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Wow Eric, Doug and
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I love this paper on levees! There is soo much to learn on river sedimentatry processes from analyzing continental scale digital elevation data.
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and
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O Levee, Where Art Thou? Measuring the Abundance of Natural River Levees Across the Contiguous USA
All else being equal, natural levees tend to form on gently sloping rivers and rivers that migrate quickly River discharge is a poor predictor of natural levee abundance Natural levees occur on ...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2025JF008642
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Melting glaciers along Greenland’s coastline are affecting how the ocean breathes and how it reacts to and buffers itself against change, writes
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Melting Glaciers Make the Coastal Ocean More Sensitive - Eos
Fresh water from retreating ice does more than raise sea levels. It affects how the ocean responds to acidification and other environmental changes.
https://eos.org/science-updates/melting-glaciers-make-the-coastal-ocean-more-sensitive
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Synergistic Integration of Flood Inundation Modeling Methods - Eos
Recent flood modeling advances are trending into silos that compete rather than complement each other, hampering the opportunity for transformative progress toward protecting lives and communities.
https://eos.org/editors-vox/synergistic-integration-of-flood-inundation-modeling-methods
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Congrats to Shang Tian and Dongfeng Li, our paper on Arctic river sediment it out today! We highlight how small Arctic rivers have increased sediment and changed disproportionally faster (over the satellite record). New machine-learning approach on landsat data.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Increasing river sediment concentration and flux across the pan-Arctic - Nature Geoscience
The total sediment flux from land to the ocean across the pan-Arctic has risen by 15% since 1980, driven by greater river discharge, intensified thermokarst disturbances and wildfire activity, accordi...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-01960-z
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Absolutely fascinating article by
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in
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about how declines in dall sheep in southwest Yukon might be (partly) related to increased levels of wind-blown dust following diversion of Ä’äy Chù (Slims River). 🧪⚒️🐏
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Born for this: unravelling the disappearance of Dall sheep
When scientists started documenting alarming declines in the Thechàl Dhâl herd of Dall sheep, it sparked a vital conversation between biologists and First Nations communities. What was causing the dro...
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/born-for-this-unravelling-the-disappearance-of-dall-sheep/?fbclid=IwZnRzaARIcwxleHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqzIfa-7X0XNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR77jKr6LZNsMlx2Ye2KvO-jhCfZ6toX_vlGU28YQOPv4uoLL2Tq83_21FZCfA_aem_4benRWWWh2QGnhcd2XMM2w&utm_medium=paid&utm_source=fb&utm_id=120244925446090017&utm_content=120244925448000017&utm_term=120244925447370017&utm_campaign=120244925446090017
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Showing Spruce Gulch Wildlife and Research Preserve activities and to visiting CU alumni. I marched everyone through the scars of the 2013 Boulder flood, incised debris flow gullies and toppled mega boulders. Tim and Kat had the pretty wildflowers.
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look at this! Coco!
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15 days ago
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Awesome Nicole!
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20 days ago
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Boulder Reporting Lab
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Thousands rally in
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against Trump as “No Kings” protests sweep the country, drawing millions to more than 3,000 events nationwide.
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Thousands rally in Boulder against Trump in latest 'No Kings' protest
Drummers, singers and thousands of marchers filled downtown Boulder in the latest wave of anti-Trump demonstrations.
https://boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/28/thousands-rally-against-trump-in-boulder-as-no-kings-protests-spread-nationwide/
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Having difficulty keeping up with all the interesting papers this week, this is one of them! Need summer break to come faster.
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24 days ago
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Join us in MN!
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24 days ago
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Congrats to Dr Brianna Undzis and her advisor Prof Julia Moriarty! One highlight: ROMS modeling of the Beaufort Sea shelf shows that in summer, sediment wafting around is likely due to wave resuspension.
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Whaaaaat, that much?
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27 days ago
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The Soilgrids data component get used a lot! Maybe because of the handy example notebook?
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29 days ago
The Topography Data Component fetches land elevation data from OpenTopography and loads it into an Xarray DataArray. Learn more about the Topography Data Component at
github.com/csdms/bmi-to...
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GitHub - csdms/bmi-topography: Fetch and cache land elevation data from OpenTopography through an API, BMI, or CLI
Fetch and cache land elevation data from OpenTopography through an API, BMI, or CLI - csdms/bmi-topography
https://github.com/csdms/bmi-topography/
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I'd like to do a series of posts this week to highlight CSDMS Data Components. Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024:
doi.org/10.5194/gmd-...
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CSDMS Data Components: data–model integration tools for Earth surface processes modeling
Abstract. Progress in better understanding and modeling Earth surface systems requires an ongoing integration of data and numerical models. Advances are currently hampered by technical barriers that i...
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-2165-2024
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Eye candy for world glacier day- a flight back south along the Canadian side, Kluane Park, had me glued to the window. Maybe I will get to go there one day!
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Heatwave appropriate field class elements: how far downstream do mass wasting events travel. In our case, into the South Platte. We found it.
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about 1 month ago
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Collected survey data with drone in Spruce Gulch-Kevin Rozmiarek showed our class what survey design involves, and how to process data. Big thanks!
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about 1 month ago
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Nature Portfolio
about 1 month ago
The authors of a Comment article in Nature highlight concerns over adopting AI in meteorology and call on the weather and climate community to set clear standards, starting with agreed data sets, for testing out-of-sample extreme-event predictions objectively. 🧪
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Can AI models reliably forecast extreme weather events?
More-rigorous testing is required before artificial-intelligence approaches are widely adopted by public forecasting agencies.
https://go.nature.com/3P5YkHE
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Doing geomorphology all day, in the best debris flow gullies in my humble opinion. But then students do get REALLY excited about pegmatites, elk vertebrae, xenoliths and fault evidence in rocks. This rock specimen got carried for a 25 min hike.
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about 1 month ago
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Tinkering before fieldwork, improving mounts for river and lake instruments.
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CRYSP lab was busy this weekend!
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about 1 month ago
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Even did some of our university field classes on our bikes!
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about 1 month ago
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Online in about 2 weeks, registering is still possible.
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about 2 months ago
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OMG, this is not good news. Not too much fuel left in the area. What about Spruce Gulch though?
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about 2 months ago
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Ahh good to see! This will be cool to put our work at Gilkey and Field glacier lakes in context.
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about 2 months ago
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Friday afternoon field class time, working out differences between handheld GPS units and phone GPS (while on airplane mode).
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about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
A new paper by Ogden et al. describes the framework of the NextGen Water Resources Modeling Framework, which uses CSDMS technologies such as the Basic Model Interface (BMI).
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The NextGen Water Resources Modeling Framework: Community Innovation at the Intersection of Hydrologic, Data and Computer Sciences
Hydrologic science lacks a comprehensive theory of stormflow generation, preventing the development of a general hydrologic model. Studies show that models focusing on dominant local processes often ...
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1752-1688.70089
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Check this out, another model intercomparison experiment is launched, with very cool tools and coastal wave forcing data ready to grab for download. Challenging all beach modelers.
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about 2 months ago
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This is a great post to get an idea how a skilled user quickly do science by prompting.
www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-aug...
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The AI-Augmented Scientist
The promise and pitfalls of using AI tools to boost my capabilities as a scientist
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-ai-augmented-scientist
about 2 months ago
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INSTAAR
about 2 months ago
Congratulations to Keith Musselman and Irina Overeem, who were selected as members of the inaugural cohort of Sustainability Research Initiative Research Fellows at CU Boulder. As fellows, the researchers will participate in a year-long interdisciplinary research incubator.
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Inaugural Sustainability Research Initiative Research Fellows unveiled
This SRI Research Fellowship will serve as a year-long incubator designed to bring together CU Boulder researchers from across academic units, disciplines and
https://www.colorado.edu/researchinnovation/2026/02/23/inaugural-sustainability-research-initiative-research-fellows-unveiled
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Antartica may be far away, but sea level rise originating from the decay of its mighty icecap is relevant for millions to billions of people. F.e.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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2 months ago
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Helpful article for understanding what is at stake for different states using Colorado river water - hydropower, municipal use and irrigation downstream, but also irrigation versus ecosystem health in the Upper Colorado states. Dams not designed for this drought.
www.landdesk.org/p/the-colora...
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The Colorado River Crisis is Here
States fail to reach a deal; Lake Powell Deadpool appears imminent
https://www.landdesk.org/p/the-colorado-river-crisis-is-here
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CSDMS
2 months ago
Fresh off the press, an amazing application by Beatriz Boggiani of landscape evolution modeling of the Permian redbeds and copper occurrence. Uses paleo-topography and climate to create a source to sink reconstruction of a continental scale basin.
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Evolution and Provenance of the Polish Rotliegend in the Southern Permian Basin
Using goSPL, we reconstruct for the first time a Landscape Evolution Model for the Permian source-to-sink system of the Polish Trough We suggest that the Fenno-Scandian Shield and the Carpathian ...
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025JF008473
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Bedrock characteristics matter for glacial incision, super nice model-data demonstration by Div Patel and
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for the iconic Finger Lakes in NY.
journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
2 months ago
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ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners
2 months ago
📚 What we're reading: "Working With Non-Cloud-Optimized Data Just Got Easier," on Earthdata. NASA’s Openscapes and earthaccess communities collaborated to bring cloud-like capability to popular, non-cloud formats like netCDF/HDF files found in NASA's Earthdata archive. 🌐
#opendata
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Working With Non-Cloud-Optimized Data Just Got Easier | NASA Earthdata
NASA Openscapes and earthaccess collaborated to add capability to VirtualiZarr, the DMR++ parser, and Python libraries to enhance the use of non-cloud-optimized data.
https://www.earthdata.nasa.gov/news/feature-articles/working-non-cloud-optimized-data-just-got-easier
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I would not be a scientist here if this sort of regulation had been around. In STEM many graduates and postdoc are international.
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2 months ago
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Crew 12 off to the space station. EU-Russian-US collaboration, led by Jessica Meir! Women in science and space this week - amazing things are still happening.
www.npr.org/2026/02/13/n...
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On their way! 4 people on NASA Crew-12 mission launch to International Space Station
The four are set to dock with the space station on Saturday, returning the orbital lab to its full complement of seven. NASA's last mission, Crew-11, left a month early due to an ill crew member.
https://www.npr.org/2026/02/13/nx-s1-5712808/nasa-spacex-crew-12-launch-iss
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Today is International Day of Women in Science!
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CSDMS
2 months ago
The CSDMS 2026 Student Modeler Award winner is Caitlin Turner, LSU! Katie won for her submission, "Improving long-term daily gauge forecasting using a hybrid neural network model (GaugePredict)." She will present her work at the 2026 CSDMS Annual Meeting at UMinn in May.
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Thanks for the heads-up, sounds like I need to spend some time on youtube...
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2 months ago
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Kicking off this 75th anniversary, Dianne McKnight gave a very fun keynote! how the work on DOM in small streams makes a difference: definitely through outreach.
2 months ago
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Our Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research @instaar celebrates its 75th anniversary this year! Josie Arcuri was one of the graduate students showcasing how the Arctic system is changing. Well done!
2 months ago
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Plugged our cool paper, but also Ethan Pierce's code for modeling ice-rafted debris is available on github, not yet fully integrated in landlab because of some dependencies, but vote it up, and we can talk to the
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software engineers!
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IRD Model
Revised IRD modeling. Manuscript under review.
https://zenodo.org/records/17127714
3 months ago
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CIRES
3 months ago
“The Greenlanders have been very generous in sharing information with us and providing resources to us. We would like to see this peaceful collaborative relationship continue.” Read the new CU Boulder Today Q&A with CIRES/NSIDC's Twila Moon about US-Greenland science partnerships.
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US-Greenland science partnerships are on thin ice
CU Boulder researcher Twila Moon shares what is at stake as President Trump bids for Greenland.
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2026/02/04/us-greenland-science-partnerships-are-thin-ice
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OpenTopography
3 months ago
Since its initiation, OpenTopography data and resources have enabled over 1,500 peer-reviewed publications across increasingly diverse science disciplines, demonstrating the broad applications of open topographic data. Read more about OT's publication impact ⬇️
opentopography.org/blog/ot-bibl...
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Proud to see this work out - field and modeling combination by former graduate student Ethan Pierce, Danish collaborator Bent Hasholt and I.
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www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Sediment transport by Greenland’s icebergs - Nature Communications
Greenland’s icebergs transport 450 megatonnes of sediment to its fjords each year, representing one-third of the ice sheet’s total sediment export. This ice-rafted debris builds shoals at tidewater gl...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-67938-4
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We are chipping away at Greenland dirty secrets!
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@tommarchitto.bsky.social
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Breaking ice, moving earth: Greenland will release more sediment into the ocean as the climate warms
A new paper from Irina Overeem and Ethan Pierce describes how icebergs export Greenlandic sediment into the Arctic Ocean — and how that process might change in
https://www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026/02/02/breaking-ice-moving-earth-greenland-will-release-more-sediment-ocean-climate-warms
3 months ago
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INSTAAR
3 months ago
SATURDAY MORNING WINTER PROGRAMS Mountain Research Station
@colorado.edu
🦅 Feb 14 Winter birding ❄️ Mar 14 SNOTEL tour 🐇 Apr 04 Mammals Open to the public. ~45 minutes from Boulder. Each program runs from 10am to noonish and only has space for 20. Reserve your spot now
www.colorado.edu/mrs/
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