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Rachel Glade

@rachelglade.bsky.social
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Geomorphysicist, musician, puppet enthusiast. Assistant Professor at The University of Rochester in Earth and Environmental Sciences and Mechanical Engineering. PI of the DRIP (Dirt, Rivers, Ice, Particles) Lab. Packard Fellow. rachelglade.com

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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
You know you’ve made it when your research becomes clickbait! 😂 in all seriousness, Eos writer Rebecca Dzombak did a great job writing about our complicated work for the public!
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Greg Tucker @gregtucker.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Happy 4th! Here's a quick look at 250 years of earth change: earthcastings.ghost.io/earth-at-the...
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Earth at the Semiquincentennial
July 2026 marks the 250th anniversary of the American colonies’ Declaration of Independence from Great Britain. From a geological perspective, of course, two hundred and fifty years is merely the blin...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How do solifluction patterns form? Find out with our recently published paper in AGU Advances! Our writing style takes the reader with us on the long and winding process of discovery, rather than simply presenting a nicely packaged final story! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
How do bedload velocity distributions change with flow strength? Can measurement bias affect experimental observations? How does all this control bedload flux? See our preprint led by then postdoc (now professor) Anshul Yadav! essopenarchive.org/doi/full/10.... Using CFD-DEM simulations we found:
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Yikes eos.org/research-and...
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NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
A must read for anyone who wants to ride the wave of probabilistic physics of sediment transport into the future... 🌊
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
A wonderfully crafted piece this morning on local NPR news about erosional processes at Chimney Bluffs State Park, featuring our very own Earth Surface Processes class field trip! www.wxxinews.org/local-news/2...
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At Chimney Bluffs, a shifting landscape raises questions about climate and change
A fresh collapse at Chimney Bluffs highlights ongoing erosion along Lake Ontario, and what changing weather patterns may mean for other New York landscapes.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
What are the necessary and sufficient ingredients for the formation of solifluction patterns? This vexing question has been the albatross round my neck for years. Through process of elimination and a hunch, I believe we have the whisper of an answer. See our preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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Greg Tucker @gregtucker.bsky.social · 09/12/2025
Lewis Fry Richardson, often considered the father of numerical weather prediction, turns out to have been a fascinating guy: scientist, Quaker, pacifist, visionary. I wrote a short piece about his legacy: earthcastings.ghost.io/a-roomful-of...
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A Roomful of Computers: the Prescience of Lewis Fry Richardson
In a course I teach on geophysical fluid mechanics, I like show students a video depicting a year of weather on planet earth. The video looks down on a projected map of the world as viewed from space....
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Undark Magazine @undark.org · 10/12/2025
Some chemists build molecules incrementally. Others make risky moves to discover new chemistry. Both succeed. We call it methodology. But it's style. And we act like acknowledging different approaches threatens scientific rigor.
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Science Needs to Embrace the Idea of Style
How do individual scientists approach their work? These stylistic differences can influence the process of discovery.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If you care about fluvial sediment transport, this is a must read. A solid statistical physics foundation on which one (or many) could build a lifetime of work...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Curious about the glacial geomorphology? Recent undergrad Regan Collins made this amazing ArcGIS Storymap about the formation of the Finger Lakes Region, complete with a map for a self-guided field trip to see some of the best examples of glacial geomorphology in the world! tinyurl.com/7w4asmwc
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IT'S SNOW JOKE: THE HISTORY OF GLACIERS IN WESTERN NEW YORK
They Came, They Thawed, They Conquered
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Geomorphica @geomorphica.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
New publication alert! Congratulations to Patel and @rachelglade.bsky.social for their paper "When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York ". Take a look here journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
We had a great experience publishing with @geomorphica.bsky.social! Using a simple glacial erosion model, recent undergrad Div Patel found that lithologic differences alone may be enough to explain size differences of the Finger Lakes in Western, NY. Check it out! journals.psu.edu/geomorphica/...
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When ice meets bedrock: variation in regional lithology as a control on the size variation of the Finger Lakes in Western New York | Geomorphica
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
This book will change the course of geomorphology as a field- get a head start and see what's here!
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Doug Jerolmack @dougjerolmack.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Check out the @kitp-ucsb.bsky.social conference we're (Vashan Wright, Sujit Datta, Nathalie Vriend) organizing: www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/s... for THIS JANUARY 6-9! Geoscientists, physicists and engineers: are you intellectually adventurous and been wondering "is this all there is?" 🧪
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
I'm incredibly proud of PhD student Nacere Mohamed Samassi for submitting her first ever paper, as well as the first experimental paper from the DRIP lab! Check out the preprint here: eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
Replication Crisis xkcd.com/3117/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person 1 with ponytail flanked by person with short hair and another person speaking into microphone at podium] PERSON 1: In the early 2010s, researchers found that many major scientific results couldn’t be reproduced. (2) PERSON 1: Over a decade into the replication crisis, we wanted to see if today’s studies have become more robust. (3) PERSON 1: Unfortunately, our replication analysis has found exactly the same problems that those 2010s researchers did. (4) [newspaper with image of speakers from previous panels] Headline: Replication Crisis Solved
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
FYI: The Spencer Foundation, Kapor Foundation, The William T. Grant Foundation, and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation have collaborated to offer $25K rapid response grants. "This rapid response bridge funding opportunity is for scholars and teams whose grants have recently been cancelled by NSF."
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Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
A beautiful paper about a ubiquitous pattern- I'll never look at ripples the same way again!
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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Kurt Vonnegut man
Kurt Vonnegut tells his wife he's going out to buy an envelope:
"Oh, she says, well, you're not a poor man.
You know, why don't you go online and buy a hundred envelopes and put them in the closet?
And so I pretend not to hear her. And go out to get an envelope because I'm going to have a hell of a good time in the process of buying one envelope.
I meet a lot of people. And see some great looking babies. And a fire engine goes by.
And I give them the thumbs up. And I'll ask a woman what kind of dog that is. And, and I don't know. The moral of the story is — we're here on Earth to fart around
And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around.
And it's like we're not supposed to dance at all anymore."
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David Cúñez @davidcunez.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
I am happy to share a fresh out of the oven preprint where we are connecting some granular mechanics to the fabrication and performance of solid state batteries! Check it out!
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Granular Creep and Its Role in Optimizing Solid Electrolyte Fabrication for Solid-State Batteries
The densification of solid electrolyte (SE) materials is crucial for improving the performance and stability of solid-state batteries. In this study, the role of granular creep in SE densification is ...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
PhD student JohnPaul also visited DC last week as an AGU Local Science Partner to talk about arctic soil erosion to a bipartisan group of lawmakers. Never has there been a more important time in history to talk to congress about science. Way to go JP!
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Amidst an onslaught of bad news, I'm very happy to report some *good* news that JohnPaul Sleiman, DRIP Lab PhD student, just published his very first paper in Icarus! We find that lobate patterns on Mars are likely similar to those found in arctic regions on Earth. Congrats JP! tinyurl.com/3mwrarm2
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Viewing lobate patterns on Mars and Earth as climate modulated fluid-like instabilities
Lobate features found on high-latitude slopes on Mars resemble terrestrial cold-climate soil patterns known as solifluction lobes. Whether this provid…
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Geoff Brumfiel @gbrumfiel.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
NEW: Trump cuts are threatening a standards laboratory who's work on atomic spectra undergirds the entire modern economy. The lab is run by just seven federal employees who have been paying out-of-pocket for their own coffee since 1973. www.npr.org/2025/03/26/n...
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Trump cuts threaten measurement lab critical for advanced chips and medical devices
The Atomic Spectroscopy Group provides standardized measurements used across wide swaths of science and industry. The Trump administration plans to cut it.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
Excellent excellent excellent from Princeton president and constitutional/ political theorist Chris Eisgruber. There's been far too little of this kind of thing; here's hoping others follow his good example. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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The Cost of the Government’s Attack on Columbia
American universities have given the country prosperity and security. The Trump administration’s attack on academic freedom endangers all of that.
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Alban Sauret @albansauret.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Excited to share our new paper in @pnas.org doi.org/10.1073/pnas...! Ice cubes often appear cloudy because, as water freezes, air bubbles get trapped and scatter light. But how does freezing rate affect the shape of the bubbles?
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david jon furbish @davidjonfurbish.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
This is essential reading. It is an example of the required, new style of thinking about doing science.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 24/02/2025
Very useful explainer.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
I'm enjoying this whole special issue about the doing of science: www.pnas.org/toc/pnas/122/5
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PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
A thoughtful scientist, luminescence wizard, ultrasupportive colleague, and someone who's made me laugh till I cry on numerous occasions—Harrison is so deserving of the prestigious PECASE award!
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
So many rocks! Postdoc Anshul Yadav and helpers have collected and drilled 1000+ rocks for RFID tracking in a local creek. We're measuring shape, size, density and volume of each rock before placing them in the field to see how grain shape affects fluvial sediment transport.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Very proud of PhD student JohnPaul Sleiman @JpGeomorph for submitting his first paper! We find that lobate patterns on Martian crater walls are quantitatively similar to solifluction lobes in arctic landscapes on Earth. Check out the preprint! eartharxiv.org/repository/v...
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Viewing Lobate Patterns on Mars and Earth as Climate Modulated Fluid-like Instabilities
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
The University of Rochester is a highly ranked research university, and the Rochester area's low cost of living and cultural, educational, and recreational assets frequently place it among the best places to live, work, and raise a family in the United States.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
We are especially interested in candidates who use these techniques to interrogate the (1) atmosphere, (2) cryosphere, (3) terrestrial carbon cycle, or (4) surface and interior properties associated with Earth and other planets
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
We seek applicants whose research lies in the general field of remote sensing, specifically those who apply novel and emerging techniques and/or develop new technologies using ground-based, airborne or satellite platforms to investigate Earth and planetary systems.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Come be my colleague at the University of Rochester! The Earth and Environmental Sciences Department is looking for a tenure-track faculty member in remote sensing, broadly defined. Formal review of applications will begin on November 1. Apply here: apply.interfolio.com/153727
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 21/03/2024
Congrats to Johanne Albrigtsen for her first-author paper (written as an undegrad!) at CU Boulder! We used stable isotopes to determine where water goes in gnammas, small bedrock depressions that could have a big impact on bare bedrock weathering. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Stable Isotopes Constrain Water Seepage From Gnammas Into Bare Granitic Bedrock
<em>Geophysical Research Letters</em> is an AGU journal publishing high-impact, innovative articles on major advances spanning all of the major geoscience disciplines.
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 29/01/2024
Check out the first paper 100% homegrown in the DRIP lab!! With postdoc David Cúñez and undergrad Div Patel, we discovered that shape really matters in granular segregation, with wide implications for industrial and geophysical flows www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Have you ever wondered how mountain top removal mining affects landscape evolution? Check out this fascinating 2 paper series spearheaded by Charlie Shobe! It was fun to think about cohesion and other material properties in landscapes with PhD Student Nacere Mohamed Samassi.
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The uncertain future of mountaintop-removal-mined landscapes 1: How mining changes erosion processes...
Surface mining may be humanity's most tangible impact on Earth's surface and will become more prevalent as the energy transition progresses. Predictio…
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Rachel Glade @rachelglade.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Love this recent article about having a meaningful career in science! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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