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Smoke this morning at the new camera site in Redwood National and State Parks. The view of Bald Hills and the Redwood Creek watershed was generally obscured but did clear up a bit later in the day. These two images are from the same time, one from the ground, the other from the NPS camera at the top of the lookout tower. Learn more about the park at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and home.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #interpretation #cawx #california Image credit (1) Kurt Angersbach/Westernlabs and (2) National Park Service and Redwood Parks Conservancy #summer #lookout #watershed #prairie #grassland #oak #woodland #fire #smoke #airquality

New camera site in Redwood National and State Parks (View of Bald Hills and Redwood Creek watershed). Learn more about the park at nps.gov/redw/index.htm and home.nps.gov/redw/learn/nature and #nps #nationalparks #ocean #publiclands #photography #landscapephotography #coast #pacific #redwood #interpretation #cawx #california Image credit National Park Service and Redwood Parks Conservancy #summer #lookout #watershed #prairie #grassland #oak #woodland

Canadian Hydrospatial Network [6 new regions]
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natural-resources.canada.ca/sc <-- shared data resource
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open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset <-- access the open data
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“The Canadian Hydrospatial Network (CHN) is a map-based dataset that includes Canada's lakes, rivers, watersheds and other water features and their connections to each other.
It's applications include:
🗺️ serving as a foundation for advanced hydrologic and hydraulic modelling, including for flooding and drought
🗺️ supporting water and watershed management
🗺️ providing essential base data for cartography…”
You can now explore six new regions …”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #earthobservation #CanadianHydrospatialNetwork #CHN #Canada #opendata #lakes #rivers #watershed #waterbodies #water #hydrospatial #hydrography #hydrology #planning #management #model #modeling #cartography #fedopendata #fedscience
#NRCan

Seismometers Listening At Rivers To Measure Sediment Transport
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eos.org/editor-highlights/seis <-- shared technical article
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doi.org/10.1029/2022JF007000 <-- shared paper
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“Bedload sediment, transported throughout an alpine catchment by a flood, was remotely tracked in detail by analyzing the ground vibrations recorded by a network of 24 seismic sensors….
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #sediment #remotesensing #bedload #alpine #catchment #flood #seismic #seismology #river #mountianous #watershed #sensor #model #modeling #sedimentology #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #erosion #deposition

Inter-Basin Groundwater Flow In West-Central Florida
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doi.org/10.1016/j.jhydrol.2025 <-- shared paper
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fl.water.usgs.gov/floridan/int <-- shared USGS overview page, Floridan Aquifer System Groundwater Availability
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“HIGHLIGHTS
• The regional pattern of IGF in west-central Florida is dominated by the characteristics of the Upper Floridan Aquifer.
• IGF plays a major role in the available water for partitioning and watershed aridity index.
• Groundwater pumping affects IGF, and the change in IGF counteracts the human impact on available water..."
#GIS #spatial #mapping #groundwater #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #Florida #USA #waterresources #waterquality #watersecurity #regional #model #modeling #HSPF #MODFLOW #geology #sedimentology #hydrogeology #aquifer #runoff #discharge #watershed #precipitation #climate #aridity #index #pumping #humanimpacts #anthropogenic #watersupply

"This talk by #JamesBridle was part of '#OtherMinds', a season of work exploring different kinds of #intelligence: animal, mechanical, collective. In September 2024, #Watershed shared projects that ask what it means to work with minds that are utterly unlike our own, and how 'AI' can be part of a wider conversation about intelligence, labour, and creativity."
#WaysOfBeing
youtube.com/watch?v=xuIl9blLdA

#Solarpunk #writing and #art idea:

A #watershed #map instead of a political or elevation one.

Imagining a world divided into bio-regions not by some arbitrary political body, but by the rivers and water circulation.

We could make it into a beautiful symbol of a sustainable future.

More about it - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drainage

The one below is a work of grasshoppergeography.com/

"A Half Built Garden" book by Ruthanna Emrys implements such a vision!

Continued thread

“But whatever the premises of opposition may be, only the most convincing justification under accepted standards of #precedent could suffice to demonstrate that a later decision overruling the first was anything but a #surrender to #political pressure, & an unjustified repudiation of the principle on which the Court staked its #authority….So to overrule under fire in the absence of the most compelling reason to re-examine a #watershed decision would subvert the Court's #legitimacy…”
#DavidSouter