Chris Soulsby recognized with AGU Langbein lecture Maby congrats Chris! He will present his lecture next week at @agu.org 2025 #AGU25 www.abdn.ac.uk/news/24924/

The extended lab group will be at @agu.org in New Orleans next week. Catch our team and collaborators in Oral and Poster Presentations across the week on topics from lithium and water from New England to Alaska and places in between. @umasshydro.bsky.social @umasscns.bsky.social

Biggers is back and she is wrong again… #climatechange #climateaction

The recent seiche on Lake Erie, driven by strong NE winds, resulted in a remarkable tilting of lake levels. This particular seiche resulted in a lake-level difference of about 8-10 ft. Here is a plot of lake levels in Buffalo and Toledo (at either end of Lake Erie). #LakeErie #seiche

Check out new work published recently documenting intensification of the hydrologic cycle across S. New England. Wet periods are becoming more intense, and so have droughts ... but wet periods are winning out! www.mdpi.com/2073-4441/17... @umasscns.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social

Water density and the location of extraction play a crucial role in minimizing environmental impacts from lithium mining in sensitive salt flat ecosystems. Sustainable practices depend on prioritizing brine over freshwater use. doi.org/g93x7h

Explore our new manuscript on the response of salar aquifer systems to fresh and brine water abstraction. Density dependent behavior controls magnitude and location of system hydraulics agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... #lithium #water @umasscns.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social

As the 2025 drought continues here in the Northeast (not to be confused with the 2016, 2020, 2022, or 2024) terrestrial water storage anomalies respond in different environments in distinct ways. Take for example storage anomalies in the CT river valley of Western Mass compared to those on Cape Cod

Once again a significant drought beginning to develop here in S. NE. Our new groundwater storage deficit analysis shows that 5 out of the last 9 yrs in a drought state. Interestingly switching from record wet to very dry (see 18, 21, 23) and to some extent last spring. @climatechris.bsky.social

Actually dry enough to qualify as one of the driest summers on record for portions of New England. We'll see if tomorrow's rain chance alters any of these rankings Likely going to see early leaf drop/more browning of leaves than usual

We are actively monitoring the developing drought on Cape Cod using USGS and @massdcr.bsky.social supported observation well data. Custom built codes and scripting by @umassamherst.bsky.social undergraduate Gabriel Olland to track trajectory of water storage. @umasshydro.bsky.social

Same here in Mass.

Congress has just released a list of federal DOI offices to be closed under the ongoing massacre of our natural resource agencies -- it's extensive and includes many important NPS, BLM, USGS and USFWS facilities across the country. Truly horrific. democrats-naturalresources.house.gov/imo/media/do...

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...

I can only HIGHLY recommend this book by my good friend James McNamara (professor of hydrology) In The Wake: An 80 Day Canoe Odyssey into Canada's Northern Wilderness. In 1991 they loaded a canoe with food for 3 months and paddled into the canoe county of northern Canada. You can order via amazon.

Definitely a paper in my queue!

Make sure to check out the water and natural resources recordings! @hydromoranimal.bsky.social and @leeannmunk.bsky.social featured. #lithium #water #brines

Really cool work from my colleagues @umassamherst.bsky.social

Then on Thursday afternoon at #AGU24, come by Nicole Blin's Poster (H43O-1076) applying #GRACE and machine learning to assess terrestrial water storage changes in the largest #Lithiumbrine deposit in the world #SalardeAtacama @davidboutt.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social

Lots of great work from our research group this week at #AGU24! UMass Hydrogeology @davidboutt.bsky.social @umassamherst.bsky.social... This afternoon check out Sarah Mcknight's poster (H23O-1188) assessing region-wide hydrological changes over the past 40 yrs in the #Lithium Triangle of S. America

Do you use trail cameras to monitor streams, rivers or other water bodies? Looking for a platform to turn those images into relative flow or stage information? Or even just to look back through all of your images? Check out Flow Photo Explorer! www.usgs.gov/apps/ecoshed...

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. 🧪

If you're working in urban or disturbed landscapes in #LatinAmerica or the #Caribbean with a focus on #isotopes and other geochemical tools consider submitting to this special issue. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal...

Great piece by @andreatweather.bsky.social in @sciam.bsky.social on the recent Eastern US drought compared to the West. Key msg here is short but impactful droughts here in East leaving region vulnerable and resilient b/c of distributed water supplies www.scientificamerican.com/article/what...

Lots of really shocking information here on where academic publishing has evolved into.

NEW: This week's climate graphic looks at the ongoing drought conditions in the north-eastern US, which have sparked numerous wildfires and reduced reservoir levels. Read @aimewilliams.bsky.social and @janatausch.bsky.social's report ft.com/content/533b... #dataviz

Local piece on where things are at with the 2024 Fall New England drought @carriehealy.bsky.social www.nepm.org/regional-new...

Check out this excellent post by Neil on fire in the "Northeast'

If prolonged dry spells, flash droughts, and a return to pre-1970s hydroclimate occurs in the future, we likely need to adjust to more fires in the Nottheastern US, esp around piney & coniferous ecosystems. (But, oh, that title)

Finally raining right now in Western Mass. Been an incredible and historical dry streak. The 1" or so of precip will help abate additional fire risk but we have a HUGE soil moisture deficit that needs to be addressed before rivers will run again. Many of the streams near my house are completely dry

Holy shit. That’s a hell of a fire on the South side of the Blue Hills. Rain can’t come soon enough.

Whoa

Another nice piece by @climatechris.bsky.social on the current drought here in New England www.bostonglobe.com/2024/11/18/m... and the meterological forcings driving the precipitation deficit.

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

Read about our new project trying to understand what the future and evolution of the hydrological cycle here in New England might look like! @umassamherst.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social www.umass.edu/news/article... #water #groundwater #hydrology

Great work out of the UMass labs

“sometimes you have to do the things you don’t want to do, but you do it because you have to be strong for the people around you that you care about.” www.tucsonsentinel.com/opinion/repo...

The Department of Earth, Geographic, and Climate Sciences is looking for a lecturer in Geology. Please find more info here -> careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... Appreciate sharing this with your networks!

Inspired by a post @efisherwx.bsky.social on the other platform. Check out the magnitude of precipitation in the last calendar year here in Western Mass. Pretty similar trend across most of SNE. Just an insane amount of water and no tropical systems in here either. #hydrology #groundwaterflooding

A important set of articles from Springfield Republican on the real and present impacts of #PFAS contamination on people and environment. www.masslive.com/westernmass/... www.masslive.com/westernmass/... www.masslive.com/westernmass/...

Today I defended my PhD dissertation at @umassamherst.bsky.social! I would like to express my gratitude to my advisors @davidguzzy.bsky.social and Emily Kumpel, my committee members John Tobiason and @davidboutt.bsky.social, and my friends and family for all the support during this journey! 🎓

Take a look at our recent work on understanding #water table rise in one of the few parts of the US where we are seeing increasing aquifer levels and struggling with understanding where water will rise and at what rates. If you live in Mass fill out survey www.umass.edu/news/article...

Spot on

UMASS EGCS is hiring a geoscientist to be the next Massachusetts State Geologist. The candidate will be on Faculty in the dept and participate in cooperative research projects involving geological issues in the state. careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... Reach out to me with ? and share widely

I took a deep dive into Otis this morning. A lot to unpack.

A nice fall afternoon bike ride home from @umasshydro.bsky.social #sunderland

Lovely morning here on the banks of the CT river. This is as low as it’s been all summer.

Our work on modeling saltwater intrusion in the town of Plymouth is featured in this story.

Global change, local impacts. Rising sea levels contaminate groundwater across coastal coastal New England.