Amanda Gay DelVecchia
@agdelv.bsky.social
Freshwater ecosystem ecologist and biogeochemist. Assistant professor @ UNC Geography. She/her. Feminist. Black lives matter. Opinions my own. amandadelvecchia.weebly.com ; amanda.delvecchia@unc.edu
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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.
xerces.org
November 12, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Attn graduate and undergraduate students! 🚨 🪲 🦋🚨 New research funding opportunity from @xercessociety.bsky.social! $5000; deadline is Jan 7 2026. xerces.org/bandrosky
For anyone that needs a nerdy chuckle today:
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
dplyr but make it bussin fr fr no cap
`genzplyr` is an alternative syntax for `dplyr` that replaces boring old function names with GenZ slang. Your data wrangling is about to hit different.
hadley.github.io
November 7, 2025 at 5:03 PM
For anyone that needs a nerdy chuckle today:
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
hadley.github.io/genzplyr/
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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...
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
www.nytimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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...
But there's restoration work still to do. Some federal funding for it is delayed. @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/c...
Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!
October 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Does anyone know of 13C data for invertebrates at NEON sites? Thank you!
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Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply!
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
October 22, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Indeed. This is what the Headwaters Leadership Academy at the Society for Freshwater Science is trying to remediate! Apply!
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
freshwater-science.org/headwaters-l...
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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...
October 20, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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...
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Postdoc w/Miyuki Hino
Post-Doc Research Associate
This full-time position will contribute to projects on natural hazards and disasters.The primary projects will focus on extreme weather events and their impacts to communities in the Southeastern US. ...
unc.peopleadmin.com
October 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Postdoc w/Miyuki Hino
Tomorrow!
'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!
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!
October 2, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Tomorrow!
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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-...
September 30, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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!
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!
September 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
'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!
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!
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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
September 12, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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
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Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’
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September 10, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Intriguing new article by Danielle Purifoy, James Bryan, & Sara Smith examining the Landback Abolition Project at UNC & asks ‘how do faculty, students, staff, & community of a 234-year-old colonial institution create the conditions for a structural shift in our relations toward land & education?’
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The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)
www.nsf.gov
September 8, 2025 at 6:23 PM
The GRFP lives!! (due end of October)
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
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Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c... (commentary)
Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom • NC Newsline
Academic freedom, like democracy, dies one step at a time. Each minor act of censorship or repression serves to form a larger picture of a changed society.
ncnewsline.com
August 28, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Censorship at UNC Threatens Academic Freedom ncnewsline.com/2025/08/28/c... (commentary)
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📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe
August 27, 2025 at 3:25 AM
📣 Your research future starts at NTU Singapore! We're recruiting for fully-funded PhDs & prestigious Postdoc fellowships. Join our info sessions across the US this Sept to learn more about launching your career at a world-class university. #PhD #PostdocJobs
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe
Register HERE: lnkd.in/gFsquxHe
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Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
Nominate an Impactful Dataset
You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…
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August 26, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
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Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
August 23, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Freshwater Ecology position!!! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1652277...
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Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
August 21, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Multiple ecology faculty positions at @notredame.bsky.social. Apply at apply.interfolio.com/171650. (1/2). 🌎🌐🧪
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The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Assistant or Associate Professor, Physical Geography (T/TE) (Updated)
Develop and maintain an active research program.Teach undergraduate and graduate courses.Develop advanced courses at the graduate level.Mentor and adv...
arizona.csod.com
August 14, 2025 at 6:10 PM
The University of Arizona is hiring a tenure-track Assistant/Associate Professor in Physical Geography! Research specialities could include wildfire, climate and water resources, and/or natural hazards, amongst others. Please apply and join us! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations?
Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
August 13, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Interested in how river water changes under climate change + human perturbations?
Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
Come join our diverse group of learners. You will learn and grow to ask questions, +use big data, reactive transport + machine learning models
"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known." - Carl Sagan
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If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
Glacier Outburst Floods: Mendenhall Glacier
Every year since 2011, Juneau, Alaska, has been impacted by a unique type of flood that can only occur near places with glaciers.
storymaps.arcgis.com
August 13, 2025 at 1:42 AM
If you're a storymap kind of person, here's one that nicely explains what's happening & why with the glacial lake outburst flooding now underway on the Mendenhall River near Juneau. #akwx #ClimateChange #Flood #Glacier @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/72ce...
Amazing opportunity to work with a dedicated mentor across fields: remote sensing, biogeochemistry, and hydrology! So excited to see that two positions are available with such an incredibly talented and generous scientist. I will be jealous of whoever is hired for these awesome positions :)
Hello freshwater friends! I’m starting a lab(!!) and recruiting 2 students to start Fall 2026 and a lab/field assistant to start this Fall 2025! Research topic is broad: rivers 🛶, ice/snow ❄️, nutrients 🍂, algae 🌱see below for more info
Please pass this along to any interested folks :)
Please pass this along to any interested folks :)
July 14, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Amazing opportunity to work with a dedicated mentor across fields: remote sensing, biogeochemistry, and hydrology! So excited to see that two positions are available with such an incredibly talented and generous scientist. I will be jealous of whoever is hired for these awesome positions :)
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DO NOT GIVE UP!
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
July 11, 2025 at 7:03 PM
DO NOT GIVE UP!
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
Our advocacy is working.
A key Senate committee has indicated that it will reject Trump’s proposed cuts to science agencies including NASA and the NSF.
Keep speaking up and calling your electeds 🗣️🗣️🗣️
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"It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The destruction of Palestine is breaking the world | Moustafa Bayoumi
The rules of the institutions that define our lives bend like reeds when it comes to Israel – so much that the whole global order is on the verge of collapse
www.theguardian.com
July 9, 2025 at 3:08 PM
"It seems no exaggeration to say that the foundation of the international order of the last 77 years is threatened by this change in the obligations governing our legal and political responsibilities to each other." www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Although we typically consider photosynthetic allochthonous and autochthonous carbon in stream food webs, chemoautotrophic sources (ammonia or sulfur oxidation) can contribute substantially, and incorporate ancient C. Recently accepted to FWS, online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...
July 4, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Although we typically consider photosynthetic allochthonous and autochthonous carbon in stream food webs, chemoautotrophic sources (ammonia or sulfur oxidation) can contribute substantially, and incorporate ancient C. Recently accepted to FWS, online at www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...