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Julie Mai

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Software Developer at ATS Corporation | previously computational hydrology and research | she/her

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Blair Fix @blairfix.bsky.social · 26/10/2025
In a 2024 paper criticizing the 'billion-dollar-disasters' database, Roger Pielke Jr. published analysis that is best described as a Russian-doll of errors. Here's my in-depth take down of his appallingly bad work. economicsfromthetopdown.com/2025/10/26/r...
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Roger Pielke Jr.’s Appallingly Bad Analysis of Billion Dollar Disasters – Economics from the Top Down
In a recent paper called Scientific integrity and U.S. “Billion Dollar Disasters”, Roger Pielke Jr. published a chart that's so bad I've devoted a whole essay to debunking it.
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EGU Hydrological Sciences Division @hs.egu.eu · 12/09/2025
Mentors matter—especially in challenging times. The latest #EGU special issue Women in #Hydrology shines a light on women who’ve broken ground in hydrological sciences, & the mentees following their path. Essential reads on equity, inclusion, & resilience. Check 👇 blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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Women in Hydrology – The Story of a Special Issue
It was 2021, and we were not feeling good.  COVID-19 was in full force.  Personally we were experiencing lockdown conditions, disruptions to our work, schooling and childcare arrangements.  Our social...
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DataStream @datastream.org · 04/09/2025
An exciting webinar is coming up! Discover the Poseidon Water Quality Portal with DataStream’s Meghan McLeod, Dr. Nandita Basu, @julieeemai.bsky.social & @vanmeterkvm.bsky.social on Sept 22, 1pm ET. Learn about portal features, datasets, and applications: forms.gle/ZjHPEGvRyNjD...
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Hydrology Paper of the Day @rarakihydro.bsky.social on a model of soil moisture loss that utilizes a nonlinear function: model fitting to SMAP remote sensing data; an examination of global-scale patterns; how aridity, sand fraction and landcover affects outputs; and the role of evapotranspiration.
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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Caravan News🐪🐫 I just published Version 1.6. The main update is that the source data for CAMELS-AUS was upgraded to CAMELS-AUS v2. This means more basins (561 vs 222) and more recent streamflow data (2022 vs 2014). All relevant links in thread 🧵 (please share/repost)
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
We are looking for a Research Software Engineer/Scientist to work between @nanditabasu.bsky.social and myself on watershed, water quality, wetlands and modeling, from the watershed to regional and global scales. Please reach out and apply.. www.linkedin.com/posts/nandit...
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Research Software Engineer/Scientist | Nandita Basu
We are looking for a Research Software Engineer/Scientist to work between Juliane (Julie) Mai and myself on watershed, water quality, wetlands and modeling, from the watershed to regional and global s...
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Martin Gauch @gauchm.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Starting on bsky with a new preprint: "How to deal w___ missing input data" doi.org/10.31223/X50... Missing input data is a very common challenge in deep learning for hydrology: weather providers have outages, some data products start later than others, some only exist for certain regions, etc.
Different scenarios for missing input data: outages at individual time steps (top), data products starting at different points in time (middle), and local data products that are not available for all basins (bottom). All of these scenarios reduce the number of training samples for models that cannot cope with missing data (yellow, small box), while the models presented in this paper can be trained on all samples with valid targets (purple, large box).
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Nemiah Ladd @nemiahladd.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Anyone in my network know an excellent, German-speaking administrator who would be interested in working at the University of Basel? We are looking for a new Managing Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences jobs.unibas.ch/offene-stell...
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Universität Basel: Geschäftsführer*in Departement Umweltwissenschaften
Die Universität Basel ist die älteste Universität der Schweiz und eine Hochschule von internationalem Ruf, die in Forschung und Lehre hervorragende Leistungen erbringt. Das Departement Umweltwissensch...
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Andrea Kirkwood (she/her) @kirkwoodlab.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
GRAD POSITION: MSc position aquatic ecology and conservation at Laurentian University w/ flexible start date. Contact Brie Edwards (see ALT text) for more details #AcademicSky
We are currently seeking a MSc domestic student (i.e. Canadian citizen or permanent resident) to join a cohort of newly recruited HQP. The project will focus on developing and testing novel stream biomonitoring methods incorporating eDNA to assay community membership from microbes to fish. These rapid bioassessment techniques will be tested against traditional approaches in their ability to produce functional, community and multi-trophic indicators of ecosystem integrity and biodiversity along a gradient of impact recovery. The student will be hosted at Laurentian University (Dr. Brie Edwards) and co-supervised by Dr. Erik Emilson (Natural Resources Canada). Field work will begin in Spring of 2025 and will be conducted in the Sudbury area. As such we are recruiting a student interested in starting May 2025. Ideal candidates will have a strong background in aquatic ecology and an interest in benthic bioindicators, molecular techniques, and population and community responses to environmental change. Quantitative skills in statistical analysis are desired but can be provided through training programs at the respective institutions. Interested students should send a CV, cover letter expressing interest and relevant skills, as well as a copy of unofficial transcripts to Brie Edwards (bedwards2@laurentian.ca). Please include “CRADLES graduate interest” as the subject line.
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
How I arrived at BlueSky
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Daniel Klotz @danklotz.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Uh. Very interesting: blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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The value of failure: Learning from what didn’t work
“What failure prepared you for later success?” Tim Ferriss often asks this question to the high-performing guests on his podcast, giving them the opportunity to reflect on how setbacks have shaped the...
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Louise Kreissig-Arnal, PhD (she/elle) @arnallouise.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
We have a full day of Art&Science for you today at #AGU24! The #ArtSci oral & poster sessions and the plenary “What’s next for corals” at noon, highlighting the transformative power of the arts in engaging the public & for innovative pathways to solutions 🪸 Sneak peek of the plenary rehearsal🕵️‍♀️
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Larisa Tarasova @lytarasova.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Best part of #AGU24 @julieeemai.bsky.social
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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
My colleague Martin Gauch will present our ongoing research on end-to-end trained, deep learning based distributed hydrology models today in the morning session at poster 983 at #AGU24.
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Garima Lakhanpal @lakhanpalgarima.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Friday! Final day of AGU! Please come say hi to us all! We would love to talk science 💫 @danykabyrnes.bsky.social @julieeemai.bsky.social #BasuLab #AGU24
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Nitin Singh @nitinsingh.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
If you are still around and have interest in #drought #groundwater at CONUS scale, stop by our talk today at 2:56p in 145. Apparently, it has been "highlighted" by the convenors, and @matthiasprenger.bsky.social tells me it is not a bad thing 😅
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Andrew @abcassel.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
@lireactivewater.bsky.social delivers this year’s Witherspoon lecture during #AGU24. She describes scientific models like novels. Novels allow us to study the deeper truths of the human existence. Scientific models help us explore deeper truths of science. More work from Li: go.nature.com/3uZg5i4
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Nate Jones @floodhydrology.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Li Li giving a great Witherspoon Lecture on water quality modeling!
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Luis Samaniego @lese66.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Amazing #HEPEX gathering in Washington during the #AGU24
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
What a pleasure to be out for dinner with the amazing HEPEX people #AGU24. Such a treat!! Thanks @arnallouise.bsky.social for organising! ❤️
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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Using all the activity here from #AGU24 to highlight our #EGU25 session on "Deep learning in hydrology" that is open for abstract submission.
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Danyka Byrnes @danykabyrnes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Change of plans! Shuyu Chang is presenting about Dams and water quality in the Chesapeake bay at 15:25 in 146A! Go listen to this awesome talk and give her some support! 🤗
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
World water maps town hall happening right now at #AGU24. Come to Marriott salon 3. It’s in the tunnel connecting conference Center and Marriott.
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Luis Samaniego @lese66.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Husain Najafi (#UFZ) presenting results on current research on high resolution flood early warning systems #FEWS and potential new pathways at the #AGU24. Forcings: #DWD | Model chain: ICON #DWD + mHM #UFZ + RIM2D #GFZ | ➡️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Danyka Byrnes @danykabyrnes.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Happening today! @nettiewallace.bsky.social @vanmeterkvm.bsky.social @nanditabasu.bsky.social @julieeemai.bsky.social @nitinsingh.bsky.social
Wednesday December 11th
Nandita Basu
H31AA-0684
From Big Data to Societal Decisions: The good, the bad and the ugly
08:30 - 12:20, Poster Hall

Nettie Wallace
H31X-0905A
Circular Solution to Manure Management:
Can Biodigesters Improve Water Quality and Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions?
08:30 - 12:20, Poster Hall

Nitin Singh
B31K-1425
Widespread increase in dissolved phosphorus concentrations across the Great Lakes Basin:
The whats, the whys and the so whats 8:30 - 12:20, Poster Hall

Kim Van Meter
OS33F-06 (Invited)
Dams, nutrients, and water quality: Modeling the effects of reservoirs on nitrogen delivery to the Chesapeake Bay 15:25 - 15:40, 146 A
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Welcome to BlueSky Luis Samaniego @lese66.bsky.social!! 🎉
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C David Guzman @davidguzzy.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Great discussion and talk by @nanditabasu.bsky.social about "Models, muddles and muggles: rethinking environmental modeling to tackle societal problems" for the last invited talk of pre- @agu.org (not-always-Berkeley) #CatchmentScience Symposium
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Heading to #AGU24. Looking forward to catch up with everyone and seeing some exciting research. 🤩 These are the presentations of the #BasuLab this week.
Presentations of the BasuLab at AGU 2024
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Nandita @nanditabasu.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Ontario is having a colder winter this year. Maybe good for our 2025 blooms.. when winters are warmer it releases all the bound phosphorus in soils and without any crops to take them up it runs off to our lakes patiently waiting for the temperatures to warm theconversation.com/warmer-winte...
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Warmer winters are fuelling a growth in algal blooms across the Great Lakes
Algal blooms are typically associated with summer weather but warmer winters caused by climate change are resulting in blooms appearing more frequently, and for longer periods.
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 30/05/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @HydrologyNext on utilizing Digital Twin models to quantify land-based hydrology: the role of high-resolution remote sensing datasets; separation of hydrological cycle components; and models of discharge in the context of ground truth and remote sensing.
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Frontiers | A Digital Twin of the terrestrial water cycle: a glimpse into the future through high-resolution Earth observations
Climate change is profoundly affecting the global water cycle, increasing the likelihood and severity of extreme water-related events. Better decision-suppor...
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 19/04/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @julieeemai.bsky.social on comparing outputs of streamflow models for the Great Lakes region: 13 models applied to the St. Lawrence River watershed; calibration and validation; performance metrics; multi-objective analysis; and comparison of additional variables.
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The Great Lakes Runoff Intercomparison Project Phase 4: the Great Lakes (GRIP-GL)
Abstract. Model intercomparison studies are carried out to test and compare the simulated outputs of various model setups over the same study domain. The Great Lakes region is such a domain of high pu...
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 17/02/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @julieeemai.bsky.social on assessing the split-sample test in context of experimental design: why models should be calibrated using all available data; suboptimal model performance despite adequate split-sample decisions; and handling model failure.
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Time to Update the Split‐Sample Approach in Hydrological Model Calibration
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 03/02/2024
Hydrology Paper of the Day @mcmillanhydro.bsky.social on understanding the important processes that control watershed responses: hydrological signatures and a spatial geography of similarities and differences; big datasets and distributions; correlations; and site-specific linkages.
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https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2021WR031751
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 16/01/2024
A man who incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to kill American democracy and who a judge determined raped a woman and who now faces 91 felony criminal charges across four jurisdictions just won Iowa's Republican Caucuses.
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Lauren Magliozzi, PhD 💧 @limnologylauren.bsky.social · 03/01/2024
Women Advancing River Research 2024 Lecture Series has free webinars the 3rd Thursday of every month! 💧🌊 Hear from leading female researchers on the latest innovations & discoveries in river science. Register here for all talks: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 30/12/2023
Post-AGU is pre-EGU... I'm happy to again organize a session at EGU with some amazing co-conveners on #diagnostics, #calibration, and #sensitivity_analysis. Abstract submission is open until Jan 10. Can't wait to see your amazing work and abstracts! Hope you are having great holidays!
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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · 29/12/2023
"When women stay silent about ambiguous incidents, it limits not only their careers but the potential for change that benefits everyone." If only we could get folks to listen! (& don't even get me started on the burden of reporting) phys.org/news/2023-12...
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Research finds women 'turn inward' when they experience ambiguous workplace incidents
That gender discrimination is wrong is beyond argument. But identifying which incidents are cases of it is not always so clear cut. That's why researchers are recommending that organizations develop p...
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Anne Van Loon @annevanloon.bsky.social · 13/12/2023
Vacancy alert! 📢 We are looking for a researcher on data visualisation & sci-art. Do you have the skills to combine qualitative & quantitative data on drought-to-flood events? Please apply. Deadline: 10 Jan 24, expected start date: 1 Mar 24. More info: hydrologicalextremes.org/2023/12/07/p...
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Researcher Exploring storylines of drought-flood events via data visualisation and art-science (f/m/...
Do you have experience with data visualization and creative methods? Are you interested in bringing together qualitative and quantitative data on drought-to-flood events around the world? Please apply...
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Frederik Kratzert @kratzert.bsky.social · 09/12/2023
Let's try another alternative. Using my time at the airport for my "post" (?) here. Looking forward to an exciting week at the #AGU23 and to many interesting discussions around machine learning, flood forecasting, open datasets and open source code!
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Sarah H. Ledford @sledford.bsky.social · 04/12/2023
We are recruiting for the next round of Community-Soil-Air-Water (CSAW) MS fellowships! Do you want to answer pressing questions from and for communities in Atlanta? Interested in bridging the human-physical divide in geosciences? 💧 🧪https://geosciences.gsu.edu/csaw/application-information/
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Application Information - Geosciences at Georgia State
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 20/11/2023
Getting really excited about tomorrow’s soft launch of #POSEIDON- a portal for AI assisted water quality datasets- with partners from @environmentca, Ministry of Environment, @DataStreamH2O. Stay tuned for more details!
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
Just went through some slides about best practices in #data #management a colleague shared with me and these two memes really made my day. So true. 😍
Meme stating "Have you tried reading the #README?" with a guy on the phone of a Helpdesk hotline.  Source: https://memegenerator.net/instance/81802520/have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again-have-you-tried-reading-the-readmeA picture of a t-shirt with the following print "Metadata Is a Love Note to the Future" based upon a Jason Scott talk in September 2011 HTTPS://WWW.FLICKR.COM/PHOTOS/SARAHSEVERSON/6245395188/IN/PHOTOSTREAM/ found in https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomcoughlin/2017/08/03/metadata-is-a-communications-channel-to-the-future
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Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
Join me at the USGS and be my office mate!! Super awesome job just dropped- www.usajobs.gov/GetJob/ViewD.... In this job you get to lead a team of 10-13 scientists addressing important water quality questions. Reach out if you have questions!
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 07/11/2023
If you haven’t heard yet: the music by Kings Elliot is out of this world. 🎶 I can’t even say which song is my favourite. The Outsider, Call me a Dreamer, I’m Getting Tired of Me, Butterfly Pen… I’m in love! 🥰
Album cover of Kings Elliot’s EP “Chaos in my court”
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 01/11/2023
Happy days @UWaterloo! #firstday
Photo taken at in-campus Starbucks: laptop at window desk facing Dana Porter library
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Abdesslam Chai-allah @achaiallah.bsky.social · 29/10/2023
Hello 👋 Just joined Bluesky so I thought I'd introduce myself! I'm a PhD candidate at the INRAE🇨🇵 studying human-nature interactions using AI and social media data
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
This!
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Mika @mikagratzke.bsky.social · 24/10/2023
Office door at Uni.
A piece of white A4 paper taped on a brown door. The black text reads: We are ALL smart in academia. Distinguish yourself by being kind.
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Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
There’s worse offices…
Photo showing a person sitting on a balcony working on a laptop with an ocean view in the distance
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