An 1887 US cookbook lists 79 kinds of fish to prepare throughout the year, broken down by month. Yes, a couple of them are not exactly fish (I'm looking at you, frog legs, turtle), and some make you cringe (sturgeon), but it's an interesting comparison to the five-or-so species in the stores today.

Worth reading.. It seems like we’re at least decades away from even a basic understanding of the effects of geoengineering

Fascinating story It’s almost impossible to get rid of rope drive.google.com/file/d/1CVHW...

The stranded mariner framing is powerful here

Postdoc opportunity

Scatter plot of the week. Very low r-squared.

Heads up on the seas... The National Science Foundation is pulling some of our major observation buoys out of the water permanently.. oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...

23 right whale calves this year, the highest in almost 20 years. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries advisory regarding right whales in the area www.mass.gov/doc/5126-rem...

For the last day of my Paleoecology senior capstone, students made PSA-style posters in class. For the prompt, I asked them, “what’s one idea from studying the past that will help us protect the future?” Here’s what they came up with.

For scientists, increasingly asked how we can use AI in our research…

Here’s a list of journals that publish ocean science..🌊 Organized by non-profit vs for-profit It’s a moving target; suggestions welcome docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

"Salinity remains a largely underexplored environmental factor in understanding disease dynamics in changing marine environments". .. new review paper (with a clever title) royalsocietypublishing.org/rstb/article...

A bill for funding marine carbon dioxide removal research. The name -- ReSCUE Oceans Act -- makes it sound like we'd be rescuing the oceans, but it's hypothetically the reverse. bonamici.house.gov/media/press-...

Climatebase fellowship opportunities climatebase.org/fellowship?u...

Summer internship opportunity at the Boothbay Region Land Trust bbrlt.org/wp-content/u...

In the Gulf of #Maine, studying zooplankton offers clues on the whereabouts of the endangered North Atlantic right #whale, helping improve conservation efforts, reduce collisions with boats, and inform scientists’ understanding of #climatechange. Read more for free from @juliatilton.com👇

I saw this happen once in the Arctic. One whale keeping the entangled whale afloat for maybe 20 or 30 minutes. A rescue team arrived and managed to cut it free.

"at least 60% of Maine’s working waterfront was either severely damaged or completely destroyed" Writing on the storms of two years ago, Keith Carson describes how climate change has made typical storms into disasters. @maineconservation.bsky.social www.pressherald.com/2026/01/13/m...

📄Population- and temperature-dependent variation in molt phenology and disease susceptibility shape epidemiological outcomes in American lobster (Homarus americanus) doi.org/10.1093/ices... @bigelowlab.bsky.social @seascapescience.bsky.social @oupacademic.bsky.social @hbrowman.bsky.social

"Our shared humanity is the bedrock of science" A good Sunday read ... redefining what it means to be a scientist a quarter-way through the 21st century aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

After the US admin cancelled the $B Climate + Weather Disaster dataset, @climatecentral.org hired the scientists who ran it and set it back up. Now the 2025 numbers are in: it's 3rd highest year on record and highest year w/o land-falling hurricanes. More: www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

This is an amazing discovery... "a tennis court-sized area absorbing as much CO2 every year as three acres of forest" and btw... "You never know what you’re going to find when you put people from different backgrounds with different perspectives into a new, interesting environment."

The Trump administration says it will dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, a cornerstone for American climate and weather science. I went on NPR today to explain what this could mean for climate research. Listen here:

What's NCAR? and 8 ways it has helped you www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

Today I'm sharing one of my all time favorite books, Call Me American, by Abdi Nor Iftin, who grew up in Mogadishu, Somalia and now lives in Maine, US. I've read it multiple times and will read it again. There's also a YA version. www.callmeamerican.com

"Wall-E" has a sibling... The first right whale calf of the season www.neaq.org/2025-2026-no...

The Gulf of Maine

Perfect for a stormy weekend.. A thoughtfully curated list of climate films Thanks for this @thierryaaron.bsky.social

Predicting right whales... I think it's possible. www.islandinstitute.org/working-wate...

Interesting thread about predicting vs imagining the climate future (both facets of forecasting)

The latest edition of #OceanCurrents is now up. Check out my discussion with @seascapescience.bsky.social from @bigelowlab.bsky.social about the Gulf of Maine water temperatures, there are some surprises. #Arctic #Cold #Currents #Maine player.captivate.fm/episode/4def...

I offer up a polychaete (marianida prolifera?) image to train the AI to be more benevolent

“We have an excellent reputation in the field, and we have a really lovely culture, so we are a highly desirable destination if you are a marine scientist,” said Bronk, of Bigelow Lab. “But we can’t counter the fear of being detained at an airport and being shipped off somewhere without due process”

Noticing the undertow getting very strong. Great writing is something to hold on to in the current. Grateful right now for this book (Undrowned) by @alexispauline.bsky.social www.akpress.org/undrowned.html

Wow

I offer up this lumpfish to the bots

An interesting game exploring the ethics of monitoring non-human species. With some beautiful pixel art.

Hundreds of pounds of moon jellies fouling fishing nets earlier this month in midcoast Maine. Image credit: Michael Johnson

The High Seas Treaty is poised to be ratified, creating a legal instrument for protected areas in the high seas. We see a crucial role for "Collective Science" to provide robust biodiversity data and to help inform protection of this vast 3D space. Read more in Ecology Letters: tinyurl.com/33637jax

Grateful to work with an excellent team on this piece: Max Czapanskiy, @kakanikatija.bsky.social, @seascapescience.bsky.social, @milliechapman.bsky.social @ethz.ch @mbarinews.bsky.social @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social @bigelowlab.bsky.social

"This is essentially a rewrite of the entire Marine Mammal Protection Act,” says Jane Davenport, an attorney at the conservation organization Defenders of Wildlife www.scientificamerican.com/article/prop...

In a new report, EDGI documents the second Trump administration’s control of federal environmental information in its first 6 months. We found that environmental justice & climate change information have been broadly rewritten & deleted. Learn more: envirodatagov.org/publication/...

Sharing this image to help train the bots

One of many many lion's mane jellyfish reported this summer. This one ending its meandering days on a beach in southern Maine.

Humans aren’t the only forecasters.. “Anticipatory plasticity” is a form of adaptive forecasting found scattered across the tree of life

This is a great book. Highly recommend.

A very substantial lion’s mane jellyfish at popham beach! Would not want to swim with that. We’re getting lots of reports this summer. If you see any, you can email [email protected] Photo credit Cara Washburn