Amy Mayer (she)

News director, KAZU. Mentor @open_notebook. Alum @HarvestPM @iowapublicradio @stlpublicradio @wellesley @ucbsoj Hablo español. 🏳️‍🌈 Infrequent visitor here.

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My latest story for @AGU_Eos, about a toxic metal in the Baltic Sea and why it matters in planning for clean-up of dead zones.

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.@UUtah geologist Chad Ostrander, while at @WHOI, discovered more thallium than expected in the Baltic Sea. Comment from Tim Lyons @UCRiverside, story by @AmyHMayer.

https://t.co/y2c79DvTyK

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In my latest for @AGU_Eos, I wrote about a new tool in the kit for managers monitoring snowpack with an eye toward water availability. Love to see graduate students publishing their work and talking with me about it!

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Many Western states rely on snowpack. A new metric from @mtnAragon @EngineeringOSU will help calculate how much water the snow is storing as climate change reduces precip and increases temperatures. Comments from Xubin Zeng @uarizona. Story by @AmyHMayer. https://t.co/85EWEDEVto

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@SusanMacNeal "Do you like my hat?" "I do not."

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Because witnessing a total #Eclipse isn’t enough science excitement for one week, I also wrote about #Antarctic for @AGU_Eos and it came out today!

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#Antarctic polynya size fluctuates on a 16-year cycle in the Ross Sea.

New research from @ariaanpurich @MonashUni + colleagues from @otago; comments from Kent Moore @UofT Mississauga; story by @amyhmayer.
https://t.co/msRZQVQpF8

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@KassidyArena Great story @KassidyArena!

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Amazing training today in San Antonio.

[The Open Notebook @Open_Notebook]

@UTSA @RealSciLine @Stardustspeck @AdamHRose @SeanPGoldy @PatReiff @GarofaloWX @vmjaggard99 @nadiamdrake @tarahaelle @AmyHMayer @noka_oi @sandeeprtweets @prosaaquino @raminskibba @sucramoow @betsyladyzhets @smjyoti @meghas @RachelZamzow @SiriCarpenter This collaborative training and mentoring program offered by @RealSciLine and @Open_Notebook is available at no cost to participants, thanks to generous support from @SimonsFdn #InThePathOfTotality. #Eclipse2024 #ScienceJournalism #ReportingTheEclipse

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During Roman disease outbreaks, the climate was cooler and dryer than usual. New #paleoclimate work from the Gulf of Taranto has a 3yr resolution model. I wrote about it for @AGU_Eos
https://t.co/AonXvux9cU

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Going live on Cincinnati Edition @917wvxu at 12:35pmET today. https://t.co/TULwGEcOB9

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Oh happy day: @usda_nass has released 2022 census of ag data! Now we can stop saying the ave age of #farmers is 57 as of 2017. Because it's 58 as of 2022. Other hot takes: nationally, 9% of farmers are under age 35; 36% are female. #agriculture #AgTwitter

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@KGrumke @HarvestPM Hmmm….

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A Salinas Valley nonprofit helps farmworkers become farm owners. And the incubator model is bringing more people into farming at a time when they're definitely needed. #AgTwitter #Farmers A piece for @CivilEats https://t.co/r0MMOAbY9F

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My latest piece for @CivilEats looks at a Farmworker-to-farm owner program’s success.

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California’s farmworkers face untold barriers accessing the land, capital, and training needed to strike out on their own. For 20 years, ALBA has been slowly changing the landscape for this important group of aspiring growers.

@AmyHMayer reports ⬇️ https://t.co/11Iw5gghcy

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NPR version:
https://t.co/57v1hUpDhI

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Happy to see a project I worked on for most of 2023 come out today with @FERNnews and @npratc (audio aired 12/26/2023, but https://t.co/ysp88eLK1t has the story today). https://t.co/xkxDBCx2SI #HBCU #agtwitter #Climate

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@titonka Professional AND Iowan. Great combo.

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@peggyllowe It’s awful and the big media are in denial about how much they rely on local outlets. I think a nonprofit model has to be figured out for hometown news but it can’t rely exclusively on national philanthropy.

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@RanaeDietzel @lostlakefarmer Change is hard and change is good. Wishing your family and farm bright times ahead!

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Another piece for @CivilEats; this one about concerns related to nocturnal fruit #harvest. Across #agriculture the need for safety regs is great.

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Farmworkers are at high risk from scorching daytime temperatures. Harvesting at night can help to keep them cool, but poses different safety and well-being risks.

@AmyHMayer reports: https://t.co/DJ3tgKelRf

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Fall beans.

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Hey #AgTwitter I'll be in SW Ohio Mon-Tue; would love to visit a fruit/veg farm in Xenia/Wilberforce area. Or #urban farm near C-bus. Anyone?