Rocio Luz Fernandez
@limnologic.bsky.social
Lake & river scientist | Civil Engineering | Geomatics | Remote pilot |🧉 + ☕️ | 👉 https://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/The+Edge+of+Progress https://www.linkedin.com/in/rocio-luz-fernandez-47738515/
How's this for a feedback loop? Ice sheets build up lowering sea level → reduced water load leads to increased mid ocean ridge volcanism after a 10-20 kyr lag → volcanism releases iron → iron causes plankton blooms → atmospheric CO₂ goes down → ice sheets build up www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Ocean iron fertilization from enhanced mid-ocean-ridge volcanism due to ice-age sea-level falls - Nature Geoscience
Increased hydrothermal iron inputs from mid-ocean ridges, triggered by ice-age sea-level falls, supported higher surface primary productivity during the last two glacial terminations, according to pro...
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On Leonardo da Vinci's birthday (and Italy's Engineers' Day), I'm making one chapter of The Edge of Progress available. 🎁 AI excels at optimizing the known, but human ingenuity dares to imagine what does not yet exist.
KinarNicholas.bsky.social@kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 4mo agoHydrology Paper (Book) of the Day @limnologic.bsky.social on the extreme engineering of dams, reservoirs, and water pipelines: why the Vajont Dam was so challenging to build; the San Roque reservoir in the context of engineering history; and a water supply pipeline as part of a large-scale scheme.
Hydrology Paper (Book) of the Day @limnologic.bsky.social on the extreme engineering of dams, reservoirs, and water pipelines: why the Vajont Dam was so challenging to build; the San Roque reservoir in the context of engineering history; and a water supply pipeline as part of a large-scale scheme.
Rocio Luz Fernandez@limnologic.bsky.social · last yr.Well, It’s not about a paper—just something I’ve poured my heart into. 😌 👉The Edge of Progress is a documentary comic about five monumental feats of engineering. These feats didn’t just rise—they broke the limits of what was thought possible. Written for a general audience.
Such a cool paper from Tian Dong and Lawrence Vulis (who met at the CSDMS ESPIn summer academy!), "Apparent Hack’s law in river deltas" just published in Science demonstrates relationship between delta's growth/change and distributary channel length. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Join the SFS Early Career Committee for a job panel webinar: "Aquatic science careers in a shifting landscape". 📅 May 12th at 4:00-5:30p ET/1:00-2:30 PT The panel will focus on non-academic careers and include guided Q/A and breakout group discussions! 🔗 cornell.zoom.us/j/7626553387....
In the years after a wildfire, stream peak flow levels often more than double, significantly increasing flooding risk. A new approach helps researchers quantify the impacts across the western U.S. eos.org/research-spo...
How Wildfires Worsen Flood Risk - Eos
A new approach to analyzing watersheds shows how storms occurring after a wildfire can have higher flooding risk than similar storms that occurred before a fire.
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Ocean #eddies are intensifying #climate extremes in coastal seas. A study in Nature Climate Change shows faster surface warming alongside deeper cooling, with implications for major #oceancurrents worldwide. DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Ocean eddies reshape coastal seas as warming accelerates at the surface • Muser Press
New research reveals a powerful yet overlooked driver of climate change: Intensifying ocean eddies. These swirling currents are redistributing heat and nutrients...
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Mechanisms for regime shifts differ in shallow versus deep lakes - commentary - tinyurl.com/4wepyjbu
🌊 NEW BLOG! Listening to Storm Waves Beneath Lake Ontario A study led by former #CIGLR postdoc Dr. Chu-Fang Yang & CIGLR's Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome & @umich.edu partners shows how a fiber-optic cable on the lakebed can monitor storm waves in real time: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/listening-st... #GreatLakes
A piece we wrote for The Conversation that associated with our recent paper "Extreme events and river biodiversity under climate change" in Nature Reviews Biodiversity @jdtonkin.bsky.social @tdatry.bsky.social and others Read-only link: rdcu.be/e4Dkv doi.org/10.64628/AA....
Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers. We need new ways to protect them
Rivers support billions of people but are among the least protected parts of nature. A major review shows what needs to be done as climate change accelerates.
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Water Resources Analyst Position at Colorado State University. Apply by 16 March. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
Wind and -20°C created some wild ice on the trees by beach in #Toronto
Closes soon!! 🧪⚒️
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦@watershedlab.bsky.social · 10mo ago🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?... (please reskeet widely!) #academicsky 🧪⚒️🇨🇦
Read my new policy brief of Living Well with Water: Building Flood Resilience Through Participation, Education & Inclusion 👇 www.linkedin.com/posts/katie-...
Grateful to the Loughborough University Policy Unit for their support and their highlighting of my policy brief: “Living Well with Water: Building Flood Resilience Through Participation, Education,…...
Grateful to the Loughborough University Policy Unit for their support and their highlighting of my policy brief: “Living Well with Water: Building Flood Resilience Through Participation, Education, ...
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New winter limnology paper out agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... “How Ice Composition Controls Radiatively Driven Convection Under Lake Ice” 🌊 ❄️
How Ice Composition Controls Radiatively Driven Convection Under Lake Ice
Numerical simulations show how ice composition influences heating and convection of the under-ice water column in lakes The diffusive boundary and stratified layers near the ice–water interface a...
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New paper from PhD student Maddy Lewis on glacier algal nutrient environment. Well done Maddy!!. academic.oup.com/femsec/advan...
Micromelt sampling of the glacier algal nutrient environment
Abstract. Zygnematophycean “glacier algae” form extensive blooms on ablating glacier surfaces despite the ultra-oligotrophic conditions apparent. Previous
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Comparing the different seasonality and trends in the magnitude of monthly temperature anomalies since 1940 for the Northern Hemisphere, Southern Hemisphere, Antarctic and Arctic. There are significant differences in the rate of long-term warming (blue to red lines). Data: doi.org/10.24381/cds...
@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd. We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals. Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...
Today is the first #WorldLakeDay! 🏞️ Lakes are vital #ForNature, climate resilience & freshwater supply, but are degrading rapidly.🌍🧪 Urbanization is a major cause of lake losses in many countries. .— IPBES #GlobalAssessment Explore restoration solutions with @unep.org & @fao.org bit.ly/469N2Ii
An international team of scientists is documenting remarkable biodiversity and exploring how powerful ocean currents support the #MarDelPlataCanyon ecosystem. Learn more via our latest #TaludContinental_IV expedition in Argentina! 🇦🇷 youtu.be/Ez2GJNz1vSo?...
Lush with Life | Underwater Oases of the Mar Del Plata Canyon
YouTube video by Schmidt Ocean
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PhD Scholarship Available on the development of eco-hydrologic and hydro-geomorphic models in coastal systems, at Deakin University / IITM (Australia-India joint project), Australia. Apply by 10 September. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
New paper by Chelsea Volpano where she characterizes the role of landfast ice on coastal sediment transport. interesting nonmonotonic response in sediment transport with the termination depth, explaining much of the erosive vs protective debate of ice agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Modeling the Influence of Grounded Landfast Ice on Nearshore Sediment Transport
XBeach was used to quantify sediment transport due to grounded landfast ice Conditions were identified where sediment transport was both amplified and reduced by ice Scour of the nearshore persi...
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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 :)
Let's say you have a big river, and active tectonics, and strong ocean currents, like, for example, around Taiwan, there are going to be a lot of modes of sediment dispersal, and they will alternate over time. 🧪⚒️ Link: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
New @agu.org session! Reduced nitrogen from source to impact: an interdisciplinary session on reduced nitrogen's complex environmental role. Invited speakers include USGS limnologist Dr. Michael Meyer @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social & Georgia Tech atmospheric scientist Da Pan #AGU2025 🧪🔥⚒️
Great summary of our recent paper on sea level rise during a past warm period and what it means for our future. Thanks, @climateages.bsky.social , for featuring our work.
Silvia Pineda-Munoz, PhD - Climate Ages@climateages.bsky.social · last yr.120,000 years ago, sea levels didn’t just rise they surged, paused, and dropped in rapid pulses. Fossil corals recorded it all. What they reveal could change how we think about our future coastlines. 🌊 Read the story: 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/fHe1a8W
Il satellite Biomass dell'ESA, lanciato a fine aprile, ha iniziato a inviare le prime immagini
European Space Agency@esa.int · last yr.🆕 The first stunning images from our groundbreaking #Biomass satellite mission have been released – they mark a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s forests are changing and exactly how they contribute to the global carbon cycle 🌳🌍 www.esa.int/Applications...
