"Sometimes I marvel at the winding paths our lives take, especially when the world around us is loud, with
opinions, expectations, and the pressure to conform. Amid life's apparent randomness, bounded by our own initial and boundary conditions, what steers us forward?"

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Best professor ever!

Our March newsletter is LIVE - we're officially celebrating 🎉 25 years!

Inside: a CEO letter marking this milestone, Fellows sharing about WaterSoftHack, a board member story, a CUAHSI college visit, an upcoming cyberseminar, application deadlines and more!
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Ryan (and me) are hiring a PhD student! Sweden is a great country to do a PhD, see the link or ask us for more details, or share with potential students!

UNC-CH Will ‘Scrap’ New Recording Policy, Chancellor Says The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted.

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Fearing ICE, parents make plans for their children’s care Some families give legal authority to others to make key decisions about a child’s life if a parent is detained and deported.

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

Thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. The wind chill was 30 below during the march.

Hundreds of businesses closed their doors Friday in support of the protest as activists urged Minnesotans to abstain from economic activity.

Español: Descansa en paz, Victor Manuel Diaz. Era un inmigrante latino secuestrado por ICE en Minneapolis. Falleció bajo custodia de ICE en el Campamento East Montana, Texas, mientras enfrentaba la deportación. Tenemos un sistema de inmigración injusto que sigue cobrándose la vida de nuestros vecinos y destrozando familias. El Campamento East Montana es un centro de detención de inmigrantes de gestión privada, con un costo de $1.24 mil millones de dólares, financiado con los impuestos de los contribuyentes. Existen informes sobre la falta de acceso a medicamentos y otras deficiencias. Este centro debe ser cerrada. Jason Chavez

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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

Congratulations, Ryan! 👏

Congratulations, Jackie! 🎊 We are big fans of your work

2nd day of final exams for Fall '25 at UNC and buildings are *locked* as they are usually on weekends. You'd think somebody from the Registrar Office would have called Campus Facilities to let them know finals are scheduled today and thousands of students are coming into their regular classrooms

Carbonshed Lab folks squeezing in the last few minutes of work on this pre-Thanksgiving Friday 🍂🍁Grateful for this amazing bunch and all the energy they bring! 🙌🏼

Ojo obrero! I love the name!

Check out this site for current information on ICE sightings in North Carolina

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Remembering Black Veterans Targeted for Racial Violence in the U.S. Honoring those who fought abroad for our country, and at home for equality and justice.

This #VeteransDay, EJI acknowledges the plight of many Black veterans who, instead of being treated as honored members of society upon their return from service, were often attacked, lynched, mistreated and abused.

The number of septuagenarians (aged 70-79) serving in Congress has roughly doubled in the last 20 years. The number of octogenarians (80-89) has quintupled.

Brick walkway lined with yellow leaved ginkgos

Was sprinting across campus earlier in the week and this view stopped me in my tracks. Between the music and art buildings—pure gold.

I almost missed this. What made you stop and smile this week?

Here’s to finding more moments of lightness and joy (and maybe even gold!). 💛

Happy to share @kriddie.bsky.social's latest paper, published in L&O today. This figure compares data from our ~400-hectare watershed in Ecuador (colors) in relation to a synthesis paper of dissolved carbon concentrations in ponds worldwide (gray)

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Donate to Paul Maddox for Congress in NC 11 Paul is running for Congress because there’s a sickness in Washington, and no one is working to cure it.

Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Hydroclimate and landscape diversity drive highly variable greenhouse gas emissions from tropical and subtropical inland waters - Nature Water This meta-analysis assesses the rates and drivers of greenhouse gas emissions from flowing and standing (sub)tropical inland waters, finding that emissions are lower than previous estimates. Considera...

Grateful to be part of this synthesis, led by Clément Duvert and Nick Marzolf. Nice to see this paper is finally out.
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UNC football fallout under Bill Belichick: Assistant coach not at practice, fight between players New developments include the reported suspension of cornerbacks coach Armond Hawkins, a locker room fight between two players on Tuesday and a "toxic" environment.

The UNC football disaster just keeps getting worse (or better, if like ,me you think Belichick needs to go yesterday)
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July 23: “Football Tickets Sold Out Earliest Ever”

Oct 4, w/ 2min to go in 2nd QTR: “We need more music! Send in more band members!!”👇🏼

Appeals Court Affirms Exoneration The N.C. Court of Appeals has seemingly made it official that the men convicted as teenagers of killing NBA star Chris Paul’s grandfather are exonerated.

Appeals Court Affirms Exoneration www.theassemblync.com/politics/cou...

@dustybowl.bsky.social I just realized you were the reason of the server crash. Congratulations! 🎊🥇

20 years of periodic website crashes... the AGU tradition

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings Chris Clemens accused the trustees of "hiding matters of grave public concern,” including tenure debates, using a Signal group and closed session.

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

What is your preferred water-related documentary for an introductory class? My two favorites are "Last Call at the Oasis" and "California's Watershed Healing" but I hope to find other and recent options

Helene in Southern Appalachia One year later: An event analysis and how we move forward.

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps.

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Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).