April 17 is the next event in the Women Advancing River Research seminar series.
J. (Joyeeta) Gupta and Marguerite A. Xenopoulos will present "(Reverse) Water System Justice"
Watch videos of previous presentations and register to attend here: https://bit.ly/WARR_2024
A great read with your morning coffee.
The authors of this paper are "proposing a consistent definition for headwater systems and streams, evaluating how headwater streamflow is characterized and advocating for closing gaps in headwater streamflow data collection, modelling and synthesis."
Read it here: https://bit.ly/425guNB
(Nature Water paywall)
A great #CriticalZone-related #EGU25 session to add to your @EuroGeosciences progamme schedule.
More details here: https://bit.ly/EGU25_SPM88
Understanding drought and stress on water management systems means understanding details like vapor pressure deficit.
Those details can be difficult to measure but this 2025 paper co-authored by Cluster members offers some solutions using Daymet.
"The CONUS+ VPD datasets will aid in investigating disturbances including drought and wildfire, and informing land management strategies."
Read more here: https://bit.ly/4cmuW7k
Published in April 2025: "Controls From Above and Below: Snow, Soil, and Steepness Drive Diverging Trends of Subsurface Water and Streamflow Dynamics" includes several Big Data Cluster members as co-authors.
Bonus: also includes data from the Sleepers River Watershed in #Vermont, our 'home' watershed.
Submit your next abstract for this #CriticalZone science conference happening in #Paris this fall.
Advancing Critical Zone science is the 3rd OZCAR TERENO International Conference happening Monday 29 September to Thursday 02 October 2025
choose a place choose a year get a summary
Here's a link to the USGS Water Year Summary Reports
"Reviews and syntheses: Variable inundation across Earth's terrestrial ecosystems" explores big ideas across the vast landscapes of Earth's #CriticalZone.
A great read for a Monday afternoon.
Today you may be wondering if streamflow regulate water chemistry in intermittent streams. If you are, then this preprint with co-authors including Big Data Cluster members Erin Seybold and Li Li is just what you're looking for.
Read "Does streamflow regulate water chemistry in intermittent streams?": https://bit.ly/4jdodPr
University of #Vermont-based Cluster member Kristen Underwood is among the co-authors of this March 2025 paper published in the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.
Read "Leveraging High-Frequency Sensor Data and U.S. National Water Model Output to Forecast Turbidity in a Drinking Water Supply Basin" via the link below.
If you're thinking about solute export patterns across the contiguous USA, well that's a coincidence. Because here's a link to a paper with the title "Solute export patterns across the contiguous USA".
"We illustrate how our inductive approach generated new hypotheses that can be tested at discrete, representative catchments using deductive approaches to better understand the processes underlying solute export patterns."
As you roll into your afternoon why not take a break to read "The Essential Role of Local Context in Shaping Risk and Risk Reduction Strategies for Snowmelt-Dependent Irrigated Agriculture" co-authored by Desert Research Institute-based Cluster member Gabrielle Boisrame.
Talking wildfires and ecosystem resilience with Desert Research Institute-based Cluster member Gabrielle Boisrame.
: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXLOoflq16M
Papers mentioned in this video:
Tracking Vegetation Recovery Following Mixed Severity Wildfires in the Sierra Nevada: https://bit.ly/40k2yx1
Trends in western USA fire fuels using historical data and modeling: https://bit.ly/3PLMdw9
Scientists' warning on extreme wildfire risks to water supply: https://bit.ly/4bNffpb
Cluster collaborator Jamie Shanley is one of the co-authors on this 2007 paper "Who needs environmental monitoring?"
New video coming soon!
"Navigating smooth and choppy waters: collaboration stories and strategies" was the March 20 event in the Women Advancing Water Research webinar series. The recording will be added to the site soon.
Meanwhile add April 17th's
"(Reverse) Water System Justice" to your calendar for next month.
"Degrading water quality is one of the most urgent issues for human society in the 21st century."
Brigham Young-based Cluster member Ben Abbot is one of the co-authors on this article exploring how researchers make the most out of each sample they collect.
Read "Spatial Persistence of Water Chemistry Patterns Across Flow Conditions in a Mesoscale Agricultural Catchment" via the link below.
Start your day browsing the shelves of our publications library:
What feeds wildfire, how landscapes respond to wildfire, and thoughts on how the media approaches reporting about wildfire in this Cluster Chat with Desert Research Institute-based Cluster Member Gabrielle Boisrame.
A great listen with your first cup of coffee this morning.
Cluster Scientist Spotlight!
Jeff Munroe, PhD, Professor, Geology, Middlebury College
What do you study for DUST^2?
"I study how dust deposition over long time periods impacts the development of mountain soils."
Read some of Jeff's work here: https://bit.ly/3YjSIKT
More Scientist Spotlights: https://bit.ly/4huMS0U
"How a network of relationships are allowing us to survive"
This is a 25-minute talk by historian Dipesh Chakrabarty in which he explains why technology today needs to be thought of in terms of survival and participation (in effect, he is talking about convivial technology), and why living well with technology on Earth must first and foremost involve protecting the critical zone (from soil to air) that makes life (human and otherwise), and thus all technology, possible. In the face of a crisis of civilisation, Chakrabarty argues that it is important to rethink technologies by understanding the impact of the general on the local.
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