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Sam Silknetter

@silknets

Freshwater Ecologist | 🧬 Genes to Landscapes💧| #PhD @VT_Biology | @globalchangevt Fellow | Support #Diversity in all its forms | He/Him

 Blacksburg, VA
Joined February 2017
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I could not be more grateful for my awesome co-authors as this first dissertation chapter crosses the finish line 🤓🐟
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Thanks @BellsBrewery - I needed all 6 of these tasty Michigan natives to make it through last night. #GoBlue 💙〽️
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Stoked to share this position with the Pregler Lab, and I encourage folks to apply!! I've been looking up to @KCPregler since 2017, and can vouch that you won't find a more thoughtful mentor. And what an opportunity to study trout #conservation #genetics in @GilaNForest!🐟🤓
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I also wanted to share this AWESOME PhD position! I did my M.S. at Clemson with @TheThalweg and took John Morse's EPT course at @HighlandsBIO. Two excellent mentors in a great college town. Happy to answer questions ([email protected]); be sure to apply soon if interested!!!
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deb finn@streambug15 Jun 2023
Interested in #K12 education and communicating the value of fresh waters? Check out this #SciComm opportunity to work with @bluemayfly as an AmeriCorps VISTA intern! @BenthosNews
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Personal travel after an amazing #2023SFS #FreshwaterDownunder Highlight so far has been a full day @AustraliaZoo! Absolutely 'chuffed' to see @RobertIrwin, then get to shake his hand after the show 🐊 We share the middle name Clarence, so we're basically best friends now 😄
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And proud to be sporting my @globalchangevt shirt while supporting #WildlifeConservation
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Congratulations Ryan Conway on a fantastic presentation! Excited that he could share his PhD work on network and disturbance effects on temporal beta diversity. #freshwaterdownunder @BenthosNews
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LET'S GO!!! So excited to start the long (and long-awaited) trek to #FreshwaterDownunder #2023SFS. Stoked for awesome science with @StreamCLIMES and @DryRiversRCN, catching up with old friends, and hopefully meeting some locals 🐨🦘
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LONG travel day begins tomorrow! We're looking forward to reconnecting with & meeting new freshwater science colleagues in Brisbane at #FreshwaterDownunder #2023SFS! Talks & posters given or co-authored by members of our lab group are listed below. Safe/healthy travels, everyone!
Image reads: Sun 4 June 3p CS16: Sally Entrekin [et al]. Changes in the identity & function of freshwater aquatic invertebrates along a mining-induced salinization gradient (86) Tues 6 June 11:15a CS66: Erin R Hotchkiss [et al]. Stream CO2 dynamics, sources, & fate in different ecoregions of the United States (353) Tues 6 June 3:30p Poster: Katherine X Pérez Rivera [et al]. Assessing longitudinal patterns in stream metabolism across a heterogeneous landscape (692) Wed 7 June 9:45a CS83: Carla López Lloreda [et al]. Influence of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions & Hydrologic Connectivity on Greenhouse Gases in Headwater Wetlands (444) Wed 7 June 11:15a CS89: Amy D Rosemond [et al]. What will happen to detrital carbon in a warming world? Insights from a whole-stream warming experiment (477) Want to meet with Erin in Brisbane? Let’s set something up! ehotchkiss@vt.edu @FluvialBenthos +1 540 4494750 Society for Freshwater Science #2023SFS Freshwater Sciences 2023

ALT Image reads: Sun 4 June 3p CS16: Sally Entrekin [et al]. Changes in the identity & function of freshwater aquatic invertebrates along a mining-induced salinization gradient (86) Tues 6 June 11:15a CS66: Erin R Hotchkiss [et al]. Stream CO2 dynamics, sources, & fate in different ecoregions of the United States (353) Tues 6 June 3:30p Poster: Katherine X Pérez Rivera [et al]. Assessing longitudinal patterns in stream metabolism across a heterogeneous landscape (692) Wed 7 June 9:45a CS83: Carla López Lloreda [et al]. Influence of Surface Water-Groundwater Interactions & Hydrologic Connectivity on Greenhouse Gases in Headwater Wetlands (444) Wed 7 June 11:15a CS89: Amy D Rosemond [et al]. What will happen to detrital carbon in a warming world? Insights from a whole-stream warming experiment (477) Want to meet with Erin in Brisbane? Let’s set something up! [email protected] @FluvialBenthos +1 540 4494750 Society for Freshwater Science #2023SFS Freshwater Sciences 2023

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Join us!! This lab has been an awesome home for 4+ years and the climate change vulnerability work has really helped shape how I think about conservation. Such an awesome opportunity 🌏
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Sounds like an awesome opportunity with an awesome postdoc!! 😀
Lauren Stoczynski, PhD (@Eco_Stosh) profile pictureLauren Stoczynski, PhD@Eco_Stosh30 May 2023
Do you teach quantitative skills in a biological context? Would you be willing to share your perspectives on quantitative skills and how you incorporate these skills into your course(s)? (1/3) #AcademicTwitter #Research #Biology #education
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Shoot, this whole time I thought Lucinda Williams was doing cartwheels down that gravel road 🤯 Enjoying my commute with @HappyWoman9 and all the #WomenOfFolk
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This spring weather has me excited for some more adventures in the New River Valley with the family! #Cascades #NewProfilePic
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ALERT: self described native fish fiend!!! Does anyone know of open grad school opportunities?
Cole Hoffman (@HofTheHook) profile pictureCole Hoffman@HofTheHook25 Jan 2023
Feeling a bit disheartened in my search for graduate programs and future positions. Responses have been low, but I’m still hopeful the right people will see this crazy native fish fiend is out there. Currently missing field work and teaching, can’t wait for warmer weather.
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I wanted to show an undergraduate mentee how cool net-spinning caddisflies (Hydropsychidae) are, and dug up this gem! Thanks @DewiRoberts77 for the awesome footage :)
Dewi Roberts (@DewiRoberts77) profile pictureDewi Roberts@DewiRoberts7722 Jul 2020
I filmed some more net-spinning caddisflies yesterday - this time on the lovely Rheidol, Ceredigion. #Hydropsyche #Trichoptera. These were filmed in real time - slow motion footage to follow
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Matt Troia@troiamj11 Jan 2023
Fully funded grad position in fish ecology and global change biology in my #fish #ecology #conservation lab @utsaib. Please RT
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Here's how to conduct a literature review using Google Scholar, @zotero, @RsrchRabbit , and @obsdmd . A step-by-step guide👇
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Ecology@ESAEcology16 Nov 2022
New in @ESAEcology: Isolation controls reestablishment mechanisms and post-drying community structure in an intermittent stream doi.org/10.1002/ecy.3911 With #OpenData in @datadryad & @ZENODO_ORG #BenthicInvertebrates #Dispersal @robfour3 @r_sarremejane @willydemendoza
(a) Conceptual diagram showing the relative importance of resilience and resistance strategies to benthic community reestablishment in a nonfragmented and fragmented model system. (b) Experimental sites on Chalone Creek, and their relative positions in the watershed and the state of California. (c) Photos of the deployed sets of traps at one of our experimental sites prior to flow resumption and after flow resumption

ALT (a) Conceptual diagram showing the relative importance of resilience and resistance strategies to benthic community reestablishment in a nonfragmented and fragmented model system. (b) Experimental sites on Chalone Creek, and their relative positions in the watershed and the state of California. (c) Photos of the deployed sets of traps at one of our experimental sites prior to flow resumption and after flow resumption

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If one of your bucket list items was to watch Hydropsyche fimbriata, one of New Zealand’s endemic net-spinning caddisflies collecting freshly caught food from its net, then job done ✅
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