In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors. Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...

Mentors matter—especially in challenging times. The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path. Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience. Check 👇 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

An exciting webinar is coming up! Discover the Poseidon Water Quality Portal with DataStream’s Meghan McLeod, Dr. Nandita Basu, @julieeemai.bsky.social & @vanmeterkvm.bsky.social on Sept 22, 1pm ET. Learn about portal features, datasets, and applications: forms.gle/ZjHPEGvRyNjD...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @rarakihydro.bsky.social on a model of soil moisture loss that utilizes a nonlinear function: model fitting to SMAP remote sensing data; an examination of global-scale patterns; how aridity, sand fraction and landcover affects outputs; and the role of evapotranspiration.

Caravan News🐪🐫 I just published Version 1.6. The main update is that the source data for CAMELS-AUS was upgraded to CAMELS-AUS v2. This means more basins (561 vs 222) and more recent streamflow data (2022 vs 2014). All relevant links in thread 🧵 (please share/repost)

We are looking for a Research Software Engineer/Scientist to work between @nanditabasu.bsky.social and myself on watershed, water quality, wetlands and modeling, from the watershed to regional and global scales. Please reach out and apply.. www.linkedin.com/posts/nandit...

Starting on bsky with a new preprint: "How to deal w___ missing input data" doi.org/10.31223/X50... Missing input data is a very common challenge in deep learning for hydrology: weather providers have outages, some data products start later than others, some only exist for certain regions, etc.

Anyone in my network know an excellent, German-speaking administrator who would be interested in working at the University of Basel? We are looking for a new Managing Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...

GRAD POSITION: MSc position aquatic ecology and conservation at Laurentian University w/ flexible start date. Contact Brie Edwards (see ALT text) for more details #AcademicSky

How I arrived at BlueSky

Uh. Very interesting: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

We have a full day of Art&Science for you today at #AGU24! The #ArtSci oral & poster sessions and the plenary “What’s next for corals” at noon, highlighting the transformative power of the arts in engaging the public & for innovative pathways to solutions 🪸 Sneak peek of the plenary rehearsal🕵️‍♀️

Best part of #AGU24 @julieeemai.bsky.social

My colleague Martin Gauch will present our ongoing research on end-to-end trained, deep learning based distributed hydrology models today in the morning session at poster 983 at #AGU24.

Friday! Final day of AGU! Please come say hi to us all! We would love to talk science 💫 @danykabyrnes.bsky.social @julieeemai.bsky.social #BasuLab #AGU24

If you are still around and have interest in #drought #groundwater at CONUS scale, stop by our talk today at 2:56p in 145. Apparently, it has been "highlighted" by the convenors, and @matthiasprenger.bsky.social tells me it is not a bad thing 😅

@lireactivewater.bsky.social delivers this year’s Witherspoon lecture during #AGU24. She describes scientific models like novels. Novels allow us to study the deeper truths of the human existence. Scientific models help us explore deeper truths of science. More work from Li: go.nature.com/3uZg5i4

Li Li giving a great Witherspoon Lecture on water quality modeling!

Amazing #HEPEX gathering in Washington during the #AGU24

What a pleasure to be out for dinner with the amazing HEPEX people #AGU24. Such a treat!! Thanks @arnallouise.bsky.social for organising! ❤️

Using all the activity here from #AGU24 to highlight our #EGU25 session on "Deep learning in hydrology" that is open for abstract submission.

Change of plans! Shuyu Chang is presenting about Dams and water quality in the Chesapeake bay at 15:25 in 146A! Go listen to this awesome talk and give her some support! 🤗

World water maps town hall happening right now at #AGU24. Come to Marriott salon 3. It’s in the tunnel connecting conference Center and Marriott.

Husain Najafi (#UFZ) presenting results on current research on high resolution flood early warning systems #FEWS and potential new pathways at the #AGU24. Forcings: #DWD | Model chain: ICON #DWD + mHM #UFZ + RIM2D #GFZ | ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happening today! @nettiewallace.bsky.social @vanmeterkvm.bsky.social @nanditabasu.bsky.social @julieeemai.bsky.social @nitinsingh.bsky.social

Welcome to BlueSky Luis Samaniego @lese66.bsky.social!! 🎉

Great discussion and talk by @nanditabasu.bsky.social about "Models, muddles and muggles: rethinking environmental modeling to tackle societal problems" for the last invited talk of pre- @agu.org (not-always-Berkeley) #CatchmentScience Symposium

Heading to #AGU24. Looking forward to catch up with everyone and seeing some exciting research. 🤩 These are the presentations of the #BasuLab this week.

Ontario is having a colder winter this year. Maybe good for our 2025 blooms.. when winters are warmer it releases all the bound phosphorus in soils and without any crops to take them up it runs off to our lakes patiently waiting for the temperatures to warm theconversation.com/warmer-winte...

❗ PhD opportunity ❗ We are hiring a fully-funded PhD in Large-Scale Hydrology at the University of Waterloo. This position is ideal for motivated candidates eager to contribute to advancing hydrological science using both physically based and data-driven models. www.juliane-mai.com/resources/jo...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @HydrologyNext on utilizing Digital Twin models to quantify land-based hydrology: the role of high-resolution remote sensing datasets; separation of hydrological cycle components; and models of discharge in the context of ground truth and remote sensing.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @julieeemai.bsky.social on comparing outputs of streamflow models for the Great Lakes region: 13 models applied to the St. Lawrence River watershed; calibration and validation; performance metrics; multi-objective analysis; and comparison of additional variables.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @julieeemai.bsky.social on assessing the split-sample test in context of experimental design: why models should be calibrated using all available data; suboptimal model performance despite adequate split-sample decisions; and handling model failure.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social on understanding the important processes that control watershed responses: hydrological signatures and a spatial geography of similarities and differences; big datasets and distributions; correlations; and site-specific linkages.

A man who incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to kill American democracy and who a judge determined raped a woman and who now faces 91 felony criminal charges across four jurisdictions just won Iowa's Republican Caucuses.

Women Advancing River Research 2024 Lecture Series has free webinars the 3rd Thursday of every month! 💧🌊 Hear from leading female researchers on the latest innovations & discoveries in river science. Register here for all talks: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Post-AGU is pre-EGU... I'm happy to again organize a session at EGU with some amazing co-conveners on #diagnostics, #calibration, and #sensitivity_analysis. Abstract submission is open until Jan 10. Can't wait to see your amazing work and abstracts! Hope you are having great holidays!

"When women stay silent about ambiguous incidents, it limits not only their careers but the potential for change that benefits everyone." If only we could get folks to listen! (& don't even get me started on the burden of reporting) phys.org/news/2023-12...

Vacancy alert! 📢 We are looking for a researcher on data visualisation & sci-art. Do you have the skills to combine qualitative & quantitative data on drought-to-flood events? Please apply. Deadline: 10 Jan 24, expected start date: 1 Mar 24. More info: hydrologicalextremes.org/2023/12/07/p...

Let's try another alternative. Using my time at the airport for my "post" (?) here. Looking forward to an exciting week at the #AGU23 and to many interesting discussions around machine learning, flood forecasting, open datasets and open source code!

We are recruiting for the next round of Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW) MS fellowships! Do you want to answer pressing questions from and for communities in Atlanta? Interested in bridging the human-physical divide in geosciences? 💧 🧪https://geosciences.gsu.edu/csaw/application-information/

Getting really excited about tomorrow’s soft launch of #POSEIDON- a portal for AI assisted water quality datasets- with partners from @environmentca, Ministry of Environment, @DataStreamH2O. Stay tuned for more details!

Just went through some slides about best practices in #data #management a colleague shared with me and these two memes really made my day. So true. 😍

Join me at the USGS and be my office mate!! Super awesome job just dropped- www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD.... In this job you get to lead a team of 10-13 scientists addressing important water quality questions. Reach out if you have questions!

If you haven’t heard yet: the music by Kings Elliot is out of this world. 🎶 I can’t even say which song is my favourite. The Outsider, Call me a Dreamer, I’m Getting Tired of Me, Butterfly Pen… I’m in love! 🥰

Happy days @UWaterloo! #firstday

Hello 👋 Just joined Bluesky so I thought I'd introduce myself! I'm a PhD candidate at the INRAE🇨🇵 studying human-nature interactions using AI and social media data

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Office door at Uni.