Anna Schmidt

See www.aslo.org/aslo-sil-202... for a full description of the session. Hope to see you there! @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social @aslo.org @sil-limnology.bsky.social @majailiczg.bsky.social

If you conduct mesocosm-based research, consider submitting an abstract to our session SS082 “Mesocosm-based approaches for tackling grand challenges in aquatic ecosystems” at the upcoming #ASLOSIL26 Joint Meeting in Montreal! Contributions from students and other ECRs are especially encouraged. 🌊

We are a member of FreshwaterH2O of @cu-esiil.bsky.social. We made the projects forward through team building, working together, and many discussions. We sometimes create dataset, analyze data, discuss the results, go hiking, and grab chocolate. This week was so productive!

There are a few days left to register for the 2025 GLEON Virtual All-Hands’ Meeting! Join us for exciting plenaries, working groups, workshops, a student poster session, and more! See gleon.org/event/gleon-... for more information 🌊🌏 @gleonetwork.bsky.social

The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network (GLEON) Student Association is hosting an exciting virtual workshop on grant writing in a few weeks - see flyer for more information and register here! forms.gle/tbjJALRfkoeF... 📝
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Poster for 90 minute workshop on HOW TO DESIGN BETTER EXPERIMENTS, by Mridul Thomas & Ravi Ranjan. Details: September 23rd 16:00 CEST ; 14:00 UTC Description: Experimental designs can make or break an experiment. A good experiment has a clear goal and efficiently uses experimental resources to achieve that goal. In this workshop, we will review what experiments are for, basic and advanced principles of designing experiments, and how to use simulations to evaluate designs before actually doing the experiment. We’ll do a moderate amount of coding in R and so experience with this would be helpful but is not required. We intend to have small-group discussions to help participants develop their own experiments, and encourage participants to think of a specific question they would like to answer with an experiment.

@raviranjan.bsky.social & I are teaching a free online workshop with on experimental design for environmental scientists on the 23rd.

We'll focus on using simulations to evaluate how well different experimental designs help achieve your goals.

Please sign up & share! forms.gle/MZTxeQs4UpMr...

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Calling all #Chaoborus people! Can anyone help me confirm that this is Chaoborus flavicans? Samples collected from ponds in France. I have more photos as well if that would help!

Microplastics are in Lake Champlain and in us. These scientists want to know their source Researchers on Lake Champlain are doubling down on years of research to try to figure out how tiny pieces of toxic plastic are getting into the lake, which serves some 200,000 people with drinking wat...

A discarded toy on a Lake Champlain beach may take a different form one day: millions of microplastic bits, says @uvmvermont.bsky.social prof. @annejefferson.bsky.social.

Learn about what Jefferson and colleagues are finding as they scour Lake Champlain for microplastic sources: go.uvm.edu/xen2p

Information provided by GLOS supports the regional marine economy, improves forecasts, and supports decision-making and nearshore safety for countless stakeholders. Cutting or reducing funding would have wide-ranging impacts on Great Lakes communities’ economies and safety.

A doodled graphic of the Earth with the text “Every day is Earth Day” on it. The Earth is surrounded by drawings of nature including a desert, tropics, tundra, marine and deep sea environments, mountains, forests, rivers, and hills. Credit: Kaleigh Ballantine/NOAA.

A NOAA small boat returns to ship under a rainbow after collecting water samples and deploying scientific instruments in the Pacific’s Kure Atoll. Credit: James Morioka/NOAA.

Today is the big day! Happy #EarthDay from NOAA!

Check out noaa.gov/Earthday, & visit noaa.gov any time for the latest Earth science news, scientific research discoveries & ways you can get involved to help our home planet.

Proposed NOAA cuts put Great Lakes research, safety at risk, experts say A White House budget proposal would slash funding for Minnesota and Wisconsin Sea Grants, Lake Superior National Estuarine Research Reserve, Great Lakes Observing System and others.

I brought two reporters from the local paper along on a buoy deployment cruise last week. Here's a piece from this weekend in our local paper about the impact of federal funding cuts on Great Lakes science and safety:
www.duluthnewstribune.com/news/local/p...

Some rotifers that I photographed from our mesocosm samples made it on the cover of the Hydrobiologia special issue (Zooplankton under Multiple Stressors) that our article is contained in! ✨ Check out the special issue here: link.springer.com/journal/1075...

Amazing turnout for yesterday’s Stand Up for Science march in Burlington, Vermont! 💙🔬🧪 #standupforscience #sciencesaveslives

#Standupforscience Burlington Vermont! 280 people turned out for round 1 with more to come!

We have finalized last-minute plans for a Stand Up for Science march in Burlington, Vermont: please help spread the word!! #StandUpForScience2025

YouTube video by NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory NOAA in the Great Lakes

"What has NOAA ever done for me in #GreatLakes?"

NOAA employees in the region help communities become better prepared for challenges like severe weather, coastal erosion, harmful algal blooms, and invasive species www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n6y...

Sounds amazing!! 😊

Was so nice seeing you, what a fun time it was! I hope you and Barbara enjoyed/are enjoying your jungle trekking! 😊😊

As usual the #GLEON all-hands meeting never disappoints! Such a great week discussing #science and having fun in a stunning location!
Leaving the hearth at Lake Toba!
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Best day ever!!! Ran into @sanders.senate.gov in the airport security line in Burlington. Thank you for all the work you do, Bernie! 😊😊

Beautiful view of Lake Champlain, Burlington, and snowy Mount Mansfield from my airplane window yesterday! ❄️🤍

New paper with our GLEON collegues, @gleonetwork.bsky.social led by @isabellaoleksy.bsky.social
Controls on Lake Pelagic Primary Productivity: Formalizing the Nutrient‐Color Paradigm

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Thank you! :)

Thank you Dilvin!! 😊

Impacts of hypoxia and planktivory on crustacean and rotifer diel vertical and horizontal migration behaviors - Hydrobiologia Zooplankton perform daily migrations between pelagic surface waters, where they feed at night, and either deeper waters (diel vertical migration, DVM) or littoral areas (diel horizontal migration, DHM...

Springer article link: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

@dvm-uvm.bsky.social @rosaliebruel.bsky.social @aquacosm-ecr.bsky.social #Freshwater #Zooplankton #DVM #DHM #Planktivory #Hypoxia #Chaoborus #Mesocosms

We discuss how trade-offs between predation risk, food availability, and stressful environmental conditions over space and time may be driving the diverse behaviors that we see.
Check out the paper (rdcu.be/d20BA) and feel free to reach out to me with comments/questions at anna.schmidt@uwalumni.com!

We found differences between pelagic and littoral habitats in terms of zooplankton community composition and diversity, and a wide diversity of vertical and horizontal migration behaviors across crustacean and rotifer genera.

We sampled various sub-habitats within 16 experimental ponds at the CEREEP-ECOTRON Île de France PLANAQUA Experimental Lake Platform day and night to assess zooplankton communities and migration behaviors.