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Rodolfo Nobrega

@rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
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A tupiniquim eco/hydrologist.

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IPBES @ipbes.net · 22/06/2026
🚜 Up to 3.13% ($3.3 Trillion for 2023) is spent on global direct subsidies most responsible for nature’s decline. 🛡️ Only ~0.14% ($135-156 Billion) per year is actually spent on biodiversity conservation. Let’s shift the money away from destruction and into restoration.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Beans growing in a tropical dry forest.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Invigorating.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
So far this week: dendrometer, wood (stem) moisture sensor, and sap flow sensor, all surrounded with radiometers (4 components) above and below this tree, all this in 4 dominant trees. #UFRB #INSA #UFCG
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Tree crown level radiometers installation this week in Brazil 👌🏽
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Here is a new short and didactic video within the scope of our ESRC/UKRI 3R project: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeX9.... Great contributions from @infracursions.bsky.social led by @amypenfield.bsky.social, narration by @pedrosrlima.bsky.social. PT version at www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXp... #watercycle
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Ranching, Resources and Resilience: Uncovering the Impact of Land Grabbing in the Amazon
YouTube video by Rodolfo Nóbrega
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fieldwork in a rural area in Brazil this month, where we are instrumenting water monitoring systems with local residents to understand the impacts of drought on community water supply and crop production.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Fresh dendrometer in a couple of Commiphora leptophloeos (locally known by the Indigenous name 'Umburana de Cambão'). Next month we will be installing below/above canopy radiometers and sap flow sensors.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Decolonising hydrology: Reflecting on positionalities for sustainable and just futures
Colonialism continues to have an enduring impact on hydrological research, practice, and education. This paper examines the colonial legacy in hydrolo…
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Cats and I on a empty campus day due to Carnival. #notAI
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Marco Raczka @mfraczka.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Research Associate/Fellow in Amazon Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) www.simplyhired.co.uk/job/yu073BU3...
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Research Associate/Fellow in Amazon Palaeoecology (Fixed Term) - University of Nottingham | Nottingham
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Verfassungsblog @verfassungsblog.de · 10/02/2026
North-South research collaborations often reproduce structural inequities, privileging Northern research frameworks. ISABELLA ABODERIN shows that only reflexive, deliberately designed partnerships can transform research, rebalancing knowledge and power globally. verfassungsblog.de/reflex-and-t...
Quote from our newest blogpost by Isabella Aboderin:  “Multi-layered power imbalances continue to pervade and are reproduced through joint academic inquiry between actors in Africa and the global North.”
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
My current PC background is quite realistic and moves the entire time.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
A good day to visit a flux tower and a giant cactus tree :)
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’m happy to announce our @hsj-iahs.bsky.social special issue on “Progress in coupled land–atmosphere systems for hydro-meteorological processes” is now open to submissions: think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issu... #ICCLAS @iahs-aish.bsky.social
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Progress in coupled land–atmosphere systems for hydro-meteorological processes
Showcase your cutting-edge research into the links between hydrology and atmospheric sciences.
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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
#Cocreation in #Hydrology & #Water Resources Management at #EGU2026! Keynote: Seifu Tilahun (IWMI) Deadline: THIS THURSDAY Jan 15, 13h CET We need communities, Indigenous peoples, NGOs & practitioners to make knowledge that works. Part of #IAHS #HELPING decade. Submit: lnkd.in/eBPk8kz8
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Working with drylands and/or (semi-)arid catchments? Please consider our session on hydrological processes in dryland catchments www.egu26.eu/session/55943
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 29/12/2025
Luciano Moreira is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease, such as dengue, in Brazil. He’s part of Nature’s 10. 🧪
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This scientist is breeding billions of mosquitoes to fight disease in Brazil
Luciano Moreira is part of Nature’s 10, a list of people who shaped science in 2025.
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Ross Woods @rosswoodskiwi.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Bettina Schaefli and I warmly invite you to submit abstracts to a new EGU session HS2.2.5 New Developments in Hydrological Synthesis Abstract submission: www.egu26.eu/session/55911 1/6
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Session HS2.2.5
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
The second episode on the @egu.eu #Blog on our Working Group on co-creation: Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs... @natalieceperley.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
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Co-creating water knowledge (Part 2): Our achievements and ongoing activities of our working group
The story so far, and how it developed We left you in part 1 of our blog (Hydrological Sciences | Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group) tw...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Why should hydrologists pay attention to #co-creation? In this @hs.egu.eu #Blog, we tell the story of the #interdisciplinary @iahs-aish.bsky.social Working Group "Co-creating water knowledge", active since 2023. This is the first part, so stay tuned for the second one on Friday: bit.ly/443VXcV
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Co-creating water knowledge (Part 1): The history and future of an interdisciplinary working group
HELPING and the co-creation of a working group In 2023, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) , inaugurated a new Scientific Decade, called HELPING – IAHS Science for Solutions...
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions: Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management bit.ly/3WAB5pv Co-creation in Practice (Short Course) bit.ly/4oOgPg4 Join us, and consider submitting an abstract. For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC
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Session HS5.2.3
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
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Giulio Castelli @giuliocst.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US. Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation. doi.org/10.1080/0262... @hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India
Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India.  Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...
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LEMONTREE @lemontree-uofr.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social 🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!
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Artur Lourenço @arturlourenco.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios
We assembled a large global dataset by combining several previous compilations to test eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) hypotheses about how plants allocate carbon above- and below-ground (root: sho...
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...
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Parents in Academia
Raising a child in combination with a full-time career is no easy feat. That is true in general and maybe even more true in academia. Juggling the workload, conference attendance, or the potential …
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
Visit to surface water evaporation and sap flow monitoring systems in the Atlantic forest, Bahia, Brazil. #UFRB
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾
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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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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed …
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
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Artur Lourenço @arturlourenco.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Rainwater harvesting system in #INSA
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]". www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...
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Water Models as Geographical Chimera: Precipitation Interception Routines as an Example of 'Patchwork Empiricism' John T. Van Stan II Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland...
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Cabot Institute for the Environment @cabot-institute.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
💦💦💦💦
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KinarNicholas.bsky.social @kinarnicholas.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Hydrology Paper of the Day @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social on extending the MOD16 evapotranspiration algorithm for MODIS: an improvement of spatiotemporal resolutions via the ESTIMET algorithm; day and night ET over all sky conditions; a comparison with EC data over Brazil; and spatial comparisons.
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Dr. Natalie Claire Ceperley @natalieceperley.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Are you interested in #cocreationofwaterknowledge ? #CCWK this and other webinars are archived on our YouTube channel. www.youtube.com/channel/UClp...
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IAHS - Co-creating Water Knowledge
Official YouTube channel of the Working Group on Co-Creating Water Knowledge of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) The group will contribute to the goal by synthesizing the...
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
We are 'over the moon' 😂😂😂
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
In times of AI we show how some robust tweaks can greatly improve well established ET models. It was a pleasure to have Cinthia in Bristol and discuss every step of this research! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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ESTIMET: Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration algorithm for all sky conditions in tropical biomes
We developed an ET model, namely the Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration (ESTIMET), for local-to-regional ET monitor…
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Rodolfo Nobrega @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
Scratching the surface. #SDTFs www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Richard Nair @richardnair.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
check out our new review paper about how to put all the stuff below the leaves together to understand whole ecosystem phenology 🌿🌏🌳 doi.org/10.1111/1365...
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Below the leaves: Integrating above‐ and below‐ground phenology for earth‐system predictability
Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.
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