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sruzzante.bsky.social
@sruzzante.bsky.social
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PhD Candidate @ University of Victoria

drought, geohealth, and machine learning
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Car Size

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4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...
November 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
sruzzante.bsky.social
Excited to share our new preprint, open for discussion!

We decomposed streamflow time series into seasonal, interannual, and irregular variance; hydrologic models poorly simulate interannual variability in highly seasonal (cold and tropical) catchments.

egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20...
October 20, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake #BritishColumbia

Syilx Nation has been working to restore sockeye salmon in Okanagan waters for decades

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
For the first time in over a century, sockeye salmon are able to return to Okanagan Lake | CBC News
After more than a century without salmon in Okanagan waters, a new fish passageway means that salmon and numerous other fish species will be able to migrate upstream to spawn.
www.cbc.ca
August 21, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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xanderhuggins.bsky.social
Excited to share this latest paper📃, reviewing and providing a searchable catalogue of >200 open access global datasets to study groundwater in social-ecological systems.

paper in ERL: tinyurl.com/55vtb8tb

The searchable catalogue is available thx to @igrac.bsky.social here: tinyurl.com/yjdtd5bx
The Global Groundwater Data Catalogue: Your 'one-stop shop' to Groundwater Datasets - IGRAC
Global Groundwater Data Catalogue simplifies the process of identifying relevant datasets for interdisciplinary groundwater assessments.
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August 6, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
💧 How can we plan for future droughts when past observations are limited?

UKCEH hydroclimatologist @wilsonchan.bsky.social explains how ‘hindcasts’ and the UNSEEN method can help us explore rare but plausible scenarios, filling gaps in observations.

New blog post: www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
Low water levels at Pontsticill reservoir, south Wales, in July 2025. Graph showing unprecedented low summer rainfall found in one example realisation of the ECMWF hindcast archive (in red) compared to observed summer rainfall (in black). The light grey shading indicates the highest and lowest rainfall in the observations over this period. Series of maps of UK illustrating four storylines of river flows given a dry or wet July combined with sustained settled or unsettled conditions as a result of a shifted jet stream to the north or south of the UK.
July 30, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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yzhouclimate.bsky.social
We all know an AMOC slowdown impacts tropical rainfall, but how exactly? DiNezio et al. point to cooling in the tropical Norht Atlantic as the main pathway. Today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature
An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.
www.nature.com
July 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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thiagovnascimento.bsky.social
Happy to share that if you are interested in large sample hydrology datasets and specifically water quality data you can now check our now officially published dataset:

doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Swiss data quality: augmenting CAMELS-CH with isotopes, water quality, agricultural and atmospheric data - Scientific Data
Scientific Data - Swiss data quality: augmenting CAMELS-CH with isotopes, water quality, agricultural and atmospheric data
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July 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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theguardian.com
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England's great artificial water crisis of 2025 | George Monbiot
In its refusal to nationalise water, it’s clear the government operates in the interests of private capital and not of the country, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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July 17, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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marthewens.bsky.social
Oh look, concentration camps are in the plans. Who whould have thought... At what point Europe will change behaviour?

://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/07/israeli-minister-reveals-plan-to-force-population-of-gaza-into-camp-on-ruins-of-rafah
Israeli plan for forced transfer of Gaza’s population ‘a blueprint for crimes against humanity’
Military ordered to turn ruins of Rafah into ‘humanitarian city’ but experts call the plan an internment camp for all Palestinians in Gaza
www.theguardian.com
July 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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zacklabe.com
I'd like to introduce a new page on my website: U.S. climate indicator visuals (zacklabe.com/united-state...).

I only have a few basic variables so far, but I will be expanding this summer to add a range of metrics (e.g., ecological). I welcome suggestions! Hope this is useful, especially nowadays.
Screenshot showing a variability of different climate-related graphics for different United States climate change indicators
July 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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caradrianh.bsky.social
Horror. Horror. Every day more horror. Palestinians are being systematically exterminated by the #IDF. Dozens upon dozens of civilians are being targeted daily in terrorist attacks by Israeli forces. It’s unfathomable that this is being allowed to continue. Where is Canada?
June 30, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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jpgannon.bsky.social
Teach hydro modeling? Want to introduce modeling in an intro class?

Check out this web-app, activities, and code (in case you want to spin off your own)..

Thanks @jansei.bsky.social for working with me on this, which was inspired by his HBV-lite teaching software!

dx.doi.org/10.1002/hyp....
Interactive Learning in Hydrological Modelling With a Web‐Based Tool
We introduce a web-based tool to explore hydrological modeling in classrooms. The app can be run in any internet browser on a variety of devices. The app and code are available for free. We include m...
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June 23, 2025 at 10:23 AM
sruzzante.bsky.social
I'll be speaking tomorrow at 9:30 AM PST about how climate change is affecting streams and salmon habitat on the west coast.

poliswaterproject.org/polis-event-...
March 5, 2025 at 5:58 PM
sruzzante.bsky.social
Summer streamflow droughts are becoming much more extreme in British Columbia, and hotter temperatures are largely to blame

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rising Temperatures Drive Lower Summer Minimum Flows Across Hydrologically Diverse Catchments in British Columbia
Summer low flows are highly sensitive to summer temperature and precipitation, with winter storage historically playing a secondary role Regression models outperform process-based hydrologic mode...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
February 26, 2025 at 2:55 AM