Silvia Newell
@newelllab.bsky.social
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Director of Michigan Sea Grant, Professor in SEAS at University of Michigan
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newelllab.bsky.social
So proud of our Great Lakes fellows with the @ijcs-journal.bsky.social and @glcommission.bsky.social and the GL Sea Grants hearing about their listening sessions with communities and Tribes around the region, hearing about needs for the IJC Science Plan. #IAGLR2025
A woman in front of a podium, giving a talk on lessons learned on community engagement
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miseagrant.bsky.social
We found a stack of our popular Great Lakes Basin posters hiding at the back of the shelf! They're on sale now for only $4 with limited stock, so grab yours from our online store before they're gone again: buff.ly/RRNDQlS
Map of the Great Lakes Basin showcasing each lake's watershed, along with information about watersheds.
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newelllab.bsky.social
We actually were there 3 weeks after Priscu and got to use their hole! I was there with now-retired Bill Green from Miami University
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sjcfishy.bsky.social
I am finding these starter packs useful for finding others with similar interests so here is another. Ping me if you work in the recreational fisheries science and management space and want to be added! #recreationalfisheries #angling #anglers #fisheriescience go.bsky.app/3UoUZkC
newelllab.bsky.social
Me too! But 2000-2001
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globalhydro.bsky.social
Do you work on lakes globally? Check out what is, to my mind, the most complete global database of lakes (~6M) and associated attributes, newly published in WRR. Also the basis for SWOT lake data. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Map of global lake distribution, colored by the number of SWOT overpasses per 21 day cycle. There are many lakes with a high number of SWOT overpasses at high northern latitudes, but there are also tens of thousands to more than a million lakes on every continent. Lakes are graphed by latitude and longitude on the edges of the figure.
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ericklinenberg.bsky.social
Chilling report from Brown University.

Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities.

Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.
Brown University advises all international community members to postpone, reconsider travel
One week before spring break, Brown advised international community members, including green card holders and permanent residents, to postpone international travel in a campus-wide email sent on Sunda...
www.browndailyherald.com
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emexastris.bsky.social
Since this is probably about to be relevant: a reminder that when you poll the general public, they estimate NASA to be between 10-30% of the federal budget. It's less than 1%. All that amazing science and technology and wonder is got for less than a penny on the dollar of your taxes.
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iaglr.bsky.social
IAGLR and dozens of other scientific societies have united on a call to action urging Congress to prioritize the integrity and funding of scientific research. By investing in science, lawmakers can help safeguard our future and foster an informed citizenry. www.ucsusa.org/about/news/s...
48 Scientific Societies Representing Almost 100,000 Scientists Ask Congress to Protect the Future of Science
48 scientific societies representing almost 100,000 scientists signed on to a letter asking Congress to protect the future of science
www.ucsusa.org
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mnseagrant.bsky.social
🧊 #MNSG project highlight: MN #Ice-Out Clock

The #Minnesota Ice-Out Clock helps seasonal businesses in tourism, recreation, & agriculture plan logistics & ops more accurately, saving them💵, while also helping recreationists reduce risk.

Learn more at our 3/7 webinar: z.umn.edu/mnsg_iceout25
Chunks of ice and snow along Lake Superior with mist rising from the water in the background.
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sheril.bsky.social
Across the U.S., Sea Grant supports coastal, marine & Great Lakes communities through research, extension & education. It touches our lives in so many ways.

20 years ago, I arrived in DC to work on #science policy as a marine biologist & Knauss Fellow through the Maine Sea Grant under NOAA. /1
newelllab.bsky.social
Are you in a coastal or Great Lakes state? Might you be willing to talk with Congress?
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drandrewthaler.bsky.social
I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies.

There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.
newelllab.bsky.social
And @noaa (including CIGLR and Sea Grant) and EPA GLNPO
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coweatherman.bsky.social
How many times do you look at the temperature on your phone?

Most of those temperatures are from weather stations NOAA/NWS helps maintain…or they are a model interpolation from a model NOAA/NWS helped develop.

The radar data, satellite data, every single watch and warning…that’s NOAA/NWS.
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drkatfish.bsky.social
NOAA's #GreatLakes Environmental Research Lab will be taking an "indefinite hiatus" from communications due to staff cuts. GLERL communicates critical weekly updates about the extent of harmful algal blooms in Lake Erie - like the one that left my hometown of Toledo without drinking water in 2014
A screenshot of a Facebook post from the NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
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riikkarinnan.bsky.social
A super exciting PhD position available in #peatland #biochemistry. Join @yijiao.bsky.social and me working with cutting edge #VOC cycling in peat.

+ nice colleagues @voltcenter.bsky.social
+ Copenhagen
+ competitive salary
+ good PhD program

employment.ku.dk/phd/?show=16...

Please repost!
newelllab.bsky.social
I’d been on it on a ship, but not on the ice before! We had a full foot of ice to drill through!