👏 👋 to @nicolegasparini.bsky.social - well worth a follow

This looks super interesting. Esp for folk at the intersection of science/humanities and water.

A wave train entering into the North Sea, seen by #Sentinel1 on 12 August. I am guessing it's tidal-related, but I have never seen this kind of signal in this region in SAR data before, pretty cool 😎 @jowilliams.bsky.social

👀 There have been some exciting arrivals since I joined MMU Dept Natural Sciences: flume for the BiG Lab, LaVision PIV, Dr Lizzie Dingle and her very cool experiments, some feisty crayfish 🦞, & now, Prof. @tomcoulthard.bsky.social 🥳. Chuffed to bits that Tom is now a colleague. Exciting times ahead!

Views from the new office @manmetuni.bsky.social

Sad news - and a lovely tribute. ges.uncg.edu/in-memoriam-...

I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS. We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement. hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

First day in the new office 😀 @manmetuni.bsky.social

First cloud-free optical satellite imagery from @planet.com show the destruction of Dharali village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India. Unfortunately the source area in the mountains is still obscured by cloud and so the ultimate cause is still speculative. 🧪⚒️

I liked this from Chris @floodskinner.games (who for some reason never comes up on my Bs feed..) youtu.be/o79Ba8vqtY4?...

Darla.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

“the entire summit is affected by an ongoing geomorphological process, likely linked to permafrost degradation” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Incredible story. Hg production fell to zero in 2020 but now rising (illegally it seems) to propel gold extraction in the Amazon financed and facilitated by Mexicos drug cartels… Horribly toxic - I thought mercury use had been nearly eliminated.

New paper by Chelsea Volpano where she characterizes the role of landfast ice on coastal sediment transport. interesting nonmonotonic response in sediment transport with the termination depth, explaining much of the erosive vs protective debate of ice agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk ) @dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Here's a fun anomaly for an inland flood risk map. It's genuinely very helpful in places: check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map But it's based on scans of the ground, & the processing gets confused sometimes. I think the 4-storey pitched roof of this hospital is probably safe from flooding!

So the Cunliffe report is out today. Couple of first takes: 1. It seems comprehensive - lots of concise detail but 2. Nothing about flooding (that I can see) which in most urban areas is intrinsically linked to sewage systems and water utilities. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687d5c...

I see NERC is reverting to a policy from 15(??) or more years ago on resubmissions. I suspect it will be counter productive to NERC workload - as checking for this will not be easy, and building on this - it looks quite easy to game/work around. So - I’m left with why bother (with the new policy!)

Big news for the UK water industry - Cunliffe review to recommend OFWAT is abolished www.theguardian.com/business/202...

“Good geology hides alot of problems” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Interesting pic of Woodhead Reservoir (A628 Woodhead pass from Manc on left) showing a mix of former valley floor, sedimentation, re-working and mixing of what looks like AMD red from the left and clearer water from the top.

Pleased to say there wasn’t an incident.. 🐈‍⬛ 💦

Interesting article that examines the inclusion or exclusion of properties from flood zones - in an unfortunately tragic context. Props to Mark Fonstad for the link. www.yahoo.com/news/fema-re...

Evans 9th Birthday cake 😀 pleased with this one!

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

Fantastic visualisation 👏👏

Here @itvnews.bsky.social repost a report of the 1990 Towyn floods. Interesting to see this now. www.itv.com/watch/news/i...

Great to spend the day catching up with long time collaborator and friend Greg Hancock - over from Oz for a couple of weeks.

The Gravel Bed Rivers 10 website is live! Come join us in Aviemore, Scotland, 7-11 Sept 2026.

🚨 I’m moving jobs.. after 20 years it’s a sad goodbye to @uniofhull.bsky.social @eeiathull.bsky.social and a hello to @manmetuni.bsky.social Looking forward to new colleagues and opportunities.

And here’s a cat in a box picture ❤️

I’m back! Lost my login details!!

Really enjoy telling the ongoing story of post-2007 flood alleviation work in Hull. @curiosityhull.bsky.social @tomcoulthard.bsky.social

Interesting push back on Beds councils report on Jan flooding www.theguardian.com/news/2025/ap...

Fantastic work. Great to see LEMs used for such trans disciplinary work.

Ugh… Again…

Great looking paper here from Briony, Hannah and Stewart of the Risky Cities team. "Governing flood risk in mid seventeenth-century England": www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Anyone else see the Thames Water doc on BBC2 last night? Felt like a revealing insight into how they operate - at all levels. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Just been confirmed that 17.5k barrels of jet fuel were lost from a cargo of 220k. Could have been a lot worse.

This is a great précis of present state - and reasons why UK HE is in a mess. I’m not sure about the essays answers for this - but there’s a lot that resonates with me in the article. 👏👏

I am somehow for the first time ever reviewing for PNAS and their reviewer instructions include this BANGER of a line: "The purpose of peer review is not to demonstrate proficiency in identifying flaws" Print it in eleventy point font and hang it from the hillside. Scream it from the rooftops.

Proud to see the announcement that @uniofhull.bsky.social are officially moving away from X and instead focusing their social media presence elsewhere! It can be hard for institutions to make moves like this, when they are so well established on certain platforms. But it makes a statement.

Our cat thinks it’s a dog.. #fetch

Feline picket lines in effect this morning…