Rodolfo Nobrega
@rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
A tupiniquim eco/hydrologist.
Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!
A team of epidemiologists and hydrologists based in the UK and Brazil are developing a novel approach to preventing leptospirosis. This disease is expected to increase as climate change brings more rainfall and flooding.
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Find out more in our new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTAv...
#COP30
Seedcorn Fund - Modelling Leptospira transmission
YouTube video by Cabot Institute for the Environment
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November 19, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Very happy to be part of this amazing team. Thank you @cabot-institute.bsky.social for supporting us!
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At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions:
Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv
Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4
Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC
Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv
Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4
Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC
November 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
At @egu.eu, our #WorkingGroup "Co-creating Water Knowledge" is presenting two sessions:
Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv
Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4
Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC
Co-creation in Hydrology and Water Resources Management
bit.ly/3WAB5pv
Co-creation in Practice (Short Course)
bit.ly/4oOgPg4
Join us, and consider submitting an abstract.
For info: bit.ly/4oSImNC
Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Soil–climate interactions drive above-ground biomass in the Caatinga, the largest Neotropical seasonally dry tropical forest - Plant and Soil
Background and aims Soil properties are key drivers of vegetation structure, yet their influence on above-ground woody biomass (AGBW) in seasonally dry tropical forests (SDTFs) remains underexplored, ...
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October 27, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Water deficit emerges as a key regulator of above-ground biomass across tropical dry ecoregions (in the Caatinga). Kuddos to Alexandre for leading the surveys and the discussion so well! link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.
www.nature.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
What makes PhD students happy? Good supervision
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US.
Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.
doi.org/10.1080/0262...
@hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.
doi.org/10.1080/0262...
@hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
October 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
On Friday, I will present our work on #CoCreation of #WaterKnowledge at Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, one of the historically #BlackUniversities of the US.
Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.
doi.org/10.1080/0262...
@hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
Thanks to Dr. Hubert Hirwa for the invitation.
doi.org/10.1080/0262...
@hsj-iahs.bsky.social @iahs-aish.bsky.social
Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
Looking Back at IAHS2025 in Roorkee: Hydrologists Assemble in India
Between October 5 – 10, 2025, the XIIth Scientific Assembly of the International Association of Hydrological Sciences ( IAHS ) took place in Roorkee, India. Overall, more than 600 hydrologists assemb...
blogs.egu.eu
October 16, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Look at the lovely post that Christina @oriescc.bsky.social shared for the EGU Hydrology Division @hs.egu.eu ! blogs.egu.eu/divisions/hs...
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Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
October 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Ending the week with this paper just out "Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant-Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios" @globalchangebio.bsky.social by Ruijie Ding, Colin Prentice & @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
🔗 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Funded by REALM-precursor to LT
The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!
October 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
The Ganges river yesterday. Incredible visit. Thank you IIT Roorkee for organising this!
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Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Photo of the Amazon Tall Tower Observatory (ATTO, 235 m) captured from the smaller installation tower (81 m).
Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
Global Assessment of Environmental and Plant‐Trait Influences on Root: Shoot Biomass Ratios
We assembled a large global dataset by combining several previous compilations to test eco-evolutionary optimality (EEO) hypotheses about how plants allocate carbon above- and below-ground (root: sho...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Do conservative leaf traits drive biomass allocation strategies that optimise root-zone water storage and help maintain transpiration under highly seasonal precipitation? Not sure we answer this in this paper, but at least we have results to start discussing it... doi.org/10.1111/gcb....
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📢Call for Abstracts📢
Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale
Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025
📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers
Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale
Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025
📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers
October 7, 2025 at 12:00 PM
📢Call for Abstracts📢
Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale
Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025
📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers
Two-day workshop aiming to develop an #interdisciplinary discussion about the epistemologies & practices of scale
Scholars from ANY discipline are invited to submit by 3rd Nov 2025
📅23-24 Feb 2026
📍Bristol, UK
🌐 bit.ly/438ddgt
#CallforAbstracts #CallforPapers
It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!
I'm proud to share the first paper on co-creating water knowledge from our #IAHS #cocreatingwaterknowledge group! We're centering diverse knowledges in hydrology—a return to my ethnobotany roots. It's not always easy, but sparks creative ways of thinking about water. doi.org/10.1080/0262...
Co-creating water knowledge: a community perspective
Navigating the complexities of global and local water resources challenges requires collaboration and mutual learning among diverse knowledge systems and disciplines. However, Western philosophical...
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October 6, 2025 at 4:13 PM
It's been fantastic working with this team and I'm very happy our paper is out!
And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...
Parents in Academia
Raising a child in combination with a full-time career is no easy feat. That is true in general and maybe even more true in academia. Juggling the workload, conference attendance, or the potential …
younghs.com
September 16, 2025 at 5:18 PM
And here is our latest blog post on Parenting in Academia, shared as a contribution to the Young Hydrologic Society (@younghydrology.bsky.social): younghs.com/2025/09/05/n...
All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!
August 27, 2025 at 8:47 AM
All set for another intense week of work in the tropics!
Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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August 15, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Embolism resistance supports the contribution of dry-season precipitation to transpiration in eastern Amazon forests: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 👏🏾
Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!
August 15, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Thank you colleagues at the Ministry of Environment and UFMG for such great discussions!
A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A scalable framework for soil property mapping tested across a highly diverse tropical data-scarce region
Reliable soil property maps are essential for environmental modeling, yet conventional mapping methods remain costly and time-consuming. We developed …
www.sciencedirect.com
July 14, 2025 at 8:04 AM
A few years ago, we visited the soil-survey archives of a region in Brazil. We digitised the data and began developing a framework for developing soil maps that accurately (pedologically) represent soil profiles in the tropics. The result is here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 8:33 AM
For context, the mother is an NHS staff member and the father is a Senior Lecturer at Exeter. This country is becoming very hostile to immigrants. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]". www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...
A18-2-3
Water Models as Geographical Chimera: Precipitation Interception Routines as an Example of 'Patchwork Empiricism'
John T. Van Stan II Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland...
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May 21, 2025 at 7:22 AM
"[...] modellers stitch together data and theories from disparate locales, weaving them into seemingly universal hydrological frameworks. [...] however, it risks creating 'geographical chimera' of mismatched empirical parts [...]". www.water-alternatives.org/index.php/al...
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Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.
May 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Cabot researchers, Josephine Walker, an expert in epidemiology and @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social, an ecohydrologist, have been collaborating with Ana Maria Silva (a Cabot MScR graduate) on the ground in Brazil and Federico Costa who is based at Baha University in Brazil.
Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.
May 8, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Something about LinkedIn's corporate poetry style keeps me from engaging with it. I must be doing something wrong.
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Hydrology Paper of the Day @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social on extending the MOD16 evapotranspiration algorithm for MODIS: an improvement of spatiotemporal resolutions via the ESTIMET algorithm; day and night ET over all sky conditions; a comparison with EC data over Brazil; and spatial comparisons.
In times of AI we show how some robust tweaks can greatly improve well established ET models. It was a pleasure to have Cinthia in Bristol and discuss every step of this research! www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
ESTIMET: Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration algorithm for all sky conditions in tropical biomes
We developed an ET model, namely the Enhanced and Spatial-Temporal Improvement of MODIS EvapoTranspiration (ESTIMET), for local-to-regional ET monitor…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 3, 2025 at 3:29 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @rodolfonobrega.bsky.social on extending the MOD16 evapotranspiration algorithm for MODIS: an improvement of spatiotemporal resolutions via the ESTIMET algorithm; day and night ET over all sky conditions; a comparison with EC data over Brazil; and spatial comparisons.