KinarNicholas.bsky.social
kinarnicholas.bsky.social
KinarNicholas.bsky.social
@kinarnicholas.bsky.social
Hydrology Paper of the Day / Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society / Professor / Researcher / British Columbia, Canada. 🇨🇦 🇺🇦
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Five years ago @georgiapapachar.bsky.social sent me a 3D puzzle ship. The ship went along with me when I moved to British Columbia and I started work on the assembly during last summer. The puzzle was challenging and took time to complete, but the ship was completed today and now sails along.
Hydrology Paper of the Day @cdnsciencepub.com on the spatiotemporal distribution of parasitic marine alveolates: rRNA metabarcodes from the Arctic Ocean, Svalbard; community diversity and relationships with environmental factors; seasonality; and quantifying variabilty by hierarchical clustering.
📰 The community of marine alveolate parasites in the Atlantic inflow to the Arctic Ocean is structured by season, depth, and water mass

Read the full #OpenAccess paper in this collection from Arctic Science Journal ▶️ https://ow.ly/F6hS50XpFZX

#ArcticResearch #MarineScience
January 30, 2026 at 4:11 AM
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#WIPSnips January 27 - commit
Hope and Baby face Monsoon, not Highstorms.
#AmWriting #AmWritingFantasy #AmWritingScifi #WriteSky #Dragons
January 27, 2026 at 6:12 PM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @nature.com on reconstructing temperature and salinity of the North Atlantic Ocean 19,000 to 23,000 years ago: stable isotope reconstructions from marine sediment cores; temperatures from benthic foraminifera trace-metal ratios; and reconstructing glacial water currents.
January 29, 2026 at 5:24 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @forestecosyst.bsky.social on satellite data products in Nepal: comparison and validation of primary productivity and evapotranspiration between gridded datatsets; relationships related to elevation and land cover type; drought and biogeochemical cycles; and uncertainties.
Satellite data show mountain productivity peaks below 200m and water use changes with elevation. This helps us predict climate impacts and manage these ecosystems better, crucial for biodiversity and water resources.🌲
@forestecosyst.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 28, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @lisa-mandl.bsky.social @corneliussenf.bsky.social on how remote sensing datasets indicate patterns of forest recovery in the Alps: ecological indicators and disturbance; recovery metrics and environmental hydroclimatic drivers; and regional temperature anomalies.
New paper out!
We mapped forest recovery and its drivers in the Alps using multi-decadal fractional cover maps 🛰 and ecologically-informed recovery indicators 🌲.
New paper - and final PhD chapter of @lisa-mandl.bsky.social - published in Agricultural and Forest Meteorology. Using Landsat recovery and meteorological data, we show that thermal limitations constrain post-disturbance recovery success across forests of the European Alps: doi.org/10.1016/j.ag...
January 27, 2026 at 4:31 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social on how airborne laser scanning provides insight into how the forest canopy changes after fire in Australia’s Great Western Woodlands: GAMs for structural metrics; relating changes to rainfall and water availability; and estimates of stand age.
🚨Paper alert🚨

Check out Beibei Zhang's latest work out today @royalsocietypublishing.org where we track the 3D structural recovery of Australia's Great Western Woodlands following wildfires over a chronosequence spanning half a millenia!🌳🛰️🔥🧪

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...
January 26, 2026 at 2:23 AM
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Water in a river is not wasted. Water in a river benefits everyone.
January 26, 2026 at 12:22 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @igsopas.bsky.social on how sediments from thermokarst lakes indicate the retreat of glacial ice from Northern Poland: mapping lake extent and geomorphologies; quantifying hydrology during the time of melting ice; sediment transport; and the veracity of LiDAR datasets.
New paper by our team led by Mateusz Kramkowski! 🎉
The study reveals hundreds of relict thermokarst lakes (RTL) formed after the Vistulian ice retreat — shedding new light on the Late Pleistocene of Poland.
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
January 25, 2026 at 3:41 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @dnthomas01.bsky.social on the microbial communities of plastics in water: risks, pathogens, and understanding exposure in waste management cycles; how sewer overflows and aquatic ecosystems interact; and management in the context of beach and recreational areas.
New paper
"Plastic pollution & human pathogens: towards a conceptual shift in risk management at bathing water and beach environments" led by @David_M_Oliver

Open access: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313542400928X

#PlasticPollution #WaterQuality
January 24, 2026 at 1:56 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mikeflannigan.bsky.social on how climate change influences fire activity variables in Canada: modelling regional-scale feedback effects related to fire fuels; understanding changes; shift ratios and end-of-century impacts; and high-magnitude changes in eastern ecozones.
New paper in Global Ecology & Biogeography on the fire‐fuel feedback effect in Canadian forests. By 2100, under extreme climate change scenarios, fire-fuel feedback could reduce annual area burned, # of fires & annual max fire size by 21%, 21% & 16%, respectively.
Open access link: lnkd.in/gU9WUuDH
January 23, 2026 at 4:38 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @ryanpad.bsky.social @wslresearch.bsky.social on improving hydrological forecasts by application of the Temporal Fusion Transformer ML model: wavelet transforms and emsemble forecasts; how to select seeds in the context of predictive skill; and application to Switzerland.
New study by Konrad and Ryan in my team @wslresearch.bsky.social as part of @extremeswsl.bsky.social

Some randmoness can help in sub seasonal streamflow and water temperature forecasts.

A piece for friends of statistics 🤓
The dependence of Deep Learning models on randomness is often neglected, which can lead to problems in operational forecasting with extended forecast periods. I am pleased to share our new paper with potential solutions for using this randomness to improve forecast quality. rdcu.be/eX8Xg
January 22, 2026 at 5:59 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @jvs-avs.bsky.social on the biogeography of floodplain forests: changes in richness and diversity linked to environmental factors; the importance of traits and community shifts; moisture conditions related to sites in context of invasive species; and 60 years of data.
🌿 Forest change over time. Lanta et al. reveal that understory plant composition in temperate floodplain forests changes differently at long vs short temporal scales, with shifts in seasonal species richness linked to climate and hydrology 📊🌳.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 21, 2026 at 4:24 AM
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Thank you so much, @kinarnicholas.bsky.social!!
Hydrology Paper of the Day @christost.bsky.social @georgiapapachar.bsky.social on consistent loss functions: explicit definitions and examples; how these loss functions are utilized to evaluate point predictions; loss functions and transformations; and applications to climatology and hydrology.
Happy (😊) to share our latest paper on variable transformations in consistent loss functions:
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.kn...
👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1mSkA3OAb9...
#LossFunction #MachineLearning #Prediction
@christost.bsky.social
January 20, 2026 at 7:47 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @christost.bsky.social @georgiapapachar.bsky.social on consistent loss functions: explicit definitions and examples; how these loss functions are utilized to evaluate point predictions; loss functions and transformations; and applications to climatology and hydrology.
Happy (😊) to share our latest paper on variable transformations in consistent loss functions:
👉 doi.org/10.1016/j.kn...
👉 authors.elsevier.com/c/1mSkA3OAb9...
#LossFunction #MachineLearning #Prediction
@christost.bsky.social
Applying transforms within loss functions motivated our new paper with @georgiapapachar.bsky.social.
Free access: authors.elsevier.com/a/1mSkA3OAb9...
Available here: doi.org/10.1016/j.kn...
January 20, 2026 at 4:10 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day suggested by @drewbrayshaw.bsky.social on why water transport processes cannot always be considered as steady-state in paleontological reconstruction of bone transport: flume lab tests; 3D-printed and animal bones; modes of transport; scouring; sorting; and patterns.
@kinarnicholas.bsky.social strong contender here for a future Hydrology Paper Of The Day imo
Michael Chiappone, Michele Guala, Raymond Rogers, Peter Makovicky (2026)

When the levee breaks: experimentally testing dinosaur and mammal bone transport in unsteady flows

Paleobiology (advance online publication)

DOI: doi.org/10.1017/pab....

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
January 19, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @thiagovnascimento.bsky.social on assessing the E-OBS data product for meteorological forcing: 2682 catchments and modelling experiments; comparison with the CAMELS datasets; mapping regional differences in precipitation; and assessing scenarios in context of catchments.
Are you working with E-OBS data and wondering how they good is the data when compared to purely national datasets, such as the provided in CAMELS? Then check it out this new piece of work recently published in HESS.

The work was a collaboration with Franziska Clerc-Schwarzenbach!
Evaluating E-OBS forcing data for large-sample hydrology using model performance diagnostics
Abstract. For large-sample hydrological studies over large spatial domains, large-scale meteorological forcing data are often desired. For Europe, the EStreams dataset and catalogue satisfies this dem...
hess.copernicus.org
January 18, 2026 at 4:53 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @tombuckleylab.bsky.social on understanding how leaf temperature is related to plant-atmosphere water fluxes: stomatal conductance with a constant water vapour gradient between the plant leaf and the air; stomatal processes and metabolism; and modelling responses.
January 17, 2026 at 3:25 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @zarahpattison.bsky.social on invasive plants and riverbank stability: seasonality and the effects of Himalayan Balsam along two UK rivers; vegetation surveys and modelling relationships between environmental covariates; and linkages between ecology and geomorphology.
I am 'slightly' obsessed with river bank erosion and how this process links with vegetation, particularly invasive plants; super excited to share this work!
Watch this space for more research at the intersection of ecology, geomorphology and hydrology this year :)
My third PhD chapter has just been published, we assessed the impact of Himalayan balsam invasion on riverbank stability. A massive thanks to @zarahpattison.bsky.social @drchrishackney.bsky.social @dralanlaw.bsky.social

link.springer.com/article/10.1...
January 16, 2026 at 5:42 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @osbertsun.bsky.social on quantifying process representation related to gross primary productivity and evapotranspiration: nine remote sensing data products; validation with ground-based eddy covariance datasets in Nepal; and trends related to seasonality and geography.
Article in press @forestecosyst.bsky.social @forestplots.bsky.social
📰Comparison of multiple satellite-derived products for assessing vegetation productivity and evapotranspiration in Nepal: Toward understanding carbon and water coupling in a mountainous region www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 15, 2026 at 5:38 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @alidacantor.bsky.social on landscapes of resource extraction related to lithium mining in the McDermitt Caldera of Oregon: political ecology and socio-environmental perspectives; opposition and challenges; and understanding resource usage and ecological perspectives.
Super excited to have this new article on lithium and energy transitions out in Geoforum!!
Excited to share a new article from our team about the complicated human experiences of future lithium projects in the McDermitt Caldera. Pushing beyond narratives of for-or-against, our work highlights the nuance and uncertainties experienced in this new lithium country! @alidacantor.bsky.social
January 14, 2026 at 4:35 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @ehsansci.bsky.social on assessing how cirrus clouds affect the Earth's energy budget: model inputs and cloud properties from CALIPSO satellite retrievals; cloud hydrometeorology; and understanding regional effects related to cirrus cloud thinning as climate engineering.
January 13, 2026 at 4:57 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @amardeeptiwari.bsky.social on how global water models represent terrestrial droughts: comparison with GRACE data; drought severity and coverage indices; underpredictions in North America and at a global scale; comparisons at continental and basin scales; and uncertainties
New paper out in @agu.org Geophysical Research Letters (GRL): "Underestimation of Historical Terrestrial Water Storage Droughts in Global Water Models"

Read here: doi.org/10.1029/2025...

#Hydrology #WaterResources #TWS #droughts #Water #Modeling #GRACE

@yadupokhrel.bsky.social
January 12, 2026 at 3:27 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @michaljenicek.bsky.social on hydrological processes related to streamflow in the Triangular Glacier catchment, James Ross Island near the Antarctic Peninsula: application of the HBV model with cryospheric processes; WRF modelling of precipitation; and model performance.
January 11, 2026 at 2:40 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @miraanand.bsky.social on a new version of the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database for a changing world: data fusion of 25 gridded datasets; new seasonality and wetland classes; distinguishing between wetlands and waterbodies; and validation and gridded comparisons.
January 10, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @jahardwick.bsky.social on how an invasive plant contributes to acceleration of riverbank erosion: two rivers situated in the UK; riparian surveys and environmental covariates; linear models utilized to predict vegetation richness; and the role of roots and ground cover.
January 9, 2026 at 5:34 AM