Makan Karegar
@makankaregar.bsky.social
USouth Florida PhD Alum, Researcher at Institute of Geodesy & Geoinformation @ University of Bonn.
https://www.igg.uni-bonn.de/apmg/de/team/staff/karegar
https://www.igg.uni-bonn.de/apmg/de/team/staff/karegar
Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...
Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time
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November 3, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Take a Deep Breath? How Bad Air Affects Your Marathon Finish Time www.nytimes.com/2025/11/01/c...
Volcano of the week
Our recent GRL paper (agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...) was covered by science media outlet livescience
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
www.livescience.com/planet-earth...
An Iranian volcano appears to have woken up — 700,000 years after its last eruption
Taftan volcano near the border of Pakistan has shown signs of unrest in recent years.
www.livescience.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Volcano of the week
Reposted by Makan Karegar
🧠 How are you, really?
Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.
Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱
Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.
Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱
Climbing Through a PhD – Mental Health on the Way to the Summit
Imagine you are going on a long mountain tour. Your backpack is heavy, the path is steep, and although you have been walking for hours, all you can see ahead of you is the next climb. Doing a PhD is l...
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October 10, 2025 at 9:22 AM
🧠 How are you, really?
Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.
Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱
Today is World Mental Health Day - a reminder that caring for your mind is important.
Kristin Vielberg and Hanna Sänger from PhDpositive reflect on the mental health challenges of doing a PhD and share ways to make the journey more sustainable, fulfilling, and balanced. 🌱
Volcanism is a unique feature of Auckland. Newly discovered hidden faults make things even more interesting. This is a picture I took last Aug of the 50 m deep crater of Mount Eden (erupted 28,000 yrs ago).
September 24, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Volcanism is a unique feature of Auckland. Newly discovered hidden faults make things even more interesting. This is a picture I took last Aug of the 50 m deep crater of Mount Eden (erupted 28,000 yrs ago).
Reposted by Makan Karegar
Our PhD student Charlotte Hacker (@crc1502-detect.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social) published a 40yr record of total water storage anomalies (TWSA), similar to GRACE but from 1984 on. She combined SLR, DORIS and climate data in a new method.
zenodo.org/records/1582...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
zenodo.org/records/1582...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
August 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Our PhD student Charlotte Hacker (@crc1502-detect.bsky.social @unibonn.bsky.social) published a 40yr record of total water storage anomalies (TWSA), similar to GRACE but from 1984 on. She combined SLR, DORIS and climate data in a new method.
zenodo.org/records/1582...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
zenodo.org/records/1582...
doi.org/10.22541/ess...
GNSS Hydrology is proposed to integrate GNSS hydrogeodesy and GNSS remote sensing. This framework provides a unified approach to studying the global hydrological cycle using GNSS technology.
Read more in our recent Letter in The Innovation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read more in our recent Letter in The Innovation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
July 2, 2025 at 3:42 PM
GNSS Hydrology is proposed to integrate GNSS hydrogeodesy and GNSS remote sensing. This framework provides a unified approach to studying the global hydrological cycle using GNSS technology.
Read more in our recent Letter in The Innovation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Read more in our recent Letter in The Innovation: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Reposted by Makan Karegar
Are you organizing your #EGU25 notes? Maybe this summary of the hydrological loading session may help refresh your memory. hydrologicalloading.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/h...
Hydrological Loading session at EGU 2025
We had a session at EGU25 titled “Measuring and modelling solid-Earth deformation induced by changing loads from liquid and frozen water”, co-organized by the Geodesy (G) and Hydrological Sciences …
hydrologicalloading.wordpress.com
May 6, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Are you organizing your #EGU25 notes? Maybe this summary of the hydrological loading session may help refresh your memory. hydrologicalloading.wordpress.com/2025/05/06/h...
South Africa’s land is rising due to severe drought and the loss of water stored in land.
Read more in the U of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social press release: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/071-...
and in our (@jurgenkusche.bsky.social) JGR: Solid Earth paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Read more in the U of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social press release: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/071-...
and in our (@jurgenkusche.bsky.social) JGR: Solid Earth paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
April 23, 2025 at 3:15 PM
South Africa’s land is rising due to severe drought and the loss of water stored in land.
Read more in the U of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social press release: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/071-...
and in our (@jurgenkusche.bsky.social) JGR: Solid Earth paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Read more in the U of Bonn @unibonn.bsky.social press release: www.uni-bonn.de/en/news/071-...
and in our (@jurgenkusche.bsky.social) JGR: Solid Earth paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Reposted by Makan Karegar
Asian Megadeltas: Tackling Coastal Flooding Challenges #AGUPubs @agu.org
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doi.org/10.1029/2024...
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doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Asian Megadeltas: Tackling Coastal Flooding Challenges - Eos
Integrating scientific insights into current actions is crucial for steering future research directions and underpinning informed management of coastal flooding in Asian deltas.
eos.org
March 11, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Asian Megadeltas: Tackling Coastal Flooding Challenges #AGUPubs @agu.org
eos.org/editors-vox/...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
eos.org/editors-vox/...
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Your #paper doesn’t mean much if you don’t share the data and #code to reproduce the results. I’ve stopped reviewing #manuscripts with no transparent and open data policy.
January 26, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Your #paper doesn’t mean much if you don’t share the data and #code to reproduce the results. I’ve stopped reviewing #manuscripts with no transparent and open data policy.
Spent a couple of days around the Marmara Sea Islands and it’s surprising how much the locals know about earthquake risks.
January 26, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Spent a couple of days around the Marmara Sea Islands and it’s surprising how much the locals know about earthquake risks.
Fieldwork yesterday in Todenfeld! GNSS is out there running.
January 21, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Fieldwork yesterday in Todenfeld! GNSS is out there running.