AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee
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New @agu.org technical committee to advance the science and applications of distributed sensing across all areas of earth science. Let's connect!
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https://connect.agu.org/hydrology/about/tc-committees/sensing
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Hello, Bluesky! We're not just new here, we're brand new! The AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee is a new initiative for sharing knowledge & resources across all experience levels and all AGU sections. 🧪⚒️
Let's connect and share!
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Let's connect and share!
Learn more: connect.agu.org/hydrology/ab...
What is the critical zone? How do you define the boundaries of the critical zone? The Critical Zone Network of Networks wants to hear from you! ⚒️
Critical Zone News (@cznews.bsky.social)
Members of the Critical Zone Network of Networks will be using this survey tool during #AGU25. See you in New Orleans next month!
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November 28, 2025 at 11:00 PM
What is the critical zone? How do you define the boundaries of the critical zone? The Critical Zone Network of Networks wants to hear from you! ⚒️
Are you heading into winter? Sure, those online videos of a crackling fire are popular, but this season, have you considered instead tuning into a livestream of a volcanic eruption? 🌋
[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
Live view from Halemaʻumaʻu crater from the southern rim of the caldera [V3cam]. This camera is a pan-tilt-zoom model and the view may change depending on ac...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Are you heading into winter? Sure, those online videos of a crackling fire are popular, but this season, have you considered instead tuning into a livestream of a volcanic eruption? 🌋
Deadline is coming up fast to apply to be a mentor or mentee in next round of the DisabledInSTEM mentorship program. Great opportunity to connect with and build community!
DisabledInSTEM (@disabledinstem.bsky.social)
It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years! Mentee form:…
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November 26, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Deadline is coming up fast to apply to be a mentor or mentee in next round of the DisabledInSTEM mentorship program. Great opportunity to connect with and build community!
Great example of the value of multi-method studies, in this case integrating drone-based imagery with seismic data. 🌋 🧪 ⚒️
EarthScope Consortium (@earthscope.org)
Comparing seismic data and drone imagery from the 2021 eruption at Geldingadalir in Iceland shows that ground tremor spikes track bursts of bubble-bursting and lava spatter, not the lake’s rising or…
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November 26, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Great example of the value of multi-method studies, in this case integrating drone-based imagery with seismic data. 🌋 🧪 ⚒️
Distributed sensing networks touch almost all parts of our lives -- including what gets served up on the dinner table.
Wisconet (@wisconet.bsky.social)
Did you know that Wisconsin produces 60% of the U.S. cranberry harvest? Did you further know that Wisconet supports the Wisconsin cranberry growers, with 5 weather stations installed at cranberry…
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November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Distributed sensing networks touch almost all parts of our lives -- including what gets served up on the dinner table.
Scientists are testing whether Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can be used to detect and monitor orca communications. DAS was previously successfully used to document the sounds of fin and blue whales, which communicate at lower frequencies than orcas.
apnews.com/article/orca...
#FiberFridays
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#FiberFridays
Scientists hope underwater fiber-optic cables can help save endangered orcas
Scientists from the University of Washington recently deployed a little over 1 mile of fiber-optic cable in the Salish Sea to test whether internet cables can monitor endangered orcas.
apnews.com
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Scientists are testing whether Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) can be used to detect and monitor orca communications. DAS was previously successfully used to document the sounds of fin and blue whales, which communicate at lower frequencies than orcas.
apnews.com/article/orca...
#FiberFridays
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#FiberFridays
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🗓️ Save the Date! How can AGU members collaborate on and share standards and practices across Sections? Join us at #AGU25 Science Exchange SE23B, to discuss and plan!
When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Advancing community collaboration across AGU Sections to support the advancement of distributed sensing instrument, data, and software standards and practices in the Earth and Space Sciences
How can AGU facilitate collaborations across Sections to help you get the data you need? Collecting data with sensors is important in all domains of Earth and Space Sciences. Yet many challenges in…
agu.confex.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🗓️ Save the Date! How can AGU members collaborate on and share standards and practices across Sections? Join us at #AGU25 Science Exchange SE23B, to discuss and plan!
When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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🌏 Hey, do you work with large-scale geospatial datasets? Looking to advance your use of R for data analysis and visualization? It's not too late to register for this #AGU25 hands-on workshop! ⚒️ 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🌏 Hey, do you work with large-scale geospatial datasets? Looking to advance your use of R for data analysis and visualization? It's not too late to register for this #AGU25 hands-on workshop! ⚒️ 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
🗓️ Save the Date! How can AGU members collaborate on and share standards and practices across Sections? Join us at #AGU25 Science Exchange SE23B, to discuss and plan!
When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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Advancing community collaboration across AGU Sections to support the advancement of distributed sensing instrument, data, and software standards and practices in the Earth and Space Sciences
How can AGU facilitate collaborations across Sections to help you get the data you need? Collecting data with sensors is important in all domains of Earth and Space Sciences. Yet many challenges in…
agu.confex.com
November 19, 2025 at 9:01 PM
🗓️ Save the Date! How can AGU members collaborate on and share standards and practices across Sections? Join us at #AGU25 Science Exchange SE23B, to discuss and plan!
When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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When: Tuesday, December 16, 2025, 14:15–15:45PM
Session Details: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
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What is our distributed sensing community working on? Read our recent profile of Ahmad Tourei, and learn about his work on enhancing large-scale Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data management with unsupervised anomaly detection. ⚒️🧪
View the full profile:
drive.google.com/file/d/1obsa...
View the full profile:
drive.google.com/file/d/1obsa...
November 18, 2025 at 10:01 PM
What is our distributed sensing community working on? Read our recent profile of Ahmad Tourei, and learn about his work on enhancing large-scale Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data management with unsupervised anomaly detection. ⚒️🧪
View the full profile:
drive.google.com/file/d/1obsa...
View the full profile:
drive.google.com/file/d/1obsa...
This looks like a great webinar happening Wednesday on using earth observation data to strengthen adaptation, mitigation, and resilience strategies for flood disasters! ⚒️ 🧪
www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
Beth Tellman (@socialpixel.bsky.social)
join us with the Global Flood Partnership next Wednesday am for our ALL WOMEN remote sensing and flooding webinar! @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social @ekta-aggarwal.bsky.social and I discuss AI and flood…
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November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
This looks like a great webinar happening Wednesday on using earth observation data to strengthen adaptation, mitigation, and resilience strategies for flood disasters! ⚒️ 🧪
www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...
Interested in learning more about distributed fiber optic sensing systems, including Distributed Temperature Sensing (DTS) and Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) systems?
Register for the CTEMPs #AGU25 Fiber Optic Sensing workshop on 12/17/2025.
#AGU25 ⚒️ 🧪
Register for the CTEMPs #AGU25 Fiber Optic Sensing workshop on 12/17/2025.
#AGU25 ⚒️ 🧪
CTEMPs Training on Fiber-Optic Sensing Systems
The Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs) invites you to our annual hands-on training focusing on distributed fiber optic sensing systems. This training is ideal for…
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November 14, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Will you be at #AGU25? Come in a day early for a workshop on DIY, Open, Environmental Sensor Technologies and Monitoring Applications. ⚒️ 🧪
AGU Distributed Sensing Technical Committee (@agu-sensing.bsky.social)
⚒️ Build, connect, and explore the future of low-cost environmental sensing in a one-day, hands-on workshop with OPEnS Lab at LSU’s world-class river model! Participants will learn to build,…
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November 13, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Will you be at #AGU25? Come in a day early for a workshop on DIY, Open, Environmental Sensor Technologies and Monitoring Applications. ⚒️ 🧪
Our latest quarterly newsletter is out! Find out:
- What’s Happening at AGU25?
- Project Highlight: Taking the Pulse of the Watershed
- Weather Instrument Survey
- Researcher Profile: Ahmad Tourei
- Community Calendar
View the full newsletter: higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AGU/31ea296c...
- What’s Happening at AGU25?
- Project Highlight: Taking the Pulse of the Watershed
- Weather Instrument Survey
- Researcher Profile: Ahmad Tourei
- Community Calendar
View the full newsletter: higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AGU/31ea296c...
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Welcome & Update from the Chairs
Welcome to the third edition of the Distributed Sensing Technical Committee (DS TC) Newsletter!
Prefer to listen? Try out the DS TC Newsletter Podcast!
The countdown to AGU25 is on! We hope that you will be as excited as we are about all of the great activities that will be going on this year during the meeting. We are inspired by the 5 MacGyver Sessions spanning multiple AGU Sections and their plan to “take over” AGU with a DIY virtual session open to any poster presenter! Our Committee is also partnering with AGU Open Science to host an innovative new pilot program for “scientific expeditions” of the Exhibit Hall — this is a great chance for all of you intrepid science explorers to volunteer to lead your own tour. Don’t forget to attend our Committee’s Science Exchange Session, which will take the place of our regular Technical Committee meeting this year. We are particularly excited about priming our community discussions with a panel of luminaries, including Shelley Stall (AGU VP of Open Science), Shah Selbe (engineer, conservation technologist, and National Geographic Explorer who has founded Conserify and FieldKit), and John Selker (Professor at OSU, Past President of AGU Hydrology, and maker extraordinaire!), who just had his and Nick van de Giesen’s work on the Trans-African Hydro-Meteorological Observatory (TAHMO) featured in EOS — check it out! And all of this is just the tip of the iceberg, so check out the additional sessions, Town Halls, and social events below (pro tip: Stephen likes fruity drinks!). Beyond AGU, make sure to check out the invitation to collaborate in Taking the Pulse of the Watershed in Rosemary Knight’s featured contribution. We are grateful to groups willing to make space for these community-focused opportunities for research in their projects! Let us know if you would like to share more test beds, platforms, or experiences that [exceeds alt text limit]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ay3gs5uu2aepxeo53b64deuq/bafkreievk5afshdeozzryojcjedzktgzy2yclssqnywkvvvyipixvsruzu@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Our latest quarterly newsletter is out! Find out:
- What’s Happening at AGU25?
- Project Highlight: Taking the Pulse of the Watershed
- Weather Instrument Survey
- Researcher Profile: Ahmad Tourei
- Community Calendar
View the full newsletter: higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AGU/31ea296c...
- What’s Happening at AGU25?
- Project Highlight: Taking the Pulse of the Watershed
- Weather Instrument Survey
- Researcher Profile: Ahmad Tourei
- Community Calendar
View the full newsletter: higherlogicdownload.s3.amazonaws.com/AGU/31ea296c...
Connect with us at #AGU25! The DS TC will be joining the Near Surface Geophysics section for an informal social, Wednesday, December 17, 7-9PM. Everyone is welcome! Mark your calendar & stay tuned for details. 🎉
Provide a tentative RSVP to help us plan:
Provide a tentative RSVP to help us plan:
RSVP: AGU25 DSTC Social Event
Please let us know if you are likely to attend the social event at The Rusty Nail on Wednesday (Dec.17) from 7-9pm. This will be a joint social with the Near Surface Geophysics Session and we need…
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November 11, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Connect with us at #AGU25! The DS TC will be joining the Near Surface Geophysics section for an informal social, Wednesday, December 17, 7-9PM. Everyone is welcome! Mark your calendar & stay tuned for details. 🎉
Provide a tentative RSVP to help us plan:
Provide a tentative RSVP to help us plan:
Will you be joining us at AGU25 next month? Today is the last day for early bird rates!
Save $$ on registration so you can put it toward coffee to get you through the long days, books at the exhibit hall, an evening social out with colleagues, or your hotel room! (You've booked your hotel, right?)
Save $$ on registration so you can put it toward coffee to get you through the long days, books at the exhibit hall, an evening social out with colleagues, or your hotel room! (You've booked your hotel, right?)
🚨The deadline is today!🚨 Join us at #AGU25: Where Science Connects Us.
👉 Hurry to register by 6 November (23:59 EDT / 03:59 +1 GMT) to save: buff.ly/ixumvFZ
👉 Hurry to register by 6 November (23:59 EDT / 03:59 +1 GMT) to save: buff.ly/ixumvFZ
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Will you be joining us at AGU25 next month? Today is the last day for early bird rates!
Save $$ on registration so you can put it toward coffee to get you through the long days, books at the exhibit hall, an evening social out with colleagues, or your hotel room! (You've booked your hotel, right?)
Save $$ on registration so you can put it toward coffee to get you through the long days, books at the exhibit hall, an evening social out with colleagues, or your hotel room! (You've booked your hotel, right?)
Volunteers Needed! Will you be at #AGU25? Consider leading a small group tour of the exhibit hall, focused on a theme or topic of your choice. These are science-focused discussions (no marketing!), with each tour ~30-60 min.
Learn more & sign up by tomorrow:
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Learn more & sign up by tomorrow:
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Volunteer Sign-Up: AGU 2025 Distributed Sensing Exhibit Hall Tours
Thank you for your interest in helping lead and organize guided tours of the AGU 2025 Exhibit Hall!
These tours will highlight emerging distributed sensing technologies across Earth and space science...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Volunteers Needed! Will you be at #AGU25? Consider leading a small group tour of the exhibit hall, focused on a theme or topic of your choice. These are science-focused discussions (no marketing!), with each tour ~30-60 min.
Learn more & sign up by tomorrow:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Learn more & sign up by tomorrow:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
📄 Recent Paper: Using DAS and DTS to study iceberg calving process chain, researchers determined iceberg calving can act as a submarine melt amplifier through excitation of transient internal waves. 🧪⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Calving-driven fjord dynamics resolved by seafloor fibre sensing - Nature
Iceberg calving can act as a submarine melt amplifier through excitation of transient internal waves.
www.nature.com
October 10, 2025 at 6:02 PM
📄 Recent Paper: Using DAS and DTS to study iceberg calving process chain, researchers determined iceberg calving can act as a submarine melt amplifier through excitation of transient internal waves. 🧪⚒️
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
doi.org/10.1038/s415...
We* may be biased, but the East River watershed is an amazing living laboratory for interdisciplinary distributed sensing. Researchers have come together from all over to collect water samples, do distributed temperature sensing studies, fly thermal IR drone surveys, and much, much more.
October 8, 2025 at 8:30 PM
We* may be biased, but the East River watershed is an amazing living laboratory for interdisciplinary distributed sensing. Researchers have come together from all over to collect water samples, do distributed temperature sensing studies, fly thermal IR drone surveys, and much, much more.
Don't forget about today's great webinar on expanding funding with non-federal opportunities!
Navigating (beyond) Academic Waters is easier when we support one another! Check out the amazing seminar series we have in collaboration with @cuahsi.bsky.social Register here: www.cuahsi.org/cyberseminar...
October 8, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Don't forget about today's great webinar on expanding funding with non-federal opportunities!
📄 Recent study explored trade-offs in sampling density vs frequency for the spatial stability of surface water quality patterns over time, across over 250 monitoring sites sampled over two decades.
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#hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪
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#hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪
October 6, 2025 at 9:30 PM
📄 Recent study explored trade-offs in sampling density vs frequency for the spatial stability of surface water quality patterns over time, across over 250 monitoring sites sampled over two decades.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#hydrology #WaterQuality ⚒️ 🧪
How are you rivers doing in the competition? Is your preferred headwater source dominating the stream?
The votes are in!!! Check out your Round 1 #CatchmentCup2025 Headwater WINNERS!!! See you tomorrow for the next round for Rain-dominated catchments!
October 6, 2025 at 4:47 AM
How are you rivers doing in the competition? Is your preferred headwater source dominating the stream?
⚒️ Another great #AGU25 workshop announced of potential interest to the distributed sensing community: on Tuesday of AGU, check out the hands-on daylong workshop on Large-Scale Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization in R
Large-Scale Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization in R
Analysis of large-scale geospatial data (regional- to global-scale at high spatial and temporal resolution) can be computationally expensive and time-consuming, especially when working with multiple…
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October 3, 2025 at 6:30 PM
⚒️ Another great #AGU25 workshop announced of potential interest to the distributed sensing community: on Tuesday of AGU, check out the hands-on daylong workshop on Large-Scale Geospatial Data Analysis and Visualization in R
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📋 Do you use subsurface geoscience data? Provide input on the challenges and data needs for scaling environmental research from plot or watershed levels to regional, management-relevant scales. Learn more or fill out the survey:
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⚒️ Interested in some fiber optic sensing training? Join CTEMPS for their one-day workshop Wednesday of #AGU25! Covering both DTS and DAS, this hot-topic workshop is sure to fill fast!
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Learn more: ctemps.org/sites/ctemps...
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Learn more: ctemps.org/sites/ctemps...
CTEMPs Training on Fiber-Optic Sensing Systems
The Center for Transformative Environmental Monitoring Programs (CTEMPs) invites you to our annual hands-on training focusing on distributed fiber optic sensing systems. This training is ideal for…
agu.confex.com
October 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
⚒️ Interested in some fiber optic sensing training? Join CTEMPS for their one-day workshop Wednesday of #AGU25! Covering both DTS and DAS, this hot-topic workshop is sure to fill fast!
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
Learn more: ctemps.org/sites/ctemps...
agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me...
Learn more: ctemps.org/sites/ctemps...