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#LaunchDay
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⭐This image isn’t photoshopped!⭐

The clouds really did appear to show us water in the atmosphere when installing our new evaporation sensor in Dandaragan! ☁️

Photo: Dr Simone Gelsinari and Dr Konrad Miotlinski beside the newly installed equipment.

@SAgE_UWA @UWAresearch

👩Happy International Day of Women In Science! Today, we celebrate the incredible women driving progress, discovery & innovation in science worldwide.
A special shout-out to the amazing women here at @CWSS_UWA - researchers, analysts, PhD students & support staff! #womeninscience

🛰️ Observing how fire affects water use - from space!

💧New research shows change in water use after fire in a banksia woodland on the Swan Coastal Plain - important for water & ecosystem management!

Read more: https://zurl.co/HfhEO

@SAgE_UWA @DWER_WA @TERN_Aus @uwanews

🌏How do scientists and water managers work together to protect & sustain our resources?

💡 Find out how CWSS researchers have joined forces with @DWER_WA to better understand #groundwater on Perth's coastal plain

➡️ https://zurl.co/vs7q7

@TERN_Aus @uwanews @SAgE_UWA

A collaboration between @UWAresearch and @DWER_WA's groundwater science team to better understand the #groundwater recharge on Perth's coastal plain, incl. Gnangara groundwater region.

➡️ Watch this YouTube video: https://youtu.be/yMgGfS8Hneo

#WaterManagement #ClimateResilience

📍Our researchers are mapping mangroves & saltmarshes across WA—from the Kimberley to the Pilbara, Shark Bay, and Bunbury. These vital wetlands defend coastlines, store carbon & support marine life. 🧵(2/3)
#WorldWetlandsDay2025 @SAgE_UWA

🌿 Did you know WA’s southernmost mangroves in Bunbury are 900km from their nearest mainland neighbour?
🧵(1/3)

📸 Image: S. Hickey.
#WorldWetlandsDay #MangroveMapping #WetlandScience #SharkBay #CoastalConservation #RemoteSensing #ScienceForNature #UWA @SAgE_UWA

Would an Esperance desalination plant "solve Goldfields water woes"?

It would be an ambitious challenge, says CWSS's Professor Matt Hipsey.

Read more: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-29/esperance-desalination-goldfields-kalgoorlie-water-supply-wa/104872804

@SAgE_UWA @uwanews @abcnews

🌍 2024 was officially the hottest year on record.

Assoc. Prof. Sally Thompson says it’s a wake-up call: “Heatwaves are intensifying faster than average warming.”

Let’s accelerate the transition to renewables! 🌱

#ParisAgreement #Climate #ABCRadio @SAgE_UWA

Image: Ed Hawkins

How can we help farm dams capture and retain water?
Researcher Dr @BonnyStutsel shares key insights from recent research @GGA_WA

#SmartDams #FutureDroughtFund @SAgE_UWA @UWAresearch https://x.com/GGA_WA/status/1879296231593132350

☀️2024 was confirmed as the world's warmest year on record. So what?

🎧Listen to ABC Breakfast Radio with Bransen Gibson this morning 14th Jan for CWSS's A/Prof Sally Thompson on the subject.

https://zurl.co/24CPF

#ClimateChange #AskAScientist @SAgE_UWA @uwanews

Check out the latest news from @IOA_UWA - featuring the recent OzFlux Workshop & Conference and more @TERN_Aus @moore_science_ @SAgE_UWA @FLUXNET_Coop https://x.com/IOA_UWA/status/1868526670464061685

💧The Way of Water💧

Check out the latest Uniview with Associate Professor @NikCallow on the WaterSmart Dams project - to improve drought resilience of farm dams from Geraldton to Esperance.

Read here 👉https://zurl.co/IPNtK
@UWAresearch @SAgE_UWA @GGA_WA @DPIRDWA #SmartDams

🎉Congratulations to all our undergraduate and postgraduate students celebrating their graduation! We wish you all the very best for the future. Enjoy the holidays! 🎉

@SAgE_UWA #UWAgraduation2024

🌟 Congrats to Prof. Jason Beringer and @QiaoyunX, part of a new #ARCDiscoveryProject led by @MonashUni 's Professor Jeffrey Walker in collaboration with @UniofAdelaide & @NASA!

https://zurl.co/hJET

#ResearchCollaboration #SatelliteMonitoring #ARCD @UWAresearch @SAgE_UWA

Congratulations to Andrew Van de ven and team for (jointly) receiving the Vice-Chancellor's Research Technical Support Excellence Award 2024, and Associate Professor Nik Callow for a Special Commendation in Research Support Excellence.

Very well deserved to all!

@SAgE_UWA

🌍🌏A team from CWSS, UWA SAgE, the Avon Critical Zone Observatory, CNRS (France), and EXIGE (Aus) testing new satellite tech to measure soil moisture from space! 🌱💧

#SoilScience #Innovation #AgTech @GET_Toulouse @UWAresearch @DPIRDWA @CNRS @GGA_WA @SAgE_UWA @UT3PaulSabatier

Did you miss Dr @QiaoyunX 's seminar? You can watch it online now!

@UWAresearch @SAgE_UWA #VegetationDynamics #EnvironmentalManagement #ClimateAction @ARCDARECentre https://x.com/ARCDARECentre/status/1859757839272771590

Watch Dr John Duncan's talk, Detecting Floods on Fiji's Croplands, part of the AI for Climate Action: From Data to Impact-Climate Week NYC 2024 🌐

00:19:40 on YouTube👉 https://zurl.co/inOb
#ClimateChange #Sustainability #Geospatial #AI #DataScience @SAgE_UWA @UWAresearch

Thank you to all attendees of the GMDSI Workshop and PEST Course this week, hosted and supported by CWSS, the Groundwater Modelling Decision Support Initiative @GMDSI_ and its partners, BHP, Rio Tinto, @Flinders and the National Centre for Groundwater Research and Training.

Congratulations to Kerry Bardot for submitting her PhD thesis "Incorporating geological structure into groundwater models"!

Kerry starts her Postdoc this week on faults and barriers. Good luck!🍀

@SAgE_UWA #PhDLife @CSIRO (Dr A Siade co-supervisor) #GroundwaterModelling

Congratulations on giving your first conference presentation, @Yang_Drylands! We enjoyed hearing about your research - and we're excited to see where it leads! 🌱 #OzFlux2024 @UWAresearch @SAgE_UWA #PhDLife https://x.com/Yang_Drylands/status/1858852148295201161

Thanks for asking, Joshua - you can sign up to the follower list to receive updates via the WaterSmart Dams page at the link above, or at https://www.gga.org.au/activity/watersmart-dams/?&utm_content=Thanksforc#:~:text=Download-,Get%20Involved,-Add%20your%20details

🌍 New in #EcosystemResearch: FLUXNET global data network charting its future to help shape climate models, environmental policies & community, with key goals of more accessible data & expanded outreach!

#OzFlux #ClimateScience @SAgE_UWA @TERN_Aus @FLUXNET_Coop #EddyCovariance

💡New research shows how plant roots are key to water movement - with implications for West Australia's degraded and saline wetlands.

Read more👉 https://zurl.co/qk3u & https://zurl.co/2Saz

#Wetland #Restoration #Hydrology #International #PhDLife @UWAresearch @SAgE_UWA

Thanks for capturing the treatment process, @CompassAgAu!

More info👉 https://zurl.co/rFTl

@SAgE_UWA @UWAresearch #SmartDams https://x.com/CompassAgAu/status/1855792237675987315

It's been a fantastic first day of the #OzFlux2024 Data Workshops. Looking forward to seeing everyone back tomorrow!

@TERN_Aus @SAgE_UWA #Collaboration #FluxTowers #DataScience

Congratulations to Dr @QiaoyunX and Dr @SharynHickey for receiving Early Career Research Awards from their respective schools at UWA!

Find out more about the remote sensing and geospatial researchers' work at the UWA Research Repository https://zurl.co/iDwD

@SAgE_UWA #Win

Join us next week to learn about the Recharge in a Changing Climate (RiCC) project, which aims to inform water resource management across the Swan Coastal Plain.

Register here 👉https://zurl.co/mW9r

@EngAustralia @SAgE_UWA @UWAresearch #Groundwater #WaterManagement