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, and perpetuation of mistakes.

Brandt, W., Tague, C. (2023) How to address publication overload in environmental science, Eos 104. doi: 10.1029/2023EO230361

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 the disturbed forest for the trees: Remote sensing is underutilized to quantify critical zone response to unprecedented disturbance, Earth’s Future 11(8): e2022EF003314. doi: 10.1029/2022EF003314

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 620(Part B): 129515. doi: 10.1016/j.jhydrol.2023.129515

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 Barbara.

Attend in person at the MSI Auditorium (Marine Science Institute, Room 1302) or watch online via zoom

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 Snow Drought: A Spatially-Connected Approach to Understanding Forest Water Stress, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-9151, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-9151, 2023.

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 construct customized climate scenarios from Cal-Adapt data. This tool can also format the data for input to the RHESSys-WMFire model, which can then be used to predict potential fire regimes and impacts. The interactive web application will soon be publicly available for use.
Watch the project presentation below.

Group Members: Victoria Cutler, Erica Dale, Mallory Giesie, Lewis White
Faculty Advisors: Christina (Naomi) Tague

Roadmap for future ecohydrological coupling research

New publication ‘Ecohydrological decoupling under changing disturbances and climate‘ synthesizes the literature on post-disturbance ecohydrological coupling and develops a framework of testable hypotheses to provide a roadmap for future research.

McDowell, N., Anderson-Teixeira, K., Biederman, J., Breshears, D, Fang, Y., Fernández de Uña, L., Graham, E., Mackay, D., McDonnell, J., Moore, G., Nehemy, M., Stevens-Rumann, C. Stegen, J., Tague, N., Turner, M., Chen, X. (2023). Ecohydrological decoupling under changing disturbances and climate, One Earth 6: 251-266. 10.1016/j.oneear.2023.02.007