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Ground Water Tanzania technicians with borehole camera

Screenshot from a borehole video, borehole in Tanzania

View of borehole video screen showing a well screen, Tanzania

Borehole (well, downhole) video, the truth teller revealing what's hard to see at the surface, e.g., problems, faulty construction, lost tools, what's actually there. Our team in #Tanzania #groundwater #SDG6

This strikes personally as my father was one of the US soldiers toured thru Ohrdruf camp soon after liberation. He kept a small journal of his unit's travels & it stopped there, awhile before his fly out w/ a golden injury. Companies do property transactions & build these camps here too. Squeeze em

Our Director, Professor Melissa Scanlan, just co-authored the 7th edition of “Water Law in a Nutshell” — a book that dives into the legal side of the biggest water challenges of our time.

Grab your copy at West Academic:
www.westacademic.com/Zellmer-Amos...

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

Some rich ol' white men with serious emotional development problems = whole lotta corruption - this is how a rational mixed economy can get turned into a "socialist workers' paradise" (none of those have ever been paradise for the workers)

A Bad Bunny concert with warmup and postlude of pro American football - variation on the band parents' joke

Happy #WorldWetlandsDay - conserve your local wetlands

Yeah, exempting from environmental review is not a good idea, if true

BTW church in the background was built using a regional massive fossiliferous sandstone

Wintry watershed image in Ohio's Mahoning valley at Lowellville, trusty USGS river gauge (level, flowrate, parameters) foreground

Still figuring out BS's image rules - all these are sized to < 1 MB from "real camera" photos (9-10 MB).

Winter scene, Mahoning River near Struthers, Ohio

Mississippian (Carboniferous) sandstone (probably Massillon fm) Mill Creeek Metropark, Youngstown, Ohio

Bridge over Mahoning River at Lowellville, Ohio USGS gauge foreground

Some wintry water scenes in the great Mahoning R watershed in eastern Ohio USA. Signs of industry past (steel) & a USGS stream gauge we kayakers watch closely just downstream of a low-head dam removed in 2020

*Sigh* too soon, believe me

How ‘forest bathing’ keeps lungs healthy Wooded environments release organic compounds that seem to improve respiratory health, but the magnitude and mechanism of the effect remains unclear.

Most human cultures believe nature is good for us. Now scientists are studying biochemical compounds emitted by plants to protect themselves from insects, bacteria, protozoa and fungi -- which seem to be protective medicine for people too. My story for Nature Outlook: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Fossil energy minimum viable scale Unseen infrastructural threats to safety and decarbonization may arise as fossil energy systems are phased out

New from @gruberte.bsky.social and I in @science.org: The energy transition is at risk, and energy models are missing the threat. Fossil energy networks from oil to coal to gas have minimum viable scales of operation, and those thresholds are closer than we think:

www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
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Current Research in Hydrogeodesy and Hydroseismology Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

Thank you to everyone who joined for the first webinar in our "Integrating Hydrology & Geophysics" series with @cuahsi.bsky.social yesterday!

If you weren't able to tune in live, a recording of presentations and discussion from Hilary Martens and Steve Holbrook is now available.

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Reasons to read the terms & conditions. Also noted on @linkedin.com the number of job postings for environmental & earth sci positions basically to train #AI when such experts are better employed in resource management & earth healing

Liking this machine and it's fuel-sipping engine (the other bugaboo 'ICE'). Alternatives not as good and come in boxes from China - or it's my back or lots of help not apparent.

Temu Goebbels reassigned, not enough. And hey, you the oversized: being right-sized for economy seats doesn't mean one is whatever is going on in the heads of people like this. Same for "Neanderthal" - she's in the family tree - All the horror & viciousness we know is modern humans

"Auschwitz took time" - remembering that under the active horror was a process: specs written, tenders let, somebody put up the camps & built the ovens & 'showers' & rail lines. There was a logistics system - the well-described banality of evil

A good annual exercise is to read Martin Luther King Jr's Letter from a Birmingham Jail letterfromjail.com - written in bits & smuggled out. The words are inspiring & also convicting, even yet. It stands beside Paul's letters & other greats. Let's be the change

OK it's been embarrassing over here, but Constitutional government is not dead yet. The #NATO Unity Protection Act has been introduced in the House and Senate in a bipartisan way. Fellow US citizens, write & call those senators and reps. Let's end the crazy. thehill.com/homenews/568...

We are currently experiencing a severe (G4) geomagnetic storm! This is in addition to the severe solar radiation storm already ongoing.

(Now would be a hilarious time for the Sun to throw out another large flare, to cause the simultaneous trinity of space weather effects).

The Blue Voice of the Day: Charles Chitechi
Every day provides an argument for the Blue Community.
Join in, turn blue: blue-community.net/t...

Preserve the evidence

Merry Christmas to all who observe and all the best for the new year from the Ground Water Tanzania and new Ground Water Science teams - The imported flamboyant tree (Delonix regia) blooming in anticipation of the rains is the Christmas tree of Tanzania.

Hydrogeology Journal New Topical Collection Online Now: Progress in groundwater investigation, monitoring and management in South Africa. Online at link.springer.com/collections/...

Image shows Matthys Dippenaar (Editor of the collection) sampling purged groundwater for isotopes.

#groundwater #data #hydrogeology #Halifax

The December 2025 edition of the IAH News & Information Magazine is now available to view online at tinyurl.com/IAH-Winter25