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HUGE congratulations to CEEE's Ryan Vachon—research associate and expert film producer—winner of the 2026 Heartland Emmy Award for Best Topical Documentary for his film, "Fracture." 👏

Teamwork with jupyternotebooks, git and Landlab during ESPIN 2026. Always amazing what creative ideas people come up with! @csdms.bsky.social

What is going on with these circular patterns?

At Antarctica's Blood Falls, rust-colored water cascades from the mouth of the Taylor glacier. An INSTAAR co-authored study has found that many of the microbes in its iron-rich waters have marine origins, suggesting ancient flooding carried them deep inland. buff.ly/cBzIUEA

Meanwhile here at CU @csdms.bsky.social ESPIN is in full swing!

Following the Suicide Basin levels, from a distance for me, because newly minted NSF PDF Katie Turner is putting her moorings out downstream to measure the glacial lake drainage impacts. Watch for it halfway Aug (8-11th full but when will it then drain?) juneauflood.org/#/flood-forecast

Morning thoughts on bedrocks steps and steep edges in glacial valleys.

The Lower Basin could be hit hard: California, Arizona, and Nevada could be called on to cut their water use from the Colorado by 3 million acre-feet. This terrific @coloradosun.com article breaks it all down: coloradosun.com/2026/07/31/c...

This will be superuseful to read.

Climate.us is a great place to explore. So much was lost with the destruction of climate . gov and climate.us is making sure we have data, tools, and insights. 🙌

Luckily I have to do all kind of bureaucratic paperwork today, so no chance to go outside anyway.

CU Boulder has been named one of the world's leading institutions for climate science, ranking eighth globally in the latest analysis of the most highly cited climate research institutions by Carbon Brief. @cires.colorado.edu was also recognized, ranking No. 43 globally. https://bit.ly/4wkkgis

Kevin explaining his own PHD mix of drone engineering, permafrost lake fieldwork and isotope-permafrost lake numerical modeling. @instaar.bsky.social @cubouldearth.bsky.social

New dr.! Kevin Rozmiarek just presented his thesis research on methane emissions from Arctic thaw lakes. Boig congrats!! Big trail lake near Fairbanks is where it happens.

Presentations of the @csdms.bsky.social annual meeting are up for viewing! Very cool stuff on hydraulics, AI, topodata data and stakeholder modeling, all in compact 20 mins lectures. Landing page is here: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/CSDMS_m...

Our office for 2 weeks… found floating glaciers and extremely cold water. Lots of data collected and instruments in place. Thanks to a great team!

It is that time! Field prep at its best. Go team.

Why are the Rockies rocky? New work from Matt Rossi and friends -

Agreed! Brian Yanites at @csdms.bsky.social meeting today!

Leaving a rainy Denver, FINALLLY! to @csdms.bsky.social meeting in Minnesota.

Happy to say that Dr. Josie Arcuri successfully defended her PhD Thesis yesterday. Thesis is not called "River Ice Matters" - but that is what her research revolved around. Josie picked up some field skills on the way, but hydraulic and morphodynamic river modeling is her jam. Huge congrats!

🟣 As part of our new series on Artificial Intelligence in research software, we have published a new guide: Getting Started with ML and AI in Research Software, written by Paul J. Wright. Find out more about the guide and how to access it at www.software.ac.uk/news/new-gui...

@natgeosci.nature.com editorial highlights how a sweep of recent studies are showing the profound effects of humans on rivers; including the effect of climate change on Arctic systems (our paper!). @geolidf.bsky.social @colorado.edu www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ahh, we will check it out, with special interest for the Juneau Icefield! @app-glaciers.bsky.social

Supercool footage of the enormous scar! Landslide in Alaska Set Off a Tsunami. There May Be More to Come. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/s...

Your voice matters in planning future community efforts, modeling infrastructure and plans for training. Let CSDMS know ..... The survey should not take too long to fill out (8-10 mins).

Scaling relationship in the inverse, an long known patterns in natural river systems works in reverse in delta distributary channels - shall we cast it as Dong's law? Very nice work Tian and @lvulis.bsky.social and co-authors. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Wow Eric, Doug and @jakegearon.bsky.social I love this paper on levees! There is soo much to learn on river sedimentatry processes from analyzing continental scale digital elevation data. @csdms.bsky.social and @opentopography.org agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Melting glaciers along Greenland’s coastline are affecting how the ocean breathes and how it reacts to and buffers itself against change, writes @henrychenson.bsky.social of @au.dk. eos.org/science-upda...

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Absolutely fascinating article by @trinamoyles.bsky.social in @cangeo.bsky.social about how declines in dall sheep in southwest Yukon might be (partly) related to increased levels of wind-blown dust following diversion of Ä’äy Chù (Slims River). 🧪⚒️🐏 @carmtree.bsky.social @draeolus.bsky.social

Showing Spruce Gulch Wildlife and Research Preserve activities and to visiting CU alumni. I marched everyone through the scars of the 2013 Boulder flood, incised debris flow gullies and toppled mega boulders. Tim and Kat had the pretty wildflowers. @colorado.edu

@nicolegasparini.bsky.social , @mdpiper.bsky.social and @geolatinas.bsky.social look at this! Coco!

Awesome Nicole!

Thousands rally in #Boulder against Trump as “No Kings” protests sweep the country, drawing millions to more than 3,000 events nationwide. boulderreportinglab.org/2026/03/28/t...

Having difficulty keeping up with all the interesting papers this week, this is one of them! Need summer break to come faster.

Join us in MN!

Congrats to Dr Brianna Undzis and her advisor Prof Julia Moriarty! One highlight: ROMS modeling of the Beaufort Sea shelf shows that in summer, sediment wafting around is likely due to wave resuspension. @csdms.bsky.social

Whaaaaat, that much?

The Soilgrids data component get used a lot! Maybe because of the handy example notebook?

The Topography Data Component fetches land elevation data from OpenTopography and loads it into an Xarray DataArray. Learn more about the Topography Data Component at github.com/csdms/bmi-to....

I'd like to do a series of posts this week to highlight CSDMS Data Components. Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....

Eye candy for world glacier day- a flight back south along the Canadian side, Kluane Park, had me glued to the window. Maybe I will get to go there one day!

Heatwave appropriate field class elements: how far downstream do mass wasting events travel. In our case, into the South Platte. We found it. @colorado.edu

Collected survey data with drone in Spruce Gulch-Kevin Rozmiarek showed our class what survey design involves, and how to process data. Big thanks! @instaar.bsky.social

The authors of a Comment article in Nature highlight concerns over adopting AI in meteorology and call on the weather and climate community to set clear standards, starting with agreed data sets, for testing out-of-sample extreme-event predictions objectively. 🧪

Doing geomorphology all day, in the best debris flow gullies in my humble opinion. But then students do get REALLY excited about pegmatites, elk vertebrae, xenoliths and fault evidence in rocks. This rock specimen got carried for a 25 min hike. @cubouldearth.bsky.social