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The GeoBreak labs that I am teaching for outreach were recently profiled by the College of the Rockies on their blog. cotr.bc.ca/blog/knowled...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @martin-nunez.bsky.social on invasive Douglas fir trees in South America: biogeography of the Isla Victoria island, South Argentina; reforestation and spread; seedling survival and growth; ectomycorrhizal fungal processes; and the importance of environmental factors.

#warmingrivers #watertemperature #inctober

Hydrology Paper of the Day @drevaplaganyi.bsky.social on a spatial geography of how marine ecosystems are affected by ocean warming: risk in the context of hydrological processes and weather; species changes and challenges; heat waves and ocean circulation; and hydrological connectivity.

Elderbrook - Shallow Water www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZ6L...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @lireactivewater.bsky.social @hydrochrista.bsky.social @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social @wardhydro.bsky.social @margaretzimmer.bsky.social on the HELiOS dataset of headwater streams: geospatial data extraction over the CONUS, and a geography of landscape types and processes.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @nickmarzolf.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social on how dissolved GHGs are influenced by the slope of a low-gradient river channel: riffles, runs and pools in New Hope Creek, NC; measurements of concentrations and gas transfer; and understanding biogeochemical cycles.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mrdjournal.bsky.social on obtaining relative canopy heights from the GEDI LiDAR mounted on the International Space Station: data from the Annapurna Conservation Area, Nepal; ground truth data; estimating biomass; and understanding errors and measurement uncertainties.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @richard-fewster.bsky.social on formation of peatlands in the Southern Alps, New Zealand: the Rob Roy valley and decades of warming; changes in glaciation; palaeoecological studies and plant macrofossils; and ecological succession in context of C cycles and water.

Water is always beautiful, and videos featuring water are always sublime. A beautiful music video indeed. 👇

Hydrology Paper of the Day @christina-hn.bsky.social on how beech and Douglas fir trees respond to soil moisture changes during drought: stem water and sap flow fluxes in the context of transpiration processes; declines in water transport and species differences; and hydrological patterns.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @eos.org on utilizing remote sensing to quantify cloud phases over major mountain chains: twenty years of MODIS data; climate warming and supercooled phases; differences over the Andes and the Tibetan Plateau due to regional environments; and exploring trends and changes

It was great to present the first GeoBreak public outreach rock lab on minerals at the College of the Rockies today. Lab setup shown in the picture.

Music videos with minerals are always beautiful 👇

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mrillig.bsky.social on how droughts, floods, heatwaves and extreme climate events affect antibiotic resistance genes in grassland soils: a survey of 30 sites in Europe; random–forest models to understand environmental ranges; and the role of metabolism in environments.

Changes in climate played a role in the rise and decline of trading posts on the Silk Road during the Tang Dynasty. Their story is a cautionary tale for societies today, researchers say. eos.org/articles/a-h...

Hydrology Paper of the Day @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social on a dataset of lake surface temperatures derived from remote sensing: Landsat 8 imagery from 2013 to 2025; cloud computing and spatial GIS algorithms in Google Earth Engine; validation and environmental drivers; and dataset comparisons.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @criskotsu.bsky.social on neurodiversity in the aquatic sciences: the need for cognitive differences; the presence of barriers, opportunities, and changes; the importance of suitable workspaces and workplace culture; and the context of institutional support.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @scholarmelinda.bsky.social on Indigenous stewardship, fire and conservation: cultural values, biodiversity, and coproduced research; landscapes in the context of climate change; fuel, resilience and biodiversity; and an understanding of relevant questions and processes.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @edhawkins.org on digitization of hydroclimatology records from the Congo: the use of machine learning software for transcription along with manually-transcribed data; checking datasets for consistency; validation and trends; and comparisons with ERA5-Land reanalysis.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @areidross.bsky.social on the human geography of irrigation water use and government approaches: imagination, power, and landscapes; water transfers in the context of change; understanding perspectives from water professionals; and exploring ideas of resource territories.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @caminaudo.bsky.social on how humans have affected nutrient enrichment of rivers on a global scale: defining the concept of "oligotrophication" as distinct from eutrophication; ecological trajectories and the need for further data; and N, P and hydrological processes.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @alidacantor.bsky.social on understanding the Public Trust Doctrine from the perspective of human and physical geography: the role of water and wildlife management; climate policies and scale; geopolitics of property; and the need for spatial understandings of place.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @ruthmottram.eurosky.social on how changes in the hydrometeorology of Antarctica has caused the ice sheet to increase in mass: changes in snowfall and some linkages with sea ice; the impacts of atmospheric rivers; and GRACE satellite data for quantifying observations.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @trevorcaughlin.bsky.social on a geographical understanding of tree mortality in Panama: linking environmental variables to morality; probabilities, parcels and roads; landscape connectivity and cattle ranching; and conservation in the context of ecosystem services.

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... We need to measure rivers before we model rivers.

In Greek myth, Orion fell in love with the Seven Sisters. To escape, they prayed to Zeus, who transformed them into doves and flung them into the sky, forming the Pleiades, aka the "Seven Sisters". app.astrobin.com/i/rrqtf9 #astrophotography #astronomy #nature #eastcoastkin #photography

Hydrology Paper of the Day @wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com on how vegetation affects CO2 and CH4 balances for peatlands during dry-wet transitions: effects related to vegetation; models of temperature sensitivity; warming responses and greenhouse gas emissions; and variable relationships.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @icarehb.bsky.social on why cryoturbation processes may not reduce archaeological evidence of fire in cold environments: experiments utilized to explore the lack of evidence of fire in Palaeolithic Europe; moisture content and observations; environments; and materials.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @efdtoronto.bsky.social on dissolved oxygen in lakes that have twice-yearly homogeneous temperature regimes: understanding biogeochemical cycles: a study of Lake Simcoe, Ontario; hydroclimatological variables during the winter; and differences due to climate change.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @eees-clemsonu.bsky.social on how PET and PLA plastics break down in soils: 300 days of microbial activity; understanding microbial community composition and biological changes; the role of ions in the context of different soil compositions; and site geochemistry.

There is a Slide Rule Museum, with many images of the old giants: www.sliderulemuseum.com/DemoSR.shtml

Hydrology Paper of the Day @nathangilles.bsky.social on the Pacific lamprey in the Columbia River: the idea of engineering fish passages for lamprey; the need for additional data related to populations; the impact of dams; translocation of lamprey; and the need for Indigenous knowledge.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @adamcalo.bsky.social on why land sparing-land sharing frameworks for management are misaligned with actual needs for adequate land governance: problems with reducing complexity in the context of social transformation and the problem of power and application of praxis.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @nsilbiger.bsky.social on how environmental changes affect the physiology of coral reefs: experimental treatments of a reef in French Polynesia; biogeochemical cycles explained by structural equations; spatial downstream changes; and the role of ecosystem metabolism.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @peatofmind.bsky.social @gregverkaik.bsky.social on the Peat Moisture Code indicator to quantify propensity for fire in a peatland: modelling water balances in the context of seasonality; temporal fire potentials; a validation example from Ontario; and further research.

A beautiful music video about water 👇

Wonderful reflection by Dana at the College of the Rockies! www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Rock formations are always beautiful 👇

Hydrology Paper of the Day @nsilbiger.bsky.social @jexpbiol.bsky.social on interactions between golden rockweed and the western banded tegula sea snail: understanding acidification and global warming responses in the context of physiology and hydroclimatology, and spatial differences in processes.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @jbyoder.org on how the flowering of Joshua trees is affected by climate change: Mojave Desert plant communities and the influence of precipitation; crowdsourcing flowering data from iNaturalist; models of weather patterns; and machine learning to predict flowering.

I’ve been re-reading LOOK TO WINDWARD and just hit this passage in which Iain M Banks, fully 26 years ago, absolutely nailed the point of human creativity in a world of machine superintelligence. (This is an accomplished composer speaking with the avatar of a godlike AI Mind)

Going to have to think about this after seeing the 2020 Almeda Fire in southern Oregon use Populus fremontii as a conduit through an urban corridor. Many aspects of wildfire seem to be non-intuitive, deserve more study.

Hydrology Paper of the Day @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social on why Aspen forests reduce the spread of fire in the Four Corners region of the southwestern USA: remote sensing of fire; landscape-scale effects of vegetation; calculation of fire perimeter effects; and compounding environmental factors.

SciArt September, Day 25: Jade. These are Mesoamerican Olmec earflares made of jade from approx. the 10-14th century BCE. 🐡🎨#sciartseptember2026 #jade

As an editor with ConciliARTe, I am happy that a new issue of Consilience Journal has now been released. Congratulations to everyone who had a poem or art piece accepted in the journal! Issue 26 - Birds is now up for everyone to peruse 👇 www.consilience-journal.com/issue-26