Jeff Opperman
@jjopperman.bsky.social
Rivers, renewable revolution, and rock and roll.
Global Lead Freshwater Scientist for WWF
🐟💧☀️🎸🎶
Writer for Forbes.com Energy and Sustainability sections
Author, Floodplains
Posts my own.
Global Lead Freshwater Scientist for WWF
🐟💧☀️🎸🎶
Writer for Forbes.com Energy and Sustainability sections
Author, Floodplains
Posts my own.
I took these photos of the Arthur Anderson in 2010 in Huron, Ohio on Lake Erie. Launched in 1952, she is still in active service.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I took these photos of the Arthur Anderson in 2010 in Huron, Ohio on Lake Erie. Launched in 1952, she is still in active service.
🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
A postage stamp sized riparian forest along the Tevere/Tiber
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A postage stamp sized riparian forest along the Tevere/Tiber
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Slowed down my typing…
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Slowed down my typing…
...with the love of her life. A heartsick Canadian in southern California — disoriented by how it stays green even as “they’re putting up reindeer” — she longs for a river. Not to wash away her sorrow, not to float home, but — being a girl from Alberta — a frozen one that she could “skate away on.”
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
...with the love of her life. A heartsick Canadian in southern California — disoriented by how it stays green even as “they’re putting up reindeer” — she longs for a river. Not to wash away her sorrow, not to float home, but — being a girl from Alberta — a frozen one that she could “skate away on.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#WaterYear
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#WaterYear
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
No room on my lap for my laptop.
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
No room on my lap for my laptop.
#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
#WaterYear
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#WaterYear
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
Happy Halloween from #WaterYear.
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Happy Halloween from #WaterYear.
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
some more photos from that photo shoot of both kids posing along the Chagrin River so I could use the pun-ny title "this river was born to run..."
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
some more photos from that photo shoot of both kids posing along the Chagrin River so I could use the pun-ny title "this river was born to run..."
#WaterYear
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#WaterYear
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
October 28, 2025 at 8:47 PM
With new Springsteen movie, "Deliver Me From Nowhere" out, here's a #WaterYear trip down memory lane. Prob 15 yrs ago I wrote a Springsteen-and-water themed essay & got my kids to pose in front of a river so I could use headline "this river was born to run" (as they imitate imagery of Born in USA)
October 27, 2025 at 8:07 PM
With new Springsteen movie, "Deliver Me From Nowhere" out, here's a #WaterYear trip down memory lane. Prob 15 yrs ago I wrote a Springsteen-and-water themed essay & got my kids to pose in front of a river so I could use headline "this river was born to run" (as they imitate imagery of Born in USA)
#WaterYear celebrates 200th anniv of completion of Erie Canal. When Ohio & Erie Canal was completed 7yrs later, connecting CLE to OH River, Lake Erie became hub of waterway connecting NYC & New Orleans, linking east coast to middle of country at time before railroads & when roads were terrible
October 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
#WaterYear celebrates 200th anniv of completion of Erie Canal. When Ohio & Erie Canal was completed 7yrs later, connecting CLE to OH River, Lake Erie became hub of waterway connecting NYC & New Orleans, linking east coast to middle of country at time before railroads & when roads were terrible
Art for #WaterYear
Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881. Here are three of his river-themed paintings:
1. Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck
2. The River at Notre Dame
3. The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881. Here are three of his river-themed paintings:
1. Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck
2. The River at Notre Dame
3. The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
October 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
Art for #WaterYear
Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881. Here are three of his river-themed paintings:
1. Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck
2. The River at Notre Dame
3. The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
Pablo Picasso was born on this day in 1881. Here are three of his river-themed paintings:
1. Crossing the Seine on the Upper Deck
2. The River at Notre Dame
3. The Reservoir, Horta de Ebro
October 25, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Another #WaterYear photo celebrating "Take Me Outside" week. When Luca would catch-and-release fish, Wren worried about the time the fish spent out of water. So, as something of a stopwatch-& gesture of interspecies solidarity-she would put her head in the water for the time a fish was out of water
October 24, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Another #WaterYear photo celebrating "Take Me Outside" week. When Luca would catch-and-release fish, Wren worried about the time the fish spent out of water. So, as something of a stopwatch-& gesture of interspecies solidarity-she would put her head in the water for the time a fish was out of water
and here's an image of the op-ed, including the wonderful, whimsical artwork of @camorris64.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
and here's an image of the op-ed, including the wonderful, whimsical artwork of @camorris64.bsky.social
This week is "Take me Outside" week, so #WaterYear is looking back to when the kids were little, searching for crayfish in the Chagrin River.
October 23, 2025 at 8:17 PM
This week is "Take me Outside" week, so #WaterYear is looking back to when the kids were little, searching for crayfish in the Chagrin River.
#WaterYear
Hungarian composer Franz Lizst was born on this day in 1811.
He had a few compositions about water, including "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" or "the Fountains of the Villa d'Este."
Photo is "fountains of the Spanish Steps" (Paola & Wren, 2010)
open.spotify.com/track/25pCHf...
Hungarian composer Franz Lizst was born on this day in 1811.
He had a few compositions about water, including "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" or "the Fountains of the Villa d'Este."
Photo is "fountains of the Spanish Steps" (Paola & Wren, 2010)
open.spotify.com/track/25pCHf...
October 22, 2025 at 11:06 PM
#WaterYear
Hungarian composer Franz Lizst was born on this day in 1811.
He had a few compositions about water, including "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" or "the Fountains of the Villa d'Este."
Photo is "fountains of the Spanish Steps" (Paola & Wren, 2010)
open.spotify.com/track/25pCHf...
Hungarian composer Franz Lizst was born on this day in 1811.
He had a few compositions about water, including "Les jeux d'eau à la Villa d'Este" or "the Fountains of the Villa d'Este."
Photo is "fountains of the Spanish Steps" (Paola & Wren, 2010)
open.spotify.com/track/25pCHf...