How does oxygen get from the ocean surface layer to the ocean's intermediate depth and bottom waters? 🧪🌊 I wrote a brief overview of the processes involved and the key regions of ocean ventilation: denis-gilbert.ca/en/2025/04/1... #ocean #oceanography #oxygen #popularscience #science

The GRFP lives!! (due end of October) www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

In the 1st half of 2025, @climate.noaa.gov 's staff were terminated, shutting down daily operations. Now, former members have joined w/ nonprofit partners to launch Climate.us, where climate info can be safeguarded from politics. Check out our website and join the effort today.

My @ternbicycles.com GSD may be the best purchase I have ever made in my life. It's hard to overstate how much I enjoy riding it with my kids. We've been able to avoid getting a second car as well, which is a huge financial help. It was my first ebike and I'm convinced everyone should try one.

The U.S. Secretary of Energy does not know that electricity is energy. I'm glad we've gotten rid of DEI programs and are now giving America the leadership it deserves.

"Negative CO2 emissions" became a hot topic in oceanography. Yet there are many concerns about potential side-effects of trying to manipulate the C cycle. With partners from across Guangdong & Hong Kong we've developed a coastal site to investigate side-effects of Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement 🌊 🐠

My first PhD student, Shannon McClish, successfully defended last week. She's been at the leading edge of research into the linkages between surface production and biological carbon export. Couldn't be more proud of her and her work. Its nice to have something to celebrate these days.

Rock Creek park. Absolute war zone

American climate solutions scientists? Want to move to a beautiful place, work with great people, and be based in Canada? Here’s a good opportunity!

Important to note that what they mean by ebike injuries usually means being hit by a car while riding an ebike. Also, cars have killed 46 people in the county of Honolulu already in 2025. 46! Ebikes have killed no one.

Submit your #abstract ✒️ for the Southern Ocean-themed session at #OSM26 organised by TRICUSO colleagues, exploring the drivers, variability, and long-term evolution of the #SouthernOcean #carbon #sink ❗️Deadline: 20 August More info: agu.confex.com/agu/osm26/pr...

Everyone is acting like US scientists will just go get science jobs elsewhere and sure some will but there are not anywhere close to enough science jobs elsewhere. The end result of this will be much, much, much less science, not science happening in different places.

Reporting on the NOAA Fellow furlough, from the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

This Ramblin' Wreck is heading to Georgia Tech! 🐝 I'm thrilled to share that I am starting as an Assistant Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, investigating Earth's amazing oceans. 🌊 I'll be using my new position to advocate for science and scientists everywhere. 🧪 I hope you'll join me.

Elon Musk casually, and illegally, dismantled USAID. According to a new study in the Lancet, that action will lead to *14 million* premature deaths between 2025 and 2030. Again: Elon Musk is directly responsible for 14 million coming deaths. 4.5 million will be children.

It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.

I know there's lots of other stuff going on, but honestly, nothing has disgusted & disillusioned me in recent years more than the Democratic establishment's utterly cowardly response to the right's demagoguing on trans issues. Just profoundly, profoundly depressing.

So they’re basically laundering our federal science budget over to the for-profit prison and concentration camp industry? NSF’s 2024 budget was $9.06 billion. NASA: $24.875. NIH: $47.7 billion. Fund science, not cruelty.

And 5 times the NSF budget, except we get fascism in return instead of scientific leadership, innovation, and education

I can't tell if it's because I'm too NYC focused but does it feel like the news cycle spent more time crashing out on the fact that NYC picked a brown Muslim dude as is primary candidate then it did on a right wing extremist who shot 2 Minnesota legislators killing one, her husband and dog?

THIS IS FUCKED UP: Sae Joon Park took bullets for America in Iraq. The thanks he got? A one-way ticket out of the country he nearly died for. He’s being deported to South Korea—after surviving spinal injuries, PTSD, and addiction. He fought for America. Now America throws him out like trash.

It's infuriating how 99% of the coverage of this new war doesn't bother to mention that it is happening because we had an agreement to limit and monitor Iran's nuclear program, which even Trump's own aides said was working, and he blew it up because it was negotiated under Obama.

If a seven-year-old can’t walk to the store the fault lies not with the parents but with the community.

Happy SOCAT Release Day to all who observe!

Goodbye REUs, goodbye GRFPs, goodbye CAREERs (which ironically I just finished writing today). This is the end of the road for all early-career scientists. If you aren't enraged you aren't paying attention.

🌊One decision that came from the Argo AST last month is that the RBRArgo CTD is now accepted for global implementation. Argo Canada has committed to buying at least 50% of our floats with RBR sensors to support diversification of the fleet. In photos, an update to my lego Argo float 😄.

people need to internalize, very quickly, that federal research grants are a hypercompetitive contracting process not charity, and that what Uncle Sam gets in return for that money is American dominance in the future

The most important thing you can do about climate change has nothing to do with … what we eat what we drive what we wear or any other aspect of our personal carbon footprint. Our VOICES are the most powerful force we have to change the world. That’s why …

Congrats Scott! Wonderful news to hear!

Register here 👉 bit.ly/3ZgF7Fd for the next #GO2NE webinar on 🌊 #ocean #deoxygenation, 19 May, 19:00 CEST Moderation from Andrea Fassbender With speakers Mary Margaret Stoll and @sethbushinsky.bsky.social. Topics below! @aoschlies.bsky.social @carolineslomp.bsky.social @kisensee.bsky.social

Today we mark the 75th anniversary of NSF. Support from NSF drives discovery, education & innovation in every corner of the US. The impact of recent cuts will reverberate out and impact all of us.

This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit. This cannot be allowed to happen.

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The loss of Snow and Ice products from NSIDC will be a huge blow to polar science. Everything from understanding ecosystem dynamics, air-sea gas exchange, carbon uptake, changing ocean dynamics will be impacted. nsidc.org/data/user-re... . Just an astonishing level of forced ignorance.

On Monday, NOAA decommissioned its snow and ice data products at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, a devastating blow to the sea ice, glacier, and snow observation community.

Universities will now have to develop methods, and hire tons of additional staff, to figure out how to bill every little bit of the costs for doing research, adding tons of administrative burden and bloat. (I say as as someone who wrote a whole book burden w/ @donmoyn.bsky.social)

reducing cars in cities is an *instant* boost for mobility, for livability, for public health, for climate it's absolutely insane that basically ZERO US cities are doing anything to reduce number of cars in their cities seattle has 60% more cars in 30 years, paris is down by 45% zero leadership

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

there really is no alternative to tearing up CBP and ICE root and branch

NSF PD Raleigh Martin out with another statement on the NSF grant freezes. 🧪 ⚒️ #climatesky

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

👇🎯 They. Are. Breaking. Signed. Contracts. For. No. Legal. Reason. You want to pass legislation not funding this stuff going forward? Fine. Epically idiotic, but legal. This is something else. Shredding the basic foundations of the rule of law. Textbook authoritarianism.

Also, if it wasn’t clear, this isn’t some sappy “just hang on” kitten clawing for the last scraps of its life on an office motivational poster post, this is a direct rebuke of Democratic elected officials who think a strongly worded statement is the extent of their power. Fuck you, go do something.

Harvard has set an example for other higher-ed institutions - rejecting an unlawful and ham-handed attempt to stifle academic freedom, while taking steps to make sure students can benefit from an environment of intellectual inquiry, rigorous debate and mutual respect. Let’s hope others follow suit.

The richest man in the world spent more money than most of us will see in our lifetimes to lose a state Supreme Court race by 10 points. And the fact his $25 million was a drop in the bucket compared to what he's spent on other elections is exactly why we must overturn Citizens United.

Just a reminder, the President's authority to levy tariffs isn't part of the Constitution. It was granted to him by Congress. It would take Republicans and Democrats working together, but Congress could revoke those tariffs, if they wanted to. Congress is not powerless here.