Please repost! The LOC Lab @UCSB is recruiting a #PostdoctoralScholar in forest ecology and data science to develop data-driven models of forest resilience to compound disturbances (e.g., fire, drought, insects). 🌱🍁🌏🧪🌐 Applications due Feb 5 Apply here: www.landscapesofchangelab.com/were-hiring-1

A recent study led by ESPM PhD student @rosemohammadi.bsky.social and Associate Professor @albertruhi.bsky.social reveals the vulnerability of riparian biodiversity hotspots to California’s intensifying climate whiplash. Learn more about their findings: ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/climate...

This is such a great resource on best practices for Reproducible Code. Love the explanations and examples!

More on prolonged fog in the Central Valley science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...

This summer, American Rivers began a multi-year effort with @yubariverpeople.bsky.social and the U.S. Forest Service to find out how many "lost meadows" there really are in California's North Yuba watershed. The results are surprising! 🌾 Read our findings: www.americanrivers.org/2025/11/redi...

As dozens of frog species have declined across Central America, scientists have witnessed a remarkable chain of events: With fewer tadpoles to eat mosquito larvae, rates of mosquito-borne malaria in the region have climbed, resulting in a fivefold increase in cases. https://wapo.st/4paBuuT

Honoring James A. Estes, a pioneering ecologist whose research on sea otters in Alaska revealed how predators shape entire ecosystems. His work helped define the concept of trophic cascades and inspired generations of ecologists. Read the PNAS Retrospective: https://ow.ly/leKs50XrKBH

We also found that fishes are accumulating risk faster than their zooplankton prey during key times of year. A pattern that hints at the potential for trophic mismatches that could affect the whole food web. We also found strong spatial patterns, with the strongest divergence in more saline regions.

By modeling how long-term population trends and variability impact decline probability, we examined how risk fluctuates throughout the year for age-0 fishes. We found that risk can vary from month to month, highlighting that risk might not be consistent even within the same life stage.

So excited to share our new paper out today in Ecological Applications @esajournals.bsky.social! We used time-series modeling explore ecological risk for fishes and their prey in the San Francisco Estuary during key phenological windows that shape food web dynamics. dx.doi.org/10.1002/eap....

Check out Robert Fournier’s great new paper in @esajournals.bsky.social - phenology, phenology, phenology! Link below, and comes with an interactive R ShinyApp: baydelta.shinyapps.io/Fish-Zooplan... #BayDelta #ClimateChange

A new National Academies report reviews the CVP and SWP, which deliver water to two-thirds of CA's population. The report evaluates key actions, including Shasta Coldwater Pool Management. #cawater Register for the 12 PM review and read the report: mavensnotebook.com/2025/11/10/n...

Billions of gallons of water flow daily through California’s water projects. In this National Academies Report we examined key actions to protect endangered fish & Bay-Delta ecosystems while considering human water needs nap.nationalacademies.org/catalog/2913... #WaterResources #CentralValleyProject

Yet more science showing that regenerative grazing is overblown as a climate solution. A better path? Cut back on beef production altogether, and return grazing lands to nature. iffs.earth/living-repor...

*guy releasing butterfly meme* “Is this… #abundance?”

The ecological impacts of drought on California's Sierra Nevada are far more complex and context-dependent than previously understood, according to a recent study by Kyle Leathers and ESPM professor @albertruhi.bsky.social. Learn more about their findings: ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/how-dro...

Rivers shape lives, stories, and futures. Dive into this intergenerational conversation with Zak Podmore, Rose McMackin, and Becca Lawton as they explore the power of Western rivers, their creative journeys, and the resilience of water. #coloradoriver #cawater www.terrain.org/2025/intervi...

Pleased to announce that we are looking for a post-doc to join @wesnerlab.bsky.social to study the relationship between body size, temperature and nutrients in stream ecosystems. Position details can be found here: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45969 Happy to answer any questions!

Our paper on drought & riparian phenology is out in @globalchangebio.bsky.social, skillfully led by PhD candidate Rose Mohammadi! Upshot: #Drought pushes down water tables & shortens tree growing seasons by intermittent streams - and that response is visible from space #timeseries

How vulnerable are riparian trees to drought? Using groundwater and satellite data from a California waterhsed, our new paper found that trees by drying rivers lost up to 5 weeks of growing season, suggesting they’re nearing critical groundwater limits. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time after record heat www.bbc.com/news/article...

No hate, no fear, immigrants are welcome here! San Francisco showed up #NoKings

Thanks Estuary & Ocean Science Center @sfstatebio.bsky.social for a great seminar visit! Exciting to interact with engaged grad students & PI's, and present our work on long-term community change! @robfour.bsky.social @fishteph.bsky.social @starryflo.bsky.social @jimhobbsphd.bsky.social!

New paper out led by @josemaferca.bsky.social ! Using stable isotope enrichment, we tracked aerial dispersal in a temporary river. As drying intensifies, conserving pools as refuges will be essential to prevent biodiversity loss. Access OA paper here: doi.org/10.1111/fwb.... @biologiaub.bsky.social

New and #OpenAccess in "Ecological Applications"⬇️

Last two days to apply! #postdocjobs #remotesensing #ecology

Wow, this is amazing. Listen live to whale songs!🐋🔊

Does tidal marsh #restoration "work", if the goal is bringing back key species AND the trophic interactions that support them? A thousand stable isotope samples later, we have answers! 💯 work by PhD student Megan Pagliaro: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #SanFrancisco #BayDelta

A new installment of the State of (California's) Bay-Delta Science 2025 series appeared in the San Francisco Estuary and Watershed Science journal this morning, & includes our review paper "Atmospheric Rivers & Flooding in California's changing hydroclimate"! ⅓ escholarship.org/uc/item/1kw1...

Special Sessions will complement contributed sessions, which cover major topics, including biogeochemistry; microbial, molecular, invertebrate, and fish ecology; hydrology, geomorphology, ecosystem dynamics, restoration, climate change, and biodiversity. Visit sfsannualmeeting.org for more 🐟🌊 (2/2)

New paper alert at Ecological Monographs!!!

💡Have a great idea for SFS? 📆 Apply for an SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th for funds to make it happen 🎯Projects must advance goals in the 2025-2030 Strategic Plan 🏆Awards available for 6 teams up to $5000 each (1/2)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

New paper from our lab: The use of #microplastics as case-building material by larval caddisflies facilitates the transfer of plastic (& potentially its associated contaminants) to predatory fish.

New drought impacts research in "Ecological Monographs"👇

Biodiversity modulates the cross-community scaling relationship in changing environments #allometry #scaling 🌐🧪 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Curious about how droughts alter mountain stream biodiversity - and why space-for-time substitution is not always a good idea when studying climate change impacts in rivers? Read our latest lab paper, led by Kyle Leathers in Ecological Monographs! @esajournals.bsky.social dx.doi.org/10.1002/ecm....

Nice article by @jimrobbins.bsky.social in @nytimes.com on one of my favorites - marbled murrelet - and its potential fate given changes to our forests, oceans and the US Endangered Species Act. @coforegonstate.bsky.social 🧪

Do heat waves happen in rivers? How do river heat waves (RHW) compare to air heat waves (AHW)? www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... Here we show: 1) RHWs occur less frequently & intensively but last twice as long as AHWs; 2) RHW have risen much faster than AHWs. Congrats to Dr. Kayal Sadayappan!

Looking for a postdoc, and interested in river-coastal linkages, #remote sensing, and time series analysis? Come work with us @natureatcal.bsky.social on an exciting project led by @rachelspatial.bsky.social! CC @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org @cerfscience.bsky.social ‪‪@caseagrant.bsky.social‬

How does trophic connectivity between different ecosystems work at a landscape scale? We applied a novel conceptual framework with functional traits and fatty acid biomarkers to assess direct and indirect effects of landscape drivers on cross-ecosystem connectivity in stream-riparian #foodwebs

Rapid evolution occurs, but speciation rates are nowhere near fast enough to replace the loss of entire endemic lineages. Bioinvasions & other stressors are causing global biodiversity losses that could take millions of years to fill - or are irreversible. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. Apply and join a great interdisciplinary Department! @natureatcal.bsky.social @agu.org @freshwaterscience.bsky.social #academicjobs aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

An experiment into the impacts of the invasive mosquitofish on the threatened Spanish toothcarp reveal that water quality impairment and resource competition are significant factors. 🔗 doi.org/10.3897/neob... @irene-gil-luna.bsky.social ‬ @garciaberthou.bsky.social

JOB: Tenure track position in Freshwater Ecology at the U of Calgary: careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

Here is an alternate take on my OpEd defending Science. As i mentioned last time there is a hunger from the public to hear from science experts. I encourage more of us to write to papers where you have roots on matters defending science, facts and democracy www.ptreyeslight.com/opinion/we-m...

Such an inspiring story, and so symbolic - teens, all descendants of the region’s Indigenous tribes, paddling along a river that has been recently freed by the largest dam removal project in American history!

Indigenous teen kayakers make the first descent of a sacred river, freed from its dams wapo.st/4m81PJf

Petrostates and well-funded lobbyists at UN-hosted talks are derailing a deal to cut plastic production and protect people and the planet #plasticstreaty #plastics www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The Global Plastics Treaty starts today - it’s our best chance to cut plastic production and start to clean up this plastic mess. But it’s under threat from nasty plastic polluters who want to keep drowning us in plastic. Sign the petition to kick them out of the plastics talks now: act.gp/4oDU0wD