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Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon.

Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

Pretty clear that Trump aims to destroy the basic research capacities of the United States.

Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)

NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!!

www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average.
climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...

SFS participants standing in a stream

The Southwest Chapter is offering travel assistance to students for SFS 2026. To apply for assistance, submit your answers to the questions below to Dr. Fred Govedich (govedich@suu.edu) by March 20, 2026 (1/3).

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The WARR website has been updated with 2026 schedule.

www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

The page includes registration link, 2026 schedule in pdf, and all archived talks from 2021 - 2025.

@margaretzimmer.bsky.social @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agucatchhydro.bsky.social @lmcp.bsky.social

Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share

#science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education

📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍

📅 May 27–29.

Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop

Deborah BanDrosky Award | Xerces Society The Deborah BanDrosky Awards are made to students engaged in higher education studies and research related to invertebrate conservation.

Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky

dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap `genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.

For anyone that needs a nerdy chuckle today:
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/

A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back

Today in fish news: After more than 100 years away, salmon are back in the headwaters of the Klamath River. At least 140 Chinook adults are spawning, and more are coming.

But there's restoration work still to do. Some federal funding for it is delayed. @nytimes.com

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...

Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!

Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply!
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three graphs show the change in streamwater pH, calcium ions and soluble silica for three watersheds at the Hubbard Brook Experimental Forest from 1963 to 2020.

Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

Tomorrow!

A wooded wetland in Illinois; photo by Paul B. Marcum

A new study finds that the 2023 Supreme Court decision (Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency) has resulted in ~72% of Illinois' remaining 981,000 acres of wetlands no longer being protected by the federal Clean Water Act news.illinois.edu/study-72-of-...

'As the ocean marches inland: How rising seas reshape coastal landscapes'

Dr. Chao Wang will be sharing a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment Colloquium series this Friday at 3:30 in Carolina Hall room 220 -- join us!

An incredibly candid and not posed at all photo from the field today. First grad school field trip to Jordan Lake today for some dissolved gas sampling!! nothing like being on a floating surface to really up the ante of headspace injections @agdelv.bsky.social

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Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom • NC Newsline Academic freedom, like democracy, dies one step at a time. Each minor act of censorship or repression serves to form a larger picture of a changed society.

Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c... (commentary)

📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs

Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe

Nominate an Impactful Dataset You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?

🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!

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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience

Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

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). 🌎🌐🧪

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations?

Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

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