#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...

new links between #GreatLakes winter storms & global climate patterns uncovered. Findings show how large-scale teleconnections shape storm temp, moisture & precip, key for improving seasonal forecasts: news.umich.edu/discovering-... by @abbathehut.bsky.social and other @UMich CIGLR researchers

New from CIGLR and friends: A Vision for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence in Great Lakes Research and Management eartharxiv.org/repository/v...

Microbial methane researchers, we welcome feedback on our new preprint "Anaerobic methane oxidation by ANME-2a at two molar chloride in Orca Basin" and a potential new halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterial partner, available here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon! The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️ www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...

🚨 PLEASE SHARE! 3 more days to apply! 🔈 #CIGLR is excited for our 2026 #GreatLakes Summer Fellow applications! There are (4) full-time, 12-week positions paying $10,000 each. Apps are due 09 Feb 2026 @ 11:59 pm (EST)! Eligibility & how to apply: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/2026-great-l...

NEW magazine! The newest Ripple Effect highlights how CIGLR is strengthening #GreatLakes science through HABs & invasive mussel research, better water supply predictions, applied research & training & more: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/wp-content/u... [email protected] for magazine print.

very cool: a telecom cable on the bottom of Lake Ontario was used to monitor waves, highlighting "with implications for coastal hazards, ecosystem dynamics, and wave-energy development". A game-changer for #GreatLakes observing systems? www.nature.com/articles/s43...

CIGLR is #HIRING! Please SHARE! 2 positions available (both close this week!): 1) Environmental Data Specialist, apply by 1/15/26: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... 2) Hydrologic Data Specialist, apply by 1/16/26: careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2... #GreatLakes #Jobs #ScienceJobs

Announcing our next #NSFfunded workshop on "Telling Stories Through Data", co-lead by myself + @vgwschutte.bsky.social! It’s half bioinformatics data viz & half #SciComm - this year’s focus is host-associated microbiome datasets. Apply here to join us (form closes 1/10) bit.ly/TSTD2026 #symbiosky

Excited for our new paper on a genome language model for viruses in @natcomms.nature.com: "Protein Set Transformer: a protein-based genome language model to power high-diversity viromics"! Led by PhD student Cody Martin in collaboration with @anthonygitter.bsky.social doi.org/10.1038/s414...

Check out #CIGLR's new blog post: Lake-effect snow is dramatic, but hard to predict. A recent study by #CIGLR’s @abbathehut.bsky.social w/ @NOAA @UMich & @UofIllinois explores how snowflakes grow in these storms & why models often struggle: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/big-lakes-bi... #GreatLakes

Excited to have our new study on viruses in peatlands out in @natmicrobiol.nature.com! #phagesky #MicroSky

The revival of the Klamath River & its watershed over the past 14 months—after the completion of the biggest dam-removal project in US history—is one the most hopeful stories I know in our hope-stripped age. Magnificent @bengoldfarb.bsky.social essay on it here. emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-rive...

So happy this is finally out! We reconstructed the 1st large-scale spatiotemporal dataset of 600+ MAGs from San Francisco Bay and show they have functional redundancy in key N and S pathways. These functions may better recover from disturbance in this highly urban estuary 💧

“The drought’s been going on for over 25 yrs & there’s been a real downward trend in precipitation... Longterm, there are going to be more dry winters than wet winters & that’s due to climate change”- Prof. @greatlakespecktwo.bsky.social #ClimateEmergency

Happy to see our analysis on scaling up temperature x nutrient interactions from populations to communities published in Ecological Monographs @esajournals.bsky.social! 📈

check out our new blog post: What’s on the Menu? Not Microcystis, Say Mussels A study led by #CIGLR w/ NOAA_GLERL finds that these interactions may fuel cyanobacterial dominance & reveal key stressors shaping freshwater ecosystems. 🔗 Blog: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/menu-notmicr...

great story on one of our buoys that went rouge and provided valuable information on @lakemichigan13.bsky.social conditions in the winter, the least understood season in the #GreatLakes www.jsonline.com/story/news/e...

Come for the compelling science, stay for the gorgeous pictures of assembly graphs. (COI: I'm a co-author ;)

Fascinated to learn that we are still discovering new species at the highest rate ever. Mapping Earth's biodiversity is far from over, and while we learn more and more about it, let's protect what we do know as well as we can! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

beautiful day for a trail run in Ann Arbor

the detrimental environmental impacts of corn ethanol are well established. It's a bad fuel source in terms of carbon footprint, and it also pollutes our rivers and lakes, degrading freshwater ecosystems. ethanol is for drinking, not driving

Join us TODAY @ 12pm! for a #GreatLakes #seminar titled: "Modeling the Fate and Transport of Plastic Pollution Using Great Lakes Hydrodynamic Models and Exploring the Potential Impact of Data Assimilation" Who: Matthew Hoffman (RIT) Registration & more: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/event/120420...

Funding opportunity! The Coalition is opening a new Request for Proposals to fund a dedicated ground game team of organizations that will carry out a grassroots campaign in key Congressional districts. Learn more and apply at bit.ly/clean-water-advocacy-rfp #GreatLakes #CleanWater #Funding