Best part of the job 🥰

Please share with anyone who cares about NSF support for graduate students and take 30 seconds to sign and leave a comment. The deadline for the 2025 Graduate Research Fellowship Program is about one month away and literally no one can apply. #NSFGRFP jasonjwilliamsny.github.io/grfp2025/

I’m devastated for my student and others like them who have been put in this horrible position. To be thrown away by the NSF with no warning is so harmful. We are actively watching the creation of exclusive practices to the most vulnerable. We have to protect our students.

I applied the 1st year the apply once rule was implemented. I chose to wait to ensure my one chance was my best. Not providing or communicating that choice is an abhorrent restriction of access. I am here because of that award and I am so disappointed that others like me won’t get that opportunity.

Waiting a year is an intentional and strategic choice. This offers more time to prepare and develop the best proposal possible. Taking this opportunity away in the final hour is a gut punch. They worked so hard and don’t even get to throw their hat in the ring. This is harm and generational impact.

🧪The NSF has made changes to the GRFP solicitation and eligibility TODAY that may change your eligibility! PLEASE read through the solicitation if you were planning to apply and speak to your mentors about the merits of applying: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

I can understand why NSF is limiting GRFP apps to undergrads and 1st year grad students . What I can't why they didn't wait one cycle to implement after making the announcement. But I do trust that the program officers are doing their best to keep science afloat under extraordinary conditions.

devastating

Announcing such a major change to NSF GRFP this late in the cycle is incredibly cruel. 2nd yr students (mine included) have been working so hard on their proposals despite ongoing uncertainty. They are driven and passionate about being outstanding scientists and helping those coming up behind them.

Life has been really busy and fun recently! Primarily due to this little guy joining our family! A GSP puppy and older brother who now acts like a puppy again is so fun but also 🫠. On the positive side, I’ve been getting a lot of writing done during wfh and between potty training 😂

today was a lot of student centered work. it was necessary and yet super draining. Its hard to do this knowing: 1. a lot of this work is invisible 2. my time should be going to writing 3. these efforts are difficult to quantify as metrics yet they impact my evaluations but this is my reality.

came back from a conference two days ago just to write and submit another abstract for a conference today 😂 some years theres just too many opportunities and too much I have to say! ⚒️🧪 don't forget to submit to Marine and River Dune Dynamics VIII! see you there! www.utwente.nl/en/et/marid26/

Great time for the Bedform Dynamics Research Group at RCEM in Barcelona last week. Students presented (posters) and received great feedback and our UG Cora Jones won 3rd in best poster! Overall a great moment and confidence builder for everyone. 🧪⚒️

I’ve spent the past ~3 days diving really deep into a topic that I’ve been engaging with for a while on a surface level. I forget how uncomfortable and yet empowering it is to engulf yourself in new-to-you literature and theory. To jump in knowing very little and come up from air knowing more. 🥰⚒️🧪

very happy to share this video highlighting the Geosciences Camp @ VT and one of our awesome activities. Grateful to my team of graduate students, UG and grad volunteers, department and the College of Science for supporting this vision and seeing it come to life. ⚒️🧪 news.vt.edu/content/news...

I promised you! Here’s a few from day 1 during our hurricane hazard mapping activity on the Drill Field at VT. Elpidio (pictured last) made this activity. Campers mapped clues placed around the field representing different levels of destruction to unravel the hazard path. Mapping skills ✅

Day 2 done! First Geosciences Camp at Virginia Tech is in the books. We learned a lot and already have ideas to make it better! (Professional pics coming soon!)

Day 1 let’s go!!!! #GCamp2025

The biggest difference for this camp is that I hired 4 graduate students to develop it alongside me. There are pros and cons to my new role as admin/mentor/supervisor for the camp, but watching these students learn and gain confidence as they have navigated this experience has been so fulfilling(1/)

While everything in science is up in the air, we can (re)build a better community by changing tenure criteria. scienceforeveryone.science/p/tenure-cri... 🧪

Submitted a big grant in Monday and today I’m finally gonna stop and celebrate it. I can’t believe I did it. 🤯🥰

We are one week out from the Geosciences Camp at VT and it’s gonna be awesome. But whew doing this plus all the other TT things 🫠😳. Pro tip: don’t be a program administrator while in your TT.

Submit your abstract to EP026 - Morphodynamic processes in human-impacted fluvio-lacustrine environments! #AGU2025 🧪⚒️

The only thing stopping me from going back to a 2000s era flip phone

im exhausted y’all

Writing my CAREER proposal in the 2010s (after several years of anemic hiring and with an NSF pumped full of Obama stimulus funds) vs. junior faculty writing CAREER proposals today

🚨New paper🚨 shows a remarkably clean relationship between river width and stream order across the US 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑊𝑖𝑑𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑅𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑆𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑚𝑠 𝐴𝑐𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑠 𝑆𝑝𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑒𝑠... 🔗 doi.org/10.1029/2025... #hydrology #geomorphology #rivers #RemoteSensing

Check it out! 👇🏼👇🏼 ⚒️🧪

🚨New paper alert 🚨 Ever wondered how sand extraction may be altering the bed of sandy rivers? How these changes influence flow and sediment transport? Well wonder no more! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New paper out! Sand mining isn’t just removing riverbed material, it’s engineering entirely new bed morphologies. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... 🎯 Led by @drchrishackney.bsky.social Findings - mining: ➡️ Steeper, taller dunes ➡️ More flow resistance ➡️ Implications for flood risk

cores and grab samples! ⚒️🧪 the Bedform Dynamics Research Group is hard at work!

Packing for the field and I am reminded again that I will never escape the sand. The sand dunes will never allow me to let go and I am kinda okay with that. ⚒️🧪

Hi! Look at some of my newer creations! A matching cup and bowl with some fun underglaze flowers/sgraffito and three “matching” incense burners for citronella cones in the summer! Some brightness from me to you 🥰

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My fav student review this semester: “She's extremely knowledgeable about the subjects she taught. She would always make lectures very memorable with the way she taught, and, for lack of a better word, was just extremely chill and a cool person.” I’m cool?!!!!! 🧪⚒️

Thanks so much for having me @landscapeslive.bsky.social !!

The LL talk by @juliamorphology.bsky.social is now on Youtube! Catch up with all things bedforms, and why they're not as steep and straight as you'd think. 🌊🌊⛴️🌊 🛏️🛌🛏️🛌 youtu.be/6uOiu98vCjM

Tomorrow Thu. April 10 at 16:00 CEST, 10:00 EST, 07:00 PST, we host @juliamorphology.bsky.social for her seminar "Shaped by Nature: Bedforms as Windows into Environmental Systems" 🌊🌊🌊 🛏🛏🛏 More details on www.landscapeslive.org

The Bedform Dynamics Research Group had a great two days presenting our work at the GSRS @ VT! Three oral presentations and one poster with topics ranging from aeolian, coastal and fluvial dunes and impacts of river urbanization. Woohoo team! 🧪⚒️

I had a great time at GMU COS AOES this week. Thanks to Dr. Hupp for inviting me! Loved talking to so many Sed people and connecting with other VA faculty. Also always great to see @caballerogill.bsky.social 🥰🥰 thanks for the mugs!!

Thrilled to hear from Dr. Cisneros @juliamorphology.bsky.social about bedforms and all things sand at GMU COS @georgemasonu.bsky.social Yes, GeoLatinas, presente! 💪🏽💜 @geolatinas.bsky.social 🤗

I’m on 9 grad student committees (3 as advisor) and I am the only woman on each committee. 🧪⚒️ I’m also the least senior. 5/9 are for woman students. 4/5 of those woman are woc. This is the leaky pipeline at play yall. (1/)

Very happy to share our new paper “Controls on the Leeside Angle of Dunes in Shallow Unidirectional Flows” !!! We show that low and intermediate angle dunes form in shallow laboratory flows and discuss possible controls on their formation. Enjoy!! ⚒️🧪 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...