Reminder that abstract submissions for #2026SFS close Friday, Jan 16th. We can't wait to see everyone is Spokane!

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).

PNW Chapter's meeting in Boise, ID was a success with 97 attendees, including 26 students. The meeting featured sessions on big data, eDNA, intermittent streams, fish brains, beaver and beaver dam analogs, and anurans as well as a poster session and macroinvertebrate taxonomy workshop (1/2).

The EPA has announced changes to the definition of Waters of the U.S. that leave critical systems supporting drinking water, floodwater storage, and biodiversity unprotected. Public comments on the changes are open until January 5, 2026. Read SFS's response: freshwater-science.org/news/sfs-res...

📢 SFS Career Award nominations close Dec. 13! Help us celebrate excellence in freshwater science. SFS Career Awards honor our colleagues' achievements in service, research, environmental stewardship, early-career research, and leadership. Learn more: freshwater-science.org/awards-progr...

4 YR Fully Funded PhD Opportunity (UK home fees) Restoring Rivers for Multi-Benefit Outcomes: From Biodiversity to Flood Resilience www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Read the latest issue of Freshwater Science, featuring articles that advance understanding and environmental stewardship of all types of inland aquatic ecosystems: https://ow.ly/u8g850XBqlU Society for Freshwater Science

💻Abstract submission and registration for #2026SFS May 7-21 in Spokane, WA, USA are now open! 💧Submit your work for exciting contributed and special sessions 📆Abstract submissions are open through Jan 16 💲Early registration rates are available through Mar 20 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org/abstracts

Invitamos a todas las personas trabajando en sistemas acuáticos o con recursos de agua en Puerto Rico a participar del Simposio Aquaboricuas. Como parte del simposio tendremos presentaciones y grupos de discusión enfocados en diferentes temas de interés. (1/2) 🔗 tinyurl.com/simposioaquaboricuas

Applications for student travel assistance to attend the #2026SFS annual meeting through the Instars program are now open. Undergraduates from historically underrepresented backgrounds interested in freshwater science are eligible to apply. (1/2)

Are you working with #OpenData to advance #freshwater #biogeochemistry? Consider submitting an abstract to share your science in our special session at #2026SFS! Organized by Ashif H Abir, Wil Wollheim, me, & Kelly Aho @kellyaho.bsky.social. Abstracts due 16 Jan 2026. www.sfsannualmeeting.org 💧🌎🧪

Postdoc position in Freshwater Ecology starting Spring 2026: yourfuture.sdbor.edu/postings/45968

Do you have a colleague who embodies excellence in science, service, environmental stewardship, early career research, or leadership in freshwater sciences? Nominate them for a SFS Career Award by Dec 13! freshwater-science.org/awards-progr... (1/2)

📆Deadlines for the Americas Fund, Fellows Fund, and Petersen Fund to attend the #2026SFS have been extended to Nov 21 🏆Americas Fund: travel award for a student from Latin America 🏆Fellows Fund: travel award for Australian students 🏆Petersen Fund: travel awards for non-North American students

The Society for Freshwater Science's non-profit society journal Freshwater Science is committed to supporting first-time authors in the publication process. Check out these tips from our Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Anderson on publishing research. What are your best publishing tips?

Reminder to submit your proposals for the SFS Innovation Fund Grant by Nov 15th. Help us advance our strategic plan with innovative ideas!

Last chance to fill out the #2026SFS Annual Meeting survey to help us project attendance and work on solutions to overcome attendance barriers! bit.ly/3Wbxmi3

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

Don't miss this joint event from the early career committees of SFS and ASLO 28 October at 1:00 PM ET (5:00 PM GMT). Make connections with other freshwater scientists and learn about the societies' funding opportunities, research pathways, ongoing diversity initiatives, and upcoming conferences.

Looking for a way to support the #2026SFS Annual Meeting? Take the #2026SFS survey bit.ly/3Wbxmi3 This helps us project meeting attendance and better understand barriers to attendance. We will use these results to plan SFS events and programming to meet the needs of all of our members.

Don't forget to submit your special session and workshop proposals for #2026SFS this Wednesday Oct 22nd!

Deadline for #2026SFS special session and workshop proposals extended to Oct 22nd. See website for more information: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/special-sess...

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)

Submit your proposal for workshops and special sessions for the 2026 SFS Annual Meeting relating to the theme “Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities,” or other related emerging topics. Deadline: October 15th, 2025. (1/2)

💡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)

The Georgia Lakes Society is offering a limited number of conference scholarships for the 2025 NALMS (@nalms.bsky.social) Symposium to eligible individuals from AL, GA, SC, and NC. Find more info here: www.nalms.org/nalms2025/gl...

New paper in #FreshwaterScience demonstrates a straightforward way to design stormwater controls to reduce stream erosion. By combining regional sediment monitoring and modeling, this method gives stormwater practitioners a practical tool to protect streams & water quality. 🔗https://bit.ly/FWS0925

We’re thrilled to announce the Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting! 💡Gathering to Build Resilient Watersheds and Communities 📍 Spokane, WA 📆 May 17–21, 2026 Explore our meeting website for program details, travel, accommodations, field trips & more: 🔗 www.sfsannualmeeting.org

💡We’re now accepting workshop & special session proposals for the Society for Freshwater Science 2026 Annual Meeting. 📍 Spokane, WA 📆 May 17–21, 2026 📝 Proposals due Oct 15, 2025 🔗 Special sessions: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/special-sess... 🔗 Workshops: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/workshop-pro...

PhD position available on climate change, cyanobacterial blooms, and human health @ebdonana.bsky.social We are looking for interested candidates, details attached. Please share.. @sibecol.bsky.social @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @aillimnologia.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social

Shout out to @freshwaterscience.bsky.social taxonomic certification program! Our new issue of Freshwater Currents highlights TCP and #taxonomy of #macroinvertebrates. 😁 www.linkedin.com/posts/stroud...

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

Hello freshwater friends! I’m starting a lab(!!) and recruiting 2 students to start Fall 2026 and a lab/field assistant to start this Fall 2025! Research topic is broad: rivers 🛶, ice/snow ❄️, nutrients 🍂, algae 🌱see below for more info Please pass this along to any interested folks :)

Great work by @marcpeipoch.bsky.social, @riverscience.bsky.social, and #ScottEnsign! Where does suspended algae come from? These authors use concentration–discharge (C–Q) relationships to find out. Check out the latest publication in #FreshwaterScience #OpenScience #RiverContinuum #AlgalEcology

🫵 Are you the next Society for Freshwater Science Communications & Media Specialist? 💡Assume primary responsibility for managing internal Society-wide and external public communications through the Society’s media channels 💻Remote position, 8-10 hours per week on a regular schedule (1/4)

The deadline to join the 2025 cohort of the Headwaters Leadership Academy has been extended to July 7th. Don’t miss the opportunity to join this signature program! @sfs-src.bsky.social

📣Folks of all career stages who work in, study, or aspire to enter the field of freshwater science 📋Please take this 10-15 minute survey to help us understand the barriers to pursuing careers in this field 💲Enter a drawing to win a $50 Visa gift card unh.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Don't forget to apply for the Headwaters Leadership Academy by Monday!

📣SFS members in the last year of your terminal degree or within 5 years graduation ⭐Apply for the 2025 cohort of the Headwaters Leadership Academy by Monday, June 30th 🎯 Join a pipeline for Society leadership through mentorship, networking, service, and professional development opportunities

Excited to share our new article w/ @drbiogc.bsky.social published in @freshwaterscience.bsky.social on the gravity defying act aquatic insects 🦟 undertake moving themselves and heavy metals from urban stream ecosystems into the waiting mouths of terrestrial predators 🐸🕷️!

Contribute to the first global archive of soniferous freshwater life, The Freshwater Sounds Archive, and receive recognition as a co-author in a resulting data paper! Pre-print now available. New deadline: 31st Dec, 2025. See link 👇4 more fishsounds.net/freshwater.js

We found a little souvenir to remember our SFS meeting in Puerto Rico! 😅 @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

@freshwaterscience.bsky.social never disappoints! Location, people, research... amazing!! Thank you to all committees, sponsors, volunteers, etc. for another great SFS.

Comparing Primary Productivity 🌱🦠 in two Drying River Networks with different location of non-perennial (headwaters vs lowland waters) @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

What an incredible week it was of freshwater ecology at the #2025SFS conference in San Juan, PR! Thank you @freshwaterscience.bsky.social

I had the wonderful opportunity to present my research on the drivers of macroinvertebrate taxa & functional traits in vernal ponds at the annual @freshwaterscience.bsky.social meeting this past week! I hope everyone who joined “Club Pond” had a wonderful time 😊 #sfs2025 #macroinvertebrate

Spent an exciting week in San Juan, PR at the #2025SFS Conference! I gave a talk on the ecological drought research I am conducting as a #postdoc at SDSU. I left PR feeling really inspired by some awesome #science. Thanks @freshwaterscience.bsky.social!

Prior to #SFS2025, I was honored to meet one of Puerto Rico’s most eminent freshwater experts, the common coquí (Eleutherodactylus coqui) 😍🐸 #frogs #wildlife #photography #nature

Thanks for a great meeting @freshwaterscience.bsky.social!

Lessons learned shared by plenary speaker Dr. Ricardo Colon-Rivera