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@carlalopezpr

Puertorriqueña | PhD student @VT_Biology studying aquatic ecosystems 💧🌳 | BSc Ciencias Ambientales @uprrp | she/her

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Happy new year!

Women Advancing River Research (WARR) 2026, featuring woman scientists from around the world.

3rd Thursday each month, 11 – 12 noon US ET

Pls spread the word.

Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @agu-h3s.bsky.social @aguwaterquality.bsky.social

05.01.2026 00:22 👍 43 🔁 29 💬 1 📌 1

Don't miss this joint event from the early career committees of SFS and ASLO 28 October at 1:00 PM ET (5:00 PM GMT). Make connections with other freshwater scientists and learn about the societies' funding opportunities, research pathways, ongoing diversity initiatives, and upcoming conferences.

21.10.2025 22:29 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Using Hydrogeomorphic Features to Quantify Structural and Functional Hydrologic Connectivity in a Coastal Plain Headwater Stream Hydrogeomorphic features provide a key framework to study streamflow generation along the river corridor Across the study watershed, hydrogeomorphic features demonstrated distinct patterns of gro...

super excited to share that my first dissertation chapter is out in WRR!

here, we operationalize the river corridor of a headwater Coastal Plain network into hydrogeomorphic features to characterize hydrologic connectivity across dimensions

check it out here: doi.org/10.1029/2024...

27.08.2025 16:27 👍 34 🔁 12 💬 4 📌 1
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Apps due Oct 8!
Why join the #EDSsummit?
💡 Interdisciplinary ideas
🌎 Environmental impact
🤝 Lasting community

Apply now: 2026 NCEAS Environmental Data Science Summit Application

See post below to hear from a past EDS attendee ⬇️

#EDSsummit #envdatasci #openscience #climatedata #earlycareer

20.08.2025 19:00 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
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Apply today to join the next cohort: bit.ly/YVoS_apply

Emma Johnson Young Voices of Science 2025 Spring Cohort

Each participant in the Young Voices of Science program works with Hubbard Brook Research Foundation mentors to create a final outreach project. 🧪

20.08.2025 19:11 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Surface waters in socially vulnerable areas are disproportionately under-monitored for nutrients in the US South Atlantic-Gulf region Nature Water - Water quality monitoring stations are crucial to ensure a timely response to any problem emerging across water resource networks. A study of nutrient monitoring of surface waters in...

Thrilled to share that the study from my dissertation’s first chapter is out in @natwater.nature.com! Nutrient water quality monitoring in the Southeast is disproportionately concentrated in affluent areas, leaving many communities routinely overlooked in data collection. Check it out: rdcu.be/ewiYs

15.07.2025 21:16 👍 33 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 2

🫵 Are you the next Society for Freshwater Science Communications & Media Specialist?

💡Assume primary responsibility for managing internal Society-wide and external public communications through the Society’s media channels

💻Remote position, 8-10 hours per week on a regular schedule

(1/4)

11.07.2025 16:29 👍 10 🔁 11 💬 1 📌 0
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Request for feedback: SFS 2025 Spanish lightning talks ¡Gracias nuevamente a todos los que participaron de nuestra sesión de charlas relámpago en español, tanto los presentadores como los que asistieron! Si fuiste presentador o del público, nos gustaría ...

If you presented, attended, or just have ideas, please use this Google form to provide feedback: tinyurl.com/spanishtalks

¡Gracias! (2/2)

04.06.2025 14:41 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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We would like to thank all the participants, both speakers and attendees, of the Spanish lightning talks. The response to the session was amazing and we deeply appreciate everyone that engaged with it. We would love to get any feedback or ideas you might have for the future of this session. (1/2)

04.06.2025 14:37 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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There's a wiiiide world of science out there. And the Critical Zone Network of Networks wants to connect you with more of it. Find our how, including funding for conference travel, a webinar series, and a newsletter! all on their website: bit.ly/CZ_NoN_main 🌐🧪

28.05.2025 16:13 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Hey friends! I'm on the job market for a postdoc or TT position in aquatic ecotox. I love sediments, microbes, and plants, and am passionate about fostering joy and confidence in young scientists! Feel free to share or message me. I'd love to connect with like-minded folks 😊

28.05.2025 16:31 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Are you keeping up with the firehose of changes to science policy? You can, with our handy (and sortable) tracker. eos.org/research-and...

Lately, we're thinking about how the #SAA2025Denver program was called a “two-page blood bath of federal disengagement” by one attendee. Yikes. (‪@nytimes.com‬)

28.05.2025 11:34 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
A clear river with large rocks and small cascades, surrounded by tropical green plants and trees on a sunny day with only a few clouds.

A clear river with large rocks and small cascades, surrounded by tropical green plants and trees on a sunny day with only a few clouds.

Somehow managed to have more than an hour exploring this incredible river without any other humans nearby. Plenty of freshwater shrimp, birds, & anoles to keep me company!

💧Río Espíritu Santo, Bosque Nacional El Yunque, Puerto Rico

26.05.2025 20:38 👍 41 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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🌴May 22nd from 4-5:30 LIVE AT THE ANNUAL MEETING during the closing remarks session- any and all topics concerning SFS members and activities will be discussed. We will be using the Open Space Forum approach (www.facilitator.school/blog/open-sp...) to allow members to provide input on topics.

14.05.2025 17:17 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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The annual meeting is in two days! Students, make sure you're signed up for these events that are open to all students. For the International Student Mixer, please add the event to your registration on the ASN Events website.

16.05.2025 13:57 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1
Buttressed tree trunk in a tropical wetland

Buttressed tree trunk in a tropical wetland

Brown anole lizard with an extended orange dewlap perched on a small tree trunk

Brown anole lizard with an extended orange dewlap perched on a small tree trunk

Woman standing ankle deep in a wetland holding soil scooped up from under water and smiling

Woman standing ankle deep in a wetland holding soil scooped up from under water and smiling

View looking down at a wetland with saplings, seeds, and underwater leaves. The water is still enough that there are also reflections of trees on the water surface

View looking down at a wetland with saplings, seeds, and underwater leaves. The water is still enough that there are also reflections of trees on the water surface

Got to nerd out about beautiful coastal Puerto Rican #wetlands yesterday with @carlalopezpr.bsky.social ! Carla is studying #freshwater wetland #carbon emissions & testing how those emissions may change with sea level rise. 💧🧪🌎👩‍🔬 #2025SFS @globalchangevt.bsky.social

18.05.2025 12:18 👍 71 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0
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SFS 2025 Field Trips — SFS 2025

Lots of field trips to choose from at #SFS2025 in San Juan! Take a trip down the only navigable river in Puerto Rico, learn about historic canals while visiting a coffee farm, or explore the coastal ecosystems of the northeast (and others)!

www.sfsannualmeeting.org/field-trips

03.04.2025 18:46 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

@freshwaterscience.bsky.social @sfs-src.bsky.social

03.04.2025 18:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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We have Puerto Rico merch for #sfs2025! Order your shirts, hoodies, crewnecks, hats, and totes to get ready for the meeting😎 link here and in bio: www.sfsannualmeeting.org/merch

29.03.2025 17:20 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
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AquaBoricuas: Conectando puertorriqueñ@s en la ciencia y manejo de ecosistemas acuáticos 💧 Aquaboricuas es una iniciativa que busca crear una red de puertorriqueños haciendo investigación y trabajando en ecosistemas acuáticos incluyendo ríos, humedales, lagunas, embalses, estuarios y otro...

💧 ¿Eres boricua y trabajas o estudias ecosistemas acuáticos?
💧 ¿Te interesa ser parte de una red que conecta científicxs, gestores y otrxs profesionales comprometidxs con la investigación y conservación de nuestros ecosistemas acuáticos?

⬇️ ¡Llena este formulario!

forms.gle/6UHjhqcogVXs...

03.04.2025 18:03 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Listening, Learning, and Leading Together: Redefining the relationship between communities and scientists’ The American Geophysical Union's (AGU) Thriving Earth Exchange program works with scientists and communities to enable them to do science together. Believing that every community science project shoul...

Launching today ‘Creating knowledge together’ – a collection of 13 essays on the power of community engaged research, published by @britsciassoc.bsky.social. Read our essay ‘Listening, Learning, & Leading Together' & explore the full collection here: www.britishscienceassociation.org/essay-8-agu-...

26.03.2025 13:24 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Virginia Tech will dissolve its DEI office. Some students fear doing so will increase discrimination on campus. " data-medium-file="https://cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_3211-300x225.jpg" data-large-file="https://cardinalnews.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_3211-1024x768.jpg" /> The university's board of visitors voted 12-2 on Tuesday to comply with President Donald Trump's order to end diversity, equity and inclusion programs. The post Virginia Tech will dissolve its DEI office. Some students fear doing so will increase discrimination on campus. appeared first on Cardinal News.

Virginia Tech will dissolve its DEI office. Some students fear doing so will increase discrimination on campus.

26.03.2025 08:50 👍 0 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The Virginia Tech community is in the street. Stop the attacks on higher ed, on DEI. To our Board of Visitors: get a spine and stand up for us@

25.03.2025 16:49 👍 1425 🔁 347 💬 21 📌 21

The SFS Early Career Committee invites all members to participate in a FREE lunchtime workshop at #2025SFS focused on recruitment. Are you looking for your next position? About to graduate? Join us to find your next science home. (1/2)

16.03.2025 21:36 👍 7 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
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AquaBoricuas: Conectando puertorriqueñ@s en la ciencia y manejo de ecosistemas acuáticos 💧 Aquaboricuas es una iniciativa que busca crear una red de puertorriqueños haciendo investigación y trabajando en ecosistemas acuáticos incluyendo ríos, humedales, lagunas, embalses, estuarios y otro...

Queremos conectar con los Boricuas 🇵🇷 que trabajan en ecosistemas acuáticos! Llena el formulario para ir construyendo la red de AquaBoricuas! @carlalopezpr.bsky.social

Comparte para que se riegue!!

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17.03.2025 19:33 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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The Uncertain Resiliency of Public Trust in Science Confidence in scientific institutions mostly survived the first Trump administration. What will happen to it now?

Confidence in scientific institutions mostly survived the first Trump administration. What will happen to it now? 

14.03.2025 13:02 👍 21 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1

📣SFS Latin America Chapter members residing in Latin America

❔Are you presenting at the #2025SFS meeting in San Juan?

⭐️You can request a registration waiver by emailing your abstract and abstract approval to reolivpaula@usp.br before March 12th

07.03.2025 02:07 👍 3 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 0
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Building Bridges: Crafting Analogies to Help Guide Your Readers - The Open Notebook Crafting analogies in science writing is both an art and a challenge. Analogies act as bridges, connecting complex ideas to familiar concepts and making technical subjects more accessible. The most ef...

Finding the perfect analogy is hard, writes @bwfund.bsky.social early-career fellow @claudia-lopez.bsky.social, but a well-built analogy can offer connections that help carry your reader though a story and even provide structure and artistry to a narrative. 🧪

13.03.2025 15:14 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Are you looking for a roommate for the 2025 Annual Meeting in San Juan #SFS2025?

Reply to this post, or use this hashtag: #SFS2025roommate to connect with other members looking for roommates! Let us know if you need anything.

13.03.2025 15:09 👍 5 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 1
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Freshwater faces a warmer and saltier future from headwaters to coasts: climate risks, saltwater intrusion, and biogeochemical chain reactions - Biogeochemistry Alongside global climate change, many freshwater ecosystems are experiencing substantial shifts in the concentrations and compositions of salt ions coming from both land and sea. We synthesize a risk ...

New #Biogeochemistry paper provides a salinization risk framework to predict + manage the impact of salt ion pollution on drinking water, freshwater ecosystems, infrastructure, agriculture, & more. Cary's Gene Likens a co-author; led by @umdgeology’s Sujay Kaushal.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

11.03.2025 12:12 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0