Had my last day of school today! 🎓 I feel so fortunate to have had such a great advisor like Dr. Tim Morin for my PhD journey, and I look forward to continue trying to make the Earth a better and healthier place 🌱

Springtime in Virginia 🥰

A beautiful cherry blossom and kite festival weekend 🌸

Passed my doctoral defense exam today!

I don’t usually write nonfiction essays, but this was an important and personal topic to me. I’m excited to share it with you all!

Deer tick nymph season is upon us (Virginia)

First time in Asheville, and it was such an awesome/quirky experience— beginning with a troll art walk through the Arboretum

🚨 #PhD opportunity 🚨 Disturbance Impacts on swamp and forested peatlands in southern Québec This project will quantify how disturbances affect carbon cycling and hydrology in swamp and forested peatlands of southern Québec More info here: wetlandresilienceresearchgroup.com/Opportunitie...

“As a result of these changes, engine and vehicle manufacturers no longer have any future obligations for the measurement, control, and reporting of GHG emissions for any highway engine and vehicle” It surely is Friday the 13th.

Updated climate indicators graphics, now including 2025 ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visu...

Happy #WomenInScience day!

Some Virginia Tech sunshine ☀️

Happy World Wetlands Day!

Final chapter of my dissertation sent out to coauthors 🥹 Now to impatiently wait for my defense date

ChatGPT has a year in review, and it somehow made the chaos of my coding and modeling questions look lovely. In 2019, I was “The Tick Chick”. In 2026, “the Wetland Whisperer”. I’ll take it!

Today I learned that if you type -AI alongside your Google search, it will give you your search without the automatic AI generated answer 👌 I can only imagine how much energy/water this saves, esp when I never even wanted the AI response in the first place

#AGU25 poster session! Simulating microbial activity in a freshwater wetland: a novel field and process-based modeling approach 🦠💻 Paper submission coming soon!

Little bit of NOLA tourism ☺️ #AGU2025

Absolutely moved by the #AGU25 plenary speaker, Dr. John Francis. Following a massive oil spill, Dr. Francis gave up driving in cars, opting to walk everywhere, including crossing the country multiple times to get to and from University. He gave up speaking, choosing to listen instead…

#AGU25 started with so many wonderful oral talks about Arctic permafrost/ carbon cycling and ended with a side quest into the swamp 👌

I'm recruiting a #PhDstudent ! Deadline Feb 10th! Explore how forest management shapes peatlands, riparian zones, streams and the #biodiversity that depends on them. www.slu.se/en/about-slu...

If you’re interested in sustainable farming research, check out this fully funded master’s degree opportunity!

Had a great time giving a lecture on Environmental Journalism at Montana State! This has been a growing passion of mine, and I’m excited for the opportunity to tell other students about it as well ✍️

Nobody tells you what it feels like to register for that single final research credit for your PhD program. It’s absolutely incredible. ☕️

First time seeing the wild ponies in the Grayson Highlands/ Mt Rogers. We have snow at the highest point in VA now!

AGU poster accepted! Come visit me! Title: A Processed-based Modeling Approach for Simulating Microbial Activity in a Temperate Freshwater Wetland

Apple harvest season in Virginia 🥰 Really hanging onto Peak Leaf as much as possible

More lantern fly sampling— egg masses are out!

First time on the Blue Ridge Parkway and in the Pisgah National Forest 🍂😍

Our research on Seneca Lake has been featured in the New York Times! Check it out! @benuveges.bsky.social @nytimes.com

Not a bad day to collect/count lanternflies!

May everyone try to channel a fraction of the empathy, care, and kindness that Jane showed to all living beings. The world was a better place with her in it 💚

We were interviewed this week by WENY— check out the article about our research! www.weny.com/story/531154...

Deep water sampling on Seneca Lake has commenced! Excited to check out the gas concentrations at the bottom of the lake 👩‍🔬

Weekend nature highlights! First time seeing a copperhead in the wild 🐍

POV from our methane sensor 😍

Firefly bike ride was magical 💚

Testing out our deep water sensor retrieval system. Exciting research coming this fall in the Finger Lakes, NY!

It may be 100•F but at least it’s pretty

Sunset over Lake Erie, PA. No filter at all!

Quick weekend trip to the #Adirondacks. Biking to and swimming here makes it finally start to feel like summer is coming ☀️

Measuring carbon dioxide and methane in our tidal freshwater wetland! So lucky to have fieldwork in such a beautiful place 🥰

Black fly season adding a few hurdles to our eddy covariance tower maintenance 😅 #adirondacks

Today on Edge Effects, Companion Species continues as Maxime Fecteau explores his experience with Lyme disease & how an undesired relationship with ticks still has profound impact on his way of seeing ecological degradation, multispecies kinship, and the Anthropocene. 🕷️ edgeeffects.net/tick-kinship/

On our way to continue building our eddy covariance tower!

Went for a walk on a fairly maintained trail. Even if you don’t think you’re at risk for tick exposure, you should still check yourself if you go outside! Fortunately found this deer tick crawling across my hand.

Federal scientists! Hoping to attend #ESA2025 but lacking resources? We want to help -- we're prioritizing federal scientists and those who lost their position or funding due to federal cuts. Learn more & apply by May 15. esa.org/baltimore202...

It was a heavy gardening weekend, and it felt so good. Can’t wait to see how this space will transform in a few months 🌱