NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...

15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.

🌊 New paper alert! For the first time from space, two NASA missions enable us to observe plankton community composition alongside the physical processes that structure it. 🛰️ 🦠 🌀 Check it out from @tosoceanography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...

New paper led by @solilyquy.bsky.social on insights about biological community structure of North Atlantic eddies through the lens of the SWOT and PACE satellites! @nasaclimate.bsky.social tos.org/oceanography...

Eye in the Sky: Tiny But Mighty Plankton My interview on phytoplankton, satellite ocean color & carbon cycle 🌊 With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities podcast @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @microbialplanet.bsky.social withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/eye-...

This semester I assigned my graduate class to attend seminars and write reflections on them. I got to learn a lot about interesting topics and what my students find interesting, seminar engagement increased, and I hope the students enjoyed it too. Highly recommend this assignment!

Our book Climate Changed: Models and the Built World is highlighted by @columbiaup.bsky.social for Earth day! cupblog.org/2026/04/20/w...

Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.

International scientists gathered at the University of Strathclyde in March for a major international workshop led by the NERC BIO-Carbon programme. The event brought together 103 participants and around 70 online attendees, spanning modelling, observational, and experimental research communities!

Fresh off the preprint server! @maratimes.bsky.social and I show how data from the overlapping SWOT and PACE satellite missions present a step forward in our ability to observe linked biogeochemical-physical processes in the ocean. We look forward to chatting about this with folks at #OSM2026! 🌊

Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊

New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.

* JOB ALERT* Join our team at @brown-ibes.bsky.social as Program Manager for a cross-campus research initiative "Equitable Climate Futures". ecf.brown.edu Apply by 1/15 for full consideration. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff-career...

We lost an absolute legend recently - Kristina Gjerde was fearless defender of the ocean and all of its marvels 💪 🌊 iucn.org/news/202512/...

On Thursday (17:28 - 17:38) PhD student Alejandra Lopez will present "H44G-07: Forecasting Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions Using Satellite-Derived Water Quality Metrics and Machine Learning at the Salton Sea, California"

Everyone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA. In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers. NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not. 🌊

If you're at #AGU25 stop by presentations from my lab! @microbialplanet.bsky.social bridge to PhD fellow @yunqianhu.bsky.social (also w/ @akrinos.bsky.social) will be presenting a poster Wednesday "OS33B-1119: Microbial Assemblages in the Context of Basin-Scale Variability Across the North Atlantic"

Check out PhD student Lulabel Ruiz Seitz's presentation at #APS-DFD this weekend! schedule.aps.org/dfd/2025/eve...

Undergraduate researcher Wyatt presenting his ocean modeling research!

Brown faculty, including IBES fellow @baylorfk.bsky.social & affiliate @maratimes.bsky.social, are part of the new SIMCoast initiative modeling microplastics in Narragansett Bay. “It’s a fantastic way to do interdisciplinary work and learn from others,” Freilich told @browndailyherald.bsky.social.

IBES is hiring! The Student Transformative Engagement Pathways (STEP) Program Director will guide development and execution of expanded paid internships & research assistantships in climate, sustainability, and the environment for undergrads across Brown. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...

Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960

Meet the 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees! IBES will fund 6 core & affiliate faculty members to pursue scholarly projects around the world, with topics ranging from parasite identification to Indigenous-led environmental justice organizing. Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics

Kudos to AMS Editor's Award recipient Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social for providing insightful, helpful, timely reviews! Learn more: bit.ly/48gR7vJ #JPhysOceanogr #PeerReviewWeek

Woo, riding around the edge of an eddy and sampling for omics and sensors- new use case. I was recovered at the blue dot - started at a red dot to the right, drifter track in the center. Eddies can bring nutrients towards the surface and stimulate productivity. Also useful for robot joyrides.

🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Our fieldwork doesn't only happen at sea! C-CoMP researchers working with @maratimes.bsky.social collected Providence River water to test extraction methods for samples collected on C-CoMP cruises. In terms of filtering speed, 5 L of Sargasso sw = 50 mL of Providence River water!

📣#MTTM 🔬Emily Hu (@yunqianhu.bsky.social‬) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @maratimes.bsky.social & @akrinos.bsky.social at Brown. She uses microbial sequence data and computational tools to uncover how biotic🦠& abiotic drivers shape microbial community assembly in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.

IBES affiliate @maratimes.bsky.social, an assistant professor of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, lost her first federally funded grant from NASA earlier this year. “One of my big concerns is that the trust in science and in scientists is broken,” she told @virginiagewin.bsky.social.

@virginiagewin.bsky.social writes about terminated federal grants, including one on which I was PI "The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,

@virginiagewin.bsky.social writes about terminated federal grants, including one on which I was PI "The funding had been helping a multi-institutional team working with community advocates and citizen scientists to analyse air quality around the Salton Sea,

Looking for your next summer read? Check out this list of new and notable titles by IBES scholars! From exploring environmental history to modeling climate futures, each book invites readers to reflect on the world around them and their role in shaping it.

Thanks to @ianjames.bsky.social for coverage of our work agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

NOAA Climate and Global Change fellows were furloughed this week. One of many losses.

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🎉Congrats to the 5 early-career scientists receiving Kavli support through the #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems! Their bold, cross-disciplinary research explores how brains adapt in a rapidly changing world.🌎 Read more here: bit.ly/3Hz2Avh #KavliNeuro @rescorp.org

I am honored to have been named a 2025 Howes Scholar by the Computational Science Graduate Fellowship committee! www.krellinst.org/csgf/about-d...

I can confidently say that I would not still be doing physical oceanography without MPOWIR. The termination of MPOWIR's NSF grant is soul-crushing to me. Let's celebrate the success of this 20 year program and get to work continuing its legacy. 🌊 ⛴️ 🧪 www.advancejournal.org/post/3227-ce...

Mark your calendars: starting 5/28, join us at wclivestream.com/watch as we kick off 💯 hours of meteorology and climate science, all with one goal: save America's forecasts! Whether it's tomorrow's rain, or the coastline in fifty years, our speakers want to keep helping you plan for your futures.

Six cross-disciplinary teams have won funding in the 1st year of #Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group @alleninstitute.org, the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.bsky.social.

Individual-level racism would be DOGE saying: "Oh, here's a Black PI. Let's terminate that one." There isn't enough evidence to claim that. Instead, it appears to be structural. Women and Black investigators disproportionately study topics like STEM education that were cut at higher rates. See:

And it's not just the PIs. Our terminated grant had deep investments in under resourced communities. It matters who does science and how it is done.

Another scoop from Jeff Mervis (@policyhound.bsky.social): NSF's ~1400 grant terminations have disproportionately affected PIs from groups underrepresented in science: women, racial & ethnic minorities, & those with disabilities. 1/3 www.science.org/content/arti...

Received some awful news about a major project (sites.ps.uci.edu/climatejusti... ) I have led for the past 2+ years. So many people have worked incredibly hard to realize our vision and this immediately cuts the funding for 15+ students and staff, as well as for our community partners

Scientists who study climate change/extreme heat: What are the most important data you've lost access to?

We have two articles (both by first-time scientific authors) in GRL! First up, led by PhD student Lulabel Ruiz Seitz, we find a simple interaction between lateral stirring and biology that has implications for modeling and observing cross-shore fluxes. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Interested in air-sea interactions? Join us for our weekly webinar series. This week (Tuesday at 11am ET) we will have a community discussion in preparation for the upcoming NASA Decadal Survey. airseaobs.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

Critical yet often overlooked is that NOAA's Oceanic and Atmospheric Research maintains vital long-term monitoring programs like the CO₂ Keeling Curve that, while essential, often struggle for funding from agencies like NSF that prioritize hypothesis-driven research over sustained observation.

Interested in air-sea interactions? Join us for our weekly webinar series. This week (Tuesday at 11am ET) we will have a community discussion in preparation for the upcoming NASA Decadal Survey. airseaobs.us13.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=...

I wrote this! Senators and representatives do pay attention to the local paper, and Sen. Collins in particular is on the Appropriations Committee. Feel free to use this as a template for your own op eds to talk about the importance of these research funds. There are links to NSF and NIH impact data.