We’ve wrapped up drilling at Crary Ice Rise with 228m of sediment core. This is an unprecedented record of the history of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet stretching back millions of years. Initial observations indicate the core includes periods of environmental change during past times of warming.

In a single year, the Ocean absorbed as much energy as released by ∼110,000 Tsar Bombs, the most powerful nuclear weapon ever tested.

🧵📊The data is in. 2025 ranks as the third-highest year (after 2023 and 2024) for billion-dollar weather and climate disasters — with 23 such events costing a total of $115 billion in damages. www.climatecentral.org/climate-matt...

Removing premium seats, replacing inefficient planes, ensuring all planes are full, optimizing routes might halve aviation’s CO₂ emissions without reducing passengers, a new study finds. I like how Lufthansa is already color-coding the CO₂ intensity of their products. www.nature.com/articles/s43...

This is one of the wildest deep-sea mining stories to me. Paleodictyon is a 500-million-year-old trace fossil from an unknown organism. In the last 50 years, we've found their honeycomb traces on the seafloor. There is a living organism that has been doing its thing for half a billion years.

New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.

Wow, why have I never heard of the Ben Franklin mesoscaphe? Like human argo floats, 6 men descended to ∼600m and drifted submerged in the Gulf Stream for 30 days. Along the drift, the crew mapped seafloor properties, biology, noises, and acted as a human occupied CTD analyzing the water column.

Great article by @iphigenesdream.bsky.social on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet and IODP Exp379. „Our data about the Amundsen Sea’s past and the resulting forecast indicate that onshore changes in West Antarctica will not be slow, gradual or imperceptible from a human perspective.“

The audio narrative collection of scientific ocean drilling is now on Instagram! The full episodes of Tales from the Deep are still in the StoryCorps Archive, but now you can hear clips from the archives and new conversations over on Insta. Give it a follow! 🌊⚒️ www.instagram.com/sciod_tales/

As we put the final period on 2025, the past 365 were among some of the warmest of record in #bcstx. Officially, 2025 is set to TIE as the THIRD hottest year of the 140+ year record. HOTTEST YEARS: 1⃣ 2023 2⃣ 2024 3⃣ 2025, 2012, 2011 4⃣ 2017 5⃣ 2020, 1933

This week is a great time to relax, reflect, and read some of the best science stories of the year! Our favorites take you from holistic coverage of the #LAfires from air, land, and sea to breathtaking video of the Myanmar quake. Special appearance from Batman. 🧬💻 🧪 eos.org/articles/our...

„We don’t need high speed rail, we have great transport infrastructure at home.“ The infrastructure at home…

It’s finally happening! So exciting to see the first core!

🚨🔥 Warmest Christmas on record for the Contiguous U.S.! The average high of 57.9F and the average low of 36.6F each broke the Christmas record by a full 3F. 🔥🚨

Dreaming of a white Christmas? Look no further than the deep sea where (in)organic particles from above form the „most stupendous snowfall the Earth has ever seen“ as Rachel Carlson put it. May your holidays be filled with silent wonder, soft as falling snow in the deepest sea.

Zooming out: this type of warmth is part of a broader trend here in the Brazos Valley. Cold still exists in the month of December, but it doesn't stick around like it did just a few decades ago. #bcstx average December temp has warmed near 5° on average since just 1970.

I know I shouldn't be, but still surprised that a city as big as NOLA only has one airport-downtown bus/90min. So took an Uber $36 for 14mi to #AGU25. Now in 🇩🇪 for the holidays and walked to the airport's station. $47 for 170mi in 1st class, a train every few min. Can we have this in US too please?

The holidays are just around the corner and if you’re looking for some great books, these were my favorites this fall: The story of CO₂… - @peterbrannen.bsky.social 20,000 Leagues under the Sea- Jules Verne Life After Cars - @thewaroncars.bsky.social Careless People - Sarah Wynn Williams 1/2

Post #AGU25 walk through the lower 9th Ward. Fascinating to see the adaptations of post- vs. pre-Katrina architecture. It's also interesting how many plots are still empty following the destruction 20 years ago, something we might see more and more after storms, fires, floods in risk-prone areas.

Cheers to #AGU25!

Remember Patrick the Safety Penguin? If you do and are attending #AGU25 make sure to visit Scientific Ocean Drilling at booth 339!

🚨We're looking for two US-based undergrad-interns with geo background to work on research projects using GCR laboratory capabilities. The internship includes a stipend, housing ,travel to/from College Station, travel/registration fees to present their work at AGU/GSA26. sodco.org/opportunitie...

🚨New Publication where we employed visible to shortwave infrared spectroscopy to identify tephra layers from the background marine sediment present in core sections collected in the Aegean Sea. #NSFFunded publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...

Speaking of the GCR, if you want to spend a week there to learn about scientific ocean drilling, analytical techniques, work with legacy cores, etc. apply here by Feb 15th, 2026 gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...

The @dfg.de Magazine just covered our IODP Expedition 398 and how its results help to unravel the evolution of Aegean volcanism and similar volcanic regions worldwide. www.dfg.de/de/aktuelles...

Recently @pbs.org visited our Vault, aka the Gulf Coast Repository at @tamu.bsky.social where a core drilled at ground zero of the dinosaur impact is stored. The GCR also houses records of the planet’s climate, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, and so so much more. youtu.be/IYb3duBY_IE?...

"9,000 metres under the sea: this researcher found the deepest animal ecosystems on Earth" www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ cc @deepseauwa.bsky.social

"Richer residents will work around the inconvenience of coastal flooding, and walk away from their houses when they feel like it - if they haven’t been able to sell. Only certain people are even going to be able to access the Shore"

Late fall in Texas ain't too shabby!

The United Nations Ocean Decade: A catalyst for international collaboration enhancing ocean monitoring and data | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🌊 🦑

"When buyers can’t see the risks up front, they may take on more exposure than they can afford — homes that become too expensive to insure, with costs families didn’t anticipate, and, worst of all, natural disasters they hadn’t yet thought of in personal terms." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/o...

A study by an international team involving GEOMAR shows that the expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water during a major warming phase around 12,000 years ago displaced a carbon-rich mass of deep-water in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean. 🔗 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti... 📸 Huang Huang, GEOMAR

Sad that this series is almost over. Thoroughly enjoyed following @joanmeiners.bsky.social along the AZT and learn about climate impacts along the way. This series is worth a read if you enjoy bikepacking, climate reporting, or simply good writing.

Not under her own power anymore, the vessel that revealed more about our planet than most others, the legendary JOIDES Resolution is being towed to a pre-cleaning yard in Lyngdal, Norway. First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔 www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...

Imagine the image below fits into 1-2 pixels of this animation. #AntarcticaDay

🚨New publication🚨 Contrary to the traditional view that northern-sourced waters drove deglacial deep circulation in the South Atlantic, our findings suggest that the expansion of Antarctic Bottom Water played a more critical role in deglacial atmospheric CO₂ rises. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The Antarctic Treaty, signed on this day in 1959, protects the entire continent for peace & science (like @awi.de‘s Polarstern here), banns military activity, and preserves the fragile environment. It is our global promise to keep Antarctica a peaceful and cooperative place. Happy #AntarcticaDay 1/2

„Think of the stratospheric polar vortex like a wall of wind, corralling the ultra-cold, Arctic air over the North Pole. When it weakens, cold air spills south into places like the Lower 48, Europe and Asia.“ www.cnn.com/2025/11/19/w...

Then ➡️ Now: From hand-drawn ocean depths to digital precision! Left: An 1885 bathymetric compilation crafted through detailed soundings and artistic skill (courtesy of NOAA) Right: Modern mapping with thousands of data points per second (GEBCO grid)

November has warmed 2.4°F across 220+ U.S. cities since 1970. And while climate change is heating up the month, it’s also changing the recipe and pushing up prices for some Thanksgiving staples. Take a turkey trot through the details 👇 youtube.com/shorts/MnrGm...

Applications for Participation in IODP3 Expedition 505S are now open! Deadline January 23rd 2026 - lnkd.in/etiWvk2z If you are a researcher/science communicator interested in contributing to understanding an enigma in the early Miocene Earth system then please consider applying this expedition!

Public transport moves more people with less fuel per person, has lower emissions, produces less congestion & noise, is affordable & accessible, reduces traffic crashes, enables access to jobs, schools, hospitals, & leisure across cities without the need of owning a car #WorldSustainableTransportDay

And here is the recording of the debate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n8Ac...

Geologic Core Sample xkcd.com/3171/

Half the breeding population of Elephant Seals on South Georgia lost to H5N1 (bird flu). The impact this will have on the species, the local food web, and even ocean fertilization is hard to comprehend.

New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR. Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41... News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Getting ready.... #AGU25

Just another day in the Anthropocene. Moving the Iranian capital Tehran, a city of 9 million people -slightly more than NYC- is “not longer a choice”. The World Bank estimates that ∼216 million people could be forced to move within their own countries due to climate change by 2050!

Great debate on deep sea mining Pro: Oliver Gunasekara - Impossible Metals •$1T Industry •High Grade Metals •Wrestle control from China Contra: Victor Vescovo •Environmental damage not worth it •Tech changing away from Co/Ni •Unproven/unbuilt mining tech •Economics not what they seem to be