That's enough writing for today I think
Olivia L. Williams (she/her)
@oliviawilliams-geo.bsky.social
PhD candidate studying ice cores at Oregon State University. Formerly Si cycling in marshes at BU Earth & Environment. Part-time poet. Opinions my own. Find more at https://www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com/
Sad to see @mayakern.com's shop struggling for reasons beyond her control. So many cool clothing items but this time I picked up some stickers within my budget for the month :) The fight against fast unsustainable fashion mean supporting ethical businesses! store.mayakern.com/collections/...
hi all! this is really difficult for me to talk about, but the store is in danger of closing before the end of the year. you can read more about what happened here: www.mayakern.com/blog i'm at a point where i need to ask for help. 👇
ALL GIFT CARDS ARE 20% OFF after discussing options with my followers, i've put gift cards on sale for 20% off. many of you told me you want to support me but i just don't have anything in stock right now that you want to buy LINK: store.mayakern.com/products/gif... discount shown in cart
New AMOC paper headed by Dr. Christo Buizert! Planetary energy budget during abrupt glacial climate events set by Atlantic Ocean heat valve. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Planetary energy budget during abrupt glacial climate events set by Atlantic Ocean heat valve - Nature Geoscience
Variations in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation strength through abrupt Dansgaard–Oeschger events during Pleistocene glacial periods controlled ocean heat content, and heat uptake by the pla...
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Many congratulations to Dr. Julia Marks Peterson on the successful defense of her doctoral dissertation!
Triple Isotopes of Oxygen as a Proxy for Carbon Dioxide in Altered Early Pleistocene Ice Core Samples, spearheaded by Dr. Asmita Banerjee! Out now! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Triple Isotopes of Oxygen as a Proxy for Carbon Dioxide in Altered Early Pleistocene Ice Core Samples
6 Ma old ice have been found in the Allan Hills Blue Ice Areas, Antarctica, but CO2 concentrations in samples older than 3 Ma are altered Viability of triple isotopic composition of O2 in altered...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
It's too bad to see Oregon State University use outdated categories for gender identification even in their new employee management software. "Transgender" is an adjective, not a gender. Including options for "woman" and "transgender woman" is like including options for "woman" and "tall woman."
Ich am beginninge to suspect that massyve corporaciouns do not have our best interestes yn mynde
I've fallen out of the habit of making time for reading, so I recreated the summer reading logs of my childhood in the 00s to do as a challenge with my long-distance partner. If you want to join me in reading more this summer, the pdf is available on my website! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
I've fallen out of the habit of making time for reading, so I recreated the summer reading logs of my childhood in the 00s to do as a challenge with my long-distance partner. If you want to join me in reading more this summer, the pdf is available on my website! www.oliviawilliamsgeo.com
Big news out of #EGU26 by @elisecutts.bsky.social for @science.org: Measures of the record-setting 1.2-million-year-old continuous ice core drilled by Beyond EPICA show that CO2 swings likely did help cause the mysterious transition to 100,000-year-long ice ages.
Ancient ice core could help explain mysterious shift in Earth’s ice ages
Record-setting Antarctic archive reveals sharp swings in carbon dioxide 1 million years ago
science.org
Spot the difference: me in my freezer gear + ear protection vs. children's television show characters the Boohbahs
Nope, absolutely definitely not adopting this nomenclature
I helped to develop this "Blocks to Rocks" activity that @osuceoas.bsky.social uses during outreach events to teach kids about the real minerals that appear in one of their favorite video games! I had a great time teaching other grad students how to lead this activity earlier in the week. #geology
Without enough snow for our annual lab ski day, the OSU ice core lab hit the Oregon Coast last Friday for some fossil hunting and a delicious seafood lunch.
17 years ago this week I was one of the students at Carl Sandburg Elementary who got to have a conversation with Charles Simonyi while he was on the ISS. I may study the Earth, but I'm a longtime space & #NASA fan! www.kirklandreporter.com/2009/04/08/s...
Sandburg students contact outer space - Kirkland Reporter
Two hundred miles above Earth, the astronaut described to students what the planet looks like from outer space.
kirklandreporter.com
Can we have a ruling on whether #Artemis II is (a) "a mission to the Moon" or do we have to say (b) "a lunar flyby" just because they're not landing? I say (a) is okay: they're definitely going to the Moon! And past it! They're just not touching down.
Just watched the Artemis II launch from the lab. I sure do love science. Sometimes I forget on account of the Everything
If this is your scene*, maybe this job is for you? Three-year PDRA in ice core gases at @cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social www.cam.ac.uk/jobs/researc... *Scenes from the Beyond EPICA gas analysis in Copenhagen.
Every time I read West Antarctic Peninsula abbreviated to WAP my brain goes "bring a bucket and a mop for this melting ice sheet"
Readinge complex textes not for ynformacioun but for understandinge, writinge nuanced argumentes, reasoninge criticallye and also beinge critical of reasoninge when needid -- these are the vital technologyes taught by humanityes disciplines lyke literarye studyes, historye, and philosophye.
Getting direct measurements of CO2 from Pliocene-aged ice has been a Holy Grail of climate science! A new paper by @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social provides a record of CO2 going back 3million years(!), with (let's say) intriguing implications for anthropogenic climate change doi.org/10.1038/s415... 1/
Broadly stable atmospheric CO2 and CH4 levels over the past 3 million years - Nature
Blue ice records from Antarctica are used to determine methane and carbon dioxide concentrations over the past 3 million years.
doi.org
This research is a part of the Center for Oldest Ice Exploration. Two sister papers also released today. "Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story" www.nature.com/articles/d41... "Global ocean heat content over the past 3 million years" www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Climate snapshots trapped in ancient ice tell a surprising story
Antarctic ice cores hint that changes in the ocean might have played a larger part than have greenhouse gases in key climate shifts of the past three million years.
nature.com
It's been such a pleasure to watch the development of this paper, and now to finally see it out. I can't wait to see where @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social takes this project next!
OSU Ice Core Lab@osu-ice.bsky.social · 7mo agoNew Nature paper by PhD candidate Julia Marks Peterson! @jmarkspeterson.bsky.social and her COLDEX collaborators published their findings on atmospheric CO2 and CH4 over the past 3 million years based on measurements of ice cores from the Allan Hills, Antarctica. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
GO TERRIERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #beanpot
At a certain point in a letter of recommendation I run out of synonyms for "good" and start getting the urge to write things like "[student] has firecracker research skills"