Tamlin Pavelsky
@globalhydro.bsky.social
Professor at UNC, hydrology lead for NASA SWOT mission. Water, climate, remote sensing. Alaskan. he/him.
https://uncglobalhydrology.org
https://uncglobalhydrology.org
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Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future!
We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought.
Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...
We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought.
Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
July 14, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Check out our new paper in Earth’s Future!
We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought.
Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...
We mapped 78 flood events in eastern NC from 1996-2020 and found flooding (& repeat flooding) is more common than we previously thought.
Paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Data (NC-FLDEX): dataverse.unc.edu/dataset.xhtm...
Check out this amazing opportunity to work with a rising star!
Hello freshwater friends! I’m starting a lab(!!) and recruiting 2 students to start Fall 2026 and a lab/field assistant to start this Fall 2025! Research topic is broad: rivers 🛶, ice/snow ❄️, nutrients 🍂, algae 🌱see below for more info
Please pass this along to any interested folks :)
Please pass this along to any interested folks :)
July 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Check out this amazing opportunity to work with a rising star!
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Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
www.newyorker.com
July 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Among all the big bad things happening on our planet, there's one Big Good Thing, the sudden, startling rise of solar energy.
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
It changes the power dynamic, in every sense of the word 'power.'
www.newyorker.com/news/annals-...
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Looking at my to-do list and sobbing while I click accept on another manuscript review invitation
June 18, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Looking at my to-do list and sobbing while I click accept on another manuscript review invitation
Me this morning reading an MS thesis from my lab. Reading good grad student work is SUCH a joy.
a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
ALT: a man with a beard and long blonde hair is holding a sword in a forest .
media.tenor.com
June 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Me this morning reading an MS thesis from my lab. Reading good grad student work is SUCH a joy.
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Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation
#SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation
May 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Hydrologists! Ever heard of a Spatial Hydrograph? Our new paper in @agu.org GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can capture spatial flow waves propagating down rivers—something previously only only observable at river gauges: doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation
#SWOT #hydrology #RemoteSensing #EarthObservation
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🌎 A champion for environment and sustainability, @unc-ie.bsky.social director and @uncchapelhill.bsky.social chief sustainability officer @mpiehler.bsky.social was recently named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor.
Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.
Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.
A champion for environment and sustainability, Piehler named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor - UNC Institute for the Environment
Piehler is a renowned leader in coastal environmental science.
ie.unc.edu
May 14, 2025 at 3:00 PM
🌎 A champion for environment and sustainability, @unc-ie.bsky.social director and @uncchapelhill.bsky.social chief sustainability officer @mpiehler.bsky.social was recently named Cary C. Boshamer Distinguished Professor.
Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.
Read more about Piehler's deep Carolina roots and distinguished career.
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The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:
Few support punitive funding cuts to colleges and universities - AP-NORC
Most of the public believes that colleges and universities make significant contributions to scientific and technological advancement and think their federal research funding should be maintained.
apnorc.org
May 14, 2025 at 8:14 PM
The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:
Are water levels in wetlands important to you? @kica22.bsky.social's new paper in GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can measure water surface elevations in the Everglades with a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm. Check it out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
May 12, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Are water levels in wetlands important to you? @kica22.bsky.social's new paper in GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can measure water surface elevations in the Everglades with a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm. Check it out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Feeling humbled by this award and wanted to share the story from IU News. Im grateful to my @iuearth.bsky.social colleagues and all the students that have worked with me over the years.
news.iu.edu/live/news/45...
news.iu.edu/live/news/45...
IU earth scientist’s research into rivers and flooding earns him prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship
Douglas Edmonds, a professor in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, was selected for the 100th class of Guggenheim Fellows. He was one of tw...
news.iu.edu
April 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Feeling humbled by this award and wanted to share the story from IU News. Im grateful to my @iuearth.bsky.social colleagues and all the students that have worked with me over the years.
news.iu.edu/live/news/45...
news.iu.edu/live/news/45...
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What a fun paper describing rivers in North and South America that flow into multiple drainage basins. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Unusual Drainages of the Americas
We describe nine river bifurcations and bifurcation lakes in North and South America. They at first seem to defy the rules of hydrology These unusual water bodies exhibit bidirectional flow, unre...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
April 8, 2025 at 1:30 PM
What a fun paper describing rivers in North and South America that flow into multiple drainage basins. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
thegriffinlist.com
April 4, 2025 at 5:55 PM
🚨🚨Calling all North Carolina voters!! Here is a list of every voter that Jefferson Griffin is trying to disenfranchise, please if you are a NC voter check to see if your name is on here, you have 15 days to cure your ballot to make sure your vote counts. thegriffinlist.com/assets/griff...
Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
March 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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This is effectively what led to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane being the most deadly storm in U.S. history.
We are so back, i guess. 😩
We are so back, i guess. 😩
February 6, 2025 at 8:39 AM
This is effectively what led to the 1900 Galveston Hurricane being the most deadly storm in U.S. history.
We are so back, i guess. 😩
We are so back, i guess. 😩
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Converge freshwater science series! Joining freshwater scientists from across the triangle area to discuss ideas in a safe, collegial atmosphere monthly. Thank you NCSU for hosting the January meeting! And thank you to @ardonlab.bsky.social and other presenters for leading discussions.
Sharing a passion for freshwater science- We spent an evening meeting people from different institutions in NC that work in aquatic ecosystems and talking about freshwater ecosystems
This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU
@ardonlab.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social
This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU
@ardonlab.bsky.social @agdelv.bsky.social
February 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Converge freshwater science series! Joining freshwater scientists from across the triangle area to discuss ideas in a safe, collegial atmosphere monthly. Thank you NCSU for hosting the January meeting! And thank you to @ardonlab.bsky.social and other presenters for leading discussions.
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I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely.
journals.sagepub.com...
journals.sagepub.com...
January 15, 2025 at 6:18 PM
I have a new paper in Dialogues on Climate Change exploring climate outcomes under current policies. I find that we are likely headed toward 2.7C by 2100 (with uncertainties from 1.9C to 3.7C), and that high end emissions scenarios have become much less likely.
journals.sagepub.com...
journals.sagepub.com...
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I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry
January 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry
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Interested in headwater streams? Headwaters make up 77% of global river networks, but have fewer gauges, less accurate models and lesser protections than large rivers. See our review led by @goldenwater.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Advancing the science of headwater streamflow for global water protection - Nature Water
Despite their substantial contributions to watershed resilience, headwater streams are becoming increasingly imperilled. This Perspective summarizes the status of headwater streamflow information and ...
www.nature.com
January 14, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Interested in headwater streams? Headwaters make up 77% of global river networks, but have fewer gauges, less accurate models and lesser protections than large rivers. See our review led by @goldenwater.bsky.social at www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists).
Interesting looking read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists).
Interesting looking read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
‘Tipping points’ confuse and can distract from urgent climate action - Nature Climate Change
The tipping points framing is widely used in climate discussions but receives mixed feedback. This Perspective critiques it for oversimplifying the complexities of natural and social systems and faili...
www.nature.com
January 9, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists).
Interesting looking read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And this one is on how we talk about and frame some climate concepts to wider audiences (including scientists).
Interesting looking read.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
This is apocalyptic.
SWIR images of burning homes in Altadena (location: 34.187, -118.108 google.com/maps/place/3...). 🛰️📷:
@Maxar
@Maxar
January 9, 2025 at 8:19 AM
This is apocalyptic.
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Do you do #remotesensing of aquatic environments, but you want aquatic surface reflectance data. Well, we processed the entire #Sentinel2 record for #AQUATIC surface reflectance in the Contiguous US. You can now access those data from Amazon Web Services for FREE! registry.opendata.aws/usgs_aqr/
Sentinel-2 ACOLITE-DSF Aquatic Reflectance for the Conterminous United States - Registry of Open Data on AWS
registry.opendata.aws
January 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Do you do #remotesensing of aquatic environments, but you want aquatic surface reflectance data. Well, we processed the entire #Sentinel2 record for #AQUATIC surface reflectance in the Contiguous US. You can now access those data from Amazon Web Services for FREE! registry.opendata.aws/usgs_aqr/
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Happy new year!
Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.
11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.
11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
January 3, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Happy new year!
Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.
11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.
11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
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Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades
Canada has experienced more-intense and longer fire seasons with more-frequent uncontrollable wildfires over the past decades. However, the effect of these changes remains unknown. This study identifi...
www.science.org
January 2, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Congratulations to Weiwei Wang (early career researcher) on her paper in Science out today - 'Canadian forests are more conducive to high-severity fires in recent decades' largely due to increases in fuel aridity.
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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A little bit delayed, but I hear it's picking up over here so sending this out into the world: our Lafayette team including Rachel Hurley (now grad student at WPI), Dave Brandes, and me put out this piece on flashiness across the Mid-Atlantic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Drivers and Buffers of Stream Flashiness in the Mid‐Atlantic United States
In this study, we investigated flashiness across 195 Mid-Atlantic sites, each within one of seven different physiographic regions. Our findings identified several drivers and buffers of flashiness, e...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 4:06 PM
A little bit delayed, but I hear it's picking up over here so sending this out into the world: our Lafayette team including Rachel Hurley (now grad student at WPI), Dave Brandes, and me put out this piece on flashiness across the Mid-Atlantic: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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Interested in the Great Plains Low-Level Jet, the Missouri River Basin, flooding, and/or moisture transport? Check out our new paper:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Role of the Great Plains Low‐Level Jet in Moisture Transport, Streamflow, and Flooding in the Missouri River Basin
The Great Plains low-level jet (GPLLJ) has a clear and consistent impact on Missouri River streamflow and peak flows during the warm season GPLLJ is associated with 29%–46% of warm season precipi...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
January 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Interested in the Great Plains Low-Level Jet, the Missouri River Basin, flooding, and/or moisture transport? Check out our new paper:
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...