Danielle Wain

Why Is This Lake ‘Burping’?

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RealClimate: The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding? RealClimate: The EPA, along with the "Climate Working Group" (CWG) of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to res...

AI in the DOE report? This ref (p29) is fake:

Lee, S., Byrne, M. P., Loikith, P. C., & O’Dell, C. W. (2024). Zonal contrasts of the tropical Pacific climate predicted by a global constraint. Climate Dynamics, 62(1–2), 229–246. doi:10.1007/s00382-023-06741-7

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A bit of inspiration for those writing their AGU OSM abstracts...

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Keep sciencing. We are living through a time when looking at a rock and wondering how old it is qualifies as an act of resistance.

The lead researcher was removed from her own water quality project, seemingly related to her science communication efforts.

Had really hoped what I wrote about risk and reward in Heart of SciComm would get better and not worse, but certainly anecdotally it’s really getting worse.

Day 10 of EV life and this thing has still yet to get 80% charge (getting a fast charger at home when I can). But man, it's a pretty sweet ride!

AI abuse!

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

Blue-green algae: every lake is unique To predict toxic algal blooms, researchers from Eawag recommend a combination of species identification and chemical measurements. Now, a new study confirms that there is no magic formula and that, in...

News Detail - Eawag
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I saw someone post, apparently seriously, “we don’t need NOAA, we can just ask ChatGPT to predict where and when hurricanes will hit.”

I don’t think we should sentence thousands of people to death because some overconfident buffoons don’t understand how science works.

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An individual presenting weather data on large screens in a meeting room with several experts focused on the discussion. Photo credit: NOAA Research.

NOAA Research feeds National Weather Service forecasts: it created & continuously improves the computer weather models NWS uses to generate forecasts, including for severe weather.

NOAA Research faces elimination. Learn more & contact your reps: bit.ly/4cz2RtC #SaveNOAA

Looking forward to finding some time to read this new in @aslo.org L&O paper!

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Illustration titled "The Great Lakes Blue Economy," depicting various economic activities around the Great Lakes. It includes icons and labels for sustainable fisheries, aquaculture, water science research, wind energy, and community resilience among others. Visuals include ships, fish, wind turbines, and research facilities, emphasizing environmental management and economic opportunities.

As Congress finalizes the 2026 federal budget, we face the possibility that the administration will propose to eliminate Sea Grant federal funding.

Please add your name to our sign-on letter & share this request w/your networks who benefit from MN Sea Grant: z.umn.edu/mnseagrant_letter. Thank you!

YouTube video by Benjamin Kraemer The shape of waterbodies

Can a lake’s shape tell its story? Video #2 in my Aquatic Ecology mini-lecture series is now live! This one explores how the curves, contours, and complexity of waterbodies can reveal their origin, function, and fate. Watch here and let me know what you think: youtu.be/mFXD1F00lHs

‘This Is Not How We Do Science, Ever’ The Trump administration is manipulating government-sponsored research to get the answers it wants.

Trump administration is "signaling that they’re willing not just to slash & burn research that challenges their political ideology but to replace it with shoddy studies designed to support their goals, under the guise of scientific legitimacy." -@katherinejwu.com
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Student artists (K-12) are invited to submit posters reflecting on our open theme, "Why Are Lakes Special?" as part of the #LAMPosterContest 💧 The three winning artists will win cash for themselves AND their schools! Digital submissions are due by June 20th. #LakesAppreciation

Estimation of Distributional Parameters for Censored Trace Level Water Quality Data: 1. Estimation Techniques A recurring difficulty encountered in investigations of many metals and organic contaminants in ambient waters is that a substantial portion of water sample concentrations are below limits of detecti...

That weird moment when you are doing some reading for work and stumble upon a paper by your father in law. I knew he worked for the USGS before he retired a while back, but I guess data nerd stuff never came up? Next Thanksgiving is going to be fun for me, boring for everyone else there. 🤣

You have to be able to attack the question with BS like this. And on top of that Dems were actually in charge for two years. Welker's questions these days come straight from the white house. But you need to be ready to say that.

Army Corps knew Trump order would waste California water, memo shows The Army Corps colonel responsible for releasing reservoir water at Trump’s direction knew it wouldn’t reach Southern California as he promised, a memo obtained by The Post shows.

Government waste: The Army Corps of Engineers knew that releasing water from two California reservoirs at a Trump's direction would not reach the southern part of the state as Trump promised but did it anyway on his order. www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Opinion: Sea Grant funding whiplash a warning to us all This decision had nothing to do with legitimate policymaking or government efficiency. It had nothing to do with who can play on high school teams. It didn’t even have to do with fishing.

Opinion: Sea Grant funding whiplash a warning to us all

Partial diel vertical migration and niche partitioning in Mysis revealed by stable isotopes Diel vertical migration (DVM) is critical for moving energy and nutrients between surface and deep waters. Mysis sp. (Crustacea: Mysidae) facilitates …

New paper out on #Mysis in Lake #Superior www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... Figure 3 should give you concern if you only sample Mysis at night in the pelagic zone. Other interesting patterns revealed by isotopic niche space across size classes, depth, and time of day

Glowing Dinoflagellates light up when disturbed, exposing predators in a bright blue glow. Just like whistleblowers and journalists, they reveal dangers hidden in the dark, ensuring that injustice can’t stay in the shadows. www.livescience.com/16604-ocean-...

A poster of a longnose lancetfish looking into the light with the saying "Stay Fierce: Make the Dark Fear You". #sciart #resistance

Alepisaurus ferox, or the longnose lancetfish. Seen as bycatch with no commercial value. A vital monitor for ocean health. All fang and fin and punk rock. A fish to rally behind for the modern age.✊

The scaly-foot snail doesn’t bow to pressure—it thrives under it. Living in toxic hydrothermal vents, it armors itself with iron, turning the very forces that should destroy it into protection. That’s how you resist oppression—adapt, fortify, and endure. 🐌🔥 #MolluscMonday #Resist

Learning from a large-scale calibration effort of multiple lake temperature models Abstract. Process-based lake temperature models, formulated on hydrodynamic principles, are commonly used to simulate water temperature, enabling one to test different scenarios and draw conclusions a...

Your model is your hypothesis. So, why not use multiple of them? Championed by Feldbauer & Mesman, in our fresh-off-the-press paper we highlight the performance of temperature models across the globe, and discuss the path forward to get better projections!

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Proud that NALMS was a signatory to this.

So much is miserable right now in the world, but this really fun thing happened. Minnesota, here we come!