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Ecosystem Program Lead with the Upper Mississippi River Basin Association. I help recover impacted river ecosystems ∙ I tweet about #ecology #rivers #fish #SciArt #bayesian #R ∙ ⚠️H3❤️👉🐻
It's always good for ecologists to play with a different ecosystem for a weekend!
October 20, 2025 at 3:13 AM
One of my favorite stops at the Minnesota state fair is the fish pond at the dnr building.
September 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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As a hobby artist who devotes waaay too many hours to an economically-unviable past-time, I have to take my victories where I can. So seeing my drawings in an exhibition and genuinely feeling that they belonged there (quality-wise) was a fantastic experience that I'll treasure for a long time.
August 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Hi #river #ecologists and #geomorphologists, is there an R or python package that can take in DEM or topo data to extract possible historic islands, side channels, and backwaters? Thanks!
July 24, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Found another cool surface water map for the Upper Mississippi River! This one is from the 1960's!
June 30, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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I've been camping almost every weekend as of late so haven't been able to post #SundayFishSketch, but here is an edited version of my Rainbow Trout illustration with altered coloring in honor of #PrideMonth.
June 7, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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Recently, all the AAAS Science & Tech Policy Fellows at EPA were terminated from our positions with little notice and for no clear reason. This effectively ended a partnership that had been going since 1980 and which had brought hundreds of scientists to the EPA as fellows, many of whom stayed. 1/7
May 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
They don't make river plots like this anymore. 🤩
April 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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Have been working on an illustration of Chiasmodon niger and decided to modify it a bit to fit today's #SundayFishSketch theme.
April 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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NOAA just announced a long list of datasets that are going away🧪⚒️🌊: www.nesdis.noaa.gov/about/docume...
Download what you need asap and send comments to: ncei.info@noaa.gov
Notice of Changes
Notices of changes are formal public announcements of planned services changes to applications and other products.
www.nesdis.noaa.gov
April 17, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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I don't go fishing, but I would love to see an American Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch

#SciArt
April 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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This weekend’s #SundayFishSketch #Fishytheme is for all of us that are very much looking forward to spring and summer angling. Sitting in the boat or on the dock, enjoying nice weather and nature sounds. Let’s see some sketches of fishes you’d like to catch this year (wherever you are)! #sciart 🦑
a man in a red hat is fishing in a pond
ALT: a man in a red hat is fishing in a pond
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April 11, 2025 at 6:31 PM
There's now a package to make your own river elevation models in python! github.com/OpenTopograp... As a river restoration scientist this is super helpful in identifying the underlying behavior of a river. Below is an example of Pool 1 in the Mississippi River.
April 11, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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1/2) An apology to my #SundayFishSketch community for dropping the ball on #Fishytheme posts and participation. My time has been focused on my first semester teaching as a professor. We also purchased and moved into a new home. To top it off, I have a little fry incoming at the end of September.
April 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Working with an interdisciplinary team, we have developed a website to communicate how the White House's proposed cuts to health research would cause losses of $16B and 68,500 jobs.

Find out how your community may be impacted.

Explore more at SCIMaP: scienceimpacts.org

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March 28, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Please share around to support our federal workers!💪
It feels strange to draw fish right now when the country I live in is seemingly plummeting into authoritarianism. So I drew something else, and today it’s finally done. Federal workers deserve to be treated better, and we need the federal agencies that this administration is so intent on destroying.
March 20, 2025 at 3:10 PM
This is how I feel when I start up a new programming language to learn. 🤣
March 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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More progress on my Lookdown illustration for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
March 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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An illustration of some Cownose Rays

#SciArt
March 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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I finally finished my Spotted Gar illustration for today's #SundayFishSketch 🐡
February 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Absolutely terrible.
@lizrenner.bsky.social is an amazing scientist, colleague, and friend. SMFH.

The attacks on our science, public lands, and PEOPLE of this country are real. We will ALL be affected. www.keloland.com/keloland-com...
'Discarded, betrayed:' Yankton federal employee laid off
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – President Donald Trump’s federal employee layoffs have hit South Dakota.  Under the new administration’s attempt to streamline government efficiency, hundreds of thousand…
www.keloland.com
February 21, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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Probationary layoffs hitting USGS, NOAA and NPS soon, per source at DOI
February 13, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Definitely check out the atlas feature in QGIS to mass produce data driven maps. In my river restoration work I created a template map that compares modern aerial imagery to a historic 1890 ground survey of the Mississippi River but QGIS spits out the comparison at every river mile, all 855! #rivers
February 12, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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An old illustration of a Paddlefish for today's #SundayFishSketch in honor of the MN AFS 2025 meeting next week. I will have a table there. If anyone is going, feel free to stop by and say hi!
February 9, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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February 6, 2025 at 6:34 PM