I made an app to map the floods in Vermont. There's almost 100% state coverage by satellite images from midday July 11. I added typical summer images so you can compare. Zoom, search, turn layers on/off! Default view is major flooding in Montpelier, VT. edethier.users.earthengine.app/view/vermont-f…

I really think this is one of the central questions of our time — in an age of building and energy transition, let’s figure out how to improve extractive practices for greater sustainability, transparency, and equity. Excited to be part of this #agu2023 session!

Missing Americans: Early death in the US 1933-2021 Fascinating & sobering PNAS paper..“Learning from peer nations, the US could extend social protections & universal health coverage to non- elderly adults & enhance the regulation of pollutants & firearms.” academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/arti…

🎉Back from holiday with good news! Our Comment 'Putting Africa on the map' is out in Nature Africa Nature Africa 🌍📌🗺️ The piece is a shortened version of our full call for action by Lars L. Iversen Tawanda Kanhema - We'll soon publish the full length text nature.com/articles/d4414…

The V.T.Chow Hydrosystems Lab is unequivocally the best lab in the world. I loved my time there - check out an awesome job opportunity 👀 #flumefriday

I took our new field-trips-forward version of Intro Geology down to Fort Smith to tour the sand mining operation there. Boat tour and everything. 10/10.

Rupert Murdoch is the most poisonous individual of my lifetime.

Ripples in silts passing over some woody debris, Lillooet River, Canada. Interesting to think about lateral continuity of ripples in presence of this woody roughness element!

SWOT advances already….Satellite spots marine heat wave off the California coast (image) flip.it/4opOWl

🚨Environmental disaster here at Lake Tefé, in Central Amazon More than 100 river dolphins dead in the last few days due to the drought At inst_mamiraua, in collab with many institutions, we are struggling to help them and understand the actual causes

Scenes of the Amazon extreme drought in Tefé Very low water levels, heatwave, river erosion in communities, large beaches isolating communities, fish and dolphin mortality, smoke from fires... and now something like a sandstorm.

🔔NEW PAPER ALERT🔔 - Please RT Our collaborative piece "Co-developing pathways to protect nature, land, territory and well-being in Amazonia" led by Rodolfo Nóbrega | @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social in Communications Earth & Environment is just out. nature.com/articles/s4324…

Extreme drought and fires in Amazonia: a call to action Seca extrema nos rios e incêndios na Amazônia: um chamado à ação Our comment published today in Jornal da Ciência SBPC, with Rogério Marinho Rogério Marinho and Naziano Filizola / Ufam jornaldaciencia.org.br/seca-extrema-n…

40 days of the extreme drought in Lake Tefé, Central Amazon Source: Planet satellite imagery

Isolation of Amazon communities during the drought Even communities along the Amazon River get isolated due to large beaches exposed during the drought Like this one, close to the city of Alvarães in Amazonas

High mortality of pink dolphins found in another Amazonian lake during the extreme drought 23 carcasses were found this week at Coari Lake. More details in our communication released today inst_mamiraua Ufam: drive.google.com/file/d/1-AzWAT…

Amazing BBC #PlanetEarth3 episode on #Freshwater inc an extraordinary segment on the successful rescue & relocation of a stranded Indus River dolphin WWF has been working with govt & communities in #Pakistan for decades to save this iconic species bbcearth.com/shows/planet-e…

And an equally brilliant BBC #PlanetEarth3 segment on our remarkable WWF-Pakistan colleague, Uzma Khan, a global expert on the Indus river dolphin - showing her involvement in rescues & the first satellite tagging of an Indus river dolphin. bbc.co.uk/programmes/art… Hammad Naqi Khan

Check out our new paper! We find the climate-driven season sediment-transport regime shift in four types of cryosphere-fed rivers. Huge thanks to our amazing team Tina_Zhang Amy East Jim Best Albert kettner CSDMS Jinren Ni, and Xixi Lu

Our new State of the Science paper on sole structures - the catchily named Flow-induced Interfacial Deformation Structures (FIDS) is now out in Sedimentology: doi.org/10.1111/sed.13… with Jim Best Jaco H. Baas 🇪🇺🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇳🇱⚒️⛰️🌊🚶🥘🎶⚽ stratleeds Paul Wignall and Piotr Lapcik. Here is a taster...