Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 24/08/2025👏 👋 to @nicolegasparini.bsky.social - well worth a follow 010
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 23/08/2025I’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 · 23/08/2025This looks super interesting. Esp for folk at the intersection of science/humanities and water. 160
Reposted by Tom CoulthardAida Alvera-Azcárate @aida-alvera.bsky.social · 21/08/2025A 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 44012
Reposted by Tom CoulthardStephen 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 · 18/08/2025Views from the new office @manmetuni.bsky.social 090
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 15/08/2025Sad news - and a lovely tribute. ges.uncg.edu/in-memoriam-...ges.uncg.eduIn Memoriam: Dr. Sarah Praskievicz | Geography, Environment, & Sustainability DepartmentIt 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 CoulthardCatchmentSci @catchmentsci.bsky.social · 14/08/2025I’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.orgUnsupervised image velocimetry for automated computation of river flow velocitiesAbstract. 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 · 12/08/2025First day in the new office 😀 @manmetuni.bsky.social 3210
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 09/08/2025Treviso… stayed there for a couple of nights before. Lovely old city - overshadowed by Venice but great in its own right… 110
Reposted by Tom CoulthardDr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2025First 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 · 06/08/2025I liked this from Chris @floodskinner.games (who for some reason never comes up on my Bs feed..) youtu.be/o79Ba8vqtY4?...youtu.beTerra Firma - A Game of GeomorphologyYouTube video by FloodSkinner 151
Reposted by Tom CoulthardNews Eye @newseye.bsky.social · 04/08/2025This 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.comHundreds evacuated after series of rockfalls in Italy’s Brenta DolomitesExperts say thawing of permafrost due to climate breakdown is causing increase in rock collapses across Alps 052
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 24/07/2025Incredible 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 CoulthardLuke Zoet @lzoet.bsky.social · 24/07/2025New 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.comModeling the Influence of Grounded Landfast Ice on Nearshore Sediment TransportXBeach 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 CoulthardAlan Puttock @alanputtock.bsky.social · 22/07/2025New 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.ukQuantifying NFM through peatland re | University of ExeterThe 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 · 21/07/2025Demand 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 CoulthardDr Joanne Williams @jowilliams.bsky.social · 21/07/2025Here'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! 281
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 21/07/2025I’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 · 21/07/2025Interesting 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 · 21/07/2025So 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 · 20/07/2025www.which.co.uk/news/article...which.co.ukNew 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
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025I 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 · 18/07/2025Interesting 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 · 18/07/2025Indeed - 3 miles on the bus… rather than 110 on the motorway… 110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 18/07/2025Big news for the UK water industry - Cunliffe review to recommend OFWAT is abolished www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comOfwat to be abolished as ministers explore creating new water regulatorExclusive: 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 desertsNational 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 · 14/07/2025Source www.facebook.com/share/p/1Awv...facebook.comRedirecting... 000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 14/07/2025Interesting 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 · 13/07/2025Pleased to say there wasn’t an incident.. 🐈⬛ 💦 040
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 13/07/2025Interesting 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.comFEMA removed dozens of Camp Mystic buildings from 100-year flood map before expansion, records showFederal 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 · 08/07/2025LinkedIn =media.tenor.coma blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says 5ALT: a blue dumpster is floating in a flooded area near a sign that says 5 110
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 05/07/2025Evans 9th Birthday cake 😀 pleased with this one! 290
Reposted by Tom CoulthardDaniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 05/07/2025There 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 · 02/07/2025This 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 · 01/07/2025Yes. Richard Scarry book would be perfect! Levels of Emperors new clothesism are unbelievable at the moment… 000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 30/06/2025IIRC scratch has the option to see the same instructions in python. 000
Tom Coulthard @tomcoulthard.bsky.social · 26/06/2025Here @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 · 24/06/2025Great to spend the day catching up with long time collaborator and friend Greg Hancock - over from Oz for a couple of weeks. 140