Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social

It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Oh no... Seeing the direct tweet is even more frightening. Every day is a new crisis, and the repercussions are unimaginable.

Peter Brannen@peterbrannen.bsky.social · 8mo ago

An absolute bedrock institution for understanding how the planet works, just civilization-scaled vandalism by the most incurious morons on Earth

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

Friends at NCAR, we're with you. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down. We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

I have been seeing posts today that NCAR might be shut down by the US government. This would be a tragic loss for climate science. They develop CESM, probably the most widely used climate model. I used it in the last paper I published!

The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo ago

Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...

Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool

Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!

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🌊 #Postdoc position available 📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP). Requirements ✅ PhD in physical #oceanography To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...

🌊Exciting opportunity @whoi.edu! The WHOI’s Postdoctoral Scholar Program supports innovative ocean science and interdisciplinary reseearch. If you are interested in marine microbiology, computational biology, biogeochemistry or modelling, get in touch! #Bioinformatics #Deoxygenation #Microbiology

Postdoctoral Scholar Program - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

Eighteen-month Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and bi...

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Could underwater walls keeping warm water away from glaciers be the key to limiting future ice melt? Not so fast, new research says.

Underwater Glacier-Guarding Walls Could Have Unintended Consequences - Eos

Although they would likely impede the warm currents that melt glaciers, such walls would also likely block fish migration and nutrient upwelling, harming marine ecosystems and Greenland fisheries.

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Underwater barriers might slow warm currents from melting Greenland’s glaciers, but not without hurting fisheries, @markinchina.bsky.social and colleagues point out in a recent commentary. eos.org/research-spo...

Underwater Glacier-Guarding Walls Could Have Unintended Consequences - Eos

Although they would likely impede the warm currents that melt glaciers, such walls would also likely block fish migration and nutrient upwelling, harming marine ecosystems and Greenland fisheries.

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🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Henry F. Houskeeper and Stanford B. Hooker ⬇️ Read more:

The primacy of dissolved organic matter to aquatic light variability

Abstract. Absorption and scattering by optically active constituents (OACs) modify the sunlit aquatic light environment, facilitating the derivation of biogeochemical data products at scales spanning…

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🌊 I have a new paper out in L&O Letters! We show that ocean color-based estimates of chlorophyll concentrations within 100 km of the Antarctic coastline are severely underestimated when applying the standard NASA L2gen atmospheric processing. This is caused by adjacency effects from ice and snow.

An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...

Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship

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It's not just Florida, the US ocean economy depends on science. Great piece by Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)!🧪🌊 www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

Florida’s ocean economy depends on science | Column

From sharks to plankton, ocean life matters deeply to Florida.

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Are technological fixes to climate change better 'solutions' than doing nothing? This narrow framing ignores complex ecological risks & the undermining of climate action. A more realistic framing is that geoengineering 'solutions' at best partially mitigate one problem by creating more risks 🌊 🐳 🧊

Excellent article explaining the situation relating to the only US Antarctic research icebreaker. Stopping research on why flow of some marine-based glaciers in Antarctica has accelerated, discharging increasing amounts of ice into the ocean, won't stop it happening. We'll just know less about it.

Scientific American@sciam.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The National Science Foundation will stop operating the Nathaniel B. Palmer icebreaker and slash polar science funding by 70 percent, devastating Antarctic research

Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #microbialsky

🌊 New study reveals that silica-rich diatoms, not coccolithophores, drive bright satellite signals south of the Great Calcite Belt in the Southern Ocean Diatom frustules mimic calcite reflectance; reshaping how we interpret ocean colour, plankton biogeog and carbon export phys.org/news/2025-08...

New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean

An area of the remote Southern Ocean that's long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of turquoise-colored light appears to be full of silica-rich diatoms, according to a new st...

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🌊 New modeling study led by Mike Wood: Increasing fluxes of meltwater from Greenland fuel greater summer productivity in Disko Bay, Greenland. Subglacial discharge emerging from the glacier grounding line drives turbulent buoyant plumes that boost local productivity through nitrate upwelling.

Increased melt from Greenland’s most active glacier fuels enhanced coastal productivity - Communications Earth & Environment

Melting from Greenland’s glaciers increases primary productivity in Qeqertarsuup Tunua by up to 40%, according to analysis of biogeochemical modelling.

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🌊 New paper led by Barney Balch: High-reflectance waters south of 54°S in the Pacific dominated by diatoms, not coccolithophores as satellites suggest (biogenic silica backscattering exceeds calcite >10×). Unexpectedly, however, coccolithophore calcification rates were still elevated down to 60°S!

Biological, Biogeochemical, Bio‐Optical, and Physical Variability of the Southern Ocean Along 150°W and Its Relevance to the Great Calcite Belt

Particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) concentration was highest in the Great Calcite Belt (GCB) and south of 54°S, where biogenic silica (BSi) was also highest Optical backscatter by BSi exceeded ca...

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the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

Michael Lowry@michaelrlowry.bsky.social · last yr.

If you think I've forgotten about the hurricane satellites, think again. The Navy is permanently unplugging them this week, on the brink of the busiest stretch of the season. There's so much more to this story, and I have the latest scoop. ⬇️

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker

Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

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