Our March newsletter is LIVE - we're officially celebrating 🎉 25 years! Inside: a CEO letter marking this milestone, Fellows sharing about WaterSoftHack, a board member story, a CUAHSI college visit, an upcoming cyberseminar, application deadlines and more! us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

Ryan (and me) are hiring a PhD student! Sweden is a great country to do a PhD, see the link or ask us for more details, or share with potential students!

UNC-Chapel Hill will “scrap” a policy that would have allowed administrators to secretly record professors, Chancellor Lee Roberts said Friday. The move comes less than three weeks after the controversial rules were enacted. www.theassemblync.com/news/educati...

Some immigrant parents, fearful of their children facing similar uncertainty if they were to be arrested, detained or deported are taking the extreme step of legally transferring parental authority to teachers, co-workers, fellow parishioners and neighbors.

Thousands of Minnesotans marched in downtown Minneapolis to protest ICE. The wind chill was 30 below during the march. Hundreds of businesses closed their doors Friday in support of the protest as activists urged Minnesotans to abstain from economic activity.

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Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.

2nd day of final exams for Fall '25 at UNC and buildings are *locked* as they are usually on weekends. You'd think somebody from the Registrar Office would have called Campus Facilities to let them know finals are scheduled today and thousands of students are coming into their regular classrooms

Carbonshed Lab folks squeezing in the last few minutes of work on this pre-Thanksgiving Friday 🍂🍁Grateful for this amazing bunch and all the energy they bring! 🙌🏼

Check out this site for current information on ICE sightings in North Carolina ojonc.org

This #VeteransDay, EJI acknowledges the plight of many Black veterans who, instead of being treated as honored members of society upon their return from service, were often attacked, lynched, mistreated and abused.

The number of septuagenarians (aged 70-79) serving in Congress has roughly doubled in the last 20 years. The number of octogenarians (80-89) has quintupled.

Was sprinting across campus earlier in the week and this view stopped me in my tracks. Between the music and art buildings—pure gold. I almost missed this. What made you stop and smile this week? Here’s to finding more moments of lightness and joy (and maybe even gold!). 💛

Happy to share @kriddie.bsky.social's latest paper, published in L&O today. This figure compares data from our ~400-hectare watershed in Ecuador (colors) in relation to a synthesis paper of dissolved carbon concentrations in ponds worldwide (gray) aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Dear all, A scientist from UNC Chapel Hill, Paul Maddox, is running for congress in NC for a seat currently held by a republican. If you care about science (and democracy) please consider donating to his campaign #Standupforscience secure.actblue.com/donate/paul-...

Grateful to be part of this synthesis, led by Clément Duvert and Nick Marzolf. Nice to see this paper is finally out. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The UNC football disaster just keeps getting worse (or better, if like ,me you think Belichick needs to go yesterday) www.wral.com/sports/unc-f...

July 23: “Football Tickets Sold Out Earliest Ever” Oct 4, w/ 2min to go in 2nd QTR: “We need more music! Send in more band members!!”👇🏼

Appeals Court Affirms Exoneration www.theassemblync.com/politics/cou...

Former Provost Sues UNC-Chapel Hill Trustees Over Closed Meetings www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

What is your preferred water-related documentary for an introductory class? My two favorites are "Last Call at the Oasis" and "California's Watershed Healing" but I hope to find other and recent options

I’m proud to say that @noaa.gov and NCEI has released a 1 year retrospective on #Helene using ESRI Story Maps. arcg.is/aqCD4 Here is a brief thread of how this came to be and how NOAA can still do good things (even while wearing pajamas).

Today we celebrate the 20th anniversary AGU’s JGR: Biogeosciences!🎉 For two decades, the journal has published original research, methods, and data articles on the biogeosciences of the Earth system. 🔗 Learn how to submit: buff.ly/RcwG5Ty #AGUPubs @jgrbiogeo.bsky.social

An Extraordinary Exoneration www.theassemblync.com/politics/cri...

Republicans in the North Carolina legislature overrode 8 of Governor Josh Stein's first 14 vetoes this morning. 3 Democrats, on different bills, crossed party lines to join all 71 Republican members to pass these bills into law.

The Trump admin pushed to gut EPA science. Senate responds with a bipartisan bill that defends the Office of Research & Development, echoing a key message of the #EPA #DeclarationofDissent. This is a start, not a finish, sign your support ➡️ zurl.co/ZtWtM zurl.co/3O47y

Watch: NSF staff protest the takeover of their building today by Gov. Youngkin and Trump's HUD, chanting "NSF! NSF!"

NEW: NSF will be kicked out of their building. Announcement will be made tomorrow by HUD Sec. and Governor of VA. HUD will take over the NSF building over the next two years. NSF staffer: "There is no planning for NSF, no identified future location, appropriation for a new building or a move."

Huge shoutout to IREU students Penelope Brocco, Dylan Martin, & Ellis Clark. They have been in Ecuador 🇪🇨 for 1 month and have hiked tens of km of river network near Antisana Volcano collecting awesome data (more on the actual data later). They are amazing #NSFFunded @uncgeography.bsky.social

THIS IS IT! THIS IS HUGE!! PLAINTIFF'S WIN!! Judge Young rules that the NIH grant terminations at issue in these cases are illegal and therefore vacated. BOOM!

I recently completed ~3 weeks of field work in Ecuador 🇪🇨, along with the 5th and last cohort of international REU (IREU) students funded by a NSF CAREER grant. This project has funded the participation of 20 undergraduate and 3 Ph.D. students, many of them first-gen like me.

Randall Thames, 40, was beaten to death at Elmore Correctional Facility. The Alabama Department of Corrections did not report the homicide until 10 months later. This case highlights longstanding concerns about ADOC’s handling of deaths in custody.

Recently a colleague and I were remembering when Elon Musk was the keynote speaker of an AGU Fall Meeting in San Francisco, maybe 18-20 years ago? Anyone remember this? Still waiting to get my money back for that conference even though I did not attend his talk.

Congratulations to Kriddie Whitmore on successfully completing her PhD journey! From demanding fieldwork in Ecuador 🇪🇨 to mentoring 17 undergrads🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓 to conducting rigorous data analysis, Kriddie set a high bar, and she'll be dearly missed. She now joins the Sponseller and Rocher-Ros labs in Sweden 🇸🇪

Congratulations to Kriddie Whitmore on successfully completing her PhD journey! From demanding fieldwork in Ecuador 🇪🇨 to mentoring 17 undergrads🧑‍🎓🧑‍🎓 to conducting rigorous data analysis, Kriddie set a high bar, and she'll be dearly missed. She now joins the Sponseller and Rocher-Ros labs in Sweden 🇸🇪

This month we feature Salli Dymond, CUAHSI's new board secretary, in our Voices from the Community column in the e-newsletter! Read about Salli's experiences with CUAHSI programs and how they helped to shape her career path. us3.campaign-archive.com?u=aad7e9257f...

Here's my federal funding story #WithoutNSF #SaveNSF #SupportNSF #scicomm 🧪

I am so heartened to this seriously AWESOME #SaveNSF website go up today!!!! Has a take action toolkit with: 1. Press outreach templates 2. Social media toolkit 3. Elected official outreach 4. Talking points Check it out and share widely!!!! Likely more to come. www.savensf.com

When considering stream networks across watersheds in the Páramo, the smallest streams emitted the most CO2 - an elegant upscaling analysis including detailed longitudinal variation led by Kriddie Whitmore @kriddie.bsky.social : agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

I'm pleased to share a new publication led by Ph.D. student Kriddie Whitmore. We measured dissolved carbon dioxide (pCO2), aquatic CO2 emissions, discharge, and stream depth and width at high spatial resolution in 3 watersheds of the Ecuadorian páramo agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Andrew Guswa, CUAHSI board member, and Amy Rhodes, both from Smith College, are researching the effects of road salts on the surrounding ecosystem in Kampoosa Bog, MA. www.cuahsi.org/community/ne...

Another great piece by The Assembly. Great reporting and my go-to for local news. UNC’s Risky Belichick Math  www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

🧵1/4: As we lead up to World Water Day, the Save Our Glaciers theme has led us to David Rounce, Asst Prof, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, who’s research seeks to inform adaptation and mitigation efforts for changes in climate, water resources and glacial response.

NSF plans to reinstate all probationary employees who were fired on 18 Feb! NSF’s decision. 👏🏻👏🏻❤️

Appreciate Dartmouth for highlighting our recent work! Recognizing Indigenous rights in our environmental data is not only good for the communities whom the data pertains to, but also produces better science that is grounded in the expertise of the communities that steward these data relations.

Great line: "CTRL-F is the DOGE’s chainsaw. Given the sheer volume contracts, grants, and programs, a veritable mountain of dense academic language, what else could they have done to identify the offenders in this timeframe?" www.linkedin.com/posts/rsedmo...

Deadline: March 3 Critical Zone Collaborative Network Research Experience for Undergraduates applications are being accepted now. Paid research experience: $6,000 stipend, travel subsidy, housing/meals subsidy, travel to and from kick-off meeting, research funds. Apply here: bit.ly/3HSnceN

I’m pleased to share a publication led by recent Ph.D. graduate Andrew Murray. We present a new machine-learning approach for estimating water supply source (public v. private) at the census block level for the entire United States in 2020

CONGRATULATIONS Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social @dukeenvironment.bsky.social, SELC Phil Reed Environmental Writing Award finalist for ON THE SWAMP: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice.