Columbia Morningside Campus and NYC. Credit: Eileen Barroso, Columbia University
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Time series plot depicting predicted Nino 3.4 region ocean temperature anomalies from the latest (Mar 2026) ECMWF ensemble. It depicts an extremely rapid rise in such temperatures, from modest negative anomalies to strong positive anomalies, by mid-summer 2026--indicative of a transition from weak-moderate La Nina conditions to moderate-strong El Nino conditions over just a few months.
Whew.
All signs are increasingly pointing to a significant, if not strong to very strong, El Niño event. I'll have more to say in coming weeks & months, but for now I'll just say that this is increasingly likely to become a major regional-to-global climate driver in 2026-2027.
Reading an “oldie but goodie” with one of the best titles in the #seaweed literature rn. “*Pelvetia canaliculata*, a high-shore seaweed that shuns the sea” (Rugg & Norton 1987) #PhycologyFriday #MarineLife 🌊🦑
A set of shelves with at least 60 awesome games is against a wall with the sign “BOARD GAMES” in big, blue letters.
An impressive collection of board games is available to be checked out at the @ucirvine.bsky.social Science Library! 📚 + 🎲
Asparagopsis taxiformis (the red sea plume, or “limu kohu” in Hawaii) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
Bouquet of brown seaweeds #PhycologyFriday #SciArt
#Kelp gown! #PhycoFashion #PhycologyFriday
#PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑🧪
#PhycologyFriday 🌊🦑🧪
Photo of a loch with mountains in the background and seaweed on the rocky shore in the foreground
Seaweed grows wild and is abundant across Scotland, so it’s no surprise that it's been used here for millennia 🌊
Today, research into historic seaweed harvesting reminds us how these types of food sources can help us build a more sustainable future: www.digitscotland.com/the-archaeol...
Same space, two harvests: Euronews visits the first seaweed farm at an offshore wind park
Europe’s offshore wind farms are being reimagined as multi-purpose sites. The first commercial-scale project has successfully harvested seaweed between turbines in the Dutch North Sea.
Rutgers University seeks a Postdoctoral Associate in algal and seaweed multi-omics and metabolic engineering. Apply by June 2026. More details: https://jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/270143 #postdoc
#Seaweed #MarineLife #SciArt 🌊🦑🐡
Hello! Hello!! Anybody home?? #stoplightparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #parrotfish #coralcitycamera
This week in our Deep Sea Round Up:
🔹️Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems at seamounts,
🔹️How scientific practices at sea influence ocean management,
🔹️Nutrient cycling sponge hotspots
👉 www.dosi-project.org/dosi-deep-se...
📷 Oblong Dermechinus urchins by ROV SuBastian / Schmidt Ocean Institute.
A quote by H. Holden Thorp, Editor-in-chief of Science journals, on a black background. The quote is: "… why curtail a program … that cultivates and grows the number of US graduate students and future researchers?"
"There is perhaps no stronger evidence of the [Trump] administration’s objectives to reduce the quality of the US scientific workforce than its treatment of the [NSF]’s flagship Graduate Research Fellowship Program," writes H. Holden Thorp in a new #ScienceEditorial. https://scim.ag/4d0fi3N
They were going to pass rules to phase out gas stoves, until they received 20,000 public comments against the regulations. Except, oops, it turns out the comments were generated by AI.
Leipzig U and the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology (MPI-EVA) have an open faculty position (W2) in evolutionary population genetics! This position is tenured and comes with generous core funding. We are eager to welcome a new colleague! Deadline March 11.
www.uni-leipzig.de/en/newsdetai...
A few years ago, Gary visited for a seminar. Our family was in Kernville the previous weekend, & the boys had picked up a bunch of #Corbicula (invasive freshwater snail) shells & stashed them in the car. Out of context & knowing that I study marine gastropods, it took Gary ~10 seconds to ID them. 🐌💙
Felted nudibranchs!!!!!!!! 😍🌊🐌🦑🐡
A very large juvenile diamond squid - this one measuring in at a whopping 3” - perhaps the 2nd largest I’ve ever seen!
Shot in the wild, using scuba, while out over the deep abyss, several miles offshore from Okinawa
#diamondsquid #thysanoteuthisrhombus #blackwaterdiving #gug #gugunderwater
Geerat Vermeij is a gift
Some Cambrian mollusks (1-8) and a mollusk-like problematic fossil (9) Source: https://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app45/app45-119.pdf
It's not unknown that mollusks adapted to many environments, but the rate at which they evolved is uncanny. In the first 100 million years they were around, they developed a new traits about every 2 million years (which is relatively fast for multicelled organisms). 🧪
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
The Dec-Feb period globally was the 5th warmest on record.
Deadline soon! Registration is now FREE for graduate students and postdocs for the 14th Annual Yosemite Symbiosis workshop. THANKS to the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation! Space is limited. Learn more and REGISTER here
snri.ucmerced.edu/form/symbios...
We've upgraded to a new conference location!
Climate change’s rising seas may threaten tens of millions more people than scientists and government planners originally thought because of mistaken research assumptions on how high coastal waters already are.
By @borenbears.bsky.social & Annika Hammerschlag @apnews.com apnews.com/article/sea-...
" ... up to 52% of future surface temperatures and 38% of air temperatures in the Amazonian lowlands can cause heat mortality in half of the studied community. Our data suggest a limited capacity of insects in the Earth’s most biodiverse regions to buffer future warming" 🧪🌡️📈🦋
I discovered something that just nauseated me to my core today - Polymarket has a huge number of bets running on climate impacts and disasters
An entirely new flavour of disaster capitalism
A bird flies over a marshy wetland, surrounded by lush greenery. The text "Vital Coasts" is integrated with nature-themed designs, and additional text reads, "Life at the edge of land and sea. Wednesday, March 4 | 7:30PM ET." Below, "Ocean Encounters" and "Virtual series from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution" are displayed.
How can science protect the salt marshes, kelp forests, and mangroves that protect us all? Find out from coastal ecology experts at #OceanEncounters TONIGHT at 7:30pm (ET)!
👉 Register for this free, live virtual event: go.whoi.edu/vitalcoasts
+ASL interpretation for Zoom viewers🤟
Dawg if I was a cookie-cutter shark and found out that my species could have been known as the "demon whale-biter" instead I'd be fuckin' *pissed*. Absolute nomenclatural humiliation.
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