Vince Clementi

Nature Report, Killed by Trump, Is Released Independently

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.

Viruses in marine sediments: a review of their effect on biogeochemistry and microbial interactions | Applied and Environmental Microbiology In the ocean, viruses are known to mediate the carbon cycle, keeping dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the microbial loop and preventing its movement into secondary consumers (1). However, few direct ...

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!
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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

Schematic diagram showing seafloor/sub-seafloor sampling technologies that might be utilized for SODCO expeditions. Modified after FUTURE 2024 Team

🚨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?

Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...

📣 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 👇

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

Private money cannot replace public funding of science Who should pay for American science? In the current political climate, many are looking to the private sector to compensate for cuts in public funding. At the Harvard School of Public Health—particula...

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 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

Workshop - Landslide dynamics, ocean currents, and carbon cycling on the southeastern U.S. Atlantic margin - U.S. Science Support Program The U.S. Science Support Program is pleased to announce a workshop aimed at training early and mid-career scientists who seek to write proposals to work on existing scientific ocean drilling samples a...

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...

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Geosciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Geosciences

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Atmospheric H2 variability over the past 1,100 years - Nature Analysis of the atmospheric H2 variability over the past millennium suggests that the sensitivity of H2 to climate change should be considered in estimates of the radiative consequences of rising...

👏 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

How the Rise of a Salty Blob Led to the Fall of the Last Ice Age - Eos Scientists have long suspected that high salinity levels in the deep ocean were responsible for keeping carbon dioxide locked away during the last ice age. New research finds the strongest evidence ye...

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.

The NWSL still wants an expansion team in Philadelphia, if a buyer comes along

“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.

N.J. Girl, 6, Found Alone by Neighbors Crying, Asking, 'Where's Papi?' After Dad Was Detained by ICE While Picking Up Food, Mom Claims The mother of a 6-year-old girl in New Jersey says her daughter was found walking alone outside their apartment crying and asking for her father over the weekend after he was detained by ICE agents wh...

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.

Widespread abyssal turbidites record megathrust earthquake-triggered landslides and coseismic deformation in the Cascadia subduction zone Lower slope failures produce abyssal turbidites that record shaking and coseismic deformation during megathrust earthquakes.

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. 🧪⚒️🌊

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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

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/

The Scientists Making Antacids for the Sea to Help Counter Global Warming

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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...

The U.S. Will Exit UN’s Framework Climate Treaty, According to Reports The move would mark a significant escalation in Trump’s hostility toward climate diplomacy.

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:

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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