Tag Archives: urban hydrology

Announcing STORMS

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Anne Jefferson

I’m pleased to announce that I’m leading a new multi-institution NSF-funded project investigating how stormwater decision making translates to environmental outcomes at the watershed scale. I’m collaborating with Aditi Bhaskar (Colorado State University), Kelly Turner (UCLA), and Dave Costello (Kent … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, environment, hydrology, public science, society

Hurricane Harvey and the Houston Flood: Did Humans Make it Worse? (Part 2: Urbanization)

Posted on September 7, 2017 by Anne Jefferson

There’s been a lot of speculation and discussion about the role of urbanization in contributing to the flooding from Hurricane Harvey in Houston. Fortunately, urban hydrology is my specialty, so even though I’ve never been to Houston, I feel like … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, geohazards, hydrology, society

Where is Anne at AGU?

Posted on December 12, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

I’ve abandoned my family for the week and flown to San Francisco to join ~26,000 geoscientists at this year’s American Geophysical Union meeting. It’s a big, spectacular, and exciting meeting, and I might have gotten a little too excited about … Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, conferences

Stormwater management is all around you. Can you #SpotTheSCM?

Posted on October 26, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

On Thursday of @highlyanne’s week @realscientists, she was putting finishing touches on a research proposal to do new, cool science on stormwater managment. She also wanted to get people to realize that stormwater managment is already happening in their neighborhoods, so #SpotTheSCM was born. Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology, public science

What is stormwater? And how did we get to where we are today?

Posted on October 24, 2016 by Anne Jefferson

For a week in October 2016, I had over 38,000 twitter followers as I took a turn hosting the @realscientists account. Of course, I spent a bunch of my time preaching the gospel of stormwater management. Here are tweets over two days synopsizing its history in 140 character bites. Continue reading →

Categories: by Anne, hydrology