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The Berkeley COVID baby
Everyone has one right - the project that took 3 times as long and was 3 times as hard because of COVID? Our version of this was Jeannie...
sallythompson5
Mar 174 min read
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(Rainfall runoff) Plotting and (Roughness) Scheming
The last blog post explained a little about how we need roughness to describe the friction between flowing water and the surface...
sallythompson5
Feb 132 min read
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The Scales Always Lie
AKA "That time Octavia calibrated roughness models to 129 separate rainfall runoff experiments" -- read it here . Predicting how much...
sallythompson5
Feb 133 min read
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Critical Zones Again!
This week's blog focuses on a very impressive piece of work by fantastic PhD candidate Jessie Weller, based at the Avon Critical Zone...
sallythompson5
Feb 132 min read
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Come meet our Observatory!
Ooooh, I'm so excited to get to blog about this book chapter , because it is the book chapter that introduces you to one of my new...
sallythompson5
Feb 73 min read
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The only constant is change
Ok, this blog is about the most specialised, nerdy and technical paper we've published in ages... but I love a challenge, so let's try...
sallythompson5
Feb 34 min read
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Recharge in a changing climate
Perth, where I live, is a city built on what is, geologically, a giant sandpit. This is a curse for gardeners, who struggle to grow...
sallythompson5
Jan 152 min read
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Through the clouds of deep learning...
Ok, this paper is a very cheeky one to include in this blog, because I think 90% of my contribution to it was looking confused and...
sallythompson5
Dec 10, 20241 min read
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Getting the "eco" into ecohydrology
If you ever looked at a classical ecohydrological description of how plants use water you might have noticed something a bit odd. These...
sallythompson5
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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Modeling restoration options for waterlogged slopes in the humid tropics
When I was a baby ecohydrologist, I was so excited by agroforestry and afforestation as to reduce deep soil water storage and dryland...
sallythompson5
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Hydrodynamics meets Canopy Interception
I'm delighted to share the first publication by a WUNDERGRAD with our research lab at UWA - fabulous work by Aryan Puri, who undertook...
sallythompson5
Dec 4, 20242 min read
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Introducing Pour Points!
Once again I've let the news archive from our research group get out of date by 18 months - but I'm delighted to restart a series of blog...
sallythompson5
Dec 3, 20242 min read
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Where should plants keep their fuses?
Very excited to share this paper by Jeannie Wilkening with you all (and if you haven't checked out Jeannie's thread about the paper on...
sallythompson5
Jun 28, 20233 min read
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Relating to connectivity
In this new GRL publication, Octavia Crompton explores different ideas of connectivity in drylands, and how they relate to each other....
sallythompson5
May 25, 20232 min read
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Soils of the Ethiopian Highlands
The first Thompson lab paper in 2023 comes from the intensive field work and modeling undertaken by Liya Weldegebriel in the Lake Tana...
sallythompson5
May 25, 20232 min read
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A tale of two basins...
The Illilouette Creek Basin and Sugarloaf Creek Basin have been staples in the Thompson Lab for years now (as they were the subject of an...
sallythompson5
May 11, 20232 min read
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Seeing below-ground with satellites and trees?
Two papers in today's post, both of which do something similar in very different ways. One of the challenges of hydrology is that direct...
sallythompson5
May 11, 20232 min read
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What if the models ... just don't work?
Urban hydrology relies a lot on modeling to predict the effect of changing conditions on the water management needs of the future. For...
sallythompson5
May 11, 20233 min read
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Keeping Hydrology Teaching Awesome in Pandemic Times
I think we all felt good when the WHO recently downgraded the global COVID situation by announcing an end to a Public Health Emergency of...
sallythompson5
May 11, 20232 min read
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Catching up on our curves
It's been nearly 18 months since I managed to pop out a blog post, which has mostly been due to various family medical issues. Phew -...
sallythompson5
May 10, 20232 min read
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