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Christian Braudrick
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Geomorphologist, Stillwater Sciences
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second verse on this is one of the funniest things i've ever heard
November 9, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Its official! Today, the US Corps Of Engineers is announcing that it signed into effect a Water Control Manual update for Lake Mendocino on the Russian River that implements FIRO* there! 1/7

www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

* Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations
This Northern California reservoir has pioneered a way to store more water
After years of advocacy and experimentation, officials will celebrate the reservoir’s status as the nation’s first to get the go-ahead to adopt a flexible, forecast-based operations policy.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 22, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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This was an interesting study for me, something new:

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Four saguaro cacti with mounted seismometer
October 22, 2025 at 2:55 PM
christianbraudrick.bsky.social
It’s time for the balance Hydrologics rain gage! Lots of rain in the bay today! balancehydro.xioscada.com/public/pages...
Rainfall in Codornices Ck watershed at 10th Street | Balance Hydrologics
balancehydro.xioscada.com
October 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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everything is terrible so here's the Muppets channeling Hamilton and bringing me untold joy (via the brilliant brettevansmafrog on insta)
October 3, 2025 at 1:13 AM
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Dr. Carver led the final field trip of my undergrad years: neotectonics of north coastal California. It was a good one, and I remember him fondly.
earthjay.bsky.social Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · Aug 20
The family of Dr. Gary Carver is pleased to invite you to a

Celebration of life &
an Alaska Salmon BBQ/potluck for Dr. Gary Carver
Join us on Friday, October 17, 2025 at 5-8:30pm at the Bayside Grange in Arcata, CA

RSVP HERE!

www.eventcreate.com/e/drcarver
Celebration of life for Dr. Gary Carver | October 17, 2025
Join us on October 17
www.eventcreate.com
August 20, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
Endless debris flows...😱

These images of the debris flow that hit Bionaz (1600m, Valpelline) last night show why you should avoid rivers and streams during heavy thunderstorms in the mountains! 🌊

🎥 Meteo Valle d'Aosta
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August 20, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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shamelessly made a bluesky account so I could plug my first first-author paper (!) on postfire erosion in steep rocky catchments -- go check her out!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
The influence of wildfire on debris flows in a landscape of persistent disequilibrium: Columbia River Gorge, OR, USA
Debris flow erosion in rocky catchments of northern Oregon (USA) is found to be relatively insensitive to fire conditions.
www.science.org
August 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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June 24, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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A Giants fan growing up, Christian Koss’ confidence stayed with him through a half-decade minor-league journey that led him to San Francisco.
Christian Koss’ improbable Giants journey just his latest unlikely feat
A Giants fan growing up, Christian Koss’ confidence stayed with him through a half-decade minor-league journey that led him to San Francisco.
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June 2, 2025 at 12:30 AM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
INCREDIBLE !!

Here we are... 😱😱😱

After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed today at 3.24 pm over Blatten and the dammed Lonza river...

Devastating! 😭

www.letemps.ch/suisse/valai...
May 28, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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subfossilguy.bsky.social
SPEECHLESS BEFORE / AFTER #BLATTEN

The magnitude of destruction after the 3:24 pm collapse of Birch Glacier is immense! 😱

All the forest has been razed and the ice/wood/debris dammed the Lonza river 🌊

Some buildings of Blatten are buried 🏠

📷 Pomona
May 28, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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Dressing like a guy in Andor now. My shirt collar is also part of my jacket somehow. My tie is some kind of strap. I have two capes on.
May 28, 2025 at 3:54 AM
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Kilauea is going absolutely crazy right now with episode 23 of the eruption. USGS live stream here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bqmp...
May 26, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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The sun is setting and the fountain is a bit less powerful, but still a fantastic show. They've recently zoomed in.

Live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG5z...
spahn711.bsky.social Alex Spahn 🌋🌪️☄️ @spahn711.bsky.social · May 11
Y'all, the current fountaining at Kilauea's summit is wild. Highly recommend tuning in live (link above)!
May 12, 2025 at 3:10 AM
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Just epic imagery of a haboob.

This was last night in Mexico.
May 9, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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More on Metallica fanquakes at Virginia Tech
May 9, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Trump has ordered closure of ~½ of USGS Water Sci Centers that monitor US waters for flooding & drought, measure levels & quality in ground & surface water with 1000s of gages, & do sci studies (in coop w/local-to-federal agencies) allowing successful water mgmt.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Trump officials gut 25 centers that monitor flooding and drought in the US
White House orders closure of USGS water science centers, which shares data with weather service for flood warnings
www.theguardian.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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NSF PD Raleigh Martin out with another statement on the NSF grant freezes. 🧪 ⚒️ #climatesky
(NOTE: These are my own personal views and do not reflect an official position of the federal government.) This past Friday, my federal agency (the National Science Foundation) announced that hundreds of active scientific grants would be terminated because they are no longer aligned with NSF's priorities. First, I am devastated to think about the hundreds of scientists (along with thousands of supporting students, researchers, and other staff) who have suddenly and arbitrarily had their grant funding yanked away. These are scientists who did everything right: undertaking years of grueling education, spending months thoughtfully preparing grant proposals (often multiple times after previous unsuccessful attempts), waiting further months for their proposals to be rigorously and competitively reviewed, diligently managing their awarded projects, submitting annual reports, and carefully adhering to NSF rules regarding allowable expenditures and grant activities. Despite following all the rules, these scientists will now be forced to throw away years of hard work, end student projects, and lay off staff, disrupting and even ending many scientific careers along the way. Second, I am troubled by the arbitrariness of these grant termination actions which go against established law, procedure, and precedent. As a federal agency, NSF is bound by laws enacted by Congress, as well as federal regulations regarding allowable grant activities. Specific funding opportunities are then informed by expert scientific staff closely attuned to their respective scientific fields and guided by external input including outside Advisory Committees (though these were also mostly terminated last week). All funding opportunities go through rigorous programmatic, managerial, and policy review before they are approved to ensure adherence to laws, regulations, and agency priorities. NSF priorities do change over time, and this is reflected in the evolution of funding opportunities that apply prospectively to new proposals and grants. But now is different. Now, existing NSF grants are experiencing a bait-and-switch: having been awarded based on one set of priorities, they are now being ended through a sudden and capricious change in these priorities. And in many cases, these awards are being terminated despite doing exactly what Congress explicitly intended: expanding participation of women and individuals from underrepresented groups in STEM. Finally, I am worried for the broader scientific enterprise. Until recently, America's scientific ecosystem has been the envy of the world: supported by a stable base of public investment, open to talent from across the globe, and built on a productive ecosystem of universities, research labs, and academic-industry partnerships. Unfortunately, these pillars of American innovation seem to be quickly crumbling, causing irreversible harm to our economic success and cultural dynamism.
April 22, 2025 at 2:52 AM
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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond.

I hope you’ll read and share the piece.

stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
stanforddaily.com
April 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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Morning view from #Kilauea, east Halemaʻumaʻu crater #Hawaii 4/22/2025 🌋
April 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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Egads!
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An incredible view of a dust storm charging south across Mexico.
April 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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A professor's casual hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree. @ucdavis.bsky.social www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...
A New Record for California’s Highest Tree
A UC Davis professor's pleasure hike in the High Sierra turned into a new elevation record for California's highest tree, the Jeffrey pine, which wasn't formerly known to grow at extreme elevations.
www.ucdavis.edu
April 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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On this day in 1906: the M 7.9 San Francisco Earthquake. I get chills every time I see this ShakeMap.

Publicly funded science is how we learn about quakes in CA and beyond, and how we prepare for future ones. Current federal attacks on science are an abandonment of communities facing these hazards:
ShakeMap for the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Map shows California and Nevada, shaded by color for shaking intensity, with the Mercalli Intensity Scale key at the bottom. A red line indicating extreme shaking stretches from near Salinas to Petrolia. The red line is surrounded by orange (severe shaking) to yellow (strong) all the way out to blue (light) beyond the central valley. The blue extends beyond the edges of the map, indicating that shaking would have been felt in all of Nevada and beyond.
April 18, 2025 at 1:15 PM