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Marcelo Ardon
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We study wetlands and streams.
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tomgillpredicts.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...
California turns on water to create new wetlands on the shore of the shrinking Salton Sea
California officials sent water flowing to create new wetlands along the shores of the shrinking Salton Sea. The project is intended to control dust and provide habitat for birds.
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June 4, 2025 at 10:58 PM
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pepcanadell.bsky.social
A fantastic new mapping product for the world's inland waters, a critical driver for studying GHG emissions, biodiversity, and much more.

Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)

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Mapping the world's inland surface waters: an upgrade to the Global Lakes and Wetlands Database (GLWD v2)
Abstract. In recognition of the importance of inland waters, numerous datasets mapping their extents, types, or changes have been created using sources ranging from historical wetland maps to real-tim...
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June 4, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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mongabay.com
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. Despite covering just 3-4% of Earth’s land surface, they’re thought to store more carbon per area than the world’s forests combined.

In honor of World Peatland Day on June 2 here's three recent Mongabay stories on this critical ecosystem...
World Peatland Day: Protecting a crucial carbon sink
Peatlands are one of the world’s biggest carbon sinks. These naturally waterlogged boggy swamps can hold thousands of years’ worth of compressed, partially decomposed vegetation matter — despite…
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June 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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georgemonbiot.bsky.social
When warnings of Insectageddon were issued a few years ago, there was widespread denial. Less so now. It's devastating. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects
A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides
www.theguardian.com
June 3, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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benbondlamberty.bsky.social
I used the loooong flight home from #EGU25 to finalize and push a new release of the freely-available Soil Respiration Database github.com/bpbond/srdb/ #openscience
A graphing showing the number of database records for soil respiration raising over time
May 4, 2025 at 11:47 AM
ardonlab.bsky.social
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Ghost forests are growing as sea levels rise
As trees choked by saltwater die along low-lying coasts, marshes may move in — for better or worse, scientists are learning
knowablemagazine.org
April 23, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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ucs.org
We’re mobilizing scientists to protect NOAA and we need you too. Get involved:
Protect NOAA: Our Safety in a Climate-Changed World Depend on It
President Trump and Elon Musk want to dismantle the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). That would eliminate free public access to weather forecasts, hurricane tracking, wildfire a...
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February 26, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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davidho.bsky.social
I think about this map a lot.

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/201...
This is a cartogram map of the United States depicting land use by different categories. The map distorts state shapes to represent proportional land usage. Key land use types include cow pasture/range (covering much of the central U.S.), private and federal timberland in the Pacific Northwest, corporate timberland in the Southeast, and urban housing/commercial areas in the Northeast. Other categories include agriculture (livestock feed, wheat exports, ethanol/biodiesel, cotton), protected lands (national parks, federal wilderness, state parks), and infrastructure (railroads, airports, highways). Additional specialized land uses include wildfires, golf courses, Christmas tree farms, and maple syrup production.
February 27, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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waterbarnes.bsky.social
This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks
NSF state cards - Google Drive
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February 19, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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1nativesoilnerd.bsky.social
Graduating during the pandemic slowed down my process and is part of why I did two postdocs. Now as a first year faculty, all the federal grants are frozen. I love the work I do but this has all of us questioning how much www.science.org/content/arti...
U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos
Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard
www.science.org
February 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
ardonlab.bsky.social
www.earthisland.org/journal/inde...
How Scary Are Ghost Forests?
To combat climate change, researchers argue that inundated forests could be turned into marshland carbon sinks.
www.earthisland.org
February 21, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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volcanojw.bsky.social
168 colleagues lost yesterday, 6 in Earth Sciences alone. Today we grieved. And strategized. www.npr.org/2025/02/18/n...
The office door of my colleague, fired from his job with no notice. His nameplate is covered in black paper.
February 20, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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aramirezlab.bsky.social
Woody debris breaks down faster in tropical streams with high phosphorus.

Marzolf et al. 2025. On the breakdown of woody ... in Neotropical streams, Costa Rica. Freshwater Science
www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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February 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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waterbarnes.bsky.social
"their value to the nation is no longer required” 🤬 www.wired.com/story/nation...
National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
Firings at the NSF included permanent employees who had already completed their one-year probationary period, as well as at-will workers.
www.wired.com
February 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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jaymemcreynolds.bsky.social
So a former postdoc from our department had just started as a PO at NIH and was terminated in the wave of terminations last week. He is in the research triangle and a phenomenal scientist with expertise in stress and glia. If anyone in the RTI is hiring asap please let me know! #neuroskyence
February 16, 2025 at 9:46 PM
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mrillig.bsky.social
Happy to share that my paper on creativity in research labs is out in the "Ten Simply Rules" article series.

Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs

I hope you find it to be useful.

#AcademicSky

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Ten simple rules for fostering creativity in research labs
Research lab groups are hotspots for the education of the next generation of scientists, and making these units work as creatively as possible is essential for solving pressing issues in biology, the ...
journals.plos.org
February 15, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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aaberhe.com
Professional societies stand together in defense of science & scientists.
“science has led to humanity’s greatest advances, improving people’s lives & the health of our planet … (we’re) committed to supporting, elevating, & fighting for science & those who further it.“
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February 13, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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irishrainforest.bsky.social
Draining the world's peatlands for farming and mining is releasing so much CO2 that if it was a country, it would be the 4th biggest polluter in the world after China, the US, + India.

And the associated losses in biodiversity are vast.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s largely unprotected peatlands are ticking ‘carbon bomb’, warns study
Bogs and swamps are a colossal carbon store but their continued destruction would blow climate change targets
www.theguardian.com
February 13, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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dsihi.bsky.social
We are looking for two postdocs for a synthesis project focused on soil carbon dynamics and warming experiments. If you are excited about applying ML and process-based models to synthesize mechanisms of temperature sensitivity of soil respiration, please apply!
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February 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
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plosclimate.org
New on the Latitude blog: we talk to the @ardonlab.bsky.social about their recent PLOS Climate article, which looks at how climate change and sea level rise are affecting the ecology and carbon balance of forests along the US East Coast

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Behind the paper: changing forests on the US East Coast - Latitude
We speak to Marcelo Ardón and colleagues about their recent PLOS Climate publication, “Coastal carbon sentinels: A decade of forest change along the eastern shore of the…
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February 10, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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hormiga.bsky.social
I've been seen lots of feckless despair and detachedness among scientists in the US at the moment. How we might live up to this critical moment when things seem the worst.

scienceforeveryone.science/p/how-ive-be... 🧪
How I've been thinking about all of the rapid horrible changes in the United States
I'm not telling you how to think or feel, but maybe letting you know where I'm at might be useful.
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February 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
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aramirezlab.bsky.social
Sharing a passion for freshwater science- We spent an evening meeting people from different institutions in NC that work in aquatic ecosystems and talking about freshwater ecosystems

This was part of the "Converge Freshwater Science Series" hosted at #NCSU

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February 5, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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richardabetts.bsky.social
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden
A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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davidho.bsky.social
At least we don't have to read about this on a federal government website:

At 2°C of warming, the area on Earth that is too hot for humans will triple. This is fine. 🔥🧪
Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment
Extreme heat is increasing in magnitude and frequency, threatening human health. This Review assesses mortality risk associated with extreme heat, revealing that human thermal tolerances (that is, unc...
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February 4, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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ashevenell.bsky.social
I can’t wait for the second round of search terms: climate, sea level, etc. For all you scientists (and you know who you are) who think you won’t be affected because your broader impacts are amazingly still limited to training grad students and chatting to K-12 kids, this won’t stop at one list.
February 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM