“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”

Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.

This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE

so begins day 1 of campaign www.tiktok.com/@chrisjones4...

If you are going to #AGU2025, come check out the various talks and posters from members of our research group. I hope to see you in New Orleans next week!

Congratulations to two students in our lab, Nishchal and Sugam, for their successful MS theses defenses yesterday! Nishchal's thesis is entitled "American rivers are transporting more sediment in less time." Sugam's thesis is entitled "Why are some watersheds more sediment productive than others?"

Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The US Army Corps of Engineers is doing a test run of an underwater dredging method right now in Kansas. This method hasn't been used on a lake before, so it's unclear whether it will work: www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...

On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.

The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.

The worst part about having a paper rejected is not the rejection itself, it's knowing that you'll have to reformat the manuscript for some new online portal submission system.

Can we have a moratorium on using any variant of the word "Advance" at the start of an AGU session title? Nearly 1 in 4 Hydrology sessions begin this way. Alphabetical sorting means these sessions appear at the top - maybe the motivation? An ironic result is that they become harder to differentiate.

I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.

If your journal manuscript gets this group of Pyr reviewers... god help you!

Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif

In observance of #Juneteenth, Virginia Tech offices are closed today. As we recognize Juneteenth, we also reaffirm our commitment to building a community rooted in our Principles of Community - one that rejects hate, violence, and racism. ➡️ vt.edu/principles-of-community

🚨 New in ES&T! @pubs.acs.org Ion clusters in an urban stream reveal how salinization varies with hydrology. Storms, baseflow, and snowmelt each leave distinct chemical fingerprints. A tool for targeting risk & smarter watershed policy: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... @diveredu.bsky.social

Shoutout to my students for fantastic presentations at #HydroML2025. They looked at applying deep learning to do large-scale, high-temporal resolution prediction of hydrograph separation, sediment transport, and freshwater salinization.

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

Playing in the mud 😀

A Bosnian love ballad called "We will sing what our hearts know" 🇧🇦♥️🎶

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.

Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...

Hi all - there are 2 days left to apply for a postdoc position with me in large-sample water quality and interpretable machine learning! Review will start on January 15th and continue until the position is filled.

Hi all - there are 10 days left to apply for a postdoc position with me in large-sample water quality and interpretable machine learning! Review will start on January 15, 2025, and continue until the position is filled.

An incredible group of scientists and colleagues joined forces to support improved data, modeling, and analyses of headwater streamflow to improve surface water protections globally. Check out our paper, hot off the presses, in @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Come on you Gunners! 🔴⚪

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? River scientist: it's not a gap, it is a hydraulic jump

Announcing the second of five AGU Water Quality Technical Commitee Haiku Your Research Winner for #AGU24! *José Uchôa* at the University of São Paulo.

Announcing the third of five AGU Water Quality Technical Commitee Haiku Your Research Winner for ! *Surabhi Upadhyay* at the Colorado School of Mines.

Announcing the fourth of five AGU Water Quality Technical Commitee Haiku Your Research Winner for *Sunil Bista* at Jackson State University.

Announcing the first of five AGU Water Quality Technical Commitee Haiku Your Research Winner for #AGU24! *Lauren Magliozzi* at University of Colorado Boulder.

Ended AGU getting BBQ with @husician.bsky.social !!! What an awesome week. Leaving a bit tired, but thankful for our awesome hydro community and energized/stoked about doing science!

I’m recruiting for graduate students in the areas of 1) high-frequency water quality patterns and ML and 2) interactions of non-perennial streams/wetlands on forest hydrology and biogeochemistry. I’ll be at #AGU2024 next week! More info at: sites.psu.edu/jmduncan/opp...

What's that!? Is that #HaikuYourResearch's music? #AGU24 is just around the corner and the AGU Water Quality Technical Committee's annual Haiku Your Research event is LIVE! We will award 5 folks $200 ea! Share widely with your networks. Scan QR code to submit or visit link: forms.gle/eqVx2JAnPXYX...

We are sponsoring a fun #HaikuYourResearch event for #AGU24! Please submit your Haiku by 11:59 ET on December 4. More information is below.

If you analyze streamflow conditions, calculate flow duration curves, generate raster hydrographs, or perform other hydrological analyses -- check out our new USGS python package "hyswap" that is publicly available! waterdata.usgs.gov/blog/introdu...

What's that!? Is that #HaikuYourResearch's music? #AGU24 is just around the corner and the AGU Water Quality Technical Committee's annual Haiku Your Research event is LIVE! We will award 5 folks $200 ea! Share widely with your networks. Scan QR code to submit or visit link: forms.gle/eqVx2JAnPXYX...

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI to start next year. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Listing here careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI to start next year. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Listing here careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...

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

Tenure track job in Soil Water Interactions at Penn State, Department of Ecosystem Science & Management. Awesome group in an awesome place. psu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/PSU_Academic...

I have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Start date is August (but can be flexible). Email me!

Nailed it.

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...