Sign in

Tom Coulthard

@tomcoulthard.bsky.social
995 followers 524 following 223 posts

Geomorphology - Modelling - non linear earth surface systems. Prof at Manchester Met, creator/curator of CAESAR-lisflood LEM, editor at Earth Surface Dynamics. Occasionally some 🛹 & 🧗‍♀️ content 😀

PostsRepliesMedia
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
No. Eat eat eat!
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
👏 👋 to @nicolegasparini.bsky.social - well worth a follow
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
I’ve stopped making a to-do list. But - have started keeping a ‘have done’ list that I complete at the end of every day. Typically a far more positive exercise…
120
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
This looks super interesting. Esp for folk at the intersection of science/humanities and water.
160
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Aida Alvera-Azcárate @aida-alvera.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
A wave train entering into the North Sea, seen by #Sentinel1 on 12 August. I am guessing it's tidal-related, but I have never seen this kind of signal in this region in SAR data before, pretty cool 😎 @jowilliams.bsky.social
A satellite image of the southern North Sea, showing land in white and the sea in shades of grey. A semicircular pattern between UK and France can be seen in the English Channel. White dots in the sea are windmills and ships.
44012
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Stephen Rice @sterice.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
👀 There have been some exciting arrivals since I joined MMU Dept Natural Sciences: flume for the BiG Lab, LaVision PIV, Dr Lizzie Dingle and her very cool experiments, some feisty crayfish 🦞, & now, Prof. @tomcoulthard.bsky.social 🥳. Chuffed to bits that Tom is now a colleague. Exciting times ahead!
071
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Views from the new office @manmetuni.bsky.social
090
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Sad news - and a lovely tribute. ges.uncg.edu/in-memoriam-...
ges.uncg.edu
In Memoriam: Dr. Sarah Praskievicz | Geography, Environment, & Sustainability Department
It is with deep sadness we share that Dr. Sarah Praskievicz, an associate professor in UNC Greensboro's Department of Geography, Environment, and Sustainability (GES), died on Aug. 11, 2025, at her ho...
041
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
CatchmentSci @catchmentsci.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
I’m delighted to share that our latest research has just been published in HESS. We developed an unsupervised workflow to estimate river surface velocities from videos. Testing on 11,000+ videos against 274 gauging measurements showed excellent agreement. hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...
hess.copernicus.org
Unsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocities
Abstract. Accurate, long-term measurements of river flow are imperative for understanding and predicting a broad range of fluvial processes. Modern technological advances are enabling the development ...
1145
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
First day in the new office 😀 @manmetuni.bsky.social
3210
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Treviso… stayed there for a couple of nights before. Lovely old city - overshadowed by Venice but great in its own right…
110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Copenhagen.. mermaid…
110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Annecy?
110
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
First cloud-free optical satellite imagery from @planet.com show the destruction of Dharali village in Uttarkashi, Uttarakhand, India. Unfortunately the source area in the mountains is still obscured by cloud and so the ultimate cause is still speculative. 🧪⚒️
12411
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
I liked this from Chris @floodskinner.games (who for some reason never comes up on my Bs feed..) youtu.be/o79Ba8vqtY4?...
youtu.be
Terra Firma - A Game of Geomorphology
YouTube video by FloodSkinner
151
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
Darla.
020
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
News Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza
17046903341
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
“the entire summit is affected by an ongoing geomorphological process, likely linked to permafrost degradation” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
theguardian.com
Hundreds evacuated after series of rockfalls in Italy’s Brenta Dolomites
Experts say thawing of permafrost due to climate breakdown is causing increase in rock collapses across Alps
052
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Incredible story. Hg production fell to zero in 2020 but now rising (illegally it seems) to propel gold extraction in the Amazon financed and facilitated by Mexicos drug cartels… Horribly toxic - I thought mercury use had been nearly eliminated.
032
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Luke Zoet @lzoet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
New paper by Chelsea Volpano where she characterizes the role of landfast ice on coastal sediment transport. interesting nonmonotonic response in sediment transport with the termination depth, explaining much of the erosive vs protective debate of ice agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Modeling the Influence of Grounded Landfast Ice on Nearshore Sediment Transport
XBeach was used to quantify sediment transport due to grounded landfast ice Conditions were identified where sediment transport was both amplified and reduced by ice Scour of the nearshore persi...
043
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Alan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
New PhD funding opportunity: Quantifying natural flood management through peatland restoration in the upland moorland environment (Physical Geography @exeter.ac.uk ) @dpanici.bsky.social @philipimetcalfe.bsky.social @uoe-creww.bsky.social www.exeter.ac.uk/study/fundin...
exeter.ac.uk
Quantifying NFM through peatland re | University of Exeter
The University’s Department of Geography invites applications for a PhD studentship funded by the Environment Agency and South West Water and the University of Exeter to commence as soon as possible t...
1912
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Demand management now prevents any endless recycling of crap proposals - and NERC won’t allow any props to be fed into AI - which is why they switch off auto translate on meeting recording…
010
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Dr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Here's a fun anomaly for an inland flood risk map. It's genuinely very helpful in places: check-long-term-flood-risk.service.gov.uk/map But it's based on scans of the ground, & the processing gets confused sometimes. I think the 4-storey pitched roof of this hospital is probably safe from flooding!
Part of the "check long term flood risk" service map, with settings at future, and 20cm depth, showing blue on a large area in a grid shape.satellite view of the same building from google maps. Some of the roof is flat but the shadows indicate it is mostly pitched.
281
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
I’m fairly sure the report remit was for E&W - as env regulation is fairly heavily devolved? There’s certainly a large section on Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 at the beginning…
000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Interesting revert to 8 regions for water management. Which is imho probably sensible - but was this what the NRA did prior to privatisation? Though NRA (National Rivers Authority) was more wq and flood focussed. Clearly Wq had come up the agenda. #flooding #cunliffe
210
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
So the Cunliffe report is out today. Couple of first takes: 1. It seems comprehensive - lots of concise detail but 2. Nothing about flooding (that I can see) which in most urban areas is intrinsically linked to sewage systems and water utilities. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/687d5c...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
111
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 20/07/2025
www.which.co.uk/news/article...
which.co.uk
New electric car grant: everything you need to know - Which?
UK buyers of new EVs could get a discount of up to £3,750. We explain what to look for, and why now might not be a good time to buy
100
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Rae Radford @raeradford.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
#BookSky
535390917773
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
I see NERC is reverting to a policy from 15(??) or more years ago on resubmissions. I suspect it will be counter productive to NERC workload - as checking for this will not be easy, and building on this - it looks quite easy to game/work around. So - I’m left with why bother (with the new policy!)
120
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Interesting Matt. I used AI to help me write code to pull data from the hydrology explorer API. It worked really well - though you have to be quite sequential and careful. It was completely stumped by met office API’s though..
120
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
And thanks 👊
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Indeed - 3 miles on the bus… rather than 110 on the motorway…
110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
And retirement option for former managers…
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Big news for the UK water industry - Cunliffe review to recommend OFWAT is abolished www.theguardian.com/business/202...
theguardian.com
Ofwat to be abolished as ministers explore creating new water regulator
Exclusive: Watchdog has faced intense criticism over sewage spills, shareholder payouts and ballooning debts
110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
“Good geology hides alot of problems” www.theguardian.com/environment/...
theguardian.com
‘The place is bleached, a dead zone’: how the UK’s most beloved landscapes became biodiversity deserts
National parks, famous for their rich natural heritage, should be at the heart of efforts to protect habitats and wildlife. Instead, experts say they are declining – fast
020
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Source www.facebook.com/share/p/1Awv...
facebook.com
Redirecting...
000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Interesting pic of Woodhead Reservoir (A628 Woodhead pass from Manc on left) showing a mix of former valley floor, sedimentation, re-working and mixing of what looks like AMD red from the left and clearer water from the top.
141
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Pleased to say there wasn’t an incident.. 🐈‍⬛ 💦
040
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
Interesting article that examines the inclusion or exclusion of properties from flood zones - in an unfortunately tragic context. Props to Mark Fonstad for the link. www.yahoo.com/news/fema-re...
yahoo.com
FEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records show
Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the y...
020
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
LinkedIn =
media.tenor.com
a blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says 5
ALT: a blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says 5
110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
And how it ended…
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
Evans 9th Birthday cake 😀 pleased with this one!
290
Reposted by Tom Coulthard
Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025
There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.
572064859
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
This happens fairly frequently (increasingly so) - as in it’s not especially unusual. One of the drawbacks of a reactor using river water for cooling.
010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Yes. Richard Scarry book would be perfect! Levels of Emperors new clothesism are unbelievable at the moment…
000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
IIRC scratch has the option to see the same instructions in python.
000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Fantastic visualisation 👏👏
062
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Here @itvnews.bsky.social repost a report of the 1990 Towyn floods. Interesting to see this now. www.itv.com/watch/news/i...
itv.com
030
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
Great to spend the day catching up with long time collaborator and friend Greg Hancock - over from Oz for a couple of weeks.
140