SaraGoeking @saragoeking@qoto.org

Here’s the #ColoradoRiver forecast center’s map of modeled soil moisture going into 2022-23 in the flow-producing regions.

Low soil moisture means less runoff for a given amount of snow. Declining "runoff efficiency” is at the heart of our problems. Source: https://www.cbrfc.noaa.gov/rmap/grid800/index_soil.php

Anna’s bold and bright in the morning light.

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What? Yes.
Technical coupling of vegetation and hydrological models is already common. But do they actually mean the same when referring to a common variable like “soil moisture” ? Often not.
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In today's New York Times a Homeowner Association tried to force a Maryland couple with a native garden to change to a tidy lawn. The complaint was that their garden was "attracting rodents, deer, snakes and bats, and that they were planting shrubs and bushes in no particular order." Yes, in no particular order!

Legal proceedings ensued and there's now a state law forbidding homeowner associations from banning eco-friendly gardens.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/climate/native-plants-lawns-homeowners.html

#biodiversity #gardens #urban #nature

A curated list of 60 R packages for ecological niche modelling, interesting ressource #ecology #ENM #nichemodelling #science #rstat #rverse https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0304380022003404

If Mastodon diehards want this to be The Next Place after Twitter, the move is to bend over backwards to listen to disabled and Black community about what they do and don't need in social media space.

Even if it's challenging.

Even if it makes you uncomfortable.

These are power user communities, whether folks like it or not.

Sure, we had a great storm last week but it barely made a dent in the long-term western drought. This is the current Drought Monitor map.
#water
#climate

Model shows extinction cascades caused by land use and climate change will wipe out more than 25% of world biodiversity.

#climate #climatechange #science
https://phys.org/news/2022-12-extinction-cascades-climate-world-biodiversity.html

It's time for the US Federal government to exit Twitter. It cannot publish on a censorship/disinformation channel.

A lot of new followers and a lot of friends from Twitter this week. Please say hello and introduce or re-introduce yourself to me! Looking forward to interacting with everyone here.

For those new to Mastodon, one tip: Mastodon is a lot more inclusive than Twitter. Please take the time to caption your photos. Good advice I saw my first week: describe the image like you are on the phone with a good friend.

Which did you say most often during #AGU22

And meanwhile, the view this morning includes a dusting of snow… #AGU22

The best news for one of my favorite trees. I’ve walked through graveyards of Whitebark Pines in the Mount Rose Wilderness - I’ve watched some of my very personal favorite trees die just over two summer seasons. I love a Clark’s Nutcracker dip flying along an alpine slope with their kraaks and squalls calls. This listing is for so many species, not just a tree - whole ecosystems.

#ESA #WhitebarkPine #EndangeredSpecies

https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2022-12/whitebark-pine-receives-esa-protection-threatened-species

Today at #AGU2022, check out lab talk by Teresa Bohner Projected Drought Risk Among the World’s Tall and High Biomass Forests .. using #GEDI #lidar data and global drought forecasts under #ClimateChange to identify crtical areas at most risk https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1186831

Good morning, #AGU22.

"Science and morning coffee" generated by #midjourney

Good to see this decision that has been a long time coming in the US: Whitebark pine listed as threatened. It has been designated as endangered in Canada for a decade. https://whitebarkfound.org/whitebark-pine-listed-threatened/