OMG, this is not good news. Not too much fuel left in the area. What about Spruce Gulch though?

Ahh good to see! This will be cool to put our work at Gilkey and Field glacier lakes in context. @app-glaciers.bsky.social

Friday afternoon field class time, working out differences between handheld GPS units and phone GPS (while on airplane mode). @cubouldearth.bsky.social

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/...

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.

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...

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.

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...

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...

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. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Bedrock characteristics matter for glacial incision, super nice model-data demonstration by Div Patel and @rachelglade.bsky.social for the iconic Finger Lakes in NY. journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...

📚 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 #nasadata

I would not be a scientist here if this sort of regulation had been around. In STEM many graduates and postdoc are international.

Meanwhile on earth ....

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...

Today is International Day of Women in Science!

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.

Thanks for the heads-up, sounds like I need to spend some time on youtube...

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.

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!

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 @csdms.bsky.social software engineers! zenodo.org/records/1712...

“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. buff.ly/myABMZZ

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...

Proud to see this work out - field and modeling combination by former graduate student Ethan Pierce, Danish collaborator Bent Hasholt and I. @cubouldearth.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

We are chipping away at Greenland dirty secrets! @instaar.bsky.social @tommarchitto.bsky.social @colorado.edu www.colorado.edu/instaar/2026...

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/

Still really dry in Colorado. Current snow pack in the Colorado Headwaters, the black line, is 57% of 30y reference. Gonna try to ski this weekend, we'll see. nwcc-apps.sc.egov.usda.gov/awdb/basin-p...

Missed this thing even if I care about sand. But love the zoom-out and thinking about the fundamental part of science; to be willing to be wrong, to be willing to listen to conflicting evidence.

Lithosphere sure, yes! But earth twins should also be scalable - to make them relevant for local hazards we need to move water and sediment around and allow for a changing earth surface geoscientist.online/sections/vie...

Want a say in where science goes next? NSF is taking public input on its draft strategic plan—and your voice matters! Deadline: coming Tuesday, 10pm MT. Shape your future: www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...

This is an awesome opportunity! Need more students on bluesky to spread the word.

Registration now open!!! CSDMS 2026 Annual Meeting, "Modeling Landscapes in Motion", May 19-21, 2026 in Minneapolis, MN. Details and register: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Form:An...

Crazy idea: an aircraft carrier iceberg that floats around in the Atlantic Ocean, so that no-one would need to built bases on other people's territory. Would that be possible? Oh, guess what we are reading in Geomorph seminar? doi.org/10.3189/S002...

As sea ice retreats, waves matter more. Models show wave events resuspend sediment on the Beaufort Sea shelf, reversing net transport westward despite eastward currents. This affects coastal change & carbon fate in the Arctic. Read more: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Allows for easy coupling between a process model and GeoTiff data, can come in handy!

It was raining on this protest in Nuuk. Temperatures in Greenland have been absurdly warm recently. THAT is what we should be talking about.

The application window for the 2026 Earth Surface Processes Institute (ESPIn) is open for one more week. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/ESPIn Join us in Boulder for a week of science && software!

See our paper about the geomorphological aspects of the torrential flooding of the Étançons torrent at La Bérarde on June 21, 2024 🌊👇 journals.openedition.org/geomorpholog... ONF (Office National des Forêts) / EDYTEM / Styx4D

CSDMS Student Modeler Award Competition is now open! Deadline to send your materials is 1/26/26. More info and how to apply here: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student...

Prairie around us is so wind-scoured after the storm events of this early winter. It's been dry since October and this is an area with a large prairie-dog colony - so more sparsely rooted and vegetated. I estimate we lost several cm's of topsoil.

“President Trump’s talk of ‘buying’ Greenland is not only an affront to Greenland’s autonomy but also a dangerous distraction from the urgent work of addressing environmental change impacts to US citizens,” the letter reads. eos.org/research-and...

Can't even imagine our science without open satellite, topography and climate data anymore.

Only a few weeks left to submit your latest and greatest codes and science finding for consideration for the #CSDMS student modeler award. csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Student... Any #ESPIN-eers ready to share their work?

Joining Andy and others to talk about Trump and Greenland in 5 minutes. Join us at 7 pm ET. ❄️🧪💙📚 #scicomm #climate #UVMresearch #science Meet U.S. Scientists Working in Greenland Who are Urging Trump and Congress to Respect Greenlanders open.substack.com/pub/revkin/p...

Well-posed piece in the conversation! theconversation.com/why-greenlan...

To Greenlanders: thank you for years of friendship and partnership; we stand with you. Qujanaq, ilagaasi. U.S. scientists: Write your reps in D.C. TODAY. Urge them to support Greenland's right to self-determination. Insist the U.S. engage respectfully and peacefully with our ally. bit.ly/3LjITdm

175 U.S. scientists who do research in Greenland have already signed our Statement from U.S. Scientists in Solidarity with Greenland. With more signatures coming every hour. Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland.

Hydrologist Lejo Flores explains the current snow drought in the US mnt west. theconversation.com/the-western-...

Greenland is its own place and belongs to their people! Working on scientific questions on Greenland's rivers and coasts, where Greenlanders live, has always been collaborative. It could not have happened without support. I feel so deeply troubled by propaganda and invasion threats.