Darrin Hunt
@benthicbuddy.bsky.social
Educator, scientist, runner. Supporter of labor and human rights. Assistant professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University.
A noteworthy little friend entered our mix on this outing!
November 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
A noteworthy little friend entered our mix on this outing!
Got out to Shenandoah Universoty’s Cool Spring Campus. It’s a 200 acre forest that has been recovering since the 00s next to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a forest recovering since the 50s.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
November 11, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Got out to Shenandoah Universoty’s Cool Spring Campus. It’s a 200 acre forest that has been recovering since the 00s next to Rolling Ridge Conservancy, a forest recovering since the 50s.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
Really pretty streams and cool bugs.
We’ve been getting out and into some streams before the winter chill. I promise I have a tarp. We were just too focused/lazy to move it over.
Also, Fred.
Also, Fred.
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 AM
We’ve been getting out and into some streams before the winter chill. I promise I have a tarp. We were just too focused/lazy to move it over.
Also, Fred.
Also, Fred.
My student and I hosted the math department at Shenandoah University to talk about how machine learning can help identify populations of macroinvertebrates.
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
October 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
My student and I hosted the math department at Shenandoah University to talk about how machine learning can help identify populations of macroinvertebrates.
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
A great experience with a super curious group of students (and instructors)!
I am super stoked to announce that I have taken a position as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
July 4, 2025 at 12:52 AM
I am super stoked to announce that I have taken a position as an Assistant Professor of Environment and Sustainability at Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia.
We’re rounding the corner on capstone research for Spring ‘25. There is something especially team build-y about seining for fish.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
April 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We’re rounding the corner on capstone research for Spring ‘25. There is something especially team build-y about seining for fish.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
Also, I love stonerollers this time of year.
May the end of the school year bring me cool new things to do!
April 11, 2025 at 4:19 PM
May the end of the school year bring me cool new things to do!
Sneaking them out to the river. Today, my Plant and Animal diversity class got into some water to check out some arthropods. Good times were had by most?
April 7, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Sneaking them out to the river. Today, my Plant and Animal diversity class got into some water to check out some arthropods. Good times were had by most?
Both of these guys are off to grad school in fall 2025.
One is currently looking at reassembly of macroinvert communities after weather events in urban, ag and mountain streams. He just tightened up his sampling strategy in response to the crazy weather in the south.
Good idea! I’m a proud momma.
One is currently looking at reassembly of macroinvert communities after weather events in urban, ag and mountain streams. He just tightened up his sampling strategy in response to the crazy weather in the south.
Good idea! I’m a proud momma.
April 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Both of these guys are off to grad school in fall 2025.
One is currently looking at reassembly of macroinvert communities after weather events in urban, ag and mountain streams. He just tightened up his sampling strategy in response to the crazy weather in the south.
Good idea! I’m a proud momma.
One is currently looking at reassembly of macroinvert communities after weather events in urban, ag and mountain streams. He just tightened up his sampling strategy in response to the crazy weather in the south.
Good idea! I’m a proud momma.
Back at it with the next generation of aquatic scientists! I must rescue them from med school and give them something important to do (just kidding-ish).
March 16, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Back at it with the next generation of aquatic scientists! I must rescue them from med school and give them something important to do (just kidding-ish).
I love building field stuff, but a Hess is a tall order. Yours looks marvelous!
February 28, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I love building field stuff, but a Hess is a tall order. Yours looks marvelous!
February 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Assorted macroinvertebrates for #invertfest. The isopod pic was taken by a student and is one of my faves. Pretty, pretty coloration. Can we love an isopod? Are they charismatic? Rizz havin’?
December 28, 2024 at 7:20 PM
Assorted macroinvertebrates for #invertfest. The isopod pic was taken by a student and is one of my faves. Pretty, pretty coloration. Can we love an isopod? Are they charismatic? Rizz havin’?
December 23, 2024 at 8:32 PM
Okay! Here’s a gar pun. I didn’t do it, but I like it. #25daysoffishmas
December 23, 2024 at 7:23 AM
Okay! Here’s a gar pun. I didn’t do it, but I like it. #25daysoffishmas
Reflecting on ‘24, we had some fun down here at the University of the Ozarks. Here are a couple of pics from my stream ecology course in Spring.
#gamefish #notgamefish #dragonfly #river
#gamefish #notgamefish #dragonfly #river
December 20, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Reflecting on ‘24, we had some fun down here at the University of the Ozarks. Here are a couple of pics from my stream ecology course in Spring.
#gamefish #notgamefish #dragonfly #river
#gamefish #notgamefish #dragonfly #river
Ah, microvelia makes sense. We did see larger Veliidae at this site in July.
December 17, 2024 at 4:09 AM
Ah, microvelia makes sense. We did see larger Veliidae at this site in July.
Anyone know what this aphid-like little critter is? It was found in November in an urban creek in Arkansas.
December 17, 2024 at 3:02 AM
Anyone know what this aphid-like little critter is? It was found in November in an urban creek in Arkansas.
We put “a bow” in our lab work for the holidays this afternoon. It was nice to bug out one last time in 2024.
Here are some odonates! #dragonfly #damselfly
Here are some odonates! #dragonfly #damselfly
December 15, 2024 at 5:46 AM
We put “a bow” in our lab work for the holidays this afternoon. It was nice to bug out one last time in 2024.
Here are some odonates! #dragonfly #damselfly
Here are some odonates! #dragonfly #damselfly
I’ll bite on this buggy post. Let’s “bug out!”
December 2, 2024 at 11:55 PM
I’ll bite on this buggy post. Let’s “bug out!”
Out with these two again for some #urbanecology #streamecology. This was our last day of #fieldwork for 2024. I always grieve the end of fun in the sun, but look forward to fun in the lab.
They were very excited about the crayfish we found (😊), so we “struck a pose.”
It was a great cambari-dae!
They were very excited about the crayfish we found (😊), so we “struck a pose.”
It was a great cambari-dae!
November 20, 2024 at 3:33 PM
Out with these two again for some #urbanecology #streamecology. This was our last day of #fieldwork for 2024. I always grieve the end of fun in the sun, but look forward to fun in the lab.
They were very excited about the crayfish we found (😊), so we “struck a pose.”
It was a great cambari-dae!
They were very excited about the crayfish we found (😊), so we “struck a pose.”
It was a great cambari-dae!
IYKYK! We just got this Treatise in Limnology set at the University of the Ozarks. Look who it belonged to and where it came from.
Students can check these out too (if I ever check them back in 🙂).
#limnology
Students can check these out too (if I ever check them back in 🙂).
#limnology
November 18, 2024 at 3:04 PM
IYKYK! We just got this Treatise in Limnology set at the University of the Ozarks. Look who it belonged to and where it came from.
Students can check these out too (if I ever check them back in 🙂).
#limnology
Students can check these out too (if I ever check them back in 🙂).
#limnology