrial carbon cycle, or (4) surface and interior properties associated with Earth and other planets

We seek applicants whose research lies in the general field of remote sensing, specifically those who apply novel and emerging techniques and/or develop new technologies using ground-based, airborne or satellite platforms to investigate Earth and planetary systems.

Come be my colleague at the University of Rochester! The Earth and Environmental Sciences Department is looking for a tenure-track faculty member in remote sensing, broadly defined. Formal review of applications will begin on November 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/153727

Congrats to Johanne Albrigtsen for her first-author paper (written as an undegrad!) at CU Boulder! We used stable isotopes to determine where water goes in gnammas, small bedrock depressions that could have a big impact on bare bedrock weathering. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Check out the first paper 100% homegrown in the DRIP lab!! With postdoc David Cúñez and undergrad Div Patel, we discovered that shape really matters in granular segregation, with wide implications for industrial and geophysical flows www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Have you ever wondered how mountain top removal mining affects landscape evolution? Check out this fascinating 2 paper series spearheaded by Charlie Shobe! It was fun to think about cohesion and other material properties in landscapes with PhD Student Nacere Mohamed Samassi.

Love this recent article about having a meaningful career in science! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....