Mara Freilich
@maratimes.bsky.social
Assistant professor at Brown University studying ecology, physical oceanography, and mathematical modeling. Using science for community justice.
📣🎉🌊Our 2024-2026 Bridge-to-PhD Fellows have completed their program! Thank you Mariana (@martorres.bsky.social), Emily (@yunqianhu.bsky.social), Amanda, Jill, & Daniella (@daniellaasturias.bsky.social) for your contributions to C-CoMP! We are excited to see where you go next. Stay in touch!
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Tara C. Smith@aetiology.bsky.social · 4w agoThis can help you get started if it all seems intimidating.
📣 The first virtual Q+A session for the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship is tomorrow (6/12/2026) at 2 pm ET. Register for the session (or others) here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h Learn more about the C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD fellowship here: ccomp-stc.org/b2p/ 🧪
Bridge-to-PhD Fellowship – C-CoMP
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP)@microbialplanet.bsky.social · 2mo ago📣🌊Save the Date! C-CoMP is hosting 4 virtual Q+A sessions on GatherTown about our Bridge-to-PhD Fellowships this June. Register to attend an info session here: tinyurl.com/yu8pxt7h. First session is this Friday! 🧪
A belated update on our new lab library books! With a budget for 6 books, we ended up adding: •Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer •Climate Changed: Models and the Built World eds. @maratimes.bsky.social, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, Lizzie Yarina (1/2)
Dr. Isabel Dove@isabeldiatom.bsky.social · 10mo agoI've volunteered to curate my lab's small library and am brainstorming ideas of books to add. Please share your favorite books related to climate and the environment - non-fiction and fiction recommendations welcome! #Booksky
NSF is closing down most of the Ocean Observatory oceanobservatories.org/2026/05/anno...
Announcement on NSF OOI Descoping - Ocean Observatories Initiative
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) Major Facility. This plan includes the removal of all in-water infrastructure from the Ir...
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15 researchers from the United States and Canada have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and Changing Ecosystems, cosponsored with @allenphilanthro.bsky.social, the Frederick Gardner Cottrell Foundation, and @kavlifoundation.org.
2026 Scialog NCE Awards
Six cross-disciplinary projects to advance fundamental understanding of how neural systems adapt to today’s rapid environmental changes have won awards in the second year of Scialog: Neurobiology and ...
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🌊 New paper alert! For the first time from space, two NASA missions enable us to observe plankton community composition alongside the physical processes that structure it. 🛰️ 🦠 🌀 Check it out from @tosoceanography.bsky.social: doi.org/10.5670/ocea...
New paper led by @solilyquy.bsky.social on insights about biological community structure of North Atlantic eddies through the lens of the SWOT and PACE satellites! @nasaclimate.bsky.social tos.org/oceanography...
FEATURE ARTICLE • Biophysical Dynamics of Mesoscale Eddies: Coincident Observations from SWOT and PACE | Oceanography
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Eye in the Sky: Tiny But Mighty Plankton My interview on phytoplankton, satellite ocean color & carbon cycle 🌊 With Good Reason, Virginia Humanities podcast @uvaenvironment.bsky.social @uvaenvisci.bsky.social @microbialplanet.bsky.social withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/eye-...
Eye in the Sky - With Good Reason
The science made possible by satellites.
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This semester I assigned my graduate class to attend seminars and write reflections on them. I got to learn a lot about interesting topics and what my students find interesting, seminar engagement increased, and I hope the students enjoyed it too. Highly recommend this assignment!
Our book Climate Changed: Models and the Built World is highlighted by @columbiaup.bsky.social for Earth day! cupblog.org/2026/04/20/w...
Why Multidisciplinary Climate Modeling Matters Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina - Columbia University Press Blog
Co-editors Mara Freilich, Irmak Turan, Jessica Varner, and Lizzie Yarina reflect on Climate Changed and the different disciplines represented in the book.
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Two postdoc fellowships now open at @brown.edu Dept of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences. One in ocean sciences (apply.interfolio.com/183855) and one in any field of geoscience (apply.interfolio.com/183852). Deadline May 1.
International scientists gathered at the University of Strathclyde in March for a major international workshop led by the NERC BIO-Carbon programme. The event brought together 103 participants and around 70 online attendees, spanning modelling, observational, and experimental research communities!
Fresh off the preprint server! @maratimes.bsky.social and I show how data from the overlapping SWOT and PACE satellite missions present a step forward in our ability to observe linked biogeochemical-physical processes in the ocean. We look forward to chatting about this with folks at #OSM2026! 🌊
Biophysical Dynamics of Mesoscale Eddies: Coincident Observations from SWOT and PACE
A document by Lilian Dove. Click on the document to view its contents.
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Surface ocean processes impact structure deep into the ocean interior. In our perspective paper, @maratimes.bsky.social, grad student Katarina Merk, and I discuss using physical perspectives to interpret subsurface biogeochemical distributions and why we as a community should care! 🌊
Physical controls on heterogeneous mesopelagic biogeochemistry
Communications Earth & Environment - A patchy distribution of biogeochemical properties in the ocean interior arises from the combined influence of biological and physical processes.
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New discussion paper just dropped that’s taken shall we say a little work to get this far … essd.copernicus.org/preprints/es... please be kind. Not on an at all sensitive topic in the slightest.
How well can we quantify when 1.5 °C of global warming has been exceeded?
Abstract. Parties to the 2015 Paris Agreement agreed to limit the long-term increase in global average temperature to well below 2 °C and pursue efforts to keep temperatures below 1.5 °C relative to p...
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* JOB ALERT* Join our team at @brown-ibes.bsky.social as Program Manager for a cross-campus research initiative "Equitable Climate Futures". ecf.brown.edu Apply by 1/15 for full consideration. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/staff-career...
Equitable Climate Futures | Brown University
Equitable Climate Futures is an initiative that will build Brown’s capacity for climate research, with a strong focus on under-resourced and historically marginalized groups.
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We lost an absolute legend recently - Kristina Gjerde was fearless defender of the ocean and all of its marvels 💪 🌊 iucn.org/news/202512/...
IUCN Statement on the passing of Kristina Maria Gjerde
In memoriam: Kristina Gjerde, IUCN High Seas Adviser, Mother of the High Seas' and Defender of the deep ocean The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) mourns the passing of Kristina M...
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On Thursday (17:28 - 17:38) PhD student Alejandra Lopez will present "H44G-07: Forecasting Hydrogen Sulfide Emissions Using Satellite-Derived Water Quality Metrics and Machine Learning at the Salton Sea, California"
Everyone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA. In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers. NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not. 🌊
USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 8mo agoExclusive: 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.
If you're at #AGU25 stop by presentations from my lab! @microbialplanet.bsky.social bridge to PhD fellow @yunqianhu.bsky.social (also w/ @akrinos.bsky.social) will be presenting a poster Wednesday "OS33B-1119: Microbial Assemblages in the Context of Basin-Scale Variability Across the North Atlantic"
Check out PhD student Lulabel Ruiz Seitz's presentation at #APS-DFD this weekend! schedule.aps.org/dfd/2025/eve...
Undergraduate researcher Wyatt presenting his ocean modeling research!
IBES Voss Fellows bring climate research to the community
Members of the 2025-2026 Voss Undergraduate Fellowship cohort have shared their research with local audiences through the Conversations in Science series at Providence’s Hamilton House.
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Brown faculty, including IBES fellow @baylorfk.bsky.social & affiliate @maratimes.bsky.social, are part of the new SIMCoast initiative modeling microplastics in Narragansett Bay. “It’s a fantastic way to do interdisciplinary work and learn from others,” Freilich told @browndailyherald.bsky.social.
Brown begins work on $7 million microplastics research initiative
Brown’s team in the SIMCoast initiative will focus on modeling microplastics in the Narragansett Bay.
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IBES is hiring! The Student Transformative Engagement Pathways (STEP) Program Director will guide development and execution of expanded paid internships & research assistantships in climate, sustainability, and the environment for undergrads across Brown. brown.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/staff-...
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island. jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
Meet the 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees! IBES will fund 6 core & affiliate faculty members to pursue scholarly projects around the world, with topics ranging from parasite identification to Indigenous-led environmental justice organizing. Mara Freilich Brown History Department Brown Biostatistics
IBES announces 2025 Catalyst Research Awardees
IBES awarded grants to six core and affiliate faculty members, allowing them to conduct research that crosses boundaries and benefits communities, both at Brown and around the world.
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Kudos to AMS Editor's Award recipient Mara Freilich @maratimes.bsky.social for providing insightful, helpful, timely reviews! Learn more: bit.ly/48gR7vJ #JPhysOceanogr #PeerReviewWeek
Woo, riding around the edge of an eddy and sampling for omics and sensors- new use case. I was recovered at the blue dot - started at a red dot to the right, drifter track in the center. Eddies can bring nutrients towards the surface and stimulate productivity. Also useful for robot joyrides.
