The Virginia Institute of Marine Science research experience for undergraduates (REU) program began this week! During the orientation, SWMS@VIMS co-leads Grace Molino and Alex Schneider, PhD introduced the REUs to safe and inclusive field work- including building a field work kit ! #fieldwork #REU

Friday is the worst day to find bugs in your code 😭🤬

Archiving samples on this rainy Friday! Two dissertation chapters worth of blue crab seminal receptacles and eggs 🙈💃🏼

Thrilled to have the first chapter of my dissertation out! Give it a read if you want to know more about the blue crab spawning stock in Chesapeake Bay 🦀🪱int-res.com/articles/meps_…

I have the best lab mates 🫶🏻🎉

Please report New England blue crab sightings to bit.ly/bluecrabsighti… 💙🦀

Our recent analysis of land cover change revealed that nearly 200 Gg of carbon were lost from a portion of the coast in ~40 years BUT compensatory mechanisms in the coastal landscape replaced this loss in <7 years! link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Every academic this week:

Who doesn’t want to read about worms and crabs this holiday season?! Check out our new pub on the impact of nemertean worms on #bluecrab in Chesapeake Bay 🦀🪱 academic.oup.com/jcb/article/43… @krabdr

The onset of blue crab spawning is earlier in years with greater spring temperatures, which may reduce the effectiveness of the spawning sanctuary in #ChesapeakeBay‼️🔥🦀 find out more in our new paper published in Frontiers - Ecology & Evolution Virginia Institute of Marine Science frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

New Research: Reproductive phenology of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population in a changing climate: Global temperatures are rising across marine ecosystems in response to climate change. Marine and estuarine-dependent species including the… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #Ecology

2nd chapter: published! SLR inundation models often use tidal datums to predict future marsh extent which can drastically over or underestimate future marsh area as salinity, slope, and local factors mediate the elevation of conversion: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

A delayed, but exciting announcement: this spring I successfully defended my dissertation and graduated from Virginia Institute of Marine Science with my phd 🎉🦀!

While I appreciate all of my children (dissertation chapters) equally, I am particularly proud of my third chapter for the physical effort it required and its broader impacts. So thrilled to share the final version with the world: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

So excited for my alma mater and the new opportunities this donation will provide. 🥳

UPDATE: the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, siding with their crab advisory board, has voted to keep the winter dredge season closed after all. The potential move had riled conservationists and Maryland officials. bayjournal.com/news/fisheries…

We’re hiring multiple invert ecologist positions! Come join me in Charleston for your chance to electro-stimulate horseshoe crabs!

You can officially find me on 🦋 bsky.app/profile/akschn…