Nan Wu

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When ordered atomic structures clashing with intrusion! This study defines what’s small is small in invaded ion size. Congrats @jingming1017.bsky.social

Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.

OK, this is wild.

In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.

What the HELL?

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Now, Dr Jing Ming 👉👉

It’s a great pleasure working with @natrevcleantech.nature.com
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜

Congrats!!!

Detecting defects in solid electrolytes with neutron total scattering Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Jing Ming explains how neutron total scattering can be used to detect defects in solid electrolytes and help prevent disruptions in the diffusion of oxide ions in...

I’m delighted to share that my short article has just been published as Tools of the Trade
@natrevcleantech.nature.com
🔗 The full article can be found here:
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www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.

A great day for @qmul.ac.uk Geography PhD student Grace and @bas.ac.uk researcher @nanwu1112.bsky.social presenting their research at @egu.eu #EGU25

Another berg faces the storm! #biopole2
@bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social

IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.

You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).

A satellite image showing a large iceberg as a big white block, and an island in the NE corner with blue-ish sediment blooms coming away from the glaciers on land. There are clouds in the south/bottom of the image.

A satellite image showing a large iceberg as a big white block, and an island in the NE corner with blue-ish sediment blooms coming away from the glaciers on land. There are clouds in the south/bottom of the image. The image has labels showing the sizes of the main island (170 km long) and the iceberg (57 x 62 km), and the distance from the iceberg to land (73 km).

Lovely image from the NOAA-20 satellite yesterday showing the location of grounded A23a iceberg close to the island of South Georgia 😍
It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position!
@bas.ac.uk

This is the name of the paper with where it was published

This new paper is available open access in 'Limnology and Oceanography'.

It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning.

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Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says Occidental wants to use climate tech to boost oil and gas production.

So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.

Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o....

How does buoyant #marineplastic litter get removed from the ocean surface? Only the smallest #microplastic (< 100 micron) can reach the ocean floor through aggregation with #marinesnow. Read more about this great PhD research from @nanwu1112.bsky.social. @sgrieve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/lno....

Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...

Buoyant #microplastics reach deep ocean sediments through multiple cycles of aggregation and disaggregation. Great #phd output from @nanwu1112.bsky.social #floc #marinesnow #oceanplastic @sgrieve.bsky.social

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A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.

The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii.

@noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!

Sometimes you just need to get away from your screen 🏃‍♀️

Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough.

🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.

The microplastics can be any type of particle in this context 😁😁

The multiple aggregations with marine snow (the high speed train to microplastics) is the key. One-off process is not enough to take microplastics to deep ocean.

Flocs as vectors for microplastics in the aquatic environment - Nature Water Microplastics dispersed in the environment can be transported as single entities or in flocs. Analysis of existing and new data shows that microplastic transport can be modelled in a way that is consi...

One key information is that only small microplastics can be taken to the deep ocean. Our paper @naturewaterjnl.bsky.social can give you more information www.nature.com/articles/s44...

If you ever wondered why buoyant microplastics have been found in the deep-sea sediment with high concentrations, our newest paper might give you some ideas.

The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.

Marine Plastic Pollution: A breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria New study reveals for the first time that particle type affects colonization, enrichment and spread of both antimicrobial-resistant and pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria.

#NewStudy 📢 #Microplastics offer a platform for antimicrobial-resistant (#AMR) and pathogenic #bacteria, responsible for #diseases in both humans and animals. Full story here: pml.ac.uk/news/marine-...

Negative Emission Enabled by Combining Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Waste Concrete Upcycling Electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising technology for negative carbon emissions, but the resulting dilute acid stream poses a disposal challenge. This study presents an inno...

Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste!

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The front cover of the journal, a cartoon showing a variety of clean technologies such as renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cells

In Issue 1, we have reviews on:

- Grid enhancing technologies 🔌
- Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️
- Flash Joule heating ⚡
- Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅
- Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥

www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...

Last chance to submit an abstract for session for #microplastics

Thank you future duck'tor 🦆

Six wonderful smiles 😃😄😀😁😉😜

Preparing for Christmas in the wilds of Antarctica A few hundred people get ready for Christmas in the snowy continent thousands of miles from home.

This will be how I spend my Christmas! Heading South to work on polar biogeochemistry in a changing climate as part of NERC projects BIOPOLE and SiCLING, out of Rothera Research Station @bas.ac.uk
www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp

Why blue carbon cannot truly offset fossil fuel emissions - Communications Earth & Environment Blue carbon will not solve climate change. The effect is too small; existing sediment carbon stock is a liability; and there is a timescale mismatch between ancient fossil fuel emissions and uptake by...

Not a new paper, but a new one to me. Thanks @chelseyabaker.bsky.social for drawing it to my attention (and to Sophia Johannessen and James Christian for writing it!). My eyebrows have been raised many times by #BlueCarbon claims so it's good to read a corrective ... 🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

A demonstration of the importance of using Absolute Density over just polymer type. The bottles contain varying amounts of air, water, and sand, and so behave differently in the environment.

🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨

“Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…”

Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...