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The reason for my handle - Riley T. Cat himself, showing support for the #marchforscience and his #scientist (me!)

ERCA’s Water Quality Team was out yesterday measuring snow depth and water equivalence @JM_Sanctuary. This data gets added to the Provincial dataset - tracking snow data since 1933! #snow #brrrr Check out the data: geohub.lio.gov.on.ca/.../mnrf::onta…

🚜🌱 Join us for a Knowledge-Sharing Event on Agricultural BMPs & Grants 🌱🚜Your insights are crucial in guiding local research and shaping future initiatives! @streamecology Jan 29, 4pm, Essex Arena 👉 essexregionconservation.ca/event-details/… #Agriculture #WaterQuality #Grants #Farmers #BMPs

Congratulations @GLIERUWINDSOR @EmilyVarga13 on a successful PhD defense. Much respect to Emily's supportive committee @ecofebria @RileyTcat @iBioUWindsor Tanya Noel @BGSU_Biology @GBullerjahn and external examiner @FredoniaU Courtney Wigdahl-Perry. Well done Emily!

This is very exciting news for #OntAg farmers in Essex County! #4R #covercrop #BMP

This just in for the NOAA's Forecast for Harmful Algal Blooms in western Lake Erie 2024, hosted by Stone Laboratory and Ohio Sea Grant: #LakeErie will experience a moderate to above-moderate harmful algal bloom this summer. #HABsForecast Read more at news.osu.edu/moderate-to-ab…

I have the best team! Our #WaterQuality team is up to some exciting stuff this year including deploying some new sensors for continuous #conductivity and #turbidity monitoring! #WatchThisSpace to follow our progress!

Heading out for my morning #IAGLR24 run and saw this unfortunate event. Here’s hoping everyone is ok, even with the building being in a position that looks to be unrecoverable.

Field trip day was a great success! Thanks to those who joined us on our #DetroitRiver walk and talk! #IAGLR24 w/@IAGLR @DetroitRiverRAP

@IAGLR #IAGLR24 Things are heating up in Windsor, and the midges have emerged! It's shaping up to be a warm week so get ready to experience what it's like in Canada's deep south in the summer (even though it's only May!)

We are in the final countdown to the #IAGLR24 kickoff. Time to start packing those bags, finalizing the edits to your talks/posters, and getting excited to see colleagues. An amazing week of #GreatLakesSci awaits!

I finally saw @CQuinlan83's mobile chicken coop while out on a #covercrop tour in Essex County. Loving th green plants and synergy with #foraging #OntAg

What's not to love about this 7 seed #CoverCrop mix? Grown in #EssexCounty on clay soil after wheat. Mix includes hairy vetch, winter peas, oats, rye, sunflowers, and more!

With close to 1% ice cover this week, the Great Lakes may reach new extremes now and later in the spring. Thanks @CBCRadioCanada reporting on the continued loss of ice cover this week.

I wasn't planning on looking at #covercrops today, good thing my boots are stored in my trunk so I'm #alwaysreadyforfieldwork This field has oats and tillage radish growing to keep the soil in place during winter rain events like today! #womeninSTEM #LifeAfterPhD

The message "It's all about the water" belongs to champion farmer Henry Denotter. He works tirelessly with multiple agencies to improve water quality in ag watersheds. For the time being, that doesn't include conservation authority's due to funding cuts cbc.ca/news/canada/wi…

If you are really lucky, you'll find incredible partners like Henry Denotter. Henry created this to represent his vision - the fish is for water, what it's all about.  The wrenches are the technologies we use to reduce nutrient loss and the eye represents the monitoring we do🚜🌊

I really love this project looking at the science behind Pelee Island's "Magic Sand" - the microbial community breaks down cyanotoxins during #HABs in #LakeErie! #womeninSTEM

Achievement unlocked: taught my #cartography lecture on Hallowe'en in costume to a room full of people dressed as university students 🎃 Hoping to inspire with my Modern Day Witch aka Strong, Independent, Empowered #womeninSTEM @EESWindsor

Friendly reminder that the next @FishCASTCanada Seminar with @RileyTcat is on Oct. 24th from 12- 1 p.m. EST. Join us to learn more about using #scicomm in a variety of settings. #FishCASTSeminars2023 Register at fishcast.ca #FishCASTSeminars2023

Algae in Lake Erie was once so bad its western basin was declared “dead” — a catastrophe name-dropped in Dr. Seuss’ The Lorax. Clean-up efforts worked for a bit, but it’s full of algae again, & southwestern Ontario’s exploding greenhouse sector won’t help: thenarwhal.ca/ontario-lake-e…

All are welcome to the next @FishCASTCanada Seminar with @RileyTcat as she discusses the importance of #scicomm in research settings and beyond! Join us Oct. 24th from 12- 1 p.m. EST to learn more.#FishCASTSeminars2023 Register at: fishcast.ca/fishcast-semin…

In response to a report we recently prepared on a decade's worth of data from greenhouse influenced streams, I had the opportunity to speak w/@FerRural to contribute to an article for @thenarwhalca to shed light on this local issue affecting water quality thenarwhal.ca/ontario-lake-e…