Tom Coulthard

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👏 👋 to @nicolegasparini.bsky.social - well worth a follow

I’ve stopped making a to-do list. But - have started keeping a ‘have done’ list that I complete at the end of every day. Typically a far more positive exercise…

This looks super interesting. Esp for folk at the intersection of science/humanities and water.

A satellite image of the southern North Sea, showing land in white and the sea in shades of grey. A semicircular pattern between UK and France can be seen in the English Channel. White dots in the sea are windmills and ships.

A wave train entering into the North Sea, seen by #Sentinel1 on 12 August. I am guessing it's tidal-related, but I have never seen this kind of signal in this region in SAR data before, pretty cool 😎

@jowilliams.bsky.social

👀 There have been some exciting arrivals since I joined MMU Dept Natural Sciences: flume for the BiG Lab, LaVision PIV, Dr Lizzie Dingle and her very cool experiments, some feisty crayfish 🦞, & now, Prof. @tomcoulthard.bsky.social 🥳. Chuffed to bits that Tom is now a colleague. Exciting times ahead!

Views from the new office @manmetuni.bsky.social

In Memoriam: Dr. Sarah Praskievicz | Geography, Environment, & Sustainability Department It is with deep sadness we share that Dr. Sarah Praskievicz, an associate professor in UNC Greensboro's Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability (GES), died on Aug. 11, 2025, at her ho...

Sad news - and a lovely tribute. ges.uncg.edu/in-memoriam-...

Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities Abstract. Accurate, long-term measurements of river flow are imperative for understanding and predicting a broad range of fluvial processes. Modern technological advances are enabling the development ...

I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS.

We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement.

hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

First day in the new office 😀 @manmetuni.bsky.social

Treviso… stayed there for a couple of nights before. Lovely old city - overshadowed by Venice but great in its own right…

Copenhagen.. mermaid…

Annecy?

First cloud-free optical satellite imagery from @planet.com show the destruction of Dharali village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India. Unfortunately the source area in the mountains is still obscured by cloud and so the ultimate cause is still speculative. 🧪⚒️

YouTube video by FloodSkinner Terra Firma - A Game of Geomorphology

I liked this from Chris @floodskinner.games (who for some reason never comes up on my Bs feed..) youtu.be/o79Ba8vqtY4?...

Darla.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen.

By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Hundreds evacuated after series of rockfalls in Italy’s Brenta Dolomites Experts say thawing of permafrost due to climate breakdown is causing increase in rock collapses across Alps

“the entire summit is affected by an ongoing geomorphological process, likely linked to permafrost degradation”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

Incredible story. Hg production fell to zero in 2020 but now rising (illegally it seems) to propel gold extraction in the Amazon financed and facilitated by Mexicos drug cartels… Horribly toxic - I thought mercury use had been nearly eliminated.

Modeling the Influence of Grounded Landfast Ice on Nearshore Sediment Transport XBeach was used to quantify sediment transport due to grounded landfast ice Conditions were identified where sediment transport was both amplified and reduced by ice Scour of the nearshore persi...

New paper by Chelsea Volpano where she characterizes the role of landfast ice on coastal sediment transport. interesting nonmonotonic response in sediment transport with the termination depth, explaining much of the erosive vs protective debate of ice agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Quantifying NFM through peatland re | University of Exeter The University’s Department of Geography invites applications for a PhD studentship funded by the Environment Agency and South West Water and the University of Exeter to commence as soon as possible t...

New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk )

@dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social

www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...

Demand management now prevents any endless recycling of crap proposals - and NERC won’t allow any props to be fed into AI - which is why they switch off auto translate on meeting recording…

Part of the "check long term flood risk" service map, with settings at future, and 20cm depth, showing blue on a large area in a grid shape.

satellite view of the same building from google maps. Some of the roof is flat but the shadows indicate it is mostly pitched.

Here's a fun anomaly for an inland flood risk map. It's genuinely very helpful in places: check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map But it's based on scans of the ground, & the processing gets confused sometimes. I think the 4-storey pitched roof of this hospital is probably safe from flooding!

I’m fairly sure the report remit was for E&W - as env regulation is fairly heavily devolved? There’s certainly a large section on Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at the beginning…

Interesting revert to 8 regions for water management. Which is imho probably sensible - but was this what the NRA did prior to privatisation? Though NRA (National Rivers Authority) was more wq and flood focussed. Clearly Wq had come up the agenda. #flooding #cunliffe

So the Cunliffe report is out today. Couple of first takes: 1. It seems comprehensive - lots of concise detail but 2. Nothing about flooding (that I can see) which in most urban areas is intrinsically linked to sewage systems and water utilities. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687d5c...

New electric car grant: everything you need to know - Which? UK buyers of new EVs could get a discount of up to £3,750. We explain what to look for, and why now might not be a good time to buy

www.which.co.uk/news/article...

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I see NERC is reverting to a policy from 15(??) or more years ago on resubmissions. I suspect it will be counter productive to NERC workload - as checking for this will not be easy, and building on this - it looks quite easy to game/work around. So - I’m left with why bother (with the new policy!)