Beans growing in a tropical dry forest.

Invigorating.

So far this week: dendrometer, wood (stem) moisture sensor, and sap flow sensor, all surrounded with radiometers (4 components) above and below this tree, all this in 4 dominant trees. #UFRB #INSA #UFCG

Tree crown level radiometers installation this week in Brazil 👌🏽

Here is a new short and didactic video within the scope of our ESRC/UKRI 3R project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeX9.... Great contributions from @infracursions.bsky.social led by @amypenfield.bsky.social, narration by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social. PT version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXp... #watercycle

Fieldwork in a rural area in Brazil this month, where we are instrumenting water monitoring systems with local residents to understand the impacts of drought on community water supply and crop production.

Fresh dendrometer in a couple of Commiphora leptophloeos (locally known by the Indigenous name 'Umburana de Cambão'). Next month we will be installing below/above canopy radiometers and sap flow sensors.

Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Cats and I on a empty campus day due to Carnival. #notAI

Research Associate/Fellow in Amazon Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/yu073BU3...

North-South research collaborations often reproduce structural inequities, privileging Northern research frameworks. ISABELLA ABODERIN shows that only reflexive, deliberately designed partnerships can transform research, rebalancing knowledge and power globally. verfassungsblog.de/reflex-and-t...

My current PC background is quite realistic and moves the entire time.

A good day to visit a flux tower and a giant cactus tree :)

I’m happy to announce our @hsj-iahs.bsky.social special issue on “Progress in coupled land–atmosphere systems for hydro-meteorological processes” is now open to submissions: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #ICCLAS @iahs-aish.bsky.social

#Cocreation in #Hydrology & #Water Resources Management at #EGU2026! Keynote: Seifu Tilahun (IWMI) Deadline: THIS THURSDAY Jan 15, 13h CET We need communities, Indigenous peoples, NGOs & practitioners to make knowledge that works. Part of #IAHS #HELPING decade. Submit: lnkd.in/eBPk8kz8

Working with drylands and/or (semi-)arid catchments? Please consider our session on hydrological processes in dryland catchments www.egu26.eu/session/55943

Luciano Moreira is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease, such as dengue, in Brazil. He’s part of Nature’s 10. 🧪

Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911 1/6

The second episode on the @egu.eu #Blog on our Working Group on co-creation: Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs... @natalieceperley.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Why should hydrologists pay attention to #co-creation? In this @hs.egu.eu #Blog, we tell the story of the #interdisciplinary @iahs-aish.bsky.social Working Group "Co-creating water knowledge", active since 2023. This is the first part, so stay tuned for the second one on Friday: bit.ly/443VXcV

Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!

At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions: Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management bit.ly/3WAB5pv Co-creation in Practice (Short Course) bit.ly/4oOgPg4 Join us, and consider submitting an abstract. For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC

Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...

On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US. Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation. doi.org/10.1080/0262... @hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social

Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Funded by REALM-precursor to LT

The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!

Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).

Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!

And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...

All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!

Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil. #UFRB

Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾

Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!

A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rainwater harvesting system in #INSA

"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]". www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...

Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.

Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social on extending the MOD16 evapotranspiration algorithm for MODIS: an improvement of spatiotemporal resolutions via the ESTIMET algorithm; day and night ET over all sky conditions; a comparison with EC data over Brazil; and spatial comparisons.

Are you interested in #cocreationofwaterknowledge ? #CCWK this and other webinars are archived on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClp...

We are 'over the moon' 😂😂😂

In times of AI we show how some robust tweaks can greatly improve well established ET models. It was a pleasure to have Cinthia in Bristol and discuss every step of this research! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Scratching the surface. #SDTFs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...

That joy of doing fieldwork with students in Devon... when the weather is actually nice ☀️