UC Berkeley RiverLab

John Southard's Introduction to Sediment Transport is available free online! geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Se…

Critics of Nepal’s aggressive road building note that most mountain roads are being crudely dug along riverbanks and across slopes that are prone to landslides and monsoon rains. With little public discussion, roads are even surging into national parks. e360.yale.edu/features/pavin…

"Fishermen from Inle Lake, Myanmar." #PhotoOfTheDay smithmag.co/YHtEsl

@BeagleJulie, riverlab alum, reports on sea level rise in SF Bay and the SFEI's work on adaptation approaches.

@SupDavePine @sfei_asc @SFBayDavid @SFPort My take, with the inimitable @BeagleJulie from June: sfchronicle.com/opinion/openfo…

My first second author paper is published in WRR! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.102… Spoiler: emulator models are cool and spatial pattern features that explain hydrological variability are not stable across soils, slopes and storms. @quatratavia @ReNUWIt

Inviting submissions to the 2019 AGU Fall conference session “Managing multifunctional watersheds for the 21st century"! Organized by @RjpSchmitt, P. James Dennedy-Frank, and Matt Kondolf. @theAGU agu.confex.com/agu/fm19/preli…

A great paper by @wursterlife colleagues Sophie Taddeo and @dronova_iryna on development of coupled field-based and geospatial tools for large-scale wetland restoration monitoring efforts! Check it out at the link below.

Early bird registration for the 2019 Sagehen River Restoration Course ends tomorrow (May 31)! Register now to reserve your spot!

Affiliate @wursterlife @River_Lab's Matt Kondolf and colleagues write about Investment in Renewable Energy Could Save Tropical Rivers with @dan_kammen, Rafael Schmitt and Noah Kittner in @nature commentary bwc.berkeley.edu/node/285

Planned hydropower dams threaten most of the remaining blue rivers on this map in recent @nature study on free flowing rivers. As @iha_org #worldhydrocongress opens today, new report shows we can sustainably power the future without damming these rivers pand.as/connected_flow…

Four years after California's largest dam removal project, steelhead numbers up on the Carmel River. bayareane.ws/2vLHemp via @mercnews

Join us this summer for the 25th edition of our River Restoration Course, August 12-16, 2019. Registrations are open: riverlab.berkeley.edu/index.php/geom…

Dramatic aerial footage of flooding in Williams, Colusa County today, following another round of #cawx storms in the #SacValley. Video by @RealCodyThomas #cawater @MavensNotebook @kcranews @sacbee_news

“Closeness to the ocean has transitioned from being an asset to being potentially a liability.” #nuisanceflooding #dockstreet #AGU100 ow.ly/j8V730nIDLx

Flood control in action in the Sacramento Valley - water flowing at Tisdale Weir today. #CAwater video by Steve Beckley #cawx @MavensNotebook @srbeckley #SacValley

After recent rains, detritus of urban runoff found on a favorite SoCal beach.

Peralta-Maraver et al. (2018) show "the ability of the HZ to process dissolved solutes is mediated by a hierarchical interaction between hydrological patterns and community ecology" & call for interdisciplinary studies on flow regulation & contamination. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Terrifying. Dam collapse releases wave of mud in Brazil. nyti.ms/2E0t0CW

Groundwater is essential for Coho Salmon persistence and recruitment in intermittent streams of northern California! Read about how we used fluorescence spectroscopy to come to this conclusion here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…