Mar Benavides

@marbenavides.bsky.social

Microbial Oceanographer @noc.ac.uk @ird-fr.bsky.social www.ocean-bridges.net

"By 2030, our goal is for microbial metrics to stand alongside those of charismatic megafauna in every major habitat monitoring and restoration plan, signalling a profound shift in how biodiversity is measured, valued and protected" www.nature.com/articles/s41... @noc.ac.uk

Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity - Nature Microbiology

Nature Microbiology - Launching the IUCN Microbial Conservation Specialist Group as a global safeguard for microbial biodiversity

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@argofrance.bsky.social has proudly supported the #argopy software library development for the last couple of years, in particular for adding biogeochemical #argofloats data support. Stay tuned for the next release that will ship an awesome new feature for BGC folks... @bgc-argo.bsky.social

Euro-Argo ERIC@euro-argo.eu · 8mo ago

New #Argopy training today in Brest, as part of a series of international sessions in 2025. 🔍 Argopy is a python library for accessing, manipulating & visualising Argo data for standard users & experts. 👉 argopy.readthedocs.io/en/ #EuropeanProject #EAOne #Oceanscience #Argofloats @gmaze.bsky.social

🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)

Arctic sea-ice extent just passed the border into the "record-low" domain. Same for Barents, Baffin, Hudson, and Svalbard regions. Second-lowest globally. 🌊❄️🥼🧪📉

Line graph showing the daily sea-ice extent for the Arctic. 2025 is shown in the black-white line up until 2025-11-26, while the previous years of yearly minimas (2012, 2020) and minimum of this time of year (2016) are presented in red, blue, and orange, respectively. The extent in 2025 has just become record low for this time of year.
Data source is the OSI SAF sea-ice index v2.3.

Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilisation effect in Earth system models ...meaning models may overestimate future plant carbon uptake as CO2 rises Better nitrogen modelling = better climate predictions www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Overestimated natural biological nitrogen fixation translates to an exaggerated CO2 fertilization effect in Earth system models | PNAS

CO2 fertilization of the terrestrial biosphere is limited by nitrogen. Biological nitrogen fixation (BNF) is the dominant natural nitrogen source t...

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