Darrin Hunt
@benthicbuddy.bsky.social
Educator, scientist, runner. Supporter of labor and human rights. Assistant professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University.
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Darrin Hunt
@benthicbuddy.bsky.social
· Nov 11
I'm so happy to see everyone over here!
If we haven't met, my name is Darrin and I'm an aquatic ecologist. I work in streams mainly, but also do some stuff in wetlands and with green stormwater infrastructure.
Here are some fun pictures!
#unloading #shocking #rock #sasquatch
If we haven't met, my name is Darrin and I'm an aquatic ecologist. I work in streams mainly, but also do some stuff in wetlands and with green stormwater infrastructure.
Here are some fun pictures!
#unloading #shocking #rock #sasquatch
A noteworthy little friend entered our mix on this outing!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A noteworthy little friend entered our mix on this outing!
Got out to Shenandoah Universoty’s Cool Spring Campus. It’s a 200 acre forest that has been recovering since the 00s next to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a forest recovering since the 50s.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Got out to Shenandoah Universoty’s Cool Spring Campus. It’s a 200 acre forest that has been recovering since the 00s next to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a forest recovering since the 50s.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
It always surprises me what I learn when I see bugs. On a rock.
November 7, 2025 at 9:30 PM
It always surprises me what I learn when I see bugs. On a rock.
We’ve been getting out and into some streams before the winter chill. I promise I have a tarp. We were just too focused/lazy to move it over.
Also, Fred.
Also, Fred.
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
We’ve been getting out and into some streams before the winter chill. I promise I have a tarp. We were just too focused/lazy to move it over.
Also, Fred.
Also, Fred.
Lol! I was at dinner! I had pineapple fried rice and it was delicious!
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Lol! I was at dinner! I had pineapple fried rice and it was delicious!
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Please join us on Oct 31, 3:00 pm EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI Section networking session. Our topic is: Boosting Your Research Success at a PUI.
Join the meeting at merrimack.zoom.us/my/nooria?pw....
Contact Dr. Azam Noori at [email protected], if link issues
Join the meeting at merrimack.zoom.us/my/nooria?pw....
Contact Dr. Azam Noori at [email protected], if link issues
October 24, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Please join us on Oct 31, 3:00 pm EST for our monthly virtual ASPB PUI Section networking session. Our topic is: Boosting Your Research Success at a PUI.
Join the meeting at merrimack.zoom.us/my/nooria?pw....
Contact Dr. Azam Noori at [email protected], if link issues
Join the meeting at merrimack.zoom.us/my/nooria?pw....
Contact Dr. Azam Noori at [email protected], if link issues
New paper alert! Hot off the press! Check out "Designing community facing tools for green stormwater infrastructure and groundwater monitoring: a model of interdisciplinary action research." GSI = green jobs. Let's go!
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October 16, 2025 at 2:27 AM
New paper alert! Hot off the press! Check out "Designing community facing tools for green stormwater infrastructure and groundwater monitoring: a model of interdisciplinary action research." GSI = green jobs. Let's go!
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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My student and I hosted the math department at Shenandoah University to talk about how machine learning can help identify populations of macroinvertebrates.
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My student and I hosted the math department at Shenandoah University to talk about how machine learning can help identify populations of macroinvertebrates.
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
It’s just gorgeous up there.
July 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
It’s just gorgeous up there.
I am super stoked to announce that I have taken a position as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I am super stoked to announce that I have taken a position as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
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NOAA's National Mussel Watch Program - which has used invasive zebra + quagga mussels to track contaminants in the #GreatLakes since 1992 - finds that PFAS are ubiquitous in the lakes, with mussels in Lake Michigan having the highest average PFAS concentrations www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
Study of invasive mussels finds PFAS is nearly everywhere in the Great Lakes | Bridge Michigan
A recent report that PFAS contamination is widespread in Great Lakes mussels give a clearer picture of where the chemicals are concentrated.
www.bridgemi.com
June 6, 2025 at 4:27 PM
NOAA's National Mussel Watch Program - which has used invasive zebra + quagga mussels to track contaminants in the #GreatLakes since 1992 - finds that PFAS are ubiquitous in the lakes, with mussels in Lake Michigan having the highest average PFAS concentrations www.bridgemi.com/michigan-env...
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I updated my funding curves last night.
Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants.
The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review.
I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE"
1/2
Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants.
The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review.
I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE"
1/2
June 9, 2025 at 10:50 AM
I updated my funding curves last night.
Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants.
The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review.
I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE"
1/2
Here are the results for new and competitive renewal grants.
The rate of investment has dropped substantially. This is apparently due to a requirement for DOGE review.
I am calling this effect the "Downward DOGE"
1/2
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As we approach #IAGLR25, it means awards season is upon us! First up, the Chandler-Misener Award which is presented annually to the author(s) of the peer-reviewed paper in the current volume of the Journal of Great Lakes Research judged to be "most notable."
May 22, 2025 at 3:13 PM
As we approach #IAGLR25, it means awards season is upon us! First up, the Chandler-Misener Award which is presented annually to the author(s) of the peer-reviewed paper in the current volume of the Journal of Great Lakes Research judged to be "most notable."
#SFS2025! Let’s talk about urban groundwater! Come see me at 2:45 at the Intermittent, Ephemeral Systems and Surfacewater/Groundwater Interactions 2.0 superhub.
Let’s mellow out with a little interdisciplinary science as we discuss Green Stormwater-Informed Urban Groundwater monitoring Networks!
Let’s mellow out with a little interdisciplinary science as we discuss Green Stormwater-Informed Urban Groundwater monitoring Networks!
May 20, 2025 at 4:21 PM
#SFS2025! Let’s talk about urban groundwater! Come see me at 2:45 at the Intermittent, Ephemeral Systems and Surfacewater/Groundwater Interactions 2.0 superhub.
Let’s mellow out with a little interdisciplinary science as we discuss Green Stormwater-Informed Urban Groundwater monitoring Networks!
Let’s mellow out with a little interdisciplinary science as we discuss Green Stormwater-Informed Urban Groundwater monitoring Networks!
Looks like about 2 more hours.
May 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Looks like about 2 more hours.
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📣Join the Early Career Committee for their workshop on navigating mentorship in freshwater science!
📆Thursday, May 9, 12:00 PM EST
🌐Registration: ua-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📆Thursday, May 9, 12:00 PM EST
🌐Registration: ua-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
April 23, 2025 at 11:05 AM
📣Join the Early Career Committee for their workshop on navigating mentorship in freshwater science!
📆Thursday, May 9, 12:00 PM EST
🌐Registration: ua-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
📆Thursday, May 9, 12:00 PM EST
🌐Registration: ua-edu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We’re rounding the corner on capstone research for Spring ‘25. There is something especially team build-y about seining for fish.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We’re rounding the corner on capstone research for Spring ‘25. There is something especially team build-y about seining for fish.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
May the end of the school year bring me cool new things to do!
April 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
May the end of the school year bring me cool new things to do!