THE WATER DESK: When the West’s rivers surge each spring, older groundwater dominates the runoff The Water Desk Hydrology September 3, 2025A better understanding of groundwater in the headwaters could improve streamflow predictions. By Mitch Tobin, The Water Desk Every spring,...
NIDIS: Digging Into the Significance of Soil Moisture at the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop NIDIS Hydrology July 8, 2025By NIDIS On the second morning of the 2025 National Soil Moisture Workshop, keynote speaker Syed Huq reminded the audience:...
NASA: ‘Current’ Events: NASA and USGS Find a New Way to Measure River Flows NASA/JPL Hydrology August 7, 2024From NASA: A team of scientists and engineers at NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collaborated to see if...
UC BERKELEY: Water in California’s streams is poorly monitored, impeding effective management UC Berkeley Planning and management June 4, 2024By UC Berkeley, Rausser College of Natural Resources California relies on its rivers and streams for a plethora of services—water...
UC BERKELEY: What artificial streams can teach us about insects, algae and our changing climate UC Berkeley Ecosystems March 19, 2024By the end of the century, drought may reshape California’s mountain waterways and the ecosystems that depend on them. By...
UC RIVERSIDE: Rivers may not recover from drought for years UC Riverside Hydrology October 11, 2023New method pinpoints streamflow drought duration, severity By Jules Bernstein, UC Riverside Lack of rainfall is not the only measure...
DESERT RESEARCH INSTITUTE: Climate Change is Already Impacting Stream Flows Across the U.S. Desert Research Institute Climate change April 25, 2023DRI researchers examined more than 500 watersheds across the country and found that increased winter temperatures are driving more extreme...
PACIFIC FOREST TRUST: Seeing the Forest for the Water Maven Best of the NotebookEcosystems April 20, 2022When an ecologist, a geographer, and an engineer walk into a watershed bar, what do they talk about? Most of...
EOS: Forest Fires Could Boost Western U.S. Water Supplies American Geophysical Union Wildfires and watersheds February 21, 2022Streamflow in the West has been below average since the early 2000s, but a new analysis shows that streams aren’t...
Watersheds 101 Maven Notebook News and FeaturesPlanning and management October 7, 2020[cmtoc_table_of_contents] No matter where you are in the world, you are in a watershed. The water flowing over the land...
Saving salmon in a changing California Maven Best of the NotebookFish and wildlifeNotebook News and Features December 17, 2015Dr. Peter Moyle lays out a six-point plan for helping salmon adapt to California’s warm future We don’t have to...
