Joe Brown
@j0ebr0wn.bsky.social
Professor, UNC Department of Environmental Sciences & Engineering. Interim Director, UNC Water Institute. Environmental health microbiology, pathogen transmission, environmental epidemiology, global health engineering. Art.
http://tarheels.live/brown
http://tarheels.live/brown
Camping in an era of climate change
November 4, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Camping in an era of climate change
I sowed all my wild oats years ago. Now I am sowing thoroughly domesticated oats.
I prefer these ones.
I prefer these ones.
October 11, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I sowed all my wild oats years ago. Now I am sowing thoroughly domesticated oats.
I prefer these ones.
I prefer these ones.
September 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
One of the students in my wife’s 3rd grade math class is headed for disappointment
August 20, 2025 at 10:06 PM
One of the students in my wife’s 3rd grade math class is headed for disappointment
Back to real life from time away pondering the universe. Night sky in Idaho's Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness.
August 4, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Back to real life from time away pondering the universe. Night sky in Idaho's Frank Church - River of No Return Wilderness.
Professor achievement unlocked
July 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Professor achievement unlocked
Deeply grateful we don't have combined sewers here in Chapel Hill - the 9+ inches of rain we got could have resulted in a scary preponderance of ... shIT.
July 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Deeply grateful we don't have combined sewers here in Chapel Hill - the 9+ inches of rain we got could have resulted in a scary preponderance of ... shIT.
The higher ed news keeps getting better & better
June 3, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The higher ed news keeps getting better & better
Old well on my new home place. About 30’ deep, hand dug & lined with rock.
May 30, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Old well on my new home place. About 30’ deep, hand dug & lined with rock.
@nytimes.com reporting that NSF's Chemical, Bioengineeing, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Engineering funding down from $75m last year to $22m this year, a decline of 71%.
@aeesprofs.bsky.social
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May 22, 2025 at 10:42 AM
@nytimes.com reporting that NSF's Chemical, Bioengineeing, Environmental, and Transport Systems (CBET) Engineering funding down from $75m last year to $22m this year, a decline of 71%.
@aeesprofs.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
@aeesprofs.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
I feel like I should retire now so that in 10 years the protagonist in a movie about water engineering can come find me in my barn milking goats, disheveled & drunk, washed up, & say WE NEED YOU BACK IN THE GAME JOE THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR SKILLS AT LONG LAST CAN YOU COACH OUR LAB
NAH kid, get lost
NAH kid, get lost
May 13, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I feel like I should retire now so that in 10 years the protagonist in a movie about water engineering can come find me in my barn milking goats, disheveled & drunk, washed up, & say WE NEED YOU BACK IN THE GAME JOE THE WORLD NEEDS YOUR SKILLS AT LONG LAST CAN YOU COACH OUR LAB
NAH kid, get lost
NAH kid, get lost
Ignorance and Want: as bad for society now as ever they were. We would do well do take note.
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
May 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Ignorance and Want: as bad for society now as ever they were. We would do well do take note.
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
"This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy, for on his brow I see that written which is Doom, unless the writing be erased."
Hail, Queen of the May!
May 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Hail, Queen of the May!
I should have gone to med school
I want to be able to prescribe exotic pets to help people with their mental health
Maybe several exotic pets
Whatever you need to feel ok
I want to be able to prescribe exotic pets to help people with their mental health
Maybe several exotic pets
Whatever you need to feel ok
April 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I should have gone to med school
I want to be able to prescribe exotic pets to help people with their mental health
Maybe several exotic pets
Whatever you need to feel ok
I want to be able to prescribe exotic pets to help people with their mental health
Maybe several exotic pets
Whatever you need to feel ok
Scrolling Bluesky in my garden & I’m sitting right by my Lady Banks and she is poppin! #oldmanstuff
April 4, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Scrolling Bluesky in my garden & I’m sitting right by my Lady Banks and she is poppin! #oldmanstuff
There are still weird ternagers hanging out doing nothing
Cool music will endure
I take some encouragement in this
Cool music will endure
I take some encouragement in this
March 29, 2025 at 10:18 PM
There are still weird ternagers hanging out doing nothing
Cool music will endure
I take some encouragement in this
Cool music will endure
I take some encouragement in this
Today on the wastewater beat:
www.eaglehill.us/urna-pdfs-re...
"...we documented a total of 35 species of vertebrates [in sewers], including amphibians, reptiles, and birds, although mammals dominated our sample. Raccoons and Southeastern Myotis accounted for more than half of all observations..."
www.eaglehill.us/urna-pdfs-re...
"...we documented a total of 35 species of vertebrates [in sewers], including amphibians, reptiles, and birds, although mammals dominated our sample. Raccoons and Southeastern Myotis accounted for more than half of all observations..."
March 10, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Today on the wastewater beat:
www.eaglehill.us/urna-pdfs-re...
"...we documented a total of 35 species of vertebrates [in sewers], including amphibians, reptiles, and birds, although mammals dominated our sample. Raccoons and Southeastern Myotis accounted for more than half of all observations..."
www.eaglehill.us/urna-pdfs-re...
"...we documented a total of 35 species of vertebrates [in sewers], including amphibians, reptiles, and birds, although mammals dominated our sample. Raccoons and Southeastern Myotis accounted for more than half of all observations..."
Timeless foreign policy insight from Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee.
March 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Timeless foreign policy insight from Senator Fred Thompson of Tennessee.
Channeling my inner Nessie
February 20, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Channeling my inner Nessie