Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future! We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought. Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...

Check out this amazing opportunity to work with a rising star!

Audrey Thellman@audreythellman.bsky.social · last yr.

Hello freshwater friends! I’m starting a lab(!!) and recruiting 2 students to start Fall 2026 and a lab/field assistant to start this Fall 2025! Research topic is broad: rivers 🛶, ice/snow ❄️, nutrients 🍂, algae 🌱see below for more info Please pass this along to any interested folks :)

Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy. It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.' www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...

4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment

In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.

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Looking at my to-do list and sobbing while I click accept on another manuscript review invitation

Me this morning reading an MS thesis from my lab. Reading good grad student work is SUCH a joy.

a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .

ALT: a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .

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Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024... #SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation

🌎 A champion for environment and sustainability, @unc-ie.bsky.social director and @uncchapelhill.bsky.social chief sustainability officer @mpiehler.bsky.social was recently named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor. Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.

A champion for environment and sustainability, Piehler named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor  - UNC Institute for the Environment

Piehler is a renowned leader in coastal environmental science.

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The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:

Few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities - AP-NORC

Most of the public believes that colleges and universities make significant contributions to scientific and technological advancement and think their federal research funding should be maintained.

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Are water levels in wetlands important to you? @kica22.bsky.social's new paper in GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can measure water surface elevations in the Everglades with a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm. Check it out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Feeling humbled by this award and wanted to share the story from IU News. Im grateful to my @iuearth.bsky.social colleagues and all the students that have worked with me over the years. news.iu.edu/live/news/45...

IU earth scientist’s research into rivers and flooding earns him prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship

Douglas Edmonds, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was selected for the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. He was one of tw...

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What a fun paper describing rivers in North and South America that flow into multiple drainage basins. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Unusual Drainages of the Americas

We describe nine river bifurcations and bifurcation lakes in North and South America. They at first seem to defy the rules of hydrology These unusual water bodies exhibit bidirectional flow, unre...

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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...

Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

This is effectively what led to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane being the most deadly storm in U.S. history. We are so back, i guess. 😩

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.

The Ramirez Lab, NCSU@aramirezlab.bsky.social · last yr.

Sharing a passion for freshwater science- We spent an evening meeting people from different institutions in NC that work in aquatic ecosystems and talking about freshwater ecosystems This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU @ardonlab.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social

I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely. journals.sagepub.com...

I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry

Interested in headwater streams? Headwaters make up 77% of global river networks, but have fewer gauges, less accurate models and lesser protections than large rivers. See our review led by @goldenwater.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s44...

Advancing the science of headwater streamflow for global water protection - Nature Water

Despite their substantial contributions to watershed resilience, headwater streams are becoming increasingly imperilled. This Perspective summarizes the status of headwater streamflow information and ...

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🧪 And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists). Interesting looking read. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is apocalyptic.

Christiaan Triebert@trbrtc.bsky.social · 2y ago

SWIR images of burning homes in Altadena (location: 34.187, -118.108 google.com/maps/place/3...). 🛰️📷: @Maxar

Do you do #remotesensing of aquatic environments, but you want aquatic surface reflectance data. Well, we processed the entire #Sentinel2 record for #AQUATIC surface reflectance in the Contiguous US. You can now access those data from Amazon Web Services for FREE! registry.opendata.aws/usgs_aqr/

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades

Canada has experienced more-intense and longer fire seasons with more-frequent uncontrollable wildfires over the past decades. However, the effect of these changes remains unknown. This study identifi...

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A little bit delayed, but I hear it's picking up over here so sending this out into the world: our Lafayette team including Rachel Hurley (now grad student at WPI), Dave Brandes, and me put out this piece on flashiness across the Mid-Atlantic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Drivers and Buffers of Stream Flashiness in the Mid‐Atlantic United States

In this study, we investigated flashiness across 195 Mid-Atlantic sites, each within one of seven different physiographic regions. Our findings identified several drivers and buffers of flashiness, e...

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Interested in the Great Plains Low-Level Jet, the Missouri River Basin, flooding, and/or moisture transport? Check out our new paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Role of the Great Plains Low‐Level Jet in Moisture Transport, Streamflow, and Flooding in the Missouri River Basin

The Great Plains low-level jet (GPLLJ) has a clear and consistent impact on Missouri River streamflow and peak flows during the warm season GPLLJ is associated with 29%–46% of warm season precipi...

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New paper by Dongmei Feng finds an interesting pattern in global streamflow trends through time: increasing streamflow in upstream river reaches and decreasing flow in downstream reaches: www.science.org/doi/full/10....

I am deeply troubled and shocked by MIT professor Rosalind Picard’s keynote speech at NeurIPS24 that included a racist comment about Chinese students. This type of implicit bias has no place in academia.

NeurIPS Conference@neuripsconf.bsky.social · 2y ago

NeurIPS acknowledges that the cultural generalization made by the keynote speaker today reinforces implicit biases by making generalisations about Chinese scholars. This is not what NeurIPS stands for. NeurIPS is dedicated to being a safe space for all of us. 1/3

This paper is incredible: one year of SWOT data gives us a much better picture of global ocean floor topography than all other data ever collected. And this will only keep getting better with more SWOT data. This one result may justify the cost of launching SWOT. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Abyssal marine tectonics from the SWOT mission

The global ocean covers 71% of Earth’s surface, yet the seafloor is poorly charted compared with land, the Moon, Mars, and Venus. Traditional ocean mapping uses ship-based soundings and nadir satellit...

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Engaging posters ✅ Good conversations ✅ New connections ✅ Second-to-last AGU poster session has been a success! @iarauz.bsky.social

UNC Dept of Earth, Marine & Environmental Sciences@unc-emes.bsky.social · 2y ago

Graduate student Isabela Arauz and recent postdoc Elyssa Collins share their work in morning hydrology poster sessions! @iarauz.bsky.social

Did NOT see this coming!! Analysis of 2.9M rivers globally finds that, on avg 1984-2018, streamflow increased in headwaters & declined in downstream sections (1.7 times more upstream increases found than declines; ~4 times more downstream declines than increases). www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...

More flow upstream and less flow downstream: The changing form and function of global rivers

We mapped daily streamflow from 1984 to 2018 in approximately 2.9 million rivers to assess recent changes to global river systems. We found that river outlets were dominated by significant decreases i...

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