Dr Erica Garcia

This is what America looked like before the EPA cleaned it up A snapshot from America before the impact of the EPA and the effects of rules regulating clean water and air were felt.

It's not just fdr. One of the things the epa did not long after it was formed was document the nation's pollution via photography. That can seem frivolous, but generations of Americans have no idea why the EPA was necessary. This broke a million views when we published it in 2017

Topic modelling of the wetland condition assessment literature reveals trends, key gaps, and opportunities for combining different assessment techniques Wetlands, crucial for global biodiversity and ecosystem services, face escalating degradation due to human activities. Despite the growing urgency to …

My talented postdoc just published her first paper since joining the team! #CDU #Topicmodelling #wetlandcondition @csiro.bsky.social
Check out the paper here:
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Ha we were there yesterday and I thought the same, also the measurement I can’t believe is still used is stone?

Rivers are Connected. Actions to Protect Them Must Be Connected Too The health of freshwater systems is core to the health of surrounding landscapes — but not nearly enough is being done to factor it into how protected and conserved areas are designed and managed.

More is needed to protect fresh waters.
iucn.org/crossroads-b...

For those who - like me! - missed Wednesday's #BES2024 talk by @tatsuya-amano.bsky.social , here's a link to his highly cited 2021 @plosbiology.org paper on the problems of ignoring the non-English-language ecology literature: plos.io/3uZHsEb

I’m interested, thanks!

2/4 #Easy to use & applicable to any river network.
Input data are site coordinates & eDNA reads, network connectivity and transport predictions can be done in the package itself.
Detailed #examples given!
eDITH can be installed from #CRAN: install.packages("eDITH") #Rstat

Mapped: How climate change affects extreme weather around the world - Carbon Brief Attribution studies calculate whether, and by how much, climate change affected the intensity, frequency or impact of extremes – Carbon Brief has mapped every published study on how climate change has...

I'm super excited to share @carbonbrief.org's new and improved attribution map! Use the map to explore 600+ extreme weather attribution studies from all around the world: buff.ly/3URzsmI

And check out my in-depth Q&A on attribution for all you need to know about this evolving field: buff.ly/4hRt4Gc

Scientists as political advocates Science, both teaching and doing, is under attack. The recent US presidential election of a person and platform with anti-science bias exemplifies this. The study of climate processes and patterns and...

“Scientists need to recognize that bold presentation, dissemination, and support of scientific knowledge has become both a basic commitment and a political act.”

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Sharks and Rays of Northern Australia’s Roper River, with a Range Extension for the Threatened Speartooth Shark Glyphis glyphis Northern Australia is considered a ‘lifeboat’ region for globally threatened shark and ray species (elasmobranchs), although much of the region is understudied. The Roper River in the Northern Territo...

A new paper by my PhD student Julia Constance reporting on threatened sharks found in the Roper River, NT Australia www.mdpi.com/3045734 🦈 #sharks #tropicalrivers #threatenedspecies

Water level measurements using reflected GNSS signals - IHR 1 Introduction GNSS instrumentation has been used for land surveying and geodetic positioning for more than thirty years....

Simon Williams and I have written an overview paper on measuring water levels with GNSS-IR. Please share with your colleagues interested in measuring tides and/or ITRF-defined water levels. Open source code is hosted at github.com/kristinemlar..., 🧪 @earth-science.bsky.social