Eleanor 🌎🛰️🗺️🌲🌊

That Ring commercial is terrifying. Surely no one would ever use this for anything bad

Ha, sure thing! You can even make your own in the same style if you want: www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/...

Big news here ... 🌊 🦑 🧪 #gischat #geogsky #geosky

Got to make a cool map at work this week: data centers permitted (in any capacity) by the EPA. It's always a treat to use symbologies from @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social! #gischat

Jeopardy fame is one of the coolest types! 🐟

Yesterday was #WorldWetlandsDay, and I have seen so much diverse beauty during fieldwork this year. How lucky we are to spend our time like this. ⚒️🌊🌱

So awesome!

Aquarium Friday 🦑 New addition to the elasmobranchs — fiddler rays!

A small bright spot in an otherwise chilly and blustery and news-heavy week. Stay warm 🌤️

An Alligator Gar head is seen in the snow in front of a University of Minnesota sign.

GARgantuan pride in our state today❤️

@garlab.bsky.social -themed content on Jeopardy tonight!

A 2024 study found that gars’ evolution was at a virtual standstill, at .00009 of THESE GENETIC CHANGES per million years… 🐟🦑☠️

World has entered an era of ‘global water bankruptcy,’ U.N. warns Humans are using more water than Earth can support, with many water sources already damaged beyond repair, a report from the United Nations found

Humans are using more water than the Earth can support, with many water sources already damaged beyond repair, the report found

Curiosity is the first step to science! 😉

Aquarium Friday! 🦑

Today a young visitor saw the stingrays and shouted, “WHERE ARE THEIR HEADS?” Another asked whether he would beat them in a contest of standing on one leg. We talked about what makes a fish a fish! 🐟🪼

US carbon pollution rose in 2025. Experts blame cold winter, high natural gas prices, data centers Researchers say the United States emitted 2.4% more greenhouse gases in 2025 than the previous year.

U.S. greenhouse gas emissions rose by 2.4% in 2025, ending a two-year decline. The uptick is driven partly by AI data centers' energy demands and rising natural gas prices.

And the effects of all the proposed rollbacks of environmental policy by the Trump administration hadn’t even hit us yet. 🧪

Please enjoy a break with like, 100 gar; if you need one👍

Although they are predatory fish, they’re also quite social, one might even say...greGARious 🥁

E.P.A. to Stop Considering Lives Saved When Setting Rules on Air Pollution

Turns out smoking tobacco's not so bad if you get to ignore all the people that kills.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/c...

Aquarium Friday (yesterday)! 🦑

Our goliath grouper was up at the front of his exhibit, which is unique. Great opportunity to chat about what “thigmotactic” means with guests!

California has zero areas of dryness for 1st time in 25 years: Drought Monitor Incredible news for California's water supply entering the new year - for the first time in about a quarter of a century, not a single square mile of California remains dry, according to the latest U....

For the first time in 25 years, the entire state of California is completely drought-free! If you just turned 25 or are younger, California's always been somewhat in drought during your entire life- until now.
abc7news.com/post/drought...

There were 23 billion-dollar weather and climate disasters in the US in 2025.

And we only know this because @climatecentral.org hired the NOAA employee who led this vital tracking effort, which was decommissioned by the administration last spring.

Aquarium Friday! 🦑

Our semi-elusive nurse shark, Cirri, was on full display today. So were the baby Caribbean dwarf seahorses!

Among the strongest and longest-lasting atmospheric rivers in the history of the region has triggered a series of severe #floods in the Pacific Northwest.

The below Sentinel radar data shows one area of change in Skagit County, #Washington. ⛈️🛰️🧪

(Left: November 29, 2025. Right: December 11, 2025.)

Lake Manly is back!

Several inches of water have formed in Badwater Basin, the lowest point in North America, following Death Valley’s wettest fall on record. During the Ice Ages, the basin held a lake with depths of up to 700 feet.

The Sentinel imagery below is from December 2024 and 2025. 🛰️⚒️🧪

Aquarium Friday! 🦑

This week at shrays, we had a tri-species cuddle puddle, which was awesome. Pancake (non-Aquarium-sanctioned name) also continues to amaze.

Aquarium SATURDAY! 🦑🌙

NEAq had its inaugural adults-only Aquarium After Dark event tonight. It was some of the most fun I’ve had there! Tons of great conversations and active animals.

Aquarium Friday! 🦑 Lots of visitors for Tako the giant Pacific octopus today.

DYK: Tako has three hearts and nine brains, and changing colors is exceptionally energetically expensive!

Indigenous Maps - Indigenous Mapping Collective We are now known as the Indigenous Mapping Collective.  The Indigenous Mapping Workshop is only one part of our global Indigenous Mapping Collective. Our goal has always been to give Indigenous…

The Indigenous Mapping Collective is a global network of Indigenous mappers that provides Indigenous Peoples, Nations, and organizations with the tools and training to map their lands, share their stories, and decolonize place and space. buff.ly/8laGNaZ

#GISDay #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

Professor of History - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Current Employees: If you are currently employed at any of the Universities of Wisconsin, log in to Workday to apply through the internal application process.Job Category:FacultyEmployment Type:Regula...

UW-Madison is hiring a Professor of History who work in the history of science with a focus on water

For full consideration, all materials must be received no later than 11:59pm on December 31, 2025.

jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/profess...

Day 3 of TEDxBoston’s Planet Action is at the aquarium! “Mess with the climate, and you might die.” 🦑

This weekend I got to attend TEDxBoston Planet Action. Very inspiring to hear from so many people trying to fix things.

tedxboston.com/portfolio/pl...

It’s Aquarium Friday and our sweet girl Pancake (unofficial name) is back on exhibit in the touch tank! 🦑

Unfortunately, in these photos, she’s 100% hidden and completely invisible…