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Curated by the NSF-funded AccelNet Design: Accelerating Critical Zone Science with an International Network of Networks team.
Curated by the NSF-funded AccelNet Design: Accelerating Critical Zone Science with an International Network of Networks team.
Stream order matters for water quality. In Tunduma, Tanzania, third-order reaches accumulated pollutants; ions covaried. Monthly monitoring (n=72) with Strahler plus clustering mapped hotspots and management targets. 🌐🧪
Spatial assessment of water quality in a hierarchically structured river system using stream order classification and multivariate statistical techniques: A case study from Tunduma, Tanzania
Water quality assessment is essential for understanding pollutant dynamics, supporting evidence-based watershed management, and protecting public health. While numerous studies have utilized statistic...
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November 25, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Stream order matters for water quality. In Tunduma, Tanzania, third-order reaches accumulated pollutants; ions covaried. Monthly monitoring (n=72) with Strahler plus clustering mapped hotspots and management targets. 🌐🧪
Forage grasses deliver conservation: perennial cover cuts wind and water erosion and runoff; deep roots stabilize soil, retain water and nutrients, improve fertility, and build soil organic carbon. From the newly published book Forages, Volume 1: bit.ly/3XhtHzG
November 25, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Forage grasses deliver conservation: perennial cover cuts wind and water erosion and runoff; deep roots stabilize soil, retain water and nutrients, improve fertility, and build soil organic carbon. From the newly published book Forages, Volume 1: bit.ly/3XhtHzG
With travel support from the Critical Zone Network of Networks, Rutgers–Newark professor Kristina Keating brings an R2 Hispanic-Serving Institution perspective to #AGU25, advancing near-surface geophysics and mentoring students as they connect coastal Critical Zone research with community needs. 🌐🧪
Kristina Keating
Rutgers University Newark, Rutgers University Newark, Rutgers University Newark, Co-Author, Rutgers University Newark
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November 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
With travel support from the Critical Zone Network of Networks, Rutgers–Newark professor Kristina Keating brings an R2 Hispanic-Serving Institution perspective to #AGU25, advancing near-surface geophysics and mentoring students as they connect coastal Critical Zone research with community needs. 🌐🧪
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*Job alert*
We are looking for a research manager in our group, starting from March 2026, with varied tasks ranging from database administration to fieldwork and technical support for other group members.
All details here: shorturl.at/Aygdc
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We are looking for a research manager in our group, starting from March 2026, with varied tasks ranging from database administration to fieldwork and technical support for other group members.
All details here: shorturl.at/Aygdc
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Universität Basel: Research manager in ecology
The research group Ecology at the Department of Environmental Sciences at the University of Basel in Switzerland invites applications for a full-time position at the intersection of science, technolog...
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November 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
*Job alert*
We are looking for a research manager in our group, starting from March 2026, with varied tasks ranging from database administration to fieldwork and technical support for other group members.
All details here: shorturl.at/Aygdc
Please repost and share widely!
We are looking for a research manager in our group, starting from March 2026, with varied tasks ranging from database administration to fieldwork and technical support for other group members.
All details here: shorturl.at/Aygdc
Please repost and share widely!
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📣Applications are now open!
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Apply to be a BES Associate Editor - British Ecological Society
Help advance outstanding ecological research by joining our Editorial Boards! Applications are now open across all seven BES journals.
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November 25, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📣Applications are now open!
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Find out more about how to apply 👇
Out latest Substack post. 🌐🧪
The Quiet Ceiling on Old Water
On certain evenings, when the world goes hush and the creek at the edge of town starts its quiet arithmetic, you can almost picture each droplet as a traveler with a passport stamp: last winter’s stor...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Out latest Substack post. 🌐🧪
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Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool
Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC) 2026 | Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research
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November 24, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Join the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research at the University of Arizona for our 2026 Dendrochronology Intensive Summer Course (DISC)! Spend 3 great weeks (May 18th to June 5, 2026) in the field, lab, and classroom learning first-hand how tree-ring research is done! ltrr.arizona.edu/summerschool
With support from the Critical Zone Network of Networks (CZ NoN), new University of Iowa PhD student Xiong Chen travels to #AGU25 to connect geophysics and hydrologic modeling communities, laying groundwork for Midwest watershed observatory collaborations and shared datasets. 🌐🧪
Chen Xiong
University of Iowa
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November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
With support from the Critical Zone Network of Networks (CZ NoN), new University of Iowa PhD student Xiong Chen travels to #AGU25 to connect geophysics and hydrologic modeling communities, laying groundwork for Midwest watershed observatory collaborations and shared datasets. 🌐🧪
Mesocosms bridge lab control and field realism. Enclosures reveal community responses to climate change, scaling organismal effects to ecosystems and complementing lab/in situ work. Guidance for design and interpretation. 🌐🧪
Mesocosms: Bridging the gap between in situ and laboratory studies
Experimental research on aquatic communities in changing environments is challenging. Controlled laboratory experiments can neatly tie cause to effect and allow for a mechanistic understanding of phy...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Mesocosms bridge lab control and field realism. Enclosures reveal community responses to climate change, scaling organismal effects to ecosystems and complementing lab/in situ work. Guidance for design and interpretation. 🌐🧪
“Antarctic lakes are ideal systems for studying the temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial communities." 🌐🧪
Space Outweighs Time: Antarctic Lake Microbiomes Hold Their Shape
Under an Antarctic noon that never quite sets, the lakes of Fildes Peninsula sit like dark lenses, taking in sky and wind, ice and dust.
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November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
“Antarctic lakes are ideal systems for studying the temporal and spatial dynamics of microbial communities." 🌐🧪
Climate research is shifting: from manipulative experiments to observation-led insight. This perspective urges funding and methods to adapt—and offers practical guidance for designing plant studies in a changed climate. From @newphyt.bsky.social 🌐🧪
📖: bit.ly/44vJXB0
📖: bit.ly/44vJXB0
November 24, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Climate research is shifting: from manipulative experiments to observation-led insight. This perspective urges funding and methods to adapt—and offers practical guidance for designing plant studies in a changed climate. From @newphyt.bsky.social 🌐🧪
📖: bit.ly/44vJXB0
📖: bit.ly/44vJXB0
Joint International Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development Final Thesis: Unravelling the Interplay Between Land Use Change and Surface Water Quality in Italian Watersheds
"This research aims to assess the likelihood of meeting the WFD goal of achieving good ecological status."
📖 bit.ly/44uJ5wt
"This research aims to assess the likelihood of meeting the WFD goal of achieving good ecological status."
📖 bit.ly/44uJ5wt
November 24, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Joint International Master’s Degree in Sustainable Development Final Thesis: Unravelling the Interplay Between Land Use Change and Surface Water Quality in Italian Watersheds
"This research aims to assess the likelihood of meeting the WFD goal of achieving good ecological status."
📖 bit.ly/44uJ5wt
"This research aims to assess the likelihood of meeting the WFD goal of achieving good ecological status."
📖 bit.ly/44uJ5wt
Across 13 mines, sulfate gradients reshape chemistry and microbes: DOC and DOM aromaticity rise, molecular weight falls. Proteobacteria dominate; diversity peaks in moderate sulfate. Carbon–sulfur functions shift. 🌐🧪
Elucidating the Composition of Dissolved Organic Matter and the Diversity of Carbon- and Sulfur-Cycling Microorganisms in High-Sulfate Coal Mine Water - Mine Water and the Environment
Coal mine water containing high sulfate concentrations presents environmental challenges. This study systematically investigated coal mines in Upper Carboniferous and Lower Permian coalfields, where c...
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November 24, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Across 13 mines, sulfate gradients reshape chemistry and microbes: DOC and DOM aromaticity rise, molecular weight falls. Proteobacteria dominate; diversity peaks in moderate sulfate. Carbon–sulfur functions shift. 🌐🧪
The Northern Hemisphere's academic winter break is nigh. What better time to reflect on some of this year's work that could be shared with the world: bit.ly/biogeomon_ab... 🌐🧪
November 24, 2025 at 4:49 PM
The Northern Hemisphere's academic winter break is nigh. What better time to reflect on some of this year's work that could be shared with the world: bit.ly/biogeomon_ab... 🌐🧪
You're on the lookout for Critical Zone science collaborators. The Critical Zone Network of Networks is a resource of global connections for CZ researchers: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪
November 24, 2025 at 4:41 PM
You're on the lookout for Critical Zone science collaborators. The Critical Zone Network of Networks is a resource of global connections for CZ researchers: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪
Next month during @agu.org: Recent Advances in Near-Surface Geophysics (General Contributions).
"Submissions showcasing the use of electromagnetic and seismic methods in both field and laboratory investigations."
🗓️: bit.ly/AGU25_NS21C
#CriticalZoneAtAGU25
"Submissions showcasing the use of electromagnetic and seismic methods in both field and laboratory investigations."
🗓️: bit.ly/AGU25_NS21C
#CriticalZoneAtAGU25
November 24, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Next month during @agu.org: Recent Advances in Near-Surface Geophysics (General Contributions).
"Submissions showcasing the use of electromagnetic and seismic methods in both field and laboratory investigations."
🗓️: bit.ly/AGU25_NS21C
#CriticalZoneAtAGU25
"Submissions showcasing the use of electromagnetic and seismic methods in both field and laboratory investigations."
🗓️: bit.ly/AGU25_NS21C
#CriticalZoneAtAGU25
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Ohnemus et al. demonstrate co-location, the strategic integration of multiple research infrastructures at the same in-situ facility, can significantly reduce sampling bias, enhancing the geographical and thematic representativeness of infrastructures. #eLTERcommunity
www.elter-ri.eu/news/new-res...
www.elter-ri.eu/news/new-res...
New Research Highlights Co-Location as Key to Reducing Sampling Bias in eLTER Research Infrastructure
The Integrated European Long-Term Ecosystem, critical zone and socio-ecological Research Infrastructure (eLTER RI) is pleased to announce the publication of a significant study on the potential of co-...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ohnemus et al. demonstrate co-location, the strategic integration of multiple research infrastructures at the same in-situ facility, can significantly reduce sampling bias, enhancing the geographical and thematic representativeness of infrastructures. #eLTERcommunity
www.elter-ri.eu/news/new-res...
www.elter-ri.eu/news/new-res...
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Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire
The Arctic On Fire
The Arctic isn’t just warming, it’s on fire. From the record-shattering 2023 wildfire season in Canada to the zombie fires smoldering beneath the boreal forests, Arctic wildfires are reshaping landsca...
www.highnorthnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Great episode of the @arcticcouncil.bsky.social This Way Up podcast on The Arctic on Fire www.highnorthnews.com/en/arctic-fire featuring @gwandaii.bsky.social @woodwellclimate.bsky.social @permafrostpathways.bsky.social @highnorthnews.bsky.social #wildfires #ArcticFire
Our latest Substack. 🌐🧪
Fjords, Farms, and the Secret Architecture of Patagonia’s Seafloor Microbiome
On a dark, cold-water coast where glaciers meet the Pacific, sixteen small rectangles of seabed—each about the size of a laptop case (0.1 m²)—are lifted from the floor of Chilean Patagonia and sealed ...
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November 24, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Our latest Substack. 🌐🧪
"The researchers pulled samples from three regions—Eeyou Istchee, La Romaine, and Haute-Mauricie—chosen in part because they bracket contrasting human footprints." 🌐🧪
River Symphonies of Mercury and Methane
The James Bay flyway smells of peat and resin in midsummer, a wilderness perfume carried on air so clear it seems borrowed from another epoch.
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November 23, 2025 at 2:07 PM
"The researchers pulled samples from three regions—Eeyou Istchee, La Romaine, and Haute-Mauricie—chosen in part because they bracket contrasting human footprints." 🌐🧪
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Would you like to study #functional trait diversity and biogeochemical dynamics in rapidly changing #tundra ecosystems? Then this #PhD is for you! 👇 You will do fieldwork in #Alaska, #Svalbard and #Italy and work with amazing Matteo Petit Bon. Apply by Dec 19
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November 23, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Would you like to study #functional trait diversity and biogeochemical dynamics in rapidly changing #tundra ecosystems? Then this #PhD is for you! 👇 You will do fieldwork in #Alaska, #Svalbard and #Italy and work with amazing Matteo Petit Bon. Apply by Dec 19
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herbivory.lbhi.is/2025/11/19/p...
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🌏 Hey, do you work with large-scale geospatial datasets? Looking to advance your use of R for data analysis and visualization? It's not too late to register for this #AGU25 hands-on workshop! ⚒️ 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
November 20, 2025 at 7:03 PM
🌏 Hey, do you work with large-scale geospatial datasets? Looking to advance your use of R for data analysis and visualization? It's not too late to register for this #AGU25 hands-on workshop! ⚒️ 🧪
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
🗓️ Tuesday, December 16, 08:30AM - 5:00PM
See the workshop page for the agenda:
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Don't miss this year's AGU25 Biogeosciences Mixer!
Where?
Hall B1 & Great Hall Lobby Reception
When?
Tuesday, December 16 (6-7:30 pm)
See following post for details!
Where?
Hall B1 & Great Hall Lobby Reception
When?
Tuesday, December 16 (6-7:30 pm)
See following post for details!
November 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Don't miss this year's AGU25 Biogeosciences Mixer!
Where?
Hall B1 & Great Hall Lobby Reception
When?
Tuesday, December 16 (6-7:30 pm)
See following post for details!
Where?
Hall B1 & Great Hall Lobby Reception
When?
Tuesday, December 16 (6-7:30 pm)
See following post for details!