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Matthias Sprenger @matthiasprenger.bsky.social · 10d

Excited to share our new review in Reviews of Geophysics! We explored the latest advances in tracer-aided mixing models for studying water in the Critical Zone. We synthesize new tracer methods, models, & key insights. I think it'll be a valuable resource for the community doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Recent Advances in Tracer‐Aided Mixing Modeling of Water in the Critical Zone

Tracer-aided mixing models are uniquely capable of identifying water flow paths and sources within the Critical Zone Recent advances offer novel tracers and models for deeper and more accurate in...

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · 8d

Dillon installing the new ISCO in Dischma which is now sampling every 6-hours. We also made a small tour of Seehornwald to take pictures of the forest canopy

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CryoSCOPE - EU Horizon @cryoscope.bsky.social · 16d

CryoSCOPE at IMC 2025!

We presented a session on “Integrating cryosphere–atmosphere–hydrosphere dynamics: from process-level insights to large-scale modelling”, convened by Harsh Beria and co-convened by Mathieu Gravey, Marius G. Floriancic, Shaakir Shabir Dar and Rakesh K Hooda.

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · 12d

After a year of loyal service, our ISCO gave up on us in Dischma 😭

On a brighter note, we have got another picarro up and running 🚀 Hopefully this means we can finally keep pace with the mountain of samples piling up. Not sure if it's a good problem to have 😁

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CryoSCOPE - EU Horizon @cryoscope.bsky.social · Aug 12

The University Centre in Svalbard (UNIS) is hiring a 3-year postdoc under the EU-funded CryoSCOPE project.

📅 Apply by 31 Aug 2025
🚀 Start Feb 2026
📍 Longyearbyen, Svalbard
🔗 jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/284172/postdoctoral-position-in-glacier-permafrost-interaction

Postdoctoral Position in Glacier-Permafrost Interaction (284172) | UNIS

Job title: Postdoctoral Position in Glacier-Permafrost Interaction (284172), Employer: UNIS, Deadline: Sunday, August 31, 2025

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Aug 12

Good suggestion, we can try this. Thanks a lot !

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Marius Floriancic @mfhydro.bsky.social · Aug 6

The last weeks we spent preparing the AWS for our @cryoscope.bsky.social field campaigns in Ladakh - apologies to my office mates for the mess 🙃 Everything is working & the shipment arrived in India. We are excited to start our field campaign soon, stay tuned for updates! @harshberia.bsky.social

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Aug 11

Upgraded our rainfall collector today; it’s been so hot that the rain samples were warm! Might see evaporation affecting our samples soon 😥

A group of curious tourists asked if they could drink the stream water; maybe not — the cows upstream might be adding a touch of extra nitrogen 😉🐄

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Aug 5

We had some great discussions on upcoming fieldwork in Dischma and got a first peek at some fascinating river temperature data

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Marius Floriancic @mfhydro.bsky.social · Jul 21

Why do trees preferably transpire winter precipitation? 🌳💦 In our latest commentary we argue that it's not a big surprise but the effect of seasonal differences in soil recharge. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... @canopyinclouds.bsky.social @harshberia.bsky.social @scottallenunr.bsky.social

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CryoSCOPE - EU Horizon @cryoscope.bsky.social · Jul 31

❄️ Meet CryoSCOPE!

A 4-year EU-funded research project uniting 19 partners across 8 countries to better understand snow, glacier and permafrost processes - how they respond to climate change, and how these shifts affect downstream hydrological and biogeochemical cycles.

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Jul 7

Our rainfall collector suffered an insect attack, the rain collector was overflowing due to the recent thunderstorm. Nice weather in Dischma!

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Jun 23

Successful 3-hr stream sampling during a major weekend storm, will be interesting to trace its signatures in streamflow isotopes. We installed a rain sampler and hosted Zuosinan Chen from @unioulu.bsky.social
You can also see @mfhydro.bsky.social hard at work fixing the pipes

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Jun 14

The streamflow collection in Dischma worked well in the last 2 weeks. River flow has further increased and I reset the daily sampling to 3-hourly to see any diel fluctuations in streamflow isotopes. #alps

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · May 30

A beautiful day in the Dischma valley, most of the snow has melted out, and river discharge has increased. How much of the snowmelt signal can we still trace in the stream?

#isotopes #alpine

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · May 27

Really nice article featuring the cool scientific work led by @mfhydro.bsky.social in Waldlabor

ETH Zurich @ethz.ch · May 26

Five years ago, an experiment began at ETH Hönggerberg: researchers set up an outdoor laboratory in the forest. They used sensors positioned in trees, the soil and in a stream to study water dynamics. ETH News accompanied the head of the experiment, Marius Floriancic. ethz.ch/en/news-and-...

Old water, new insights

Five years ago, an experiment began at ETH Hönggerberg: researchers set up an outdoor laboratory in the forest near the campus. They used sensors positioned in trees, the soil and in a stream to study...

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Apr 17

Excited to start our new EU-Horizon project called "CryoSCOPE" to better understand hydrological partitioning in diverse landscapes with @mfhydro.bsky.social

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Horizon Grant for two Environmental Engineers

The «WaldLab Forest Experimental Site» on Hönggerberg in Zurich is a key site in the international EU Horizon project CryoSCOPE, which started in February 2025. CryoSCOPE investigates the interplay be...

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Matthias Sprenger @matthiasprenger.bsky.social · Mar 26

Are you a PhD student or postdoc and want to share your great recent work with the Catchment Hydrology community? The AGU TC Catchment Hydrology has you covered: We invite you to share your work via the form below and we'll highlight it on our social media outlets. Don't be shy! Show your work 👍

AGU Catchment Hydrology Technical Committee @agucatchhydro.bsky.social · Mar 26

The #AGU Catchment Hydrology TC wants to highlight your recent work! If you’re an undergrad, grad student, or postdoc with a recent publication from the last 6 months, we’d love to feature it on our social media.

Submit your paper here 👉 forms.gle/7zHyarnmYZxX...

Highlight your Early Career Scientist publication on Catchment Hydrology

The AGU TC on Catchment Hydrology seeks to support early career scientists (undergraduate students, graduate students, and postdocs) by highlighting their recent (within last 6 months) publications th...

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Harsh Beria @harshberia.bsky.social · Mar 18

Excited to announce CryoSCOPE! We are attempting to quantify the complex interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere to constrain hydrological partitioning across cold landscapes.

Follow us to stay updated :)

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Excited to officially announce CryoSCOPE! We are attempting to quantify… | Harsh Beria

Excited to officially announce CryoSCOPE! We are attempting to quantify the complex interactions between the atmosphere, cryosphere, and hydrosphere to answer…

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Wouter Berghuijs @wberghuijs.bsky.social · Mar 11

Most catchments around the world retain a memory of the previous year, driven by nonlinear (hysteretic) storage processes hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/... written with @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social and others.

Annual memory in the terrestrial water cycle

Abstract. The water balance of catchments will, in many cases, strongly depend on its state in the recent past (e.g. previous days). Processes causing significant hydrological memory may persist at lo...

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Mana Gharun @managharun.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our study on the impact of warm winters on the #CO2 fluxes of evergreen needleleaf forests is now published in #Biogeosciences:
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#WinterWarming #CarbonCycle
#forests
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Impact of winter warming on CO2 fluxes in evergreen needleleaf forests

Abstract. Compared to drought and heat waves, the impact of winter warming on forest CO2 fluxes has been less studied, despite its significant relevance in colder regions with higher soil carbon conte...

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UBC Geography @ubcgeography.bsky.social · Mar 4

New research from our faculty Kate Hale (@katehale.bsky.social) and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s Wouter Berghuijs shows how climate change affects river flows in snowy regions across the Northern Hemisphere.

Learn more in the Nature publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Photo of alpine mountain tops ribboned with snow and a lake in the valley below.

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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Feb 16

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Variability of flowing stream network length across the US

The aggregate length of flowing streams in a drainage network lengthens and shortens as landscapes become wetter and drier. However, direct measurements of stream network variability have been limited...

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WSL Institute for Snow and Avalanche Research SLF @slfdavos.bsky.social · Jan 23

Snow depths are currently below average almost everywhere. However, as the graph shows, they can still increase even in winters with little snow.

Graph: Snow depth trends in the five winters with the least snow on the Weissfluhjoch (including the current winter in 5th place)

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Graph: Snow depth trends in the five winters with the least snow on the Weissfluhjoch (including the current winter in 5th place)

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Adrià Barbeta @adriabm.bsky.social · Jan 17

Nice paper on the isotopic bias introduced by cryogenic vaccuum distillation quantified by rehydration experiments

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Evidence for variations in cryogenic extraction deuterium biases of plant xylem water across foundational northeastern US trees

Through a series of tree core rehydration experiments, we demonstrated that xylem water 2H cryogenic vacuum extraction (CVE) biases varied significantly with plant water status and species identity. ...

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