Michael Meyer

Dive into the new #ASLO_Bulletin for the latest news in #aquaticscience! This issue features articles on ‘The Power of Pack Mules’ and a ‘Journey of Creating an Immersive Museum Exhibit’. Discover meeting highlights, community news, viewpoints & more: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Interested in a rainbowR Conference? rainbowR (https://rainbowr.org) is hosting a virtual conference (tentative date: February 26, 2026). The aim of the conference is to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the R community, and to showca...

📣We're hosting a rainbowR conference, to connect and promote LGBTQ+ people in the #RStats community and to showcase examples of working with LGBTQ+ data 🌈🎉 To help us plan, if you'd be interested in attending or speaking, please fill in this very short form (1-2 mins) docs.google.com/forms/d/1Tx0...

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I've given several talks at posit conf, but I've never gotten to give the "here's the super awesome new thing I worked on that I now get to share with you" kind...until this year! Come to the commercial products session to hear me talk about building container images with Connect, it is so coooool 😁

Check out this excellent conceptual manuscript helmed by the inimitable @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social. Definitions are key to conducting research and 'trophic state' proves to be exceptionally complicated!

And many thanks to the excellent discussions at @aslo.org and @gleonetwork.bsky.social that led to this manuscript :)

Many thanks to a stellar team of coauthors, including @limnobenja.bsky.social @carolinacb.bsky.social @sehampton.bsky.social @rmpilla.bsky.social @joshculpepper.bsky.social @hydrobert.bsky.social @ichirolake.bsky.social @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social @mwerther.bsky.social and others!

Or to quote my favorite line from this piece: “Without an epistemological evolution, the fields of aquatic ecology and water quality management run the risk of developing divergent understandings of ecosystem function.”

And we highlight how these varying classification schemes can dramatically impact other fields that might be using these limnological ideas, such remote sensing.

We also looked at how our understanding of regional water quality can change when you apply different classification schemes at national scales.

We recreated figures from Wetzel’s Limnology text to see how fundamental ideas, such as clinograde and orthograde Temperature and DO curves, shake out when you apply various trophic state classification schemes.

Clarifying the trophic state concept to advance macroscale freshwater science and management For over a century, ecologists have used the concept of trophic state (TS) to characterize an aquatic ecosystem's biological productivity. However, multiple TS classification schemes, each relying on...

New paper alert!! Our viewpoint piece uses data from the U.S. EPA National Lakes Assessment + Landsat to see how differing definitions of trophic state can skew and enhance our understanding of lake ecosystems! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Clarifying the trophic state concept to advance macroscale freshwater science and management For over a century, ecologists have used the concept of trophic state (TS) to characterize an aquatic ecosystem's biological productivity. However, multiple TS classification schemes, each relying on....

It takes patience to have a conversation about definitions as a collaboration begins... but it is important!
"Trophic state" in lakes is one of those concepts! It really makes a difference which definition we use... @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

NOAA undergraduate scholars complete summer internship projects that span NOAA's mission.(Image credit: NOAA Office of Education)

The application for the 2026 Hollings scholarship is opening October 1, 2025, but you can start preparing to apply now! Learn more about the program and check out resources for applicants: noaa.gov/office-educa...
#NOAAScholars

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Air pollution and warming are changing Colorado’s remote alpine lakes The Oleksy lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. Their investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are

Isabella Oleksy's Mountain Limnology Lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. Their investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are changing in the Anthropocene www.colorado.edu/instaar/2025...

@isabellaoleksy.bsky.social & @jbaron4.bsky.social

Extreme and compound events in lakes Nature Reviews Earth & Environment, Published online: 19 August 2025; doi:10.1038/s43017-025-00710-wExtreme and compound events in lakes are increasing in severity and frequency in response to climate change and basin-scale anthropogenic stressors. This Review explores the occurrence, drivers and impact of such events, focusing on their physical and ecological drivers, impacts and management responses.

New online! Extreme and compound events in lakes

ecoevojobs.net 2025-26

The 2025-26 Eco-Evo job list is out. Good luck to those applying!

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Image of the bow of a red kayak on a tree-lined lake under a blue sky. Text reads, "Learn about lakes online! Check out our updated list of webinars and classes."

Lake webinars! Check out this freshly updated list, including:
🦓💪 Aug. 21: How zebra mussels are changing fish contaminants
🌊🛥️ Aug. 26: Wake boat impacts on lakes
💧💲 Sept. 4: Watershed grants from MI EGLE
💩🚽 Sept. 15: Septic systems and the environment
List: www.canr.msu.edu/michiganlake...

1) Are you an Assistant Professor studying evolutionary biology?

2) Are you in the US?

3) Would you like to give a research seminar in Iowa?

4) Are you available to travel September 4-6?

If you can answer YES x4, please DM me ASAP, or comment below.

📣 Join the #ASLO Student Resources and Activities Committee (SRAC) TOMORROW, August 14 from 7-8:30 PM ET for a panel discussion led by ASLO members with non-academic scientific careers in government, industry, and non-profit sectors.
👉 Register here: www.aslo.org/beyond-acade...

BioTIME 2.0: Expanding and Improving a Database of Biodiversity Time Series Motivation Here, we make available a second version of the BioTIME database, which compiles records of abundance estimates for species in sample events of ecological assemblages through time. The up...

🚨New data paper/open data alert!🚨 BioTIME v2.0 is out now! We've expanded the database with improved spatial and taxonomic coverage, with a new R package! As always, free, public, and open acess :)

Paper:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Database:
biotime.st-andrews.ac.uk

Early career aquatic scientists, don't miss the chance to apply for the Raelyn Cole Editorial Fellowship! This program offers the opportunity to develop your skills in scientific publishing, including writing, editing, and outreach.
Application deadline 1 Sept 2025:
aslo.org/2025-applica...
#ASLO

Hello - I am a Research Limnologist with the US Geological Survey. I work at the nexus of data science, open science, and the aquatic sciences, where I tackle decades-old ecological questions with cutting edge data and computational methods. scholar.google.com/citations?us...

Hey #AGU25 water folks, if you submit your abstracts last minute (like I do), please consider this session! We have a great line up of speakers!

Come join the MU Limnology Lab as the new field manager! To apply for this position, please visit the MU web site at hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/s... and look for job opening ID 56749.

AEMON-J/DSOS Archive: "Hacking Limnology" Workshop + Virtual Summit in Data Science & Open Science in Aquatic Research This OSF project is meant to serve as a long-term storage repository for presentations and workshop materials for the Aquatic Ecosystem Modeling-Junior (AEMON-J) and Virtual Summit: Incorporating Data...

Yes. We just published the materials to our archive on @cos.io. The archive contains all materials from previous workshops and summits, and we try to upload more materials as soon as we can. osf.io/682v5/

And now onto the workshop with Carl Legleiter and Paul Kinzel on modeling river bathymetry with imagery collected from aircrafts! #HackingLimno #Limnology #Hydrology

Day 2 of #HackingLimno starts with Brandon Overstreet from #USGS talking about how he uses various sources of remote sensing to understand river habitat in Oregon.

What a great kick-off for #HackingLimno2025! Moving into the workshop focused on remote sensing of marine biodiversity with GBIF! Love seeing these ties between NOAA, GBIF, Google, and University of South Florida!