Karin Kvale

#OSM26 come visit me & Shiye Zhao this morning at the SCOR booth to learn more about our new ocean interior microplastic working group scor-int.org/group/174/ Especially keen to meet new partners for inter-laboratory calibration and those with relevant sample archives!

As #OSM2026 approaches, a reminder that SOLAS and SOLAS-related activities will take place in Glasgow (22–27 Feb 2026), including the SOLAS 3.0 Town Hall and scientific sessions.

We look forward to seeing you there. 🌊

Details:
mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-an...

#SOLAS #OSM2026 #OceanScience

I’m not famous enough to warrant this but I have a friend who follows you and who would find this hilarious if I got a photo 😁

Not 1 but 2 evening #sciart events (w drinks) during #OSM26 in #Glasgow!

* zine-making in the pub, Mon 23 Feb (link below)

* opening for Constraint Made Visible (Transmission Gallery, 24 Feb)—collabs among local mathematicians, artists, crafters, and ocean modellers

Pls help spread the word!

🌍🔬 Microplastics are everywhere — from the ocean surface to the lower atmosphere and beyond.

Measuring them? Complex. Challenging. Evolving.

Join SOLAS Seminar XII
🗓 16 March 2026 | 🌐 Online
✨ Register now: zoom.us/meeting/regi...
ℹ️ Details: solas-int.org/events/solas...

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GESAMP report on #microplastics transport into the marine environment is available online.

library.wmo.int/records/item...

@solas-ipo.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social @geotraces.bsky.social

Can the clean-energy revolution save us from climate catastrophe? Seven charts show the remarkable growth in renewable power and the challenges to ending the fossil-fuel age.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

A new all-electric double-decker Climate Stripes bus has started taking passengers around Reading today.

The bus shows the warming stripes for Reading back to the 1860s and will hopefully help start climate conversations amongst passengers.

#ShowYourStripes

Employment with Ocean Exploration Trust Full-time Staff Openings None at this time.

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 Ocean Exploration Trust is hiring independent contractors for at-sea positions of data engineers, video engineers, and ROV engineers for our 2026 expedition season aboard E/V Nautilus. More information at nautiluslive.org/about/employ.... Questions can be directed to careers@oet.org.

Oh sorry I was confused by the technology 😝

It’s a mistake to believe that a lack of funding for science is somehow part of these revelations. To my understanding none of the researchers so far named in these files had particular difficulty in acquiring grants.

Hi Manu can I please be added to the feed- biogeochemical modeler, scholar.google.com/citations?us... thanks!

🌊 an opportunity to suggest endangered data, I would think

speaking of ... here is a great ring of phytoplankton off the coase of #NewZealand as seen by NASA's OCI instrument and its respective retrieval of chlorophyll concentration.

This is an excellent summary of where we are right now on detecting microplastics in tissues. This is a new field and methods are still in development. Communication of the science needs to reflect that.

I am calling for a complete and total boycott of the Mercator projection in all news stories about Greenland until every member of the American public has seen this

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

Happy Get Stuff Done At Work Before Everyone Comes Back and Makes You Go To Meetings Week to all who celebrate

Warning as scientists find this year was one of the three hottest on record Climate change made 2025 one of the hottest years ever recorded

The three-year global temperature average has exceeded 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels for the first time on record.

This isn’t a projection; it’s happening now.

www.independent.co.uk/climate-chan...

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University of Melbourne vice-chancellor dies, aged 52 University of Melbourne vice-chancellor Emma Johnston has died from complications associated with cancer, aged 52.

Such sad news. She was a brilliant scientist, a great science communicator and a real enthusiast for what universities can achieve #EmmaJohnston

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...

New Zealand just recorded its first-ever day of zero coal- or gas-fired electricity. In fact two days, 20 & 21 December. (Still some co-gen, about 1.8%.)

VLIZ recruits: SOCAT Data Engineer

JOB ALERT!

@vliz.be is recruiting a Data Engineer to work in a wide-ranging role to help coordinate global SOCAT activities.

Full details: vliz.be/en/jobs/vliz...

Headed to #OSM2026 in Glasgow? Don't miss the SOLAS session and SOLAS townhall.
More info: mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-ne...

I’m pleased to announce the support of @scor-int.bsky.social for this important international ocean microplastic data harmonization effort and am looking forward to our community effort over the next few years to develop best practices for data collection and reporting scor-int.org/group/174/ 🌊🧪

A graph showing 3 things: 1) CO2 ppm concentrations in the atmosphere rising from 330 in 1975 up to over 427 in 2025 2) Warming stripes for each year, showing global warming as per: https://showyourstripes.info/ 3) The dates for various conferences, Protocols, Accords, Agreements Updating this graph was suggested by Tadzio Mueller: https://bsky.app/profile/tadziomueller.bsky.social/post/3m5giurpi7k2f If you are interested in how the graph was created, and the sanity checks applied, see https://parisagreementtemperatureindex.com/co2-global-warming-stripes-conferences/

An update to a classic

#ClimateInactionStripes #ShowYourStripes
CC: @tadziomueller.bsky.social

New Orleans updates | AGU25

Important updates from @agu.org for those attending #AGU25 in New Orleans as the city is invaded by federal paramilitaries in operation “Catahoula Crunch”

Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years Coral reefs have shaped Earth in much deeper ways than we usually appreciate.

🌊 Coral reefs have orchestrated Earth’s climate for 250 million years

theconversation.com/coral-reefs-...

I know you all are running away from the US, but we don't see too many positions like this opening up, and Miami has a really nice group in the geo department. ⚒️
(unfortunately, not really relevant right now to non-US citizens with the H1B fees)

Letting Silicon Valley Geoengineer the Atmosphere Will End Badly We already have plenty of evidence of what happens when things better left to governments — which in this case might decide to never flip the switch at all — are ceded to private industry.

My take on the general idea of having for-profit companies involved in the field: