👀 Topic modeling reveals thermally partitioned and taxonomically distinct microbial subcommunities across prokaryotes and phytoplankton in the Laurentian Great Lakes www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...

Topic modeling reveals thermally partitioned and taxonomically distinct microbial subcommunities across prokaryotes and phytoplankton in the Laurentian Great Lakes

Identifying discrete microbial assemblages and their environmental drivers across multiple biological fractions simultaneously remains a central challenge in aquatic microbial ecology. We applied an i...

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harmful algal blooms in Lake Superior need to be understood and addressed. A call to action: video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwCF... report: www.burkectr.org/_files/ugd/6...

Lake Superior Algal Blooms: A Call to Action (Water Summit 2026)

YouTube video by Burke Center for Ecosystem Research

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This is an amazing opportunity! FLBS is an outstanding place with terrific people.

Jim Elser@drlimnology.bsky.social · 3w ago

Would you like to work here? The search for the next director of Flathead Lake Bio Station is re-opened (search suspended last year due to admin issue). FLBS is in terrific shape, physically, financially, & academically with exciting prospects for the future. 🧪 Apply: apply.interfolio.com/192695

Microbial Diversity 2026 @mblscience.bsky.social was outstanding this year! If you’d like to join us next year, apply in late January, early February and spread the word. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VUY...

Focus on: Microbial Diversity at Marine Biological Laboratory

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Job alert! Please RT! Looking for bioinformatics technician to help in projects using metagenomes to study microbial degradation of organic carbon in the ocean and in the human gut. Opportunity to gain research experience before graduate school. careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...

Research Support Associate 1, Bioinformatics

MIT - Research Support Associate 1, Bioinformatics - Cambridge MA 02139

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When I started my postdoc, only 10 genomes were available for an estimated 100,000 species of diatoms. To fill this gap, we present the 100 Diatom Genomes Project, out now in PLOS Biology. Analyzing the first assemblies suggests that we will double the diatom gene space by the end of the project! 📈

Thomas Mock@thomasmock.bsky.social · 3w ago

On behalf of 108 colleagues and friends from 11 countries, thrilled to share the first paper from our 100 #Diatom Genomes Project (100DGP). Just out @plosbiology.org | @norwichmicro.bsky.social | @ueaenv.bsky.social | @jgi.doe.gov doi.org/10.1371/jour...

This is troubling to say the least, and made worse by warming combined with more extreme precipitation (both increasing due to climate change) "As these bacterial explosions increase worldwide, researchers are racing to study their health impacts" cen.acs.org/biological-c...

Toxins from freshwater algae blooms can go airborne

As these bacterial explosions increase worldwide, researchers are racing to study their health impacts

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🌊 Happy World Lake Day! 🌊 Celebrating the #GreatLakes this #WorldLakeDay! 🌊 At #CIGLR, we’re proud to work with researchers, partners & communities to better understand and protect these incredible freshwater resources. Come see us at the Matthaei Botanical Gardens!

the power of pollen: it is a "source of bioavailable carbon and nutrients that can fuel microbial succession and seasonal dynamics in large lakes." ... up to 0.30 Tg C, 17.3 Gg N, and 1.64 Gg P per yr in Lake Superior alone! #GreatLakes agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1... .

Pollen Mineralization Fuels Biogeochemical Cycling and Microbial Community Succession in Lake Superior

Pollen is a source of bioavailable carbon and nutrients to the waters of Laurentian Great Lake Superior Pollen-derived nutrient fuel microbial succession, resulting in increased estimated prokary...

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Thank you Congresswoman Dingell for being a champion of the #GreatLakes - a well deserved award. www.wemu.org/wemu-news/20...

Rep. Debbie Dingell honored by Michigan's sports fishery

The Great Lakes are under attack with invasive species and other dangers. A major state fisherman’s association is honoring Ann Arbor Congresswoman Debbie Dingell for her work to protect the industry....

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🌊 A new #CIGLR study led by scientist Jasmine Mancuso explores how the Detroit & Maumee rivers shape western #LakeErie #HABs & why blooms vary from year to year. 📖 CIGLR blog: ciglr.seas.umich.edu/a-tale-of-tw... 📄 Journal article: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... #GreatLakes #NOAAGLERL

Something a little different on #FossilFriday: new temporary exhibit at UMMNH highlighting the history of paleontological collections at U-M. Timed to recognize UMMP's centennial (although the collection itself is approaching its bicentennial). 📸 Elliot Zirulnik/UMMNH

Dr. Howard Tanner, a giant among Great Lakes fish biologists and conservationists, passed away this week at the age of 102. Back in 2019, he spoke at Great Lakes Day about his new book, "Something Spectacular: My Great Lakes Salmon Story." Watch the recording from his talk: buff.ly/QYrveKL

What if you could travel hundreds of years into the past without ever leaving the Great Lakes? Now is your chance! Tag along as @greatlakesnow.bsky.social, @hiddenbelow.bsky.social, and Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary take you on an unforgettable journey through time. #greatlakes #microbial

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How scientists can predict Lake Erie's harmful algal blooms months before they appear - Great Lakes Now

Long before green algae coats Lake Erie's shoreline, researchers use river data, weather patterns and satellites to forecast blooms and their potential impacts.

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👀Behind the Paper👀 Author Libin Zhou explains how nutrient enrichment destabilises aquatic communities, working with data from Lake Taihu, and the ups-and-downs of working on “big picture” ecological questions🌊 Read it here👇️ buff.ly/jSLtFIi 🧪🌍️

Libin Zhou | Nutrient enrichment destabilizes aquatic food webs through synchronization within and across trophic levels

In this ‘Behind the Paper’ blog post, author Libin Zhou – an Associate Professor at the Nanjing Institute of Geography and Limnology – discusses the paper “Nutrient en…

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Can AI Forecasting Help the #GreatLakes? A @umich.edu Institute Hopes So: www.lakescientist.com/can-ai-forec... 🖥️🤖🌊 #TechTuesday #TuesdayThoughts #TuesdayMotivation #GreatLakesSci #Science #GreatLakesResearch #Research #AI #Forecast #ScienceForSociety #CIGLR #NOAA #Michigan

Can AI Forecasting Help the Great Lakes? A University of Michigan Institute Hopes So - Lake Scientist

The Cooperative Institute for Great Lakes Research is using AI forecasting to assist Great Lakes research and train environmental science students.

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Join Silvia Newell and other great speakers on Tuesday, August 11 at 12 PM ET for a dynamic panel discussion on Innovations in Nutrient Mitigation! Expansion of intensive ag/livestock sectors have elevated nutrient pollution to one of the most pressing Great Lakes water quality concerns. (1/2)

Nice piece on the effect of invasive mussels on #GreatLakes food webs and fish, but mussels have not "helped clean the lake system of phosphates..."; they've just re-distributed them to the benthos, fueling benthic algae.

Anthony Ricciardi@ecoinvasions.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Further contradicting the claim that invasive mussels have benefited the Great Lakes: Filtering activities of zebra & quagga mussels remove phytoplankton that the prey of lake whitefish feed on, setting off "a calamitous chain reaction further up the food chain." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Dept. of Earth & Environmental Sciences at the University of Michigan is searching for two new faculty: Earth System Modeling (Joint with the Institute for Global Change Biology, Assistant Prof.) and Climate-Driven Hazards and Earth Surface Dynamics (open rank). lsa.umich.edu/earth/about-...

A pilot project will remove large mats of algae build-up from three locations on Lake St. Clair. MISG Extension Educator Erica Anculle explains the connection between mucky mats and invasive mussels:

Project to remove thick mats of algae on Lake St. Clair to begin this fall

The $800,000 pilot project will allow the removal of the mats with researchers studying what happens after.

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Much of the corn grown in the US is used to make ethanol. It makes no sense; we could reach our water quality goals by converting that land from corn to solar; "one acre of solar panels produces more energy than 100 acres of corn grown for ethanol" riverraccoon.substack.com/p/how-much-c...

water pollution from farming has become a major political issue in Iowa: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

‘Cancer Doesn't Care What Party You Belong To’: Poisoned Water Is Turning This Rural State Bluer

Democrats see an opening in rural states for the first time in decades. In Iowa, it’s about water.

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Job: Come work with me! Ready to turn your love for lakes into a career? Join the MSU Extension Center for Lakes and Streams as our new Inland Lakes Shoreline Educator! MS and experience with shoreline protection desired. Location: Upper Peninsula. careers.msu.edu. Search for posting # 1148258.

An exciting opportunity: lead the University of Michigan's School for Environment and Sustainability. We're searching for the next Dean. careers.umich.edu/job_detail/2...

🌊 TOMORROW! Join us for the virtual @noaa.gov CoastWatch Satellite 201 Summer Lecture Series! 🛰️ Dive deeper into satellite oceanography w/ remaining advanced lectures on July 24 & 31. 👉 More about course: coastwatch-training.github.io/trainings/up... 👉 Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Michigan is a relative climate haven, but... "Protecting the future of Michigan and the planet should unite us all. It’s on all of us to decide what comes next. It’s time to act like your next Pure Michigan summer depends on it, because it does." www.thetimesherald.com/story/opinio...

Michigan health plagued by wildfires, smokes and floods | Opinion

Michiganders have been suffering from hazardous wildfire smoke, a cyclosporiasis outbreak and floods. They are not mere coincidences.

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good but depressing thread. A key solution to our water quality issues is to end corn ethanol; its bad for climate, bad for biodiversity, bad for human health, bad for our lakes.

Silvia Secchi@profsecchi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

So I am working on a new project, and I went to the Iowa Nutrient Reduction strategy site to see what the current numbers are for the much-heralded tech fixes to address tile drainage pollution (bioreactors, saturated buffers, multi-purpose oxbows, and water quality wetlands). 1/

Lots of folks are asking what the health risks of wildfire smoke are, and they are significant. Here's a summary: www.msn.com/en-us/weathe...

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