Tague Webinar Presentation: A Frontier in Ecohydrologic Modeling
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center Seminar Series Invited Speaker: Professor Naomi TagueTalk Title: Dynamic Plants and Critical Zone Water Storage: A Frontier in Ecohydrologic ModelingDate: Monday, October 27Time: 2:00 PM (Eastern Time) All are welcome to attend this invited seminar featuring Dr. Naomi Tague, who will discuss advances in ecohydrologic modeling that link dynamic vegetation…
How do trees and snowpack co-evolve following disturbance? New publication
This new publication sheds light into the coevolution of montane forests and snowpack response to forest treatments through the coupling of the process-based snow model SnowPALM and the ecohydrological model RHESSys. Krogh, S.A., Graup, L., Tague, C., Broxton, P., Boisrame, G., Scaff, L., Harpold, A. A. (2025) Forest Regrowth Impacts on High-Resolution Snowpack Modeling: A…
Tague & Turpin Wildland Lecture
This Thursday, artist Ethan Turpin and UCSB professor Naomi Tague will present a free public lecture on their collaborations for WILDLAND – how they developed the concept and linked art and science to create visualizations and experiences to help make sense of our complex, changing environment and humanity’s relationship with it. When: January 30, 2025 at…
Wildland Exhibit Events
Opening night reception for the Wildland exhibit was a success – be sure to visit throughMarch 22, 2025.Don’t miss the following upcoming exhibit events: Artist & Collaborator TalkWhen: January 30, 2025 at 5:30pmWhere: Adams Classroom 216, Westmont CollegeArtisit Ethan Turpin and UCSB professor Naomi Tague will present a lecture on their collaborations for WILDLAND -…
Wildland Exhibit – featuring ‘Future Mountain’
Westmont College Exhibit Announcement: “WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin’s Collaborations on Fire and Water” Westmont College is hosting the thought-provoking exhibit “WILDLAND: Ethan Turpin’s Collaborations on Fire and Water”, running from January 9 to March 22, 2025. This unique exhibit showcases artistic explorations of critical environmental issues, including the natural cycles of wildfire, devastation, recovery and regrowth.…
Tague AGU Fellowship Award
At the 2024 AGU conference in Washington DC, Dr. Naomi Tague received an American Geophysical Union Fellowship Award in recognition of her exceptional achievements in research for advancing understanding, prediction, and integration of ecohydrological processes, feedbacks, and coevolution over a range of watershed scales. Dr. Tague’s recognition at the Award Ceremony can be seen at…
AGU 2024 Representation
Research using RHESSys presented at the 2024 AGU Conference in Washington DC, as well as presentations by Tague Team Lab colleagues and collaborators. RHESSysGrace Stephenson, Naomi Tague, Janet Choate – UC Santa BarbaraEco-hydrological Modeling of Post-fire Recovery in Central California Coastal Watersheds Lawrence E Band, Rouyu Zhang, Daniel Pelletier – University of VirginiaPatterns and Pathways…
Dr. Naomi Tague receives 2024 AGU Fellowship Award
Professor Christina (Naomi) Tague has been named a 2024 Fellow by the American Geophysical Union (AGU – the world’s largest Earth and space science association). This prestigious recognition is awarded to individuals who have made exceptional contributions to earth and space sciences. Professor Tague’s scientific contributions have gained international recognition for her cutting-edge research in…
Retaining snow & increasing baseflow to counteract rising stream temperatures
This study explores how climate and geology will affect future stream characteristics during the ecologically stressful summer months – and how land management activities that increase water storage as snow and groundwater while decreasing evapotranspiration may help mitigate some of the effects of climate change, especially in more arid watersheds. Boisramé, G., Harpold, A., Tague,…
Publication: Urban trees and irrigation reduction
This study used RHESSys to quantify how urban tree water and carbon fluxes are affected by irrigation reductions, and how that relationship changes with tree species and temperature – results have implications for water resources management before and during drought, and for urban tree climate adaptation to future drought. Torres, R., Tague, C.L., McFadden, J.P.…
Louis Graup PhD Dissertation Defense
Tague Team Lab member Louis Graup will present his dissertation defense “Investigating Riparian Resilience to the Climate Crisis through a Critical Zone Lens” on Thursday June 13, 2024 at 8:00 am PT. Attend in person: Bren Hall 1414Attend online: zoom link and passcode riparia Advisor: Naomi TagueCommittee: Frank Davis, Jeff Dozier, Adrian Harpold
The VHL approach: getting the right answers for the right reasons
Key points of this new publication, which proposes the Virtual Hydrological Laboratory approach: Thyer, M., Gupta, H., Westra, S., McInerney, D., Maier, H. R., Kavetski, D., Jakman, A., Croke, B., Simmons, C., Partington, D., Shanafield, M., Tague, C. (2024) Virtual Hydrological Laboratories: Developing the next generation of conceptual models to support decision making under change, Water Resources Research 60, e2022WR034234. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022WR034234
New article: Nitrogen and Dryland watersheds
Climate change effects on nitrogen deposition and export may pose threats to water quality in dryland watersheds. Ren, J., Hanan, E. J., D’Odorico, P., Tague, C., Schimel, J. P., & Homyak, P. M. (2024) Dryland watersheds in flux: How nitrogen deposition and changing precipitation regimes shape nitrogen export, Earth’s Future 12, e2023EF004120. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023EF004120
Viewpoint on Digital twins of the Earth
Naomi Tague’s viewpoint article is featured in the Frontiers in Science Digital Twin Earth Hydrology Platform article hub. Tague C. (2024) Digital twins of the Earth: can they keep up?, Front Sci 2:1371049. doi: 10.3389/fsci.2024.1371049
Modeling biogeochemical hotspots article
New framework for representing hotspots in RHESSys to better project future N export. Ren, J., Hanan, E. J., Greene, A., Tague, C., Krichels, A. H., Burke, W. D., et al. (2024) Simulating the role of biogeochemical hotspots in driving nitrogen export from dryland watersheds, Water Resources Research 60, e2023WR036008. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023WR036008
RHESSys conference announcement
RHESSys Conference 2024 Location: VirtualDate: 1-2 May 2024Registration Cost: FREEAbstract Deadline: 15 March 2024Website: https://rhessys.github.io/conferences/conference_2024 RHESSys Conference 2024 seeks to bring together members of the RHESSys community to share, learn, and network with one another. The conference will be held virtually on 1-2 May 2024. We welcome presentations on all topics related to RHESSys, including…
Rachel Torres PhD Dissertation Defense
Tague Team Lab member Rachel Torres will present her dissertation defense “Beyond the Drought: Modeling eco-hydrologic dynamics between urban tree resilience and water conservation in a Mediterranean climate” on Friday, Dec. 8th at 10am (PT). Attend in person: Bren Hall 1414Attend online: use the link on the Bren event announcement
CZ science in the US West—Too much information?
In this new publication, Tague and Brandt propose the need for a radical transformation of how we present and summarize our scientific knowledge. Tague, C., and Brandt, W.T. (2023) Critical zone science in the Western US—Too much information? Front. Water 5:1226612. doi: 10.3389/frwa.2023.1226612
Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence for Predictions in Ecohydrology
In this new paper, the authors investigate and report on the potential application of artificial intelligence and machine learning in ecohydrology, highlight outcomes of the ecohydrology session at the November 2021 Artificial Intelligence for Earth System Predictability (AI4ESP) workshop, and provide visionary perspectives for future research in this area. Massoud, E.C., Hoffamn, F., Shi, Z.,…
How to Address Publication Overload in Environmental Science
In this article, a new dynamic online metasynthesis tool is proposed by the authors as a better approach to synthesizing the wealth of available knowledge in environmental science and related fields – to make finding, understanding, and updating science – more efficient and equitable for researchers, and reduce duplicated work, rediscovery of previously published ideas,…
New Pub: Potentials for quantifying disturbance response with remote sensing technologies
This publication offers a focused review of how modern remote sensing platforms and sensors could advance our understanding of disturbance impacts and recovery across scales. Hwang, K., Harpold, A.A., Tague, C.L., Lowman, L., Boisramé, G.F.S., Lininger, K.B., Sullivan, P.L., Manning, A., Graup, L., Litvak, M., Lewis, G., Miller, K., Brooks, P.D., Barnard, H.R. (2023) Seeing…
On the expansion of integrated hydrologic models, and future challenges
In this new publication, recent advances to integrate new processes and systems into existing terrestrial hydrologic models are reviewed, and the significant challenges and opportunities that remain are highlighted. Brookfield, A.E., Ajami, H., Carroll, R.W.H., Tague, C., Sullivan, P.L., Condon, L.E. (2023) Recent advances in integrated hydrologic models: Integration of new domains, Journal of Hydrology…
Bren Flash Talks
Tague team lab member Rachel Torres has been mentoring undergrad student Perla Nava as part of the Bren Environmental Leadership program, which will highlight undergraduate student achievements in the Summer Bren Flash Talks tomorrow from 1-4. Perla will be presenting the work she’s been doing using census data to map with tree data in Santa…
Louis Graup presentation at EGU
Louis Graup presented his poster “The Signature of Snow Drought: A Spatially-Connected Approach to Understanding Forest Water Stress” recently at the EGU23 General Assembly meeting in Vienna, Austria. Also – pay a visit to Louis’s blog and see how he expresses hydrology in a rather artful way! Graup, L. and Tague, N.: The Signature of…
New tool for creating climate scenarios
As part of the larger Moore Foundation’s Building Resilience to Wildfires initiative, a team of students in the Master of Environmental Data Science (MEDS) program produced a new climate tool for creating climate scenarios as their Capstone Project – “Automating Climate Scenario Creation for Wildfire Modeling”. The team created an interactive web application to efficiently…
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