Alvise Finotello

It gave a young PhD student the greatest pleasure to be able to publish in the first volume of Earth Surface Processes. Our paper showed how hydraulic conductivity in frozen soils declines below 0 °C. The paper still gets cited regularly! #ESPLMemoriesAt50 - Prof. Tim Burt, Durham University

Footage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Severo-Kurilsk is published by the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

Interesting pic of Woodhead Reservoir (A628 Woodhead pass from Manc on left) showing a mix of former valley floor, sedimentation, re-working and mixing of what looks like AMD red from the left and clearer water from the top.

The global response of deltas to river sediment supply changes is 6 years.

Cool new delta paper in @nature.com Communications, led by postdoc Jie Wang!

open access link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds - BBC News First groundbreaking images from the Biomass satellite could change our understanding of rainforests

Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.

Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:

Also available (and 1000+ more): bsky.app/profile/hydr...

Digital elevation model of the Grand River, South Dakota, USA. River floodplain in blue (high) to white (low), the rest of the landscape in orange (high) to green (low). The river meanders, the landscape on both sides of the floodplain is eroded with finger-like gullies.

A nice river, somewhere, meandering through a bit of glacial deposits and cutting into Upper Cretaceous shale and sandstone.
High-resolution prints are for sale on request (special edition!).

More river fun, unrelated.

Please take my money, thank you.

A Landsat false color image showing a big white ice patch and red landforms.

Landsat image, false color. Island in water, the silt giving a orange color.

Landsat false color image showing swirling ice.

Landsat false color image showing ice and black rivers.

Landsat Images from "Mission to Earth", 1976.

super coool! where are those nice submarine channels found?

A Final Farewell to Landsat 7 The Landsat 7 satellite will receive its final transmission from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) on June 4, 2025, at 1:08 PM CST. The satellite launched in April 1999 and will be decommissioned afte...

Landsat 7 received its fina commands yesterday, ending a 25-year long mission of discovery. 🧪🛰️ www.usgs.gov/landsat-miss...

@envidynxlab.bsky.social look what'is in there!

It doesn't get reiterated enough that "human on a bicycle" is not only the most efficient way that a person can move, it's the most efficient form of motion ***ever observed in land animals***.

a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door and says `` top of the mornin ' to ya ! '' ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in front of a door and says `` top of the mornin ' to ya ! ''

@channelwidth.bsky.social
It’s raining here where I live and I am pretty sure that’s no casual based on what happened last night!

Cave records reveal recent origin of North America’s deepest canyon | PNAS We explore how and when Hells Canyon, North America’s deepest river gorge (~2,400 m deep), formed, addressing these fundamental questions first pos...

🚨New Paper🚨 @rockiceandsnow.bsky.social and others (including myself) quantify the evolution of North America's deepest canyon (sorry, Grand Canyon, it's not you).

Image showing a large area of open water and wetlands with hundreds of bare sand dunes rising above the water or wetland surface.

There are very few images of the Earth surface that fascinate me more than the flooded dunes of Lake Chad (Sentinel 2)

Cool! But let's now talk about those maps of the Mississippi River.... 😀

Let’s be clear: the reason why cranky things like www.a-techo.org exist is because #academia has somehow painted itself into a corner by fetishising: 1) papers as the currency of *excellence*; and not only that, but also; 2) the *volume* of papers published by an individual 😭

An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids Abstract. Calculating contributing area (often used as a proxy for surface water discharge) within a digital elevation model (DEM) or landscape evolution model (LEM) is a fundamental operation in geom...

New article: An evaluation of flow-routing algorithms for calculating contributing area on regular grids esurf.copernicus.org/articles/13/...

It's one of those muddy days in the field!
(stepping inside an abandoned and partially infilled tidal channel)

White sandstone with polygonal weathering above deformed cross bedding and large blocks that are mostly red

Cross bedding galore in Buckskin Gulch

Tim standing on a nice example of polygonal weathering, looking over Buckskin Gulch

More cross bedding and more polygonal weathering, as far as you can see

Going through photos from our March trip to Southern Utah, as part of an effort to distract myself from current events. Cross bedding and deformed / liquefied cross bedding in the Navajo Sandstone. Tim Lawton for scale ⚒️🧪

@mimustreem.bsky.social

A modified jet color palette that goes from dark blue to cyan, yellow, orange, and red. There is a sharp increase in contrast from green to yellow and yellow to orange. This can lead viewers to think there is a sharp boundary where data moves through the values represented by these colors.

The use of color in scientific visualization is steadily improving, but I still see variants of the rainbow palette more often than I’d like.

For more info, and recommendations on for good color palettes, read my series “Subtleties of Color“:

earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/elegan...

I’ve never edited a journal nor chaired a session/audit/whatever outside my research field, and yet I regularly get those invitations by predatory (themed on biomed, waste management, neutron physics, …)

Any geoscience/hydrology-oriented scientific illustrators out there? I have funding to help me build water resources educational content for the citizens of New Mexico! DM me if interested!