River People
An idiosyncratic list of people who think with rivers -- poets, hydrologists, historians, geomorphologists, general lovers of moving water. Not complete & happy to add more folks!
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@brdemuth.bsky.social
@blacky-himself.bsky.social
Environmentalist, Conservationist, River-restorationist! Opinions expressed are my own #RiverRestoration
@mathijsboom.bsky.social
Historian of science and environment | finishing a book on watery Earth histories 1600-1800 and starting one on anti-nuclear movements and planetary futures in the 1970s-80s | Postdoc @iisg-amsterdam.bsky.social | PhD from @uva.nl
@fborgwardt.bsky.social
scientist, riverscape research, river enthusiast, big family business man
@theflyingfirk.bsky.social
Wisconsin, Biologist, Trout, Anti-theist For fly fishing-only content: Instagram @riparian.life
@fburdon.bsky.social
Kiwi ecologist interested in biodiversity, food webs, and ecosystem functioning. Hike, bike, ultimate, and the outdoors for fun. Views my own.
@nickparish.bsky.social
Born to fish, forced to skeet. Author, editor, and angler from the Great Lakes, currently ranging near the Columbia River drainage in the Cascadia bioregion. Fly-fishing koans, mantras, yarns, and parables: currentflowstate.com/subscribe/
@tiimerisalo.bsky.social
Pääjohtajana Museovirastossa, takana noin 40 v. museo- ja kulttuuriperintöelämää. Director General in Finnish Heritage Agency. Close to heart: museums & versatile cultural heritage, cities & urban life, gardening & walking and idle gazing & wondering
@jdtonkin.bsky.social
Dad | Associate Professor & Rutherford Discovery Fellow @UCNZ | #ecology, #biodiversity, #forecasting, #freshwater, #climatechange | surf obsessed | AE @ESAFrontiers | https://tonkinlab.org | Subscribe for free to https://predirections.substack.com
@aquatico1.bsky.social
Researcher @ IVIC, Caracas-Venezuela 🇻🇪. Limnology, Aquatic Metabolism, Plankton, Meiofauna, Flood Ecology, Large Rivers and Floodplain Lakes, Orinoco, Amazon. My views. https://www.limnologiatropical.org
@sirgeogy.bsky.social
Geographer River Mole SE England. Trustee River Mole River Watch https://www.rivermoleriverwatch.org.uk 🌪️Extreme wx Site Investigator TORRO https://www.torro.org.uk ☀️I’m into writing, local weather, climate, rivers and walking. https://themolestory.com/
@philipimetcalfe.bsky.social
Nature Based Solutions advisor at the Environment Agency. Dartmoor Headwaters Project Manager and working on a range of Natural Flood Management projects across Devon and Cornwall. Views are most certainly my own.
@mamanninen.bsky.social
Senior researcher, Uni. Helsinki, EcoEnv. Associate professor of environmental archaeology and archaeology, doing interdisciplinary research of all kinds (ancient technology, aDNA, climate change...you name it). Stream restoration and rewilding. He/him
@aarnegranlund.bsky.social
Sufficiency, climate action and nature restoration in Finnish North Karelia. I fly fish, ski, and hike. 🤠🏕️🎣🌲🇫🇮🇪🇺🇺🇦 Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@aarnegr Threads: https://www.threads.com/@aarnegr
@markpurvis.bsky.social
River restorer, fly fishing guide, clean water champion, loves mountains, rides bikes
@canobarbacil.bsky.social
PhD in #AquaticEcology Postdoc at #Senckenberg Freshwater & marine ecology | Fish | Biogeography | Biological invasions | Temporal series 📷 I post wildlife photos on IG: https://www.instagram.com/canobarbacil?igsh=bjl2c251bWpvczBk
@jimodonnell2.bsky.social
Walker. Writer. Reader. Storyteller. Photographer. Author NOTES FOR THE AURORA SOCIETY and THE FOUNTAIN from @torreyhouse, speculative fiction, archaeology, history. Слава Україні! www.aroundtheworldineightyyears.com
@amyjanebeer.bsky.social
Biologist, naturalist, writer, campaigner at Right to Roam; Country Diarist at The Guardian; Wainwright Prize winning author of The Flow WIP: Old Nows Agent: Jane Turnbull jane.turnbull@btinternet.com
@paulpowlesland.bsky.social
Rights of nature & climate campaigner. Barrister & river guardian. Love trees & rivers; & working to defend, protect & restore them. Founder of @lawyersfornature.bsky.social & @riverroding.bsky.social
@jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social
Naturalist, ecologist, writer. “How pleasant it would be each day to think, Today I have done something that will render future generations more happy." Richard Jefferies, 1883. Location: east Northamptonshire, UK.
@mdettinger.bsky.social
Water/climate news & my own calculations when relevant, from CarsonCity (Wá∙šiw land), NV. Retired USGS & now p/t @CW3E/Scripps scientist Credentials: PhD.UCLA F.AGU F.AAAS M.NAE; www.mdettinger.com
@peterpowell.bsky.social
CEO at Welsh Dee Trust. Our objective: A river Dee free of pollution and full of wildlife. Farmer at Cefn Ucha Farm. Objective: food, nature and not going bust
@pochoaespejo.bsky.social
Political Theorist. University of Virginia. Mexicana de acá de este lado, como dice el corrido.
@kbrady.bsky.social
Algonquin Anishinaabekwe Political Theory PhD student at UBC. Previously BA/MA at McGill. Land, stewardship, critiques of property, the (democratic, territorial) boundary problem(s), and Indigenous constitutionalism. Current PPE fellow @ILS.
@kellerfish.bsky.social
Ecology - Conservation - Rivers - Fish and Fisheries Senior Lecturer Charles Darwin University
@mcdwater.bsky.social
Est. 1915 💧Protecting Southwest Ohio communities from flooding, preserving water through stewardship, and promoting enjoyment of our waterways. We are all about water. Protecting, Preserving, Promoting. mcdwater.org
@davidpritchett.bsky.social
Author of Mossback: ecology, emancipation, and foraging for hope in painful places https://tupress.org/9781595349910/mossback/ tracker, disciple of wonder, student of curiosity davidpritchett.substack.com davidpritchett.net
@saumyapandey.bsky.social
I am a PhD researcher working on sediments of the Himalayan riverine systems.
@ellydezateux.bsky.social
Historian of environmental politics and Atlantic colonialism | early modernist | Research Fellow in Legacies of Colonialism at Christ Church, Oxford | editor at History Workshop & History Workshop Journal (she/her)
@hankbaker.bsky.social
Evolutionary ecologist with an affinity for freshwater and anadromous fish. Postdoc at UC Berkeley.
@hannahkateboast.bsky.social
Chancellor's Fellow, University of Edinburgh / Convener, Edinburgh Environmental Humanities Network / Judge, James Tait Black Prize (Fiction)
@benthicbuddy.bsky.social
Educator, scientist, runner. Supporter of labor and human rights. Assistant professor of biology/environmental studies at the University of the Ozarks in the southern US. https://ozarks.edu/about/personnel-directory/darrin-hunt/
@uwl-h20.bsky.social
Director of River Studies Center and Professor of Biology at the University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, River Ecologist, Limnologist, fan of canoeing, camping, EMAW, Packers, and Siberian Huskies.
@josephaseeley.bsky.social
asst prof @UVA_History. Specialist in 20th century Korea, Japanese Empire, and East Asian environments. Recently published new book Border of Water and Ice is OA! https://tinyurl.com/3susuy49
@rmostern.bsky.social
World and Chinese history, environment and climate, space and place, World Historical Gazetteer, World History Association, Pitt World History Center. University governance nerd and union activist. Totorocialist, Bundist Jew, free 🇵🇸, 🏳️⚧️ally.
@drclaireharris.bsky.social
#Palaeolithic and #Intertidal Archaeologist. 🦣🏺⚓ MOLA Public Impact | Honorary Research Fellow @ QMUL Geography | Research Associate @ Pathways to Ancient Britain | she/her #Thames #TalkingBallast
@drtombolton.bsky.social
tombolton.co.uk 📖Atomic Albion (Summer 25) 📖London's Lost Rivers Vols 1 & 2 📖Vanished City: London's Lost Neighbourhoods 📖Low Country: Brexit on the Essex Coast 📖Camden Town: Dreams of Another London ✍️Theatre for Plays International ✍️Music for The Quietus
@margofarnsworth.bsky.social
Writer, naturalist, Biomimicry educator - People are part of nature. https://www.routledge.com/Biomimicry-and-Business-How-Companies-Are-Using-Natures-Strategies-to-Succeed/Farnsworth/p/book/9780367552596
@creekthinker.bsky.social
Fluvial Rhetorician | Professor | Mother of Bears | Regent St./Hwy 14/M-37 | https://headwaterslab.com/
@anjuliwebster.bsky.social
Writer and historian. Empire, environment, and racial capitalism in southern Africa. Lecturer, Department of Liberation Studies, University of Fort Hare.
@lilstreams.bsky.social
Fluvial ecologist focused on restoring montane tributary systems; now focused on protecting all of these efforts from unraveling with the incoming Whitehouse infestation. Overly empathetic and dig the acoustic music of Neil Young, Jay Farrar, and the like
@occupyrivers.bsky.social
Dad, fish aficionado, climate impacts, linocut printmaker | Assoc Prof of Fisheries, Wildlife, and Conservation Sciences at Oregon State University | Director of the Oregon Hatchery Research Center #TeamFish
@tonitorousseau.bsky.social
Docteur en histoire (Paris 1) et ATER (Paris Cité) // UMR Mondes Américains / Revista Nuevo Mundo / Podcast @lapanamericaine.bsky.social // Histoire sociale, environnementale et sensorielle de la colonisation dans le Grand Chaco.
@waterpotential.bsky.social
Lumbee hydrologist, author, engaged scholar, & North Carolinian. Associate Professor at Duke studying water, ecosystems, climate change, environmental justice, & Indigenous rights. Book: ON THE SWAMP (UNC Press). he/him www.RyanEmanuel.com
@caseyshoup.bsky.social
Fly Fishing Guide— Laurel Highlands Guide Services. Guided float trips on the Youghiogheny River.
@bchunter.bsky.social
Freshwater life in the Blue Ridge Mountains and the French Broad River watershed of North Carolina. Saltwater life in the sea islands of South Carolina. #FishBum #Globalist #FreeWill #FlyFishing #Asheville #LiveClean #TightLines #BeKind
@blairn.bsky.social
Religion & ecology, water, climate. US & Brazil. Water woman, Wiccan, Kriyaban. Pan, vegan, she/her. Additional adjectives available upon request.
@seddyrocks.bsky.social
Fulbright Scholar, Anthropocene Sedimentologist, Founder of Anthropocene Sediment Network, I study rivers on Earth and Mars, the environment, and plastic & other pollutants.
@drkerrys.bsky.social
Personal Account Interests: emerging chemicals, ecology and all things water Water Monitoring Manager, Environment Agency #nature | #photography | happiest in, near or under #water https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kerry-Sims-3
@seasonalight.com
Symialosopher, ecologist, neologist, writer, #rivers She/her. PhD MMU #Fluminism as Lit. #symbioethics #ADHD MA Applied Ethics. www.seasonalight.com CEP: https://thinkingintheworld.com/members/ginny-battson/ Alt Txt: butterfly wing (vector design)
@alistairwhitby.bsky.social
River & wetland habitat restoration, chalk streams, & community engagement with the Ouse & Adur Rivers Trust. Into regenerative growing, rewilding, good books & generally being outdoors!
@amitangshu.bsky.social
Academic, writer, and researcher of postcolonial nature. Ex @LeverhulmeTrust @KLIAustria @IJURResearch & @tatatrusts scholar. Imprints @ The Economist, The Independent, Places Journal. #water #STS #politicalecology https://muckrack.com/amitangshu-acharya
@kclement.bsky.social
Enviro, Animal, Disease, and Ag History | history prof aka professional Cassandra | Settler |🦓+🚫🌾 | river rat | terrible at banjo | views are my own
@jeffreyinsko.bsky.social
Editor, the Norton Library Edition of Moby-Dick (out now!). Writing about oil, infrastructure, extraction, environment, Line 5. Loves every dog.
@fnrobinne.bsky.social
#Forest #Hydrologist at the Government of #Alberta | #geographer and #rewilding believer | #forests, #wildfire, & #water security | Husband, father, baker, boxer, omnivorous, loud sneezer!
@julianhoffman.bsky.social
Writing, nature, people, climate, place. New book: LIFELINES (May, 2025) Author of IRREPLACEABLE & THE SMALL HEART OF THINGS Upcoming: RIVER SONG Prespa, Greece. Rep'd by @jmlockhart.bsky.social linktr.ee/jhoffmanprespa
@polargriffin.bsky.social
Asst Prof at Allegheny College. Ex-pat Texan, biogeocheminist and arctic scientist, excited about organic matter and rivers. Water science, fluffy dog photos, #QueerinSTEM, and crafty things.
@ramya.bsky.social
Historian. Dams, dredging, borderlands, rivers. Single Parent. Survivor of domestic abuse. Ready for adventure, not B.S. www.riverborders.com
@boyceupholt.bsky.social
🖊 EIC/Found of Southlands 📖: THE GREAT RIVER: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi (W.W. Norton) 🏆: Willie Morris Award for Southern Writing
@healeyparera.bsky.social
Historian, Head of UConn History. Cities, architecture, planning, disasters, environment, Latin America.
@parriblue.bsky.social
Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (https://shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on water & growth in the Po Valley (Italy). All things #rivers #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.
@robgmacfarlane.bsky.social
Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc Nature, climate, people. Prof at Cambridge. https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
@brdemuth.bsky.social
Writer & environmental historian of cold places, now writing about the Yukon River. Author of FLOATING COAST. Prof at Brown University. Post mostly about animals, Arctic things & books. Heart is on a dogsled. #envhist #naturewriting