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Nate Jones

@floodhydrology.bsky.social
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Water Scientist | Associate Professor | University of Alabama

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John Hammond @hydrohammond.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
I’m still figuring out bluesky… but with the goal of more easily finding information I’m interested in, I started a feed and associated starter pack for Hydrological Processes as well as Hydrological Extremes. Please let me know if you want to be added to the starter pack! bsky.app/profile/did:...
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Matthias Sprenger @matthiasprenger.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Our new research analyzing high-frequency soil moisture data from 40 NEON sites across 17 US ecoregions reveals the widespread occurrence of Preferential Flow (PF) & its drivers across continental scale environmental gradients. Published in AGU's Geophysical Research Letters doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Ubiquity and Causes of Soil Water Preferential Flow Across 17 Ecoregions
Preferential flow (PF) is ubiquitous across the USA and occurs in up to 60% of all rainfall events ≥2 mm Rainfall intensity, soil texture, and antecedent soil moisture emerge as critical in gener...
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Delaney Peterson @thatsmedelp.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
also life update: a lot happened in Sept… I defended my dissertation, and got to share all the exciting things we’ve learned about small southeastern streams! I also started as a postdoc at Oregon State! i’m stoked to work with @wardhydro.bsky.social on the role headwaters play in downstream WQ!
Delaney at the front of a classroom giving a presentation titled “Headwaters and their Hollows”Delaney and Adam in front of the BEE building on OSU’s campus
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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬
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Segura Lab @segura-lab.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Having find a the Powell center with the Analysis and synthesis of headwater streamflow group. With @floodhydrology.bsky.social @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social @lireactivewater.bsky.social @aphydro.bsky.social and many others.
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
I'm incredible excited to share that @thatsmedelp.bsky.social successfully defended her PhD last week. Delaney's dissertation focused on hydrologic connectivity of headwater systems across the southeastern US (i.e., "Headwaters and their hollows.") #RollTide #BamaEcoHydro
Delaney Peterson giving her dissertation talkDelaney Peterson with her advisor Nate JonesWater color painting of a soil profile and shallow groundwater well
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Delaney Peterson @thatsmedelp.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
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...
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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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American Chemical Society @acs.org · 15/07/2025
Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic damage throughout Appalachia, including North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. And during a disaster like that, fast decision making is important. [1/3]
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George H. Allen @geoallen.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Flood waves like those that devastated Texas last week can be seen by the NASA #SWOT satellite. Another reason to support #NASA Earth Science
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Big CONGRATS to @morejam59.bsky.social for successfully defending her MS thesis today on groundwater and surface water connectivity in headwater wetlands!!! Jasmine is headed to Boise State this fall to pursue a PhD in Hydrology.
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Another great GRC Catchment Symposium in the books! Enjoyed catching up with old colleagues/friends, meeting new colleagues, and all the fun of science summer camp! #BamaEcoHydro
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Kelsey Pieper @kelseypieper.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Excited for our new paper with NC health depts and @floodhydrology.bsky.social and @northeasternu.bsky.social estimating impacts to environmental health services after #Helene pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Responding after Hurricane Helene: Rapidly Estimating Impacts to Environmental Health Services in North Carolina
Hurricane Helene caused catastrophic flooding and infrastructure damage across the mountainous regions of western North Carolina. Responding agencies had to make real-time decisions about emergency re...
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Louise Slater @louiseslater.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
🌐 Introducing GRIT: the First Global Bifurcating River Network 🏞 developed by Michel Wortmann as part of the NERC Large Grant EvoFLOOD, in the Hydro-Climate Extremes group @oxfordgeography.bsky.social
Map of the GRIT global river network. Source: Wortmann et al. (2025), Water Resources Research.
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Daniele Penna @danielepenna.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
New field evidence on #preferential #flow on #forested #hillslopes at Re della Pietra #catchment. Thank you @quercusilex92.bsky.social @segura-lab.bsky.social @ecohydrologylab.bsky.social and other no-bluesky coauthors. authors.elsevier.com/c/1l6Vj52cui... danielepenna.wixsite.com/redellapietra
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Daniel Rothberg @danielrothberg.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
"All water discharged by wells is balanced by a loss of water somewhere." - Hydrogeologist C.V. Theis writing in 1940, nearly a century ago. From "The Source of Water Derived From Wells." water.usgs.gov/ogw/pubs/The...
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Convention on Wetlands @ramsar.org · 16/05/2025
The Scientific and Technical Review Panel (STRP) of the Convention on Wetlands, has just released Policy Brief No. 7, titled "Small Wetlands: Their Importance and Strategies for Effective Conservation". Details: ramsar.org/document/sma... #SmallWetlands #WetlandsMatter #STRP
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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Signing off for the semester and a summary of the aspects of coding in class that I wrote about in the past weeks: thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/code-in-cl...
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Code in Class: All of the topics
Comprehensive? Strategies for teaching coding in class.
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Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
We have a unique job opportunity to work on the GLOBAL METHANE BUDGET with the Global Carbon Project, in France. Seeking a dynamic data expert to support the coordination and production of the next Global CH4 Budget. If you are interested, drop an email to marielle.saunois@lsce.ipsl.fr
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Pep Canadell @pepcanadell.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
1/3 The new Global Methane Budget is now published, open access. essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
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Erin Hotchkiss @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
Glad to share this recently published article in @animalecology.bsky.social led by Nick Corline on how "(wood frog) #tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in (geographically isolated) #wetland ecosystems": besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 💧🧪🌎🐸 #DelmarvaDisco
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Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems
This research demonstrates that tadpoles can create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems and has important ramifications for our understanding of the functional role of animal species in nut....
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Grades submitted. What a wild year! I'm grateful for my students, our collaborators, and the larger hydrologic science community. I'm also grateful for the meaningful work we're doing and everything we've been able to accomplish together. Keep up the good fight y'all, and Cheers!
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
“This budget is a recipe for ending the US' leadership in science. It would do generational damage by forcing labs to shut down, with a corresponding loss of highly trained individuals and one-of-a-kind research materials.”
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
More bad news for US science, indirect rates capped at 15% will further gut our research institutions & univerisities www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...
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Policy Notice: Implementation of Standard 15% Indirect Cost Rate
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Eos @eos.org · 01/05/2025
Approaches to artificial reoxygenation have been studied as possible solutions to coastal oxygen loss, but they come with risks that must be assessed carefully, write @carolineslomp.bsky.social @ribesresearch.bsky.social & @aoschlies.bsky.social @geomarkiel.bsky.social eos.org/features/cou...
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Could Bubbling Oxygen Revitalize Dying Coastal Seas? - Eos
Reoxygenation approaches have shown some success in lakes, but their potential risks must be examined carefully before they’re implemented as solutions to improve the health of coastal waters.
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Jasmine Morejon💙 @morejam59.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Spot the difference: scan site edition! #stormsampling #SCANdal #hydrology #TIMBER
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Me: That's a color choice Student: Nate, you won't let me use a pastel palate. So I'm using hot pink. Me: 👀 👀 👀 Student: ...
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Dr. Emily Fairfax @emilyfairfax.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Happy International #Beaver Day! Do you have a question about beavers, their wetlands, or how they relate to climate change? Ask it here! I’ll be sharing bits of beaver knowledge throughout the day, and if there is a question I *don’t* know the answer to, I will know who to ask to get it!
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Ben Bond-Lamberty @benbondlamberty.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements: Jiang et al. in @globalchangebio.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Global Soil Methane Uptake Estimated by Scaling Up Local Measurements
We develop a data-driven approach to refine this global estimate by incorporating local data of 79,800 flux measurements from 198 sites, this novel approach links the global SMU budget to local SMU f....
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Grading exams (tis the season...) Apparently my students have figured out I give partial credit if they can make me laugh...and honestly I'm ok with this.
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Diego Riveros-Iregui @carbonshed.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I'm pleased to share a new publication led by Ph.D. student Kriddie Whitmore. We measured dissolved carbon dioxide (pCO2), aquatic CO2 emissions, discharge, and stream depth and width at high spatial resolution in 3 watersheds of the Ecuadorian páramo agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Carbon Emissions From Low‐Order Streams in a Tropical, High‐Elevation, Peatland Ecosystem Are Mediated by Catchment Morphology
Patterns of pCO2 and CO2 emissions in tropical, páramo streams are consistent and predictable Dense drainage networks compensate for narrow widths of small streams resulting in similar CO2 emissi...
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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 21/04/2025
READ THE COMPLAINT: Harvard sues the Trump administration for its attempts to "coerce and control" the university in violation of the First Amendment, the APA, etc. www.harvard.edu/research-fun...
Cover page of Harvard's complaint, listing many members of the Trump administration as defendants.
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Dr Ecology 🌲 @ecologyphd.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
🚨 POST DOC 🚨 The Suding Lab at the University of CO - Boulder is recruiting a Postdoc researcher to build on an ongoing project examining grassland fuels, wildfire risk, & management questions. Applications close May 8, 2025. Start date will be before September 2025. 🌎🌾🧪🌱🌿🍁💻🔥📈
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Research Scientist I
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Hydrology Paper of the Day @smmunson.bsky.social on how remote sensing of vegetation greenness and canopy water content is related to vegetation health: global forest recovery rates over a time of decades; changes over the past 30 years; and spatial patterns of resilience in context of climate.
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CSDMS @csdms.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
10 fully funded PhD positions (University of Salzburg), Austria. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs
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Critical Zone News @cznews.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
#CriticalZone at #EGU25
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Reading one of my favorite articles today in class!!! This is one of the best pieces of #SciCom I've ever read -- it does an incredible job of describing why our atmosphere is ~21% O2, how modern #MegaFires will (not!) impact O2 levels, and how burning #FossilFuels short circuits global C cycles!
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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. wapo.st/4luJyph
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Opinion | Trump is killing one of our strongest exports
The president wants to balance U.S. trade deficits? He can’t do it without this industry he hates.
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Julian Olden @oldenfish.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Dear friends and colleagues! I'm looking for a riparian zone (area) spatial layer for 🇨🇦 Canada 🇨🇦 (or ind. provinces/territories). Something simple that has been delineated using a DEM and estimated flood height, for example. Image below is purely eye candy. Many thanks ... from a Canadian 🇨🇦
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Go Hokies!
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Dr. Josh Bregy @prehistormic.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Thrilled to announce our work reconstructing the western flank of the North Atlantic subtropical high (or Bermuda/Azores high) has just been published in Science Advances! This record goes back to 1140 CE! #ScienceAdvancesResearch www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Changes in the western flank of the North Atlantic subtropical high since 1140 CE: Extremes, drivers, and hydroclimatic patterns
Eight centuries of Bermuda high patterns show a 50% increase in western flank variability starting in 1900 CE.
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JP Gannon @jpgannon.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
This weeks' post about live coding: how to talk. "I’m trying to keep students from disengaging. I fully believe that if I can just keep them at it, keep them from throwing in the towel, they will all get there in the end." thinkingthroughteaching.substack.com/p/how-to-tal...
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How to talk while live coding
normalizing errors, growth mindset, stereotype threat....
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Dr. Amy Burgin @burginam.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
@kacizarek.bsky.social's MS paper has been highlighted in Eos! Check out what we're learning about how stream drying impacts N cycling.
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Excited to see @kacizarek.bsky.social's MS research featured in @eos.org!
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Eos @eos.org · 15/04/2025
When streams dry up, it can mean big changes for the nitrogen cycle—but those changes don’t appear to be what scientists expected. eos.org/research-spo...
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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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Li Li (李黎) @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Congrats @devonkerins.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/hyp.... Flat, rainy sites (more silty/clayey soils): flashier streamflow + more sensitive to dynamic storage; Snowy sites (coarse sandy soils): less flashy streamflow, lower dynamic storage, lower sensitivity to storage, + more deeper flow.
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sphynx cat about to bite its owner....
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Still my favorite way to describe carbon processing along the river corridor: youtu.be/AnHiAWlrYQc?...
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I Love Lucy | Lucy And Ethel At The Chocolate Factory (S2, E1) | Paramount+
YouTube video by Paramount Plus
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Giulia Grandi @giuliagrandi.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
The time that water spends to travel across the catchment isn’t just a driver of DOC concentration, but it also shapes its quality and reactivity in a low-order alpine stream. doi.org/10.1029/2024... @enricobertuzzo.bsky.social @riverepfl.bsky.social
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Hydrology Paper of the Day @drevaplaganyi.bsky.social on a commentary related to how wealthy countries affect deforestation and the biogeography of other nations: marine ecosystems and impacts; importing of resources in lieu of internal resource management; and recognizing global biodiversity.
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Discussing (hydrologic) recession analyses today with @morejam59.bsky.social !
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