Rodolfo Nobrega

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group The story so far, and how it developed We left you in part 1 of our blog (Hydrological Sciences | Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group) tw...

The second episode on the @egu.eu #Blog on our Working Group on co-creation:

Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group

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Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) , inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions...

Why should hydrologists pay attention to #co-creation?

In this @hs.egu.eu #Blog, we tell the story of the #interdisciplinary @iahs-aish.bsky.social Working Group "Co-creating water knowledge", active since 2023. This is the first part, so stay tuned for the second one on Friday:

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Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!

At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions:

Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
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Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
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Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
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Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...

Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
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On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US.

Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.

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Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India.  Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...

Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...

Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
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Funded by REALM-precursor to LT

The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!

Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).

Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios We assembled a large global dataset by combining several previous compilations to test eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) hypotheses about how plants allocate carbon above- and below-ground (root: sho...

Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Poster for Call for Abstracts. Poster text reads: Deadline: 3 Nov 2025 Workshop Unpacking the Heuristics and Methodologies of Scale The Infracursions project at the University of Bristol invites scholars from any discipline to submit an abstract for a two-day workshop. The workshop aims to develop an interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies and practices of scale. Dates: 23-24 February 2026 Location: Bristol, UK Website: infracursions.org/events Keynote Speakers: Michael Lempert - Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan Karen Seto - Professor of Geography & Urbanization, Yale School of the Environment

📢Call for Abstracts📢

Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale

Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025

📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
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#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers

It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!

Parents in Academia Raising a child in combination with a full-time career is no easy feat. That is true in general and maybe even more true in academia. Juggling the workload, conference attendance, or the potential …

And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...

All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!

Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil. #UFRB

Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾

Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!

Code (github.com/razeayres/sl...) and model outputs (zenodo.org/records/1560...) are available, including config files for direct assimilation of data on soil profiles in SWAT for hydrological modelling.

A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed …

A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Rainwater harvesting system in #INSA

Loved that example with the CEMADEN :)

"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]". www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...

Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.

7 paragraphs - that's something I can read these days... :)

Brainwashed!!!

Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.

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