Gaël Mariani

@gaelmariani.bsky.social

Postdoc at the World Maritime University for @oceanicu.bsky.social. Working on carbon sequestration in the ocean 🌊🐟 | Impacts of fishing 🚢🎣 | Impacts of #ClimateChange🌡

Avec le début de la COP 30 à Belém, une figure plaçant les COP successives sur la courbe d'augmentation de la concentration en CO2 refait surface. Cela m'a inspiré pour ressortir et mettre à jour une idée de figure plus complète que j'avais eue il y a 3 ans 👇 1/13

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"Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal ecosystems; there is now the risk of the error reoccurring for open-ocean CO2 uptake via the biological carbon pump."\ 🌊 rdcu.be/eOooz

Natural carbon uptake by ocean biology will not deliver credible carbon credits

Nature Reviews Earth & Environment - Natural CO2 removal is increasingly being claimed as anthropogenic climate mitigation. This misrepresentation is already prevalent for forests and coastal...

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The second chapter of my thesis has been published ! We gathered eDNA data from campaigns all over the world to see how we could expand known geographic and ecological niche ranges :)

PLOS Biology@plosbiology.org · 9mo ago

Global species records often underestimate marine #fish distributions. @loic-patanegra-scz.bsky.social &co show that #eDNA surveys significantly expand known geographic & ecological niche ranges, revealing hidden #biodiversity & improving predictions @plosbiology.org 🧪 plos.io/47yRnEk

Maps of the distance to the nearest GBIF/OBIS occurrence for six species detected by eDNA far from their known spatial range and qualified as geographic range filling: the darker the background, the further the cell is from a referenced GBIF/OBIS occurrence. Detections via eDNA in our surveys are represented with orange dots. Distances are calculated by sea, and passage through the Suez and Panama canals is permitted. Species depicted: Chionodraco hamatus, Planiliza macrolepis, Gephyroberyx japonicus, Synchiropus phaeton, Isurus oxyrinchus, Thalassoma bifasciatum.

🐟 En 1950, les poissons piégeaient 0.23 Gt de carbone par an, contre 0.12 aujourd'hui! 📉 Si tu veux savoir comment, lis cet article : doi.org/10.64628/AAK... 🚨 Spoiler : c'est une histoire de 💩, mélant pêche 🎣, changement climatique 🌡️, et crottes de poissons ! 🐟 Avec @france.theconversation.com

Océans : les poissons, un puits de carbone invisible menacé par la pêche et le changement climatique

La pêche industrielle réduit la capacité des océans à stocker le CO₂. Protéger la haute mer pourrait renforcer ce puits de carbone vital sans menacer la sécurité alimentaire.

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🌊✊ Solidarity with Leonid Pshenichnov — the Ukrainian biologist arrested for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing. Protecting ecosystems isn’t treason. It’s good science, and it’s our future. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Russia arrests Ukrainian biologist for backing curbs on Antarctic krill fishing

‘Trumped-up’ charges spark diplomatic row as scientists express fears for health of 70-year-old Leonid Pshenichnov

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Le nouveau projet Bon Pote est en ligne : la Graphothèque ! Une base de données visuelles pour mieux appréhender les enjeux écologiques. L’objectif est simple : vous avez besoin d’un chiffre sur l’écologie, il est (ou sera !) sur Bon Pote. Tout est disponible ici : bonpote.com/data/

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[1/3] PHOTO - Le concours Wildlife Photographer of the Year (Natural History Museum) distingue chaque année des clichés révélant la beauté et la fragilité du vivant. En 2025, les images primées traduisent la tension entre biodiversité menacée et adaptation des milieux. #geography #photography

Wildlife Photographer of the Year awards – in pictures

The Wildlife Photographer of the Year is an annual competition hosted by the Natural History Museum in London, which awards top honours in various categories for outstanding photography

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🌊 Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes In 2015 & 2019, POC ⬆️ in the NE Pacific, but instead of sinking, tiny particles lingered mid-depth, cutting carbon sequestration Ecosystem responses vary, and long-term ocean monitoring is crucial www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Marine heatwaves modulate food webs and carbon transport processes - Nature Communications

A decade of BGC-Argo and plankton records shows North Pacific heatwaves reshape food webs and trap small particles in midwater, slowing deep-ocean carbon export. Impacts vary by event, underscoring the need for sustained ocean monitoring.

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Marine protected areas can protect fish and maintain healthy ecosystems. As demonstrated by two related papers in this issue, however, such areas are only effective against illegal fishing when established limitations are enforced. Learn more this week in Science: scim.ag/3H6oeXQ

The Galapagos Islands, where a sea lion hunts salema fish

New research on limits to CO2 removal (CDR). CDR is key to our ambition to stop adding climate pollution to the atmosphere. Because it's uncertain how much will be delivered and it clearly comes with risks of social & environmental side-effects, legal issues arise. This paper provides an overview. 👇

Rupert Stuart-Smith@rupertstuartsmith.bsky.social · last yr.

🚨 Out now in @climate-policy.bsky.social: New research with @thomwetzer.bsky.social @rubenpruetz.bsky.social @joerirogelj.bsky.social Lavanya Rajamani, Marianne Wood and Ewan White: States are depending heavily on CO2 removal to meet climate targets, risking the Paris Agreement goal.

Our new paper updating key metrics in the IPCC is now out, and the news is grim: ⬆️ Human induced warming now at 1.36C ⬆️ Rate of warming now 0.27C / decade ⬆️ Sharp increase in Earth's energy imbalance ⬇️ Remaining 1.5C carbon budget only 130 GtCO2 essd.copernicus.org/...

Indicators of Global Climate Change 2024: annual update of key indicators of the state of the climate system and human influence

Abstract. In a rapidly changing climate, evidence-based decision-making benefits from up-to-date and timely information. Here we compile monitoring datasets (published at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15639576; Smith et al., 2025a) to produce updated estimates for key indicators of the state of the climate system: net emissions of greenhouse gases and short-lived climate forcers, greenhouse gas concentrations, radiative forcing, the Earth's energy imbalance, surface temperature changes, warming attributed to human activities, the remaining carbon budget, and estimates of global temperature extremes. This year, we additionally include indicators for sea-level rise and land precipitation change. We follow methods as closely as possible to those used in the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) Working Group One report. The indicators show that human activities are increasing the Earth's energy imbalance and driving faster sea-level rise compared to the AR6 assessment. For the 2015–2024 decade average, observed warming relative to 1850–1900 was 1.24 [1.11 to 1.35] °C, of which 1.22 [1.0 to 1.5] °C was human-induced. The 2024-observed best estimate of global surface temperature (1.52 °C) is well above the best estimate of human-caused warming (1.36 °C). However, the 2024 observed warming can still be regarded as a typical year, considering the human-induced warming level and the state of internal variability associated with the phase of El Niño and Atlantic variability. Human-induced warming has been increasing at a rate that is unprecedented in the instrumental record, reaching 0.27 [0.2–0.4] °C per decade over 2015–2024. This high rate of warming is caused by a combination of greenhouse gas emissions being at an all-time high of 53.6±5.2 Gt CO2e yr−1 over the last decade (2014–2023), as well as reductions in the strength of aerosol cooling. Despite this, there is evidence that the rate of increase in CO2 emissions over the last decade has slowed compared to the 2000s, and depending on societal choices, a continued series of these annual updates over the critical 2020s decade could track decreases or increases in the rate of the climatic changes presented here.

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