A picture of me wearing a green shirt holding a white sign reading "North Carolina."
North Carolina friends! I'm heading your way this coming Earth week for public talks at Wake Forest, Elon, and Duke (plus over two dozen more small events including guest-teachings classes, meetings, interviews, and more).
If you're in the area, I'd love to see you there. Details below ⬇️
Congratulations to the 2026 SFS Career Award Winners!🎉
🏆️ Hynes Award for New Investigators: Audrey Goeckner
🏆️ Environmental Stewardship Award: John Jackson
🏆️ Award of Excellence: Jennifer Tank
Please join us in celebrating their contributions to freshwater science!
Learn more: buff.ly/CfplxZK
Habitat variability is key to supporting consistent life in braided rivers. New research led by Holly Harris has shown that different parts of the river fluctuate at different times, which smooths out the boom‑and‑bust cycles of insects and fish across the whole river ‘braidplain’.
Does anyone know if it’s recommended to measure TN/TP on a SEAL with the alkaline potassium persulfate digestion method or acidic potassium persulfate digestion? Thanks!!
Attacks on civilian water systems must be condemned and punished under the laws of war. We must repudiate such attacks and stop targeting water supplies, water systems, and other critical civilian infrastructure. #Water must never be a target or weapon of war.
thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...
The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.
Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
SFS participants standing in a stream
The Southwest Chapter is offering travel assistance to students for SFS 2026. To apply for assistance, submit your answers to the questions below to Dr. Fred Govedich (govedich@suu.edu) by March 20, 2026 (1/3).
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The WARR website has been updated with 2026 schedule.
www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
The page includes registration link, 2026 schedule in pdf, and all archived talks from 2021 - 2025.
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Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share
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📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍
📅 May 27–29.
Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
Today in fish news: After more than 100 years away, salmon are back in the headwaters of the Klamath River. At least 140 Chinook adults are spawning, and more are coming.
But there's restoration work still to do. Some federal funding for it is delayed. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!
Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply!
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
three graphs show the change in streamwater pH, calcium ions and soluble silica for three watersheds at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest from 1963 to 2020.
Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
Tomorrow!
A wooded wetland in Illinois; photo by Paul B. Marcum
A new study finds that the 2023 Supreme Court decision (Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency) has resulted in ~72% of Illinois' remaining 981,000 acres of wetlands no longer being protected by the federal Clean Water Act news.illinois.edu/study-72-of-...
'As the ocean marches inland: How rising seas reshape coastal landscapes'
Dr. Chao Wang will be sharing a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment Colloquium series this Friday at 3:30 in Carolina Hall room 220 -- join us!
An incredibly candid and not posed at all photo from the field today. First grad school field trip to Jordan Lake today for some dissolved gas sampling!! nothing like being on a floating surface to really up the ante of headspace injections @agdelv.bsky.social
Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’
📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe
