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...
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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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 -...
Monitoring Recharge in a Changing Climate
Perth is a groundwater city. Groundwater fills our lakes, waters our gardens, and keeps the woodlands and forests green. Surface -...
In Cahoots! Can runoff spread pathogens?
Yes - we think so! Check out our latest paper "Saturation excess overland flow accelerates the spread of a generalist soil-borne...
Speeding up realistic ecohydrological modeling with machine learning emulation
Congratulations to Octavia Crompton whose final PhD thesis product "Sensitivity of dryland vegetation patterns to storm characteristics"...
Deep thoughts about shallow groundwater at Hydropolis!
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...
Making experimental hillslopes to test hydrological models
Congratulations to Dana Lapides, Cy David, Anneliese Sytsma and David Dralle on the publication of their paper Analytical solutions to...
Freezing and thawing makes soils more permeable after fires
Congratulations to Katya Rakhmatulina, whose first PhD paper Freeze Thaw Processes Degrade Post-Fire Water Repellency in Soils was...
Soil and water conservation works to reduce runoff and sediment in Ethiopia's highlands
Congratulations to Liya Weldegebriel on the publication of her first paper, Detecting the short term impact of soil and water...
AuScope Funding to Map Australia's Critical Zone
We were awarded a small grant from AuScope to do geophysical profiling of Australia's Critical Zone at five sites (on the map) that form...
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