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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · 29d

The DEM is much less exciting.

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Joe Mason @moreorloess.bsky.social · Sep 9

Can you tell where this fascinating landscape is? Sentinel1 GRD synthetic aperture radar, seasonal change using VV polarization, descending. In theory, related to a lot of news these days, especially the faintly visible ESE to WNW line in the northern part.

A stark-looking satellite image, mostly gray to dark red and black. On the west side are many fresh-looking cinder cones and lava flows. On the east side, desert mountain ranges with alluvial fans around them. There is a dry river bed crossing the southeast part of the image.

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RCEM2025 @rcem2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌊 A wednesday full of science @ #RCEM2025
From fascinating talks on coasts, rivers & estuaries to the second poster session, has been packed with insights and exchange. 💡🖼️

👏 Thanks to all presenters for pushing the boundaries of our field—discussion & collaboration are thriving!

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RCEM2025 @rcem2025.bsky.social · Sep 4

🌅 Final day begins @ #RCEM2025
We’re kicking it off with the keynote of Dr. Zheng 🎤 —bringing fresh perspectives on biomorphodynamics.

It’s being an incredible week of talks, posters & community—let’s make this last day just as inspiring! 💡🌊

#RCEM2025 #Keynote #CoastalScience

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Mathieu Lapôtre @marslogander.bsky.social · Aug 22

So proud of Michael!! 😎

This work was a collaboration with @alvitello.bsky.social at @unipd.bsky.social and A. Ielpi and @ubcokanagan.bsky.social

Check also:

- Perspective by J. Pizzuto: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

- Stanford’s press release: sustainability.stanford.edu/news/rise-pl...

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Mathieu Lapôtre @marslogander.bsky.social · Aug 22

Plants change how river bends move - paper by PhD student Michael Hasson out as First Release in #Science!!

Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Before #plants, #meanders did not grow laterally as much but translated downstream, making them look like braided rivers in rocks.

@stanforddoerr.bsky.social

Vegetation changes the trajectory of river bends

A primary axiom in geoscience is that the evolution of plants drove global changes in river dynamics. Notably, the apparent sinuosity of rivers, derived from the variance of sediment accretion directi...

doi.org

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Aug 19

Showed this slide in class and it didn't elicit a single giggle or guffaw. Something's up.

A series of graphs that show relationships between variables such as the divorce rate in Maine and the per capita consumption of margarine. The words "correlation does not equal causation" are written on the slide.

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Michael Lowry @michaelrlowry.bsky.social · Aug 20

Erin is truly an extraordinary hurricane, one of the biggest and most powerful we've seen in this part of the Atlantic. Mercifully, it'll spare the U.S. an otherwise extensive and devastating blow, but we won't escape major coastal problems. My very latest ⬇️

Enormous Erin Growing Larger: Violent Seas, Dangerous Waves, and Treacherous Surf Expected Along the U.S. East Coast

Tropical storm conditions and coastal flooding will begin affecting North Carolina’s Outer Banks by this evening

michaelrlowry.substack.com

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John Schwartz @jswatz.bsky.social · Aug 13

Politics beats out science in Louisiana. www.nola.com/opinions/mid...

Bob Marshall: End of diversion plan costs Louisiana its good name

Gov. Jeff Landry's cancellation of the Mid-Barataria Sediment Diversion is a blow for coastal restoration -- and for Louisiana's hard-earned reputation as a state that bases its policies on science, c...

www.nola.com

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Alvise Finotello @alvitello.bsky.social · Aug 20

Could you please share that? So I can possibly better guide grad students interested in going abroad?
Thx

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Aug 11

Elements of a landscape, the Netherlands. Where rivers once slowly meandered through lowland peat bogs, straight lines now cross them out.

This is the Angstel river, between Loenen aan de Vecht and Baambrugge, the Netherlands. On the right the Vecht river.

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BSG Geomorphology @bsg-geomorph.bsky.social · Aug 8

It gave a young PhD student the greatest pleasure to be able to publish in the first volume of Earth Surface Processes. Our paper showed how hydraulic conductivity in frozen soils declines below 0 °C. The paper still gets cited regularly! #ESPLMemoriesAt50 - Prof. Tim Burt, Durham University

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Radio&Nukes @radioandnukes.com · Jul 30

Footage of the aftermath of the earthquake in Severo-Kurilsk is published by the Kamchatka branch of the Unified Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 15

The 1 train on the NYC subway tonight

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Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · Jul 14

Interesting pic of Woodhead Reservoir (A628 Woodhead pass from Manc on left) showing a mix of former valley floor, sedimentation, re-working and mixing of what looks like AMD red from the left and clearer water from the top.

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Jaap Nienhuis @changing-shores.bsky.social · Jul 2

The global response of deltas to river sediment supply changes is 6 years.

Cool new delta paper in @nature.com Communications, led by postdoc Jie Wang!

open access link here: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Robb Edwards 🌱 @robedwards1.bsky.social · May 29

This is what a Cold Air Front looks like from Space

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Erwan Rivault @erwanrivault.com · Jun 28

Had an amazing time at #LPS25 this week, where @esaearth.esa.int unveiled the first images from the Biomass satellite.

Read our story with @esmestallard.bsky.social and see the stunning new images for yourself:

Beneath the canopy: Pioneering satellite reveals rainforests' hidden worlds - BBC News

First groundbreaking images from the Biomass satellite could change our understanding of rainforests

www.bbc.co.uk

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Jun 22

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Jun 15

Vermillion River, Ontario, Canada, in the Sudbury Basin.

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HydrologyNL @hydrology.nl · Jun 22

A nice river, somewhere, meandering through a bit of glacial deposits and cutting into Upper Cretaceous shale and sandstone.
High-resolution prints are for sale on request (special edition!).