The Drain of Scientific Publishing details very clearly how for-profit publishers making >30% profit margins have corrupted any solution the research community has attempted.

Let's cut ourselves free.

Drain: arxiv.org/abs/2511.04820
Strain: bit.ly/StrainQSS
Oligopoly: bit.ly/OligSciPub

12/12

This sounds like an honest reflection. It's refreshing to see that an awardee uses their platform in this way. Read his entire short piece on "Reminiscences, Thanks, Regret, Concern, Hope" in the @hydrology-agu.bsky.social November Newsletter connect.agu.org/hydrology/ne...

It seems to be more pronounced during winter and I read that NW winds are dominant in that time over the lake. If the lake does not freeze over, and cold NW air moves over the (relatively warmer) lake, clouds will develop and these will add isotopically lighter water to the air mass.

Yeah, I've prepared a hands-on lab based on these slides and can only underline that doing this with paper and pen on a topo map is an important exercise to go through before letting an algorithm do it based on a DEM.

This work is part of the @cuahsi.bsky.social & USGS Powell Center supported synthesis working group AI4PF on "Using a network of networks for high-frequency multi-depth soil moisture observations to infer spatial & temporal drivers of subsurface preferential flow" & we are grateful for the support!

Given the ubiquity of PF & potential higher rainfall intensity & NPP due to climate change, PF patterns are expected to change. This will increase uncertainty in predictions of groundwater recharge & water quality, which highlights need to incorporate PF into hydrological & biogeochemical models.

We utilized two established detection approaches—the Velocity Threshold (VT) and Non-Sequential Response (NSR) methods. Although the absolute number of detected PF events varied, both methods consistently showed strong and similar relationships between PF occurrence and its key drivers.