New pub alert! Clayton, S., Neeley, A., Poulton, N., et al., (2026) Operational Phytoplankton Observations Best Practices: a guide for using imaging technologies for routine monitoring of phytoplankton communities. doi.org/10.25607/OBP... More on OCB's working group: www.us-ocb.org/opo-working-...

🌊 Blue Tech Europe 26: Marine Observing Technologies 📅 21–22 Apr 📍 Paris 🔗 https://swll.to/BT26 2 days of sessions on: 👉 Science & industry collaboration 👉 #MarineTech including sensors 👉 Industry driving #OceanObservation @marco-bolo.bsky.social @tricuso.bsky.social #AcademinSky 🧪

Great OBON oral session this morning at #OSM26 - thanks to everyone who joined us! Find out about even more #eDNA observing projects at the Poster session this afternoon: OT44F Date: Thursday, 26 February 2026 Time: 16:00 – 18:00 Location: Hall 4 (Poster Hall) (Scottish Event Campus)

Due March 31, 2026. Microgrant for 10 people from historically underfunded geographies/institutions to attend the Global eDNA Conference, Seattle, WA Oct 28-30. Covers 4 nights hotel and conference registration; does NOT cover travel and other expenses. #eDNA #grant forms.gle/99jEZj6K8cD7...

What a day for it! Blue skies & calm seas for our team, who have brought in our Autonomous Scientific Buoys for maintenance and upgrades. PML's John McDonald said: "Great to see some of the younger PML team getting hands-on with the more challenging tasks - all good experience, & they smashed it 👊"

🐦 Why are five booby species showing up in the California Current Ecosystem? Using data from CalCOFI, eBird and more, Scripps Oceanography alumna and postdoc Tammy Russell uncovered the major shift. 🌊 Read the study published by Frontiers In Marine Science: bit.ly/4mOBroh

This chart shows that in the City of London (the tiny historical part of London in red), bicycles have overtaken cars to become the most common vehicle. Let's make this throughout Greater London! www.economist.com/britain/2025...

@bopplaurent.bsky.social kicking off #LiegeOcean25 with a talk about the state of the climate and potential need for CO₂ removal (CDR). The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. 🌊

Windy day bike tricks

This is a super unique senior role on our technology team, during an exciting time for technology investment in the UK 👇

Honored to be among the 24 global recipients of the #BezosEarthFund’s #AI Grand Challenge for Climate & Nature. PML's Prof Kerry Howell has been awarded a $50,000 grant to support using #artificialintelligence to radically improve our understanding of #deepsea ecosystems: pml.ac.uk/news/project...

Go see the #OceanFilm with David Attenborough (happy 99th birthday!). I’d like to have a word with the scientific advisors. Among other things, phytoplankton doesn’t remove 1/3 of our CO₂ emissions (the ocean removes 1/4, but it’s abiotic) and the ocean doesn’t produce half the O₂ we breathe.

Wonderful to see AGU standing up for what is right. As an AGU member and Fellow I could not be more proud! Thank you @agu.org

Good for the @agu.org. news.agu.org/press-releas...

Don’t destroy your seed corn, says a VC director. “The only thing more damaging than the recent attacks on our research universities is the silence from my colleagues in the venture capital world, especially from those who have the ear of the president.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/o...

The world's biggest companies have caused $28 trillion in climate damage, a new study estimates For comparison….slightly less than the total value of all goods and services produced in the United States last year apnews.com/article/clim...

🙌 “…transitioning to clean energy mitigates both emissions and pollution-related illness; shifting urban infrastructure away from car-centric design towards active transportation… fosters physical activity while reducing fossil fuel use; and …plant-based diets enhances nutrition and sustainability.“

Universities like mine are limiting hiring, travel, and other spending using federal funds because of the fear of things like this. It's basically impossible to do science, whether NSF takes back funding or not.

Bikey McBikeface.

Colossal squid filmed in its natural habitat for the first time | Science | AAAS #marineecology www.science.org/content/arti...

Scientific report on deep-sea research sees 2025 as a decisive year for ocean health 🌊 Led by Prof. Dr Sylvia Sander of GEOMAR, a group of internationally renowned marine scientists has published a Future Science Brief on deep-sea research. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... 📸 HROV Ariane, Ifremer

"The results highlight the need for policy interventions to limit the future flow of plastics into natural environments and minimise impacts on ocean ecosystems." 🌊 Find out more here 👉 noc.ac.uk/news/scienti...

📢PAPER ALERT! New Capability in Autonomous Ocean Carbon Observations Using the Autosub Long-Range AUV Equipped with Novel pH and Total Alkalinity Sensors 🌊 @biogeosensing.bsky.social sensors integrated in NOC ALR during OCEANIDS cruise For more info👉https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.4c10139

🔬 Science makes our world better, safer, healthier and stronger. Scripps Oceanography scientists joined fellow members of @nationalacademies.org to call attention to the importance of funding science that supports not just the U.S., but our planet. @nytimes.com has more.

Awesome @archaeon-alex.bsky.social !

Cars are about to get really expensive. May I recommend an ebike?

Nice write up of our latest DNA Barcoding Guide from West Coast OBON The guide is being used by CA Ocean Protection Council to inform their California Intertidal Biodiversity DNA Barcode Library project (more to come on this project!) opc.ca.gov/wp-content/u... scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gui...

Thanks @scrippsocean.bsky.social Comms Team for their nice writeup of our reference barcoding how-to guide! Very proud of our West Coast @obon-ocean.bsky.social team (+ a few friends). We hope this work will help others interested in improving our #eDNA databases. scripps.ucsd.edu/news/new-gui...

Autosub Long Range, better known as #BoatyMcBoatface, has helped to recover a 55 year old camera in Loch Ness! 📷 Despite film from the camera being developed by a NOC engineer, no footage of the Loch Ness Monster was found. Find out more 👉 noc.ac.uk/news/noc-oce...

An underwater camera set up 55 years ago to try and photograph the Loch Ness Monster has been found by accident by a robot submarine. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"To tackle the question of recovery from #DeepSeaMining, we need first to look to the past and use old mining tests to help understand long-term impacts." 🥽 New study reveals long-term impacts of #DeepSeaMining and first signs of biological recovery ➡️ noc.ac.uk/news/new-stu...

"Thriving Antarctic Ecosystem Revealed by a Departing Iceberg" Congratulations again to @schmidtocean.bsky.social and the Bellingshausen Sea 🇦🇶 science team! eos.org/articles/thr... via @astrokimcartier.bsky.social in @eos.org 🧪 🦑 🌊

Sen. Jeanne Shaheen is introducing a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United, the case that opened the floodgates to dark money and the buying of elections by billionnaires. 👏👏👏

📢 EMBRC’s #EMOBON observatory has published its first data 📢 Analysis of these #BiodiversityData can help to: ➡️ Understand ocean ecosystems ➡️ Inform science-based policy ➡️ Tackle pressing environmental issues ➡️ Position the EU as a global sustainability leader 🔗 tinyurl.com/2s3uhctv 🧪 #addOcean

Look at that 44 year old track 🤯 👇

very happy to see our review as a #TopCitedArticle in @aslo.org L&O Letters aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... @subhadeepchowdhury.bsky.social

“The poor record of terrestrial mining must not be an excuse to mine the ocean floor. Improved oversight and biodiversity protection as miners increase production on land will produce a better global biodiversity outcome.” 🌊🧪

Really fun to help out with the first #LEGO League Challenge today @noc.ac.uk and talk about careers in marine science. Some really impressive work by all the Southampton schools who participated…they even coded in python!! Pictured are also @johsid.bsky.social and @filipa-carvalho.bsky.social #STEM

For #InternationalWomensDay we're celebrating all of the amazing women doing incredible things in complex and challenging fields. 👩‍🔬 Check out this curated playlist of #NOCIntoTheBlue podcasts covering a range of different areas of ocean research 🔁 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

🌊🦑🧪 #postdoc alert 🌍working with NERC's #BoatyMcBoatface (ALR 1500) equipped with cutting-edge #plankton imaging technology developed at @plymuni.bsky.social with @alexnimmosmith.bsky.social and me & #satellite remote #sensing with @peterimiller.bsky.social at @plymbiomarsci.bsky.social #FRONTLINE

This is not a surprise. We know what causes CO₂ to increase in the atmosphere and we know how to stop climate change. We just don’t want to.

Check out this great Introduction to Using #eDNA for Environmental Management from @ednacollab.bsky.social @hakai.org @oceandecadenep.bsky.social DFO, and the Sunday lab 🧪 🧬🌊🐟🦀🐚 Is a great primer on eDNA for marine conservation! www.ednacollab.org/wp-content/u...

Icy ducks ❄️🦆❄️

What a perfect choice. AGU is in great hands with Brandon’s leadership.

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Check out our new paper on particle-associated #N2fixation 👉👉 www.nature.com/articles/s42... @noc.ac.uk @mioceanologie.bsky.social

Particle-associated N2 fixation by heterotrophic bacteria in the global ocean www.science.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs 🌊

📢JOB ALERT!! Come and work with us! We are looking for an enthusiastic Research Assistant 👉https://careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/research-assistant-578046.html