Nate Jones

Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage throughout Appalachia, including North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. And during a disaster like that, fast decision making is important. [1/3]

Flood waves like those that devastated Texas last week can be seen by the NASA #SWOT satellite. Another reason to support #NASA Earth Science

Big CONGRATS to @morejam59.bsky.social for successfully defending her MS thesis today on groundwater and surface water connectivity in headwater wetlands!!!

Jasmine is headed to Boise State this fall to pursue a PhD in Hydrology.

Another great GRC Catchment Symposium in the books! Enjoyed catching up with old colleagues/friends, meeting new colleagues, and all the fun of science summer camp! #BamaEcoHydro

Responding after Hurricane Helene: Rapidly Estimating Impacts to Environmental Health Services in North Carolina Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding and infrastructure damage across the mountainous regions of western North Carolina. Responding agencies had to make real-time decisions about emergency re...

Excited for our new paper with NC health depts and @floodhydrology.bsky.social and @northeasternu.bsky.social estimating impacts to environmental health services after #Helene

pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Map of the GRIT global river network. Source: Wortmann et al. (2025), Water Resources Research.

🌐 Introducing GRIT: the First Global Bifurcating River Network 🏞
developed by Michel Wortmann as part of the NERC Large Grant EvoFLOOD, in the Hydro-Climate Extremes group @oxfordgeography.bsky.social

New field evidence on #preferential #flow on #forested #hillslopes at Re della Pietra #catchment. Thank you @quercusilex92.bsky.social @segura-lab.bsky.social @ecohydrologylab.bsky.social and other no-bluesky coauthors.
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danielepenna.wixsite.com/redellapietra

"All water discharged by wells is balanced by a loss of water somewhere." - Hydrogeologist C.V. Theis writing in 1940, nearly a century ago. From "The Source of Water Derived From Wells." water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/The...

The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands, has just released Policy Brief No. 7, titled "Small Wetlands: Their Importance and Strategies for Effective Conservation".

Details: ramsar.org/document/sma...

#SmallWetlands #WetlandsMatter #STRP

Code in Class: All of the topics Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.

Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...

We have a unique job opportunity to work on the GLOBAL METHANE BUDGET with the Global Carbon Project, in France.

Seeking a dynamic data expert to support the coordination and production of the next Global CH4 Budget.

If you are interested, drop an email to marielle.saunois@lsce.ipsl.fr

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The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access.

essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...

Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems This research demonstrates that tadpoles can create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems and has important ramifications for our understanding of the functional role of animal species in nut....

Glad to share this recently published article in @animalecology.bsky.social led by Nick Corline on how "(wood frog) #tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in (geographically isolated) #wetland ecosystems": besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💧🧪🌎🐸 #DelmarvaDisco

Grades submitted.

What a wild year! I'm grateful for my students, our collaborators, and the larger hydrologic science community. I'm also grateful for the meaningful work we're doing and everything we've been able to accomplish together.

Keep up the good fight y'all, and Cheers!

“This budget is a recipe for ending the US' leadership in science. It would do generational damage by forcing labs to shut down, with a corresponding loss of highly trained individuals and one-of-a-kind research materials.”

Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate

More bad news for US science, indirect rates capped at 15% will further gut our research institutions & univerisities
www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

Could Bubbling Oxygen Revitalize Dying Coastal Seas? - Eos Reoxygenation approaches have shown some success in lakes, but their potential risks must be examined carefully before they’re implemented as solutions to improve the health of coastal waters.

Approaches to artificial reoxygenation have been studied as possible solutions to coastal oxygen loss, but they come with risks that must be assessed carefully, write @carolineslomp.bsky.social @ribesresearch.bsky.social & @aoschlies.bsky.social @geomarkiel.bsky.social

eos.org/features/cou...

Spot the difference: scan site edition!
#stormsampling #SCANdal #hydrology #TIMBER

Me: That's a color choice

Student: Nate, you won't let me use a pastel palate. So I'm using hot pink.

Me: 👀 👀 👀

Student: ...

Happy International #Beaver Day!

Do you have a question about beavers, their wetlands, or how they relate to climate change? Ask it here!

I’ll be sharing bits of beaver knowledge throughout the day, and if there is a question I *don’t* know the answer to, I will know who to ask to get it!

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements We develop a data-driven approach to refine this global estimate by incorporating local data of 79,800 flux measurements from 198 sites, this novel approach links the global SMU budget to local SMU f....

Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements: Jiang et al. in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Does this mean my diet coke habit might be ok?

Grading exams (tis the season...) Apparently my students have figured out I give partial credit if they can make me laugh...and honestly I'm ok with this.

Carbon Emissions From Low‐Order Streams in a Tropical, High‐Elevation, Peatland Ecosystem Are Mediated by Catchment Morphology Patterns of pCO2 and CO2 emissions in tropical, páramo streams are consistent and predictable Dense drainage networks compensate for narrow widths of small streams resulting in similar CO2 emissi...

I'm pleased to share a new publication led by Ph.D. student Kriddie Whitmore. We measured dissolved carbon dioxide (pCO2), aquatic CO2 emissions, discharge, and stream depth and width at high spatial resolution in 3 watersheds of the Ecuadorian páramo
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Cover page of Harvard's complaint, listing many members of the Trump administration as defendants.

READ THE COMPLAINT: Harvard sues the Trump administration for its attempts to "coerce and control" the university in violation of the First Amendment, the APA, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...

🚨 POST DOC 🚨

The Suding Lab at the University of CO - Boulder is recruiting a Postdoc researcher to build on an ongoing project examining grassland fuels, wildfire risk, & management questions.

Applications close May 8, 2025.
Start date will be before September 2025.

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Hydrology Paper of the Day @smmunson.bsky.social on how remote sensing of vegetation greenness and canopy water content is related to vegetation health: global forest recovery rates over a time of decades; changes over the past 30 years; and spatial patterns of resilience in context of climate.

10 fully funded PhD positions (University of Salzburg), Austria. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

#CriticalZone at #EGU25

The Amazon Is Not Earth’s Lungs Humans could burn every living thing on the planet and still not dent its oxygen supply.

Here's a link (unfortunately behind a paywall):

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...