Jeff Opperman
@jjopperman.bsky.social
Rivers, renewable revolution, and rock and roll.
Global Lead Freshwater Scientist for WWF
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Writer for Forbes.com Energy and Sustainability sections
Author, Floodplains
Posts my own.
Global Lead Freshwater Scientist for WWF
🐟💧☀️🎸🎶
Writer for Forbes.com Energy and Sustainability sections
Author, Floodplains
Posts my own.
November 21, 2025 at 12:14 PM
#WaterYear
“Water for the mill, wine for the stomach”
Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.
“Water for the mill, wine for the stomach”
Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
#WaterYear
“Water for the mill, wine for the stomach”
Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.
“Water for the mill, wine for the stomach”
Spotted in a cafe in Milan. A more whimsical and constructive Italian version of the old adage “whiskeys for drinking and waters for fighting”.
#WaterYear
One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).
One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).
November 19, 2025 at 2:52 PM
#WaterYear
One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).
One of the most dramatic locations for a cafe I’ve ever seen (look at bottom of photo), just a few tables perched over the cliff above the Tanaro River (trib to Po) in Barbaresco, Piedmont, Italy. Photo from medieval tower that stands over the town).
I’ve been using images of the “vertical forest” towers in Milan in my power points for a long time. Nice to finally see them.
November 19, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I’ve been using images of the “vertical forest” towers in Milan in my power points for a long time. Nice to finally see them.
November 18, 2025 at 6:23 PM
#WaterYear
Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground.
The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.
Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground.
The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.
November 17, 2025 at 9:32 PM
#WaterYear
Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground.
The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.
Monviso, the “Stone King” rises in the distance, vineyards of Barbaresco in foreground.
The Po, Italy’s longest river, starts at the base of Monviso. We’ll go visit some spots along the Po tomorrow.
First #WaterYear photo dedicated to water in the form of fog.
Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful
Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful
November 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
First #WaterYear photo dedicated to water in the form of fog.
Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful
Italian word for fog is nebbia and here is a foggy vineyard of Nebbiolo grape near Barolo in the Langhe in Piedmont, Italy, so named because it’s harvested as fog becomes common in the region. Dramatically dreary and beautiful
November 14, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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November 12, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I took these photos of the Arthur Anderson in 2010 in Huron, Ohio on Lake Erie. Launched in 1952, she is still in active service.
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
I took these photos of the Arthur Anderson in 2010 in Huron, Ohio on Lake Erie. Launched in 1952, she is still in active service.
🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
November 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🎶The lake it is said, never gives up its dead, when the gales of November come early🎶
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
The Edmund Fitzgerald sank 50 years ago, w/ 29 men on board.
Photo is the Arthur Anderson, the boat traveling w/ the EF thru the storm, the last to communicate w/ her & search for survivors
#WaterYear
A postage stamp sized riparian forest along the Tevere/Tiber
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
A postage stamp sized riparian forest along the Tevere/Tiber
November 9, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Slowed down my typing…
November 8, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Slowed down my typing…
...with the love of her life. A heartsick Canadian in southern California — disoriented by how it stays green even as “they’re putting up reindeer” — she longs for a river. Not to wash away her sorrow, not to float home, but — being a girl from Alberta — a frozen one that she could “skate away on.”
November 7, 2025 at 8:31 PM
...with the love of her life. A heartsick Canadian in southern California — disoriented by how it stays green even as “they’re putting up reindeer” — she longs for a river. Not to wash away her sorrow, not to float home, but — being a girl from Alberta — a frozen one that she could “skate away on.”
November 6, 2025 at 4:55 PM
In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 6:55 PM
In Michelin star restaurants, the chef inspects every plate before it goes out to the floor. And, when he thinks it needs just a tad something more, he adds a little garnish
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#GarWeek
#WaterYear
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
#WaterYear
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
November 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
#WaterYear
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
for #GarWeek, an homage to the president who was born a few miles from where I live..
@solomonrdavid.bsky.social @garlab.bsky.social
No room on my lap for my laptop.
November 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
No room on my lap for my laptop.
#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
#WaterYear celebrates #GarWeek
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
and also celebrates @solomonrdavid.bsky.social for being such an effective communicator about, yes, gars, but really fish and freshwater ecosystems more broadly.
@garlab.bsky.social
#WaterYear
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
November 2, 2025 at 4:50 PM
#WaterYear
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
After a super dry fall we finally got some soaking rain last week.
Fall and flows along Chagrin River.
Happy Halloween from #WaterYear.
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
October 31, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Happy Halloween from #WaterYear.
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
here's Wren from about 2008 wearing various items from her Halloween costume collection to create this hybrid: Dorothy the Damselfly, emerging from Chagrin River
some more photos from that photo shoot of both kids posing along the Chagrin River so I could use the pun-ny title "this river was born to run..."
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
some more photos from that photo shoot of both kids posing along the Chagrin River so I could use the pun-ny title "this river was born to run..."
#WaterYear
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
October 30, 2025 at 5:19 PM
#WaterYear
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"
Photo from almost exactly 16 years ago of my 5-year old daughter in a "Born in USA" cover pose for a Springsteen & rivers essay I'd written.
Today she's home for a few days from her college *senior year* and she's kindly agreed to join me for Springsteen movie "Deliver Me from Nowhere"