📰 SOOS WAPSA RWG Newsletter Discover the latest from the West Antarctic Peninsula & Scotia Arc! ❄️ POLOMINTS expedition: ice–ocean interactions 🦐 Krill & phytoplankton dynamics 🌊 Water mass transport in Bransfield Strait Meet the researchers & explore new insights: buff.ly/avTSltp

HAVE YOUR SAY! The government is considering a ban on bottom trawling in 41 MPAs designated to protect the seabed. This is a pivotal moment for conservation of our seas, but it won’t happen unless we all speak up. Respond by 29th September - action.wildlifetrusts.org/page/171084/... 🦑🐟🌊🧪🎣

🌊 It’s National Estuaries Week! From September 20-27, help us celebrate the beauty, value, and wonder of #estuaries! Share what you love about estuaries all week long! 🌊 #EstuariesWeek #WadeIn

🕊️ Today is the International Day of Peace, yet another 28 children will be killed in #Gaza; bombed, starved and denied medical care. What level of horror must they continue to endure? How long will the USA continue to block the UN intervening in Israel's #genocide? www.un.org/en/delegate/...

Underwater barriers might slow warm currents from melting Greenland’s glaciers, but not without hurting fisheries, @markinchina.bsky.social and colleagues point out in a recent commentary. eos.org/research-spo...

The UK is arresting Palestine supporters for holding signs under terror legislation. This is an appalling violation of civil rights. How can @ukparliament.parliament.uk allow this? Meanwhile Israel acts with impunity, protected by the west as it murders, starves and abuses civilians #FreePalestine

"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 🌊 🐠

New paper in Nature Climate Change, with Peter Landschützer of VLIZ. The ocean carbon sink is ailing: during the record 2023 marine heatwave, the ocean absorbed ~1 Gt less CO₂ ≈ half of the EU’s annual emissions www.vliz.be/en/news/ocea...

Just finished a LEGO build Shackleton’s Endurance. The discovery of the 1915 wreck in the Antarctic in 2022, was only a few months before Victor Vescovo took me to Challenger Deep in the W. Pacific AND with a sidescan sonar similar to what helped find the Endurance!! 🌊🌎🌏 (Riley🐶 totally “onboard”😉)

🌊 I’m hiring! Last few days to apply!! 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? careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...

A disaster for ocean and climate research is unfolding before our eyes. #NOAA 🌊 "The White House Office of Management and Budget is pulling back $239 million in funds Congress already provided. The biggest hits fall on climate and ocean research." oceanpolicy.substack.com/p/roundup-un...

Meltwater strongly perturbs the carbonate system in the ocean. Henson et al., use new data from Greenland to show that, as well as driving an inorganic CO2 sink, the diluting influence of meltwater on alkalinity weakens the buffering capacity of these regions 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Greenland's fjords are the gateways via which the ice sheet interacts with the open ocean. A large fraction of all the ice calved from the ice sheet melts within these regions. Kinne et al., explore how all this melt affects fjord circulation 🌊 🐻‍❄️ agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

There was a hint in 2024 that China's Carbon emissions had peaked due to their massive roll out of renewables, which continues. Now the data from the first half of 2025 confirms that CO2 emissions in China are decreasing. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨🌊🔋

Many western scientific networks are overly centered on the US. In previous decades it could be claimed that this was because the US represented a Gold Standard in scientific research. But the world has changed, and this is no longer the case. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Are technological fixes to climate change better 'solutions' than doing nothing? This narrow framing ignores complex ecological risks & the undermining of climate action. A more realistic framing is that geoengineering 'solutions' at best partially mitigate one problem by creating more risks 🌊 🐳 🧊

At high school, our English teacher challenged us to make a new word and get it used. Unfortunately, my homework is late; overdue by 22 years. But happy to submit my effort in print today: "Geoengineeringization" - the increasing popularization of geoengineering as a topic of scientific research

This photo of a humpback whale entangled in fishing gear*. 🥺 It's shameful that the global plastic pollution treaty went nowhere. *from Oceanographic Magazine's Ocean Photographer of the Year competition. 🌊 www.theatlantic.com/photography/...

"Understanding the oceans' role in climate really boils down to describing the expansion or contraction of the major carbon reservoirs" Timely reminder that gross & net flux estimates need to be clearly distinguished when discussing "carbon sequestration".

In the largest act of civil disobedience in recent UK history, hundreds of people are arrested in London for speaking out against the Genocide in Gaza.

Instead of addressing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and calling out Israel's murder of 18,500 children, the UK is arresting peaceful pro-Palestinian protesters. I'm appalled by Yvette Cooper and Keir Starmer's decision to label these people 'terrorists' #FreePalestine www.bbc.com/news/article...

Predatory journals, science fraud, and reviewer burnout are undermining the quality of our science. What can we do? Senior scientists: Evaluate on quality because numbers no longer equate with scientific productivity. Junior scientists: Embrace slow science because your reputation is everything.

🌊 New Publication: Acidification in the Southern Ocean – Current State & Future Challenges SOOS EO Alyce Hancock & SOOS/ @goa-on.bsky.social OA Hub Co-chair Katherina Petrou amongst others synthesize the latest science. 🔗 doi.org/10.48361/XBQ...

Sermeq Kujalleq is the largest glacier in #Greenland, releasing >1000 m3 s-1 meltwater in summer. This makes it a key regional driver of ocean dynamics in Disko Bay. Colleagues working for NASA managed to incorporate it into their state-of-the-art ECCO-Darwin model 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Siphonophore, a colonial organism that lives in the open Ocean, filmed during the #TaludContiential_IV expedition. Thanks to all for enthusiastically watching our livestreamed dives — we're happy you've joined us! www.youtube.com/@SchmidtOcean

🐟🌊 Explore the hidden lives of marine species — from baby fish in surface slicks to migrating turtles and iconic predators. And discover how mapping and GIS tools help us safeguard these vital ocean ecosystems. ow.ly/Slia30sOxnO 🌊 🦑 #gischat #geogchat #geogsky 🌎 🌍 🌏

Timely reminder that much of the scientific publication industry is not fit for purpose. Society led publishers solve some of these problems. Yet the driving issue behind these problems is the huge emphasis on volume of papers in career development. www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

💔 18,500 innocent children murdered by Israel Paid for by America Armed by Germany and the UK When the west lectures the world on the morality of leadership, the rest of the world hears delusional hypocrisy #HumanRights #Peace

Motherfucking windfarms

Palestinian children have been killed at a rate of more than one child per hour during Israel's war in Gaza. “A whole classroom of children killed every day for nearly two years,” UNICEF’s executive director said. Here are some of their stories: wapo.st/3UCiAjn

Two major Israeli human rights organizations, B’Tselem & Physicians for Human Rights, officially declared Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, citing bombs targeting civilians, displacement, and deliberate starvation. The first time the Gaza genocide is called out from within Israeli society. #3E🧵

Offshore research vessels are extremely capable research platforms. But they're also extremely expensive with very high CO2 footprints. It is up to us to make sure that they are used efficiently to continue delivering world-leading science 🌍 🌊 aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Abstract deadline for #OSM26 is August 20th. The #ASLO_ECC Amplifying Voices session is open for submission. This session has all fees waived, for those who are unable to attend the event, but want to share their work 🧪🌊🪨👩🏻‍🔬 @geolatinas.bsky.social @aslo.org @agu.org

"Scientists Publish the Most Detailed Map of the Antarctic’s Submarine Canyons" We have yet to uncover many of the secrets of these features, especially in polar regions. ecomagazine.com/news/researc... 🌊 🌎 ⚒️ 🌍 🌏

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

Phytoplankton are microscopic plants living in the water column. They flourish around Antarctica, where they both remove carbon from the atmosphere and are the base of the food web. Over the last 25 years, they have changed, and it's related to ice lose. 🧪🌊 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

From today’s -2.0 tide! Probably the last one of the season here. #marinelife🦑

A spectacular surge of #seahorses! Love it! www.theguardian.com/environment/... #studlandbay #dorset #seagrass #conservation #oceanoptimism 🌊 🐎 🌱

Gaza doctors ‘becoming too weak to treat patients’ as hunger crisis deepens

Gaza faces mass starvation with supplies 'totally depleted', aid agencies warn news.sky.com/story/gaza-f...

Horrific scenes in #Gaza, with hundreds killed just for seeking aid; people are #starving and forcibly displaced; and senior Israeli officials use dehumanising language, proposing to concentrate Gazans into a mass detention camp. This has to stop and we must prevent #genocide. youtube.com

We are receiving desperate messages of starvation from #Gaza, including from our colleagues. Food prices have increased 40 fold. UNRWA has enough food for the entire population for over three months, stockpiled just outside Gaza. Lift the siege and let aid in safely and at scale.

Israel's treatment of #Gaza is beyond disgusting. "The UN has said a major problem in recent weeks has been that it is struggling to get commitments from the Israeli military that desperate Palestinians will not be killed while trying to collect aid from its convoys." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Newborns in #Gaza are starving to death. Israel is denying them baby milk. And the world is standing by and watching as more and more children die. Every child deserves the right to life. Governments must act decisively, impose sanctions and break the blockade 🕊️ www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/7/...

This is a man-made disaster. Enough is enough. The United Nations must be allowed to deliver aid of all types at scale to families in Gaza, wherever they are.

Both atmospheric and oceanic heat drive ice melt making it challenging to assess the main driver of glacier retreat. Chua et al., study the retreat of Narsap Sermia in west #Greenland finding 3 characteristic phases of rapid retreat events 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Back out to our local field-sites for some estuarine sampling this morning. It might be quiet on campus over summer, but many of our incoming SUSTech MSc students are keen to get started. They've joined us as early as summer research assistants to get some valuable fieldwork in 🌊 🌴 🐠

From basking in 35°C heat with iced lates yesterday, to being locked inside during torrential rain from Typhoon Wipha today, such is life in the tropics 🌴 #Shenzhen

If a country perceived to be an 'enemy' of the west murdered 798 starving civilians as they tried to get food, they would be universally deplored as monsters. There are no other words to describe the present murder of civilians in the Gaza strip, it is monstrous. press.un.org/en/2025/sc16...

A well-written piece on the inherent risks of #geoengineering This paragraph about BECCS (bioenergy with carbon capture and storage) is a classic cautionary tale in over-type of new technology as a climate solution carnegieendowment.org/research/202...