Cherry trees in Kyoto. Not a subtle signal.

Join us Thursday, April 16th @ noon for a #GreatLakes #seminar presented by Jenan Kharbush: "Exploring the role of nitrogen substrate availability in the ecology of Microcystis-dominated CyanoHABs" Register TODAY: register.gotowebinar.com/register/739... More: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/110620...

🌊 #CIGLRAlumniSpotlight, #WomenInScience: Exploring Freshwater Mysteries: Science Beneath the Surface w/ Dr. Freya Rowland: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/alumni-story... 🔬 This #WaterWednesday, learn from a former #CIGLR postdoc who continues to shape #GreatLakes & water #science around the world!

🌊 NEW BLOG! Across Lakes & Continents: One Scientist’s Path Connecting Freshwater Systems: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/across-lakes... From the Laurentian #GreatLakes to Africa’s Great Lakes, Melissa Mattwig’s work shows one thing: the future of freshwater depends on global collaboration. #WomenInScience

Could the air near Lake Erie be making people sick? My colleagues David Kennedy, Steven Haller, and others are studying effects of aerosolized algal toxins as part of our Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health: www.13abc.com/2026/04/10/u...

🌍💧🎥 #GreatLakes Seminar: Ted Lawrence (ACARE: www.agl-acare.org) highlighted the African Great Lakes, 25% of the world’s surface freshwater, supporting hundreds of millions. These ecosystems face threats from climate, pollution, habitat loss, overuse & invasives: www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ7C...

#WaterWednesday: CIGLR & NOAA GLERL deployed a glider in L. Michigan. These robotic “underwater explorers” collect data from surface to depth, helping track algal blooms, ecosystem change & improve forecasts for navigation, water quality & management: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/project/grea... #GreatLakes

Stay in the loop with the #GreatLakes AI Lab Newsletter Interested in how machine learning & AI are shaping #GreatLakesSci and decision-making? Sign up for updates on real-world applications: myumi.ch/Mkenb More about the GLs AI Lab: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/project/ai-l... @danijones.bsky.social

Upcoming Webinar, open to all: Societal Impacts of Changing #GreatLakes Ice Conditions When: April 13, 2026 Time: 10:00–11:00 AM ET 👉Register & join via links in flyer or below: Registration: forms.gle/Gk1CYTQ21zGH... Zoom: umich.zoom.us/j/94398391835

🌊 #CIGLRAlumniSpotlight, #WomenInScience: Anna Schmidt From #GreatLakes to global freshwater research, Anna advances food web science. A former #CIGLR fellow/lab analyst, she’s now pursuing a Ph.D. @uvmvermont.bsky.social studying lake ecology & carbon cycling: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/alumni-story...

This planet — with all its troubles — is worth caring for. That should be our single purpose, as a species: To be stewards of this magnificent world, ensuring it thrives long into the future.

This photo was taken by astronaut Michael Collins in 1969. With the entire Earth in view, along with the lander carrying Armstrong and Aldrin, Collins was the only human being not in the frame. We are going to get a new view of Earth from lunar orbit soon.

In a new interview, outgoing National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt reflects on her presidency, offers advice to young #WomenInScience, and outlines emerging opportunities and challenges in science. Read: https://ow.ly/m9Pt50YCQXH

I'm so excited by & curious about this experiment -- basically Ann Arbor is standing up a second, municipal power utility, devoted to clean energy, to operate alongside its IOU. Unique in the world, far as I know:

Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Great Lakes ice update for March 27, 2026: Combined 24% | Lake Superior 34% | Lake Michigan 12% | Lake Huron 37% | Lake Erie 4% | Lake Ontario 2% | #GreatLakes

Congrats to all the new fellows of AAAS, including three of my great #MSU (@michiganstateu.bsky.social) colleagues: Elena Litchman (@elenalitchman.bsky.social), Dohun Pyeon, and Elise Zipkin!

The final version of our paper is out! Congrats to @zhuyt0515.bsky.social bsky.social, Hanna Anderson and the rest of the team at @microbialplanet.bsky.social Characterization of phytoplankton-excreted metabolites mediating carbon flux through the surface ocean www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Water is life💧🌊 We all need it to survive. But our Great Lakes, the largest surface freshwater system on the planet, face serious threats. On this World Water Day, support organizations like @healthylakes and @healthywaterscoalition that are working to ensure safe, clean water for all.

Cyanotoxins in the Great Lakes basin and their removal in drinking water treatment plants #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Having a hard time keeping up with the fast-moving field of origin of eukaryotes/Asgards archaea? Our new perspective article can help, we review the status of research over the last decade and where it's going. The archaeal roots of eukaryotic life www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Beautiful satellite imagery over the Mitten State today 😍 it’s cool to see banded surface-based convection in Michigan that doesn’t come from the Lakes!

#ASLO is accepting applications for Associate Editor of the #ASLO_Bulletin! Work with the editorial team to curate and review content for the #aquaticsciences community. Aquatic scientists at all career stages are encouraged to apply. ‼️ Review starts 16 March 🔗 www.aslo.org/lob-associat...

#GreatLakesWeek: At the Michigan Chapter of the @amfisheriessoc.bsky.social Conf, #CIGLR’s Maddie Tomczak shared her research tracking Alewife larvae in L. Michigan. Using long-term monitoring, she studied when larvae appear, peak & taper off, helping manage this key prey species for salmon.

“The future is not fixed... Conservation, restoration and renewed connections between people and nature can improve ecosystem health and strengthen community resilience.”

#GreatLakesWeek: Just days into March & meteorological spring, the #GreatLakes remain nearly half ice-covered at 46.6%. 🧊🌊 Check out NOAA GLERL's website for ice data as conditions evolve & temps warm: www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/ice/#cu... Superior: 47% Michigan: 20% Huron: 69% Erie: 74% Ontario: 16%

If you ever want to read a paper for free and can't find it otherwise, email the lead author and politely ask for a copy. You will not be bothering the person. You will in fact make their whole entire day. I have had scientists get so excited I asked they sent me everything they ever published.

The Keweenaw Waterway recently acquired a new waterfront feature that gives visitors a firsthand view into how weather and wave data are collected across the Great Lakes. Learn more about this unique buoy: glos.org/land-based-b...

🌊 NEW BLOG! Listening to Storm Waves Beneath Lake Ontario A study led by former #CIGLR postdoc Dr. Chu-Fang Yang & CIGLR's Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome & @umich.edu partners shows how a fiber-optic cable on the lakebed can monitor storm waves in real time: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/listening-st... #GreatLakes

Join us Thursday, March 12 from 12-1pm! for a #GreatLakes #seminar presented by Ted Lawrence: "Strengthening science on the #AfricanGreatLakes through a highly collaborative network of freshwater experts" Register online TODAY: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/031220... #GreatLakesSci

Hello, Bluesky 🌊 We’re #CIGLR, advancing science to protect the #GreatLakes & support #NOAA’s mission to protect lives, property, & the region’s economy. Through research & partnerships, we connect science to society. Learn more: ciglr.seas.umich.edu Stay informed: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

woohoo, the Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research is now on bluesky! @ciglrum.bsky.social #GreatLakes

🎉 It's livestream day 🎉 Join me at 1700 (CET; 1600 UCT) today for two hours of GAM goodness 🤤 📽️ Youtube: youtube.com/live/A9U8e1K... Hit the Notify me 🔔 to get a reminder when I go live #RStats #mgcv #statistics #GAMs #DataScience 🧪

Space-for-time studies of land-use change rely on a baseline. But what if that baseline has already changed? In our new Ecography paper we show this can underestimate biodiversity loss. 🐦📉🧵(1/9) nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

chemolithoautotrophy - likely by ammonia-oxidizing archaea - contributes up to 22.5% of winter net primary production in a waterbody connected to Lake Superior - cool! @microbesheik.bsky.social

@realshri.bsky.social has a brand new article for @theconversation.com with some super helpful insights and context for today's oral arguments in front of the U.S. Supreme Court for Enbridge Energy, LP v. Nessel. theconversation.com/supreme-cour...

new study of #GreatLakes research centers, w/ some nice quotes from CIGLR colleagues: "Research centers in the region also work together as a collaborative that complements each of them, and so the network of research centers is vital, Moerke said."... greatlakesecho.org/2026/02/16/r...

Yes, @realshri.bsky.social: "Being a “Great Lakes Champion” has to include support for a strong, enforceable Clean Water Act... fully supporting the agencies, science, programs and people that prevent the Great Lakes from being polluted ..."

Nice piece on storm surges in Lake Erie, home to the most "the most dramatic, damaging and deadly surges” in the #GreatLakes. And on how not to build coastal resilience: armoring the shoreline is like "like putting a toddler in a room and closing the door." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/s...

Carl Zimmer wrote a nice article highlighting our new paper that came out today. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/s...

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New paper from my team detailing a greatly expanded genomic database of Asgard archaea revealing of high energy metabolism those related to eukaryotes! Led by @katyappler.bsky.social lots of help from @jameslingford.bsky.social @valdeanda.bsky.social @kassipan.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#GreatLakes seminar starting momentarily -- Charlyn Partridge: Using eDNA and population genomics to monitor the invasion of hemlock woolly adelgid throughout eastern North America. Join us! ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/021820...

"water bankruptcy": "water systems are under unprecedented pressure.... These trends signal not only growing stress, but in many contexts a structural imbalance between water demand and available resources." says new report: collections.unu.edu/eserv/UNU:10...

Habitat restored ✅ Contaminated soils removed ✅ Living shorelines created ✅ Trash removed ✅ Recreational access improved ✅ And...done! With @glcommission.bsky.social, we've helped restore what was once one of the Great Lakes region’s most degraded areas: www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...

you don't have to be in the water to be exposed to toxins in cyanobacterial blooms: new work from Greg Boyer's group at the Great Lakes Center for Freshwaters and Human Health www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Community Curation of Microbial Metabolites Enables Biological Insights of Metabolomics Data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

what does a drifting #buoy revealed about #winter on the #GreatLakes? @greatlakesnow.bsky.social interviewed NOAA_GLERL's Steve Ruberg & #CIGLR's Associate Director Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome... 🔗Watch the interview starting at 19:50: youtube.com/watch?v=K26H... bsky.app/profile/glob...

#CIGLR Associate Director Ayumi Fujisaki-Manome joined @FOX2News to discuss winter conditions & #GreatLakes ice 🧊❄️🌊 Learn how ice cover affects weather, ecosystems, communities—& even how pancake ice is made! Watch from 10:36: youtube.com/watch?v=1_zk...