Really excellent kick-off of #HackingLimno2026 with Tristan Blechinger and @seanbertalot.bsky.social giving a demo of their rLakeHabitat package for developing lake bathymetric maps with various geostatistical models!

Very excited to share that our Zooplankton International Geospatial (ZIG) data paper is out in @aslo.org LO Letters! We harmonized data across decades from 311 lakes and released it to the wild for folks to dream up their own analyses! doi.org/10.1002/lol2...

The Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset: A global repository of spatiotemporal freshwater zooplankton community composition data from lakes and reservoirs to support ecological research

Zooplankton transfer substantial energy in aquatic food webs and are used as indicators of environmental change. Syntheses of zooplankton community dynamics globally require datasets that span a wide...

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New study synthesises zooplankton data from 311 lakes in 37 countries! A great resource for freshwater ecology! See: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... Great leadership Steph Figary, @rmpilla.bsky.social, @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social & @drplanktonguy.bsky.social! 🧪

Zooplankton International Geospatial dataset just pusblished! This impressive achievement was made possible through the hard work Steph, @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social, @rmpilla.bsky.social, & @drplanktonguy.bsky.social Figary et al. 2026. L&O letters. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Just 8 days since opening registration, and we already have 160 people registered for Hacking Limno and #DSOS26 from 29 countries! Keep on spreading the word on this FREE virtual event in all things #datascience #openscience #limnology #hydrology #ecology #oceanography

Michael Meyer@mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Day 1 of the workshop will focus on mapping lake littoral habitat in R. Day 2 will focus on accessing massive amounts of weather data from your laptop. Day 3 will focus on accessing #NEON data! Day 4 and 5 will feature 20 talks by a range of ECRs on this emerging frontier!

Day 1 of the workshop will focus on mapping lake littoral habitat in R. Day 2 will focus on accessing massive amounts of weather data from your laptop. Day 3 will focus on accessing #NEON data! Day 4 and 5 will feature 20 talks by a range of ECRs on this emerging frontier!

Registration is open for #HackingLimno & #DSOS26 10-14 August!! This FREE, VIRTUAL event will host 3 workshops and 20 presentations in all things #datascience #openscience #limnology #ecology #hydrology #oceanography. aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

The latest Meeting Highlight piece from the 2025 Hacking #Limnology and #DSOS Virtual Summit for #DataScience and #OpenScience went live today! Many thanks to everyone who has supported the workshops and summits over the past half DECADE! @aslo.org aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

The 2025 “Hacking Limnology” Workshop Series and DSOS Virtual Summit: A Half Decade of Data‐Intensive Aquatic Science

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What will the future hold for the aquatic sciences? Let's chat about this at next year's ASLO-SIL Joint Meeting in Canada! How can we expand our science by using remote sensing 🛰️, data science 💾, machine learning 🤖, modeling 📈, and/or open science 🫶 - creative approaches for impactful research! 🧪

New paper alert!! Our viewpoint piece uses data from the U.S. EPA National Lakes Assessment + Landsat to see how differing definitions of trophic state can skew and enhance our understanding of lake ecosystems! @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Clarifying the trophic state concept to advance macroscale freshwater science and management

For over a century, ecologists have used the concept of trophic state (TS) to characterize an aquatic ecosystem's biological productivity. However, multiple TS classification schemes, each relying on...

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It takes patience to have a conversation about definitions as a collaboration begins... but it is important! "Trophic state" in lakes is one of those concepts! It really makes a difference which definition we use... @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Clarifying the trophic state concept to advance macroscale freshwater science and management

For over a century, ecologists have used the concept of trophic state (TS) to characterize an aquatic ecosystem's biological productivity. However, multiple TS classification schemes, each relying on....

esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

The day has come 💫 I will soon open up a 4-year PhD position @biodiversosurjc.bsky.social . We'll be studying how global change impacts high-mountain lake food webs ⛰️. Details to follow. DM me if you're interested, and please share! #PhDPosition #Ecology #ClimateChange #Limnology

Come join the MU Limnology Lab as the new field manager! To apply for this position, please visit the MU web site at hrs.missouri.edu/find-a-job/s... and look for job opening ID 56749.

Input from new study (This is from Wisconsin-team!!!!) Holly S. Embke et al. 2025. Bright spots for advancing ecological understanding and conservation decision-making. Conservation Biology conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🚨Happening next week!🚨Still time to register and join the week of workshops, presentations, panels, and networking!

Michael Meyer@mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very excited to share that Hacking Limno + DSOS are coming back for the FIFTH time 21-25 July! If you're interested in #machinelearning #remotesensing #modeling #limnology #oceanography, this is for YOU! Registration is FREE + open to ALL! #DSOS25 aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

I was a little surprised to see something less studied than winter limnology! But there it is! Great to work with this team led by Faith Ferrato and the @sapnasharma.bsky.social team

PLOS Climate@plosclimate.org · last yr.

New Opinion article by Ferrato and colleagues: "Autumn as an overlooked opportunity for limnology" journals.plos.org/climate/arti... @sapnasharma.bsky.social @joshculpepper.bsky.social @cearatalbot.bsky.social @mishafredmeyer.bsky.social @sehampton.bsky.social

So happy to share the news that we’re hosting the FIFTH iteration of Hacking Limnology/DSOS this summer! It will be a fest!

Michael Meyer@mishafredmeyer.bsky.social · last yr.

I'm very excited to share that Hacking Limno + DSOS are coming back for the FIFTH time 21-25 July! If you're interested in #machinelearning #remotesensing #modeling #limnology #oceanography, this is for YOU! Registration is FREE + open to ALL! #DSOS25 aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

I'm very excited to share that Hacking Limno + DSOS are coming back for the FIFTH time 21-25 July! If you're interested in #machinelearning #remotesensing #modeling #limnology #oceanography, this is for YOU! Registration is FREE + open to ALL! #DSOS25 aquaticdatasciopensci.github.io/registration/

Wondering what kind of #research questions are being asked about the present & future of #limnology during the #winter? Curious about the overlap of sampling, #remotesensing, or #modeling? We ask 100 questions of the future of #lake #ice research. Find it here: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...

One‐Hundred Fundamental, Open Questions to Integrate Methodological Approaches in Lake Ice Research

We formulated 100 questions to progress primary research methods of lake ice research: in situ, satellite remote sensing, and modeling We described avenues to integrate the primary methods and in...

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Can a lake’s shape tell its story? Video #2 in my Aquatic Ecology mini-lecture series is now live! This one explores how the curves, contours, and complexity of waterbodies can reveal their origin, function, and fate. Watch here and let me know what you think: youtu.be/mFXD1F00lHs

The shape of waterbodies

YouTube video by Benjamin Kraemer

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This is amazing 😍😍 @500womensci.bsky.social has made cards for each state on funding for NSF and NIH avail for download bit.ly/NSF_bystate & bit.ly/NIH_bystate if they are helpful for folks

Happy new year! Thrilled to announce Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2025, featuring inspiring women on water research from around the world. 11 am, US eastern, 3rd Thursday every month. Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi... Recordings 2021- 2024: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

My first first-author paper is officially published! 🎉🎉 This was a team effort and could not have been possible without my wonderful coauthors! The article can be accessed at this link: rdcu.be/d20BA and it will be part of Hydrobiologia's upcoming Special Issue "Zooplankton Under Multiple Stressors"