After years of work, a team of researchers with support from The Nature Conservancy have identified the causative agent of Sea Star Wasting Disease! Big implications for my work & an inspiring example of the amazing things we can do w/ science...plus I'm quoted in it ;) www.cbc.ca/player/play/...

we did not need another reason to ❤️ #kelp but here's one anyway...

Can we crowdsource backing up this data? I'd be happy to back up a chunk of it and put it up on some public github or other kind of repository

FYI Folks, for a while NOAA's Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool was down. It's back up now! Everybody go check it out and then DOWNLOAD the data so that if/when NOAA resources continue to be gutted, we can still use that data. edgi-govdata-archiving.github.io/j40-cejst-2/...

Yup, two of my co-authored articles are in here as well :/

Shellfish Program Leader position open at OR Dept of Fish and Wildlife. Well paid and you get to live in beautiful Newport OR. Plus you get to interface with my group, ORKA, to make management decisions about urchin removal, Pycnopodia outplanting, etc oregon.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/SOR_Ex...

Did you hear? We have just launched our eco/evo mini grant! Where are our ecologist/evolutionists?!

Presenting to local high schoolers for career day. What topics do you think I should hit? So far I'm going over what my job is, what a 'day in the life' looks like, how I got to this job, and ways to have a career in marine science that don't require a PhD. Anything to add or subtract??

The CFPB has returned over $21 billion directly to Americans scammed by Wall Street. If you have been personally helped by the CFPB - if you've filed a complaint, got money returned to you, or benefitted from their work, I need to hear from you. www.warren.senate.gov/share-your-c...

Got to attend an awesome ocean trivia night at Pelican Brewery hosted by Winter Waters PNW. Proceeds from the night went to the Oregon Kelp Alliance. So grateful for the creative, passionate folks who made this happen :)

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Interested in getting paid a good living wage to live on the beautiful Oregon coast and help restore and protect kelp forests? If so, check out the Oregon Kelp Alliance's new job posting! www.oregonkelp.com/opportunitie...

Excited to announce our work on kelp genomics is now out at Current Biology. Lead by Postdoc extraordinaire Jordan Bemmels, we sequence WGS for 600+ bull and giant kelp across BC and Washington. authors.elsevier.com/a/1kSP93QW8S...

Hey folks! The Oregon Kelp Alliance recently released our 2024 Oregon Kelp Forest Status Report. It finds worrying losses over the last 15 years in OR's kelp forests but also exciting signs of resilience. Read it for yourself here and feel free to ask me any Qs! www.oregonkelp.com/wp-content/u...

Had a lovely time at the 2024 Western Society of Naturalists meeting in Portland this weekend! So much great content on kelp forest restoration, including some talks that got me super excited for ORKA's 2025 work.... feeling hopeful :)

Bogs are beautiful. Bogs cool the climate. Bogs lead to biological innovation (meat eating plants anyone?). Bogs clean our water. Bogs protect landscapes from drought. We should all love and respect boglands.

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,139,337!

Senator Ron Wyden (@wyden.senate.gov) thankfully continues to warn people that automakers are hoovering up vast troves of sensitive driver behavior and location data, then selling access to any nitwit with two nickels to rub together...without making any of it clear to consumers:

Thanks to The Oregonian for this excellent profile of Oregon's kelp forests and the Oregon Kelp Alliance! www.oregonlive.com/environment/...

ORKA is hiring! Come work for kelp forest restoration and protection on the magnificent Oregon coast. www.oregonkelp.com/opportunitie...

Live from NPR News, we’re now on Bluesky 👋🎙️

The discovery of 32-million-year-old #kelp holdfasts from the Olympic Peninsula in Washington, means that this group of marine foundation species is twice as ancient as previously thought & highlights the vastly different communities that kelps have supported over time. phys.org/news/2024-01...

It would sure be a shame if the bots/crowds got to this form that's designed to snitch on CSU faculty participating in the strike. Definitely DON'T fill it out with bogus info if you support the hardworking faculty who just want fair wages. app.smartsheet.com/b/form/c85dc...

New paper alert 📣! Check out our data synthesis for ocean acidification, hypoxia and temperature for the US West coast. A massive team effort led by E. Kennedy. essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

The idea of manipulating the ocean’s nutrients to store carbon was first proposed in the late 1980s. Getting real-world data on how well this process might work is challenging and unforeseen complications may lead to even less carbon storage. By Jack McGovan. hakaimagazine.com/news/iron-fe...

Interested in #GIS in #rstats? I've recently heavily modified the @thecarpentries GIS in R curriculum to focus on #seagrass beds in Casco Bay for COBALT cobalt-casco.github.io/r-raster-vec... - this is all sf and terra, using tidyterra (w/ ggplot2) and leaflet for plotting. 🌍 #geo

Just signed up for Bluesky, with thanks to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social for the invite! Would love recommendations of who to follow... esp. related to marine conservation and marine science. Thanks!

I knew it was coming and I'm still a little surprised, but today's move by Norway isn't the end for ocean ecosystems, it's a first tenuous step towards deep-sea mining. Norway moves one step closer to deep-sea mining: www.southernfriedscience.com/norway-moves...

CORVALLIS AREA FOLKS! An important PSA: There is a new sustainable seafood shop in Corvallis! Check it out to support local and sustainably caught Oregon seafood! www.oregonschoice.com

🦑 🧪 Question for marine scientists! Anyone work with underwater PAR sensors before? If so, what sensors have you used and do you remember a cost ballpark? Will post cute dog pictures in return for feedback

2023 was a bad year for environmental activists across Southeast Asia - and for the forests they strive to protect - as both repression and deforestation soared in tandem throughout the region. My latest for @mongabay.bsky.social with my colleague Carolyn Cowan.

Of the 21 Cal State campuses with collections subject to repatriation laws only 4 have returned more than 1% of Native remains and artifacts. Over half of campuses have yet to complete an inventory of their collections due in 1995. CalMatters • California explained calmatters.org/education/hi...

The Kelp Forest Alliance officially shared the Kelp Forest Challenge Roadmap, a global initiative to restore 4 million hectares of kelp forest. Exciting stuff and my group, the Oregon Kelp Alliance, is proud to be a partner working towards this goal. Check it out here! kelpforestalliance.com/roadmap

I’m at AGU this week, and today I’ll be giving the Rachel Carson lecture 🤩. I’ll talk about the book - At Every Depth - and have postcards and stickers to hand out! Hope to see you AGU-ers there!

How does offshore wind development affect fish and fisheries? A new themed issue of Marine and Coastal Fisheries (open access) explores this from ecological, socio-economic, and management perspectives. Read the latest research here: ow.ly/18t750QhhxA #fisheries 🧪🐟🐠🦑

Thank you @oregonzoo.bsky.social for inviting me to speak about what we are doing at the Oregon Kelp Alliance. Such committed, passionate, thoughtful folks there. They do some key conservation work (CONDORS!) and I'm excited to think about how ORKA could partner with the Zoo in the future! 🦑🧪

Omg so excited that @jahwaiian.bsky.social is here now! Steven was always one of my favorite voices on Twitter, so I'm hopeful to see more and more of the people who made SciTwitter special joining Blue Sky! Welcome Steven! 🧪🦑

@cerfscience.bsky.social So pleased to be at CERF for the first time! Loved the TEK plenary, the Inclusive Comm. session I went to! But I’ll be honest, conferences are so hard for me since 2020 (when I went remote). The social interaction is overwhelming & I feel embarrassed at being overwhelmed :/

Check out Tessa's book yall!

I couldn't quite wait for #PhycologyFriday to share this AWESOME new web story about the best kelp, bull kelp! Artist and storyteller Josie Iselin put this together and I can't recommend it enough. I particularly love the "Kelp as Kin" theme. Check it out!! 🦑 bullkelp.info

I use phylopic all the time!

For Halloween, I present Zombie Urchins! When urchins overgraze kelp & form urchin barrens, they destroy their food supply. So how do they survive? They ramp down their metabolism to near-zero, living in a hibernation-like state for months to *years* without eating, reproducing or even moving much🦑

Happy sea slug day! Here are some of the little guys from my research to celebrate :)

Wow, so much to ponder.... would love to hear other's thoughts on this! www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Holy smokes, ocean friends. Be on the lookout. 🧪🦑🌊

So enjoyed our Evening with Urchins last Saturday in Bandon! Got to tour a dulse and urchin aquaculture farm, learn more about historic and modern ways the Coquille Indian Tribe relate to the ocean, sample fancy uni recipes, and chat with so many people excited about sustainable ocean food! Dreamy 🦑

If you're on the OR South Coast come join us in Bandon this Sat.evening for An Evening With Urchins to learn about sea urchin aquaculture and kelp forest ecology! Includes farm tours, uni tastings, and time to ask all your urchin related questions! 🧪🦑 www.oregoncoastmagazine.com/2023/10/16/h...

The 5th annual Biophilia Award for Environmental Communication has been awarded to Mongabay for our commitment to reporting on issues related to nature & biodiversity particularly in countries in the Global South 🌎 We share this among 80 staff in 6 bureaus & w/ the 800+ freelancers we hire daily:

Applications for the Phycological Society of America Grants-in-Aid of Research program are now being accepted until Nov. 1. Grad students & postdocs: submit your app here form.jotform.com/rmw104/2023-ps…. Email Rachael Wade [email protected] w/ qs/issues. More info @ psaalgae.org

Cape Arago is the only place in Oregon known to have giant kelp alongside our standard bull kelp. Can you spot the giant kelp, bull kelp, sea grass, and red algae in this drone shot? #PhycologyFriday 🦑🧪🌊

I’ve got page proofs in my hand and you can preorder the book now! At Every Depth is coming soon! a.co/d/8suqIsv