Ryan Webb

Be sure to check out this great student competition and share with any students so they can get awarded for their great ideas!!!

We are hiring a Ph.D. student to begin Fall 2027! The project will focus on modeling snowmelt infiltration and runoff processes at the hillslope scale. More info available here: findajob.agu.org/job/8028139/...

AGU26: Submit your work to C023: Monitoring and Modeling Wet Snow and Firn: Challenges, Opportunities, and Implications. We welcome abstracts on observations, remote sensing, modeling, meteorological drivers, and the hydrologic and societal impacts of wet snow/firn. 🔗 agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr...

New Review Paper in WRR: The importance of lateral flow through snow in hydrological processes globally. doi.org/10.1029/2025...

New paper in WRR: Snow Sublimation Significantly Decreases Following Stand-Replacing Fire With Minor Water Balance Impacts From Forest Thinning in a Water Limited Forest. find it here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

Deadline: THIS FRIDAY! Flash Freeze is happening again! This is a great opportunity for students to receive funding to pursue their own ideas. Competition presentations will take place on Thursday, December 18th. More info. here: connect.agu.org/cryosphere/a...

Flash Freeze is happening again! This is a great opportunity for students to receive funding to pursue their own ideas. Apply by October 31st. If you're not a student, come support them and see their great presentations on Thursday December 18th. More info. here: connect.agu.org/cryosphere/a...

Fieldwork Friday! Let's see those pictures of your field sites where you all are doing such awesome work.

🤩New paper from our team member @cchartierrescan.bsky.social entitled 'Snow drought propagation and its impacts on streamflow drought in the Alps' published on Environmental Research Letters! Big congrats! Check out more details here: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1... #ClimateChange #Hydrology

❄️ New remote sensing paper combines optical and radar data to improve measurements of snow water equivalent (SWE) from space for mountain hydrology applications like water forecasts. Led by Jack Tarricone (NASA), co-authors include Ross Palomaki & Karl Rittger doi.org/10.34133/rem...

My latest research on snow monitoring and water supply forecasting has just been published with @springernature.com in Communications Earth & Environment (@commsearth.nature.com). We found greater improvements from measuring snow in the "right places" rather than everywhere. Read here: rdcu.be/eASXF

Apply for 2026 Snow Measurement Field School, opening late Aug! Snow School, taking place in Granby, CO, Jan 5–9, is a hands-on field workshop. Participants gain fundamental training in snow measurement techniques, to build the skills needed for high-quality fieldwork. www.cuahsi.org/workshops/sn...

Hotels sure do fill up fast for AGU. I'm glad I was able to get in there pretty quickly this morning.

Once again, the reality is that new reservoirs are far, far more expensive than water conservation, recycling, expanding groundwater recharge, and improving efficiency. www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/26/p...

From sheep growing better wool under solar panels to matcha prices soaring with the heat: here’s this week’s surprising mix of climate news, and something you can do about it today!

Fall semester kickoff BBQ was a success. We are welcoming 3 new members to the UWyo Mountain Hydrology team. (From L to R: Maggie Morgan, Roz Slichko, Drew Kellogg, me: Ryan Webb, Preetika Kaur, Francesco Pelligrini, and Teagan Kleman)

Well, it happened. I was asked to review a paper that I am a co-author on. Granted, they spelled my name wrong so there is that.

Yes, in 2021 JD Vance literally said "[W]e have to honestly and aggressively attack the universities in this country... The professors are the enemy." And no, he wasn't joking. The video is chilling. bryanalexander.org/politics/the...

Join our group! 2 more grad student positions in snow science. 1 MS and 1 PhD. Check out the details here: findajob.agu.org/job/8024935/...

I received word that my NSF CAREER proposal is being recommended for funding. Very exciting. This means more grad student opportunities! Check back or come see me at AGU for student opportunities in snow research.

We are hiring a PhD student to start in May for a really cool project. This project focuses on improving snow hydrology for valuable streamflow forecasting. The position includes summer work with stakeholders that will increase student pay. More info. at: findajob.agu.org/job/8024869/...

A great time of year for field work. Here's what the snow conditions looked like around the Sugarloaf field site in the Snowy Range last Friday.

Check out our new paper defining marginal snowpacks and future needs. It was great working with everyone on this. Let us know what you think! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Monday morning fieldwork is a great way to start the week. I'm establishing a new regular pit and depth transect near in the Snowy Range near the Sugarload rec area.

Proud Dad moment. My son is the only kid in preschool that made his snowflakes six pointed. Granted, some were only 4 but I'm gonna let it slide.

it's wild that R, the ubiquitous statistical computing language, was co-created by a Māori prof (Ross Ihaka) — and yet the vast majority of scientists who use R don't know this is like inventing the toaster. possibly the largest impact of a single member of an indigenous community on modern science

Mapping changes in temperature: every year from 1850 to 2023 2023 was the warmest year on record. This 'small multiples' representation of observed changes in temperature show how the planet is heating rapidly almost everywhere.

Stop thinking of people as networks and try to build some genuine connections and friendships. That’s the best type of ‘networking’ you can do

Will examines how microphsyics scheme choice in WRF influences simulated snowpack in mountain watersheds. Why microphysics? Because assumptions about cloud particle initiation, growth, aggregation, etc. ultimately influence fall speed, which is related to precipitation. 2/5

A rough start to the winter snowpack for most of the western US. Hopefully the rest of us catch up to the Rio Grande - Elephant Butte River Basin soon (only basin above 100%)

Congratulations to Alissa Choi, George Lu, and Mohammadd Shadab for being the 3 winners of this year's AGU Cryosphere Flash Freeze competition. All of the participants were great making it a tight competition.

Those at AGU: be sure to check out the Cryosphere Flash Freeze student competition today at 1:00. Marriott Salon 1. Help support student ideas as they compete for funding of their awesome ideas!

I am here at AGU with a limited number of HOAR (Hydrologist Of Alpine Regions) hats available. I can also mail you one if I run out of them here at AGU. $15 each.

If you are new to AGU fall meeting and it is feeling a bit daunting, the AGU Hydrology Section JEDI committee is hosting a learning/networking session on navigating the meeting. All disciplines are welcome. Also, there will be free food!!

Going to #AGU23 for the first time? Or do you need a refresher on how to Fall Meeting? Check out this First Timer's Guide! (Nearly) everything you need to know to have a successful meeting curated by H3S members! www.agu-h3s.org/post/guide-f...

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I'm looking for judges for this year's AGU Cryosphere Flash Freeze student competition. The FF is Wed. at 1 pm this year. Judges score 2 minute presentations of ideas for cash awards. Please dm me if interested. Thanks!

The Hydrology Section Student Subcommittee (H3S) of the American Geophysical Union is seeking new applicants for the 2024-2025 cycle! We're seeing applicants who are excited to support students and early career folks in the hydrologic community. Applications close Dec 31. Apply here: t.co/0Yw7wVa75b

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

Don't forget there is a Water Science 💧 Feed here on Blue Sky! bsky.app/profile/did:... Use the 💧 or #waterscience #hydrology #watersci and it'll show up on there!

Sexism in academia is bad for science and a waste of public funding www.nature.com/articles/s41...

How much 💧/❄️ falls in the Upper Colorado River Basin and how well do we know that number? That's the questions Will Rudisill (with Rosemary Carroll and I along for the ride) sought to answer in his latest paper OA paper in EGU Geoscientific Model Development out today. A 🧵 1/9 🧪 #Hydrology

"Find what makes you joyful, and schedule it into your calendar like it matters, because it does." Lots of sage advice from the wonderful Kamini in here, for all career stages. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

New Paper! It was great working with Mikael on this project, and it's awesome to see it now published. For those wet snow avalanche folks, check it out and let us know what you think! doi.org/10.1016/j.co...

How large is science's fake-paper problem? Massive, finds a new ML text-analysis by Adam Day (Clear Skies). It suggests paper mills rise to 1.5-2% of all papers; 3% in biomed. That's 70,000 papers last year alone, >400,000 overall. As a 'conservative estimate'. www.nature.com/articles/d41...