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Kevin McGuire
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Professor & hydrologist @Virginia_Tech. Interested in natural resources, water & science. Views are my own. Follow/Repost≠Endorsement.
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Delaney Peterson @thatsmedelp.bsky.social · Aug 27
super excited to share that my first dissertation chapter is out in WRR!

here, we operationalize the river corridor of a headwater Coastal Plain network into hydrogeomorphic features to characterize hydrologic connectivity across dimensions

check it out here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Using Hydrogeomorphic Features to Quantify Structural and Functional Hydrologic Connectivity in a Coastal Plain Headwater Stream
Hydrogeomorphic features provide a key framework to study streamflow generation along the river corridor Across the study watershed, hydrogeomorphic features demonstrated distinct patterns of gro...
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Aug 28
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/c...
An Industry Insider’s Changes at the E.P.A. Could Cost Taxpayers Billions
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Aug 28
The mystery of the Christiansburg well... from Radio IQ News @WVTFRADIOIQ I’m listening unknown account to The mystery of the Christiansburg well... from Radio IQ News on my WVTF app! www.wvtf.org/2025-08-22/t...
The mystery of the Christiansburg well...
CommonWx is a weather and climate newsletter, and while this story does have ties to those fields of study, it’s more about how our earth is so intricately connected – and how little we know about tho...
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Aug 5
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Warming Winters Sabotage Trees’ Carbon Uptake - Eos
In temperate forests, the biomass-building benefits of warmer growing seasons are offset by damaging variability in winter weather—a disparity that climate models may miss.
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VA Water Resources Research Center @VirginiaTech @vwrrc.bsky.social · Jul 30
Virginia Tech's Landon Marston on Water and AI: news.vt.edu/content/news...
As AI booms, data centers threaten energy grid and water supplies, expert says
AI’s data center boom strains power and water systems, prompting calls for smarter engineering, infrastructure, and policy, says Landon Marston.
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AGU Catchment Hydrology Technical Committee @agucatchhydro.bsky.social · Jul 2
The classical runoff generation session is also at #AGU25 a highlight for catchment hydrologists attending the @agu.org conference in December. If you would like to contribute, make sure to submit your abstract by the end of July! Great lineup of invited speakers!
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Ryoko Araki @rarakihydro.bsky.social · Jul 2
Submit your #AGU25 abstract to the long-running runoff-generation session! It is our great pleasure to have two invited speakers: Hilary McMillan and Larisa Tarasova. lnkd.in/gCy-iBXJ
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Eos @eos.org · Jun 11
Climate.gov will likely soon shut down, as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired. 🧪

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NOAA’s Climate Website May Soon Shut Down - Eos
Climate.gov, NOAA’s portal to the work of their Climate Program Office, will likely soon shut down as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired on 31 May.
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Adriane Hövel @adrianehoevel.bsky.social · Jun 6
🚨New paper alert! We investigated the hydro-meteorological drivers of event runoff characteristics in three catchments with forest, grassland and agricultural land use, highlighting the differences in runoff generation mechanisms between land use types:
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Hydro‐Meteorological Drivers of Event Runoff Characteristics Under Analogous Soil Moisture Patterns in Three Small‐Scale Headwater Catchments
Analogous soil moisture patterns and respective runoff patterns were identified by applying a novel time series-based pattern search. Wetness-derived variables were decisive for causing a similar run....
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Jun 10
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White House looks to freeze more agency funds — and expand executive power
The latest move targets more than $30 billion in spending at EPA, the National Science Foundation and other agencies.
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Jun 1
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Would Cut a Major Ecology Program
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · May 12
Opinion: The Mental Health Impacts of Scientific Fieldwork -
Difficult conditions at remote field sites can put researchers under physical, mental, and emotional strain. undark.org/2025/04/17/o... @hubbardbrook.bsky.social
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · May 10
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF slashes number of ‘rotators’ and well-paid managers as part of restructuring
Smaller future budgets will require fewer people, NSF official tells staff
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AGU Catchment Hydrology Technical Committee @agucatchhydro.bsky.social · May 5
1/1 🌍 The #AGU Catchment Hydrology TC Student Competition is now open!
Open to undergrads, grad students & postdocs! 🎓
Share a field or modeling study focused outside the US/Europe (global studies welcome!). Submit your <100-word entry here:
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Science Magazine @science.org · Apr 24
Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn
Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning
Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Apr 22
🌍 This #EarthDay, science needs you more than ever.

We celebrate our planet through stunning imagery and vital data—but we can’t protect what we don’t understand.

#StandUpForScience #AGUAction
Image credit: NOAA On Dec. 21, 2024, NOAA’s GOES-19 captured this image of Earth during the winter solstice shortly after the Northern Hemisphere reached its maximum tilt away from the sun, positioning the sun directly over the Tropic of Capricorn at 23.5° south latitude.
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American Rivers @americanrivers.bsky.social · Apr 18
💪 Act Now: Tell Virginia decision-makers to ensure a strong and healthy future for the Rappahannock River by implementing smart, science-based water management solutions below! mostendangeredrivers.org/river/rappah...
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Eos @eos.org · Apr 19
When streams dry up, it can mean big changes for the nitrogen cycle—but those changes don’t appear to be what scientists expected.
The “Surprising” Effect of Drying Headwaters on Nitrogen Dynamics - Eos
Contrary to predictions, spring rains caused a decrease in nitrogen at watershed outflows in Alabama.
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Apr 17
www.politico.com/news/2025/04...
Federal judge orders immediate thaw of climate, infrastructure funds
President Donald Trump does not have "unfettered power to hamstring in perpetuity" duly passed funding laws, the judge ruled.
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Apr 17
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
NSF halts grant awards while staff do second review
Action comes after DOGE team arrives at science agency
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Apr 13
So true! Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...
Popular songs are simpler and more repetitive than they used to be
Lyrics to English-language top hits have become less complex and more repetitive, which may make them catchier—and more appealing
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Apr 5
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New House Republican proposal seeks to exempt many toxic Pfas from review
Two lawmakers introduced a resolution to repeal a 2024 Biden rule that closed a ‘low volume exemption’ loophole
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Kevin McGuire @kjmcguire.bsky.social · Apr 5
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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’
EPA bids to change chemical risk evaluations, which could expose public to higher levels of PFAS and other pollutants
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Hubbard Brook Research Foundation @hubbardbrook.bsky.social · Mar 27
Gene Likens to the @theguardian.com: “I hope we don’t go back to the old days, so these rollbacks are very alarming. I care about the health of my children and grandchildren, I want them to have clean air to breathe. I care about clean water and clean and healthy soil, I want them to have that too.”
US could see return of acid rain if pollution rules are quashed, says scientist who first discovered it
Gene Likens, who first identified acidic rainwater in 1960s, said the Trump administration’s ‘rollbacks are alarming’
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.msnbc.com · Mar 27
blacksburg virginia:

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Virginia Tech students protest against DEI program cuts
Hokies of all kinds joined hands to march on Virginia Tech’s campus to protest President Trump’s executive order to end all Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · Mar 28
“Gov. Glenn Youngkin Appoints Ken Cuccinelli, Who Conducted a ‘Climate Science Denial Witch Hunt’ Against UVA (and Former UVA Climate Professor Michael Mann), to the UVA Board of Visitors” by Iowkell via @bluevirginia.bsky.social:

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Gov. Glenn Youngkin Appoints Ken Cuccinelli, Who Conducted a “Climate Science Denial Witch Hunt” Against UVA (and Former UVA Climate Professor Michael Mann), to the UVA Board of Visitors
Not that Gov. Glenn Youngkin ever was a "moderate" (yes, the media lied to you), but now he's obviously gone all-in on Trumpism, MAGA, etc. The reasons, most likely, is that Youngkin has been radicali
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