Good to be back in the great state of Michigan! 🌊

Saros et al. found a shift from blue -> brown lakes in Greenland following hydroclimatic extremes in 2022, with implications for lake ecosystem function (light environment, phytoplankton, carbon emissions, more)

Really cool to see how the grad students took a seminar topic & turned it into a manuscript! 🤓 We used long-term data from Green Lakes Valley, Loch Vale Watershed, and HJ Andrews to illustrate how stream hydrochemographs response to climate variability & disturbance.

How does variability in ice cover influence winter temperature? We explore that in the most recent 36 years using weekly under-ice temperature profiles & a few years of high-frequency profiles bit.ly/mohonkWinter

Published today: our paper on the ~100 year ice record on Mohonk Lake, a mtn top lake in upstate NY. Ice is forming later, and variability in duration and ice clearance has increased substantially. Notably, recent years have seen intermittent ice cover. bit.ly/mohonkWinter

So excited to see all the new folks! Hi 👋🏽 my name is Bella Oleksy (she/her), I'm an ecosystem ecologist & assistant professor at @instaar.bsky.social at the University of Colorado Boulder. I study inland waters and how they're changing in response to climate & environmental change.

one of the best parts of sort of becoming a science "grown up" is getting to invite your favorite colleagues for seminar & catching up on life and projects together. Thanks for the visit & fantastic talk #NoBSky Michael Meyer!

We pose a framework (illustrated in this figure) and provide a proof-of-concept in the paper, but look forward to testing this empirically.

Chasing down the mystery of nearshore benthic algal blooms in "blue water" lakes, our new paper explores the potential for warming water to fuel blooms via nutrient release from sediment. Led by S. Hampton with @hydrobert.bsky.social M. Meyer, J.S. Baron, and A. Champlain doi.org/10.1002/lol2...

I am recruiting a Ph.D. student in limnology! This NSF-funded assistantship will help advance our understanding of how changing winter conditions influence mountain lake ecosystems. For more details, see my website: isabellaoleksy.weebly.com/opportunities