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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)

@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social

Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Springfield PI, WATER Lab Ecohydrology, water resource management, urban heat and microclimates, remote sensing, STEM education, and JEDI https://kyleblount.weebly.com/ https://www.uis.edu/directory/kyle-blount

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KinarNicholas.bsky.social@kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 3d ago

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hydro-kyleb.bsky.social on the future of urban hydrology: the need for a community of scientists to work together; understanding impacts in the context of sociohydrology; definitions of urban areas and processes; and the need for novel sensing systems and data collection.

Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉🎉NEW PAPER🎉🎉 "Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle" This is some of the work I'm most proud of to date: a new commentary co-authored with 15 amazing urban hydrology (or adjacent) folks after the 2024 WaterSciCon! Details and highlights below... 1/5 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Kate Clancy@kateclancy.bsky.social · last mo.

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

Third, faculty salaries are falling even if we statistically control for faculty rank and institution. By our analysis of National Center for Education Statistics data, tenured and tenure-track salaries are down 10 percent in real terms since 2016 and are lower today than they were in 2002; nontenured faculty salaries are down 4 percent since 2016 and are at 2002 levels today. To put this plainly: Suppose sharply increased teaching loads enabled institutions to cut one out of every seven full-time faculty. (That’s roughly what we saw last year in severe cuts announced at West Virginia, Western Illinois, and St. Cloud State Universities.) The associated savings in salary and benefits even through such drastic action would amount to less than 2.5 percent of total institutional expenditures for the typical university. The upshot? If you think higher education has a cost problem, squeezing more teaching out of faculty is not the first place you should look.
Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · 8mo ago

🎉🎉NEW PAPER🎉🎉 "Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle" This is some of the work I'm most proud of to date: a new commentary co-authored with 15 amazing urban hydrology (or adjacent) folks after the 2024 WaterSciCon! Details and highlights below... 1/5 doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Out of the Forest and Into the Concrete Jungle: Challenges, Opportunities, and Innovations in Urban Hydrology

Urban hydrology lacks an integrative framework across biophysical processes, social mechanisms, and governance processes We provide a path towards unified conceptualizations, efficient implementa...

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Kyle Blount, Ph.D. (they/them)@hydro-kyleb.bsky.social · last yr.

Happy to be a part of the convener team again this year! We'd love to have you join us and learn about your work! #AGU25 #UrbanEcohydrology @agu.org @aguecohydro.bsky.social @hydrology-agu.bsky.social

Cynthia Gerlein-Safdi@cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social · last yr.

So excited for the 2nd edition of this all-encompassing urban ecohydrology session, aiming to bring together the entire urban science community at #AGU25! H147 - Urban Ecohydrology in a Changing Climate: People–Plant–Water Dynamics in the Built Environment agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... @agu.org

IPCC@ipcc.bsky.social · last yr.

📣 PRESS RELEASE 🌎 📚 The full library of the @agu.org‬ Publications is now available for #IPCC authors working on the Seventh Assessment Report. "This landmark decision is an invaluable scientific boost for IPCC's ongoing work…" - #IPCC Chair Jim Skea 🔗https://bit.ly/PRAGU

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