🌊 If the AMOC collapses, the ocean could flip from a carbon sink → carbon source. Mechanism: ↓ NADW formation ↓ Carbon sequestration efficiency ↑ Atmospheric CO2 Net effect: a shift toward ocean-driven carbon release and enhanced warming (positive feedback) www.nature.com/articles/s43...

OCEAN CORE Academy is back for summer 2026! If you're an undergraduate interested in ocean science and geology, apply by April 19. 🗓️ Program dates: June 25 - July 2, 2026 📍Location: Gulf Coast Repository, College Station, TX 🖊️ Learn more and apply: form.jotform.com/260815946879173

PhD Position in Methane Seepage & Deep-Sea Exploration at @tamu.bsky.social 🌊 I'm looking for a new team member for an NSF-funded project investigating the dynamics of methane seepage along the US Atlantic Margin. Full details and application process available here: risingfluids.org/phd-usam-adv-1

Cherry Hill is one of 13 South Jersey school districts that is set to receive a reduction in state funding for the 2026-27 school year under Gov. Mikie Sherill's proposed budget.

My point is that if we lose talented young scientists now, it’s going to be a multigenerational gap. It’ll take the US a very long time to recover from this wanton destruction (if ever).

30+ years ago, I learned an analytical technique as a summer intern that set the course of my career. Now, I'm the only scientist in the world still using it. The scientists we don't train today because of funding and program cuts from the Trump regime are the scientists we won't have in the future.

Check out this open PhD student position to work with Dr. Davide Oppo on some exciting methane seep questions! risingfluids.org/phd-usam-adv-1

The report highlights the grim state of freshwater ecosystems, degraded marine and terrestrial ecosystems, and the risk of extinction for many species. But it also emphasizes the potential for improvement through conservation, restoration, and renewed connections between people and nature.

New paper out! We sat down and compiled all viral work in marine sediments. The water column has been getting a second look for viral interactions, its time for sediment to have the same! journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/...

SODCO is hiring a Science Program Officer based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. If you’re a scientist with excellent organizational skills and excited to advance the next phase in U.S. scientific ocean drilling, check it out: academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/177103

🚨If you're working on a US scientific ocean drilling proposal @us-sciod.bsky.social just added several info pages on: The Operational Planning Process Vessels and Platforms Coring and Downhole Measurements Containerized Laboratories sodco.org#proposals

Meanwhile, many of us have to think about how we wind down our lab operations in the next month, while proposals languish in purgatory. For what?

📣 Our latest IODP Expedition 361 paper: Southern Ocean carbon stratification across the MPT 🌊 What controlled ice-age CO2? Our new record reveals recurring deep carbon release — and a surprising decoupling after ~0.3 Ma. Check it out 👇 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Another day of repeating the mantra, there are no banned words, just words that will prevent an otherwise fundable application from being funded…

My latest: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Next column will address needed guardrails for private funding of science, esp. in light of #Epstein/ #Summers etc.

Having a great time at #OSM26 discussing sediments, biological pump, mCDR, and plankton! Kicking off our sediment bgc model intercomparison effort, join us at www.us-ocb.org/sedmip/ 🌊

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

We are hosting a scientific ocean drilling workshop here in Austin May 19-21 to develop a drilling proposal to investigate submarine slope failure dynamics and their relationship with gas, hydrates, and ocean currents around the Cape Fear Slide. Details here: usoceandiscovery.org/workshop-lan...

Directorate for Geosciences 5/11

👏 Heroic effort to extract a H₂ record from ice cores 👏 The samples had to measured in the field immediately after drilling (i.e. fresh out the oven 🥮) to prevent the tiny H₂ molecules from leaking out. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

🧂 Pourquoi l’eau de mer est-elle salée ? Réponse en vidéo avec @france3bretagne.bsky.social 👇 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SymxZ3PxcHo

It’s salty. It’s full of carbon. Its upwelling may have helped end the last ice age. It’s…the salty blob! eos.org/articles/how...

⚒️🧪Fiery Mud Volcano Eruption! The Daşmərdan (Dashmardan) mud volcano in Azerbaijan erupted ~16:50 on the 30th Jan 2026. The eruption lasted ~15 mins and was accompanied by a pillar of flame several hundred meters high. Daşmərdan had previous documented eruptions in 1866, 1954, 1976, 1986 and 2011.

Many programs (like ours) allow students to transition from MS to PhD after a year if everything is going well. This provides the student an opportunity to really "feel" the various aspects of grad school, to come to an informed decision. Ask prospective advisors if their program does that. 2/2

My advice to undergraduates: Do *not* sign on to a PhD just because it's a 'next step' and you don't know what else to do. A master's program is a much better option in that scenario. You can find out if you genuinely enjoy the endeavor and, if not, it's only 2 years and you get a great degree! 1/2

They are not stopping at immigrants.

“We think Philadelphia will be a great NWSL market one day," commissioner Jessica Berman told The Inquirer.

Climate scientists are also obsessed with Greenland, not because of the Mercator projection, but because the melting of the Greenland ice sheet is going to raise sea levels significantly, change ocean circulation, and be generally very bad for humanity.

I know the story is going around. This is Morristown, New Jersey. Half an hour from Newark Airport. Its on the hinterlands of New York City. It's a fight I know ICE isn't ready for. Also, this is People magazine. It's as normal supermarket America as it gets. Let's hope this lights something.

Our new paper on earthquake records in the Cascadia Subduction Zone is out today! The goal of our work is to reduce uncertainty in the timing and frequency of large earthquakes by investigating how and where subduction earthquake-triggered deposits are formed. 🧪⚒️🌊 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

We're delighted to announce our latest paper, which argues that seawater chemistry changes may have played a key role in driving the long-term carbon cycle: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism https://theonion.com/dhs-warns-any-action-by-americans-will-be-treated-as-domestic-terrorism/

🌊 While we are all appropriately enraged about the world right now (well the humane humans are), friend Adam Subhas is getting really nice coverage for his OAE field work last summer! www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/m...

BREAKING: The White House plans to withdraw the U.S. from the United Nations framework climate treaty, according to reports. Here's @robinsonmeyer.bsky.social with what we know: heatmap.news/sparks/us-wi...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

I have to say, I’m really not thrilled that my country is devolving into a lawless gangster state abroad, and at home, one officially dead set on destroying science, art, and any shared feeling of common humanity

The NSF has a short post on how it plans to take apart NCAR. (No, that is not a sentence I ever foresaw typing.) www.nsf.gov/news/intent-...

🌊 Call for abstracts now open for Goldschmidt 2026 to be held in Montréal PQ 🇨🇦. Deadline is Feb. 26, 2026 conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...

🇨🇦🇨🇦 Just announced: a massive new program from the Canadian govt, separate from the well-known CRCs and CERCs, to recruit foreign scientific talent Canada was already a destination for scientists but whoa. Real impressive for a new govt to back political talking points with serious investment

Do you wanna make a pockmark? Come on, bubble away, We'll pump a bit of gas Burst through the floor Erupt into the air. (cool analog experiment, gives me ideas for a future experiment) 🧪⚒️ Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Mendenhall Glacier has now officially receded from Mendenhall Lake. www.ktoo.org/2025/11/25/m...

Only someone this wealthy would so flippantly suggest you uproot your life, sell your house, pull your kids out of school, quit your job, request a transfer — all to save 50 basis points on CPI. 🤡

Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

Want a party that actually fights back? Run for office. We’ll help you. runforwhat.net

The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc… www.sodco.org

There are very few energy sources in the deep sea to support biology. Seeps (hot and cold) are one of the primary ones, forming local hotspots. The cold seeps form pokemarks, which can expand into channels if a current catches them. 🧪🌊 Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Huge paper for the Arctic Ocean published today in @science.org - a new 30,000 year history of Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover reconstructed from the accumulation of cosmic dust-derived helium-3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)