@markinchina
Scientist living in Shenzhen, China. Associate Professor in Marine Biogeochemistry at SUSTech, Associate Editor at JGR:Oceans. Father to a baby dragon. https://www.hopwood-marine-science.com/ He/him ๐ ๐ปโโ๏ธ ๐ง
Come to Sweden! We are kicking off the new Swedish research school in Polar Science this summer, and under that umbrella there are currently a number of PhD positions announced (more on the way). Read more, and apply, here:
www.gu.se/en/seal/appl...
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This lovely sea anemone is basking in a tidepool in the setting sun. It is pale green, with pink tentacle tips, and radiating lines extend from its manus across its oral disc.
Sunset sunburst sea anemone. Check out the tentacle shadows across the oral discโฆ ๐ ๐๐ธ #MarineLife #Invertebrate #Anthopleura
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Cruise logo from our 2024 expedition to Greenland
Sampling on a small motorboat during our 2024 expedition to Greenland
If you're interested in particle fluxes, sinking plankton and the Arctic, then the fantastic Emilia Trudnowska has a great 2.5 year position open for you: Work on data from our Arctic expeditions to study how microbial dynamics around Greenland and Svalbard are responding to climate change ๐
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Two new articles this week about how Fe from Antarctica fertilizes the Southern Ocean.
In NGeoscience Struve et al., suggest this process has been vastly under-estimated. In Comms E&E, Chinni et al., suggest this process has been vastly over-estimated.
Such is research ๐
Lecture room filled with students eating pizza
Lecture room filled with students eating pizza
When I started at SUSTech nobody really knew what 'biogeochemistry' was, so we started giving lunchtime talks about our research topics. These are now so popular we have to ticket them ๐ . I'm sure the free pizza helps motivate interest ๐ ๐
Interesting. The devil is in the detail though; I use a similar concept in class to show how error propagation becomes an issue. Factoring in additionality, and changes to the CH4 & N2O budgets makes the uncertainty large. Spatial decoupling between C fixation and respiration is also a big problem..
When my wife visited the UK, she loved the scenery and culture but was shocked by the state of public transport, the amount of homelessness on city streets, and the fact that you can't instantly buy something online like in China ๐
"What do you mean we have to wait a week for delivery?!"
I used trains twice this week, the busiest of the year, via a station which handles >300,000 passengers a day. I asked a staff member for their punctuality. This year's data is pending, last Spring Festival 98.7% of trains ran on time... These numbers would embarrass most other rail services.
My wife and I are served drink after one of (too) many spring festival dinners this week.
"You met me at a very Chinese time in my life"
#Chinamaxxing
Rapid Reviews with AGU Editors at OSM26 Thursday 26 Feb at 12:00-14:00 GMT in the Career Centre
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๐In a 15-minute session, get tailored advice on publishing and choosing the best journal for your research. Bring your abstract, poster, or elevator pitch and join us in the Career Center.
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Locations with nutrient data around Greenland 1920-2020
Nutrient data and key water mass endmembers for Greenland's coastal seas (1920-2020)
RV Sanna sailing in Disko Bay
Icebergs in Disko Bay
Xin noted that when probing ice-ocean interactions around #Greenland, we usually focus on 1 cruise or 1 region. He took the initiative to analyze all available data. Two years later, he presents a comprehensive synthesis of nutrients in time and space๐
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It's a standing joke in China that the BBC always pains to find a negative angle on Chinese news.
For context, I've used public transport in China almost every day for 5 years and I've experienced a grand TOTAL of 2 hours delayed. Any comparison at all with British rail just would be embarrassing๐
Exploring Yunnan
Dapeng, an ancient fortress city and now tourism resort on the edge of Shenzhen
Friends host my mum in Chengdu
Colleagues decided I must try every beer at their favorite restaurant (to quote Henry Kissinger, China's hospitality skills are far superior to those of the west)
"You caught me at a very Chinese time in my life" ๐
ๆฐๅนดๅฟซไน! Happy Chinese New Year, wishing everyone good fortune in the year of the horse ๐งง๐ฎ๐
Visiting the flower market for new year trinkets and decorations
Family meal out in Dapeng Fortress city
Our little dragon
Friends enjoying the Shenzhen winter sun
Best wishes for the Spring festival. As our lab breaks for Chinese New Year my family are visiting to spend some time with our little dragon ๐งง๐ฎ๐
AGU is now accepting applications for Editors-in-Chief across five publications, with terms starting Jan 1, 2027. These roles help shape editorial standards, research quality, and peer review in Earth & space science. Apply by May 1, 2026.
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Quote from the cruise log of Maria S Merian on science expedition MSM130
In 2024, we encountered a perilous MAYDAY.
A small yacht sailed blind into dense ice with heavy fog and got stuck for 3 days. Drinking water froze, ice pressed the hull & polar bears were nearby. With 0 chance of rescue by helicopter or icebreaker, only a lucky change in weather saved 6 people.
In July, I will be teaching in Shanghai at SJTU for their UN Sustainable Development Goals summer school. 9 summer courses are available suitable for any interested students. I will co-teach "The marine carbon pump jigsaw: science, sustainability and management"
global.sjtu.edu.cn/en/study-sjt...
Not all earthlings appreciate CTDโs but the can be very curious about them. Here are a mother polar bear ๐ปโโ๏ธ with her two cubs inspecting our sea cable in the Canadian ๐จ๐ฆ Arctic Ocean back in 2015 youtu.be/JC2befsNa1Y The CTD is 2000 m down. The bears were not hurt and swam off shortly after ๐
This is often suggested (& some grant agencies do ๐๐). Yet the difficulty with society journals is reviewer fees would presumably get added to article charges... which already deter most scientists
e.g. JGR:Oceans in 2024 used 2967 reviews for 461 publications, $50 per review is +$320 to our fees
This is unfortunately normal... in the AGU system the average response time of scientists to reviews ranges from a few days to over 6 months... Editors are only as good as the community...
โPresident Trumpโs talk of โbuyingโ Greenland is not only an affront to Greenlandโs autonomy but also a dangerous distraction from the urgent work of addressing environmental change impacts to US citizens,โ the letter reads. eos.org/research-and...
Greenland
Very happy to welcome Dr Abby Guo to our group today as a postdoc. She will be using data from China's largest Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement trials to understand how well the concept works as a C sink and what the potential side-effects are on marine ecosystems ๐
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I love how capable some of my students think I am. They will email me a huge draft, a thesis chapter, paper or long assignment, 2 to 5 minutes before we meet, then walk into my office and ask me what I thought about it and how it can be improved.
I can read quite fast, but not that fast.... ๐
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#Greenland is a wonderful place. Its people are warm, open, welcoming and very observant about the natural environment of their home. They are not a colony to be bought, sold, occupied or invaded. They are an independent nation to be respected in the global community.
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Time to wake up and smell the coffee. The US is an aggressive military state with no respect for the rule of law.
What sort of country kidnaps foreign leaders and charges them with fabricated crimes, or threatens to invade their neighbors if they don't surrender land?
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I use a 20-minute rule... If I cannot access documents for review within 20 minutes of trying, I apologize that I will not be completing the review and kindly request the workflow is improved to save reviewer time (a rule developed after once spending over 2 hours to access a text for review ๐ )
When the west bangs on about freedom and democracy, the east hears hypocrisy, double-standards and civil disasters in the making.
"America's record of achieving regime change by force in the last 30 years is disastrous."
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My Christmas present this year. A painting of the RV Tangaroa in the Ross Sea Antarctica by Alfred Memelink memelink.nz. Anyone have nice paintings or artwork of research vessels in beautiful places? ๐๐ข please share.