Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future! We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought. Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Check out this amazing opportunity to work with a rising star!

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

Looking at my to-do list and sobbing while I click accept on another manuscript review invitation

Me this morning reading an MS thesis from my lab. Reading good grad student work is SUCH a joy.

Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024... #SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation

🌎 A champion for environment and sustainability, @unc-ie.bsky.social director and @uncchapelhill.bsky.social chief sustainability officer @mpiehler.bsky.social was recently named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor. Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.

The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:

Are water levels in wetlands important to you? @kica22.bsky.social's new paper in GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can measure water surface elevations in the Everglades with a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm. Check it out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Feeling humbled by this award and wanted to share the story from IU News. Im grateful to my @iuearth.bsky.social colleagues and all the students that have worked with me over the years. news.iu.edu/live/news/45...

What a fun paper describing rivers in North and South America that flow into multiple drainage basins. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is effectively what led to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane being the most deadly storm in U.S. history. We are so back, i guess. 😩

Converge freshwater science series! Joining freshwater scientists from across the triangle area to discuss ideas in a safe, collegial atmosphere monthly. Thank you NCSU for hosting the January meeting! And thank you to @ardonlab.bsky.social and other presenters for leading discussions.

I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely. journals.sagepub.com...

I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry

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...

🧪 And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists). Interesting looking read. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is apocalyptic.

Do you do #remotesensing of aquatic environments, but you want aquatic surface reflectance data. Well, we processed the entire #Sentinel2 record for #AQUATIC surface reflectance in the Contiguous US. You can now access those data from Amazon Web Services for FREE! registry.opendata.aws/usgs_aqr/

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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...

Interested in the Great Plains Low-Level Jet, the Missouri River Basin, flooding, and/or moisture transport? Check out our new paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New paper by Dongmei Feng finds an interesting pattern in global streamflow trends through time: increasing streamflow in upstream river reaches and decreasing flow in downstream reaches: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

I am deeply troubled and shocked by MIT professor Rosalind Picard’s keynote speech at NeurIPS24 that included a racist comment about Chinese students. This type of implicit bias has no place in academia.

This paper is incredible: one year of SWOT data gives us a much better picture of global ocean floor topography than all other data ever collected. And this will only keep getting better with more SWOT data. This one result may justify the cost of launching SWOT. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Engaging posters ✅ Good conversations ✅ New connections ✅ Second-to-last AGU poster session has been a success! @iarauz.bsky.social

Did NOT see this coming!! Analysis of 2.9M rivers globally finds that, on avg 1984-2018, streamflow increased in headwaters & declined in downstream sections (1.7 times more upstream increases found than declines; ~4 times more downstream declines than increases). www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Chao Wang and @globalhydro.bsky.social assessed the usefulness of X-band #Capella #SAR data for #flood mapping Capella data is useful for mapping floods in Salt marshes but is challenged in urban environments #AGU24

Today at #AGU24, we'll share SWOTViz, a web-based tool that simplifies accessing and working with hydrology data from #NASA Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission (SWOT), making these datasets more accessible to researchers and the public worldwide. 10:40-11:50 am, e-Lightening, Theater 2

We have three EMES posters today between the morning and evening sessions! Check out the breadth of work our postdocs, recent alums, and graduate students are doing in Hall B-C!

Day 2 of #AGU24 kicks off with a morning all about the #SWOT_satellite! Graduate student Kica Solomon will present at 9:35 am as part of the Surface Water and Ocean Topography satellite oral sessions, co-convened by Dr. Tamlin Pavelsky. @kica22.bsky.social @globalhydro.bsky.social @agu.org

Looking forward to a week at #AGU24 catching up on a year’s worth of science and catching up with some of my favourite scientists! Check out what we’ve got going on this week in the GLOWS lab! 🌾💧🌳🐄

Good morning DC! Excited for #AGU24

New paper: painting neighborhoods white is one way to offset warming from climate change. But, we show that doing this perversely causes temperatures to INCREASE in surrounding neighborhoods, due to unintended impacts on rainfall. This increases heat inequality. doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Going to the #AGU24 Fall Meeting? Interested in new results from the SWOT satellite over oceans, rivers, lakes, and wetlands? We have you covered! here's a cheat sheet for SWOT-specific sessions, plus other presentations. Thanks to UNC grad student Marissa Hughes for putting this together. 🧪

‘segmenteverygrain’ is now ready to handle large images and lots of grains github.com/zsylvester/s...

Feds withheld report showing contaminated water in Fort Chipewyan, say local leaders — A 2017 report found toxins above legal limits at 33 of 35 test sites, but local communities were never notified. ricochet.media/indigenous/f... #cdnpoli #Indigenous #landback

I know this is not the most important topic today, but I meant to spend the day editing grad student papers. Instead, I've spent most of it reformatting documents for NSF, which I'd just reformatted last year. What is the total cost of federal agencies constantly changing required document formats?

When you get the first major piece of writing from a relatively new graduate student, you brace yourself for anything, and then. . . it's great! <just imagine the gif>

I'm excited to nerd out about microphysics schemes in WRF!

🌊🌊🌊 TT position in Physical Oceanography 🌊🌊🌊🌊 Our department, AOSC at the University of Maryland College Park, is looking to hire an assist. professor in physical oceanography working on large-scale problems in climate, air-sea interaction, and... Please repost! ejobs.umd.edu/postings/114...

Sunrise on the Padma in Bangladesh. A hydrologist's dream.

I am here at AGU with a limited number of HOAR (Hydrologist Of Alpine Regions) hats available. I can also mail you one if I run out of them here at AGU. $15 each.

Grades: submitted. Next time I have to grade anything it will be 2025.

Recently in Nature Geoscience, a culmination of NINEish years of work by 40+ people, led by the indefatigable @otherrock.bsky.social Iso2k is the source of & inspiration for some of my best science & also the source of some of my favourite science people so it is WILDLY exciting to see this out

A little sneak peak of next week's #AGU23 poster I'll be presenting #SandRisk #SandMining ⛏️ 🌎 🛰️

We were just informed that due to a new Florida law we are no longer allowed to accept grad students or postdocs from a number of "countries of concern" including China. I've benefited from many interactions with amazing Chinese students & postdocs in my career. This is a huge loss for everyone.