National Academies of Science panel finds that: The EPA was right in 2009 (when it found that climate change driven by society’s emissions of greenhouse gases are endangering human health & lives), and that everything we've learned since has only made it more right.
arstechnica.com/science/2025...
All the scientists
Inside me
Are tired.
I feel this hard
When every work day may be your last… you work to publish publish publish.
ATTENTION: NSF GRANT RECIPIENTS
We received a heads up from a trusted source that you should proactively download/print/screen shot any documentation on research.gov pertaining to your NSF awards, both those that are current and any that have closed in the last 5-6 years.
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Taught a water governance class today and finished activity #1 early. Asked students if they wanted to leave early. They declined. The kids, people. They’re okay.
Working on a collaborative paper with a group of established researchers- biophysical and social- is both exhausting and exhilarating. We are the present and future of science and we will keep marching on.
It’s exhausting, this existing.
We are not okay.
Same
Great first day of the semester. “Did you read the syllabus” 15 students: “yes!” “Are you sure” “yes” “Madison, tell them why I’m bringing you KitKats next week” “because I read the syllabus” 😂
Qualitative methods here we go!
#firstclass #teaching #spring2025
After so many years of working at the intersection of environment and society, it’s fascinating to me that some folx still don’t see how, or question whether, they’re interconnected (read: inseparable). The work continues.
What a fabulous 10 days- National Adaptation Forum, MSP Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Summer Symposium, + IAGLR Panel on centering communities in Great Lakes restoration. Love my job + floating across sectors. Such amazing empowering collaborators! @MSP_LTER @IAGLR #epa
“The university wants to take credit for community-engaged research but not fund it.” 🎤
#AAG2024
Aurora Kagawa-Viviani, U of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa; member of Hawaiʻi Commission on Water Resource Management shared a quote from their work that I love + feel like many will appreciate: “If the water could scream it would be the voice of the people we hear”
#AAG2024 #waterjustice
The balance of federal research, university teaching, and side projects is hard- but fabulously hard. I love the mix of teaching folks the policy process in the morning and then designing research to address policy challenges in the afternoon. So grateful for rockin’ collaborators and colleagues. ❤️
“Milwaukee WI – Since 2015, The Get The Lead Out Coalition (GTLO), a Milwaukee community frontline group dedicated to the eradication of lead from our environment has pushed Milwaukee to remove toxic lead pipes tainting our water with lead.”
www.wispolitics.com/2024/get-the...
What's going on in California? On The Climate Brink, I've written a primer on Atmospheric Rivers:
open.substack.com/pub/theclima...
It is absolutely bonkers to see pictures of the LA River in the midst of this storm 😱
apnews.com/article/cali...
12 hours later I’m back in Duluth! An exhausting and exhilarating day— day 1 of Spring Semester teaching 200 students Natural Resource and Environmental Policy. It’s going to be a great semester :-)
Our Fall 2023 issue of 'City Buzz' is out! Read the latest updates from the MSP LTER - including new research updates, stories, news coverage, and more! mailchi.mp/umn/msp-lter...
Check out a post by yours truly on a bee lawn/pollinator survey we distributed this year.
Working for an EPA Research Center is like working at a Research Coop - even the higher ups are researchers and super supportive and collaborative— and everyone complains about literature database limitations 🤣
Also it’s the tundra. But the lake views are 💯
Excited to be a part of this report, Centering Communities in Great Lakes Restoration and Ecosystem-based Management
A lot of great collaborations and work coming out of this…
cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_r…
#GreatLakes #socialindicators #socialscience
Skimming vessels are working to contain and recover oil from a spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the Louisiana coast, which is estimated to be at least 1.1 million gallons.
The spill is the latest in an area that has seen some of the worst offshore oil disasters in the nation’s history.
Lake Superior looking gorgeous 🤩
Check out our latest paper explaining a new approach to identifying policy entrepreneurs!
Excited to see this work out and about: link.springer.com/content/pdf/...
Work with @policyandpups.bsky.social , Abby York, Madeline Schomburg, and Changtong Wu!
@roguephd.bsky.social and I are recruiting for a new PhD student at Minnesota, who will work at the intersection of urban land use policy (e.g. zoning), urban nature, climate adaptation, and environmental justice. pls spread the word: z.umn.edu/PhD-urban-nature-governance-ad
Forrest Fleischman and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on urban nature, policy advocacy, climate adaptation, and EJ. Read more here: z.umn.edu/PhD-urban-na...
Join us!