Branden Walker 🧪 ⚒️ 🚁
@branden0walker.bsky.social
"Cool dad"| Physical scientist studying nearshore algae and water quality in the Great Lakes | Formerly into Arctic snow | Huge Drone nerd
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Welcome! I'm new to Bluesky. In my past twitter life I was an Arctic snow scientist, but I recently made the switch to study water quality in the Great lakes region with ECCC. I consider myself a hydrologist and specialize in #drone mapping for environmental and ecological change
These stress cubes are aptly marketed ...
November 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
These stress cubes are aptly marketed ...
Hooray! My little home-made autonomous bathymetry mapping boat works! Who needs overpriced commercial/ scientific-grade equipment when you can spend years building and testing (and fixing) your own from hobby drone parts...
October 30, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Hooray! My little home-made autonomous bathymetry mapping boat works! Who needs overpriced commercial/ scientific-grade equipment when you can spend years building and testing (and fixing) your own from hobby drone parts...
September fish contaminants cruise with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.socialy
September 11, 2025 at 11:55 AM
September fish contaminants cruise with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.socialy
Gone fishing with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social 🧪 🐠
September 10, 2025 at 1:56 AM
Gone fishing with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social 🧪 🐠
3 days into the school year and we are already hit with Plague #1
September 8, 2025 at 1:19 PM
3 days into the school year and we are already hit with Plague #1
Reposted by Branden Walker 🧪 ⚒️ 🚁
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
(Published May)
(Published May)
Millions of People Depend on the Great Lakes’ Water Supply. Trump Decimated the Lab Protecting It.
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and...
www.propublica.org
August 20, 2025 at 1:33 AM
The Trump administration’s slashing of budgets and staff have Great Lakes scientists concerned that they have lost the ability to protect the public from toxic algal blooms, which can kill animals and sicken people.
(Published May)
(Published May)
Nice day for #cladophora monitoring with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social and @environmentca.bsky.social 🧪 🤿
August 12, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Nice day for #cladophora monitoring with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social and @environmentca.bsky.social 🧪 🤿
I think I found my new favourite way to collect samples!
August 3, 2025 at 5:20 PM
I think I found my new favourite way to collect samples!
Big and little 🚁
July 30, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Big and little 🚁
Me: 2 weeks camping in nothing but barefoot and sandals no problem...
Also me: Walks in the driveway barefoot and break my toe 🩹
Also me: Walks in the driveway barefoot and break my toe 🩹
July 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Me: 2 weeks camping in nothing but barefoot and sandals no problem...
Also me: Walks in the driveway barefoot and break my toe 🩹
Also me: Walks in the driveway barefoot and break my toe 🩹
I don't really have many photos of myself in the field (I'm usually the one behind the 📸). I feel these two sun up the story of my last year. From ❄️ to 🏖️
July 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
I don't really have many photos of myself in the field (I'm usually the one behind the 📸). I feel these two sun up the story of my last year. From ❄️ to 🏖️
Mad science mode engaged... Don't worry, I had my safety squint game on point
June 26, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Mad science mode engaged... Don't worry, I had my safety squint game on point
Being pushed to apply new technologies and AI while simultaneously being asked to physically snail mail a form with 2 lines of input across the country perfectly sums up work .... 🇨🇦
June 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Being pushed to apply new technologies and AI while simultaneously being asked to physically snail mail a form with 2 lines of input across the country perfectly sums up work .... 🇨🇦
Here is what we have been up to the past few months prepping our Nuisance Algae monitoring program with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social youtu.be/59zc0MPkhps
Algae Monitoring across the Great Lakes
YouTube video by Branden Walker
youtu.be
June 11, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Here is what we have been up to the past few months prepping our Nuisance Algae monitoring program with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social youtu.be/59zc0MPkhps
Made a new friend today on the side of the road 🐢
June 10, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Made a new friend today on the side of the road 🐢
Yikes
The Free Speech Administration throwing down arguably the biggest sledgehammer against free thought and association in my lifetime.
Linda McMahon: "Universities should continue to be able to do research as long as they're abiding by the laws and in sync, I think, with the administration and what the administration is trying to accomplish."
May 28, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Yikes
New fieldwork programs got me feeling like this. Any tips getting sand out of your wetsuit? ⛱️
a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is saying i don 't like sand
ALT: a man and a woman are sitting next to each other and the woman is saying i don 't like sand
media.tenor.com
May 27, 2025 at 11:21 PM
New fieldwork programs got me feeling like this. Any tips getting sand out of your wetsuit? ⛱️
Probably one of my favorite tools in my home "office". The ability to just whip up parts for various projects is 👌
May 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Probably one of my favorite tools in my home "office". The ability to just whip up parts for various projects is 👌
Reposted by Branden Walker 🧪 ⚒️ 🚁
When they accidentally tell the truth... (Pt. 2)
(also try to avoid swimming in sewage)
(also try to avoid swimming in sewage)
May 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
When they accidentally tell the truth... (Pt. 2)
(also try to avoid swimming in sewage)
(also try to avoid swimming in sewage)
Any guesses how deep the water is? Installing benthic algae frames with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Any guesses how deep the water is? Installing benthic algae frames with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social
My scientific career is now full circle! Framing more decks for science... Maybe I should switch careers 🔨 🪚?
May 13, 2025 at 1:03 PM
My scientific career is now full circle! Framing more decks for science... Maybe I should switch careers 🔨 🪚?
Out on the water with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Out on the water with @wqmgreatlakes.bsky.social