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🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @bgc-argo.bsky.social and ARGO @scrippsocean.bsky.social measuring the global ocean - El Nino is coming back and it's going to be strong. @montereyken.bsky.social provided the float data plots

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 recently went out to sea with @mbarinews.bsky.social and @montereybayaquarium.org and we saw some amazing things!!! www.mbari.org/news/mbari-a...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 curious about the cool animals in the deep sea?? Check out @mbarinews.bsky.social animals of the deep webpages including our latest addition - the Ghost Shark - www.mbari.org/animal/ghost...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social Congratulations to Jen on yesterday's fantastic live interview on Fox Weather, which covered her joint BGC-Argo, Saildrone and satellite data Hurricane Idalia paper! Interview:https://www.foxweather.com/watch/fmc-ayb89cnrrzaidpnf

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Long before SOCCOM existed, Jorge Sarmiento was already asking the question that would define it: what does the Southern Ocean tell us about our climate? www.princeton.edu/news/2026/05... #ArgoFloats #BGCAgo #SouthernOcean #oceanscience

Piscivore Project Update 🐟🤖 Our @mbarinews.bsky.social Career Pathways Interns Addison & Luis have been hard at work annotating! Huge thanks for the sharp eyes and dedication - including spotting a new species, the Rhinoceros auklet 🦏 Every annotation helps improve our understanding of the big blue

🌊 International Workshop for OneArgo 📅 June 1–2, 2026 📍 Tohoku University 🇯🇵 Join experts from the Core, BGC, Deep, and Polar Argo communities to discuss the future of #OneArgo and global ocean observing. 🔗 Registration: forms.gle/xhHMXx5LcQ6P... 📝 deadline: May 15 #Argofloats

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎The @aaus_foundation grants the annual Kevin Flanagan Travel Award providing up to $800 for undergrad/grad students to attend the AAUS scientific meeting at @scripps_ocean in San Diego, CA! information and app instructions at aausfoundation.org & under scholarships tab, click "Travel Award"!

Quite possibly one of my favorite observations from the #Designingthefuture3 expedition. 😍 bsky.app/profile/schm...

🌊✨ Scripps Oceanography scientists have uncovered the #bioluminescence of an unusual dinoflagellate that uses harpoon-like structures to snare prey, including toxic, bloom-forming plankton. Dive into the new study. ⤵️

Here it is, your Monday moment of zen. 〰️⁠ ⁠ Big red jellies (Tiburonia granrojo) are found between 600–2,100 meters (2,000–7,000 feet), and their bells can reach up to one meter (3.3 feet) across. They are covered in tiny harpoon-like cells that stun prey.

This week, Bay Area music collective Fractals of Sound featured MBARI’s recordings of whale songs and other underwater sounds in a special sound bath at San Francisco’s historic Grace Cathedral for Earth Day. 🎶🐋🎶 Learn more: www.mbari.org/news/mbari-p...

Don't forget to register by tomorrow for the BGC Float Data and Science Workshop - August 17-21 at the University of Washington, Seattle, USA. 👉 More info & registration by the end of April: www.go-bgc.org/event/go-bgc... #Argofloats #Oceanscience

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 article speaks for itself - another huge blow to US science thehill.com/policy/energ...

Breaking News: Prime Minister Viktor Orban conceded defeat on Sunday in a high-stakes general election in Hungary. His defeat is a blow to the global nationalist revival promoted by President Trump.

Hungary’s Orbán concedes defeat as opposition heads for landslide win ft.trib.al/QyIb0GJ

In 2019, I got to meet a real live Vampire squid thanks to @kakanikatija.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social!!! 🤩🦑🧪 I was surprised by two things: 1. how small they are! the famous Planet Earth footage made it seem giant (and scary) 2. they are SO soft. Like touching the smoooothest velvet jelly!

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 the latest from @mbarinews.bsky.social - Vampire squid is not a squid - and eats snow ;-) youtu.be/JgytSJNKrkE?...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 using GO-BGC data to reveal trends in nitrogen cycling in oxygen deficient zones www.mbari.org/news/mbari-t...

ICYMI

The BGC-Argo profiling array is engaging students and educators to foster ocean literacy as we work to deepen the understanding of the ocean’s role in climate: link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social @soccomproject.bsky.social @mbarinews.bsky.social #Argofloat #Argofloats

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Applications are currently being accepted for Cohort 7 of the Dragonfly Mission’s Guest Investigator Program. Over a two year period, students will be mentored by members of the Dragonfly team for 3.6 months per year on projects relevant to Saturn’s moon Titan.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 applications close March 6th for free educator institutes/workshops @montereybayaquarium.org www.montereybayaquarium.org/for-educator...

There is special support for the participation of artists and communicators, so get in touch if you have any interest.

Calling all #ctenophore researchers and artists! Joe Ryan is organizing the Ctenopalooza Ctwo meeting, which we will host at MBARI in California August 23-25. 🦑🧪🌊 www.mbari.org/event/ctenop... Come swap notes with fellow enthusiasts about the latest news in comb jellies.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 We’re excited to announce that we are organizing a second ctenophore meeting — Ctenopalooza Ctwo — to be held at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Monterey Bay, California, on August 23–25, 2026. Registration is now open! www.mbari.org/event/ctenop...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Current CA undergraduate internship opportunity - The California Ocean Protection Council (OPC) is hiring up to four Student Assistants for its 2026 Summer Internship Program (Program). March 5 deadline calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Ocean Exploration Trust is hiring independent contractors for at-sea positions of data engineers, video engineers, and ROV engineers for our 2026 expedition season aboard E/V Nautilus. More information at nautiluslive.org/about/employ.... Questions can be directed to [email protected].

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 final year for the NSF-funded GeoPATHs GO Jamaica 3 week program, a fully funded (all expenses paid), immersive undergrad service-learning and research experience taking place in Jamaica in June 2026. www.jsg.utexas.edu/geopathsgojamaica

🌊 A historic moment for the ocean. The #HighSeasTreaty has officially entered into force, marking a new era in the protection of our shared ocean. Learn how you can take action for the High Seas: https://highseasalliance.org/

Looks suspiciously like an El Niño is going to be unleashed in the future. That will have significant consequences on the Pacific climate and global temps. 🌊🥵 could be bad for coral 🪸 reefs.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Attention current students or recent college graduates: 3 scientific diving internship opportunities are posted on the Monterey Bay Aquarium’s jobs webpage: recruiting2.ultipro.com/MON1023MBAF/...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Design a sticker competition for @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social - deadline Feb 9 at midnight pacific time www.go-bgc.org/outreach/202...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Paid internship @montereybayaquarium.org in the water quality lab - great people and great opportunity - www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/43...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Do you have any students who are interested in science, art and the outdoors? Inspiring Girls* Expeditions Alaska might be a great program for them! Application are open, so let your students know they can apply at inspiringgirls-alaska.org!

🍎 @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social want to adopt a float?? Get real data into the classroom? It's free ;-) www.go-bgc.org/outreach/ado...

A Christmas gift to the ocean from the team aboard the RV Sikuliaq: one specially wrapped biogeochemical-Argo float from @bgc-argo.bsky.social! 🌊 Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.

🌊BGC-Argo float of the month is 5906497 with 4 years under Antarctic sea ice, just popped out. It was adopted by the American School in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and named “Hedy Lamarr” – the actress who co-invented and patented frequency hopping communications.  Named for her science contribution. 1/2

Our World-Underwater Scholarship Society &the American Academy of Underwater Sciences offer two scientific diving internships. Intern applicants can be students from colleges and universities with an interest in science and diving. The program runs primarily from mid-May through August.

Fantastic zooms on these undescribed Lyrocteis on a predatory tunicate. @georgeimatsumoto.bsky.social some squishy friends for ya. @schmidtocean.bsky.social dive 884 #argentiniandeepseeps #MarineLife #CONICET

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine Scientist Position – Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute (STRI), full-time, permanent Marine Scientist position based in Panama. Application review begins February 15, 2026 (open until filled). Early-career researchers are strongly encouraged to apply. www.stri.si.edu

Rachel Carson: The Marine Biologist Who Changed How We See the Living World voxmeditantis.com/2025/12/19/r... #WomenInSTEM #STEM #MarineBiology #Ecology #Conservation

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 huzzah for the crew and pilots of the RV David Packard and ROV Doc Ricketts (and all the support staff on our other ships and onshore). and to see some of the animals on display for the public to enjoy @montereybayaquarium.org is simply amazing.

So cool to see the never-before-exhibited big red jelly (Tiburonia granrojo) on display in Into the Deep/En lo Profundo @montereybayaquarium.org It's a new species that was described for science in 2003 by MBARI.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Assistant Professor without Tenure (WOT), Marine Invertebrate Organismal Biology University of Washington: Academic Personnel & Faculty: College of the Environment: Aquatic and Fishery Sciences. Three year position; 9 month salary - apply.interfolio.com/178804

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Marine STEM Internship Q&A Webinar highlighting seven paid summer internship opportunities & Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REUs) across the United States. Monday, Jan 12, 2026; 11am-12pm (Pacific time); Virtual webinar (To register, please visit: bit.ly/Marine-Showc...)