Drylands in the western United States are currently in the grips of a 23-year “megadrought,” and WVU Mountaineers researcher Steve Kannenberg is working to gain a better understanding of this extreme climate event.

Read more about his study: bit.ly/3Ws22ge

Biocrust is so beautifully portrayed in this film project I was fortunate enough to be a part of 😍 I am so grateful for the opportunity to tell a whole new audience (outdoor recreation enthusiasts!) about how amazing #biocrust is! #scicomm youtu.be/XguYw16YsDY?si…

Today in nature, Wilkes Center for Climate Science & Policy Director William Anderegg and his colleagues called on the trustees of Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) to rescind their decision allowing #carbonoffsets for business' indirect #scope3 fossil-fuel emissions.
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Honoured to receive a jury distinction for the 'deceptive suppleness' of a juniper wood section. Wood is more than it seems! flic.kr/p/2pFVfEb

Excited to announce our Nature Reviews Earth & Environment 🌈 review synthesizing plant responses to fewer, larger rain events across field studies, models, and satellites. We focus on plant responses and mechanisms in the context of the contrasting behavior between dry and wet ecosystems.

☀️ Want to learn more about Ecovoltaics? ☀️Check out my new article for The Conversation U.S. theconversation.com/solar-power-oc…

🌳🌡️ Thrilled to share our latest research in Earth's Future on reforestation and biophysical cooling! We show how extensive reforestation in the SE US contributed to regional cooling in the 20th century, highlighting its climate adaptation benefits.🛰️🌲 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

Fresh out of the oven! We show that plant reflectance can estimate physiology and be used to detect Oak Wilt or drought before visual symptoms appear. Reflectance variability within the canopy allows us to differentiate one from the other.

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Irrigation is an important form of climate change adaptation, but will increasing irrigation lead to more GHGs from pumping? In Avery Driscoll's new pub, we map current US pumping emissions and show strong decarb potential with ↑ pump electrification: nature.com/articles/s4146…

This just out!

Read the latest from DroughtNet and the International Drought Experiment. DroughtNet

Extreme drought impacts have been underestimated in grasslands and shrublands globally | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Thrilled to share our latest publication that illustrates yet another cool use of surface temperature data! Here we use it to create an emergent constraint on Earth System Model sensitivity to water availability across CMIP6: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Fantastic work out today by Julia K. Green in AGU Advances constraining Earth System Model responses to water availability using information contained in global air and skin temperature records.

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🌊 Join us! 🌿 Postdoc (remote option) & Ph.D. positions available in our USGS-funded eco-hydrology project. Boost water budget predictions across the US! 🚀 Apply: [bit.ly/48iTUSv] Please share with those who might be interested. Thanks! 🙌 #ResearchJobs #PhD #Postdoc

We are excited for the #PSInet sponsored AGU sessions on ecosystem hydraulics happening tomorrow! See you bright and early for the oral session (w/Matheny, Anderegg, Boroski, Peters, Carminati, Pashalis, Konings, and Anderegg). 8:30 - 10:00 am. MW3008.
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For those of you at #AGU23 -- I'm looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow morning in session B32B: Consequences of #Drought for Terrestrial Vegetation: From Physiology to Global Feedbacks II (organized by Steve Kannenberg ). Join us!