I wrote a commentary discussing Daniele's huge new global synthesis of controls on hydrological processes in forested catchments: read it here: rdcu.be/eXTrq . Some surprising findings on the importance of overland flow, soils and antecedent conditions.

When did hydrologists become historians? #FDRI has released 35 years of hi-res data from the Plynlimon Research Catchments! Read about our process of unearthing 35 years of measurements and what it means for understanding river processes: https://f.mtr.cool/grqzmwiqsd 🧪

@rarakihydro.bsky.social leads an exiting new preprint that maps dominant hydrologic processes across >14k US watersheds using streamflow signatures + ML. It’s been such fun following Ryoko and Hilary’s leadership alongside Admin, Anne and Gemma. egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

💧 Check out McMillan lab research at #AGU25! @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social. Shoutout to @alessing26.bsky.social for the cute flyer! 💧 Visit runoff generation processes poster session on Monday PM by @aliva-nanda.bsky.social, @nitinsingh.bsky.social, @kjmcguire.bsky.social, Bryn Stewart and me!

How about some real actual hydrology? 🌊 West Kettle River near Rhone Sep 2 2021 ~ 0.53 m3/s typical late season low flow Apr 20 2025 ~53 m3/s ramping up to Q2 at start of freshet

Hydrology Paper of the Day @iflscience.com on weird hydrology: rivers that flow in different drainage basins; why some rivers flow in two directions or have a reversed direction of flow; a lake that drains into two oceans; river capture and geological controls; modelling; and management challenges.

OUT NOW: A fantastic new read for hydrologists 📚: a wrap-up of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of @iahs-aish.bsky.social. Between 2013 and 2022, it explored links between changes in hydrology and society. 🌍 In this paper, Heidi Kreibich and her colleagues present ten years of progress. 👇

New paper! After much work by me and my students we created a global database of hundreds of research watersheds, and perceptual models of their hydrologic processes. We use the data to test classic theories on how climate and landscape control dominant processes. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Today we were in the Re della Pietra #catchment danielepenna.wixsite.com/redellapietra. We installed a new #weather station and showed the site to some private #stakeholders. And this little paper came out right today. rdcu.be/efM8w Congrats @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social and coauthors!

Thank you John for highlighting our work!

Where does macroplastic pollution in rivers come from? In urban San Diego, most is dumped directly in the river corridor. Volunteer clean up efforts are essential, but plastic stored in the river keeps increasing. Paper from MS student TJ Palmer agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Hope to see CSU students at this meeting! I will be attending alongside graduate students from SDSU Geography

Are you a graduate student or postdoc interested in the GRS/GRC Catchment hydrology conferences this June? GRS Chair Ally Jacoby has just published this first-time attendees guide! younghs.com/2025/03/03/a...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @rarakihydro.bsky.social on how soil moisture metrics and observations improve the outputs of a rainfall-runoff model: evaluation of model performance with hydrologic signatures; application to watersheds in New Zealand and the US; partitioning; and calibration.

Talk abstracts for Catchment Science Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) before GRC are due on 3/15/25. Submit early for a talk! Exciting venue for science + networking for early careers! Keynote speaker Dr Ryan Emanuel on Environmental Justice. @waterpotential.bsky.social www.grc.org/catchment-sc...

I'm really looking forward to this talk!

Remember to apply and register for this summer's Catchment Science GRC! The best conference you'll ever go to. Deadlines coming up on March 16 for graduate students to submit their oral abstracts to the GRS. www.grc.org/catchment-sc...

My 1st PhD chapter is (finally) out! 🥳 We have tested soil moisture as an objective metric in a Next-Gen rainfall-runoff model—a Conceptual Functional Equivalent (CFE) of WRF-Hydro. Thank you my mentor @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social and Dr. Fred Ogden for their guidance! doi.org/10.1111/1752...

Amongst all of this, our students are still publishing excellent papers. My recent Masters student Annie Holt, now at NWS, shows how geologic age and (region-dependent) wetland fraction metrics can be used to improve our predictions of baseflow in watersheds across the U.S.: doi.org/10.1002/hyp....

A little bit delayed, but I hear it's picking up over here so sending this out into the world: our Lafayette team including Rachel Hurley (now grad student at WPI), Dave Brandes, and me put out this piece on flashiness across the Mid-Atlantic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Heads up for the Weather Community! You can now find NOAA (@noaa.gov), NOAA Climate (@climate.noaa.gov) & NWS HQ (@nws.noaa.gov; still being set up) on Bluesky!

Interested in headwater streams? Headwaters make up 77% of global river networks, but have fewer gauges, less accurate models and lesser protections than large rivers. See our review led by @goldenwater.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s44...

What it has been like, living a few blocks away from the devastated area.

An incredible group of scientists and colleagues joined forces to support improved data, modeling, and analyses of headwater streamflow to improve surface water protections globally. Check out our paper, hot off the presses, in @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

R u a female ECR (MSc, PhD, postdoc)? We offer Visiting Fellowships in Hydrology/Ecohydrology in my research group in Berlin, Germany on hydrological/ ecohydrological topics: www.igb-berlin.de/tetzlaff Fellowships 2000€ for 2-4 wks. Send letter of motivation & CV to [email protected]

Science is good for your health! I walked 28 miles at #AGU24

30,000!! whoa.

The full solicitation for the new Water, Landscape, and Critical Zone processes (WaLCZ) program is out! Come by the NSF booth (1101) at #AGU24 between 10:30 am and 1 pm to talk with me about it! new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Today's AGU vibe

Dinner with lab group and friends tonight at #AGU24 . This conference is providing wonderful company and excellent food! #AcademicSky

💧 Check out Dr. Hilary McMillan's lab presentations at #AGU24 next week! 💧 Visit our session Runoff Generation Processes (H31V) with in poster hall B-C on Wednesday AM, organized by Aliva Nanda, @nitinsingh.bsky.social, Sidney Bush, Sumit Sen, and me!!

If you’re a ghost living in our Thanksgiving rental what kind of ghost are you?

Look at the fault go, what an earthquake cluster!

Earlier this year, I received news that fake peer reviews were allegedly being submitted impersonating me and approximately six others I shared my story with Science to, hopefully, reduce the chance of this kind of breach happening again www.science.org/content/arti...

A poem for my last day working at the writing center for the semester (by Joseph Fasano)

'The #lakes are alive again': These #frogs are back from near #extinction www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Are you a grad student (or a recent graduate) that has written a model, or a component for a modeling system, or done something cool and modeling-adjacent as part of your research? If so, consider submitting your work for the 2025 Syvitski Student Modeler Award! csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...

This is my absolute favourite conference. Not sure if I am able to make it in 2025 or 2027, but will hopefully be back in 4 years!

I can really recommend this conference. If you have the chance, do go. It’s so great for meeting people and non-stop novel science discussions 🤓

Save the date and apply earlier for the GRC catchment science conference, 22-27 June, and the early career GRS seminar. The best conference for wonderful invited talks, networking, field trips and activities! Happy to answer any Q's about the conference.

Fellow #academicsky peeps: worth a read to recalibrate

I hadn’t said anything because what was I supposed to say at this point? Oh, I guess I could have said “hello.” Well, it was too late now.

This is a useful article on the distractions of technology, and how it shapes perceptions and Geographies #Geography #Education #Technology www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

I've started working on this starter pack (Hydrology+Hydrogeology+Water in general) to help friends/colleagues who are migrating from the other place. Please note that this is work in progress and that more people will be added. Feel free to suggest BlueSky handles in comments. go.bsky.app/2h9ouZY

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

Has someone been spying on me?

found the perfect fixer-upper, click through for pics www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true