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 ago

Happy 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

The taste of early summer ☀️ 🍓

"The grid operators in MI and PA said they hadn’t asked for the orders and hadn’t planned on using the plants this summer. The costs to keep the plants open, which could total TENS OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, ARE EXPECTED TO FALL ON CONSUMERS." www.nytimes.com/2025/06/06/c...

Coal and Gas Plants Were Closing. Then Trump Ordered Them to Keep Running.

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They're terminating OPT. Today the nominee to head USCIS stated directly: he will end Optional Practical Training, the single largest channel for high-skill immigrants to work in the US. 6 weeks ago I warned about this & summarized the research on impacts of this drastic action—> @piie.com

Skilled immigration on the chopping block? Effects of eliminating "Optional Practical Training" in the US

The White House has taken numerous steps to sharply reduce the number of immigrant workers, with or without legal status, in the US economy. These policies, so far, typically target immigrants with le...

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Just a plug that the UMD Integration and Application Network (IAN) has some absolutely stellar scientific graphics- mostly Chesapeake Bay watershed & enviro sci related, but also lots of other work beyond as well ian.umces.edu/media-librar...

Media Library | Integration and Application Network

The IAN symbol libraries currently contain 3075 custom made vector symbols designed specifically for enhancing science communication products with diagrammatic representations of complex processes. Yo...

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On a day when all research grants at Harvard were terminated, and in a context where Congress seems to broadly accept the notion that destroying science and health research in the US is fine, it’s worth noting that this is not what the public wants.

Jacquelyn Gill@jacquelyngill.bsky.social · last yr.

The American public is broadly supportive of maintaining federal science and medical research funding, and against punishing universities by taking their funding away, according to a new poll:

Nature reports that the National Science Foundation has stopped awarding new grants and allotting funds to existing ones. All of them. @colincarlson.bsky.social says that unless the freeze is lifted, it “is going to destroy people's labs.” 2/10 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

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🚨 Another major round of #NSF terminations today 😞. Please report and encourage your colleagues to as well! We need this info to shed light on the damage caused, and to organize and advocate for science that includes and benefits all. airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni... 🧪

Noam Ross@noamross.net · last yr.

🚨Report your NSF grant terminations! 🚨 We are starting to collect information on NSF grant terminations to create a shared resource as we have for NIH. The more information we collect, the more we can organize, advocate, and fight back! Please share widely! airtable.com/appGKlSVeXni...

Buy books. But not from Amazon. Buy them from Bookshop.org, the independent site. This move by Amazon is shameful. Here is a link to my book on Bookshop.org. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Exclusive: The director of the National Science Foundation announced his resignation today, 16 months before his 6-year term ends, in a letter to staff obtained by Science. scim.ag/42vc3fn

Exclusive: ‘I have done all I can’: NSF director announces he is resigning

Sethuraman Panchanathan, a Trump appointee who has led the agency since 2020, leaves amid mass firings and grant terminations

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You know I’ve liked paying less for water and am still enjoying my showers. If the ‘water barely comes out’ you might have a plumbing problem www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Makes America’s Showers Great Again

UNDOING THE LEFT’S WAR ON WATER PRESSURE: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to end the Obama-Biden war on water pressure and make

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Indeed.

Maybe Don’t Take for Granted That You’ll Be Able to Vote in the Midterms

The SAVE Act is a direct attack on women’s voting rights.

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Intriguing trends in grey vs green stormwater infra strategies in the new ASCE infra report card. "Although green infrastructure is critical in addressing localized drainage and water quality, these systems cannot provide sufficient capacity to manage large-scale stormwater events."

Penn State is hosting the regional American Soc of Civil Engineers Student Symposium. Day 1 is in the books! So much energy and creativity in these student competitions ❤️

Happy vernal equinox! Every year I am amazed again at nature's rebirth, the ability of plants to push through the depths of soil to grow again 🌱

New review paper out on fluvial flood reduction 🌊 from nature-based solutions (NBS) 🏞 🌳led by Marina Howarth w/ Alfonso Mejía & @drericasmithwick.bsky.social #flooding #ecosystemservices #naturebasedsolutions wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Scaling Nature‐Based Solutions for Fluvial Floods: A Worldwide Systematic Review

Studying nature-based solutions ability to mitigate fluvial floods and provide co-benefits by systematically reviewing 131 papers, with 1076 case studies, and grouping them based on Ecosystem Focus T....

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No, the mission of the EPA should not be "to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses." ...unless we're actually achieving the triple bottom line (planet, people, & profit) www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/c...

E.P.A. Targets Dozens of Environmental Rules as It Reframes Its Purpose

Lee Zeldin, the E.P.A. administrator, said the agency’s mission was to make it cheaper to buy cars, heat homes and run businesses.

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The USGS plays a critical role in monitoring rivers nationally. As scientists we rely on the data to understand, for example, how streams that had historic flooding during Hurricane Helene are recovering (& the people who rely on them). Ask your reps to keep them open! ww2.aip.org/fyi/usgs-fac...

USGS Faces Potential Office Closures

At least 30 USGS buildings appear to be on the Trump administration’s chopping block.

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“This communicative aspect, now embodied in the science communication movement, must become a formal technical frontier of the scientific enterprise, and not patronizingly summarized as ‘outreach’ or ‘activism.’”

C. Brandon Ogbunu@cbo.bsky.social · last yr.

"No one is coming out of the sky to give you your grant money. Your citation portfolio won’t survive this market crash. Your credentials mean nothing. Everything is going to change." New for @undark.org undark.org/2025/03/06/o...

We are #StandUpForScience2025

Is this the Onion? 🤯 www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars | US EPA

EPA News Release: EPA Press Office Fact Checks the Washington Post’s Coverage of Waste & Abuse of Taxpayer Dollars

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🔬 🧪 🌄 #StandUpForScience2025 is tomorrow, in DC and around the US/world. I benefit from science everyday as a human, a parent, and a scientist & engineer. standupforscience2025.org

STAND UP FOR SCIENCE

March 7, 2025. Washington DC and nationwide. Because science is for everyone.

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New Supreme Court ruling on US Clean Water Act interpretation regarding wastewater treatment- apnews.com/article/supr...

Supreme Court makes it harder for EPA to police sewage discharges

The Supreme Court has made it harder for environmental regulators to limit water pollution, ruling for San Francisco in a case about the discharge of raw sewage that sometimes occurs during heavy rain...

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WHERE WILL YOU BE ON MARCH 7TH!? Head to www.standupforscience2025.org/local-event-information/ or the link in our bio to find your closest event—or add one if you're hosting one! #standupforscience2025

To be clear: If there were to be large staffing reductions at NOAA and NWS—at appears is now indeed underway, with credible reports of larger further cuts on horizon—there will be people who die in extreme weather events & related disasters who would not have otherwise. 10/11

I'm at reporter at the Atlantic looking to speak to any NWS meteorologist, past or present, about what it takes to get forecasts to the public. DMs are open, and I'm zoeschlanger.99 on Signal.

Super excited for this paper to come out, building upon findings from my first PhD pub 10 (?!) years ago. This work demonstrates that using internal water storage in stormwater basin design can help maximize nitrate removal, while also reducing biologically produced GHG emissions

Internal Water Storage as a Means of Improving Nitrogen Retention and Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emission in Stormwater Treatment

Internal water storage (IWS) is gaining interest as a design element in stormwater control measures. It is implemented via an upturned elbow or elevated underdrain to create a subsurface storage zone with saturated conditions conducive to nitrogen removal via denitrification. However, IWS can potentially alter emissions of microbially produced greenhouse gases due to changes in subsurface redox conditions. These greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. We investigated these biogeochemical dynamics using mesocosms mimicking free draining, IWS, and fully saturated stormwater treatment basins. In a series of simulated storm events, we quantified nitrogen removal, dissolved gas concentrations in the outflow, and surface soil emissions of greenhouse gases. IWS and fully saturated mesocosms had the best nitrate reduction, although fully saturated mesocosms exported other forms of nitrogen. Regarding greenhouse gas emissions, fully saturated mesocosms had the highest methane concentrations in outflow water and higher overall greenhouse gas fluxes from the soil surface compared with IWS. Free draining mesocosms sometimes had significantly higher nitrous oxide emissions, particularly after induced drought periods. These results suggest that stormwater basins with IWS have the potential to enhance nitrogen removal while minimizing biological greenhouse gas emissions compared with other stormwater basin drainage configurations.

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

Remarkable thread offering guidance to current and prospective NSF grantees about how to navigate the times ahead — from an NSF program officer who was fired in yesterday's DOGE purge (!)

Jeremy Koster@jeremykoster.bsky.social · last yr.

Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)