Bob Sterner

Periodic reminder that I've collected a lot of resources for professional skills development for graduate students here. sites.google.com/a/d.umn.edu/pr… I'm happy to take suggestions for additions to this collection.

We appreciate the shout out but ticket demand exceeded our expectations and the event is already full. One hundred thirty attendees will join 30-ish practicing scientists next week at the first annual Freshwater Discovery Day!

Thanks to @KSTP for having me on today. kstp.com/special-covera…

Just finished deploying the primary mooring for our "Lake Superior Ecological Observatory", a multi-model platform that will provide an unprecedented view of a deep lake in winter. Thanks to @RealGLOS for supporting this work! @UMNDuluth @UmdLLO

LLO is excited to be rolling out Freshwater Discovery Day, a full day of events on and off the water where you can learn about Earth’s largest lakes from some of the experts. tickets.umn.edu/UMTE/Online/de… Come join us on July 31!

@DrLimnology This was a thrill. Thank you @DrLimnology and @jbcotner for organizing it!

Today we celebrated the impactful career of my good friend and collaborator @bobsterner at #aslo24

@aslo_org @UWMadison Congratulations, Hilary!

🏆 Congratulations to Dr. Hilary Dugan for receiving the 2024 #ASLO Yentsch-Schindler Early Career Award for outstanding work on #freshwater ecosystems research, scientific mentorship, and #openscience translation to resource managers and the public. 👉 aslo.org/aslo-awards/20…

Alia would be an outstanding student rep to the ASLO Board. Give her your vote!

In a week I'll be joining two of my colleagues in a webinar to talk about our current project comparing cyanobacterial blooms in three bloom-prone regions of the Great Lakes. ohioseagrant.osu.edu/news/calendar/… @GBullerjahn

Proud to be part of @aslo_org Author Spotlight Virtual Issue for my work with a lot of talented people on Lake Superior algal blooms. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.100…

@blauwalg @MJMcNCycle Its interesting that I’ve run into more than one professional limnologist who mistakenly thought the green side of 226 was a P-only treatment.

@MJMcNCycle Fully agree, also N is needed to build blooms. I predict that if the ELA 226 design had been +C+P vs +C+P+N the conclusion would have been opposite. It was a good experiment to show the role of P, but not that of N! Both are needed, see fig. 1 in Elser et al (2007) Ecol Lett 10

Are any of my Twitter pals also on Bluesky? I just signed up as bobsterner.bsky.social. I need some accounts to follow there! O

Recent grads looking for a limnology job take note: biolimno.weebly.com/opportunities.…

Thanks to @USATODAY for following up with me about my recent posts here. Professor's deep dive into sobering planetary changes goes viral. Here's what he found. usatoday.com/story/news/nat…

I'm grateful to my friends @DrLimnology and @jbcotner for organizing a Tribute Session on my behalf at the upcoming @aslo_org meeting in June in Madison. What a way to go out. My advice to anyone is to find yourself some smart and generous colleagues. You won't be sorry!

@Name_That_Bird Oh, yes, thank you! I'm not sure how I got that so wrong. Sea level has risen about 100 cm since 1988.

Retirement is coming. I gave my last class lecture today. Gave my first one in 1988, 35 years ago. Today was General Ecology and the topic was Global Ecology. I chose to look at how the Earth has changed since I first started lecturing. A series of Tweets --

In closing, here I am around 1990, cruising on Joe Pool Lake in Texas. That's one of my undergraduate research assistants with me. What a privilege this job has been. I'm still on the job for another semester but the teaching part for me has come to an end.

It will be mainly their job now to add to the list of positive changes and subtract from the list of negative ones.