MNSG’s 2025 Fast-Track grant competition is open for proposals up to $10K supporting short (≤6 month) projects that advance our 2024-2027 Strategic Plan.🧪 📅 Intent to submit due: Nov. 12 📅 Full proposals due: Nov. 21 No match required. More info ➜ z.umn.edu/mnsg_fasttrack

Beautiful fall family hike around Nicks Lake, ADKs. 📍 Old Forge, NY #Adirondacks #Adks #hiking

Reposting for 🦑

The SUNY Oswego Aquatic Conservation Lab is hiring 5 full-time positions from BS to PhD level (more in replies): 🧪 🐟 🐙 Molecular Ecologist: oswego.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta... Aquatic Biologist - Lake Erie: oswego.interviewexchange.com/jobofferdeta...

Colleagues in ocean science academia: 🧪🦑🌎 I am working on the section of my marine biology career advice book about applying to graduate school. I have lots to say here from both my own experience and years of teaching this stuff, but I’d welcome your input on any or all of this if you’re willing.

Two coolers of fresh Lake Ontario yellow perch in the lab! My seniors will be working these up for capstone research projects. So grateful for good relationships with anglers and seafood processors that make these projects possible. 🐠 🧪 #LakeOntario #GreatLakes #yellowperch #fishing #fishsky

Good night, Lake Ontario 🌅 📍 Rudy’s Lakeside, Oswego NY

The new Center for Great Lakes Literacy website is brimming with resources for educators! Explore the ever-expanding resource library full of data-driven lessons, curriculum packages, success stories, videos, storymaps, and more. buff.ly/EqWx1QR @uwiscseagrant.bsky.social @mnseagrant.bsky.social

So, today I gave my first exam in class, and didn’t realize until I handed out the exam that I only printed half the pages, so half of the questions are missing 🤷‍♀️ How is your day going? #AcademicSky

I want to be optimistic...But there are immense challenges—@JeffKopaska, AFS Exec Director. From climate impacts to funding threats, our fisheries are at a crossroads. Jeff shares how to protect these resources for the future. Watch now: contentwithpurpose.co.uk/afs/tomorrow... #TomorrowsCatch

"Many of us depend on our phones to be, well, more than phones. They are our computers, our maps, our calendars and our cameras. They can also be our gateway into citizen science." Cell photos snapped by the public help scientists track shoreline changes at different MA beaches.

30 seconds of Lake Ontario 🌊 📍Deer Creek Wildlife Management Area #lakeontario #greatlakes #beach

Trail run with the little guy 🏃‍♀️ #running #trailrunning #inthewoods

This is a thoughtful and great write up about teaching science. Science educators- give it a read. #EduSky 🍎🧬🎢⚒️

Get up and see the spawning suckers! #GreatLakes

Shuffle feet to avoid… manta rays?

This is an exciting new find! Cisco in Lake Erie www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Every scientist, long before they were a scientist, was a little kid who stood in front of a fish tank or stared up at the stars or turned over a rock to look at the bugs underneath and said “wow”. On the best days, working in science still feels like that.

Thanks to Lake Ontario (with help from Lakes Superior and Huron) we have had close to 8 FEET of snow since last Tuesday! Our barn and large greenhouse collapsed but the cabin is ok.

On #InternationalDayofWomenandGirlsinScience, we celebrate the incredible women making waves in #GreatLakesSci. From their studies of water quality to ecosystem conservation to invasive species and much more, their contributions help protect vital freshwater resources.

Nice night for an almost-full-moon snowshoe ❄️ 🌕

Wyatt doesn’t approve of Mom’s office decor. “Why is it labeled as lake herring when it’s clearly not in the shad family???” #ciscoinferno

Outside my office window! This beautiful barred owl looks a little worried that I’m going to try and steal her red squirrel snack. 🦉 I love living in the woods!

'26 #Knauss Fellowship apps due 2/19 from grad students interested in ocean, coasts, #GreatLakes national policy decision-making bit.ly/nysgknaussfe...; NYSG’s 3 ‘24 fellows from @cuny.edu, @paceuniversity.bsky.social nyseagrant.info/nysgknaussfe...; @noaa.gov #SeaGrant seagrant.noaa.gov/prospective

Interested in recruitment variability, coregonine life-history, and/or #GreatLakesSci? Check out our new OPEN ACCESS publication reconstructing and comparing the long-term recruitment dynamics of Lake Whitefish and Cisco across the Great Lakes and Lake Simcoe. doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae160

Hello from the newborn trenches. This is how grant writing looks for me now 🥰 Finishing up a preproposal for this SeaGrant funding cycle - the little guy hopes it gets funded so he can go catch fishies with his mommy 🐟 @nyseagrant.bsky.social

Nothing like a little Coregonus clupeaformis for Christmas 🎄 🐟 Still time to snag these at World Market if you’re looking for stocking stuffers…

Are you a student in an art or illustration program? Want a quarter at UW's Friday Harbor Labs to interface with scientists? We have a fully funded fellowship. Deadline is coming up. Apply now! Please help amplify this! I would love a broad applicant pool. fridayharborlabs.wufoo.com/forms/x3puut...

Simultaneously reading two murder mysteries, both set in Ireland, both involving crimes committed in the woods was not my best decision.

The Biology Dept at Queen's U, Canada is hiring 2 faculty, either Assistant or Associate: i) Indigenous Science - joint with Envt'l Studies ii) Director of the Queen's University Biological Station Find details here: biology.queensu.ca/jobs/ #evolution #ecology #conservation #IndigenousSTEM

Prospectin’ ⚒️🏔️ 📍 Smith River, CA

🐟 X 🐟 📍 Samuel Taylor State Park, Marin County CA

My husband: “I tried to go for a run this morning, but I saw a bird so I had to stop.”

Lil’ tent fren 🥰

We had a visitor at our campsite last night. The Florida welcoming committee 👋

Off on our annual road trip 🚙 CA or bust! With pit stop in Florida cause that’s how we roll.

Hi all! 👋 I’m Ellen, fish scientist 🐟 and professor of natural resources @ Paul Smith’s College. You may know me as Great Lakes Cisco on 🐦 I love the #GreatLakes, #Adirondacks, and off-grid cabin life on our farm in upstate NY 🌲