Kevin McGuire
@kjmcguire.bsky.social
Professor & hydrologist @Virginia_Tech. Interested in natural resources, water & science. Views are my own. Follow/Repost≠Endorsement.
New paper with the crew at the Occoquan Lab and a big team of collaborators. We built a modeling framework that helps explain how deicing salts move through urban watersheds and shape stream salinity and drinking water quality. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
The University of Florida's School of Forest, Fisheries, and Geomatics Sciences is looking for a Forest Hydrologist. This is a 9-month, tenure-track, 70% Research / 30% Teaching appointment.
‘Curious Conversations’ podcast: Landon Marston talks about data centers and water news.vt.edu/articles/202...
‘Curious Conversations’ podcast: Landon Marston talks about data centers and water
Marston explained the amount of water used by data centers, what they’re doing with it, and the reality of the national and local impacts. He also shared aspects localities might consider before welco...
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“NCAR has played a greater role in advancing weather prediction & atmospheric modeling than perhaps any other single entity in the world,” says @weatherwest.bsky.social Dismantling NCAR would be “like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet.” KH
Trump administration plans to break up largest federal climate research center
Russ Vought, director of the White House Office of Management and Budget, said the National Science Foundation "will be breaking up" the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado.
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super excited to share that my first dissertation chapter is out in WRR! here, we operationalize the river corridor of a headwater Coastal Plain network into hydrogeomorphic features to characterize hydrologic connectivity across dimensions check it out here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Using Hydrogeomorphic Features to Quantify Structural and Functional Hydrologic Connectivity in a Coastal Plain Headwater Stream
Hydrogeomorphic features provide a key framework to study streamflow generation along the river corridor Across the study watershed, hydrogeomorphic features demonstrated distinct patterns of gro...
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An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
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The mystery of the Christiansburg well... from Radio IQ News @WVTFRADIOIQ I’m listening unknown account to The mystery of the Christiansburg well... from Radio IQ News on my WVTF app! www.wvtf.org/2025-08-22/t...
The mystery of the Christiansburg well...
CommonWx is a weather and climate newsletter, and while this story does have ties to those fields of study, it’s more about how our earth is so intricately connected – and how little we know about tho...
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Virginia Tech's Landon Marston on Water and AI: news.vt.edu/content/news...
As AI booms, data centers threaten energy grid and water supplies, expert says
AI’s data center boom strains power and water systems, prompting calls for smarter engineering, infrastructure, and policy, says Landon Marston.
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The classical runoff generation session is also at #AGU25 a highlight for catchment hydrologists attending the @agu.org conference in December. If you would like to contribute, make sure to submit your abstract by the end of July! Great lineup of invited speakers!
Ryoko Araki@rarakihydro.bsky.social · last yr.Submit your #AGU25 abstract to the long-running runoff-generation session! It is our great pleasure to have two invited speakers: Hilary McMillan and Larisa Tarasova. lnkd.in/gCy-iBXJ @nitinsingh.bsky.social @aliva-nanda.bsky.social @kjmcguire.bsky.social
Climate.gov will likely soon shut down, as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired. 🧪 eos.org/research-and...
NOAA’s Climate Website May Soon Shut Down - Eos
Climate.gov, NOAA’s portal to the work of their Climate Program Office, will likely soon shut down as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired on 31 May.
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🚨New paper alert! We investigated the hydro-meteorological drivers of event runoff characteristics in three catchments with forest, grassland and agricultural land use, highlighting the differences in runoff generation mechanisms between land use types: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Hydro‐Meteorological Drivers of Event Runoff Characteristics Under Analogous Soil Moisture Patterns in Three Small‐Scale Headwater Catchments
Analogous soil moisture patterns and respective runoff patterns were identified by applying a novel time series-based pattern search. Wetness-derived variables were decisive for causing a similar run....
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Opinion: The Mental Health Impacts of Scientific Fieldwork - Difficult conditions at remote field sites can put researchers under physical, mental, and emotional strain. undark.org/2025/04/17/o... @hubbardbrook.bsky.social
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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1/1 🌍 The #AGU Catchment Hydrology TC Student Competition is now open! Open to undergrads, grad students & postdocs! 🎓 Share a field or modeling study focused outside the US/Europe (global studies welcome!). Submit your <100-word entry here: 📌 padlet.com/msprenger2/f...
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
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🌍 This #EarthDay, science needs you more than ever. We celebrate our planet through stunning imagery and vital data—but we can’t protect what we don’t understand. #StandUpForScience #AGUAction
💪 Act Now: Tell Virginia decision-makers to ensure a strong and healthy future for the Rappahannock River by implementing smart, science-based water management solutions below! mostendangeredrivers.org/river/rappah...
When streams dry up, it can mean big changes for the nitrogen cycle—but those changes don’t appear to be what scientists expected.
The “Surprising” Effect of Drying Headwaters on Nitrogen Dynamics - Eos
Contrary to predictions, spring rains caused a decrease in nitrogen at watershed outflows in Alabama.
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NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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So true! Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be
Lyrics to English-language top hits have become less complex and more repetitive, which may make them catchier—and more appealing
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Gene Likens to the @theguardian.com: “I hope we don’t go back to the old days, so these rollbacks are very alarming. I care about the health of my children and grandchildren, I want them to have clean air to breathe. I care about clean water and clean and healthy soil, I want them to have that too.”
US could see return of acid rain if pollution rules are quashed, says scientist who first discovered it
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’
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“Gov. Glenn Youngkin Appoints Ken Cuccinelli, Who Conducted a ‘Climate Science Denial Witch Hunt’ Against UVA (and Former UVA Climate Professor Michael Mann), to the UVA Board of Visitors” by Iowkell via @bluevirginia.bsky.social: bluevirginia.us/2025/03/gov-...
Gov. Glenn Youngkin Appoints Ken Cuccinelli, Who Conducted a “Climate Science Denial Witch Hunt” Against UVA (and Former UVA Climate Professor Michael Mann), to the UVA Board of Visitors
Not that Gov. Glenn Youngkin ever was a "moderate" (yes, the media lied to you), but now he's obviously gone all-in on Trumpism, MAGA, etc. The reasons, most likely, is that Youngkin has been radicali
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