Kevin Oberg

Husband, father, hydrologist retired @USGS_Water, flow measurement innovation, hydroacoustics, field work.

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

“The only way to figure out what is happening to our planet is to MEASURE it and this means tracking the changes decade after decade and poring over the records”. Robert Hirsch 2017. “In a nonstationary world, continuity of observations is critical”. Milly etal 2008

[NickEverard @Nick_Everard]

An extremely sad & sobering insight. Accurate, resilient #streamflow gauging even more vital in face of #ClimateEmergency The costs of not knowing how much water you have are orders of magnitude greater than the costs of the monitoring. LT records are extra valuable. #Hydrometry

[USGS National Uncrewed Systems Office (NUSO) @USGS_UAS]

USGS @USGS_Water and New York Water Science Center recently tested ground-penetrating radar on a drone for mapping peat. This was part of a collaboration with @FloridaAtlantic to study and locate large carbon gas releases from peat soils in the swampy wetlands of the Everglades.

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

@Sean_Ernst_Wx

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

@MassoLeandro @cgarcia2mjc @APRHI_CBA @MinSPcba Thank you. It’s always fun to be here and work with good friends. I also get to have lots of asado!!

[USGS Coastal Change @USGSCoastChange]

A crew of @USGS #hydrotechs measure #streamflow using a tethered acoustic doppler current profiler (ADCP) in the #SanLorenzoRiver between recent #atmosphericriver events impacting #California.

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

@DroughtDenise In 2021, the lake reached its smallest point ever, 941 square miles, down from a peak of about 2,400 miles in 1986-1987, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
“…more than half the lake bed is exposed,” Abbott said.

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

Wow. Been there many times….

[Brett Sanders @UCIFloodLab]

Compound flooding in Mission Beach, CA from coincident spring high tides and storm waves #flood #risk #adaptation #SanDiego

[California Water | USGS @USGSwaterCA]

USGS hydro tech Louis Cannarozzi captured incredible flows at the Alameda Creek dam on Dec 31, 2022. Crews made 77 #streamflow measurements at 58 #streamgages between Dec 31 - Jan 2, including several preliminary record-high measurements!

https://t.co/wQA7pRPegS

#CAwater

[US Interior Press Team @USInteriorPress]

💧 @USGS a lanzado una versión en español del Tablero de Recursos Hídricos Nacionales — una aplicación que brinda información crítica en tiempo real sobre niveles y flujos de agua y pronósticos meteorológicos y de inundaciones.
https://t.co/XPW5v2SlB3

[Jay Austin @JaustinUMD]

I recently wrote a #GreatLakes tweet discussing the distinction between storm surge and seiches, following a huge surge on LakeErie. I was asked if a seiche was to follow, but the answer caught me off guard: #LakeErie may have huge storm surges, but it has a weak seiche game!

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

There is even some #ADCP measurement information in them. Interesting to see that the Rio Grande is still being used!

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

These videos on suspended sediment sampling on the Lower Mississippi River are interesting & very well done. Congrats @USGS_LMG @USGS_Water.
Episode 1 https://t.co/k1qoC8qaFx
Episode 2 https://t.co/Gz0pdOYlCm
Episode 3a https://t.co/n1FX6myX6F
Episode 3b https://t.co/SHgcF6DESX

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

Found this quite interesting.

[Ed Hawkins @ed_hawkins]

Got a few minutes spare to help climate science?

Join hundreds of other volunteers helping us better reconstruct past variations in weather and climate by transcribing ship logbooks from the 1860s. #WeatherRescue

Weather Rescue at Sea: https://t.co/YdOZ3f2N8T

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

Not only did he design the bridge but he also designed and built the South Pass jetties; designated an ASCE landmark in 1982. Eads is also an ASCE Notable Civil Engineer although he had no formal training in engineering. https://t.co/9QI6CE4CaU

[Kevin Oberg @Hydro_Acoustics]

Water levels at eastern and western shores of Lake Erie in response to the winds associated with this winter storm. See https://t.co/oGPrMrZQza

[Quinn Lewis @seQuinndaryFlow]

Just wanted to boost this work: https://t.co/JbTs6H6xXx
Besides @OleksandraShum1, no other authors are on Twitter (lucky them!). I think the biggest takeaway here is that there needs to be more field and field-scale lab work that embraces quantitative work rather than rejects it.

[HydrometryEA @HydrometryEA]

Come rain or shine ask a hydrometry officer where they like to be and you will usually hear - by the river or even better in it! This pic from today taking ADCP measurements is our happy place 🙂😁

[Fundación Bunge y Born @FundacionByB]

#FuturosSostenibles | Continúa el ciclo de ponencias con “Ciencia Ciudadana como herramienta de transformación: Experiencias en problemáticas hídrico-ambientales”, a cargo de Carlos Marcelo García.

[NASA JPL @NASAJPL]

It's all connected. 🌎 💦

As climate change accelerates, some communities will be inundated with water while others won’t have enough. @NASA's Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) mission will help plan a better future by surveying Earth's salt & freshwater bodies. (1/6)

[Weather Echo - Alex Tardy Skiwxman @weatherechowx]

This amazing video captured by San Bernardino county public works - watch all the processes of a #debrisflow of the El Dorado scar September 12, 2022 - heavy rain rates on scar at 8000 feet in 1 hour