Admin Husic
@husician.bsky.social
Associate professor of water resources engineering at Virginia Tech. Fascinated by hydrologic interfaces and my dog, Darcy.
🚨Job Alert!🚨 I'm recruiting a postdoc starting Fall '26 or Spr '27 focused on: (1) Satellite remote sensing of inland surface water (2) Hydrologic applications of geospatial foundation models, LSTMs, or other AI/ML approaches. If you're interested, DM me or fill out this form: lnkd.in/gf3fMmx8
“I watched him die… then I watched them maneuver his body like a rag doll— only to discover it was because they wanted to count the bullet wounds and see how many they ‘got’, like he was a deer.”
Dave Matthews and Tim Ryenolds playing Neil Young’s Ohio last night and ends with some Rage Against the Machine.
This is Alex Pretti. This morning he was murdered by ICE. Six ICE agents held him down and shot him at point blank range. Alex was a nurse and researcher at the VA. Our thoughts are with his loved ones and we stand united in action calling for the abolishment of ICE. #ScientistsAgainstICE
If you are going to #AGU2025, come check out the various talks and posters from members of our research group. I hope to see you in New Orleans next week!
Congratulations to two students in our lab, Nishchal and Sugam, for their successful MS theses defenses yesterday! Nishchal's thesis is entitled "American rivers are transporting more sediment in less time." Sugam's thesis is entitled "Why are some watersheds more sediment productive than others?"
Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people doi.org/10.64628/AAI... www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Rivers are heating up faster than the air − that’s a problem for aquatic life and people
River heat waves are rising faster than the pace of air heat waves. That’s a problem for fish, drinking water quality, and food and energy production.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers is doing a test run of an underwater dredging method right now in Kansas. This method hasn't been used on a lake before, so it's unclear whether it will work: www.kcur.org/news/2025-09...
Mud swallowed half of this Kansas lake. Engineers think they can fight back
In dry years, Tuttle Creek Lake and other reservoirs keep the Kansas River flowing strong enough to provide drinking water for hundreds of thousands of people. But these manmade lakes are disappearing...
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On The Climate Brink, I write about the DOE report and our response.
The merchants of doubt are back
But this time, it's the U.S. government pushing doubt
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The Department of Energy hired five academics to raise doubts about climate change. 85+ climate experts (organized by @andrewdessler.com) reviewed their report. Our conclusion, detailed in 450 pages of analysis: it is biased, full of errors, and not fit to inform policy making.
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On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding...
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The worst part about having a paper rejected is not the rejection itself, it's knowing that you'll have to reformat the manuscript for some new online portal submission system.
Can we have a moratorium on using any variant of the word "Advance" at the start of an AGU session title? Nearly 1 in 4 Hydrology sessions begin this way. Alphabetical sorting means these sessions appear at the top - maybe the motivation? An ironic result is that they become harder to differentiate.
I've been getting a lot of requests for comments on the DOE report "A critical review of the impact of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions on the U.S. climate". Here are some initial thoughts. More will come later.
If your journal manuscript gets this group of Pyr reviewers... god help you!
Trump is closing all four climate observatory stations in Alaska, Hawaii, American Samoa, and Antartica. Because you can't have high CO2 levels if you don't *measure* CO2 levels. roll_safe.gif
After 7 Decades of Measurements From a Peak in Hawaii, Trump’s Budget Would End Them
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In observance of #Juneteenth, Virginia Tech offices are closed today. As we recognize Juneteenth, we also reaffirm our commitment to building a community rooted in our Principles of Community - one that rejects hate, violence, and racism. ➡️ vt.edu/principles-of-community
🚨 New in ES&T! @pubs.acs.org Ion clusters in an urban stream reveal how salinization varies with hydrology. Storms, baseflow, and snowmelt each leave distinct chemical fingerprints. A tool for targeting risk & smarter watershed policy: doi.org/10.1021/acs.... @diveredu.bsky.social
Ion Clusters Reveal the Sources, Impacts, and Drivers of Freshwater Salinization
Population growth, land use change, climate change, and natural resource extraction are driving the salinization of freshwater resources worldwide. Reversing these trends will require data-centric app...
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Shoutout to my students for fantastic presentations at #HydroML2025. They looked at applying deep learning to do large-scale, high-temporal resolution prediction of hydrograph separation, sediment transport, and freshwater salinization.
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 Bosnian love ballad called "We will sing what our hearts know" 🇧🇦♥️🎶
Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid
We expected 2,000 people out in GOP-held Greeley, Colorado. 11,000 people showed up. Something special is happening, folks. Now is the time to organize in every dimension possible and get to work.
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · last yr.Overflow crowd for Bernie/AOC rally in Greeley, CO — the small one today, big one is in Denver later
Today, a broad coalition of scientific professional societies who represent over 92,000 scientists are speaking out against the politicization and demonization of Federally funded science and government scientist jobs. It was an honor to help the Union of Concerned Scientists with this! 🧪🌎
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
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Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Variability of flowing stream network length across the US
The aggregate length of flowing streams in a drainage network lengthens and shortens as landscapes become wetter and drier. However, direct measurements of stream network variability have been limited...
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Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...
Watershed models of flow, sediment, and nutrients are continuously improving. However, the metrics we use to evaluate these models were developed decades ago. In a new paper, we present a set of performance criteria for evaluating models at sub-daily and daily timesteps. doi.org/10.1016/j.wa...
Hi all - there are 2 days left to apply for a postdoc position with me in large-sample water quality and interpretable machine learning! Review will start on January 15th and continue until the position is filled.
Admin Husic@husician.bsky.social · 2y agoI have an opening for a 2-year postdoc fellowship at #VTCEE on large-sample hydrology, water quality, and eXplainable AI to start next year. The position is in NoVA, close to DC with many opportunities for work and play. Please share broadly! Listing here careers.pageuppeople.com/968/cw/en-us...
