Patrick Kelly

Three lab members examining a farm pond covered in bright green duck weed. A bridge extends above the pond in the background.

The USDA postdoc fellowship is back! If you're interested in studying eutrophication issues in working lands, let's write a proposal together. Check my lab webpage for how to get in touch (ecostoich.weebly.com/join.html).

Check out our new paper, led by @abagaelpruitt.bsky.social, quantifying whole stream/river denitrification rates in an ag river and its tributary across seasons. Abagael did a great job leading this work and its a really great application of the open-channel N2 method! dx.doi.org/10.1029/2025...

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Ha!!! Apparently Apple doesn’t know “mesocosm” and I don’t know how to proofread

Reducing Nitrogen Inputs Can Rapidly Reverse Eutrophication in Shallow Phosphorus-Rich Lakes Although phosphorus (P) has been the primary focus of lake eutrophication management efforts globally, we show that reducing nitrogen (N) inputs to shallow P-rich lakes can rapidly reverse accelerated...

New paper in collab with Jason Taylor and Thad Scott in ES&T highlighting the role of N in controlling eutrophic conditions in experimental musicians. Implications for water quality in shallow lakes!

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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.

This is absolutely chilling.

As usual, insects matter - alot!

New winter limnology paper by Ozersky, et al. examining how changing winters will differ across latitudes, finding that the light climate of high latitude lakes is much more sensitive to shifting winter conditions than that of lower latitude lakes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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We're looking to hire a fundraising coordinator for 2 separate campaigns. Come join the IRBS team! illinois-river-bio-station.inhs.illinois.edu/about/employ...

Check out our new WI Fishing Finder. Public access, boat ramps, regulations, habitat, stocking histories, consumption advisories and more, all in one map. We can’t find the fish for you, but we can help you decide where to give it a shot dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WFF

Posters showing work on flowering rush and under ice fish communities, and some proposed work on insect communities in the Upper Miss!

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Full day of river and river-related research at MRRC here in La Crosse!

Dissolved organic carbon suppresses benthivorous fish biomass by mediating invertebrate resources Benthic invertebrates and benthivorous White Sucker (Catostomus commersonii) were surveyed in eight stratified boreal lakes with DOC concentrations ranging from 3.5 to 9.2 mg . L-1 at the IISD Experim...

Dissolved organic carbon suppresses benthivorous fish biomass by mediating invertebrate resources

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@not-klaatu.bsky.social

The lab group of Prof. Melissa Bop, Penn State University, is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey they’d love to hear from you: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

@cathytuttle.bsky.social

Had a blast presenting LTRM data to the public, students, and other managers today. Really fun to tell the story of Pool 8! Also learned a ton about fish movement, especially in high water conditions.

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River

This week began our 2-week winter #waterquality monitoring season. We're thankful for our partners at the Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge and use of their airboat while ours is in the shop. Ice thickness on Tuesday was still around 8 inches in most places, though quickly thawing. #UMRR

Attention all limnologists! We recently published a paper where we tracked changes in study duration of lakes and reservoirs through time. There are plenty short-duration papers. But long term studies are getting longer!

#lakes #ecology #lter @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org

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Found a signed copy at a local bookstore and couldn’t put it down! Loved it! Keep putting those miles in!

Can you use cameras to estimate fish densities under the ice? Some cool data (and videos) from Ben Patschull on the river!

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Would love to be added!

🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u...
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UMRR long term resource monitoring field station report is out for the 2023 field season! Check it out to see where 2023 landed among long term trends in water quality, vegetation, and fisheries for pool 8 of the UMR. Thanks to the team for all the hard work!

apps.dnr.wi.gov/water/wsSWIM...

An interesting field season with both high and low water! Will be cool to see how it stands out in the time series!

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We’re recruiting a #paddlefish and #nongame #fisheries biologist! Please share!
Job closes 11/18
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Women Advancing River Research Announcement. Two women scientists are pictured. Title of talk: Energy Fluxes in Streams & Rivers 21 Nov 2024, 11 AM Eastern

Join us Nov 21 (Thurs) at 11 AM EST to learn about energy fluxes in streams & rivers from @fluvialbenthos.bsky.social & @jblaszczak.bsky.social

🩵last #Women Advancing #River #Research talk of 2024🩵

🔗https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx

We are looking for master, PhD, and postdoc individuals that would be interested by a project with fish, food-web and winter ecology project in Canada. Experience with telemetry and/or isotopes will be a great asset! If interested, DM me :)

Environmental groups ask the EPA to clean up nitrate-contaminated drinking water • Iowa Capital Dispatch The EPA is being asked to invoke its emergency authority to prevent further nitrate contamination in the drinking water of rural communities.

Environmental groups ask the EPA to clean up nitrate-contaminated drinking water
Iowa groups point to need in Driftless region, urge passage of Clean Water for Iowa Act iowacapitaldispatch.com/2024/11/01/e...