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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

First Day of Class in my 20th year as a professor! This fall I'm teaching my usual grad-level course in Environmental Justice and also co-teaching two special, year-long courses in Indigenous studies through Duke's Bass Connections program. This is an off year for my graduate hydrology course. #FDOC

Selfie of Ryan standing in front of a dark blue sign reading "Duke, Grainger Hall, Nicholas School of the Environment." Ryan is wearing a nice, button-down shirt, a blue baseball cap, and a corn necklace. Leafy green trees almost completely obscure pale blue sky in the background. Ryan is smiling.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

ON THE SWAMP is a Silver winner of the 2026 Nautilus book awards, and I’m grateful for the recognition. The book explores #EnvironmentalJustice through perspectives of Lumbee & other Indigenous peoples of present-day eastern North Carolina. Check it out! uncpress.org/978146967832...

Nautilus Book Award poster showing silver medal and open book against a red background.

Cover image from On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Great visit to University of Minnesota this week. I gave a seminar on environmental justice for environmental science & had conversations on topics ranging from the challenges of confronting colonialism in academia to the joys of finding a good conference roommate. I also squeezed in 2 short runs.

Budding trees overhang the Mississippi River along the East Bank path in Minneapolis. In the foreground, last year’s tall grass glows in the setting sun. The wide river flows in the background while shadowy trees cover the far bank.

The sun begins to set over the Franklin Avenue bridge across the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. The silhouette of an empty park bench is visible in the foreground while the bluffs along the west bank rise in the background.

A turkey prepares to eat a donut that has been discarded in the grass outside of a dorm on the campus of the University of Minnesota.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 21/02/2026

I made James Locklear's "365 Days of Lumbee History" on Facebook! Locklear is a journalist & editor of Native Visions magazine, a monthly publication in and around Lumbee territory. Last fall, he began a year of daily posts featuring a tribal member, past or present. www.facebook.com/share/p/1Axf...

$Screenshot showing text of Facebook post showing the following text: "Day 82 of 365 Days of Lumbee History: Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel Dr. Ryan Emanuel is a scientist and professor known for research and advocacy on topics related to the environment and education. Many people know about his research on the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, which in 2017 revealed unusually large American Indian populations living along the pipeline route. That work ultimately helped to stop the 600-mile, $8 billion fracked gas pipeline from being built. His research has helped to initiate statewide discussions about tribal consultation and environmental permitting, and it has influenced national policies on environmental permitting and safety regulations. Emanuel also studies the cultural and historical connections between American Indians and their traditional lands and waters, and he has partnered with tribal communities throughout North Carolina to address various issues around water and cultural heritage. His book, On the Swamp, examines these issues from his perspective as scientist and citizen of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. Emanuel has a background in hydrology (water science), which he first encountered while working for the US Geological Survey, a federal agency that collects and stewards most of the nation’s water data. He worked for the US Geological Survey before and during his undergraduate studies at Duke, and he assisted staff with projects that involved collecting water samples, measuring streamflow, mapping floodplains, and building a network of rainfall monitoring stations. Emanuel earned a Bachelor’s degree in geology from Duke, completing an honors thesis on streamflow in Duke Forest. After graduating from Duke, Emanuel worked for two years in manufacturing before enrolling in..."$

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

15 years ago today (Dec 15, 2010) I published an ope-ed on Lumbee recognition in @newsobserver.com. I hadn't seen this piece in a while & was struck that it foreshadows my work on Indigenous rights & #EnvironmentalJustice... several years before these terms entered my professional lexicon. #ncpol

Page header from Op Ed section of Raleigh News & Observer, December 15, 2010. Header reads "Other Opinion" and subheading reads "Native Americans in North Carolina: The Lumbee Recognition Bill." First section of article reads: It is painful seeing important legislation languish on the House or Senate floor for a year or more only to expire at the end of a congressional session. Multiplying that feeling by
61 sessions of Congress gives a sense of the frustration and looming disappointment felt by North Carolina's Lumbee Tribe, American Indians who have been petitioning Congress for
federal recognition since 1888.
Numerous recognition bills have been introduced since then, but none has been passed to grant full federal recognition to the tribe. A bill currently in the Senate (co-sponsored by U.S.
Sens. Richard Burr and Kay Hagan) would fully acknowledge the Lumbee Tribe, bringing with it a measure of justice that has been denied for 122 years. Last week, Hagan said she hopes
to amend this bill to legislation that will be voted on in the final days of the 111th Congress.
The current Lumbee Recognition bill passed the House over 18 months ago and has been awaiting a full Senate vote since October 2009. Since then, six senators have been playing
procedural games with the bill - using the so-called secret hold - to prevent a final vote. By their actions, these six lawmakers perpetuate a long-abandoned, failed federal policy toward
American Indians known as Termination.
Simply put, Termination (which lasted from the late 1940s to the late 1960s) aimed to extinguish government-to-
government relationships between the United States and American Indian tribes, "freeing" Indians from "Federal
supervision and control," in the words of Congress.
The implication was that American Indians, deprived of tribal sovereignty, would assimilate once and for all into
mainstream society.

First half of scanned two-column Op Ed by Ryan Emanuel entitled "A persistent people's long quest for justice." Text continues from previous image: The federal government eventually abandoned Termination, but not before more than 100 American Indian groups were impacted, including the Lumbee Tribe.
In 1956, Congress passed legislation acknowledging the Lumbee as American Indians while simultaneously
denying them an official relationship with the federal government. This half-measure of recognition also barred
the tribe from pursuing full recognition through the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Lumbee are the only tribe still
subject to this failed and abandoned policy, thanks to the anonymous senators blocking the current bill.
The State of North Carolina, on the other hand, has officially recognized the tribe since 1885, albeit under three
different names prior to "Lumbee." Some opponents of full Lumbee recognition have attempted to make hay of
these name changes, but the historical evidence paints a clear picture that non-Indian policymakers, bent on
imposing the racist hierarchy of segregation, heavily influenced the adoption of these names by the tribe.
For the tribe, these earlier names served as a survival mechanism to preserve scant resources and maintain their identity in the face of an oppressive and absurd regime. It was no picnic,
but in the end the institution of segregation, designed to repress and subjugate non-whites, tested and strengthened the tribe, preparing it to receive a name of its own choosing. That name, Lumbee, comes from the river that meanders through Robeson County, the principal seat of the tribe. The river is sacred to many Lumbee; its dark water and branching
swamps represent life, death and mystery all at once.

Bottom half of scanned two-column Op Ed by Ryan Emanuel entitled "A persistent people's long quest for justice." Text continues: I know many of these things because they were taught to me in the Lumbee home where I grew up, but I have learned even more from the painstaking research of scholars like UNC history professor and Lumbee Malinda Maynor Lowery and Appalachian State University library professor Glenn Ellen Starr Stilling. They and countless others have worked to assemble
a rich body of literature on Lumbee history, culture and society that must be addressed by anyone challenging the tribe's identity and long journey to federal recognition.
The tumultuous history of the Lumbee includes a number of events that all North Carolinians should know and care about. Lumbee ancestors led a full-on guerrilla war against corrupt
Confederate and Reconstructionist governments in Robeson County during the 1860s and 1870s. They founded the first public college for American Indians in 1887 (now fully integrated
into the state system as UNC Pembroke). Today's Lumbee elders delivered an abject drubbing to the Ku Klux Klan in 1958 at the Battle of Hayes Pond.
Part of the social justice of federal recognition includes validation of these and other Lumbee achievements, including a refusal to fully assimilate or have our history and ways terminated.
I speak only as an individual Lumbee, but I bear enough of our collective memory to discern, faintly, morality's legendary long arc. Its span may be longer than 122 years, but it is bending our way.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

I found a timeline of my Interlibrary Loan requests from @ncsulibraries.bsky.social back when I was a professor at @ncstate.bsky.social. There are inklings of my book as far back as 2010 before the dam broke in 2016-2017. #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #EnvHist #OnTheSwamp @uncpress.bsky.social

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

#OnTheSwamp has been out for ~20 months, and I've traveled quite a bit sharing stories from the book & connections to other research topics. The travel was exciting, a mix of familiar & new. But glad to have a break until spring 2026. 74 total events since last spring, 56 of them in-person.

Graphic showing the cover of Ryan's book with a superimposed list of destinations where he traveled to talk about the book and other research in 2024 and 2025. The list reads:
Andover, NH
Asheville, NC
Atlanta, GA
Bellingham, WA
Chapel Hill, NC
Charlotte, NC
Clinton, NC
Durham, NC
Flagstaff, AZ
Greensboro, NC
Hillsborough, NC
Pembroke, NC
Pine Knoll Shores, NC
Raleigh, NC
Research Triangle Park, NC
Salisbury, NC
Southern Pines, NC
Storrs, CT
Vancouver, BC
Washington, DC
Waterloo, ON
Winston-Salem, NC
& Online

#Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #Lumbee

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Redistricting splits up North Carolina's tribal service areas. It's especially bad for Lumbee and Coharie - each tribe's service area is split into 3 districts. Nationally, most Indigenous people live in cities. But NC flips that pattern, with most living in rural tribal service areas. #ncpol

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Saw #OnTheSwamp today on displayat Birchbark Books in Minneapolis. I signed their copy and also got to sign their wall of authors! #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice #Lumbee

Ryan’s book, On the Swamp, displayed on a wooden shelf next to Theory of Water and Manoomin. Background shows inside of Birchbark Books with a coffee mug and other merchandise in the background.

Outside View of Birchbark Books storefront. Blue door and awning visible along with chalkboard on sidewalk reading “Our door is open.”

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

Just heard inspiring words from @ltgovflanagan.mn.gov about the importance of taking up space - #LandBack one conference room table at a time. Today is a showcase of #Indigenous excellence at the AISES National Conference in Minneapolis.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan on projector screen at AISES National Conference.

Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan speaking on stage at AISES National Conference. Large floral banner in background reads “AISES National Conference - We are all Scientists”

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

The Journal of Geophysical Research universe is getting out of hand.

Photo showing the passenger’s side door of a white pickup truck. Wording painted on the door reads “JGR Equipment Rental & Sales.”

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

Excited to be part of this event with Kirsten Squint next month, hosted by Erica Abrams Locklear as part of UNC Asheville’s Rising Waters series. Come join us! Registration link: www.unca.edu/events-and-n... #OnTheSwamp #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice

Flyer for UNC Asheville environmental literature event on October 30.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

I gave a keynote talk yesterday at the International Cartography Conference in Vancouver. I shared stories and lessons from my work on mapmaking for Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice. This week, I’ve met mapmakers from around the world & learned about cutting edge cartographic theory & tech. #ICC2025

Title slide from Ryan’s keynote showing a background map of wetlands of the Carolinas in bright green over a black background. Title reads “Mapping for Indigenous Environmental Justice, Ryan E. Emanuel, Ph.D., Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment.”

Augmented reality view of a Canadian Geographic map of the Great Lakes. The AR view shows in 3D the scene of Hiawatha confronting Tadodaho, during the retelling of Haudenosaunee history, superimposed over southern Lake Ontario.

Giant mural on side of building in downtown Vancouver that reads “LANDBACK” in red, surrounded by various tags and images.

Giant floor map version of the Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada. Approximately 8m by 10m in size.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

Thanks to @massybooks.bsky.social for hosting a great book talk and signing thing evening in #Vancouver! Largest Indigenous book selection of any bookshop I’ve visited. It was cool seeing #OnTheSwamp shelved in the “Indigenous Politics” subsection—and right next to Nick Estes (whose book I teach).

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Sorry to Anthony Adams but that photo of Trump is giving serious meme vibes.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 23/07/2025

Morning traffic report in RobCo - my Lester Fallsapart impression. #EasternNC #OnTheSwamp

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Researchers - Submit an abstract by Jul 30 to the #Indigenous Science to Action session at the 2025 AGU Fall Meeting! Session theme is "Transforming Geoscience Through Indigenous Knowledge Systems & Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples." Details 👇🏽 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... #AGU25

Infographic showing silhouette of a wetland forest at sunset on upper half and text details on lower half. Meandering river graphic breaks up two halves. Details include name of session plus submission deadline of July 30 and submission link. Additional text at link reads: "Indigenous Knowledge Systems hold immense power to transform contemporary geoscience research into meaningful, authentic, holistic understandings of complex relationships within Earth systems and have informed diverse and culturally inclusive research and pedagogical frameworks. This session is focused on theoretical and practical applications of Indigenous frameworks, methodologies, and perspectives that sustain and enhance the capacity of Indigenous Nations and communities to wield sovereignty, which is guided by Indigenous values. In this context, we welcome submissions that foreground or meaningfully amplify Indigenous paradigms, ideally in close partnership with specific Tribal communities, groups, or organizations. We also welcome submissions whose methods include (for example) Indigenous research principles and protocols, pedagogies, practices of gathering and protecting information, products, and dissemination approaches that advance science and benefit communities."

https://agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/prelim.cgi/Session/252493

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

A few of my photos from Saturday's Lumbee homecoming parade in Pembroke, North Carolina. The high temperature barely exceeded 90 degrees F (32.5 deg C)—cooler than average for recent years but warmer than average since homecoming began in 1968. #EasternNC #OnTheSwamp #ClimateChange

Close-up photo of a person dressed up as the Piggly Wiggly mascot - a human-sized, anthropomorphic pig wearing a blue striped shirt and an old-school butcher's hat and apron. The pig is facing the camera and waving with both hands. The background shows a partially-furled American flag and a hazy, light-blue sky.

Photo of a green and yellow horse-drawn wagon being drawn by an old-timey car (Ford Model A) in a parade. The car is cream and orange colored. Background shows green trees and a lamppost with a UNC Pembroke banner.

Photo of the 2025 Lumbee homecoming parade taken from the middle of Third Street in Pembroke, North Carolina. A line of trucks towing parade floats extends down the street into the distance. At least 13 American flags are visible. Spectators and canopies line the street and background.

Photo showing the front half of a retired fire engine driving in the 2025 Lumbee Homecoming parade. The fire engine is blue with white and red trim. The driver's side door reads "Pembroke Rural Fire Dept." Background shows trees, spectators, and a shade canopy.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

I learned recently that this year’s Envirothon (high school academic competition) focuses on Indigenous Rights. How cool is that? Our local team asked me to help them prep for their upcoming event in Calgary! We spent today discussing UNDRIP, Indigenous Science & Lumbee perspectives on land & water.

Ryan sitting on a desk facing group of students (not shown for privacy reasons). Behind him is a large screen showing a PowerPoint slide with text and image of a river. On table in front of him is a collection of books and other materials.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Reminds me of the accoutrement pack & play at restaurants in Japan. It’s the table side accessory I never knew I needed.

Empty miniature pack-n-play next to a table in a Japanese cafe. Tables and chairs in background.

Overhead shot of miniature pack-n-play next to a table in a Japanese cafe. Contents include jacket, fanny pack, and phone charger.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Blocked faster than I could come up with something witty to say about it.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

🎶 “He sits alone on a giant throne pretending he's a king, a little tyke who's rather like a puppet on a string. And he throws an angry tantrum if he cannot have his way, & then he calls for mum while he's sucking his thumb… You see, he doesn't want to play.” 🎶 #NoKings

Ryan’s #NoKings protest poster held up against a blue sky. The poster shows a traced image of Prince John from Disney’s 1973 animated feature, Robin Hood. Prince John is sucking his thumb and tugging his ear. Other protest signs are visible around the edges of the photo.

Hand-drawn protest sign reading “No cons! No clowns! No King!” The sign is propped up on the ground against a pair of hiking boots. Behind it, a protester is juggling.

Wide angle shot looking north showing protestors gathered along both sides and in median of Capitol Boulevard in Raleigh, North Carolina. Numerous signs express disgust with US president Donald Trump his administration’s policies, and actions of various individuals and entities working under his direction. Several US flags are visible in crowd.

Protester in #NoKings crowd holds a handwritten sign reading, “You would’ve deported Jesus!”

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

USGS folks taught me important lessons about science, ethics, and leadership before I ever stepped into a college classroom. They influenced my career trajectory. The technical knowledge & life lessons learned during my time at the agency (1995-1998) continually show up in my teaching & other work.

A group of students from one of Ryan's early hydrology courses standing on a bridge across the Watauga River in western NC. A US Geological Survey hydrographer poses with them, a large crate of equipment at his feet. Some of the students are holding waders and other equipment.

Snapshot of Ryan with a group of undergraduate students in a forest. Ryan is holding an increment borer, and students are taking notes about secondary ecosystem succession.

A group of students from the National Agricultural University of Honduras stand and sit next to the Talgua River while Ryan (not shown) talks about stream gaging. Students are mostly wearing light blue uniform shirts. Some sit on a large boulder where a stream gage has been recently installed.

A group of Ryan's hydrology students are in canoes on the Black River posing in front of a large baldcypress tree. Bow of Ryan's canoe is visible in the photo.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

30 years ago today I joined the federal workforce as a USGS hydrologic aide. Monday morning after high school graduation, hydrologist & field office chief Harold Eddins (2nd from right) administered my oath of office. That afternoon, I was in hip waders learning to measure stream discharge...

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

At Northwest Indian College on the Lummi Nation for the 20th Vine Deloria Jr. Indigenous Studies Symposium. This year‘s theme is “The World We Used to Live In,“ the title of Deloria’s last published book, which he was writing during his last visit to NWIC in 2005.

Ryan posing in front of bulletin board in NWIC library. Board has photos and bios for book authors, including Ryan. R

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Waiting on an early morning flight. Fueled by pre-dawn fist bump from an Indigenous employee who saw my corn necklace.

Selfie of Ryan in airport terminal wearing large headphones, a hat, and a corn necklace. Fluorescent lights and large windows in background.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It is a fantastic collection, and I was honored to contribute an essay that reflects on the bifurcation of my career and on the broader status of research involving water and environmental justice. I understand that the book will be converted into an #OpenAccess publication in the next year or two.

Network map showing themes present in research at the intersection of water and environmental justice. Map generated using VosViewer and published in Ryan's chapter from Voices of Indigenuity.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

I gave a talk last night at Northern Arizona University’s Student Water Symposium and woke up to snow this morning. Flagstaff in April 😯.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We talked about food traditions today in my Indigenous land and water class. After watching a documentary about Lumbee collard sandwiches, I made some for my students.

Corn bread frying in a cast iron skillet next to a pot of collard greens on an outdoor camp stove.

A collard green leaf on a cutting board.

Freezer bags of ribbon cut collard greens.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

We talked about food traditions today in my Indigenous land and water class. After watching a documentary about Lumbee collard sandwiches, I made some for my students.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

The memory of Tom Oxendine (Lumbee and first Native American US Navy pilot) lives on… just not on the US Navy’s website. This Axios story prompted me to check on our local heroes: www.axios.com/local/salt-l...

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Last week I was part of the US contingent at the decadal US-Japan Joint Symposium on Catchment Hydrology, Biogeochemistry, and Sediment Dynamics. (What a mouthful!) We toured Japanese research catchments & shared work at the University of Tsukuba. I shared my vision of landscapes as signal filters.

Buildings reflected in lake on campus of University of Tsukuba.

Symposium participants hike single file through recently clearcut research catchment. Light snow on ground.

Symposium participants stand in rain and listen to researcher describe clearcut experiment with clearcut in background.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

First paper is out from our study of tree water isotopes in Idaho and North Carolina. Mikaela Maneely from Idaho State Univ. studied water isotopes in leaves after deuterated water injections & found complicated mixing patterns in aspen & Doug fir. More here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Scientist operating a boom lift high in the canopy of a Douglas fir tree.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Ohayo gozaimasu! It’s my first morning in Japan for the US-Japan Catchment Science meeting, a once-per-decade conference that unites hydrologists & biogeoscientists from both nations for a week of knowledge exchange.

View of Shinobazuno-Ike pond from a high window. Tall buildings in background.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

Re-read a section of my book about refugia - those isolated pockets where individual species or whole ecosystems survive while the world changes around them. I put a couple of excerpts below. #OnTheSwamp #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice

Screenshot of page from Ryan's book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, which reads:
Meanwhile, hemlocks kept their footings in the deep, shady wrinkles of
lower mountain slopes— coves shaped by intimate creeks and gorges carved by thundering rivers. Even east of the mountains, hemlocks survived on steep, north- facing slopes. In all of these places, microclimates continued to mimic conditions experienced in the region during the ice age. These isolated pockets are the last vestiges of a forest that once covered much of the Southeast. They are refugia.

Screenshot of page from Ryan's book, On the Swamp: Fighting for Indigenous Environmental Justice, which reads:
Paleoecology teaches that refugia are not only physical places, but they also represent bottlenecks along a timeline. Large populations of trees, insects, birds, and more shrink down to tiny remnants during times of adversity, but when glaciers retreat and weather warms, populations rebound. If conditions permit, populations spring from their refugia into their former ranges or, perhaps, into new places with favorable soils and climate. Sometimes I imagine that Lumbee ancestors who sought refuge in the remotest parts of their lands were biding their time, waiting to spring forth into a radically transformed world.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

Finished a trip on the Lumbee River below its confluence with the Little Pee Dee River. Downstream, the river doesn't follow typical colonial naming conventions... the Lumbee has a much longer & larger watershed than the Little Pee Dee, but the river is called Little Pee Dee below the confluence!

Wide angle photo of Ryan paddling a canoe on the Lumbee River, reaching toward the bow to turn off an action camera. His gloved fingers are near the lens and disproportionately large.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This is one of my all time favorite signs in the NC State Park system. Show me a more passive aggressive sign than this.

Brown and white sign reading “CAUTION
FORT MACON WAS MADE FOR WAR NOT SAFETY
PLEASE BE CAREFUL”

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Before and After - Early morning run with members of our lab group during our writing retreat at the Duke Marine Lab in Beaufort, NC. Wind chill was 14F (-10C) when we started. Absolutely perfect winter weather for #EasternNC! Now that I’m warm, fed & caffeinated, it’s time to write.

View of sunrise along an estuarine shoreline outside of Beaufort, NC. Flagpole and part of a grassy lawn are visible in foreground, open water and sky in background. Heron flies close to the water. Small clouds on horizon.

Selfie of Ryan in front of earlier view of open water. Same flagpole and estuary visible in background. Ryan wears green cap and bright red shirt.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

📣Intro for new followers (thanks!)📣 I'm a scientist whose lab studies interactions between water & ecosystems - and how #ClimateChange alters these interactions. We also study #EnvironmentalJustice implications of climate change, pollution, etc. - especially for #Indigenous peoples. I wrote a book.

Photo of Ryan paddling solo canoe on New River near Jacksonville, NC during Onslow Veteran's Powwow

Photo of Ryan installing a #wetland monitoring station with student to assess saltwater intrusion at Goose Creek State Park in coastal North Carolina. Ryan is in waders with helmet and mosquito net.

Photo of Ryan teaching a field course at Coweeta Hydrologic Laboratory. He holds a small dry erase board with equations showing how the Licor LI6400 gas analyzer derives measurements of stomatal conductance. He is wearing 20 year-old Boy Scout camp staff shirt and has a puzzled expression on his face.

Photo of Ryan in waders standing in the Talgua River (Honduras) using a homemade wading rod to measure stream discharge. Student records notes next to Ryan and is not wearing waders.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Me crashing after #AGU24 atop a pile of keychain carabiners, business cards, equipment brochures, miniature posters, receipts, and those bags of candy I didn't finish eating on the train.

Screenshot of child from the film "A Christmas Story," sleeping atop a pile of toys and open gift packaging.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Saturday morning views southbound from DC along the Potomac River. Another fantastic AGU Fall Meeting in the rear view, six hours of grading and train tracks ahead. #AGU24 #Amtrak

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Crisp morning at local Amtrak station. Hoping for a smooth and productive trip to #AGU24.

View from outdoor train platform at Amtrak station in Cary, NC. Concrete sidewalk, rails, and loblolly pines frame the scene.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Check out #Indigenous Science to Action oral & poster sessions on Thursday at #AGU24! Both have fantastic lineups. (Session links in 🧵.) Please contact me directly (email, DM, reply skeet, carrier pigeon, etc.) no later than Dec 6 if you'd like to attend Wednesday's networking event. #IndigenousAGU

Flyer reading "Indigenous Science to Action: nsforming Geoscience through Indigenous Knowledge Systems and
Meaningful Engagement with Indigenous Peoples
AGU 2024" with additional information about poster session SY41F on Thursday morning and oral session SY43F on Thursday afternoon. Networking social at Duke in DC on Wednesday evening - must contact Ryan Emanuel by Dec 6 to RSVP.

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Dr. Ryan E. Emanuel @waterpotential.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

Standard methods for getting the perfect audio levels.

Ryan’s desk setup shows a laptop flanked by two external monitors. In front of the laptop is a microphone perched atop a large stack of books, including an extremely thick volume entitled “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater.”

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