Normally these blogs feature recent papers from our lab group - this one features a dataset that Gabrielle Boisrame has just published on...

Waste. Until we nail the circular economy, we will need to manage it. A typical strategy for many kinds of waste - whether urban waste in...

As climate change impacts ecosystems, we expect to find two different "edges" to species' ranges. Where the climate is making new places...

Pyrohydrology? Fire ecohydrologists? The feedbacks between water, ecosystems and fire are complex and fascinating, and were enough to...

I see my last blog post was in March ... right about when the teaching semester started! Now that we're recovering from that big...

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...

The last blog post explained a little about how we need roughness to describe the friction between flowing water and the surface...

AKA "That time Octavia calibrated roughness models to 129 separate rainfall runoff experiments" -- read it here . Predicting how much...

This week's blog focuses on a very impressive piece of work by fantastic PhD candidate Jessie Weller, based at the Avon Critical Zone...

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...

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...

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...

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...

If you ever looked at a classical ecohydrological description of how plants use water you might have noticed something a bit odd. These...

When I was a baby ecohydrologist, I was so excited by agroforestry and afforestation as to reduce deep soil water storage and dryland...

I'm delighted to share the first publication by a WUNDERGRAD with our research lab at UWA - fabulous work by Aryan Puri, who undertook...

Once again I've let the news archive from our research group get out of date by 18 months - but I'm delighted to restart a series of blog...

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...

In this new GRL publication, Octavia Crompton explores different ideas of connectivity in drylands, and how they relate to each other....

The first Thompson lab paper in 2023 comes from the intensive field work and modeling undertaken by Liya Weldegebriel in the Lake Tana...