What will the future hold for the aquatic sciences? Let's chat about this at next year's ASLO-SIL Joint Meeting in Canada! How can we expand our science by using remote sensing 🛰️, data science 💾, machine learning 🤖, modeling 📈, and/or open science 🫶 - creative approaches for impactful research! 🧪

Any US-based researchers interested in doing a sabbatical in Denmark for up to 12 months? There is a new funding option for you: villumfonden.dk/en/group/cha.... Deadline is 15/8. Let me know if you want to come and spend some time in Aarhus!

Don’t mind us, just recovering a buoy and upgrading it for more high-frequency data gathering!

Testing the ECO ADCP at Lake Ormstrup (thanks to our colleagues in Roskilde who lent it to us!). Now, we hope for the wind to pick up, so we can measure some velocity profiles.

Another wonderful PONDERFUL production, very cool paper, congrats all, but in particular Mireia and Jing link.springer.com/article/10.1...

What do we and what don't we know about what's happening in lakes under the ice cover? Together with colleagues from all over the world, we drafted 100 open questions for lake ice research, inspiring! doi.org/10.1029/2024...

Got to love a bit of early morning sampling with the mist rising off the lake before the days 'heat' arrives.

Still going strong at EGU, Robert explains why he loves ensemble models.. @hydrobert.bsky.social

We're making waves at #EGU25 today in the amazing GHG dynamics in aquatic ecosystems session! In case you have missed it, continue reading 🫰

THE BUOYS ARE BACK IN TOWN! We got new buoys today to extend our lake monitoring for the Danish Long-Term Ecological Research. These will extend our high-frequency data sets of oxygen and temperature in two new lakes to better understand slow as well as rapid environmental changes.

I'm super excited to finally attend EGU again after many, many years in which I heavily missed that fantastic conference. There will be amazing talks and posters, and of course many opportunities for networking (and grabbing some fresh swag!), like ...

Congratulations to Olivera on this really nice paper! This paper was possible thanks to the wonderful AQUACOSM project which supported many transnational access days to collaborate with us using our unique mesocosm infrastructure. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just published! 🚨 Microplastics are persistent pollutants and hotspots for bacterial biofilms, including halotolerant pathogens. Could these plastic carriers be spreading harmful microbes? 🦠 Dive into this research in Anatolian saline lakes 🌊 @juanppacheco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s107...

Just published! 🚨 Microplastics are persistent pollutants and hotspots for bacterial biofilms, including halotolerant pathogens. Could these plastic carriers be spreading harmful microbes? 🦠 Dive into this research in Anatolian saline lakes 🌊 @juanppacheco.bsky.social doi.org/10.1007/s107...

🚨 New paper out! Tackling Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) in Mar Menor, Spain 🌊🌿 @juanppacheco.bsky.social et al. coupled SWAT+ and WET models to explore how agricultural best management practices can help mitigate HABs in one of Europe’s most vulnerable coastal lagoons doi.org/10.1016/j.je...

A warm welcome to Ed. edevardtdanielsen.bsky.social. ecos.au.dk/aktuelt/nyhe...

The aim of this home made, low cost, system Ed is working on is to measure fluxes of carbon dioxide and methane (diffusion and bubbles) 6 times a day, 7 days a week, hopefully 365 days the year on all 24 mesocosms. That will 52 560 flux estimates, though we might miss a couple over the year!

@edevardtdanielsen.bsky.social, @tubabucak.bsky.social, @etileter.bsky.social and @thosdavidson.bsky.social launched Ed’s PhD project at the Lemming mesocosms! We study how nutrients, temperature, and macrophytes affect oxygen dynamics and GHGs in aquatic systems. Excited to see what we uncover!

Work with me on getting depth-discrete profiles of water quality using high-frequency loggers and microCTD measurements! And then let’s be creative to infer mechanisms that could improve mechanistic modeling.

Join us at Aarhus University to research improved ways to simulate lake ecosystems using high-frequency data! 1.5 months left until the deadline to apply for this PhD position: phd.tech.au.dk/for-applican...

Your model is your hypothesis. So, why not use multiple of them? Championed by Feldbauer & Mesman, in our fresh-off-the-press paper we highlight the performance of temperature models across the globe, and discuss the path forward to get better projections! hess.copernicus.org/articles/29/...

Our UCL #ghostponds #ghostpingo #pond restoration work featured today. Very positive news for freshwater nature recovery @hburningham.bsky.social @timholtwilson.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Hello BlueSky! 👋 We publish articles, interviews and podcasts on freshwater conservation and restoration. We feature stories on how rivers, lakes, streams and wetlands are being brought back to life across the world. We are supported by @merlin-project.bsky.social Read here: freshwaterblog.net

More wonderful, PONDERFUL work just out..

got a love a nice mesocosm experiment!

How can we build better predictive models? And what can AI tell us about complex ecosystem mechanisms? I’m hiring a PhD student to work with me on applying data-driven discovery methods on high-frequency lake data to begin September 2025. Application is due on May 4.

Frogs, toads, newts paddling Sampled across Europe’s ponds what drives their numbers Hot off the press a nice paper from the PONDERFUL project on what drives Amphibian diversity in ponds, happy Friday. nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Are you interested in field work and data science? We're looking for a PhD student interested in data-driven analysis of non-linearity in lake ecosystems to begin September 2025. Please share far and wide, and contact Robert for any questions! Here's the official description: lnkd.in/dzTwudQz

If plankton to plants is catastrophic or not time the great tester In our group a highlight has been using long-term monitoring data to test ideas in ecology. Here we asked “does the theory of the alternative stable states in shallow lakes stand the test of time?” doi.org/10.1038/s414...

we need better options to publish OA. more like this please: open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu free OA for EU funded work

I’m excited to share that I received the Villum Young Investigator grant. Thank you! In this project, I’ll develop new ecosystem models to improve our projections of stochastic processes, ie, turbulent mixing and algae dynamics. The grant will fund a PhD, a postdoc, and high frequency monitoring.

Villum funds the work for computers to think big, lakes should be as clear. We're very happy to share that @hydrobert.bsky.social got the Villum Young Investigator Grant for his project, "Integrating AI into Aquatic Ecosystem Models to Decode Ecological Complexity." villumfonden.dk/en/news/mill...

Which is important Phosphorus or nitrogen Most Plankton need both We are lucky to have this unique long-running mesocosm experiment in our group. So we can ask Qs like, is N loading important in shaping phytoplankton abundance? @mjmcncycle.bsky.social www.cell.com/the-innovati...

Uncertain future Why are models so unsure? Computers should think. To develop the next generation of models, we couple process-based models with deep learning. These hybrids integrate buoy data to better capture complex ecosystem dynamics! doi.org/10.1029/2023... @hydrobert.bsky.social

Flooded woods. A #river without floodbanks that washes through woodland for much of winter-spring. Full of invertebrates & fish. A rare natural habitat. But easily restored...

Fish numbers reduced Fine dinner, bugs aplenty Plankton be wary We went knee-deep in fish guts to find out what happens to fish diets after a lake restoration. Check out the scoop at: doi.org/10.1111/jfb.... @andreasbert.bsky.social

Hello World 👋! We are Freshwater Ecology Group at Aarhus University, Dept of Ecoscience. Our interests span all aspects of freshwater ecology with a special focus on lake ecology/functioning, biodiversity, GHG emissions, stream ecology, nature-based solutions, ecosystem modelling, and management!