Jessica Gorzo, Ph.D.

Wanting to learn how to vibe code vs. destroying the environment with AI usage: the weird world of…actually, being a research ecologist🤔

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workaround for AGEPRO if you have restrictive capabilities on your work computer that make you use OneDrive (and Windows in general) open powershell and set your home path for the session:

Set-Variable -Name HOME -Value "C:\Users\whatever" -Force

...then run the command line version of the program

How to Practice Tonglen Meditation | Lion’s Roar Pema Chödrön teaches us Tonglen, “sending and taking,” an ancient Buddhist practice to awaken compassion.

Tonglen meditation is a powerful practice of compassion and transformation. By breathing in the pain or suffering of others and breathing out love, relief, and healing, we cultivate empathy and deepen our connection to the world. 

2026 1st bird of the year for me yesterday was a song sparrow that has been overwintering in my yard :)

SEOW from Birds of World: "Clark (Clark 1975b) reported winter foraging activity began around 14:30 to 15:30 h, but it varied from year to year; early morning foraging also probable...evening departure from day roosts 28 min before to 24 min after sunset, with most (83.3%) departures after sunset."

(PDF) Change in the North Sea ecosystem from the 1970s to the 2010s: great skua diets reflect changing forage fish, seabirds, and fisheries PDF | Understanding anthropogenic impacts are crucial to maintain marine ecosystem health. The North Sea has changed in recent decades, largely due to... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Church, Gabriella & Furness, Robert & Tyler, Glen & Gilbert, Lucy & Votier, Stephen. (2019). Change in the North Sea ecosystem from the 1970s to the 2010s: great skua diets reflect changing forage fish, seabirds, and fisheries. ICES Journal of Marine Science

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at my first meeting of the Mid-Atlantic chapter of @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social great conference so far! a perk is that there is 1 session, so everyone gets to see all the locally focused talks, and stakeholders/anglers/commercial sector are represented here too! nice to get everyone in the same room

i happen to know where said vessel is stashed, though not the repair status...when we did the biking challenge, we had tire pumps with us/tire change know-how...which begs the question, have we yet discussed the essential birding big day skill of hot-wiring?🤔

Fair warning @woodcreeper.bsky.social, my plan to help Stephanie achieve her next WSoB goal involves us stealing your boat. It's OK, you can still pilot it. You just need to whisper "I'm being kidnapped by bird pirates" as we leave harbor.

@birdv.fish and @spiffybirder.bsky.social will back me up.

The Documentary - Birding the gender gap - BBC Sounds How studying female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

Birding the gender gap - documentary on how female birds have been under-researched, and the birders addressing that issue. Well worth a listen. www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

The Documentary - Birding the gender gap - BBC Sounds How studying female birds is reshaping our understanding of nature

Lovely documentary "Birding the Gender Gap" right before my prog.
Does what it says on the tin.
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thank you again so much for covering this story Daniel! :)

was so thrilled to be included, and have great memories of our day! many thanks to the host who followed us around for the day😄

I had a bumblebee already getting into the pollen in my garden at 6:49am, so this is my reminder to self to catch the insects when they are sluggish and easier to photograph🐝

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

Three birders on the Cape May–Lewes Ferry crossed paths with a truly shocking seabird at the mouth of the Delaware Bay: the Atlantic Ocean’s first record of Streaked Shearwater! www.aba.org/streaked-she...

Truly, thank you so much for this program! It is both fun and informative, and a great way to also meet fellow first year DEP employees across bureaus!😊

Today’s session is presented by the bureau of business administration, which is great because it’s perhaps the bureau I know the least about! We’re starting the morning with the financials: learning about the different units covering federal grants & aid, accounting, licensing etc.

As a first year employee of @dep.nj.gov I feel fortunate to be able to participate in the new (as of last year) program “the fish & wildlife experience.” Roughly monthly, we get to travel to a site to learn more about what a different bureau in our org does. I feel valued as an employee for this opp

🪶For an extra challenge, the Galbatross team will only count FEMALE birds seen or heard. Learn more about the Galbatross Team and donate here: give.njaudubon.org/s.... Let's introduce you to the team members (2/7)

we had such a great day! thank you to everyone who was able to support us, via either donation or intel or just moral support😆this was my 1st year doing World Series of Birding with the Galbatrosses @audubon.org and hopefully we'll have more to come soon, i was so happy to be adopted/inducted!🐦🪶🦃🪹🦆🦢

Photo of a young woman wearing sunglasses and holding a mistnetting pole. And smaller inset phot by MIchael Klotz shows a female Common Goldeneye. Text on the graphic says: "Jessica "Goldeneye" Gorzo Jessica Gorzo is a researcher who has carried her academic background in wildlife ecology to several different roles. Currently, she is a research scientist working for New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP). She works in the Fish & Wildlife department in marine fisheries, though her academic and career background prior to this position has been largely focused on birds. She applies her avian ecology background in her current role to predator-prey and ecosystem-level modeling, for the purpose of holistic and informed management of marine resources."

🪶 @birdv.fish (6/7)

It’s time for another This Month in Birding, this time for April, despite the fact that this episode technically comes out in May. That’s bonus for May rather than a loss for April. Listen to Gabriel Foley, Frank Izaguirre, and Purbita Saha chat with host Nate Swick this week: www.aba.org/72239-2/

gross but cool nature note (so I'll spare you the pics): found part of black duck carcass near my office. the crop was full of snail shells...

from Birds of the World: "In coastal New Jersey, animal foods are most of diet (92%, n = 40); salt grass snails and killifish predominated (Costanzo 1988)."

Federally managed fisheries of the mid-atlantic fisheries management council (MAFMC): fisheries impacts by members states in landings, jobs and dollars. Most recent year (2022).

People wonder about the economic impacts of #fisheries… here are some numbers around our nations capital.

Open Mic: The Field Glass Ceiling Guest writer Brooke McDonald takes a hard look at the dearth of women in upper level birding, and asks us to take a look at what can we all do to make birding more inclusive at all levels.

evergreen; would like to revisit some of these stats 12 years later: blog.aba.org/2013/06/open...

Attending @cwaunion.bsky.social orientation today to learn more about local 1036, the branch for my workplace; also learning about all topics relevant to the union. This is the first unionized job I have held so lots of new(-ish) info!

🎉 DEP opened Women’s History Month with a lively 🔥 “fireside chat” featuring Kandyce Perry, Director of our Office of Environmental Justice, who led the discussion with Kelley Heck, DEP’s Chief Communications Officer, and Shereyl Snider, of the East Trenton Collaborative and Lead-Free NJ.

Alaska hunters, researchers say whales and fish are changing their migration patterns in the warming climate Fishermen, hunters and researchers gathered at the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Anchorage in January to discuss how several fish species and marine animals are changing their migration patterns ...

www.ktoo.org/2025/03/07/a... fresh observations
on salmon, whales in Alaska