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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · 2d

Postdoc w/Miyuki Hino

This full-time position will contribute to projects on natural hazards and disasters.The primary projects will focus on extreme weather events and their impacts to communities in the Southeastern US. ...

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · 6d

Tomorrow!

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'As the ocean marches inland: How rising seas reshape coastal landscapes'

Dr. Chao Wang will be sharing a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment Colloquium series this Friday at 3:30 in Carolina Hall room 220 -- join us!

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Katie O'Reilly @drkatfish.bsky.social · 8d

A new study finds that the 2023 Supreme Court decision (Sackett v. Environmental Protection Agency) has resulted in ~72% of Illinois' remaining 981,000 acres of wetlands no longer being protected by the federal Clean Water Act news.illinois.edu/study-72-of-...

A wooded wetland in Illinois; photo by Paul B. Marcum

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · 9d

'As the ocean marches inland: How rising seas reshape coastal landscapes'

Dr. Chao Wang will be sharing a seminar in the Department of Geography and Environment Colloquium series this Friday at 3:30 in Carolina Hall room 220 -- join us!

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Chloe Hall @cloventures.bsky.social · 25d

An incredibly candid and not posed at all photo from the field today. First grad school field trip to Jordan Lake today for some dissolved gas sampling!! nothing like being on a floating surface to really up the ante of headspace injections @agdelv.bsky.social

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W. Carson Byrd @wcbyrdphd.bsky.social · 28d

Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’

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Casey terHorst @ecoevolab.bsky.social · Sep 8

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
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NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

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NC Newsline @ncnewsline.com · Aug 28

Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c... (commentary)

Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom • NC Newsline

Academic freedom, like democracy, dies one step at a time. Each minor act of censorship or repression serves to form a larger picture of a changed society.

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Guillaume Thibault @gthibault.bsky.social · Aug 27

📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs

Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Aug 26

Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?

🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!

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#ImpactfulData #EarthScience

Nominate an Impactful Dataset

You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…

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Donna Giberson (Elbows UP!) 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @donnag.bsky.social · Aug 23

Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...

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Matt Bracken @brackenlab.bsky.social · Aug 21

Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪

Multiple Early Career Faculty Positions in Ecology

The Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Notre Dame invites applications for multiple, tenure-track assistant professor positions that will enhance existing institutional excellence in ecology. We are searching broadly for creative and collaborative individuals (1) working at any spatial scale, from local to global, in any system, (2) studying any level of biological organization, from genes to ecosystems, and (3) using any mode of inference, from empirical to theoretical. Applicants should demonstrate research excellence that crosses traditional disciplinary boundaries; ongoing growth in the department will emphasize new hires that use quantitative and/or integrative approaches to study ecological processes. Postdoctoral experience is desirable in applicants. Successful candidates will engage with and benefit from UNDERC, Notre Dame’s 8000-acre environmental field station and home to NEON’s Great Lakes domain, superb on-campus chemical and genomic analytical facilities, an experimental research facility located close to campus, cross-disciplinary interactions through multiple centers and institutes including the Environmental Change Initiative, and a unique Interdisciplinary Graduate Training Program in Environment and Society. New faculty will benefit from Notre Dame’s recent campus-wide Strategic Framework that included the Just Transformations to Sustainability Initiative. Modern research facilities exist in a new environmental research building, which opened in 2025.

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Kevin Anchukaitis @thirstygecko.bsky.social · Aug 14

The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

Assistant or Associate Professor, Physical Geography (T/TE) (Updated)

Develop and maintain an active research program.Teach undergraduate and graduate courses.Develop advanced courses at the graduate level.Mentor and adv...

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · Aug 13

Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations?

Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan

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Rick Thoman @alaskawx.bsky.social · Aug 13

If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

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Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier

Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jul 14

Amazing opportunity to work with a dedicated mentor across fields: remote sensing, biogeochemistry, and hydrology! So excited to see that two positions are available with such an incredibly talented and generous scientist. I will be jealous of whoever is hired for these awesome positions :)

Audrey Thellman @audreythellman.bsky.social · Jul 14

Hello freshwater friends! I’m starting a lab(!!) and recruiting 2 students to start Fall 2026 and a lab/field assistant to start this Fall 2025! Research topic is broad: rivers 🛶, ice/snow ❄️, nutrients 🍂, algae 🌱see below for more info

Please pass this along to any interested folks :)

Ad for 2 graduate student positions and and 1 lab and field assistant position at UCSB. More info go to audreythellman.weebly.com

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Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran.com · Jul 11

DO NOT GIVE UP!

Our advocacy is working.

A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.

Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️

Nature: US senators poised to reject Trump’s proposed massive science cuts

Committee gives first hint that policymakers might preserve, rather than slash, funding for US National Science Foundation and other agencies.

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · Jul 9

"It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi

The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jul 4

To summarize some concerns with C stable isotope applications to food webs in streams, I also wanted to share this asap - explaining some of the assumptions we make and how they might disregard biogeochemical complexity in some situations: ecoevorxiv.org/repository/v... Conversation welcome!

Cryptic chemoautotrophic and methanotrophic processes complicate the use of carbon stable isotopes in rivers

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jul 4

Although we typically consider photosynthetic allochthonous and autochthonous carbon in stream food webs, chemoautotrophic sources (ammonia or sulfur oxidation) can contribute substantially, and incorporate ancient C. Recently accepted to FWS, online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jun 10

I just learned about open educational resources which are hosted at oercommons.org - already found some great modules by fellow scientists and looking forward to sharing some open-access resources! Universities (like UNC) seem to have internal networks to help create and share

OER Commons

OER Commons is a dynamic digital library and network. Explore open education resources and join our network of educators dedicated to curriculum improvement.

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jun 6

And to top it off, you'd have a kind and passionately curious mentor @nickmarzolf.bsky.social

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Amanda Gay DelVecchia @agdelv.bsky.social · Jun 6

@thejonesctr.bsky.social is hiring a postdoc in carbon cycling! "work with silviculture, ecohydrology, and aquatic sciences...to assess carbon stocks, movements, or transformations across SE landscapes, with a specific focus on longleaf pine woodlands and embedded wetlands." www.jonesctr.org

Home - Jones Center

The Jones Center At Ichauway Spanning nearly 30,000 acres of woods, water, and wildlife, The Jones Center at Ichauway provides a unique combination of place, people, and processes to better understand...

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Clark Gray @clarklgray.bsky.social · Jun 6

"Athletics should remain a “side story of the university,” Conghe Song, chair of geography, told Chancellor Roberts at a faculty council meeting. Song noted the low salaries paid to grad students ($20,600 per school year) and that offices in Carolina Hall had minimal heating during the winter."

The Assembly @theassemblync.bsky.social · May 2

If UNC-CH can’t generate enough new revenue, the university will have to continue diverting other funds to athletics, or some of the Tar Heels’ prized nonrevenue sports may be on the chopping block.

www.theassemblync.com/education/hi...

UNC’s Risky Belichick Math

An Assembly analysis finds UNC football has already set aside millions of dollars to bolster incoming head coach Bill Belichick and the team.

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Margaret Zimmer @margaretzimmer.bsky.social · Jun 6

Wrapping up your PhD? I’m planning to hire a postdoc in the next few months (start date flexible). Will start formally advertising soon, but you heard it here first!! Possible research topics include - critical zone hydrology, agricultural water quality, SW-GW interactions. Reach out if interested!

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