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I enjoy living almost directly downtown Denver, so many intriguing stories. Last night, a BMW crashed into an antique shop on my block's street corner. The fire department had to install a temporary steel girder to ensure the second hand clothes store on the second floor didn't collapse out onto 8th
April 11, 2025 at 3:13 AM
I enjoy living almost directly downtown Denver, so many intriguing stories. Last night, a BMW crashed into an antique shop on my block's street corner. The fire department had to install a temporary steel girder to ensure the second hand clothes store on the second floor didn't collapse out onto 8th
Congratulations to all those receiving NSF GRFP awards and honorable mentions this year! Also to all those that applied. It appears to be an incredibly narrowed year - only 1,000 awards offered in 2025 so far. There were 2,036 in 2024.
April 9, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Congratulations to all those receiving NSF GRFP awards and honorable mentions this year! Also to all those that applied. It appears to be an incredibly narrowed year - only 1,000 awards offered in 2025 so far. There were 2,036 in 2024.
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The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas
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March 18, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Apply now: Eawag Postdoctoral Fellowship 📢💪
The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas
👉 www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/...
The Eawag postdoctoral fellowship is designed for outstanding early-career researchers with innovative ideas
👉 www.eawag.ch/en/about-us/...
I was assembling a takehome exam today - seems all resources of NCBI are down, been down since this morning.
March 1, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I was assembling a takehome exam today - seems all resources of NCBI are down, been down since this morning.
After getting Norovirus this week and being forced to sleep for almost three days straight, I think I awoke out of my "stunned" phase. Hello, deep, kindly anger - I get productive with thee! Last time we hung out, I built a daily wastewater sampling network (only 23 sites) from scratch in 60 days!
February 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
After getting Norovirus this week and being forced to sleep for almost three days straight, I think I awoke out of my "stunned" phase. Hello, deep, kindly anger - I get productive with thee! Last time we hung out, I built a daily wastewater sampling network (only 23 sites) from scratch in 60 days!
What the #NationalScienceFoundation means to me that is often hard to communicate = They invested in a 22 year old and told me I had promise. Even 17 years later, I know I have been repaying and will continue to repay that debt and honor for the remainder of my career. (1/4)
February 19, 2025 at 1:46 AM
What the #NationalScienceFoundation means to me that is often hard to communicate = They invested in a 22 year old and told me I had promise. Even 17 years later, I know I have been repaying and will continue to repay that debt and honor for the remainder of my career. (1/4)
I've been thinking about statements such as "reducing government expenditures by $3 trillion". Wouldn't businesses need to immediately invest dollar-for-dollar to offset a massive GDP loss when using expenditures as the metric? We're talking about 10% of total US GDP. 1/3
February 17, 2025 at 6:46 AM
I've been thinking about statements such as "reducing government expenditures by $3 trillion". Wouldn't businesses need to immediately invest dollar-for-dollar to offset a massive GDP loss when using expenditures as the metric? We're talking about 10% of total US GDP. 1/3
There is a quote from the TV show Newsroom that I has been stuck with me: "Leona, we don't have the trust of the public anymore." "GET IT BACK!"
February 16, 2025 at 4:41 PM
There is a quote from the TV show Newsroom that I has been stuck with me: "Leona, we don't have the trust of the public anymore." "GET IT BACK!"
Happy to share a new perpsective from my group! My PhD students are really rocking it recently.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Perspectives for wastewater-based surveillance of houseless communities in the United States - IOPscienceSearch
Perspectives for wastewater-based surveillance of houseless communities in the United States, Maybruck, Vanessa, Miller, Ana-Lilith, Mansfeldt, Cresten
iopscience.iop.org
February 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Happy to share a new perpsective from my group! My PhD students are really rocking it recently.
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
I got drunk tonight and created a thing: youtu.be/qslvQEVh5aM
Central Dogma
YouTube video by Cresten Mansfeldt
youtu.be
February 11, 2025 at 4:11 AM
I got drunk tonight and created a thing: youtu.be/qslvQEVh5aM
Fun fact of the day that I spend about 1/2 a lecture on in my Solid Waste course: the USA has limited natural sources of bauxite (primarily in Arkansas). Increasing tariffs on aluminum likely will mean more import of bauxite and alumina, plus an increase in electricity usage with domestic processing
February 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Fun fact of the day that I spend about 1/2 a lecture on in my Solid Waste course: the USA has limited natural sources of bauxite (primarily in Arkansas). Increasing tariffs on aluminum likely will mean more import of bauxite and alumina, plus an increase in electricity usage with domestic processing
Reading at the Populus in Denver (a beautiful building I can rave about for hours), I'm getting a better appreciation of my profession! For example, there are about only ~300,000 science/engineering profs in USA (about 0.1% of population). We each therefore have to be good stewards and advocates!
February 9, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reading at the Populus in Denver (a beautiful building I can rave about for hours), I'm getting a better appreciation of my profession! For example, there are about only ~300,000 science/engineering profs in USA (about 0.1% of population). We each therefore have to be good stewards and advocates!
I've been thinking a bit about bacterial growth dynamics, expecially the more classic r/K theory in light of recent human social changes. With the myriad selective pressures happening simultaneously, it appears r-strategists (fast growth/change) are winning over K-strategists (preservation). (1/6)
February 9, 2025 at 4:58 AM
I've been thinking a bit about bacterial growth dynamics, expecially the more classic r/K theory in light of recent human social changes. With the myriad selective pressures happening simultaneously, it appears r-strategists (fast growth/change) are winning over K-strategists (preservation). (1/6)
With all my bacterial cultures, environmental stress causes evolution. With my engineering research profession, and with this new stress, I find myself wondering, what new and more resilient forms can we evolve into?
February 2, 2025 at 3:52 PM
With all my bacterial cultures, environmental stress causes evolution. With my engineering research profession, and with this new stress, I find myself wondering, what new and more resilient forms can we evolve into?
Decided to continue my practical productivity streak. I always have loved pouring concrete, going back to my UMN BCE days.
February 2, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Decided to continue my practical productivity streak. I always have loved pouring concrete, going back to my UMN BCE days.
2019-2025 will likely be the time covered by my tenure package here at CU Boulder once I submit. One heck of a ride.
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 AM
2019-2025 will likely be the time covered by my tenure package here at CU Boulder once I submit. One heck of a ride.
Data from www.nifc.gov/fire-informa...; mostly posting to highlight how much of a great resource they are for everything fire related. They update this chart M-F, it will have a large jump of ~30k acres on M. Also, we have a long season ahead - on average, 7 million acres burn annually in the US.
January 12, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Data from www.nifc.gov/fire-informa...; mostly posting to highlight how much of a great resource they are for everything fire related. They update this chart M-F, it will have a large jump of ~30k acres on M. Also, we have a long season ahead - on average, 7 million acres burn annually in the US.
As someone who lived through the Marshall Fire and continues to work in WUI fire research, I want to reach out to my colleagues in LA navigating the challenges of these devastating fires. Your tireless work as researchers, engineers, and water distribution managers is invaluable during these times.
January 9, 2025 at 5:40 AM
As someone who lived through the Marshall Fire and continues to work in WUI fire research, I want to reach out to my colleagues in LA navigating the challenges of these devastating fires. Your tireless work as researchers, engineers, and water distribution managers is invaluable during these times.
Students in my office and houseguests at home note I have a very particular style. But I am more emphasizing my laziness with my flip clock approach to time change. From this clock alone, I am not opposed to giving up on daylight savings.
December 20, 2024 at 2:21 AM
Students in my office and houseguests at home note I have a very particular style. But I am more emphasizing my laziness with my flip clock approach to time change. From this clock alone, I am not opposed to giving up on daylight savings.
I am oddly hopeful with the current drone fascination. Maybe an 8 year old in the Pine Barrens *really* looked up for the 1st time and became hooked. Maybe they are the next astronaut, astrophysicist, meteorologist, space junk remover. Maybe nature brought them happiness. Always encourage curiosity.
December 16, 2024 at 1:46 AM
I am oddly hopeful with the current drone fascination. Maybe an 8 year old in the Pine Barrens *really* looked up for the 1st time and became hooked. Maybe they are the next astronaut, astrophysicist, meteorologist, space junk remover. Maybe nature brought them happiness. Always encourage curiosity.
Scrolling through my emerging "following" tab, I didn't realize how much I missed all of you fantastic people! Of course, surmized in 300 characters (or less) chunks.
December 3, 2024 at 2:05 AM
Scrolling through my emerging "following" tab, I didn't realize how much I missed all of you fantastic people! Of course, surmized in 300 characters (or less) chunks.
On migrating to bsky, I opted to just use my first name for my handle. The benefits of having a low-frequency name! From mynamestats, 1 Cresten in the US for every 37 million; in comparison, not quite the Powerball jackpot (1 out of 292 million), but more rare than $1 milion (1 out of 11 million)
December 3, 2024 at 1:50 AM
On migrating to bsky, I opted to just use my first name for my handle. The benefits of having a low-frequency name! From mynamestats, 1 Cresten in the US for every 37 million; in comparison, not quite the Powerball jackpot (1 out of 292 million), but more rare than $1 milion (1 out of 11 million)
Finally made the jump over! Happy to share all of the success and challenges of the CMBM-GEM lab here. All thoughts, posts, and statements are my own
November 4, 2024 at 5:58 PM
Finally made the jump over! Happy to share all of the success and challenges of the CMBM-GEM lab here. All thoughts, posts, and statements are my own