Jake Hosen

Report: 13 Great Lakes’ Worth of Water Underlies the Contiguous United States - Eos Researchers used 1 million data points and a machine learning algorithm to estimate groundwater stores with higher resolution than ever before.

That's about 306,500 cubic kilometers.

PhD opportunity

Back to the roots! Can plants avoid water stress by moving water uptake to deeper soil?

Find out in this IMPRS PhD project, coop with @chriswernerlab.bsky.social, @bernhardschuldt.bsky.social and a whole consortium investigating plant hydraulics

👉 More info: shorturl.at/66nBa

The environmental costs of corn: should the US change how it grows its dominant crop? Amid concerns over greenhouse gas emissions, the Trump administration has abolished climate-friendly farming incentives

Had great company in the story! @profsecchi.bsky.social provided some powerful insights about "sustainable" aviation fuel. A condensed version of the story was also in @theguardian.com. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

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Recently, I taught a session on landscape metrics in R—covering how to quantify spatial patterns in landscapes. 🌾📊

Slides + exercises here:

🔗 jakubnowosad.com/rgis2025/out...

#rGIS2025 #rstats #LandscapeMetrics #GIS #rspatial

A female Western Gull was recorded riding 150km in a garbage truck from San Francisco to a compost facility in Central CA, probably to forage. TWICE. An innovator, an icon, a genius.

This is one of my favorite @waterbirdsociety.bsky.social papers I've ever handled as managing editor #ornithology

ASSIGNMENT: COMMENT ON SCHEDULE F

1 week left to comment about Schedule F, potentially making NIH institute and center director essentially political appointees.

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Venezuelan Troupial looking for arthropods to eat

Venezuelan Troupial looking for arthropods to eat

Venezuelan Troupial looking for arthropods to eat

Venezuelan Troupial looking for arthropods to eat

Venezuelan Troupial looking around for a good arthropod to munch on!

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

The reductions in funding touch virtually every area of science and seem certain to harm American competitiveness.

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades The lag in funding extends far beyond D.E.I. initiatives, affecting almost every area of science: chemistry, computing, engineering, materials and more.

🧪 Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades! Call your reps, especially if they are Republicans! We must #resist #StandUpForScience www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Lineup of presentations from Jake Hosen's Lab: Jake Hosen Monday, 5pm Room 208A Methane and nitrous oxide concentrations linked to ecosystem metabolism and carbon composition in lentic waterbodies of the US Midwest (#132) Clark Jackson Tuesday, 3:30pm Poster Session 2 Developing Low-cost Sensors for Measuring Wetland Methane Fluxes (#822) Ayobami Oni Tuesday, 3:30pm Poster Session 2 Evaluation of a novel open-source three-dimensional groundwater borehole flow sensor. (#783) Jacob Martinez Wednesday, 11:30am Room 209C Trophic dynamics of freshwater bivalves across environmental gradients in Indiana rivers (#329)

Back to work at @freshwaterscience.bsky.social 2025 Annual Meeting. Happy to share a great lineup of talks from the lab! #mussels #GPP #SFS2025

What lies beneath: microbial quality of rural groundwater explored by shotgun metagenomics - Annals of Microbiology Background Groundwater is a vital freshwater resource, especially in rural areas; however, its microbial communities remain largely unexplored beyond traditional culture-dependent strategies. This stu...

What lies beneath: microbial quality of rural groundwater explored by shotgun metagenomics link.springer.com/article/10.1... #jcampubs

A graphics of a sad bee with little baby bees looking at a dandelion. Behind them there is a bottle of weed killer. The bee is saying "I feed my babies with these "eeds" you spay. Please let me them bloom."

Save NSF. Share your story and get kits to take action.
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Tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems This research demonstrates that tadpoles can create biogeochemical hotspots in wetland ecosystems and has important ramifications for our understanding of the functional role of animal species in nut....

Glad to share this recently published article in @animalecology.bsky.social led by Nick Corline on how "(wood frog) #tadpole aggregations create biogeochemical hotspots in (geographically isolated) #wetland ecosystems": besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

💧🧪🌎🐸 #DelmarvaDisco

The Dark Ages Are Back Americans must insist on academic freedom, or risk losing what makes our nation great.

www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

Tales from the Hill Contributed by Dan Bolnick On April 30 2025 (the same day NSF froze all funding actions), about 20 colleagues and I were crisscrossing Capit...

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TODAY's news at NSF:

3. Effective May 5, there's a 15% indirect rate for new NSF awards to institutions of higher education. www.nsf.gov/policies/doc...

This highly illegal statement was cute:

"This Policy Notice takes precedence over inconsistent policies and procedures set forth in the PAPPG."

USGS Water Data Centers May Soon Close, Threatening States’ Water Management - Inside Climate News The Trump administration has terminated the leases of 25 U.S. Geological Survey Water Science Centers, which inform the water decisions of local and state governments across the country.

insideclimatenews.org/news/2904202...

It's hard to find the words. NSF just terminated the grant for Journeys, a mentoring workshop that tried to tackle underrepresentation of women in international relations. Future scholarship will be the worse for it. But this photo from our last gathering will motivate me to keep fighting.

Due to maintenance, Research.gov (including access to NSF-PAR, GRFP, PES, and ETAP) will be unavailable from Fri., 4/25 at 10:00 PM ET to Sat., 4/26 at 1:00 PM ET. NSF apologizes for any inconvenience.

🚨 Practical URGENT tip for NSF grantees:

Out of an abundance of caution, I would right now go into Research.gov and…

1. Download your NSF award letters.

2. Print PDF your annual reports.

3. Screenshot the status table for annual reports.

NSF is planning maintenance tomorrow to Research.gov

Exclusive: NSF director to resign amid grant terminations, job cuts, and controversy “I have done all I can,” says Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led agency since 2020

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This New Trump-Backed Bill Wants to Make It Harder for Young People to Vote Here’s what we can do.

The bill would erect unnecessary barriers to registering to vote in the U.S. especially for women who have changed their surname, trans voters, young voters without a passport, and more.

🚨 Not a drill: NSF GRFP results are NOW OUT!!!!!

But...good news and bad news.

👍 I'm *thrilled* for the grad students for whom getting this award will be life-changing, esp now.

👎 # of fellowships went down by 51%

(1000 this year vs. 2036 last year)

See here: www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

If a student you know received an honorable mention for the NSF GRFP, encourage them to contact their Congressional representatives! 🧪

As a former Fulbright Scholar (in Chile), I personally understand how terrifying this is. U.S. citizens around the world & foreign nationals in the U.S. — all Fulbright Scholars — have now had their incomes eliminated & are stranded.

DOGE is an illegal, criminal operation that must be shut down.

The National Weather Service is THE ONLY source of weather data in the US. Every weather app, local broadcaster, and weather forecast map is based on NWS data from NOAA. This is a ridiculously stupid own goal for the US that will disrupt all kinds of social and economic activity, and endanger lives.

Home - NOAA Ocean Acidification Program NOAA's Ocean Acidification Program prepares us for the impacts of ocean acidification through research and interdisciplinary partnerships.

One of the people fired from NOAA today is the director of the Ocean Acidification Program. That program also leads the U.S. government's effort on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR). The destruction of American science is incomprehensible.

Consumers are planning a one-day economic blackout on Feb. 28. Here's what to know. Consumers are encouraged not to spend any money on Feb. 28 and if an emergency arises, shop local.

FYI

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