Patrick Kelly
@drchaoborus.bsky.social
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Aquatic ecologist🚣 | 👧🏼Dad | runner 🏃| climber 🧗🏻 Field Team Leader for Upper Miss LTRM WI DNR Views my own
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I am leaving the obvious and amazing autocorrect error
Ha!!! Apparently Apple doesn’t know “mesocosm” and I don’t know how to proofread
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The people whipping up panics about "academic freedom" rarely speak up when academic freedom is actually imperiled.

This is absolutely chilling.
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
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New winter limnology paper by Ozersky, et al. examining how changing winters will differ across latitudes, finding that the light climate of high latitude lakes is much more sensitive to shifting winter conditions than that of lower latitude lakes. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Check out our new WI Fishing Finder. Public access, boat ramps, regulations, habitat, stocking histories, consumption advisories and more, all in one map. We can’t find the fish for you, but we can help you decide where to give it a shot dnrmaps.wi.gov/H5/?viewer=WFF
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Posters showing work on flowering rush and under ice fish communities, and some proposed work on insect communities in the Upper Miss!
Full day of river and river-related research at MRRC here in La Crosse!
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The lab group of Prof. Melissa Bop, Penn State University, is doing a research study on cargo bike users in North America. If you are a cargo bike user and have a minute to take the survey they’d love to hear from you: pennstate.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

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Had a blast presenting LTRM data to the public, students, and other managers today. Really fun to tell the story of Pool 8! Also learned a ton about fish movement, especially in high water conditions.
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This week began our 2-week winter #waterquality monitoring season. We're thankful for our partners at the Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge and use of their airboat while ours is in the shop. Ice thickness on Tuesday was still around 8 inches in most places, though quickly thawing. #UMRR
Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River Water quality sampling from an airboat on a frozen backwater lake of the Illinois River
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Attention all limnologists! We recently published a paper where we tracked changes in study duration of lakes and reservoirs through time. There are plenty short-duration papers. But long term studies are getting longer!

#lakes #ecology #lter @sfs-src.bsky.social @aslo.org

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Long-term trends in study duration of lakes and reservoirs over recent decades
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Found a signed copy at a local bookstore and couldn’t put it down! Loved it! Keep putting those miles in!
Can you use cameras to estimate fish densities under the ice? Some cool data (and videos) from Ben Patschull on the river!

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Evaluation of an underwater camera fisheries sampling method
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Would love to be added!
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🧪 🧪 We are hiring a new limnology professor at UQAM! Come join us in the GRIL. Posting is below / Nous embauchons un nouveau prof en limnologie à l'UQAM! Rejoignez-vous à nous dans le GRIL 🧪 🧪 --> bio.uqam.ca/wp-content/u...
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UMRR long term resource monitoring field station report is out for the 2023 field season! Check it out to see where 2023 landed among long term trends in water quality, vegetation, and fisheries for pool 8 of the UMR. Thanks to the team for all the hard work!

apps.dnr.wi.gov/water/wsSWIM...
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An interesting field season with both high and low water! Will be cool to see how it stands out in the time series!
Post a picture you took (no description) to bring some zen to the timeline