For interested folks in the US following current federal budget and continuing resolution discussions:

Check out this overview of multi-scale soil moisture monitoring network implemented to integrate CRNS with complementary in-situ observations in northeast Germany:

Big congratulations to all the 2025 @agu.org award recipients! Be sure to check the list and give a shoutout to folks you know 🎉 It's been a particularly hard year for a lot of folks, and it's important to take time to celebrate our community's successes!

New quantum magnetometer network in the UK. And 🥇 to whoever wrote that headline: UK scientists in awe-rora as national coverage of magnetic field complete for the first time May our science continue to inspire awe in all of us! bsky.app/profile/bgs....

📄 New: proposed glacial lake monitoring network to mitigate threat of glacial lake outburst floods in the Himalaya through improved understanding and prediction, supporting early warning systems and strengthening disaster risk management. doi.org/10.1175/BAMS... bsky.app/profile/irfa... 🧪 ⚒️

📄 New paper: Distributed Acoustic Sensing to Estimate the Permeability Researchers conducted a lab experiement to use DAS to map borehole fracture networks and characterize flow and permeability. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... doi.org/10.1029/2025... ⚒️ 🧪 #geophysics #hydrology

Useful overview of this recent geophysics community science workshop. This visual summary of discussions about building community around geophysics includes good reminders & ideas as we work to better connect our distributed sensing community. 🎨 🧑‍🎨 ⚒️ 🧪 bsky.app/profile/agu....

Coming to AGU25 this fall: Hands-On Fiber-Optic Sensing! This daylong workshop (date TBD) will be a fast-paced intro to Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) & Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) for Earth and environmental applications. Find out more: ctemps.org/sites/ctemps...

This Wednesday, another great hydro careers seminar from the folks at @cuahsi.bsky.social and @agu-h3s.bsky.social : 💡 Highlighting skill sets for careers outside of academia 🗓️ September 17, 2025 🕐 1:00-2:00PM Eastern (US) ⚒️🧪

For #FieldworkFriday, Evan King is measuring infiltration rates, collected using a MINI Disk Infiltrometer across soils derived from varying lithologies. Work took place in July 2025, in the outdoor watershed laboratory of the East River in Crested Butte, Colorado. ⛰️ 📸: Evan King

📄 Recent Paper: Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing: Scientists in Greenland used DAS and DTS to study how tidewater glaciers interact with a warming ocean and help close the ice front ablation budget doi.org/10.1038/s415... ⚒️ 🧪

🗓️ Distributed Sensing Community Calendar Highlights ⚒️ Near-Surface Geoscience 2025 eagensg.org 7-11 September 2025 ⚒️ AEG 2025 www.aegannualmeeting.org 23-27 September 2025 ⚒️ Snow Measurement Field School 2026 www.cuahsi.org/workshops/sn... Application Deadline: 25 September 2025

⚒️ Build, connect, and explore the future of low-cost environmental sensing in a one-day, hands-on workshop with OPEnS Lab at LSU’s world-class river model! Participants will learn to build, calibrate, and deploy a variety of open-source sensors. 🗓️ When: Sunday, December 14, 2025 (before AGU). 🧪

Fieldwork throwback photos from a few years ago! Scientists from Bahir Dar University conducted multiple hydrogeophysics surveys, including short and normal long resistivity logging in Eastern Ethiopia and vertical electrical sounding in Northwestern Ethiopia. 📸: Bahir Dar University ⚒️ 🧪 #geophysics

Mark your calendars for upcoming #AGU25 deadlines! 🗓️ And if you have been impacted by recent significant funding cuts or a job loss, be sure to look into whether you might be eligible for possible fee waivers: www.agu.org/waiver

Attending #AGU25 with caregiving responsibilities? Whether you're joining virtually or in person, our Caregiver Grant is here to support you! Let us help make your participation at the Fall Meeting possible and meaningful. Application Link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

mincup, MinCup, MINCUP! Are you casting your votes for the best mineral in #MinCup25 this year? Make your case, whether it's about utilitarian uses, lick-ability, mineral structure, or how good it looks on your shelf! 🗳️ It's a fun and fast moving way to connect with the geoscience community here!

The @agucatchhydro.bsky.social competition (open to undergraduates, graduate students, and postdocs highlights diverse catchment hydrology studies across the globe! This weekend is your last chance to enter for a chance to receive $300 in educational support. (Details below)

Students! Don't miss out on this chance to show off your data visualization skills and possibly win funds to offset your AGU25 expenses.

Speaking of learning opportunities, what events are happening this fall? Help get upcoming workshops, trainings, and other opportunities into the Distributed Sensing community calendar by dropping them into this form: forms.gle/ki3R7dE1itFp... ⚒️🧪🌏

Scientists never stop learning 👩‍🎓! Earlier this month scientists came together at the University of Nevada, Reno, to learn more about distributed temperature & acoustic fiber-optic sensing, from basic principles to field deployment to data processing. Learn more at ctemps.org ⚒️ 🧪 📸 Credit: CTEMPs

Study shows that distributed acoustic sensing can reveal pressure-dependent behavior of seismicity during cyclic enhanced geothermal system operations, concluding DAS + edge computing can inform protocols for related induced seismicity mitigation. ⚒️ 🧪

Big thanks to everyone who participated in last week’s Technical Committee call. Good stuff being planned around AGU25 and more, so stay tuned! Visit our website for the latest newsletter, community calendar links, info on the listserv, and more : connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab...

This Wednesday, another great hydro career seminar from the folks at @cuahsi.bsky.social and @agu-h3s.bsky.social

Look at that field site 🤩. We love hearing about your distributed sensing work around the world!

(Re-posting due to glitch...) What are YOU up to this weekend? We'd rather be out on a river like these lucky students, measuring all things water related! Have you been out in the field lately? Roving on remote rivers? Setting up seismometers? Visiting a volcano? Share your photos with us!

What are YOU up to this weekend? We'd rather be out on a river like these lucky students, measuring all things water related! Have you been out in the field lately? Roving on remote rivers? Setting up seismometers? Visiting a volcano? Share your photos with us!

This sounds like a great careers discussion for women in earth science contemplating different paths in science. Mark your calendars for October, and have your pumpkin spice field notebooks ready 🎃 (too soon?). Oh, and register, too! ⚒️🧪 #WomenInScience

Happening today, in two hours! Looking forward to talking with folks about what we've all been up to, Open Science at AGU, staying connecting, AGU25, upcoming activities, and more!

📣 Don't forget! Join us for our Distributed Sensing Technical Committee call tomorrow! 🗓️ Date: 21 August 2025 🕒 Time: 3:00-4:00PM U.S. Eastern Time 📋 Sign up for the email list to receive link connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab... 🌐 All AGU members interested in distributed sensing systems are invited!

📄 Recent WRR paper on 3-year distributed temperature sensing study to quantify specific discharge and inter annual variations in groundwater flux along a braided river channel in New Zealand. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... doi.org/10.1029/2024...

And another great career-related workshop, this time for ECR folks in the biogeosciences. ⚒️🧪

Today, apparently our theme is seismology! This workshop sounds great, and timely, with more folks exploring their career options right now. Seismologists, mark your calendars! ⚒️🧪

Recent study comparing the continuous noise records of four new prototypes of fiber optic rotational seismometers, including two three‐component and two single‐component rotational seismometers.

Hey, we recognize the person in that cap and gown! Big congratulations & shoutout to @alekseinelaev.bsky.social for earning his masters degree. Aleksei is our Committee secretary, and we are grateful for his never-ending enthusiasm and energy for supporting and building our community. 🎓 🎉

⚒️ Overview of research by Dr Susanne Ouellet on integrating "DAS and CWI for tailings dam monitoring, highlighting the potential of DAS to dramatically increase spatial coverage ... Such monitoring could inform early warning systems and support risk mitigation efforts". 🧪

📄 "Over, Under, and Through: Hydrologic Connectivity and the Future of Coastal Landscape " presents an approach to advance understanding of coastal seawater intrusion using distributed sensor networks, remote sensing, and more. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Get to know our community! Meet Dr. Haokai Zhao, a postdoc at MIT, where he focuses on environmental systems sensing and modeling, and urban sustainability. He works on developing a sensor-to-ML framework for real-time soil moisture monitoring & algorithms for groundwater contamination assessment.

Drone folks! Have you submitted your abstract for the 2025 SEG Summit on Drone Geophysics? Deadline is Sunday, August 10. 📣 From sensor innovations to transformative sUAS applications, showcase your work. 📬 Submit your abstract now: seg.org/calendar_eve... #Geophysics #UAS #drones

🗓️ Distributed Sensing Community Calendar Highlights ⚒️ Save the Date! AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee Call Date: 21 August 2025 Sign up for the email list to receive the link connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab... All AGU members interested in distributed sensing systems are welcome!

Hot off the press!

Everybody right now, pulling down earthquake data, analyzing tsunami data, and rewriting their AGU25 abstracts for today's deadline ...

🚨 Hurry! The abstract submission deadline is tomorrow. Now is the time to submit your abstract and ensure your research has a spot at #AGU25. 👉 Submit by 30 July: buff.ly/ippEYq3

🚨 The #AGU Catchment Hydrology TC Student Competition closes August 31! Please help us spread the word to undergrads, grad students, and postdocs working in #catchment #hydrology. 🌊 📌 Full details in our last post and on the TC website. #EarlyCareerScientists #StudentOpportunity

#AGU25 abstracts deadline is this week, July 30th ! (🧵 part 2!). Have you checked out the MacGyver sessions, for the makers and DIYers out there? From sensors to software, this is a great community to connect with. ⚒️ 🧪 For the full list, visit our web site: connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab...

#AGU25 deadlines are coming! Be sure to submit to some of these great sessions being organized for the distributed sensing community (🧵). For a full list, visit the technical committee's website: connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab...

Boosting! Are you submitting to any of the MacGyver sessions this year at #AGU25?

Do you work on instrumentation used in distributed sensor systems? These technologies are transforming the earth sciences by enabling high-resolution, real-time monitoring across scales and domains. You're invited to submit to this interdisciplinary #AGU25 session. agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Are you working on integration of flux tower and remote sensing data for resource management & environmental monitoring? Submit to this #AGU25 session on advancing methods and applications that link eddy covariance fluxes with RS observations across scales. ⚒️ agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr...

Do you use distributed fiber-optic sensing for geohazard monitoring? Submit to this #AGU25 interdisciplinary session on how fiber sensing is advancing near-surface geosciences through scalable, high-resolution insights into Earth processes. ⚒️ agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... @jajofrank.bsky.social