Travis Schmidt

#WaterQuality | Ecotoxicology | Ecology | Pesticides | Metals | Mines | Mesocosms | tweets are my own opinions

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

Interested in neonicotinoids? I’m in Madison talking at the Wisconsin Neonic Forum tomorrow. All talks are going to be live streamed. Register to view here:

https://t.co/S5qaino2jd

[Erin Hotchkiss @FluvialBenthos]

Are you or someone you know looking for a funded MS or PhD position in freshwater ecology starting August 2025? Consider applying to work with me & collaborate on a project linking river oxygen dynamics with freshwater biodiversity. More info/how to apply: https://t.co/KcPVnECoKh

[Environmental Science & Technology Journals @EnvSciTech]

This ES&T Letters article by @USGS_WY @USGS provides multiple lines of evidence that #Selenium from the Elk River Mines is transported over 575 river kilometers and may pose risks to aquatic life in the transboundary #ColumbiaRiver.

#OpenAccess: https://t.co/kEL7xrQLZm

[FLBS - Univ. MT @FLBSUM]

Please join us for the final Data and Donuts Seminar of 2024 today 10am-11am, as CSKT NRD Director Rich Janssen Jr. and FLBS Senior Scientist Erin Sexton discuss “Stewarding Transboundary Waters: Mining Threats and Impacts in the Headwaters of the Columbia Watershed.”

[Environmental Science & Technology Journals @EnvSciTech]

Mountaintop removal #CoalMining in the Elk River valley is releasing vast quantities of #PolycyclicAromaticCompounds (PACs) to the environment, according to a recent ES&T article. @AB_Enviro @UofA_EAS @UAlberta @YourAlberta

#OpenAccess: https://t.co/NgcT0BS0q7

[Jurg Spaak @JurgSpaak]

Job Alert: I have a fully funded 3-year PhD-position The position is in collaboration with Ralf Schäfer (@LandscapEcology ) . Start is in October (but obviously negotiable) and will be a combination of theory and empirical data anylsis of chemicals. Please share and apply

[Rachel Malison @rlmalison]

I'm excited to share our new publication that synthesizes 50 years of work on a remarkably adapted food web in a unique ecosystem: stoneflies as integrators of ecosystem processes in alluvial aquifers @FLBSUM @agdelv @joegiersch
https://t.co/5AUteFRdDi

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

Job alert!

Curious about life and science in Montana? Interested in water quality, hydrology, and ecology? Want to work with a young team of dynamic scientists , join us in Helena, Montana, the Queen City of the Rockies!

https://t.co/5X0x3gZd1c

[Tanya Fendler @SciFendler]

Hey all! It's that time of year again!

🚨 We have 4 full-time summer internships available in fisheries. 🐟 Please pass along!

[Austin D. Gray, Ph.D. @austin_doug13]

Those attending #SFS2024, please consider submitting to our session “Contaminant Ecology of Freshwaters”, organized by @DrArialShogren , @EcoStressJess , and me. This is a follow up to our successful #JASM2022 session. Deadline is Feb 7th @BenthosNews @SE_SFS @sfs_src @EmergeSfs

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

New paper!

A causal assessment of pesticide impacts to streams of the United States.

https://t.co/nzCsW3TpC3

[Dr. Kaitlyn Campbell @kaitlynscmpbll]

Updated QuEChERS method for analysis of 28 PFAS compounds in oyster tissue! https://t.co/in0NNaqpSl

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

If you are conducting Se research, please consider attending and speaking in this session at the Chemical Society of Canada. @nadineborduas, @paul_a_heine. Abstracts due Jan 31st.
https://t.co/lHO4ckHOfd

[Noëlie Molbert @Noelie_mt]

How do selenium concentrations in 🐟 otoliths relate to those in soft tissues? Check out our new paper in IEAM to find out!
Great work in collaboration with Stephanie D. Graves and co-authors. @vince_palace @EcoStressJess
👇
https://t.co/8WqvoetEou

[Erin Hotchkiss @FluvialBenthos]

~1 more week until our planned 1st review of applications for a new Analytical Laboratory Manager at Virginia Tech! Please share widely & reach out if you have questions. #VTStreamTeam is an inclusive & collaborative group + Blacksburg is a lovely little mountain/college town.

[Francis J. Burdon @frank_burdon]

I am looking for 2 PhD candidates to join my group at @waikato next year to investigate #biodiversity and ecosystem processes across stream-riparian boundaries. Both projects will focus on #foodwebs and ecosystem functioning in forested streams. Please RT! https://t.co/OEOiSenPPg

[Flathead Beacon @FlatheadBeacon]

At a pair of recent binational meetings, tribal & First Nation governments said any solution to pollution in the international watershed must include IJC intervention, with Sen. Tester urging a unilateral reference if Canada refuses to engage #mtnews https://t.co/vCDTKQea4s

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

@FluvialBenthos curious yes please

[USGS in Montana @USGS_MT]

New USGS findings in ES&T article: https://t.co/tRFrjuIsUP. Study shows results of decades-long coal mining on water quality in Lake Koocanusa. Concentrations of selenium, nitrate, & sulfate have increased over last 40 years that data have been collected. https://t.co/dRvDeKS5bO

[Travis Schmidt @Ecotoxman]

Second mesocosm experiment in the new lab starts tomorrow! Testing the impacts of selenium on benthic food webs.