One of my favorite stops at the Minnesota state fair is the fish pond at the dnr building.

As a hobby artist who devotes waaay too many hours to an economically-unviable past-time, I have to take my victories where I can. So seeing my drawings in an exhibition and genuinely feeling that they belonged there (quality-wise) was a fantastic experience that I'll treasure for a long time.

Hi #river #ecologists and #geomorphologists, is there an R or python package that can take in DEM or topo data to extract possible historic islands, side channels, and backwaters? Thanks!

Found another cool surface water map for the Upper Mississippi River! This one is from the 1960's!

I've been camping almost every weekend as of late so haven't been able to post #SundayFishSketch, but here is an edited version of my Rainbow Trout illustration with altered coloring in honor of #PrideMonth.

Recently, all the AAAS Science & Tech Policy Fellows at EPA were terminated from our positions with little notice and for no clear reason. This effectively ended a partnership that had been going since 1980 and which had brought hundreds of scientists to the EPA as fellows, many of whom stayed. 1/7

They don't make river plots like this anymore. 🤩

Have been working on an illustration of Chiasmodon niger and decided to modify it a bit to fit today's #SundayFishSketch theme.

NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume... Download what you need asap and send comments to: [email protected]

I don't go fishing, but I would love to see an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch #SciArt

This weekend’s #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme is for all of us that are very much looking forward to spring and summer angling. Sitting in the boat or on the dock, enjoying nice weather and nature sounds. Let’s see some sketches of fishes you’d like to catch this year (wherever you are)! #sciart 🦑

There's now a package to make your own river elevation models in python! github.com/OpenTopograp... As a river restoration scientist this is super helpful in identifying the underlying behavior of a river. Below is an example of Pool 1 in the Mississippi River.

1/2) An apology to my #SundayFishSketch community for dropping the ball on #Fishytheme posts and participation. My time has been focused on my first semester teaching as a professor. We also purchased and moved into a new home. To top it off, I have a little fry incoming at the end of September.

Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs. Find out how your community may be impacted. Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org a 🧵

Please share around to support our federal workers!💪

This is how I feel when I start up a new programming language to learn. 🤣

More progress on my Lookdown illustration for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

An illustration of some Cownose Rays #SciArt

I finally finished my Spotted Gar illustration for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

Absolutely terrible. @lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH. The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...

Probationary layoffs hitting USGS, NOAA and NPS soon, per source at DOI

Definitely check out the atlas feature in QGIS to mass produce data driven maps. In my river restoration work I created a template map that compares modern aerial imagery to a historic 1890 ground survey of the Mississippi River but QGIS spits out the comparison at every river mile, all 855! #rivers

An old illustration of a Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch in honor of the MN AFS 2025 meeting next week. I will have a table there. If anyone is going, feel free to stop by and say hi!

This is an excellent program, definitely worth checking out! 🐟🐠🌎🧪 units.fisheries.org/ifs/activiti...

A #sundayfishsketch #fishytheme I’ve wanted to do for a while is to sketch a fish using a single line, like this work by TFOUST. Let’s see those line drawings! #sciart

A very off-theme #SundayFishSketch this week (as per usual): my continued progress on a Lovely Hatchetfish. #SciArt #Art #Fish

Not everyday you find a fish at 40 feet deep on the lake bottom!

Recordings of the SSL4EO-2024 summer school are now released! This blog post summarizes what has been covered: langnico.github.io/posts/SSL4EO... Recordings: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Course website: ankitkariryaa.github.io/ssl4eo/ [1/3]

Here’s what happens to regression 📈 when sample sizes are low… even with a strong underlying correlation, sampling error will erode everything! 🧪 ‼️ #rstats simulation viz via the switchboard package for R

A sketch of a Lovely Hatchetfish for today's #SundayFishSketch #Sciart

Working on a river restoration conceptual figure that incorporates the five features of ecological stability (Donohue 2016): resilience, resistance, variance, persistence, and robustness. What do you think? #rivers #ecology 🌎

Climate science never said "we only have 12 years until we fall off a cliff" - but sadly, many thought it did; and even more sadly, that misleading message fed right into the script for Trump's WEF remarks today. Here's what the science has always said:

For your acquaintances who confuse weather with climate "Climate change doesn't just make it hotter and wetter. It makes extremes more extreme. It causes climate chaos. Professor Katherine Hayhoe calls it 'global weirding'" www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4Bd... via @matthewtodd.bsky.social

Coding up an r package with USFS Josh Erickson based on the riverwave concept! #rivers #ecology

If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...

Ocean science friends! The American Fisheries Society is planning on removing certain words like inclusivity and safety from their 5 year plan. They are voting on this on Thursday, so please share your dissent and fill out the form here. Please also share! #oceansci docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I don't know what today will bring, but I'm very nervous/scared. Anyway, here is a Grass Carp hanging out in some lily pads. I hope that it can serve as a bit of a timeline cleanse for anyone who needs it. #OnlyBeautifulThings

A recently completed illustration of a Tinselfish for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

250-500 years ago, the herring fishery was big business around Britain and Ireland! Map/ #AtlasofEarlyModernWildlife I'm starting on a research project this year looking at historical herring in 🇬🇧+🇮🇪 with some lovely colleagues. Please send over more old herring records if you find any ! 🐟📗

Upcoming AFS webinar: Seeking Input for Development of rFAMS Stock Simulation Tool Tuesday, January 28 1 pm ET Register now: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/0ae061a8-7b03-481a-b516-c55f332a4182@ea04981a-ce57-48f5-96aa-0b09f880fa48

I have always said a time machine would be the best tool for a restoration ecologist. Historical maps are the closest thing that can help us picture the past. Check out the USGS historic map viewer for the Upper Mississippi River. Below is an example comparison.

Does anybody else love older ecology books? This gem is from Ecological Methodology by Krebs.

The finished Moonfish illustration for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡

To celebrate 600 followers, I'm hosting another #artshare! Thank you for all the support! ✨ Share this post for visibility! ✨ Reply with your art and feel free to introduce yourself! ✨ Engage with others! 🚫 No A/I/ or N/F/T. Keep it SFW! I'll try to RT my favorites in the first 24 hrs!

I'm grateful to attend the MN DNR roundtable. For those of you that haven't heard, this last November, Minnesotans overwhelmingly voted to support the lottery driven conservation fund for the state. It is one of the only times in the state's history where every county approved it. #conservation

A new #fishR post today showing newly modified functions in the #FSA package being used with #dplyr or #purrr to efficiently compute abundance (w/ removal/depletion data) or mortality (w/ catch-curve data) for multiple groups (e.g., species, area). #rstats fishr-core-team.github.io/fishR/blog/p...

Next up from the Friedman lab is Sanaa El-Sayed talking about a new fossil species of moonfish from Egypt #SICB2025

The beginnings of a Moonfish, Mene maculata #SciArt

Isn't it crazy how much the Mississippi River has changed in the last two centuries? Check out this graphic on sediment dynamics. #rivers