Ivana

@emmaschubert.bsky.social can you confirm the ID

So sad to see. Unfortunately there’s no way to share Instagram posts to blue sky so heres a link: www.instagram.com/reel/DQO04KS...

Come learn about raking, quadrat, and downing box sampling techniques! Excited for all the workshops this weekend :)

72 boats with invasive species intercepted before entering Lake Tahoe, including 14 interceptions of invasive mussels:
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Shown below is a cluster of golden mussels (Limnoperna fortunei), now established in California.

RIP #JaneGoodall - one of the modern pioneers of profound interconnections between people, animals and ecosystems. Her life was lived through science, compassion and tireless advocacy for the multiple values of nature - leaving a legacy that will endure for people and planet.

A square sampling plate that is completely covered by zebra mussels.

Photos have been rolling in for our Zebra Mussel Safari program and whenever I see photos like this come in, I'm grateful I don't have to count these by hand. 😂

Grad students assembling equipment on the receding shoreline of the St. Lawrence River.

Last week our field team investigated the effects of low water levels in the St Lawrence River. Shown left to right: @briellecomartin.bsky.social, @ivanakomendic.bsky.social & @tjcolvin.bsky.social
Joining them was @ecoinvasions.bsky.social. The land on which they're standing should be under water.

Battling Water Soldier: Quinte Conservation tackling invasive aquatic threat The public is invited to attend an information session on September 16th to learn about the negative impacts Water Soldier.

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Surging number of data centers around the Great Lakes could lead to water shortages, report says The region is not prepared for the unprecedented demand from data centers and other big users like agriculture.

💻 Data centers are spreading fast across the Great Lakes — and straining already finite water supplies.

CWP Director Melissa Scanlan is featured in a new @chicagotribune article.

📰 @chicagotribune: www.chicagotribune.com/2025/09/10/g...
📑 Our ABA report: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Zebra mussels on collector plates.

Zebra mussels on plastic macrophytes.

Lac Témiscouata.

Zebra mussels fouling on a unionid.

A great week at Lac Témiscouata for @ivanakomendic.bsky.social fieldwork investigating zebra mussel associations with different substrates & macrophytes

1/ Invasional meltdown is a popular but nebulous concept in invasion ecology. It involves multiple direct & indirect mechanisms, yet it is rarely studied beyond simple pairwise facilitations.

In a new paper, we expand the concept & offer testable hypotheses: redpath-staff.mcgill.ca/ricciardi/Ri...

This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

Plain Pocketbook (Lampsilis cardium) with invasive Zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) attached to it

#wildlife #wildlifephotography #nature #Invert #mussel #aquatics #freshwater 🌍🧪

Curious what invasive water hyacinth looks like up close? Here you go! Lovely but destructive. #MacrophyteMonday

Study reveals invasive species are adding trillions of dollars to global debt — here's what's causing the damage Invasive species can harm crops, livestock, human health, and infrastructure, requiring significant amounts of money to control the spread and repair the damage they cause.

National Invasive Species Information Center estimated cost of invasive species to global economy > $1.288 trillion over 50 years. But a new study in Nature Ecology & Evolution finds that figure to be a “substantial” underestimation of the true cost.

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The zebra mussel invaded the Richelieu River in the mid-1990s, despite a suboptimal calcium concentration (18 mg/L). After 25 yrs of exposure to fouling, unionid diversity & abundance have eroded to the same extent as in invaded calcium-rich habitats. See our paper: cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/...

Lake Tahoe goes on high alert as invasive species creeps closer Lake Tahoe officials are on high alert after inspectors found golden mussels, a highly invasive aquatic species, on a 65-foot watercraft headed into the basin.

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Artificial aquatic plant experiment has successfully been set-up! In case anyone was wondering what 100+ plants and bricks look like I’ve included photos

A method to quantify jump dispersal of invasive species from occurrence data: the case of the spotted lanternfly, Lycorma delicatula The accuracy of predicting the spread of biological invasions is improved if models explicitly incorporate the two main dispersal mechanisms: diffusive spread and jump dispersal. However, quantitative...

A new R package, jumpID, distinguishes long-distance "jump" dispersal from diffusive spread in invasive species using occurrence data, and its application to the spotted lanternfly in the U.S. identified 152 such jumps from 2014–2022.

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Interested in #microplastics and their growing significance to the science & practice of limnology?

Read this article:
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Discovery of zebra mussel in N.B. raises alarm over spread of invasive species | CBC News The Department of Fisheries and Oceans found an adult zebra mussel on a dock in the St. John River near Mactaquac last December, raising concerns that the invasive species is spreading throughout the ...

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Congratulations to my lab mate @ivanakomendic.bsky.social on passing her QE! 🍻🤍 #PhDcandidate

Quadrillions of invasive mussels are damaging the Great Lakes, documentary shows Since the late 1990s, the lake whitefish population has declined as much as 80 percent in parts of the Great Lakes. The culprit is a tiny invasive species called the quagga mussel.

"[Quagga mussels] are such efficient filter feeders that fewer than every two weeks the entire volume of Lake Michigan is filtered by them, resulting in clear, blue water that’s beautiful but inhospitable for many lake species."
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Follow our students for posts about invasive freshwater fish, crayfish & mussels:
(clockwise in photo below)
Victoria @vanmierlo.bsky.social
Kate @katest0rey.bsky.social
Brielle @briellecomartin.bsky.social
Emma @emmaschubert.bsky.social
Ty @tjcolvin.bsky.social
Ivana @ivanakomendic.bsky.social

Can't wait to continue my field work this summer on Macrophyte Attached Zebra Mussels (MAZM). Macrophytes, though often overlooked as a substrate, are capable of supporting dense mussel populations. Featured below: Myriophyllum spicatum (image 1) and Potamogeton robbinsii (image 2).

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Dormant seeds from Watton Ice Age pond project germinate The seeds found between sediment layers have now germinated to bring back ancient aquatic plants.

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