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Professor of Hydrology. Bike Nerd. maxwell.princeton.edu
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11 days ago
💧 Water science has a language all its own. Here’s a quick look at some essential hydrology terms—perfect for students, educators, and water nerds alike.
#Hydrology
#WaterScience
🔁 Repost to help folks learn the lingo!
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💧
#FunFactFriday
💧 Billions of people rely on groundwater every day—but most don’t even know it! 💧🌍 Do you know where your water comes from? 👇
#WaterFacts
#Hydrology
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about 1 month ago
Discussions are beginning around a possible MODFLOW & More Conference in 2026.💧We’d love your input as we consider options. Please take a few minutes to complete our short survey:
igwmc.princeton.edu/modflow-2026...
Also, check out 2024 highlights + past short course info
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
about 1 month ago
IGWMC led a hydrology unit for QUEST teachers last week! 💧 Participants learned how Earth’s water is distributed through the
#Freshwater
#Saltwater
Challenge, then used
#aquifer
models to explore groundwater flow and aquifer types.
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about 2 months ago
Students took on Water and Climate Week at @thewatershedinstitute —exploring
#hydrology
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#modeling
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#ML
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#coastalhydrology
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#SciComm
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about 2 months ago
Ever wondered how hydrologists observe water movement over time? A hydrograph shows streamflow changes from rain, snowmelt, and more. We use them to study floods, seasonality, and how water moves through landscapes.
#Hydrology
#Groundwater
#Hydrograph
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3 months ago
As groundwater flows through layers of soil and rock, those materials help filter out impurities. 💧⏳ That’s why water from aquifers often needs less treatment than surface water. What’s a cool science fact you love? Drop it below! ⬇️
#FunFactFriday
#WaterScience
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
3 months ago
We were so excited to be invited to facilitate Mole Day at Foundations Academy Charter School on June 2! Students explored water science through aquifer models, crafting water cycle bracelets, and taking the freshwater challenge.💧
#STEM
#WaterEducation
#MoleDay
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Climate Science Breakthrough
4 months ago
US climate scientists need all the help they can get. Including from foul-mouthed comedians! 🤡😱😱 Watch Emmy Award-Winning David Cross team up with Prof Michael Oppenheimer in the US launch of the hit series "Climate Science Translated".
#climate
#arresteddevelopment
#climatescience
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4 months ago
We’re sending a big congratulations to 3 graduating undergrads from PU’s Class of 2025! 🎓These 3 have done great work with HMEI and the IGWMC. 👩🔬Ashley DeFrates 🌍Brooke Beers 💧 David van Velden We can’t wait to see what’s next!
#Princeton25
#Research
@acee.princeton.edu
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4 months ago
📢 Registration is now OPEN for IGWMC’s Summer 2025 Short Courses! We’re offering hands-on sessions in groundwater modeling, hydrologic systems, and open-source tools. Register here:
princeton.irisregistration.com/Form/Short25
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#groundwater
#hydrology
#training
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Nature Portfolio
5 months ago
A study in Communications Earth & Environment finds that snowmelt runoff in the western US is composed primarily of older groundwater, dating back 5.7 years on average.
go.nature.com/4iXF5ZX
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
Ever wondered how groundwater moves? Our physical sandtank models show it firsthand at outreach events! 💧 Plus, the ParFlow Sandtank lets you explore these processes online—adjust flow, contamination, & more in real time!
sandtank.hydroframe.org
#Hydrology
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5 months ago
We're co-hosting the 2025 Kimberly-Clark Distinguished Lecture! 🗓 May 16 | 🕥 10:30AM 📍 E225, EQuad Prof. Rainer Helmig (U. of Stuttgart) “Porous Media Free-Flow Coupling – From REV to Pore Scale and Back”
#PorousMedia
#Hydrology
#Groundwater
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
📣 IGWMC’s Summer 2025 short courses are in the works! We’re offering sessions on modeling, hydrologic systems, & more. The interest form will remain open until registration is live—stay tuned. 🔗
igwmc.princeton.edu/events/short...
#groundwater
#hydrology
#training
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
Some groundwater fluoresces under UV light thanks to a variety of organic compounds, like humic acids! 💡💧 Know a wild science fact? Drop it below! ⬇️
#FunFactFriday
#WaterScience
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
🎉 It’s game day! The Games for Geoscience session is happening today at
#EGU25
! 🎲 Come explore how games, gamification, and immersive technologies are transforming outreach, research & education in the geosciences.
#Games4Geo
#EGU25
#SciComm
#GamifyLearning
@egu.eu
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Thanks for the highlight,
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! Honored for this work to be the hydro paper of the day.
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
🕹️ Game on! From VR to board games, explore how play powers science during Games for Geoscience at
#EGU25
🎲 Discover how game-based learning boosts comprehension, resilience, and engagement.
#SciComm
#Games4Geo
#Education
@egu.eu
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5 months ago
🚨IGWMC at
#EGU25!🚨
From deep learning to disaster recovery, we're showing work on groundwater science all week long 🌍💧 Come support our researchers & collaborators presenting throughout EGU 🧵👇
#Hydrology
@egu.eu
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
This Arbor Day, shout out to trees for powering the water cycle! 🌳 Through evapotranspiration, they move water from soil to sky, shaping local climate and rainfall. Hydrology isn’t just rivers—it’s forests too! 💧☁️
#ArborDay
#Hydrology
#WaterCycle
#Evapotranspiration
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
🎲 Games spark imagination and shift perspectives—perfect for science communication, teaching, and resilience-building 🌍 Join Games for Geoscience at
#EGU25
to explore how play is reshaping outreach, research & education!
#Games4Geo
#SciComm
#Education
@egu.eu
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
Flashback to Water and Climate Academy week! 🌊 Students explored how water science connects to climate change—diving into hydrological topics—then shared insights through science communication.
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#FlashbackFriday
#Hydrology
#MachineLearning
#SciComm
#ClimateChange
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Reed Maxwell
Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
5 months ago
Spring Into Science 2025 was a blast! 🔬💧 Students explored aquifer models, our density tank & met Jerome the Drone 🚁. Great to see young scientists dive into water sustainability! 💙
#SpringIntoScience
#Hydrology
#STEM
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
6 months ago
Some groundwater is under so much pressure that it flows to the surface without the need for pumping! 🌊 What’s a surprising water fact you know? Tell us below! ⬇️
#FunFactFriday
#WaterCycle
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The fact that my awesome group is excited to teach kids about water makes me so happy. Hope this brightens your feed.
#maxwellgroupadventures
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Meredith Martin
6 months ago
You can get my book even though it still says "pre-order"!
press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
(for a 30% discount, use code P327 on the PU Press website)!
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Poetry's Data
Why literary studies must confront digital mediation
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691254678/poetrys-data
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
6 months ago
🌍💧 Happy
#WorldWaterDay
! Glaciers store & slowly release water, feeding rivers & groundwater. But rapid melting disrupts this balance, threatening water supplies. Protecting these icy lifelines secures our future!
#GlacierPreservation
#Groundwater
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
6 months ago
#FlashbackFriday
to Spring Into Science 2024! 💧🔬 Students explored aquifer models, a density tank & met Jerome the Drone 🚁. Come see us for Spring Into Science 2025 on April 5!
#STEM
#Outreach
@reedh2o.bsky.social
Sign up:
scienceoutreach.princeton.edu/events/2025/...
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
7 months ago
How do disasters shape learning?🌏 A decade after Super Typhoon Haiyan, this study analyzed 15K+ news articles, 300 papers & survivor stories to understand recovery & resilience.
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#DisasterRecovery
#Resilience
#RiskComms
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Public discourses and personal narratives of learning from disaster - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - Public discourses and personal narratives of learning from disaster
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44168-025-00227-4
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Zack Labe
7 months ago
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week. "...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
https://www.science.org/content/article/noaa-firings-hit-birthplace-weather-and-climate-forecasting
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7 months ago
Jerone the Drone gives us a new view of water! 🚁💧 Its high-res images of temperature & elevation reveal patterns in soil moisture, terrain & hidden details—like dense vegetation and even wildlife! 🌍
#RemoteSensing
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Laura Lautz
7 months ago
Yesterday was the darkest day of my professional life so far. Many of NSF’s best and brightest people fired indiscriminately. The terms of their firing cruel. My colleagues matter, they are valued and they make a difference. I have no words.
www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
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National Science Foundation fires roughly 10% of its workforce
NSF fired 168 employees, leaving the agency less equipped to fund a wide range of scientific research.
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/18/nx-s1-5301049/national-science-foundation-fires-roughly-10-of-its-workforce
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
7 months ago
💙 Water has our hearts this Valentine’s Day! 💧🌍 Let’s celebrate our love for hydrology and the hidden water that sustains us.
#ValentinesDay
#HydrologyLove
#WaterScience
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
8 months ago
Flashback to QUEST 2024! 💧 This program helps K-12 educators with science & math teaching. One week, led by
@reedh2o.bsky.social
& the IGWMC team, explored hydrology by interfacing with real data, modeling, and using interactive tools. 📸 PC: Sameer Khan, Photobuddy
#FlashbackFriday
#Hydrology
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
8 months ago
💧 Hydrologic models often oversimplify water systems. This method brings in small-scale channel details to improve predictions without increased computational costs!
www.frontiersin.org/journals/wat...
#Hydrology
#WaterModeling
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Frontiers | Subgrid channel formulation in an integrated surface-subsurface hydrologic model
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2024.1520913/full
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8 months ago
🌊 How does groundwater impact coastal flooding? A Princeton Alliance for Collaborative Research and Innovation (PACRI) project between UMES and IGWMC is tackling this question in the Chesapeake Bay. Research and education driving innovation!
#ClimateChange
#Hydrology
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8 months ago
💧 Heavy groundwater pumping can worsen sea-level rise and saltwater intrusion. This study by
@reedh2o.bsky.social
uses machine learning to map groundwater changes in coastal New Jersey—guiding sustainable water management.
#Groundwater
#ClimateResilience
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Frontiers | Integrating groundwater pumping data with regression-enhanced random forest models to improve groundwater monitoring and management in a coastal region
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/water/articles/10.3389/frwa.2024.1509945/full
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🌍💧 Can machine learning predict groundwater levels worldwide? A study by
@reedh2o.bsky.social
shows that combining U.S. and Denmark data improves groundwater predictions in Denmark—moving us closer to global monitoring.
@ioppublishing.bsky.social
#Groundwater
#MachineLearning
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Using random forests to explore the feasibility of groundwater knowledge transfer between the contiguous US and Denmark - IOPscienceSearch
Using random forests to explore the feasibility of groundwater knowledge transfer between the contiguous US and Denmark, Ma, Yueling, Koch, Julian, Maxwell, Reed M
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2515-7620/ad9b08#artAbst
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Thanks for the recognition! Honored to be featured as the hydro paper of the day!
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9 months ago
Groundwater travels farther and deeper than researchers thought! 🌍💧 This study led by
@reedh2o.bsky.social
reveals how deep and inter-basin groundwater flows sustain streams, with big implications for water resilience in a changing climate.
@naturewaterjnl.bsky.social
#Hydrology
#ClimateResilience
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How long are flowpaths from recharge through groundwater to streams? How connected are watersheds over the CONUS? tldr; much longer and way more connected than we thought. New paper in
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with Chen Yang and Laura Condon
@igwmc.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Unravelling groundwater–stream connections over the continental United States - Nature Water
Using a backward-particle-tracking simulation across the contiguous United States, this study quantifies the distance and depth of the groundwater entering a stream and highlights the strong connectio...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44221-024-00366-8
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9 months ago
AGU24 was an amazing time to explore groundwater research! 💧From ML applications to a variety of hydrological models, science communication, and education—our IGWMC researchers covered so much! Did you chat with one of us at
#AGU24
? 🌍🔍
@agu.org
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One of the best things about
#agu24
is catching up with friends and former group members. This year was no exception!
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
9 months ago
As
#AGU24
is coming to an end, here’s the schedule for tomorrow’s sessions (12/13) at
#AGU24
— don’t miss the IGWMC researchers sharing their work tomorrow! See you there for the last day!
@agu.org
@reedh2o.bsky.social
#Geoscience
#AGU2024
#EarthScience
#ClimateAction
#AGU
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Reed Maxwell
Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
10 months ago
Here’s tomorrow’s session (12/12) at
#AGU24
— don’t miss the IGWMC researcher sharing his work tomorrow! See you there for another exciting day!
@reedh2o.bsky.social
#Geoscience
#AGU2024
#EarthScience
#ClimateAction
#AGU
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Integrated GroundWater Modeling Center
10 months ago
Here’s the schedule for tomorrow’s session (12/11) at
#AGU24
— don’t miss the IGWMC researchers sharing their work tomorrow! See you there for another exciting day!
@reedh2o.bsky.social
#Geoscience
#AGU2024
#EarthScience
#ClimateAction
#AGU
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So much happening right out of the gate tomorrow! Machine learning, multi scale surface water formulations, education and outreach oh my!
#maxwellgroupadventures
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