Taylor Michael

They want to keep it quiet, so you know what to do.

A Great Lakes restoration project may lose funding as Trump targets climate programs As senator, Vice President JD Vance voted to increase funding for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Advocates hope he still supports it.

"But funding can’t protect the #GreatLakes if there’s nobody to direct it."

Recent staffing cuts could cost the EPA's Great Lakes National Program Office approximately 200 employees - one-fifth of its workforce.

www.wbez.org/2025/02/14/a...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Why engineers are turning to beavers for insights into managing water resources

Me, two of my PhD students, and one of my postdocs were featured on @pbs.org NewsHour this evening for our work on #beavers and #wildfire in Colorado and Wyoming!

Check it out! youtu.be/F-HWKkIyfl0?...

I see some suggestions, in the reporting regarding the OMB impoundment order, that a mere delay in spending appropriated funds is legal. But that's not really true. The delay OMB has ordered specifically contradicts the Impoundment Control Act. A thread.

Seasonal Carbon Budget Succession in Lake Erie's Western Basin Carbon in the Western Basin of Lake Erie is heavily influenced by river input Spatial and temporal variability of inorganic and organic carbon is high in Maumee Bay Seasonal bloom dynamics trans...

Hi BluSky! I want to brag about a paper we published in August (I didn't post then b/c I was having knee surgery). We investigated the competing influences of the Maumee River and algal blooms on the carbon budget of Lake Erie's Western Basin. (1/6)
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I've hopefully captured all the wetlands and peatland people I follow in this starter pack - apologies if I missed you out. I think I can edit if need be.

go.bsky.app/T9Cp4p2

Can I be added please? Thanks!

I would love to be added!

Rough week. So let me fill your @bsky.app feeds with one of my favorite data visualizations... Enjoy! 🙂

Seasonal migration patterns of birds varying with air temperature using community science observations (eBird).

Animation created by: sos.noaa.gov/catalog/data...

Ice rich permafrost cores thawing in the lab. Imagine this happening slowly as permafrost thaws with climate change or disturbance and what this means for insfrastructure built above! (This was my most popular post on the bad place, let’s make it so here too!) #cdnsci #geoscience #cryosphere

Could I be added please?!

Biogeofeminists starter pack image with 7 little circles of the over 130 Bluesky accounts included

Starter pack of biogeofeminists (I have missed many if not most - pls add yourself below & I can update 🩵💜 go.bsky.app/784EKsF

Can you add me too please?

💦🐟🦐🏞️🌊 I started a freshwater science starter pack. Hit me up if you want to join it -- it's very early and I quickly cobbled the first few members together.
go.bsky.app/K5ubDhb

Can you add me please?