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It is that time! Field prep at its best. Go team.
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Greg Tucker
9 days ago
Why are the Rockies rocky? New work from Matt Rossi and friends -
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Agreed! Brian Yanites at
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meeting today!
18 days ago
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Leaving a rainy Denver, FINALLLY! to
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meeting in Minnesota.
20 days ago
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Happy to say that Dr. Josie Arcuri successfully defended her PhD Thesis yesterday. Thesis is not called "River Ice Matters" - but that is what her research revolved around. Josie picked up some field skills on the way, but hydraulic and morphodynamic river modeling is her jam. Huge congrats!
24 days ago
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Software Sustainability Institute
25 days ago
🟣 As part of our new series on Artificial Intelligence in research software, we have published a new guide: Getting Started with ML and AI in Research Software, written by Paul J. Wright. Find out more about the guide and how to access it at
www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...
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@natgeosci.nature.com
editorial highlights how a sweep of recent studies are showing the profound effects of humans on rivers; including the effect of climate change on Arctic systems (our paper!).
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@colorado.edu
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Reshaping river flow - Nature Geoscience
Earth’s landmass has been sculpted by rivers for millions of years. Humans are now reshaping these landscapes as engineered modifications and the impacts of anthropogenic climate change alter river co...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-026-01993-4?utm_source=nature_etoc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CONR_41561_AWA1_GL_DTEC_054CI_TOC-260514&utm_content=20260514
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Ahh, we will check it out, with special interest for the Juneau Icefield!
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Supercool footage of the enormous scar! Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come.
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/s...
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A Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/science/tsunami-landslide-alaska-climate-arctic.html?smid=bs-share
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Your voice matters in planning future community efforts, modeling infrastructure and plans for training. Let CSDMS know ..... The survey should not take too long to fill out (8-10 mins).
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about 1 month ago
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Scaling relationship in the inverse, an long known patterns in natural river systems works in reverse in delta distributary channels - shall we cast it as Dong's law? Very nice work Tian and
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and co-authors.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Apparent Hack’s law in river deltas
River deltas are densely populated, ecologically vital landscapes threatened by rising sea levels. Distributary channel networks disperse sediment to build deltaic land, yet the relationship between t...
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.ady6805
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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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agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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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
about 2 months ago
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Eos
about 2 months ago
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
about 2 months ago
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦
about 2 months ago
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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about 2 months ago
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@nicolegasparini.bsky.social
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look at this! Coco!
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2 months ago
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Awesome Nicole!
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2 months ago
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Boulder Reporting Lab
2 months ago
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.
boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/28/t...
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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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2 months ago
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Join us in MN!
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2 months 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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2 months ago
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Whaaaaat, that much?
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2 months ago
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The Soilgrids data component get used a lot! Maybe because of the handy example notebook?
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3 months ago
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Mark Piper
3 months 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
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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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Mark Piper
3 months ago
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!
3 months ago
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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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3 months 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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3 months ago
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Nature Portfolio
3 months 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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3 months 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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3 months ago
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Even did some of our university field classes on our bikes!
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3 months ago
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Online in about 2 weeks, registering is still possible.
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3 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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3 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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3 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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3 months ago
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CSDMS
3 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).
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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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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3 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
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INSTAAR
3 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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4 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
4 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/...
4 months ago
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ESIP - Earth Science Information Partners
4 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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4 months ago
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Meanwhile on earth ....
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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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