# General

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## [Welcome Message from Rosemary](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/welcome-message-from-rosemary/8)

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**Author:** [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [June 8, 2026, 4:57pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/welcome-message-from-rosemary/8 "2026-06-08T16:57:25Z")

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Welcome to the online forum for the project Taking the Pulse of the Watershed. Visit our home page for the project description, and the list of past and upcoming seminars (Wednesdays 11-11:50 PT). Taking the Pulse of th…

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## [About the General category](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/about-the-general-category/3)

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**Author:** [@system](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/system)\
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## [Preprints discussion](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/preprints-discussion/33)

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**Author:** [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\
**Replies:** 5\
**Last updated:** [June 30, 2026, 5:11pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/preprints-discussion/33 "2026-06-30T17:11:22Z")

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I recently reached out to some of the researchers in the Pulse community, to find out what the prevailing attitudes and practices are in our various fields regarding sharing research findings via preprints. I’m sharing …

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## [Forum tags - suggestions](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21)

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**Author:** [@zchandler](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/zchandler)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [April 16, 2026, 8:01pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/forum-tags-suggestions/21 "2026-04-16T20:01:42Z")

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Hi Team! To facilitate searching and discovery, using tags, it will be helpful for us to define terms that we are going to use. For example, we have “water level data” as a tag, so should not have “groundwater level data…

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## [Fiber Sensing in the San Joaquin Valley (Biondi)](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/fiber-sensing-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-biondi/23)

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**Author:** [@ettore88](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/ettore88)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 18, 2026, 3:56pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/fiber-sensing-in-the-san-joaquin-valley-biondi/23 "2026-03-18T15:56:38Z")

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Our distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) array is finally in Tulare, recording on a 130 km fiber path at 10 m resolution in space! Here is the fiber path map and the two waterfall plots from the sensing unit along each 65 …

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## [Ambient Noise Groundwater Monitoring in Kaweah](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/ambient-noise-groundwater-monitoring-in-kaweah/25)

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**Author:** [@fschwer](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/u/fschwer)\
**Replies:** 1\
**Last updated:** [March 13, 2026, 7:32pm UTC](https://pulseofthewatershed.discourse.group/t/ambient-noise-groundwater-monitoring-in-kaweah/25 "2026-03-13T19:32:13Z")

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After finishing our fieldwork last week, we have now finally deployed all of our 14 seismometers. See the maps below for the site distribution. Together with the permanent stations of the Caltech and Berkeley Networks, w…