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Hi everyone | Bonjour tout le monde! A doctoral student at MSU, studying species - community level responses to anthropogenic change along the pond permanence gradient 🌱💧🐟 Ecology, conservation, ecotoxicology, natural science and art, and la belle langue

Peter O.L. Martin

If you want to learn more about the MVPP’s mission (and get involved through the Vernal Pool Patrol!), here are links to their home page (vppartnership.iescentral.com) and socials (Facebook: www.facebook.com/MIVernalPools/; Instagram: www.instagram.com/mivernalpools/)

3mo

I'm looking forward to starting to post photos from my field work that capture the incredible beauty and diversity of the freshwater habitats I work in! And of course I'll post research and publication updates as they happen :)

Hi everyone! I think it's about time I introduced myself to the world of Bluesky: my name is Peter Martin and I'm a doctoral student wrapping up his first year in Dr. Alisha Shah's Ecological and Evolutionary Physiology lab at Michigan State's Kellogg Biological Station.

Ever wonder what snow in the swamp would look like? This is 5 miles into the Louisiana swamps in the Atchafalaya basin... it's unreal... having lived down there for the first 28 years of my life, we never saw anything like this. Smashed records. Curtesy of Garrett Roberts.

Apr 28, 2025

Peter O.L. Martin

I wanted to share this photo essay that Gavin Hutchings, the KBS 2025 external communications intern, wrote on the Shah lab's work at the KBS Pond Lab facility. It's a lovely piece that showcases some members of the wonderful group we had this summer!!

Apr 28, 2025

Jan 25, 2025

I'm now researching how freshwater communities along the pond-permanence gradient (vernal pools to deep lakes) are responding to climate change stressors (warming temperatures, oxygen availability). My key group for this work (at the moment) is Lestes damselflies (two different species shown below)

The dog days are here! Vernal pool water levels are falling, which means that the life cycles of their inhabitants are winding down too. Here are some images from a Michigan field site: a time lapse over a few weeks of the same pool, and an inhabitant, Lestes rectangularis (the Slender Spreadwing)

10mo

I got my undergraduate degree from Notre Dame, where I worked on PFAS contaminant research in the lab of Dr. Gary Lamberti for three years (picture of me finding my first ever longnose gar during summer sampling for a different project of the lab, apologies for missing #GarWeek by a mile ;) )

Happy Vernal Pool Season everyone! The Michigan Vernal Pools Partnership is an incredible organization that works to survey, monitor and conserve MI vernal pools (ephemeral freshwaters that host hundreds of species, see the video below for a closer look) 🧪#citsci www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdJD...