Interesting article by my colleague Carson Jeffres californiawaterblog.com/2025/10/05/c...

ICES Workshop on emerging methods and technologies for the automated analysis of calcified structures #WKETAC invites experts in fish biology, stock assessment & computational technologies.
📅 2–3 October 2025
📌 Boulogne-sur-mer, France - and online
ℹ️https://ices.dk/community/groups/Pages/WKETAC.aspx

IsoArcH is organizing its first Addithon, a 10-day virtual community event! This event will bring volunteers together from all over the world, to add to this ever-growing open data repository for isotopes from archaeological research.

bit.ly/IsoArcH2025

Our bioavailable strontium baseline for Corsica is out! ⁸⁷Sr/⁸⁶Sr ranges from 0.7075 to 0.7169 and was established from 245 plant & soil leachate samples from 125 sites.

Check out the article here lnkd.in/e6pDJFCY
and the dataset can be downloaded from the IsoArcH database here lnkd.in/eFNS5Xbw

Scientists!

@skypeascientist.bsky.social matches scientists with classrooms, libraries, & more for virtual Q&As! It's easy and fun!

We are looking for 750 more volunteers by 8/15

If you're down to chat with 1-5 classrooms this semester, sign up here
www.skypeascientist.com/sign-up.html

Great news article highlighting our work on the Guadalupe River in California. Really gratefull to all the volunteers collecting samples and caring about fish. calsport.org/learning-fro...

A piece of good news: www.opb.org/article/2025...

This year, traps will be installed in 63 Norwegian rivers to remove pink salmon before they are able to spawn. New publication assessing these extraordinary measures, based on experiences two years ago: reabic.net/journals/mbi/2025/2/MBI_2025_Thorstad_etal.pdf @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

🐦 Early bird reminder! 🚨

The deadline for early bird registration for the #ICESASC25 is fast approaching!

✨ Secure your spot while early bird rates are still available!

📝 Register today to join us in Klaipėda on 15-18 September: bit.ly/4ldurjP

and here the link to the (open access) paper: esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Blogpost about our work tracking the establishment of Chinook salmon in a restored watershed. Lead Lauren Hitt did an amazing job combining field observations and otoliths! californiawaterblog.com/2025/06/29/b...

AFS joined other science, conservation, and outdoor organizations in a "Statement on Federal Public Lands Transfer, Sale, and Exchange." The current Senate budget reconciliation bill requires federal agencies to sell 2-3 million acres in 11 western states. Read more: fisheries.org/2025/06/stat...

Excited to be back working with sturgeon finrays from California. Trying to estimate age 🔬 isnt easy but these high quality and beautiful images sure help!

New article on land use efficiency of renewable energy in Norway. Production density (GWh/km2) was highest for small hydropower and low for land-based wind. Storage hydropower needed to balance wind power at 0.2/1.0 TWh. Led by M.S. Kenawi with collaborators at NTNU and NINA. doi.org/10.1016/j.re...

We tend to think about catastrophic things when we think of biodiversity change, like the extinction of a species. But biodiversity change can be much more insidious than this. A lot of important changes go unnoticed. But these can be precursors to much more problematic changes.

Dive in for more 👇

#ThingsWithRings! Read this new @uk.theconversation.com article about some of the surprising biological archives out there, and what we can use them for... theconversation.com/most-animals...

#otoliths #archaeology, #forensics #fish #sclerochronology #biochronology @universityofessex.bsky.social

Was out this week in the Alviso Marsh to collect Longfin Smelt for UC Davis culture program. Weather was waaaaay too nice for January.

Hot off the press: A fitness-based indicator for the effect of aquaculture-produced salmon lice on wild sea trout. doi.org/10.1093/ices... @ninanatureresearch.bsky.social

Work with us? Postdoc position in Arctic coastal carbon cycling at NINA’s Department for Arctic Ecology in Tromsø nina-english.attract.reachmee.com/jobs/65-post...

Are you a fish telemetry practitioner? The 7th International Conference on Fish Telemetry will take place June 8-13, 2025 in Traverse City, Michigan, USA. The conference website is now live for abstract submission and details on the venue. Help spread the word. event.fourwaves.com/7thicft/pages

That was one of my favorite spots during my phd fieldwork. Such an interesting chapel and geology!

Stuck on an R problem so decided to go for a longer dog walk. R problem is still there but the view of the fjord was beautiful.

You are saying thats not what a Davis turkey looks like?