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Anne Jefferson
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Watershed hydrology and geomorphology prof and Lake Champlain Sea Grant Director here for science, the environment, and life as an academic & mom. Formerly @highlyanne.

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Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social · Dec 20
Year in review wrap up post for the Watershed Lab at UVM, in which I brag about how many cool things my lab group is doing.

all-geo.org/jefferson/wa...
Watershed Lab’s 2024 in Review – Dr. Anne Jefferson's Watershed Lab
all-geo.org
annejefferson.bsky.social
We're seeking a Program Specialist to lead communications, coordinate federal reporting, and support program initiatives for Lake Champlain Sea Grant and two allied programs. Learn more and apply online at www.uvmjobs.com/postings/84002.
We're hiring! LCSG seeks a program specialist to join our team [text superimposed on a picture of the Lake Champlain shoreline]
November 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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ukceh.bsky.social
🌊 This year we marked 80 years of monitoring the Cumbrian lakes and held the 10th Cumbrian Lakes Research Forum.
With so much focus on Windermere, the event highlighted the vital role of independent, long-term science in understanding change & guiding restoration.

www.ceh.ac.uk/news-and-med... 🧪
Collage of 9 images from a conference featuring speakers presenting on environmental DNA surveys and lake protection. Presentations include slides on eDNA monitoring, fish detection, and the FutureLakes initiative. Group of people standing outside with Windermere in the background Cake with two fondant figures and a boat labeled "John Lund," surrounded by green sponge hills and water. Iced text reads, "80 years Cumbrian Lakes monitoring."
November 14, 2025 at 12:22 PM
annejefferson.bsky.social
"Mend it, don't end it." People who accept FEMA flood buyouts tend to stay local, but in less risky areas. But many houses sold after floods just result in new people living in the flood zone. theconversation.com/fema-buyouts...
FEMA buyouts vs. risky real estate: New maps reveal post-flood migration patterns across the US
In general, people are moving to safer homes after disasters, but the vast majority are selling, meaning someone else is now taking on that risk. Buyout programs can help.
theconversation.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:25 PM
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zinrock.bsky.social
ghoulish behavior
caitlindeangelis.bsky.social Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Oct 12
ICE kidnapped a 7th-grader with a pending asylum claim and spirited him out of state without notifying his parents, seemingly with the cooperation of the local police in Everett, MA.

www.bostonglobe.com/2025/10/12/m...
Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility By Marcela Rodrigues Globe Staff,Updated October 12, 2025, 44 minutes ago 31 A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by ICE in Everett and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia. A 13-year-old boy was arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents in Everett after an interaction with members of the Everett Police Department and sent to a juvenile detention facility in Virginia, according to his mother and immigration lawyer Andrew Lattarulo. The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested. After waiting for about an hour and a half, she was told her son was taken by ICE, Berto told the Globe in a phone interview. “My world collapsed,” Berto said in Portuguese. From the police department, the boy was taken to ICE’s holding facility in Burlington on Thursday evening, where he spent a night before being transferred by car to the Northwestern Regional Juvenile Detention Center in Winchester, Va., on Friday morning, his mother said. The juvenile facility is more than 500 miles away from Everett. The boy is a 7th-grader at Albert N. Parlin School in Everett, his mother said. The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo said.
October 13, 2025 at 12:12 AM
annejefferson.bsky.social
Check out this great new video on a resilient rain garden that got buried by sediment in the 2023 Vermont flood and today is more beautiful and functional than ever. all-geo.org/jefferson/ne...
Vegetation and sediment with a bank sign in the background. Flowering plants and greenery on wood chips in a depression, with a bank sign in the background.
September 22, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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lireactivewater.bsky.social
Upcoming #WARR talks on water chemistry + pollution in substantially modified urban streams flowing through densely populated landscapes

Drs. Elizabeth Herndon + Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social

REgister: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social
September 9, 2025 at 2:44 AM
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fieseler.bsky.social
SCOOP: Revolution Wind employed 80 fishermen over the past 2 years, paying out $9.5 million to captains, deckhands, and fishing boat owners. Trump's pause means he just put Trump-voting fishermen out of work.

When Trump paused Empire Wind, the fishermen stayed quiet.

This time, they spoke to me.👇
‘It’s madness’: Trump-voting fishermen oppose Revolution Wind halt
The Rhode Island offshore wind project, now nearly finished, employed 80 fishermen to help with construction. With Trump's pause, they are losing vital…
www.canarymedia.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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minibubbly.bsky.social
According to U.S. Customs and Border Patrol data, Northern Border Crossings are down 39.27% from July 2024 to 2025 and down 36.13% in Northern New York (including Champlain Rouses Point Crossing and Trout River Crossing).

#Boycott #ViveLeCanada #Canada 💪🏻🍁

www.ctvnews.ca/world/articl...
With Canadian tourism on the decline, Vermont leaders work to repair cross-border relations
Lindsay Kurrle, Vermont’s Secretary of Commerce and Anson Tebbetts, Vermont’s Secretary of Agriculture, said they have recently returned from a trip north to meet with a member of the Canadian Parliam...
www.ctvnews.ca
August 23, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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cbdawson.bsky.social
Hydrogeologists say no, absolutely positively no. 😭 ⚒️

Forget phd level, most 2nd graders could do better. Maybe even kindergartners.
August 20, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Flood managed aquifer recharge paired with forecast-informed reservoir operations led to a 40-60% reduction in aquifer overdraft. That’s pretty significant! But still need to reduce withdrawals.
Screenshot of article text that reads: “Essentially, Flood-MAR uses the aquifer as an underground reservoir that increases the total storage capacity of the watershed. While this practice alone cannot solve the water crisis, the study found that combining it with Forecast-Informed Reservoir Operations (FIRO) and strategic infrastructure investment can achieve a 40% to 60% reduction in groundwater overdraft”
August 12, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
Scientists have identified the microbial culprit responsible for the largest sea star wasting disease (SSWD) epidemic ever documented in the wild: A strain of the bacterium Vibrio pectenicida, which proliferates in warm water during seasonal variations and anomalous marine heating events.
Scientists identify bacterium behind devastating wasting disease in starfish
After 90% loss of global sunflower sea star population in 10 years, researchers hope decline can now be tackled
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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allochthonous.bsky.social
⚒️ Does anyone have any more info on this ‘7 volcanoes in Kamchatka wake up’ story? It doesn’t match with the latest bulletins from KVERT (kvert.febras.net) and the stories don’t really give many details. Would be nice to know which 7, and what they’re actually doing…
Seven volcanoes wake up in Russia's Kamchatka after powerful quake
Klyuchevskoi, Krasheninnikov, Avachinsky and others have all woken up following the 8.8 magnitude quake, the strongest in the region since 1952.
apnews.com
August 6, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Whether you’re in Alaska or not, please consider donating to keep Kotzebue Public Radio on the air. 💔
napaaqtuk.bsky.social Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · Jul 27
On Sunday AM KOTZ (our public radio station) plays hymns sung in Inupiaq. My dad loves hearing Inupiaq. Another thing we'll miss if KOTZ closes (now slated to close in May without federal funding). They also have a huge stash of "Eskimo stories", all in Inupiaq, that aren't available anywhere else.
KOTZEBUE BROADCASTING INC.
Site for Kotzebue Broadcasting Inc.
kotz.org
August 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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allochthonous.bsky.social
⚒️ Overnight there was an M8.8 #earthquake off the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia Earthquake (160.2°E, 52.5°N), at a depth of 20.7 km, close to the Kamchatka Trench: a subduction zone boundary between the Kuril-Kamchatka and Pacific plates. The USGS PAGER alert level is RED

Compiled info🧵follows:
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earthquake.usgs.gov
July 30, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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whysharksmatter.bsky.social
Polar Icebreakers May Be Key to Jumpstarting American Shipbuilding New Report Finds
Polar Icebreakers May Be Key to Jumpstarting American Shipbuilding New Report Finds
The recently-signed ICE Pact, focused on the development of icebreakers, represents a unique opportunity to revitalize American shipbuilding, a new report by the Wilson Center, a think tank, finds.…
gcaptain.com
July 28, 2025 at 8:16 PM
annejefferson.bsky.social
So much waste. Loss of research, loss of talent, and loss of capacity for years to come.
science.org Science Magazine @science.org · Jul 28
The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
scim.ag
July 29, 2025 at 12:33 AM
annejefferson.bsky.social
Even as someone who has read a lot & done research on beach #microplastics, this story from the BBC is horrifying. I really hope the companies involved can be held more responsible. www.bbc.com/news/article...
BBC uncovers lasting toxic legacy of cargo ship disaster off Sri Lanka
Scientists warn the damage to the environment after the 2021 X-Press Pearl disaster could be much more enduring.
www.bbc.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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lireactivewater.bsky.social
Interested in #bigdata #river #Biogeochem #interdisciplinary collaboration? A postdoc opportunity in the Sullivan group, one of the most supportive & nurturing mentors I ever know.

sites.google.com/oregonstate....
Sullivan Lab - Opportunities
Recruiting Postdoc Scholar in Big Data and River Biogeochemistry
sites.google.com
July 29, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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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
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...
go.uvm.edu
June 30, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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National Science Foundation staff were notified that their office space will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development. It's unclear where the 1,800+ NSF employees will work. Renovation plans apparently include a personal gym for the HUD secretary & family eos.org/research-and...
National Science Foundation Staff Booted From Headquarters - Eos
Staff at the National Science Foundation (NSF) were notified on 25 June that the agency’s office space, located in Alexandria, Va., will be taken over by Department of Housing and Urban Development (H...
eos.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:19 AM
annejefferson.bsky.social
Universities must respect academic freedom. Tulane apparently does not.
www.wwno.org/education/20...
Tulane scientist resigns citing university censorship of pollution and racial disparity research
Kim Terrell, a researcher with the Tulane Environmental Law Clinic, resigned Wednesday, saying in a letter the university had sacrificed academic integrity for political expediency.
www.wwno.org
June 26, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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allochthonous.bsky.social
Hasn’t a couple of decades of increasing reliance on phone navigation taught us it’s a seriously bad idea to trust a computer to shorten your route?

In Vermont, we annually place bets on how long it will take a truck to get stuck in Smuggler’s Notch (a “shorter” mountain route) once it opens.
June 20, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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katearonoff.bsky.social
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 8:14 PM
annejefferson.bsky.social
Working with folks fighting plastic pollution in the Lake Champlain Basin continues to give me hope for the future of civic engagement. Here's a great profile of one of our local environmental leaders. www.sevendaysvt.com/news/lakekee...
Lakekeeper Julie Silverman Is a Watchdog for Lake Champlain
On the beach, on the water and at the Statehouse, the educator and advocate works to protect the 450-square-mile lake that links two states and two countries.
www.sevendaysvt.com
June 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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neurograce.bsky.social
When we communicate science, we often don't say where the resources for it come from. This is clearly a mistake: people consuming science should know who is funding it--and if that funding is being taken away. So, I decided to document the funding sources of every scientist mentioned in my book.
graph with scientist names on the x axis and colored indicators for NIH, NSF, and Other funding. Also indicators for active pre-1960 and Outside US
May 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM