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#Hydrogeologist, husband, #groundwater, #watershed recovery, solving problems of wells & wellfields, water for the people, other stuff. Youngstown, Ohio USA area Mahoning HUC 05030103 home but toe in Tanzania groundwaterscience.com groundwatertanzania.com
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Our Executive Manager Ian Davey is retiring after 8 years with IAH. We're very sad to see him leave but this also means that we are now hiring. You can find out more about the role and how to apply at iah.org/news/were-hi.... Please note that the deadline to apply is 15th November 2025.
November 7, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Our Executive Manager Ian Davey is retiring after 8 years with IAH. We're very sad to see him leave but this also means that we are now hiring. You can find out more about the role and how to apply at iah.org/news/were-hi.... Please note that the deadline to apply is 15th November 2025.
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Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...
Well Into the Future
A Nevada program addressed overallocation of groundwater by paying farmers to use less. Is it working?
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November 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Do groundwater rights retirement programs work? There is certainly demand for them in Nevada. For KNPR and the Daily Yonder, I talked to irrigators about their experiences with a pilot program in areas where aquifers are being depleted faster than they are replenished. knpr.org/desert-compa...
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🌟 Editor's Pick! 🌟
“A new study explores the deep, multi-faceted concerns of small- and mid-scale farmers about the direction of farming and food systems in the United States.”
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#AGUPubs #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryScience @Eos.org
“A new study explores the deep, multi-faceted concerns of small- and mid-scale farmers about the direction of farming and food systems in the United States.”
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#AGUPubs #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryScience @Eos.org
Voicing Farmers’ Concerns on the Future of Agriculture - Eos
A new study explores the deep, multi-faceted concerns of small- and mid-scale farmers about the direction of farming and food systems in the United States.
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November 7, 2025 at 6:02 PM
🌟 Editor's Pick! 🌟
“A new study explores the deep, multi-faceted concerns of small- and mid-scale farmers about the direction of farming and food systems in the United States.”
🔗 eos.org/editor-highl...
#AGUPubs #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryScience @Eos.org
“A new study explores the deep, multi-faceted concerns of small- and mid-scale farmers about the direction of farming and food systems in the United States.”
🔗 eos.org/editor-highl...
#AGUPubs #CommunityScience #ParticipatoryScience @Eos.org
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More reason not to trust those "resources" - how ever did we think and do research without?
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 29, 2025 at 11:47 PM
More reason not to trust those "resources" - how ever did we think and do research without?
This is sad, really. Up to about 2022, Twitter was pretty useful in this way & yet with Bluesky.social you have to wade through everyone's (often justifiable) angst-filled threads to find tidbits
October 29, 2025 at 6:18 PM
This is sad, really. Up to about 2022, Twitter was pretty useful in this way & yet with Bluesky.social you have to wade through everyone's (often justifiable) angst-filled threads to find tidbits
Pick a relief provider depending on how you judge that, but pick some way to help .... #Jamaica
#HurricaneMelissa made a devastating #Category5 landfall in #Jamaica. It then progressed into #Cuba and is now heading toward the #Bahamas.
#Relief organizations are mobilizing, but the sheer scale of this destruction demands immediate funding: https://bit.ly/4oc22w0
#Relief organizations are mobilizing, but the sheer scale of this destruction demands immediate funding: https://bit.ly/4oc22w0
October 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Pick a relief provider depending on how you judge that, but pick some way to help .... #Jamaica
Captain Obvious: #ClimateChange is sickening and killing people
🌎 Professor Stella Hartinger delivers a clear message on the latest findings from the 2025 Global Report of the Lancet Countdown.
👉 Read the 2025 Global Report now: buff.ly/97Gf3Eu
#LancetClimate25
👉 Read the 2025 Global Report now: buff.ly/97Gf3Eu
#LancetClimate25
October 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Captain Obvious: #ClimateChange is sickening and killing people
Wow #Melissa - 0.6 to >1.0 m rainfall events on mountainous #Jamaica & #Hispaniola (and Haiti denuded of watershed holding vegetation & civil aid)
#melissa will produce widespread 2-3 feet (with 36”+ in higher elevations) of rain as it rapidly intensifies to a major #hurricane, but moves slowly, and then collides with the mountains of #jamaica.
Staying out of valleys, flood plains, and hillsides prone to mudslides will be key!
Staying out of valleys, flood plains, and hillsides prone to mudslides will be key!
October 25, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Wow #Melissa - 0.6 to >1.0 m rainfall events on mountainous #Jamaica & #Hispaniola (and Haiti denuded of watershed holding vegetation & civil aid)
Can you not relate? Actually, my #Wittenberg Uni #Ohio undergrad 50 y.a. promoted #science in culture, undergrad research, writing + a farm & mechanic youth - all pretty useful for rolling with it. Multi-topic MS ( #OhioState #ecology #hydrogeology, #microbiology) supported a useful life
New post: All The Things I Was Never Trained To Do. Which turns out to be a sneakily disguised meditation on what university education is for, and thus what university is, and what it isn't - despite the persistence of idiots who don't understand that!
All the things I was never trained to do
I’m reminded just about every day that the disconnect between my education, and the career I built from it, is enormous. Or at least, it seems so. I had a pretty unremarkable educational sequence f…
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October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Can you not relate? Actually, my #Wittenberg Uni #Ohio undergrad 50 y.a. promoted #science in culture, undergrad research, writing + a farm & mechanic youth - all pretty useful for rolling with it. Multi-topic MS ( #OhioState #ecology #hydrogeology, #microbiology) supported a useful life
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Renewable energy auctions are evolving! A new TNC Europe paper shows how adding biodiversity and social criteria can boost climate, nature and community wins, just as the EU rolls out its Net-Zero Industry Act and Citizens Energy Package. A better energy future starts here. nature.ly/43zzHXZ
October 22, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Renewable energy auctions are evolving! A new TNC Europe paper shows how adding biodiversity and social criteria can boost climate, nature and community wins, just as the EU rolls out its Net-Zero Industry Act and Citizens Energy Package. A better energy future starts here. nature.ly/43zzHXZ
Very dry late summers after very wet spring is becoming a feature not anomaly in #Ohio for example, impacting pasture, gardening (gardeners know this) & apparently capacity to absorb runoff as precip resumes. Amping up #watershed #greeninfrastructure seems more necessary than ever
The second points out a trend in dry late-summer soils in a climate of increasing large rainfall events.
To me, this might signal climate change as starting to negatively impact/overcome the 500-year upward wetting trend
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
To me, this might signal climate change as starting to negatively impact/overcome the 500-year upward wetting trend
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Increasing Large Precipitation Events and Low Available Water Holding Capacity Create the Conditions for Dry Land‐Atmosphere Feedbacks in the Northeastern United States
Land-atmosphere coupling at Harvard Forest is principally controlled by the low amount of precipitation retained as soil moisture rather than evapotranspiration
More extreme rainfall resulted in ...
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October 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Very dry late summers after very wet spring is becoming a feature not anomaly in #Ohio for example, impacting pasture, gardening (gardeners know this) & apparently capacity to absorb runoff as precip resumes. Amping up #watershed #greeninfrastructure seems more necessary than ever
Interesting - It's sad to see our urban areas, even with relatively high #watershed indicator values: Iin #Ohio, the Cuyahoga, Mahoning (where we are), and the Miami watersheds w/ major parkland areas. Quality of woodlands matter (see adjacent hi diversity areas)
Using automated acoustic monitoring, citizen science, and centuries of ornithological research and understanding to quantify ecological integrity at scale.
The BirdsPlus Index, a novel method for assessing site-level conservation values.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
The BirdsPlus Index, a novel method for assessing site-level conservation values.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Interesting - It's sad to see our urban areas, even with relatively high #watershed indicator values: Iin #Ohio, the Cuyahoga, Mahoning (where we are), and the Miami watersheds w/ major parkland areas. Quality of woodlands matter (see adjacent hi diversity areas)
🌱A new study published in the ACS Environmental Science & Technology found that yellow flag iris, a wetland plant, can remove #PFAS from water. These plants could be used in constructed #wetlands to treat PFAS contaminated #wastewater.
📄Read the article: www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/wetl...
📄Read the article: www.technologynetworks.com/tn/news/wetl...
Wetland Plant-Fungus Combo Cleans Up “Forever Chemicals”
Discover how yellow flag irises and the fungi that grows on their roots could help to remove PFAS from wetlands and in wastewater treatment.
www.technologynetworks.com
October 25, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Meanwhile, outstanding in our field conducting post-rehabilitation testing of a municipal water well to document results (good!) on a gray day (surprisingly rare this fall) in Ohio. #Hydrogeology
October 18, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Meanwhile, outstanding in our field conducting post-rehabilitation testing of a municipal water well to document results (good!) on a gray day (surprisingly rare this fall) in Ohio. #Hydrogeology
Trying to not be a Luddite, but all this AI (can't you write a paper yourself?) has significant #environmental impacts, beside power, also water. #Ohio still acts like it has endless water, but happy to do the #hydrogeology to add to developed capacity, but the aquatic life need water too
Center for Water Policy Director Melissa Scanlan was featured in a recent @npr.org article examining the rapid expansion of #datacenters across the United States and the accompanying environmental challenges.
Read it here!
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
Read it here!
www.npr.org/2025/10/14/n...
Data centers are booming. But there are big energy and environmental risks
How tech companies and government officials handle local impacts will shape the industry's future in the U.S.
www.npr.org
October 18, 2025 at 3:00 AM
Trying to not be a Luddite, but all this AI (can't you write a paper yourself?) has significant #environmental impacts, beside power, also water. #Ohio still acts like it has endless water, but happy to do the #hydrogeology to add to developed capacity, but the aquatic life need water too
Not an original thought I think, but the #NoKings movement in the USA has an original banner - best flown by those who haven't flown traitor rags or play puusyfoot w/ fascists and we have a radical manifesto: search Declaration of Independence
October 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Not an original thought I think, but the #NoKings movement in the USA has an original banner - best flown by those who haven't flown traitor rags or play puusyfoot w/ fascists and we have a radical manifesto: search Declaration of Independence
FInd one near you if you can get out there - good comments by the Gipper in his final speech as president
October 18, 2025 at 2:37 AM
FInd one near you if you can get out there - good comments by the Gipper in his final speech as president
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Amid the chaos, dysfunction & cruelty, work to improve people's lives continues: Ground Water Tanzania drilled productive boreholes & constructed the water systems in Chemba District, #Dodoma, #Tanzania #SDG6 #WaterSupply
August 31, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Amid the chaos, dysfunction & cruelty, work to improve people's lives continues: Ground Water Tanzania drilled productive boreholes & constructed the water systems in Chemba District, #Dodoma, #Tanzania #SDG6 #WaterSupply
Just a drilling rig in a nice, shady, level place drilling a water borehole somewhere in central Dodoma, Tanzania - casing, screen and filter pack in view - Ground Water Tanzania
August 16, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Just a drilling rig in a nice, shady, level place drilling a water borehole somewhere in central Dodoma, Tanzania - casing, screen and filter pack in view - Ground Water Tanzania
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Right now's really not the time to stop funding climate research and data collection. The climate crisis is a horror show at this point.
This isn’t good. Rapid intensification is becoming a norm.
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Erin is only the 5th Category 5 hurricane on record to form this early in the hurricane season and the only Category 5 observed outside the Gulf or Caribbean this early in the year.
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Erin is only the 5th Category 5 hurricane on record to form this early in the hurricane season and the only Category 5 observed outside the Gulf or Caribbean this early in the year.
August 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Right now's really not the time to stop funding climate research and data collection. The climate crisis is a horror show at this point.
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2️⃣ AGU is alarmed by the EPA’s plan to repeal its endangerment finding. This move ignores science & risks our health.
Learn more: buff.ly/atecxlv
#ScienceMatters #ClimateAction
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Repealing EPA’s Endangerment Finding Threatens Decades of Climate Progress - From The Prow
We are deeply alarmed by the Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to reverse its longstanding endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. This..
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August 15, 2025 at 7:44 PM
2️⃣ AGU is alarmed by the EPA’s plan to repeal its endangerment finding. This move ignores science & risks our health.
Learn more: buff.ly/atecxlv
#ScienceMatters #ClimateAction
Learn more: buff.ly/atecxlv
#ScienceMatters #ClimateAction