A phenomenal visualization of atmospheric water
The atmosphere in 2016; visualised using precipitable water. Featuring hurricanes, monsoons, tropical convection and much more. pic.twitter.com/sO8MiGJ8s6 — James Warner (@MetmanJames) January 1, 2017
Stormwater management is all around you. Can you #SpotTheSCM?
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.
What is stormwater? And how did we get to where we are today?
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.
The 2016 Kent State Water and Land Symposium
This year’s symposium occurred on October 5-6, 2016, and featured the theme of “Sustainability and Resilience on the Land-Water Continuum.”
Southern Minnesota is geomorphologically exciting: Glacial outburst floods, knickpoint retreat, and terraces galore!
Today in my flvuial processes class, we’re going to discuss a great paper by Gran et al. on “Landscape evolution, valley excavation, and terrace development following abrupt postglacial baselevel fall.” The paper is set in a landscape I know well – southern Minnesota’s Minnesota River Basin. For my students in …
Congratulations to Dr. Colin Bell
Congratulations to long-time collaborator and newly minted Ph.D., Dr. Colin D. Bell. Colin has been working on monitoring and modeling the downstream effects of stormwater ponds and wetlands in Charlotte, NC since he started graduate school there in 2011. Five years later, he’s defended his Ph.D. on June 30, 2016 …
Water Management Association of Ohio conference abstract: A Neighborhood-Scale Green Infrastructure Retrofit
I was asked to submit an abstract for the Water Management Association of Ohio conference in November. I’m going to try to sum up 4 years worth of work on the green infrastructure retrofit we’ve been studying in Parma, and I’m looking forward to learning about from the other presenters …
Evaluating bioretention cell and green roof performance in northeastern Ohio
Graduate student Laura Sugano will be representing the Watershed Hydrology lab at this year’s Geological Society of America conference in September. Even though this summer has been very dry, Laura has lots of great data to share with conference goers. Update: Laura will be giving a talk in the Urban …
Surface runoff from a closed landfill and the effects on wetland suspended sediment and water quality
Watershed Hydrology lab undergraduate Cody Unferdorfer will be representing the lab at this year’s Geological Society of America meeting in Denver in September. The work that he will be presenting will build on preliminary work that won the Kent State University Undergraduate Research Symposium Geology/Geography division in April, and Cody …
I did an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on Reddit and it went great!
Back in mid-April, I was invited to do an AGU-facilitated Ask Me Anything on r/AskScienceDiscussion/ along with Dr. Kim Cobb. Here’s how we introduced ourselves: AGU AMA: I’m Dr. Kim Cobb, and I’m here to talk about the science of climate change, El Niño, and the reconstruction of past climate. …