We're seeking a Program Specialist to lead communications, coordinate federal reporting, and support program initiatives for Lake Champlain Sea Grant and two allied programs. Learn more and apply online at www.uvmjobs.com/postings/84002.

🌊 This year we marked 80 years of monitoring the Cumbrian lakes and held the 10th Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum. With so much focus on Windermere, the event highlighted the vital role of independent, long-term science in understanding change & guiding restoration. www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪

"Mend it, don't end it." People who accept FEMA flood buyouts tend to stay local, but in less risky areas. But many houses sold after floods just result in new people living in the flood zone. theconversation.com/fema-buyouts...

ghoulish behavior

Check out this great new video on a resilient rain garden that got buried by sediment in the 2023 Vermont flood and today is more beautiful and functional than ever. all-geo.org/jefferson/ne...

Upcoming #WARR talks on water chemistry + pollution in substantially modified urban streams flowing through densely populated landscapes Drs. Elizabeth Herndon + Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social REgister: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work. When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet. This time, they spoke to me.👇

According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol data, Northern Border Crossings are down 39.27% from July 2024 to 2025 and down 36.13% in Northern New York (including Champlain Rouses Point Crossing and Trout River Crossing). #Boycott #ViveLeCanada #Canada 💪🏻🍁 www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...

Hydrogeologists say no, absolutely positively no. 😭 ⚒️ Forget phd level, most 2nd graders could do better. Maybe even kindergartners.

Flood managed aquifer recharge paired with forecast-informed reservoir operations led to a 40-60% reduction in aquifer overdraft. That’s pretty significant! But still need to reduce withdrawals.

Scientists have identified the microbial culprit responsible for the largest sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic ever documented in the wild: A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which proliferates in warm water during seasonal variations and anomalous marine heating events.

⚒️ Does anyone have any more info on this ‘7 volcanoes in Kamchatka wake up’ story? It doesn’t match with the latest bulletins from KVERT (kvert.febras.net) and the stories don’t really give many details. Would be nice to know which 7, and what they’re actually doing…

Whether you’re in Alaska or not, please consider donating to keep Kotzebue Public Radio on the air. 💔

⚒️ Overnight there was an M8.8 #earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake (160.2°E, 52.5°N), at a depth of 20.7 km, close to the Kamchatka Trench: a subduction zone boundary between the Kuril-Kamchatka and Pacific plates. The USGS PAGER alert level is RED Compiled info🧵follows:

Polar Icebreakers May Be Key to Jumpstarting American Shipbuilding New Report Finds

So much waste. Loss of research, loss of talent, and loss of capacity for years to come.

Even as someone who has read a lot & done research on beach #microplastics, this story from the BBC is horrifying. I really hope the companies involved can be held more responsible. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Interested in #bigdata #river #Biogeochem #interdisciplinary collaboration? A postdoc opportunity in the Sullivan group, one of the most supportive & nurturing mentors I ever know. sites.google.com/oregonstate....

A discarded toy on a Lake Champlain beach may take a different form one day: millions of microplastic bits, says @uvmvermont.bsky.social prof. @annejefferson.bsky.social. Learn about what Jefferson and colleagues are finding as they scour Lake Champlain for microplastic sources: go.uvm.edu/xen2p

National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...

Universities must respect academic freedom. Tulane apparently does not. www.wwno.org/education/20...

Hasn’t a couple of decades of increasing reliance on phone navigation taught us it’s a seriously bad idea to trust a computer to shorten your route? In Vermont, we annually place bets on how long it will take a truck to get stuck in Smuggler’s Notch (a “shorter” mountain route) once it opens.

Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event

Working with folks fighting plastic pollution in the Lake Champlain Basin continues to give me hope for the future of civic engagement. Here's a great profile of one of our local environmental leaders. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/lakekee...

When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle... Properly staggering! 😮😱

A beautiful essay by former colleague Jacqueline Curtis on how changes to the best-laid plans can end up working out OK - or even wonderfully - in the end. This feels needed and timely as so many scientists struggle with the cruelties of 2025. www.science.org/content/arti...

#MSH45 | “A Big Black Cloud” Unless you were near the mountain, the first sign was the sky. A towering black mushroom cloud rising fast. In Cowlitz County, emergency dispatchers begin fielding calls. No alerts. No answers. They’re piecing it together in real time.

Whatephra you do today 🌋 Take some time to commemorate the eruption of Mt. St. Helens/Lawetlat'la that happened 45 years ago today. This (unfortunately tragic) eruption significantly changed the way we think about and monitor volcanoes in the U.S., for the better.

Vermont is supposed to get 1.5-2" of rain in the next 48 hours, on top of soils that are already very wet. I think lots of folks have post-traumatic flood jitters, but the (excellent) NWS forecasters are showing only minor flooding in some areas. Let's hope Mother Nature doesn't throw a curve ball.

It is an incredible privilege to get to work so closely with NOAA scientists and program officers. I'm saddened by every early retirement, every layoff, every deferred resignation. Each one represents such a loss for America's environment and Americans' safety. Dear NOAA personnel, Thank you.

Catching up with colleagues and I feel like "have any of your grants been terminated yet" is the new "have you had COVID yet" from 2022 and I hate it.

I’m not going to retweet that NOAA propaganda post about deep sea mining. Instead, I’ll tell you that I don’t know a single NOAA scientist who would promote deep sea mining in this way, because the available science we have does not justify exploitation of deep sea habitats for minerals.

Oregon is moving forward with a bill to protect beavers in certain waterways with the goal of enhancing water quality, trapping sediment, storing water, and enhancing habitat. HB 3932 just passed the House. #beavers #waterquality oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/04/14/b...

Today's moment of calm, brought to you by a remote part of Iowa.

People are running around looking for compost bags...Some scientists have bought their own soap and cleaning supplies. A snapshot of the chaos at one NOAA lab as contracts for basic services expire. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/noaa...

BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.

Urgently reposting! University leadership need to actively check the SEVIS database every day (studyinthestates.dhs.gov/sevis-help-hub). Ask your chair to commit to it. Yesterday, UW discovered 9 visa cancellations & only found out b/c they ran a status check. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

The National Weather Service has paused automated services that provide severe weather alerts in languages other than English after the government contract for those services expired, the agency confirmed to PBS News.

Amidst everything, a hardwon manuscript acceptance this morning.

“sorry, i can’t tonight. i have other plans.” your other plans: sewerdle.neorsd.org

Indeed, highly tragic. Thinking about this 2024 article "From acid rain to global warming: Adirondack research faces funding crunch" and how monitoring that began in the late 1970s had decadeslong meaningful impact on the many lakes and small communities in the North Country:

Ice has gone out on the Hudson in Albany while I've been in DC. Here's Monday early afternoon vs now. #Amtrak [Now with correct river. ]

My bad. I mispaired the Hudson and Mohawk. Will fix as soon as I cross the Mohawk in a few minutes.

Ice has gone out on the Hudson in Albany while I've been in DC. Here's Monday early afternoon vs now. #Amtrak

Currently on Amtrak from Vermont to DC. Told myself I'd get a lot of work done on today's long journey - and I need to. But Vermont scenery - all snow covered streams, pastoralism, and mountains - is very distracting! You can't take the geomorphologist of me.

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The entire business model of American R1 universities is not viable without restoration of federal funding, & every individual institution pretending it can solve this problem alone is also not viable. University presidents need to be speaking out, collectively & loudly about this, in DC, right now.

This well-referenced page includes personal stories from those terminated, with links to share your story. Congressman Ro Khanna and the House Science Committee are surveying the impact of these cuts.

So much snow happening right now. It was snowing hard the whole hour I spent shoveling, and the ruler shows snow depth went from 5.5" to 7" in that time. And it's supposed to ❄️ snow all day. #Vermont