Soil Moisture and Vegetation are Key Predictors of Precipitation-driven Groundwater Recharge Occurrences in Southeastern Australia

Akhilesh Kumar has the first output from his PhD research available as a preprint:
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5956885

These are his words:

"I am excited to share the first results from my PhD. The study looked at important predictors of groundwater recharge occurrences.

The hydrogeologist community mostly agrees on variables that are important for predicting when groundwater recharge happens but what we are less certain about is the extent of how important these variables are and even less so on if there is a cause-and-effect relationship between them and recharge occurrences.

In this study we investigated the correlation, mutual as well as causal aspects of this relationship and found that soil saturation and vegetation are strongest predictors while rainfall is strong predictor at 6-7 days of cumulative accumulation.

A big thank you to the NGROS team for their valuable contributions and to my co-authors!!! 🙌 "

#academia #groundwater #PhD #preprint #rainfall #soilmoisture #vegetation

L. Nortmann, A. Reiners and S. Dreizler are advertising 3 PhD positions in Exoplanet Science at @unigoettingen in the fields of exoplanet atmospheres, radial velocity measurements, and astronomical instrumentation.

ad: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/en-US/Stellen/StellenDruck/76220

application: https://obp.uni-goettingen.de/de-de/OBF/Index/76220

Deadline to apply is 15 January 2026.

The PhD projects are based on high-resolution spectroscopic observations. The exoplanet atmosphere and radial velocity projects will have access to CARMENES and CRIRES+ data and be embedded in preparation for ELT observations. The project on the radial velocity search for exoplanets will be involved in planning and implementation of the Second Earth and MOSES Spectrographs, and in the PLATO Ground-based observing program. The instrumentation project will focus on calibrating the next generation of high-precision radial velocity spectrographs.

#JobAd #PhD #PhDPosition #Goettingen #UniGoettingen #Exoplanets #Spectroscopy #Astrodon #Astronomy #Astrophysics #GetFediHired

Did some refactoring of the script to create graphs for my #PhD paper.

I think #Rstats is a great tool, but ghee, the last serious programming I did was in Turbo Pascal over 30 years ago.

On the other hand, there was no internet to find workarounds.

Today I managed to reduce the tricky parts to one function. That helps a lot in maintaining a consistent layout.

The third paper from PhD student comes back from 2nd round of review, again asking for significant (different) revisions.

But he successfully defended his #PhD since then, moved on to a new role, at another institute, and none of the co-authors can afford accessing the data and re-running the software to address the comments. We probably won't re-submit.

No, the paper was not perfect. Yes, the reviewers had some good points. But this has taken too long, we are out of personnel and funds to publish this. I guess this will become and stay a pre-print.

#academia

If you are still looking for a last minute stocking filler for those researchers and students in your life, today is the last day where you can pick up the kindle version of It Shouldn't Happen to a PhD Student for only 99p. #lessthanacupofcoffee

#research #researchers #PhD #postgraduate #student #healthcarescience

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Shouldnt-Happen-PhD-Student-survive/dp/1806050757

My housemate is handing her phd in towards the end of January, and I'm thinking of celebratory presents to get her... she's been doing this for 10 years now,so it's been a huge part of both of our lives*

Ideas:
- Business cards that say "Doctor Master Master [full name], Esquire"**
- An "I finished my phd and all I got was this stupid tshirt, a HECS debt, and ptsd" tshirt
- A coffee mug printed with the front page of her phd (they're on etsy and look hilarious)
- A neon sign that says "Doctor Master Master [full name], Esquire" (actually prohibitively expensive)

Other suggestions would be appreciated!

#uni #Academia #phd
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*we've lived together for over 20 years, and we used to date. We dated for almost 10 years, and split up like 13 years ago

**she also has 2 masters degrees and a law degree, she was a bar member in 2 US states before moving to Australia