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Once again I've let the news archive from our research group get out of date by 18 months - but I'm delighted to restart a series of blog...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

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...

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...

Urban hydrology relies a lot on modeling to predict the effect of changing conditions on the water management needs of the future. For...

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...

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 -...

Perth is a groundwater city. Groundwater fills our lakes, waters our gardens, and keeps the woodlands and forests green. Surface -...

Yes - we think so! Check out our latest paper "Saturation excess overland flow accelerates the spread of a generalist soil-borne...

Congratulations to Octavia Crompton whose final PhD thesis product "Sensitivity of dryland vegetation patterns to storm characteristics"...

I (Sally) had an absolute blast last Tuesday at Day 1 of Hydropolis - Perth's Urban Stormwater conference! It was a great chance to share...

Congratulations to Dana Lapides, Cy David, Anneliese Sytsma and David Dralle on the publication of their paper Analytical solutions to...

Congratulations to Katya Rakhmatulina, whose first PhD paper Freeze Thaw Processes Degrade Post-Fire Water Repellency in Soils was...