It was a bittersweet farewell to UNDERC this week as I finished the final field season of my PhD. I’m grateful for the science I got to do as part of the Cascade Project and the wonderful people I’ve gotten to work with. I’m excited to see what comes next! @ndfieldecology.bsky.social

The first paper from my PhD is now out in @aslo.org Limnology and Oceanography Letters! We used nine years of daily temp and chl data from Peter, Paul, and Tuesday Lakes to show that aquatic heatwaves increased surface chlorophyll concentrations during 24 out of 29 events.

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Tonight I got to hear El Niño and La Niña! Faculty and students from @uwmad-aos.bsky.social and UW’s School of Music collaborated to turn #climate data into beautiful music. Different notes represented peaks and troughs. Musical dissonance was disagreement between climate models and observed data

Got to visit the Cedar Creek LTER this week! I jumped at the chance to contribute to their chronolog of this spot by Fish Lake—you can never have too many lake photos! Now home to @ntl-lter.bsky.social

Started out my Thanksgiving morning with a visit from these otters. They were having a feast of their own!

Cascade is hiring summer undergrads! Come work with us in the Northwoods this summer as we begin our next whole-lake experiment. More info here: limnology.wisc.edu/employment/r...

Created a Garmin watch design to include a few familiar lakes—it is currently Mendota o’clock

Frigid temps in Madison mean Lake Mendota continues to cool—just waiting to see if this means it’ll finally freeze!