The Canadian fire weather outlook is now available. Expect significant fire activity in BC and NWT as well much of the US West during the outlook period. This week Dr. Cordy Tymstra contributes a section entitled El Niño official arrives. www.tru.ca/wildfire/res...

Canada fire weather outlook

Stay informed with the latest fire weather conditions and what they mean for British Columbia, Canada and beyond.

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Vinyl records have an amazing sound. CDs and MP3 files are made from a digital intermediary that is compressed and these technologies often have a limited dynamic range. The mechanical noise in the stylus and analog preamp can't be easily replicated by a digital filter.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @loopdlupien.bsky.social on hydrological processes and environmental conditions in a basin of eastern Africa 1.748-1.725 million years ago: precession oscillations identified from sediment samples containing biomarkers; understanding feedbacks; and hominin fire use.

Rachel Lupien@loopdlupien.bsky.social · last mo.

📣 We have a new paper out in QSR on the high-resolution relationships between precipitation, vegetation, and fire across one precession cycle in the early Pleistocene in the Turkana Basin. Check it out! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

More than 30 years ago, I began teaching courses on data analysis in the earth sciences. 20 years ago, I started thinking about writing textbooks. Now there are six textbooks and many different course formats for you. Here are the options for you: mres.uni-potsdam.de/2025/10/15/o...

Earth is now warming faster than at any point in recorded geological history - around 10 times faster than the extreme warming event 56 million years ago and 20 times faster than at the end of the last ice age. We are almost certainly in a new extinction event.

Artist, scientist, educator, curator—Jill Pelto, art director of the North Cascade Glacier Climate Project, does it all. eos.org/features/jil...

Jill Pelto: Glacier Monitoring as a Lifelong Muse - Eos

Jill Pelto turned her childhood fascination with glaciers into a busy life creating data-art.

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @zekehausfather.com and colleagues on how climate change and environmental indicators show how human activities are causing sea level rise, global warming, and modification of greenhouse gas emissions: concentrations of GHGs; energy imbalances; and changes in oceans.

Zeke Hausfather@zekehausfather.com · last yr.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

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...

What?!? There's a large red chair outside of the Cranbrook Home Hardware. Why didn't I notice this earlier? I now have to sit in the chair and take a picture of myself sitting in the chair. There's always something new to explore in Cranbrook.

The same sandstone (Parfrey's Glen Formation) also occurs deep within the Devil's Lake gorge near the SW corner of the lake, though not exposed there. That is, the present gorge is most likely an exhumed ancient landform, Late Cambrian or older. The same is true of smaller gorges like Parfrey's Glen

Callan Bentley@callanbentley.bsky.social · 3d ago

A BILLION YEARS OF MISSING TIME The Great Unconformity at East Bluff, Devil's Lake, Wisconsin: 1.63 Ga Baraboo Quartzite overlain by a boulder breccia at the base of the sandstones of the Cambrian Sauk Sea (600-505 Ma). ⚒️

Want to implement your own firewall for Internet access and to run your own #DHCP server? One of the best solutions is the open source #OPNsense. It's not proprietary and is relatively easy to use. opnsense.org

Here's the setup of my home Internet system that I'm always working on. A new computer build with a Intel Core i3 processor provides an OPNsense firewall between the WAN and LAN.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @vivekguptaiit.bsky.social on a machine learning model for drought prediction in India: considering regional processes; forecasting SPEI-3 values; implications of hydrology and the monsoon; and understanding management in the context of results and interactions.

Vivek Gupta@vivekguptaiit.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Paper Alert🚨 Our paper on developing a national-scale drought forecasting model for India's diverse climate zones is now published! Led by Ashish, study uses an attention-based transformer framework to predict SPEI-3 values with high accuracy. sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Critical minerals (such as lithium, copper and Rare Earth Elements) are situated near and around the Andes. The minerals are in Indigenous territories and mineral extraction has many negative implications.

Beautiful Music Videos@alwaysbmv.bsky.social · 4d ago

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @vojsavagjoni.bsky.social @pzecology.bsky.social @jimjunker.bsky.social on a power law function relating biomass to abundance for Individual Size Distribution: understanding effects of temperature and resources with fish data from North American streams and Bayesian models

Vojsava Gjoni@vojsavagjoni.bsky.social · last mo.

Excited to share our paper in Ecology Letters @pzecology.bsky.social@jimjunker.bsky.social ker.bsky.social@wesnerlab.bsky.social! Using ~670,000 body sizes from stream food webs across North America, we show that warming does not necessarily favour smaller organisms, but depends on resource supply🌍🐟

Thinking of building your own computer from components? Also consider the environmental footprint of the packaging for these components. This picture shows that the packaging takes up an entire box. Of course, I am recycling the packaging at a local recycling depot.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @aslewis.bsky.social on how modelled ecological forecasts of water temperature and dissolved oxygen concentration vary between lakes and over time: data from seven lakes; comparisons involving 28 models; relating performance to covariates; and quantifying uncertainties.

Abby Lewis@aslewis.bsky.social · last yr.

So exciting to see @freyaolsson.bsky.social's forecast synthesis paper officially published today! "What can we learn from 100,000 freshwater forecasts? A synthesis from the NEON Ecological Forecasting Challenge" doi.org/10.1002/eap....

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @dorisewendt.bsky.social on a model that links water availability to sociological factors and water management: policies, procedures, and coupling of water balances to climate and water demand; quantifying groundwater storage; and understanding hydrological droughts.

Doris Wendt@dorisewendt.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Anyone wondering why I wrote this, have a look at the papers below: nhess.copernicus.org/articles/21/... And recent modelling development egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... @yorkshirewater.bsky.social Feel free to reach out after my holidays ;)

Hydrology Paper of the Day @hlee.bsky.social on how erosion of rock containing organic carbon contributes to CO2 fluxes by chemical changes: the Toarcian Ocean Anoxic Event during the Jurassic; understanding associated processes of climate change and global warming; and quantifying emission sources.

Howard Lee@hlee.bsky.social · last mo.

In my latest article for @arstechnica.com I write about a new study that looks at the competition between the process that *reduces CO2* over geological timescales, versus organic carbon weathering, which *emits* CO2 over a similarly long timeframe. ⚒️🧪 arstechnica.com/science/2026...

Good grief, this hits home.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @madisoncondon.bsky.social and colleagues on why transparency and open data and tools are required for assessing and dealing with climate risk: the need for data standards to reduce barriers; addressing sensitive data; respecting Indigenous knowledge; and best practices.

Madison Condon@madisoncondon.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🚨 Publication alert! Very happy to see our paper "Unlocking the benefits of transparent and reusable science for climate risk management" out in PNAS today. With @crispapoll.bsky.social @jdossgollin.bsky.social @bobkopp.net and many others. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Recall the Roy Orbison song "Only the Lonely" from the 1960s? My little smartcar is the only car in one of the parking lots at the College of the Rockies on a sleepy Sunday afternoon. However, the Community Forest has a few smiling people!

Hydrology Paper of the Day @aridideas.bsky.social on how microbes are transported by smoke in wildland fires: UAV sampling over small watersheds in Kansas associated with prescribed burn experiments; DNA extraction and bioinformatics; linear mixed models; and understanding spatial patterns.

Krista Bonfantine 🔥💧@aridideas.bsky.social · 3w ago

Unfortunately, in our latest work, we estimated an 8-fold increase in bacterial diversity for smoke with a hazardous AQI rating (PM2.5 >225 ug/m-3). #bioaerosol #smoke #microbiome doi.org/10.1186/s424...

For part of today, I explored the beautiful Community Forest behind the College of the Rockies. Anticlines, synclines, moraines and glaciofluvial features are all on display in this remarkable area.

Today I explored a new road that the City of Cranbrook is building behind the College of the Rockies. The road is not finished yet, but when it is, the road will serve as another way to travel to the College.

Hydrology Paper of the Day based on the research of @limnologylauren.bsky.social and colleagues on fires situated in both urban and wildland locations: the idea of rapid responses; the Camp Fire (Paradise, CA) and sampling strategies; and the need for fast monitoring and quantification of processes.

Lauren Magliozzi, PhD 💧@limnologylauren.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Reactive #wildfire responses leave gaps in water research. New paper presents a framework from 5 case studies (including our work after the Camp Fire!) showing how proactive co-production between scientists, water agencies & communities can build resilience 🔥💧🧪 www.frontiersin.org/journals/wat...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @jmbecologist.bsky.social on the possibility of maintaining ecosystems by human-assisted movement of species: European plant and animal communities; selection of species; challenges and guidance; changes and functionality; populations; and the need for human intervention.

James Bullock@jmbecologist.bsky.social · last yr.

As climate change will fundamentally change the environment we cannot carry on with traditional conservation & hope that will be enough We need to start investigating new approaches to maintain functioning ecosystems Our new paper besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I just repaired my Compaq computer, the one with an AMD Athlon XP processor. The computer dates back to the year 2001. Replaced the power supply and some of the ribbon cables.

Looking back and experiencing the DOS game Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. It was a good and tasteful game (without violence) that first engaged my love for Geography.