Bringing a little joy to your timelines, check out this wonderful interview with @hydrosciguy.bsky.social !! I'm so very lucky to have wonderful people like Dre in the lab! ❄️
www.unr.edu/nevada-today...
Two and a half exciting updates to my hydroinformatics book (or: data science and hydrology?)
1. The materials all use the updated USGS dataRetrieval package now, yay!
Www.hydroinformaticsbook.com
More below
Pb concentration by decade in hair from Salt Lake City region residents. Value plotted for 1940 includes all samples from 1916 to 1959; value plotted at 2022 includes all samples from 2020 to 2024.
Lead (Pb) in archived hair in Salt Lake City.
"Lead (Pb) in archived hair documents a decline in lead exposure to humans since the establishment of the US Environmental Protection Agency "
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Fig. 1 caption from the paper: "Figure 1. Comparison of two sampling methods: A, three emergence traps located on the pond and one emergence trap located on the creek; and B, workflow of exuviae collection. Diagram created in BioRender (https://BioRender.com/b21n111) by S. Dworatzek."
Fig 2 caption from the paper: "Figure 2. Differences in operational taxonomic unit richness across sample types: A, box plots of operational taxonomic unit richness for each of the six samples, with average operational taxonomic unit richness indicated above each box plot and significant differences indicated by *; B, average overall operational taxonomic unit richness for emergence and exuviae pond samples, with error bars representing the standard error; and C, Venn diagram representing the number of unique and overlapping operational taxonomic units for each location and sampling type."
Fig 3 caption: "Figure 3. Tree map representing the species richness of arthropod taxonomic orders and families in each sample type: A, emergence trap samples; and B, exuviae samples. Insecta is shown on the left; Arachnida is shown on the right; orders are separated by colour; families are separated by label. The size of each box corresponds to the relative number of operational taxonomic units per group."
When aquatic insects emerge, they leave their moulted exoskeletons behind. Why not collect those and sequence the residual DNA to see who was living in the water?
Cool new paper (Open Access) by Dworatzek et al. 🔗: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Love aquatic research, teaching, and outreach? Want to join us at our terrific field station and live on Yellow Bay, Montana? University of Montana seeks a new Director for Flathead Lake Biological Station. Position details here: apply.interfolio.com/178916
Come work with us! The University of Nevada, Reno is hiring an Assistant Professor in Human-Environment Geography, with a focus on energy and/or water sustainability, and environmental justice. Details at this link nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UNR-ex...
Why has woody plant density been increasing in dryland ecosystems? In a new paper in @pnas.org we show that increasing tree density in pinyon-juniper woodlands could largely be a result of long-term population growth, rather than recent anthropogenic effects. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Conceptual figure illustrating predicted biogeochemical responses to changes in network connectivity and streamflow. (a) At the watershed outlet, we predicted NO3− export would increase in response to increasing watershed‐scale connectivity and streamflow, resulting in an enrichment of NO3− downstream. As watershed‐scale connectivity (active surface drainage network length) and streamflow decrease in the dry‐down, NO3− export will decrease due to N source limitations. (b) Throughout the watershed, we predicted the seasonal dry‐down period to be the greatest potential for denitrification to occur given the availability of both NO3− and dissolved organic carbon, anoxic conditions, and decreased streamflow.
Big CONGRATS to @kacizarek.bsky.social!!! Her new paper is out in @agu.org's JGR-B!
The paper has a little bit of everything -- N biogeochemistry, intermittent stream hydrology, concentration-connectivity relationships!
Check it out here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#USEPA Benthic HABs Discussion Group Meeting, March 17, 9-11 am Pacific. Virtual, all welcome. Great talks from California Waterboards, Maryland Dept. of Natural Resources and @joannablaszczak.bsky.social Univ. Nevada Reno.
Subscribe and info: www.epa.gov/habs/epa-out...
I'm hiring, two fully funded PhD positions! Come work in Umeå in Arctic Sweden, a leading place for high-latitude ecosystem ecology and carbon biogeochemistry
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Happy new year!
Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world.
11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month.
Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...
Matt Church and I are hiring 2 Postdoctoral Associates in oceanographic biogeochemistry and modeling. Project info: tinyurl.com/3vbcnx8j Job and application info: tinyurl.com/4pahvet8. Send me any questions. #FLBSUM
Did NOT see this coming!!
Analysis of 2.9M rivers globally finds that, on avg 1984-2018, streamflow increased in headwaters & declined in downstream sections (1.7 times more upstream increases found than declines; ~4 times more downstream declines than increases).
www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1...
Here's a Limnology starter pack! I am sure I left great people out so tag me so I can add them. go.bsky.app/Qv3DLZ6
Great article proposing a new AI tool that could leverage LLMs to help researchers, especially early-careers, tackle the growing mountain of scientific literature.
🔗: eos.org/opinions/how-to-address-publication-overload-in-environmental-science
Authored by William Brandt and Christina Tague
Look forward to our last #WARR talk in 2024!
Drs. Erin Hotchkiss @FluvialBenthos + Joanna Blaszczak
@jrblasz will talk about temporal variation in river ecosystem productivity + respiration, and their recovery under flooding disturbances
Register here: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Left the other place run by Trump's buddy? Here's a starter pack of freshwater scientists to get you started. Also, if you're a freshwater scientist and want to be added, let me know. Still space available.
go.bsky.app/K5ubDhb
Biogeofeminists starter pack image with 7 little circles of the over 130 Bluesky accounts included
Starter pack of biogeofeminists (I have missed many if not most - pls add yourself below & I can update 🩵💜 go.bsky.app/784EKsF
Me too please!
Here is a list of labs in #ecology and #evolution who are recruiting graduate students for next year: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
PIs looking to recruit can enter information here: t.co/Fn1LRAA5Ip
I believe this list is thanks to @drcarl.bsky.social
#evosky #ecoevo #evolbio #AcademicJobs
New work by Laurel Genzoli is helping us understand where and why cyanotoxins occur across river networks: www.umt.edu/news/2024/10...
Alabama Alaska Arkansas Deleware Guam Hawaii Iowa Idaho Kansas Kentucky Louisiana Maine Mississippi Montana Nebraska New Hampshire New Mexico North Dakota Nevada Oklahoma Puerto Rico Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota US Virgin Islands Vermont West Virginia Wyoming
A new program from NSF is targeting graduate fellowship money to people who received Honorable Mention on a GRFP within the past three years, who are currently enrolled in grad school in EPSCoR states.
here is the solicitation: new.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
and a map of EPSCoR eligible states:
Announcement of "The Society for Freshwater Science 2024 SFS Fellows" with the SFS logo in the upper right corner. The announcement: "2024 SFS Fellow "Dr. Robert Hall "Flathead Lake Biological Station "University of Montana" On the right of the announcement is a photo of Dr. Hall.
Congratulations to one of two new Society for Freshwater Science Fellows elected in 2024: Dr. Robert (Bob) O. Hall, Jr.! freshwater-science.org/2024-sfs-fel...
SFS Fellows are honored for sustained excellence in contributions to freshwater science. We look forward to celebrating you at #2024SFS!💧🌎🧪
View of Lake Tahoe at sunset
@jblaszczak.bsky.social and I are recruiting a postdoc in quantitative ecology to model the population and community dynamics of benthic algal communities. Come join us in the beautiful eastern Sierra and Great Basin! Please share! More details here: nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNR-external...
Predictors of maximum algal accrual rates. Wider, more frequently disturbed rivers recover faster. Upstream dams suppress recovery rates.
Heili Lowman is not on Bluesky so I want to share our new publication with @bkshriver.bsky.social, Bob Hall, Jud Harvey, Phil Savoy, & Charles Yackulic on macroscale controls on river resilience to flood disturbances out today in PNAS! Yay Heili!
Check it out here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
We're recruiting a new full-time technician to join the lab ahead of summer 2024! The position involves both field and lab work focused on uncovering controls on benthic cyanotoxin production in rivers. Please share with potential candidates! More info: blaszczaklab.weebly.com/current-open...
Looking for a postdoc in coupled biogeochemistry? Come find me at AGU!
“Catchment concentration–discharge relationships across temporal scales: A review” - A 2020-initiated labor of love 💙Led by Shannon Spier & Lucy Rose, with contributions from Shogren Lab student Michelle Wilford!
I have multiple funded positions for MS or PhD students working on data science and hydrology. To apply, send a cover letter, resume/c.v., and contact info for 3 references to jhosen at purdue.edu. For more information go to jakehosen.github.io/DataScienceE... or contact me.
