The EGU #EDI Committee is looking for new members to help implement and promote EDI initiatives within the European Geosciences Union! 🔎Learn more here: egu.eu/29PU5F 🗓️Apply by 10 August 2026. 📸: Fulvia Baratelli on imaggeo.egu.eu
Dr. Dawn Wright
@deepseadawn.bsky.social
Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
Also for you: @taotaotasi.bsky.social : Meet Mr. Matsushita, now 90, who makes his own ukuleles now in retirement and plays every day. He was our band teacher, Iao Middle School, Wailuku, Hawaii, 50+ years ago! drive.google.com/file/d/1v2oP...
Mr. Matsushita (2025-05-11)
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Meet #MissAbyss! 🐙She’s a Dumbo Octopus on a massive mission to protect our deep ocean floor from mining! Help us send a loud message that some places are just too special to destroy! See the @missabyssoctopus account & links on Instagram! cc @miriamgoldstein.bsky.social 🦑 🌊 #deepseamining
⏳ Don't miss your chance to join our Indo-Pacific Ocean Mapping Meeting & Data Sprint. In-person registration and travel grant applications close next week!
On Tue, Aug 4 at 6pm PT, I'll be participating in a live virtual Town Hall event, hosted by CA State Senator Mike McGuire, on our rapidly-developing #ElNiño event and implications for California from 2026 into 2027. No RSVP required. See you there!
Super El Nino Town Hall
Join Senator McGuire, along with climate scientists, meteorologists, and disaster preparedness experts, for a virtual Super El Niño Town Hall to learn how California is preparing for very strong or “super” El Niño weather patterns and events this fall.
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Trump is refusing 220 million dollars in disaster relief to Democrat led states. That alone should be a bipartisan impeachable offense. It should also be something that incites open revolt.
A GOP Congressman, Griffith Morgan (Virginia), has introduced a bill to strip people in Guam, Puerto Rico, the District of Columbia, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and every other US non-state territory of their birthright citizenship. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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As so many industries rush to embrace AI, Esri's approach to responsible AI remains grounded in: - Authoritative geographic context - Trust, intention, & transparency - Interoperable capabilities for easy integration More info at www.esri.com/arcgis-blog/... #gischat
Esri's approach to responsible AI
Speed and efficiency alone don’t guarantee better decisions. Here’s how Esri is building AI that’s grounded, transparent, and built for the decisions that matter.
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YAHOOOOOO! Vacation has FINALLY started with cycling and LEGO building and Riley and me “getting our kicks, on historic Route 66”!
Wow — California got more than half its electricity from solar in May, a world record. The numbers keep rising. www.latimes.com/environment/... via @blancabegert.bsky.social
California produced over half its May electricity from solar, a world record
New batteries to store solar electricity and low demand in May both contributed to high percentage of electricity that came from solar.
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Next time you visit National Redwood and State Parks, your trip may begin with a journey through ‘O Rew Redwoods Gateway, on the Yurok Tribe's land: www.latimes.com/california/s... via @alex-wigglesworth.bsky.social
California redwoods gateway is returned to Indigenous tribe. 'That's healing our people too'
'O Rew Redwoods Gateway, a Yurok-owned and -operated area with trails leading to Redwood National and State Parks, opens to the public Saturday.
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I KNOW they have no idea where Cabo Verde 🇨🇻 is ⚽️⚽️⚽️😡😵💫
George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d agoWow.
For the First Time, a Look at the Arctic Bobtail Squid in Its Natural Habitat
For the First Time, a Look at the Arctic Bobtail Squid in Its Natural Habitat
For the First Time, a Look at the Arctic Bobtail Squid in Its Natural Habitat: It’s cold down there, but life finds a way
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When you're an athlete, climate impacts can hit hard. But for many, awareness also catalyses action! I asked two pro soccer/football players to give me their first-hand accounts in Talking Climate this week ⬇️
The future of sports depends on climate action
Pro soccer players Imani Dorsey Kunzweiler & Jasmyne Spencer on sports in a warming world
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Climate change comes for Voyager 1, the most distant human-made object in our solar system. Spain declared a wildfire emergency near Madrid, evacuating 60,000 people, including those near the NASA Deep Space Communications Complex that’s used to talk to Voyager 1 and the James Webb Space Telescope.
One of NASA’s Most Important Deep Space Observatories Hit by Spanish Wildfires
Flames burned through the Deep Space Communications Complex near Madrid, but NASA has been unable to assess the damage as a wildfire emergency grips the region.
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All I can say is that if today’s Tour de France stage wasn’t a metaphor for LIFE, with all the various storylines, I don’t know what is!!
As most of Earth’s HABITAT is actually on the ocean floor pls check out our paper on a new characterization of the bumpiness of the global seabed IN COMBO w/ primary physical properties deep water (temp, salinity, bottom pH, dissolved oxygen, POC, nutrients). tos.org/oceanography... 🌊 🦑 #gischat
"Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries" ... from the "From These Lands" exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History theconversation.com/where-nature...
Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries
State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape.
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"If universities oppose the actions of the administration, they need to say so quickly so that their constituents aren’t left wondering **whether there’s a plan**. The alternative is a community of university scientists adrift & grasping for a lifeline." www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪
What if we mapped the U.S. without state boundaries? An article co-authored by #NASmember and archaeologist Torben Rick explores how nature’s maps—from ancient seas & migration routes to watersheds & biomes—reveal the connections shaping our landscapes. theconversation.com/where-nature...
Where nature draws the map – here are 5 ways to look at the US, without state boundaries
State lines are one way to picture the US, but natural history provides another – one that shows the ancient and living connections running across the landscape.
theconversation.com
Is this the battery that could change everything? Sodium-ion batteries promise to be cheaper, safer and more environmentally friendly than the lithium-ion cells that currently dominate technologies such as electric cars. www.nature.com/articles/d41... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social
Beyond lithium: how sodium-ion batteries could change the world
Batteries based on sodium ions are entering mass production. Some researchers say they could ultimately be a cheaper, safer alternative to lithium in electric cars and other energy applications.
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Hooray! @MissionBlue has today officially launched their new Science Initiative, led by their amazing Chief Scientist (and my friend) Dr. Tessa Hempson 🇿🇦! 🌊 🦑 🧪 🌏 🌍 🌎 Go team go!!! youtu.be/Q6jfehHBvi0?... missionblue.org/our-work/
I have some thoughts: Marine CO₂ removal (mCDR) research and development should be carried out by governments, not by startups funded by VCs and philanthropy. These startups will either go belly up soon or sell themselves to a fossil fuel company for greenwashing. carbon-pulse.com/530652
![But not all are convinced that private companies are the best route to scaling mCDR. David Ho, a professor of oceanography at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, was part of early mCDR research efforts both within and beyond academia. Ho is an established researcher in ocean science key to the veracity of the field, but he also co-founded a non-profit organisation in 2023 to build software that supports mCDR research.
Ho thinks that the field should be a government-funded or government-run research effort, not driven by companies via venture capital and private funding.
"There's so much that we need to figure out that companies are not going to do. They are there to work on their [own, specific] technology," he said.
Ho pointed to areas of research essential to scaling mCDR - in the realms of environment, geophysics, governance, and social studies - that companies are not necessarily prioritising.
"They're not thinking about that. It's 'How do you develop intellectual property that you can maybe sell to a fossil fuel company?' I bet every single one of them looks at the exit that Carbon Engineering took and says 'Well, we too would like to get $1 bln.' And that's the best exit for any of them right now, because they will never be paid billions of dollars to remove carbon."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:77lswp42lgjyw36ozuo7kt7e/bafkreihn7uxd7cprm736cwqmyvzweapzas6ezy6vmm5vjo74osu5bcpaau)