🌍 #WhereInTheWorldsGSO? 📍 Southcentral Alaska! #URIGSO's @erinkpeck.bsky.social & student Emily Hall are part of a team of early career scientists studying salt marshes in Alaska’s dynamic coastal landscape alongside colleagues from the University of Washington and the Desert Research Institute.

Our Summer Undergraduate Research Fellows (SURFOs) worked alongside #URIGSO faculty/student mentors on projects ranging from modeling acidification in Narragansett Bay to training an AI algorithm on deep-sea footage, analyzing squid behavior, mapping the seafloor, culturing diatoms, & more.

📢Attending #OSM26? 🌿🌊Working on Blue Carbon Ecosystems? 📅Submit an abstract to our session by 20 Aug! Chairs: Bill Austin, Hilary Kennedy, @erinkpeck.bsky.social, Xiuzhen Li, @franco-santos.bsky.social Co-convenors: @peremasque.bsky.social, Andre Rovai Convened on behalf of the GO-BC Programme

📢In our recent #ASLO_Bulletin piece📝(doi.org/10.1002/lob....), @erinkpeck.bsky.social and I talk about our experiences as active @aslo.org members and how contributing can be personally & professionally fulfilling. We also pay homage to our grandparents👵🏻👴🏻👴🏻, whose recent passing inspired this piece ❤️

Of Loss, Love, and Lasting Friendships

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Hakai Institute@hakai.org · 2y ago

A new study led by Oregon State University and featuring Hakai Institute researchers quantifies the carbon-storing power of wetlands along North America’s Pacific coast. Check out our online press release—which links to a full media kit—to learn more 🔗 tinyurl.com/z4hzn5nx

Close your eyes. Take deep breaths. Slowly inhale through your nose, and exhale through your mouth. With each breath, imagine the face of someone you love, or a place you hold sacred. They are why we do this. Recommit yourself to the work. May we be strong. May we be steadfast. May we never forget.

A whole generation of early career scientists and physician-scientists, including colleagues and myself, are particularly vulnerable to these funding freezes and cuts, with jobs and careers depending on federal grants. #IDsky #Medsky #Episky www.science.org/content/arti...

U.S. early-career researchers struggling amid chaos

Uncertain funding, government firings, and distressed universities hit vulnerable groups especially hard

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Upon learning that yesterday would be my last day as a program officer at the National Science Foundation, I shared this parting message with my colleagues. The next few months will be frenetic and stressful for them. Here are some things that you can do to help them with the mission ahead. (1)

Happy Wetlands Day!

URI Graduate School of Oceanography@urigso.bsky.social · 2y ago

🌊 #URIGSO's @erinkpeck.bsky.social, a coastal geomorphologist, studies the physical features of coastal areas & how they change over time. Her work focuses on the impacts of episodic sediment delivery events, sea-level rise, and human land-use change on salt marsh morphodynamics & biogeochemistry.

New research presented at #AGU24 suggests that while some marshes may release carbon, they may also gain an enhanced capacity to store methane. In @eos.org, #URIGSO's Erin Peck notes that the findings challenge assumptions that sea-level rise hinders marshes’ carbon absorption. 🌊