Headed to #AGU25 next week? Check out the work my group is presenting on #flooding and climate-driven hazards: 🌧️ Using geospatial foundation models for global flood mapping 🏙️ Satellite- and process-based comparisons of flood extent & depth in urban envs 🌪️ Hurricane-induced flash floods #Helene

🌍 Geospatial data science in 2025 still comes down to two words: foundation models. And over the past months, we’ve had the chance to put that idea into practice for global flood mapping. Summary figures & discussion on Hugging Face: 👉 lnkd.in/euR9DXfX Full technical preprint: 👉 lnkd.in/eYMCZd9e

Free access to Google Colab Pro for academics and students: #python blog.google/outreach-ini...

With NISAR successfully launched on July 30, 2025, the mission is opening up an extraordinary new era of global L-band SAR observations. Look forward to using the data for #floods The NISAR Science Users’ Handbook Second Edition can be accessed here: dataverse.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset.xhtm... #NISAR

It's been a minute on this one (in review for ~ 1.5 yrs), but congrats to Vini on his 4th PhD chapter, thx to Sankar for support & to me for pushing it over the line 😊 "Assessing the cumulative impact of on-farm reservoirs on modeled surface hydrology" is out: hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

join us with the Global Flood Partnership next Wednesday am for our ALL WOMEN remote sensing and flooding webinar! @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social @ekta-aggarwal.bsky.social and I discuss AI and flood mapping +applications re: migration + emergency response www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...

Join the Global Flood Partnership (GFP) 2025 Fall Webinar Series! On November 19, 2025 (16:00 CET), we bring you three expert talks on how Earth-Observation data is transforming flood mapping, risk assessment, and resilience strategies. Register here: lnkd.in/gjYX3GV8 See also: lnkd.in/gRQFuk_J

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

And just like that, 1min later, I have lots of basemaps in #QGIS: github.com/opengeos/qgi...

First NISAR images!! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

A second version of the Comprehensive Remote Sensing book series #satellites #academia #books www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780443...

Ways to improve equity in faculty workload in #academia: advance.umd.edu/fwrp/home

A new semester, new challenges, and the same fantastic team! 🚀 Feeling grateful for #NASA’s continued support of our research on #flood dynamics and resilience with #satellite data and AI gaec-lab.netlify.app/post/25-09-0...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n... Quoted in nytimes today re flood net- this neat network of sensors detecting water height all over nyc (which I am not involved with but really admire!)

Check out NASA's near-real-time global #flood products: www.earthdata.nasa.gov/data/instrum...

A Diverse New Generation of Scientists Observes Earth from Above eos.org/science-upda...

This summer has been roasting hot for Europe doi.org/10.1038/d415...

Farewell #Landsat 7, our use of 5TB of Landsat 5&7 & AI algos a few yrs back for surface #water and #flooding dynamics at subcontinental scale was a highlight: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/thir... earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/88292... landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/article/a-fi...

Great tracking of a tsunami with #SWOT SWOT data could significantly enhance operational tsunami forecasts www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/us-fren...

🚀 The #NISAR (NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar) mission—a collaboration between #NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (#ISRO)—is launching today! NISAR will be a game-changer for monitoring flooded vegetation. www.youtube.com/watch?v=waTm... #Radar #FloodMonitoring

Writing is thinking — why we should only use LLMs as a helping tool, but NOT to write for us!

Understanding country income: blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/...

Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding theconversation.com/why-texas-hi...

AI enhances #flood warning, but the risk of disasters still remains: www.reuters.com/technology/a...

The climate resiliency of green social housing in Vienna could be used as an example of landscaping to protect urban residents against #floods www.npr.org/2025/06/15/n...

Surprisingly poor protection against extreme precipitation and flooding events from gray infrastructure in high-income countries and cities. Nature-based solutions (i.e., green infrastructure) are key! Topography in cities is helpful www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#Hurricane season has started in the USA on June 1. Here are some tips on how to protect your home from #flooding: www.npr.org/2025/06/12/n...

Come join us at the Conservation Biogeography Lab @biogeoberlin.bsky.social @humboldtuni.bsky.social and carry out work on megafauna in Europe pages.cms.hu-berlin.de/biogeo/websi...

#Groundwater extraction and rising seas increase land sinking & #flooding impacts in 48 #coastal cities around the globe, with the fastest sinking cities in Asia or South-East Asia Check out this nicely made interactive tool: www.bbc.com/news/resourc...

Did you think that citations were a reliable measure of academic impact? #academia Think again: arxiv.org/pdf/2402.04607

Excited to share a new paper in @joss-openjournals.bsky.social: "eo-tides: Tide modelling tools for large-scale satellite Earth observation analysis" 🌊🛰️ A new #opensource Python package designed to help combine satellite data with ocean tide modelling! joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...

PyViT-FUSE: A Foundation Model for Multi-Sensor Earth Observation Data: doi.org/10.48550/arX...

Create your own Bluesky QR code: qrsurge.com/bluesky-qr-c...

Hello Sentinel-2C 👋🛰️ Images from the recently launched @esa.int third #Sentinel2 satellite are now available. Some winter wonderland images from #Iceland acquired yesterday over the Northeastern highlands. 📸 Lake Mývatn 📸 Jöklusá á Fjöllum glacier river 📸 Askja volcanic caldera & lake

📣Our global 🌍 overview of usable Landsat and Sentinel-2 🛰️ data now comprises also information from 2024! The complete 1982-2024 dataset can be browsed via a #GEE app: tinyurl.com/322e63p2 and downloaded from here: doi.org/10.5061/drya...

Is #AI making us illiterate programmers? #Python nmn.gl/blog/ai-illi...

Two professor positions open at Humboldt University Berlin: 🔹 Human Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 🔹 Physical Geography: haushalt-und-personal.hu-berlin.de/de/personal/... 6-week application deadline. Please share!

1/5 🎉 Huge congratulations to Dr. Varun Tiwari on successfully defending his PhD on "Advancing Climate Resilient Agriculture and Disaster Management in Data-Scarce Bangladesh."

Converge freshwater science series! Joining freshwater scientists from across the triangle area to discuss ideas in a safe, collegial atmosphere monthly. Thank you NCSU for hosting the January meeting! And thank you to @ardonlab.bsky.social and other presenters for leading discussions.

Are you a postdoc working on global environmental change? Apply for the new #TenureTrack professorship on #Geography of #Global Environmental Change and join us at the Geography Department of Humboldt-University Berlin! @humboldtuni.bsky.social --> hu.berlin/GeographyGEC

#weekendinspo: Highly recommend Flow, the new animated film, which follows a cat and other animals navigating a post-human, flooded world, where survival depends on interspecies collaboration. #floods #climatechange #collaboration #blender #opensourcesoftware #animation

Study shows that excess mortality (more than 3y after a storm) from 500 USA tropical cyclones (TCs) — hurricanes and tropical storms — is higher (7,000–11,000 per TC) than immediate deaths (~24). www-nature-com.prox.lib.ncsu.edu/articles/s41...

Flash #floods in the north- and southeastern US: www.cnn.com/2025/02/16/w... abcnews.go.com/US/major-sto...

Severe flooding 🇦🇺 Helicopter footage reveals the scale of devastation in Queensland, Australia, where relentless rainfall has submerged entire communities. Thousands have been forced to evacuate as emergency services work tirelessly to provide support. Video: Queensland Ambulance Service (QAS)

Commercial very-high-resolution satellite imagery is crucial for monitoring smallholder farming systems (SDG 2), but paywalls block innovation and progress. We call for open access to these data for sustainability-centered research in @pnas.org! Read the full text here: doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

We left behind ~10k followers on X, please reskeet to help us reach the community! #EOchat

Hey, #AI community, what article/resource would you recommend for getting a handle on #DeepSeek? Some I found: codedoodles.substack.com/p/how-does-d...