Argha Saha

Incredibly sad news. My first Kilmer movie was Batman, then Top Gun. Might just catch either his week!

OSU is hiring! Come work at CEOAS - Open rank faculty position and director of the Oregon State Stable Isotope Laboratory. My network is small on Bluesky, please share widely! Reach out if you have questions about living in Corvallis or about CEOAS specifically.

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Machine Learning Maps Animal Feeding Operations to Improve Sustainability Understanding where farm animals are raised is crucial for managing their environmental impacts and developing technological solutions, but gaps in data often make it challenging to get the full pictu...

To better manage environmental impacts, it's important to understand where farm animals are located. Bio & Ag Engineering researcher Becca Muenich set out to fill gaps in the data with a new technique for mapping animal feeding operations: aaes.uada.edu/news/machine...

@rlmuenich.bsky.social

Darwin's first thoughts about the Great Tree of Life, from his 1837 notebook.

Happy 165th birthday for the publication of The Origin of Species, and people thinking deeply about evolutionary trees. Darwin's notebook entry about phylogenesis, show here, is older, at 187 years, and became the basis for the only figure originally published in The Origin.

barack obama sitting in a chair with his hands up ALT: barack obama sitting in a chair with his hands up

Still better than my nephew saying U2 sounds like Coldplay!

Impacts of Loss of Cryosphere in the High Mountains of Northwest North America Global atmospheric warming is causing physical and biotic changes in Earth’s high mountains at a rate that is likely unprecedented in the Holocene. We summarize changes in the presently glacierized mo...

ICYMI John Clague and I wrote a paper a couple of years ago on possible implications of the changing cryosphere in northwest North America 🧪⚒️❄️ www.mdpi.com/2044786

Casper David Friedrich’s Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. Incredible !

If Horseshoe Bend were a beaver pond.

Panel (a) maps the 250 ResOpsUS study reservoirs (Steyaert et al., 2021). Reservoirs are classified into over-year storage (brown; panel b), highly variable storage (purple; panel c), and within-year storage (green; panel d). Point sizes reflect reservoir capacity in million cubic meters (mcm) and color signifies reservoir storage behavior. Black circles show locations of three example reservoirs in Panels b–d. Panels b–d show example timeseries for reservoirs with over-year storage (mcm) (Lake Powell), highly variable storage (Gillham Lake), and within-year storage (Ross Lake). The black line is daily observed storage, and the gray line is average storage for each day of the year. Orange and red lines underlying the timeseries represent periods of identified low-storage anomalies using variable and fixed methods, respectively.

Trends in annual low-storage anomaly duration. Colors show Kendall's Tau, with red indicating stronger relationships between time and decreasing storage (increasing low-storage anomalies and, therefore, less water available in available storage) and blue indicating stronger relationships between time and increasing storage (decreasing low-storage anomalies and, therefore, more water in available storage). Statistical significance is when p < 0.05. Point sizes reflect reservoir capacity in million cubic meters (mcm). Box plots of Kendall's Tau are for all reservoirs, separated by reservoir category.

Timeseries of total reservoir storage for HUC02 regions and all of CONUS for 1981–2020 (Figure S15 in Supporting Information S1). Black lines are storage values. Gray lines are average storage for each day of the year. Yellow and red demarcations along the x-axis represent periods of variable method low-storage anomalies. Storage values are omitted when reservoirs accounting for 5% or more of total basin storage don't have data. The bar on the figure's left shows relative storage capacity from over-year (brown), within-year (purple), and highly variable (green) reservoirs.

ICYMI

Low-storage periods are longer, more severe, and more variable in over-year storage reservoirs and in the western and central United States

Longer periods of low storage for some regions in recent years suggest decreased reservoir reliability

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Honestly moving costs are just the pit. Having moved 4 times in 2 years, I have a look of just sigh when folks ask me how’s my savings turning out ! And yeah the food delivery (+ books) makes it worse.

Hi Luka, can you add me to it as well ? New PI !

LOL couldn't save a few posts which were really good 😅 that bookmark can't come soon enough.

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Are You Dealing With 'Contagious Anxiety'? Here's How To Spot The Toxic Emotion. Experts reveal the red flags to look for and how you can manage it so you're not stressed 24/7.

I wrote about “contagious anxiety” in my latest for @huffpost.bsky.social, and it’s a feeling a lot of us are likely dealing with right now. www.huffpost.com/entry/contag...

New PI….started two months ago. Would love to join :) 👶

A year ago this place felt like day 1 of grad school. Now the day after graduation :) Onwards and upwards.

Let’s go 🙌

Heartbreaking 💔

Your stew should go well with my butter chicken. Only need some naan now.

The food truck at the end of this stretch are also nice ! 😅

*right before a

Also couldn’t even wait for the food to eat it all up. So pardon my lips which look like they’ve had a frost bite.

I pass this food truck every damn week. Lies right before at a very steep turn on the greenway. Biked 12 miles yesterday and lost all the gains by romping on its food. The hog fried rice was immense ❤️

Will try it and let you know. Let me look up the recipe now…

Aiyyyo never had a quarter bhaji before ! And I’ve maintained bhakri >>>>> roti not just health but even taste.

This is a terrible news to end the day. Sigh.

Some of AR’s landscapes reminds me of Vietnam. #biking

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No, enjoy the break.

Covered 14 miles this Saturday, all the way to Lake Fayetteville ! Had to lie down an entire day after that tho.
Whew. #biking