North Carolina friends! I'm heading your way this coming Earth week for public talks at Wake Forest, Elon, and Duke (plus over two dozen more small events including guest-teachings classes, meetings, interviews, and more). If you're in the area, I'd love to see you there. Details below ⬇️

Congratulations to the 2026 SFS Career Award Winners!🎉 🏆️ Hynes Award for New Investigators: Audrey Goeckner 🏆️ Environmental Stewardship Award: John Jackson 🏆️ Award of Excellence: Jennifer Tank Please join us in celebrating their contributions to freshwater science! Learn more: buff.ly/CfplxZK

Freshwaters Illustrated online gathering tonight! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...

Habitat variability is key to supporting consistent life in braided rivers. New research led by Holly Harris has shown that different parts of the river fluctuate at different times, which smooths out the boom‑and‑bust cycles of insects and fish across the whole river ‘braidplain’.

Does anyone know if it’s recommended to measure TN/TP on a SEAL with the alkaline potassium persulfate digestion method or acidic potassium persulfate digestion? Thanks!!

Attacks on civilian water systems must be condemned and punished under the laws of war. We must repudiate such attacks and stop targeting water supplies, water systems, and other critical civilian infrastructure. #Water must never be a target or weapon of war. thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...

The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

The Southwest Chapter is offering travel assistance to students for SFS 2026. To apply for assistance, submit your answers to the questions below to Dr. Fred Govedich ([email protected]) by March 20, 2026 (1/3).

it was always gonna take all of us

All, The WARR website has been updated with 2026 schedule. www.cee.psu.edu/events/women... The page includes registration link, 2026 schedule in pdf, and all archived talks from 2021 - 2025. @margaretzimmer.bsky.social @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agucatchhydro.bsky.social @lmcp.bsky.social

Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share #science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education

📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍 📅 May 27–29. Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky

For anyone that needs a nerdy chuckle today: hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

Today in fish news: After more than 100 years away, salmon are back in the headwaters of the Klamath River. At least 140 Chinook adults are spawning, and more are coming. But there's restoration work still to do. Some federal funding for it is delayed. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!

Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply! freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...

Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Tomorrow!

A new study finds that the 2023 Supreme Court decision (Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency) has resulted in ~72% of Illinois' remaining 981,000 acres of wetlands no longer being protected by the federal Clean Water Act news.illinois.edu/study-72-of-...

'As the ocean marches inland: How rising seas reshape coastal landscapes' Dr. Chao Wang will be sharing a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment Colloquium series this Friday at 3:30 in Carolina Hall room 220 -- join us!

An incredibly candid and not posed at all photo from the field today. First grad school field trip to Jordan Lake today for some dissolved gas sampling!! nothing like being on a floating surface to really up the ante of headspace injections @agdelv.bsky.social

Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c... (commentary)

📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity? 🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured! 🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM #ImpactfulData #EarthScience

Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations? Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models "Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...

Amazing opportunity to work with a dedicated mentor across fields: remote sensing, biogeochemistry, and hydrology! So excited to see that two positions are available with such an incredibly talented and generous scientist. I will be jealous of whoever is hired for these awesome positions :)

DO NOT GIVE UP! Our advocacy is working. A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF. Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

"It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Although we typically consider photosynthetic allochthonous and autochthonous carbon in stream food webs, chemoautotrophic sources (ammonia or sulfur oxidation) can contribute substantially, and incorporate ancient C. Recently accepted to FWS, online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

I just learned about open educational resources which are hosted at oercommons.org - already found some great modules by fellow scientists and looking forward to sharing some open-access resources! Universities (like UNC) seem to have internal networks to help create and share

@thejonesctr.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc in carbon cycling! "work with silviculture, ecohydrology, and aquatic sciences...to assess carbon stocks, movements, or transformations across SE landscapes, with a specific focus on longleaf pine woodlands and embedded wetlands." www.jonesctr.org

"Athletics should remain a “side story of the university,” Conghe Song, chair of geography, told Chancellor Roberts at a faculty council meeting. Song noted the low salaries paid to grad students ($20,600 per school year) and that offices in Carolina Hall had minimal heating during the winter."

Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!

A study by UNC Chapel Hill and NC State researchers published Monday found that coastal communities are inundated more often than previously believed, and floodwaters take longer to recede in rural areas than in urban areas. coastalreview.org/2025/06/coas...

I really don’t know where else to ask this, and I know no one knows…3 years left to apply for NSF career and I thought this would be my first attempt…I have smaller projects I could work on instead of proposal writing…is submission worth it? Anyone else weighing this?

Are water levels in wetlands important to you? @kica22.bsky.social's new paper in GRL shows that the SWOT satellite can measure water surface elevations in the Everglades with a mean absolute error of 6.7 cm. Check it out! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Exclusive: National Science Foundation staff were told today that the agency’s 37 divisions—across all eight directorates—are being abolished and the number of programs within those divisions will be drastically reduced.

**Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program** -- $25,000 grants earmarked for early-career researchers whose NSF-funded research on STEM and education has just been terminated. www.spencer.org/grant_types/... hub.jhu.edu/2025/04/28/j... Thanks @lizneeley.bsky.social !