From #heatwaves to #floods and #droughts, swings between climate extremes are becoming more frequent and consequential. Researchers are investigating #HydrologicWhiplash and its impacts. Read the PNAS Core Concept explainer: https://ow.ly/EKaV50ZcVPs #ClimateChange
Some exciting news to share: very soon, NOAA Research will be hiring new federal employees into science positions across the agency! A couple of notes: 1) They will only be open on USAJobs for seven days. 2) Multiple positions at different sites may be in one posting. (1/2)
Just now getting around to posting about this. Nice to be part of this study with Quan Zhang and a host of others! We find that the water use efficiency from increased CO2 does not lead to higher tree growth. You can find the study here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Increased efficiency of water use does not stimulate tree productivity - Nature Climate Change
The authors theoretically delineate the maximal increases in tree growth that can be expected from increases in plant intrinsic water-use efficiency, which increases with rising CO2. They highlight en...
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Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs. Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!
Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations? Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
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NPR@npr.org · last yr.Hurricane forecasters rely on weather data collected and processed by Department of Defense satellites. That data will no longer be available as of Monday, June 30. By @rhersher.bsky.social
Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!
Musk should be asked about this in every interview he does now and forever. To ignore it is a dereliction of duty. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...
Am I crazy or did we just have a convo about how we can't fund cancer research?
With proposed changes to NIH support, potentially life-saving research at UW–Madison would become slower and less ambitious. And the true cost would fall on those waiting for the next medical breakthrough, who would have to wait even longer.
The real costs of research funding cuts
UW–Madison could lose tens of millions of dollars in annual research support due to a proposed change in federal funding. But what’s really at stake? The university’s ability to advance life-saving re
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The people telling you climate change isn’t real would also like you to believe that paying rent on an empty building saves money www.nytimes.com/2025/05/16/n...
NASA Office Above ‘Seinfeld’ Diner Is a Target of Trump Budget Shrinkage
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Foundation-funded postdoc funding opportunity to work in WA state! Interested in applying to work with me on climate on land or global carbon cycle dynamics? Reach out! Info sessions in May and June, due date June 26. www.wrfseattle.org/grants/wrf-p...
Postdoctoral Fellowships - Washington Research Foundation
Fellowship Details Fellowships include three years of salary support for the postdoc at an eligible research institution in Washington state. The salary for the first year is $80,000, increasing to […...
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Applications are open for the Stakeholder-Informed Spatial Modeling for Hydrologic Sciences Workshop! Dates: August 18 - 19, 2025 Location: Northeastern University Marine Science Center, Nahant, MA Apply by: May 16 Details at the link below: www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...
Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions! www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...
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Coastal Massachusetts in August? Sure! Apply to attend our CUAHSI-sponsored workshop on stakeholder-informed spatial modeling for hydrologic sciences. Let me know if you have any questions! www.cuahsi.org/workshops/st...
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Monstrously destructive, incoherent, ill-informed tariffs based on fabrications, imagined wrongs, discredited theories and ignorance of decades of evidence. And the real tragedy is that they will hurt working Americans more than anyone else.
Fuck droughts, we're doing pluvials now. New work w/ Park Williams, Richard Seager, Jason Smerdon, & @drkatemarvel.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Megapluvials in Southwestern North America
Pluvials in Southwestern North America occur as often as droughts, including two 20th century megapluvials from 1905 to 1923 and 1978-1999 The 1978–1999 megapluvial was the wettest interval of th...
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Our paper on how landscape evolution impacts the trajectory of life is out in @science.org! Work by two great post-docs in @iuearth.bsky.social and collaboration with the brilliant Tara Smiley of Stony Brook resulted in this. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Direct effects of mountain uplift and topography on biodiversity
Biodiversity hotspots in Earth’s mountain ranges suggest a strong connection between topographic development and biological processes. However, it remains unclear whether high biodiversity in mountain...
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-Climate change challenges traditional drought assessments -Reducing the sensitivity of drought indicators to non-stationarity is essential for accurately assessing drought -Multiple drought definitions or concepts are possible, and needed, to correctly assess drought in a changing climate
Prioritization of Research on Drought Assessment in a Changing Climate
Climate change adds conceptual and quantitative challenges to traditional drought assessments Reducing the sensitivity of drought indicators to non-stationarity is essential for accurately assess...
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🚨 #NOAA is essential for weather forecasting, climate research, and public safety. AGU stands with the scientific community in urging Congress to protect and strengthen NOAA, not dismantle it. Our economy, environment, and safety depend on it.
Hard to imagine a more objectively evil scenario than “the richest person on the planet intentionally chooses to prevent poor children from starving to death.” if a comic book supervillain did it you’d think it was implausibly evil. The sort of thing every religion agrees results in Going To Hell
Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last yr.Awful: Delivery of life saving treatment to nearly 400,000 severely malnourished kids abroad is in doubt amid USAID firings, the product's manufacturers tell me. The treatment is a paste made of peanuts, milk and sugar for kids on edge of starvation. Details here: newrepublic.com/article/1919...
“You’re terminated because…?” Fired federal employees are telling their stories—no deep state, just career public servants tossed aside. DOGE’s mass firings aren’t about efficiency—they’re gutting expertise, wrecking lives, and calling it “reform.”
Past climate conditions are preserved in tree rings. Researchers, including @dustybowl.bsky.social and @drkatemarvel.bsky.social, are using these records to understand the drivers of 21st century droughts in Eurasia. eos.org/research-spo...
A Warming Climate Is Shifting Eurasian Drought Conditions - Eos
Researchers use tree ring records to help reconstruct hydroclimate patterns and isolate drivers of drought.
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Is global warming affecting regional drought across Europe and Asia? Yes. New paper by me, @dustybowl.bsky.social and his dad agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Global Warming Is Likely Affecting Regional Drought Across Eurasia
Rigorous climate change detection and attribution is possible without the use of general circulation model simulations 21st century Eurasian hydroclimate patterns are incompatible with pre-indust...
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Want great summer plans? Look no further! The PSInet workshop is coming to Indiana University, to re-introduce the ecophys community to PSInet, a new open-access network database of plant water potential measurements. psinetrcn.github.io/posts/2025-0...
168 colleagues lost yesterday, 6 in Earth Sciences alone. Today we grieved. And strategized. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
