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Ross Woods
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Hydrologist at University of Bristol.
Blues dancer/DJ.
New Zealander
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LIQUIDICE @eu-liquidice.bsky.social · 11h
🚨 New LIQUIDICE data deliverable now available!
It presents collection of 210 published, available online and unpublished data sets of:
👉 Surface mass balance
👉 Snow cover
👉 Meteorology
👉 Catchment discharge
👉 Subsurface state

Covers sites in the Alps, Norway, Greenland, Svalbard & Ladakh.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 17d
• Preprint in review (not part of his thesis): On the Structure of Temporal Variability of Streamflow Responses and the Role of Timescale Interactions: A Synthesis doi.org/10.22541/ess...
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On the Structure of Temporal Variability of Streamflow Responses and the Role of Timescale Interactions: A Synthesis
Hydrologic signatures at any timescale are influenced by climate forcing at multiple timescales. This study provides a conceptual framework for how timescale interconnections in hydrologic responses e...
doi.org

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 17d
• Diverging Impacts of Snow Fraction and Soil Drainage on Seasonal and Annual Water Balances Across Snow‐Influenced Catchments doi.org/10.1029/2025...

(and there's another snow hydrology paper in review)
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Diverging Impacts of Snow Fraction and Soil Drainage on Seasonal and Annual Water Balances Across Snow‐Influenced Catchments
The climate, modulated in part by soil drainage, shapes the distinct seasonal flow regime and annual water balance between regions The spatial sensitivity of streamflow seasonality and anomaly to...
doi.org

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 17d
His publications include:
Soil drainage modulates climate effects to shape seasonal and mean annual water balances across the southeastern United States doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
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Soil drainage modulates climate effects to shape seasonal and mean annual water balances across the southeastern United States
In the southeastern United States with little precipitation seasonality and snowfall, catchments under more humid climates (smaller R) have lower streamflow seasonality δQo$$ \left({\delta}_{Q_o}\ri...
doi.org

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 17d
I’m happy to say that @zeqiang.bsky.social passed his PhD viva yesterday! Congratulations Zeqiang!
Many thanks to co-supervisors @nicholashowden.bsky.social and @wberghuijs.bsky.social for their input, advice and support, and to Markus Hrachowitz and @cosmohydrologist.bsky.social for examining.
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Nature Water @natwater.nature.com · 26d
A new Analysis in Nature Water by Daniele Penna @danielepenna.bsky.social performs a comprehensive study of 691 forested catchments worldwide examines the interplay of biotic and abiotic factors in runoff generation. www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Client Challenge
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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 28d
One final reminder!

Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session

A strong focus on theory in times of big data

HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis
Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911
rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session

HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis
Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911

1/6
Session HS2.2.5
www.egu26.eu

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Nick Barber 🌋 @volcannick.bsky.social · Jan 10
I appreciate this from @us.theconversation.com by Jonathan Paul.

However, I think it’s making a mistake I commonly hear geologists make with regards to current events.

I have a hunch that this mistake is one of the reasons geology programs are struggling 🧵🛠️🪨🧪

theconversation.com/greenland-is...
Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why
Greenland’s rare earth element deposits may be among the world’s largest by volume.
theconversation.com

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 27
Near Heiligenschwendi, Switzerland

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 27
Amazing view from Stockhorn in Switzerland 😋

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · Dec 18
@rarakihydro.bsky.social leads an exiting new preprint that maps dominant hydrologic processes across >14k US watersheds using streamflow signatures + ML. It’s been such fun following Ryoko and Hilary’s leadership alongside Admin, Anne and Gemma.

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
- New approaches to use modelling tools to make process and pattern interpretations
- New methods to identify hydrological patterns in data

We hope to see you in Vienna!
Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911

Deadline 15 January 2026

6/6
Session HS2.2.5
www.egu26.eu

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
- Theoretical explanations of hydrological phenomena across multiple places or scales
- Connections among hydrological signatures at different time scales
...

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
We welcome contributions that e.g. focus on:
- Using field observations across multiple sites or large sample hydrology datasets, to synthesize process-based explanations of hydrological phenomena
- Connections between residence time and catchment response time
...

4/6

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
This session will focus on the investigation of similarities and patterns among catchment hydrological responses and processes.

3/6

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
Hydrological synthesis is the combination of components or elements of our knowledge to form a connected whole. These connections may be across geographic locations and scales, or across temporal windows and scales.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 10
Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session

HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis
Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911

1/6
Session HS2.2.5
www.egu26.eu

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hydrology.nl
HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Dec 8
Vacancy for Assistant or Associate Professor (Research and Education) in Water Science - School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham UK
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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 8
Thanks Nicholas for the great work you do here, I'm still in awe of the huge number of very diverse papers you digest for the community!

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 6
oops I just discovered @zeqiang.bsky.social is on here too!

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 5
An example of a question we explored: "why is it that Mountain West catchments typically don't have a seasonal streamflow peak in the Fall, but other regions do?"

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 5
This is part of Zeqiang's PhD, and includes contributions from @wberghuijs.bsky.social Nicholas Howden and me. We examine both broad-scale regional controls/mechanisms, and more localised within-region controls, while examining both seasonal and long term mean streamflow responses.

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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · Dec 5
New paper alert: "Diverging Impacts of Snow Fraction and Soil Drainage on Seasonal and Annual Water Balances Across Snow-Influenced Catchments" Led by Zeqiang Wang. A synthesis of some controls on spatial variations in snow-influenced hydrology across the USA. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
Diagram to illustrate synthesis of between-region and within-region water balance differences and their drivers across the snow-influenced US.

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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF @slfdavos.bsky.social · Dec 1
#Job at #SLF in #Davos: We are looking for a #Postdoc in #climate impacts on hydrological extreme events. More information and application: apply.refline.ch/273855/1810/...

@hyclimm.bsky.social @manuelaibrunner.bsky.social

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · Nov 24
Do I know anyone on here who went to a British boys boarding school -preferably the elite kind- within the last 20 years? If that doesn't describe you then retweet this until somebody it does describe sees this.

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Reyko Schachtschneider @reyko.bsky.social · Nov 20
The section "Earth System Modelling" at @gfz.bsky.social is looking for a new PhD canditate in the field of hydrological modelling. If you know some one who might be interested let them know. Please RT.
www.gfz.de/en/career/jo...
Job Detailseite
www.gfz.de

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Larisa Tarasova @lytarasova.bsky.social · Nov 14
Still some time to apply for a PhD position in my group @ufz.de in my group with the focus on streams, hydrometric and isotopic signatures and ML: recruitingapp-5128.de.umantis.com/Vacancies/32... Looking forward for your applications 🤩

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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · Nov 11
We wrote the Strain on scientific publishing to highlight the problems of time & trust. With a fantastic group of co-authors, we present The Drain of Scientific Publishing:

a 🧵 1/n

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
Oligopoly: direct.mit.edu/qss/article/...
A table showing profit margins of major publishers. A snippet of text related to this table is below. 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. A figure detailing the drain on researcher time. 1. The four-fold drain 1.2 Time The number of papers published each year is growing faster than the scientific workforce, with the number of papers per researcher almost doubling between 1996 and 2022 (Figure 1A). This reflects the fact that publishers’ commercial desire to publish (sell) more material has aligned well with the competitive prestige culture in which publications help secure jobs, grants, promotions, and awards. To the extent that this growth is driven by a pressure for profit, rather than scholarly imperatives, it distorts the way researchers spend their time. The publishing system depends on unpaid reviewer labour, estimated to be over 130 million unpaid hours annually in 2020 alone (9). Researchers have complained about the demands of peer-review for decades, but the scale of the problem is now worse, with editors reporting widespread difficulties recruiting reviewers. The growth in publications involves not only the authors’ time, but that of academic editors and reviewers who are dealing with so many review demands. Even more seriously, the imperative to produce ever more articles reshapes the nature of scientific inquiry. Evidence across multiple fields shows that more papers result in ‘ossification’, not new ideas (10). It may seem paradoxical that more papers can slow progress until one considers how it affects researchers’ time. While rewards remain tied to volume, prestige, and impact of publications, researchers will be nudged away from riskier, local, interdisciplinary, and long-term work. The result is a treadmill of constant activity with limited progress whereas core scholarly practices – such as reading, reflecting and engaging with others’ contributions – is de-prioritized. What looks like productivity often masks intellectual exhaustion built on a demoralizing, narrowing scientific vision. A table of profit margins across industries. The section of text related to this table is below: 1. The four-fold drain 1.1 Money Currently, academic publishing is dominated by profit-oriented, multinational companies for whom scientific knowledge is a commodity to be sold back to the academic community who created it. The dominant four are Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis, which collectively generated over US$7.1 billion in revenue from journal publishing in 2024 alone, and over US$12 billion in profits between 2019 and 2024 (Table 1A). Their profit margins have always been over 30% in the last five years, and for the largest publisher (Elsevier) always over 37%. Against many comparators, across many sectors, scientific publishing is one of the most consistently profitable industries (Table S1). These financial arrangements make a substantial difference to science budgets. In 2024, 46% of Elsevier revenues and 53% of Taylor & Francis revenues were generated in North America, meaning that North American researchers were charged over US$2.27 billion by just two for-profit publishers. The Canadian research councils and the US National Science Foundation were allocated US$9.3 billion in that year. The costs of inaction are plain: wasted public funds, lost researcher time, compromised scientific integrity and eroded public trust. Today, the system rewards commercial publishers first, and science second. Without bold action from the funders we risk continuing to pour resources into a system that prioritizes profit over the advancement of scientific knowledge.

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Larisa Tarasova @lytarasova.bsky.social · Oct 29
We are looking for 2 PhDs in our @dfg.de #HydroSIGNs project with @sub-heterogenty.bsky.social to study resilience of hydrological systems to #global change. Interested in merging large-sample analysis and field work to study these beautiful springs and the streams they feed? Apply via links below ⬇️

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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · Oct 23
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com