Spent a couple of days in the lovely peatlands of northern Minnesota installing and maintaining equipment to measure gas fluxes.

Superior National Forest seasonal ponds are drying quickly! We are down to 2/9 of or study sites with water yet. We did however sample some of these lovely Dytiscidae larvae from one pond that will likely be gone tomorrow.

Fairy shrimp! Kicking off a new project focusing on seasonal pond food webs located in the Superior National Forest.

A huge congratulations to #SHSU Biology student - Hasara Siriwardane @hasara.bsky.social on her successful defense of her Master’s thesis! Well done Hasara!

Sunrise on Lake Vermillion, MN today - lovely way to start a Friday.

Fun and quick trip to visit the University of Minnesota’s Saint Anthony Falls Lab for their open house - all kinds of flumes and even a wind tunnel! So cool and inspiring!

A view fall sites from in and around Duluth. Loving all the colors!

It was wonderful to get out into a couple of Duluth’s local streams this week!

I have officially relocated to Duluth, MN where I will be a research associate at the Natural Resources Research Institute (NRRI) in a couple of weeks. So thankful for my colleagues and students at #SHSU - it has been bittersweet to leave lovely people & so exciting be back in MN!

The Blue Bonnets are hear in east Texas!

So wonderful to have my eldest niece Emma visit me for spring break. Finally checking out the huge statue of Sam Houston just outside of town. Better late than never.

We are missing the snow here in northern Minnesota, but we do have awesome ice for skating along Lake Vermillion!

Oliver wasn’t quite so thrilled about his new hat I bought him for our upcoming Minnesota Christmas…

Lovely day in the field at our local field station to download sensors! Hasara and Erica are two of our SHSU graduate students doing stream research.

Oliver is having a great Thanksgiving weekend so far!