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Water resources science, engineering. & policy. Dad & partner. Professor & Dept Head @OregonStateBEE
May 31, 2023 25 tweets 13 min read
🚨 New Publication 🚨
The River Corridor Critical Zone.

High level: River corridors ARE critical zones, & studying them as such is to the benefit of both communities

A 🧵of some high-points
frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

#river #CriticalZone #hydrology How has the river corridor already been studied as an integrated system? Why is the CZ approach appropriate for river corridors? What elements of the CZ approach are lacking in river science? What opportunities would the CZ approach bring to of river corridors?
Nov 7, 2022 24 tweets 9 min read
🚨New Pub🚨
Love #WOTUS & #CleanWaterAct? Us too! A state-wide analysis of #wetland protections in #NewYork

New pub from @JeffWadeHydro @hydrochrista @BeckySchewe30 dropped today in @HydroProcesses

Key findings 🧵

doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14… We ask how changes to the legal definition of #WOTUS under the Clean Water Rule & Navigable Waters Protection Rule alter which wetlands are protected as a function of landscape position and size, taking New York as our case study (largest geographic analysis to date)
Jun 24, 2022 15 tweets 9 min read
🚨 New Pub 🚨
How can we design robust sensor networks? How do we assess the future value of data BEFORE we invest in several years of observations? Tyler Balson & I explore this in a new pub @HydroProcesses. a 🧵

#MachineLearning #Hydrology

doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14… Motivation: To improve a forecast (e.g., 1-day forecast of in-stream #nitrate in the Wabash River Basin), where do we put a sensor? To benefit whom?

Does a sensor to improve city A forecast also help City B? Can we leverage for network-scale benefits? Is there an optimal?
May 5, 2022 23 tweets 7 min read
🚨⬇️ New Pub ⬇️🚨
The channel-source hypothesis: Empirical evidence for in-channel sourcing of dissolved organic carbon to explain hysteresis in a headwater mountain stream

Why Concentration-Discharge (CQ) relationships aren't as simple as you might think
doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14… Steve Wondzell (my hyporheic BFF) & I started with the published mechanisms that generate CQ dynamics in DOC from our favorite @HJA_Live watersheds. In short, DOC sourced from the riparian zone was invoked to explain observations at the catchment outlet.
doi.org/10.1029/2005JG…
Apr 1, 2022 30 tweets 26 min read
🚨⬇️ New pub! ⬇️🚨

TLDR: data science to generate interdisciplinary hypotheses

This is the paper I'm MOST PROUD OF in my career to date. A (long) thread to tell you why. 1/n

#hyporheic #river #stream #water #hydrology

doi.org/10.1002/hyp.14… Scene: @geosociety meeting in Charlotte, NC, 2012.Brainstorming with @stefankrauseh2o about hyporheic science.

Problem: If we only measure what is in our narrow areas of expertise, we can plausibly explain our data as a function of unmeasured.

Solution: Lets do this!
Feb 8, 2022 20 tweets 18 min read
Super excited to highlight this new pub from @CUAHSI Board & Officers on #COVID impacts on researchers in hydrologic sciences. A 🧵.

doi.org/10.1029/2021WR… @CUAHSI Given:
(1) COVID-19 impacts on hydrologists (& researchers in general) are widespread, real, & continuing;
(2) Institutional adjustments (e.g., tenure clocks) may not mitigate all impacts of the pandemic;
Feb 8, 2022 5 tweets 6 min read
New research dropped from @MollyRCain on #water & #nitrogen dynamics in agricultural systems.

Multiple, interacting thresholds control water, N losses in tile drained landscapes

@pkumar3691 @IMLCZO #CriticalZone #CZO @IUONeillSchool @IUImpact
doi.org/10.1029/2021WR… @MollyRCain @pkumar3691 @IMLCZO @IUONeillSchool @IUImpact FAVORITE FIGURE IN THE PAPER:
Interacting 'top down' (antecedent soil moisture) and 'bottom up' (GW level) control the sources, ages, and N loads in water mobilized from tile-drained landscapes.
Jan 28, 2022 24 tweets 4 min read
Participating in a Emotional Intelligence, Masculinity, and Gender Allyship workshop. Live tweeting between discussions to share what we (men who want to be better allies) are talking about. An unstructured thread: Biggest fears:
Will my stepping up be perceived as paternal and make the problem worse?
Does my standing up for equity mean that telling others they are 'wrong'? (i.e., how to be an ally w/o telling someone they are discriminating)
Unsure what kinds of responses are appropriate.
Jun 16, 2021 16 tweets 13 min read
Recently tenured and planning for full professor? I am. A thread of what I find the most useful outcome of participation in @IASatIU's Recently Tenured Working Group Program. @iuimpact 1/
ias.indiana.edu/research-suppo… @IASatIU @IUImpact A quick disclaimer. This is my plan for my school as I see it at this moment. Any and all could change tomorrow, for your circumstances and goals, etc. I’m sharing because I found the exercise useful, not that my ideas are complete nor correct. 2/
Aug 24, 2020 14 tweets 7 min read
Faulty - @zoom_us failure got you down? You can get live and instructing with Google Hangouts. Here's a quickstart guide you can download, and I'll also post the individual steps in this thread. Lets all do our best to help our students! @IUONeillSchool
dropbox.com/s/gk2953l0errp… Step 1: Go to hangouts.google.com and sign-in. You can use whatever account you want. I'll show how this looks for an @IndianaUniv account. Click 'Sign in'
May 22, 2020 31 tweets 5 min read
Join us in just 45 minutes for our undergrad panel - hear from students how the transition to online education went for them. Our panelists are ready to give honest feedback to help instructors prepare for next semester. #hydrology @CUAHSI
zoom.us/webinar/regist… Plus - have a question you want answered? Tweet it at me or @skuylerherzog - we'll ask the panel and report back on this thread!