Today we launch our new Future Science Brief on 'Monitoring, Reporting and Verification for marine Carbon Dioxide Removal'! Drafted by our expert working group, it presents the key challenges and current status for MRV. Download for free here: www.marineboard.eu/publications...

@agu.org New in #JGR a study on 🌊 Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement: higher alkalinity speeds up growth of key #coccolithophores, but at very high TA calcification falters & shells deform. Authors suggest TA <~3,000 μmol kg−1 as a safer ecosystem boundary. doi.org/10.1029/2025... #protistsonsky

Deep-sea mining in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone may release waste into midwaters that support diverse marine life. A study in Nature Communications finds such discharges could dilute key food particles and disrupt trophic links from zooplankton to large marine predators. go.nature.com/3Jm0C2U 🌊 🧪

This is a tad worrying. Last time I checked licking arsenic (As) was a bad idea. Pretty glaring error there! 🧪

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Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

Local variations in environmental predictors and dry bulk density measurements have a significant influence on #bluecarbon stock estimates in marine sediments 🌎🌊🔍 read all about it 👇 bg.copernicus.org/articles/22/... @mdiesing.bsky.social @biogeochembilly.bsky.social

Really please to see this out. Led by @drmarkyc.bsky.social our paper on how to Improve #bluecarbon stock estimates 🧪🌊 share.google/m48qdGvQ8kpE...

Still looking for 1 more guest editor :-) 🌊

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🌊 Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes In 2015 & 2019, POC ⬆️ in the NE Pacific, but instead of sinking, tiny particles lingered mid-depth, cutting carbon sequestration Ecosystem responses vary, and long-term ocean monitoring is crucial www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This paper describes the science behind the startup Calcarea, which aims to do carbon capture and sequestration from ship stacks. 🌊 calcarea.com

Must read paper on pCO₂ measurements, especially for MRV of mCDR. Some key points: Equilibrator-based instruments require more expertise but give much better results. For membrane/in situ instruments, you could get significantly different results from instruments from the same manufacturer. 🙀🌊

🌍 Do Carbon offsets work? An analysis of 89 multinationals finds buying carbon credits does little for real emission cuts. Offsets play only a minor role, with airlines most reliant. 🔗 www.nature.com/articles/s41... #SciComm #ClimateCrisis 🧪

Just out! Our new paper identifies and assesses the risk posed by contamination of #lakes and #rivers in Northern Ireland with #pharmaceuticals and drugs of abuse share.google/uZLcVYR6WGkP... 🧪 A collaboration between @afbini.gov.uk and Leon Barron's team @imperialcollegeldn.bsky.social

The U.S. Northeast Shelf is a productive marine ecosystem that is warming faster than the global ocean and regularly experiences marine heatwaves. Cirivello et al., constrain regime shifts in thermal conditions over the shelf since 2000 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

#AntrimCoastHalfMarathon let's be having ye! In the starting pen for this morning's long run. I'm running in support of the #WelcomeOrganisation, who support the homeless in Belfast. www.givengain.com/project/will...

Architects have a responsibility that is being tragically ignored. The built environment is responsible for 40% of emissions. You can’t graduate from design school over the past 25 yrs without knowing that. Yet we still crank out and celebrate projects with high upfront and operational carbon. Why?

The role of phytoplankton in structuring global oceanic dissolved organic carbon pools www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

We're meeting today to kick off our new NERC-funded project on the 'Impacts of bottom trawling on seabed carbon storage'. It's a consortium project to establish how the disturbance associated with bottom trawling modifies C storage, cycling and air/sea CO2 fluxes. gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref...

This *Osedax* comic by @thefuzzyslug.bsky.social is just amazing! 🤩 #MarineLife #Invertebrate #SciArt 🦑🌊🐡

Just a reminder that I have an open position on benthic fluxes and biodiversity hotspots that is waiting for someone. Come dive into this one with me (possibly, also literally). 🌊⚒️

🌊 Shifting foundations of the Antarctic food web could ripple through the entire ecosystem phys.org/news/2025-08...

🌊 Even if we remove excess CO₂, the ocean doesn’t bounce back quickly. Export production shifts persist for centuries, especially in the Southern Ocean, which could take 1,300 years to recover. Cutting emissions early matters more than we think www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Changes in the Top‐Down Control of Planktonic Bacteria in Response to Nutrient Addition and Warming in the Red Sea enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #jcampubs 🌊

🌊Trans-basin interaction sustains multi-year marine heatwaves in the Gulf of Alaska. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🌊 I’m hiring! Research Scientist in Marine Ecology & Machine Learning at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (UK). Got experience with machine learning techniques applied to marine ecology, biogeochemistry or climate change? Apply by 5 September! careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

The northern Atlantic is the only region of the world which has defied global warming and has been cooling. What is going on there? What does the latest science say about the 'cold blob'? #AMOC My talk at Utrecht University this week. 🌊 youtu.be/sy2kBPujc4w?...

🧪🌍🌊 Studying the environmental impacts of some newly proposed marine mining activities. pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...

Top marks to Traboni et al. for the beautifully succinct - and stupendously blunt - title for their paper (... which is pretty great too) ... 🌊 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Please to announce the publication of the 2025 update of our #MCCIP review of climate change impacts on oxygen in UK seas. www.mccip.org.uk/oxygen

🌊 Launched in 2024, Ocean Visions' refreshed mCDR Field Trial Database tracks global experiments, MRV strategies, carbon flux data & more. Explore trends, insights & an interactive map to see where momentum is building. 🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...

🌊Ocean Sciences #OSM26 is taking place in Glasgow next February! 🗓️The deadline for Abstract submissions is 20 August 2025 📋Here is a list of sessions that may be relevant to our #OceanAcidification community ➡️ tinyurl.com/3zdezr43

📢New @globalchangebio.bsky.social #EnhancedWeathering alters soil organic carbon in complex ways. Effects are mediated by biota & soil moisture. Robust #CDR assessments require considering organic carbon. @boitolucilla.bsky.social @arthurvienne.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I still have my (many) reservations about ocean alkalinity enhancement. But I'm very happy to see this sort of study about it, looking at how it may affect plankton. Also, the title is brilliant. 🧪🌊 Link: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Call for expressions of interest from applicants who wish to apply for a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship with King’s College London as their host organisation. Areas include social sciences, law, and business.

The magic of a flamboyant cuttlefish 🦑 #MarineLife #Cephalopods #Chromatophores #Camouflage #SeattleAquarium #Cuttlefish #AscarosepionPfefferi

"#Scuba #diving is not a fringe hobby. It is a multibillion-dollar pillar of the economy that can channel tourists' dollars straight into #coastal communities and #ocean protection," said Dr. Anna Schuhbauer phys.org/news/2025-07... via @physorg_com

An ecological framework for microbial metabolites in the ocean ecosystem aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

Contrasting Responses of Oceanic and Coastal Synechococcus to Iron Limitation and Warming Interactions #USC_MEB #ResearchAtUSC #jcampubs 🌊 enviromicro-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

How marine heatwaves are reshaping phytoplankton in the Northeast Pacific aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #jcampubs 🌊

🌊 What is an EBSA—and Why Does It Matter? MGEL researchers co-authored a global synthesis of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) analyzing 338 EBSAs described across 15 regional workshops—covering 75% of the global ocean www.nature.com/articles/s44...

The ocean's capacity to absorb CO2 renders it a large C reservoir with temperature a major variable controlling Air-Sea exchange. Frazão et al., use moorings in the California Current to quantify the effects of other processes on CO2 exchange 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Microscopic organisms (e.g., bacteria, & viruses) play a vital role in the remineralization, and thus help store CO2 in the ocean. A new study presents microbial boundaries between different water masses (e.g., PDW, AAIW, CDW, & AABW) across the South Pacific: 🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Faster carbon input at the extinction (indicated by its more rapid carbon isotope excursion) would have led to more pronounced acidification impacts, in particular due to the lack of a deep sea carbonate buffer (read oceanic anti-acid) - indeed this may partly explain this era's major extinctions

Do you have an ocean-based startup that supports the #BlueEconomy? 🌊 Apply to be a part of @ucsandiego.bsky.social's StartBlue Ocean Enterprise Accelerator, a program that supports startups looking to make waves in ocean innovation! Learn more and apply. ⬇️ startblue.fillout.com/2025applicat...

I have a fully funded open #position for a PhD student/postdoc in marine #biogeochemistry. As part of the MARBEDS project, we are seeking someone to study seafloor fluxes and their interactions with microbial communities in biodiversity hotspots. 🧪⚒️🌊 Contact me if you want more details.

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🌊 The mid-latitude marine heatwaves now pushing 4–5°C above normal in many regions. This isn’t seasonal warming; it’s a climate alarm bell. Ecosystems are under stress.

Note to self must read this one