Dr. Kim Van Meter

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Lisa Rothstein. #NewYorkerCartoons nyer.cm/QAnwGsj

In Key West, testing shows cruise ships stir up as much sediment as a hurricane Tests in Key West show sediment stirred up by cruise ships, which can harm marine life, routinely exceed federal standards. Key West has responded by suspending the tests.

A few weeks ago, I shared with the students of my “International Tourism” course this interesting, but worrisome, article. Key West in Florida has been studying how cruise ships docking affect the quality of water: it stirs up as much as sediment as a hurricane.

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This is a photo of a beaver wetland. Photo credit: James Shooter/SCOTLAND: The Big Picture.

Beavers improve water quality
Several studies have found that beaver ponds reduce nitrogen pollution in watercourses – with many of the nitrates digested by the bacteria in the pond and others trapped by the sediments.

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Global inland-water oxygen cycle has changed in the Anthropocene Inland waters are an increasing sink of oxygen as a result of faster oxygen turnover.

🌀 Oxygen sinks in inland waters

Inland waters have become massive sinks of atmospheric oxygen. From 1900–2010, oxygen consumption tripled due to more nutrients, warming, & damming rivers

These shifts may affect climate and water quality worldwide.

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Bill targeting watershed moratoriums passes Arkansas Senate committee • Arkansas Advocate A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday.

A bill that could strip away an environmental permit moratorium intended to protect the water quality of the Buffalo River watershed passed out of a Senate committee Tuesday. #arpx #arleg

If you give a dam about drought mitigation, water quality, wildlife habitat, salmon restoration, carbon sequestration, & wildfire resilience, then every day is #InternationalBeaverDay. April 7 just happens to be the occasion on which we formally acknowledge the debt we owe our semiaquatic saviors. 🙏

Panta Rhei: a decade of progress in research on change in hydrology and society To better understand the increasing human impact on the water cycle and the feedbacks between hydrology and society, the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (IAHS) organized the scie...

OUT NOW: A fantastic new read for hydrologists 📚: a wrap-up of the Panta Rhei scientific decade of @iahs-aish.bsky.social. Between 2013 and 2022, it explored links between changes in hydrology and society. 🌍 In this paper, Heidi Kreibich and her colleagues present ten years of progress. 👇

My guest editorial about the #hydrology of Arizona's San Pedro River (my home) and how #mining will negatively impact the area.

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I’ve logged back in, so let me promote our latest paper on the pesticides in stormwater ponds that accumulate in biofilms —> turns out those biofilms are bad food for bugs! #ecology #biodiversity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Our Hydrology/Hydrogeology/Water+ is now full (150 spots filled).

Wow! This was quick...yet, very time consuming thing to do.

However, it’s been great helping colleagues reconnect and make new contacts here.

Time for a well-earned break before thinking about Part 2. Cheers!

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Longer Droughts, Bigger Floods: UMass Amherst Hydrologist Maps the Future of Water in New England | UMass Amherst Climate change is causing a cascade of changes to everything from harvests to flooded basements, but this new research will help us know what to expect.

Read about our new project trying to understand what the future and evolution of the hydrological cycle here in New England might look like! @umassamherst.bsky.social @umasshydro.bsky.social
www.umass.edu/news/article... #water #groundwater #hydrology

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The Berkeley* Catchment Science Symposium is happening this year on the Sunday before AGU in DC🎉

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Keynotes from Ellen Wohl, Pierre Gentine, Matthias Sprenger, and Nandita Basu! Plus your pop-ups and posters. More info 👇

while adjusting to new social media apps can be exhausting, sewers will always be the first social media network that drained you in the best way possible.

Plastic pellets in someone's hand and a smiling woman in a hijab.

4 women in costa smile on a beach

Fantastic day at SUNY Plattsburgh, learning a new microplastics protocol from our collaborators, and hunting for nurdles on City beach.

An Abrupt Decline in Global Terrestrial Water Storage and Its Relationship with Sea Level Change - Surveys in Geophysics As observed by the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) and GRACE Follow On (GRACE-FO) missions, global terrestrial water storage (TWS), excluding ice sheets and glaciers, declined rapidly ...

“Terrestrial water storage is a natural resource vital to ecosystems & societies. … discuss mechanisms that account for abrupt decline in terrestrial water storage & possible explanations for divergence of the barystatic sea level change estimates.”

TL;DR: this happened not sure if it will again

At #GSA2023, Shuyu Chang is presenting our work on using data-driven approaches to predict nitrogen accumulation in Upper Mississippi River Basin groundwater. #VanMeterLab

California Moves Closer to Imposing First Limits on Groundwater Use Officials will weigh whether to directly intervene, for the first time in state history, to stop aquifers from being wrung dry in the Central Valley.

California has put a water-stressed farming region on notice for having “inadequate” plans to curb its overuse of groundwater, bringing officials closer to directly intervening, for the first time in state history, in the way growers manage their underground water supplies.

New job opening at CU Boulder: Asst. Professor of Environmental Data Science. A great opportunity at a great place jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Really nice to see how many oyster restoration projects there are out there. This public radio story also features the "Black in Marine Science" group.

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Let's start a thread of faculty in evolutionary bio & ecology who are seeking grad students in the run-up to application season. Repost with: who you are, a potential student project, a photo, and a link.

Hoping y'all can help me learn the Blue Sky ropes and also to amplify this postdoc opportunity! Come work with a great team on the meta'omics of methane production in tidal freshwater marshes at the PIE LTER! Based at MBL, but lots of fun with our group too.  tinyurl.com/ycvrkpky

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Lots of tenure-track #envhist jobs open now in US:
Rice (Env Studies w/Justice focus) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Clemson www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Berkeley www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Idaho www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...
Notre Dame (Climate Change, Env & Peace) www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

NEW POSTDOC Working with #hypoxia, #tags, #boats, #FishSci, #mud, #otolith & eye #lens #isotope chemistry in the #Baltic. Position is at the University of Essex with Dr Anna Sturrock and collaborating with a large international team (including me!). Deadline Nov 6. More info: tinyurl.com/muddyfish

Assistant Professor - Madison, Wisconsin, United States Job Summary: The International Studies Major and the Department of Geography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison seek a tenure-track assistant professor trained in geographical and related social...

We are hiring tenure-track #job Assist Prof in geographical & related social science approaches to critical development w/place-based approach and interests in Middle East, Africa or East Asia, climate, EJ, health, disasters, human rights or humanitarianism. jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assista...

🔥JOB Opening! We are hiring a TT Assistant Professor of Conservation Social Science in the Human Dimensions of Natural Resources Dept at Colorado State. Ecological economist w/ research focused on climate change, biodiversity, and/or human-wildlife dynamics. More info & link to soon!

We have two tenure track positions in the Department of Geography at IU. Check out the ads below. Please share widely and if interested, apply!

Water Resources and GIS:
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Remote Sensing and Vegetation:
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