Anna Schmidt

Should have done this a while ago, but so long Twitter/X! You can find me on 🦋 at annaschmidt.bsky.social:

Registration is open until Oct. 17th for the GLEON Virtual All Hands’ Meeting, 27-31 October 2025. This online meeting is being hosted by members in Brazil and South America and will be an opportunity to begin new research collaborations. #GLEON2025v gleon.org/event/gleon-20…

@PatagoniaAqua I believe it is Ascomorpha!

@nna_schmidt Nice work! Which genus is the third at the upper right corner?

Some rotifers that I photographed from our mesocosm samples made it on the cover of the Hydrobiologia special issue (Zooplankton under Multiple Stressors) that our article is contained in! ✨ Check out the special issue here: link.springer.com/journal/10750/…

@CIGLR_UM Thank you! 😊😊

Congratulations to #CIGLR alum @nna_schmidt on the publication of her 1st first-author paper in Hydrobiologia! 🎉 Impacts of hypoxia & planktivory on crustacean & rotifer diel vertical & horizontal migration behaviors: link.springer.com/article/10.100… #ScienceForSociety #CareerTraining

Thank you to @aquacosm for funding this research! @dvm_uvm @RosalieBruel @MysidQueen @jondoubek @planktongirl16 @SadyeGoldfarb @IsabelMAnderso @CEREEP_Ecotron @BiologyUVM @UVM_BilDS @UVM_RSENR #Freshwater #Zooplankton #DVM #DHM #Planktivory #Hypoxia #Chaoborus #Mesocosms

We discuss how trade-offs between predation risk, food availability, and stressful env. conditions over space and time may be driving the diverse behaviors that we see. Check out the paper (rdcu.be/d20BA) and reach out with comments/questions anna.schmidt@uwalumni.com!

My first first-author paper is officially published! 🎉🎉 This was a team effort and could not have been possible without my wonderful coauthors! The article can be accessed at rdcu.be/d20BA and will be part of @HYDR_Springer's SI "Zooplankton Under Multiple Stressors"

@se_hampton @UCDavisTahoe Congratulations!! 😊

Excited to have the opportunity to join @UCDavisTahoe this coming spring!

From the University of Vermont A Trout Turnabout: UVM’s state-of-the-art research vessel offers new ways to explore an old mystery in Lake Champlain uvm.edu/news/story/tro…

Happy Halloween! I carved a Great Lakes + Lake Champlain pumpkin (though not quite to scale, haha) for our department’s pumpkin carving contest! 🎃

@Eco_Butts @duffy_ma Omg so cute! 🎀 What depth(s) were they collected from? Could it be hemoglobin production? Otherwise I would guess a parasite

We've been seeing some pink spiny water flea pop up in Lake Mendota (not all, usually just 1 -5 amidst normal spinies) and I'm not sure what might be the cause... Carotenoids from a change in diet? Spirobacillus @duffy_ma ? Something else? Send your idea! Detailed photos in 🧵

@Micro_Rachel Beautiful! 😊

Dinobryon party at Bald Hill Pond in Westmore, VT 🎉 💃 #phycologyfriday #PhytoplanktonDeserveGlamorShotsToo

And of course had lots of fun checking out some of the resident creatures 💚

Had a wonderful trip down to the @caryinstitute last week to meet up with our @GLEONetwork @NASA Lake Expedition cohort (+ @car0line0 @DexterHoward77 @JansenS_Lara remotely) to make progress on our manuscript! 🛰️🌊

@ikpemosi_ @bia_possamai @dvm_uvm A colony of Pediastrum (a genus of green algae) surrounded by lots of filamentous diatoms!

@nna_schmidt @bia_possamai @dvm_uvm What’s the last pic?😅

Beautiful diversity of plankton collected from Schuyler Reef in Lake Champlain this week! 🔬 @bia_possamai @dvm_uvm

@ikpemosi_ @bia_possamai @dvm_uvm Yep you’re right! :)

@nna_schmidt @bia_possamai @dvm_uvm First pic looks like phytoplankton, second is definitely a copepod, and third looks like a cladoceran. Correct me if I’m wrong 😅