Amanda Gay DelVecchia
@agdelv.bsky.social
Freshwater ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist. Assistant professor @ UNC Geography. She/her. Opinions my own. amandadelvecchia.weebly.com ; amanda.delvecchia@unc.edu
So grateful and excited to officially have NSF support to investigate how cryptic and/or chemosynthetic carbon contributes to stream productivity! Here's our upcoming work: amandadelvecchia.weebly.com/lab-news AND an amazing PhD student opportunity 😀 amandadelvecchia.weebly.com/join-the-lab...
I'm really looking forward to seeing folks at #2026SFS (the annual Society for #Freshwater #Science meeting) next week! Talks by lab members & collaborators are below. Please reach out if you'd like to connect in Spokane! @freshwaterscience.bsky.social @sfs-src.bsky.social @sfsemerge.bsky.social 💧🌎🧪
The PZ Ecology lab will be at #2026SFS this week! I'm excited to have two undergraduate students presenting on different aspects of body size in stream communities. I have yet another talk on estimating parameters describing individual size distributions (size spectra). See y'all in Spokane!
North Carolina friends! I'm heading your way this coming Earth week for public talks at Wake Forest, Elon, and Duke (plus over two dozen more small events including guest-teachings classes, meetings, interviews, and more). If you're in the area, I'd love to see you there. Details below ⬇️
Congratulations to the 2026 SFS Career Award Winners!🎉 🏆️ Hynes Award for New Investigators: Audrey Goeckner 🏆️ Environmental Stewardship Award: John Jackson 🏆️ Award of Excellence: Jennifer Tank Please join us in celebrating their contributions to freshwater science! Learn more: buff.ly/CfplxZK
Freshwaters Illustrated online gathering tonight! www.zeffy.com/en-US/ticket...
WaterNight Virtual 2026
Join us for our annual online gathering of our friends, supporters, and followers from all around, with glimpses at our newest films and projects, impact updates, special prizes, and more!Registration...
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Habitat variability is key to supporting consistent life in braided rivers. New research led by Holly Harris has shown that different parts of the river fluctuate at different times, which smooths out the boom‑and‑bust cycles of insects and fish across the whole river ‘braidplain’.
Does anyone know if it’s recommended to measure TN/TP on a SEAL with the alkaline potassium persulfate digestion method or acidic potassium persulfate digestion? Thanks!!
Attacks on civilian water systems must be condemned and punished under the laws of war. We must repudiate such attacks and stop targeting water supplies, water systems, and other critical civilian infrastructure. #Water must never be a target or weapon of war. thebulletin.org/2026/03/desa...
Desalination, water, and war
Attacks on civilian systems, including water systems, must be condemned and punished under the laws of war.
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The model of unpaid academic labor required good jobs with ample unstructured time.
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 5mo agoMy first paper had to be mailed to Stockholm, Sweden, and then mailed to reviewers around the world. Everything by mail! It was submitted, reviewed, revised, typeset, and published in 3 months. I feel bad for early-career scientists who can't find a single reviewer after 5 months. It's gotta change.
Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.
NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) is back!!! www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB)
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Globally, no single day in 2025 was cooler than its 1991-2020 average. climate.copernicus.eu/global-clima...
The Southwest Chapter is offering travel assistance to students for SFS 2026. To apply for assistance, submit your answers to the questions below to Dr. Fred Govedich (govedich@suu.edu) by March 20, 2026 (1/3).
All, The WARR website has been updated with 2026 schedule. www.cee.psu.edu/events/women... The page includes registration link, 2026 schedule in pdf, and all archived talks from 2021 - 2025. @margaretzimmer.bsky.social @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agucatchhydro.bsky.social @lmcp.bsky.social
Li Li (李黎)@lireactivewater.bsky.social · 7mo agoHappy new year! Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world. 3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET Pls spread the word. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... @waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social
Don’t forget about the #FindThatLizard Scholarship!! Please share #science #scholarship #funding #herps #HERpers #lizards #snakes #frogs #salamanders #game #challenge #education
📣 Applications open for GENIUS 2026, a 3-day mentoring workshop at Penn State for rising third- and fourth-year students underrepresented in geography. 🌍 📅 May 27–29. Apply by Feb. 15, 2026: www.geog.psu.edu/geniusworkshop
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
Deborah BanDrosky Award | Xerces Society
The Deborah BanDrosky Awards are made to students engaged in higher education studies and research related to invertebrate conservation.
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Today in fish news: After more than 100 years away, salmon are back in the headwaters of the Klamath River. At least 140 Chinook adults are spawning, and more are coming. But there's restoration work still to do. Some federal funding for it is delayed. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back
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Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!
Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply! freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
Headwaters Leadership Academy | Society for Freshwater Science
Apply now for SFS' early-career mentorship, service, and professional development program! Applications are due June 30.
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Stephen Heard@stephenbheard.bsky.social · 10mo agoNew post: All The Things I Was Never Trained To Do. Which turns out to be a sneakily disguised meditation on what university education is for, and thus what university is, and what it isn't - despite the persistence of idiots who don't understand that!
Just out in PNAS - Been thinking about these three graphs for nearly a decade with a great team of smart colleagues. We finally have a story to tell that makes these interesting observations make sense. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
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-...
'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!
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
