Vince Clementi

PhD Topics - Entry September 2026 — The Foster Lab This year we are involved in 3 fully funded PhD projects via IGNITE our NERC DLA. The deadline is Thursday Jan 8th 2026 .  1.      Is the world already 1.5 C warmer?...

Fully funded PhD projects available in my group (Please share with interested parties, details here: www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2025/11...):

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it.

Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

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Primaries for senators

SODCO - U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office SODCO is a collaboration between Texas A&M University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, providing support for scientific ocean drilling proposals, expeditions, and community engagement.

The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc…

www.sodco.org

Examples of pockmark‐related submarine channels and their locations. (1) Lucia Chica channel system, offshore California (Maier et al., 2011); (2) East Breaks area, northern Gulf of Mexico (Roelofse et al., 2020); (3) offshore New York and New Jersey (Rona et al., 2015); (4) Ceará Basin (Brazil) (Maestrelli et al., 2020); (5) Espirito Santo Basin, Brazil (Heiniö & Davies, 2009); (6) Colorado Basin, offshore Argentina Margin (Anka et al., 2014); (7) Argentine Continental Margin (Lastras et al., 2011); (8) Southern Orange Basin, South Africa (Palan et al., 2020); (9) Lower Congo Basin, Offshore Angola (Ho et al., 2018); (10) West African continental margin (Pilcher & Argent, 2007); (11) Strait of Gibraltar (León et al., 2014); (12) Bay of Biscay, NE Atlantic (Galparsoro et al., 2020); (13) Western Black Sea (Riedel et al., 2021); (14) Makran accretionary prism, northern Arabian Sea (Zhang et al., 2021); (15) NW South China Sea (Yu et al., 2021); (16) Joetsu Knoll, eastern margin of the Sea of Japan (Nakajima et al., 2014); (17) Reed Basin in the South China Sea (Wu et al., 2023); (18) North West Shelf, Australia (Riera et al., 2022); (19) Canterbury Basin, South Island, New Zealand (Kumar et al., 2021); (20) South Westland margin, Aotearoa New Zealand (Maier et al., 2022). The 3D bathymetric map presents the submarine channels associated with pockmarks observed in the northwestern South China Sea, with the topographic profile depicting the thalweg bathymetry along these pockmarks and channels.

There are very few energy sources in the deep sea to support biology. Seeps (hot and cold) are one of the primary ones, forming local hotspots. The cold seeps form pokemarks, which can expand into channels if a current catches them. 🧪🌊

Link: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Cosmic dust reveals dynamic shifts in central Arctic sea-ice coverage over the past 30,000 years Arctic sea-ice loss affects biological productivity, sustenance in coastal communities, and geopolitics. Forecasting these impacts requires mechanistic understanding of how Arctic sea ice responds to ...

Huge paper for the Arctic Ocean published today in @science.org - a new 30,000 year history of Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover reconstructed from the accumulation of cosmic dust-derived helium-3! www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... (1/n)

It’s one thing to have different environmental/health priorities for your foundation, it’s quite another to have been bankrolling one of the primary sources of bullshit on the topic.

Give this man the FIFA Peace Prize. 🥇

CBS News kills its climate unit David Ellison, the new pro-Trump chief executive of Paramount Skydance, has dismantled the best climate change reporting team in cable news.

A scoop that I’m not happy to report:

CBS News has gutted its climate change reporting team, one of the best in the business, and one of the only ones on cable news that consistently called out fossil fuels as the main source of climate pollution.

heated.world/p/cbs-news-k...

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending'

A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." (This PBS story on the scientific brain drain is heartbreaking & ominous for medicine, imo.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLvO...

i don’t know how to cross-post this from FB but this is absolutely heartbreaking. The age of scientific ocean discovery we were brought up in is gone & will never come back. I can’t.

A new guide on best practices for engaging coastal communities on ocean alkalinity enhancement by Sara Nawaz and Giulia Belotti.

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edspace.american.edu/carbonremova...

🚨 Recruiting 12 PhD students for a new NSF-funded program at the University of Alaska Fairbanks College of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences! This program is for U.S. students who received an Honorable Mention on the NSF GRFP within the last 3 years. @uafairbanks.bsky.social

www.uaf.edu/cfos/academi...

Interested in improving our knowledge of climate by looking into the past? In the Pliocene the earth was hotter than today, but carbon dioxide was "about the same".

Come work with us in 2026 looking at where this crucial information comes from, and how to make it better during an M2 internship.

ICYMI: NSF has followed through with its plan to end the lease on its Antarctic icebreaker, many years before necessary, with almost no congressional pushback. Now there's a mad scramble to fill the gap with less capable ships. @science.org's Jeff Mervis followed the story up:

Lots of people who want to accelerate natural processes as climate solutions should gain a basic understanding of aquatic chemistry.

Impulse response functions as a framework for quantifying ocean-based carbon dioxide removal Abstract. Limiting global warming to 2 °C by the end of the century requires dramatically reducing CO2 emissions, and also implementing carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies. Ocean-based CDR throu...

Our best strategy for assessing the efficacy of ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) involves running computationally expensive climate models. Here, we developed a statistical technique that encapsulates the climatic response to OAE interventions, simplifying the OAE carbon accounting problem. 🌊🧪

Lots of nussy signs today. I love you, America 😂😂

Trump to Cancel Direct Air Capture Hubs in Texas, Louisiana A new list of grant cancellations obtained by Heatmap includes Climeworks and Heirloom projects funded by 2021 infrastructure law.

NEW: Trump is moving to kill all funding for proposed Texas and Louisiana mega-hubs to capture CO₂ from the atmosphere

The bipartisan-backed hubs represented a rare clean tech industry where the US was on the cutting edge

by @emilypont.bsky.social for @heatmap.news

heatmap.news/politics/doe...

two men are standing next to each other in a park . ALT: two men are standing next to each other in a park .

#Phillies offense in October.

Call to Participate in #IODP3 Expedition GLACE-NS: Late Cenozoic Glaciers, Landscapes, Climates, and Ecosystems of the North Sea now open! iodp3.org/glace-ns-lat...

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Listeners like you keep our mission alive. Protect one of the last places where America comes together to hear itself.

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🌟 Postdoc Opportunity in Marine Biogeochemistry at CNRS-CEREGE!

🚢 Are you a passionate researcher ready to tackle climate change? Dive into the ERC-funded Deep-C project in Aix-en-Provence, France!

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Come work in our lab! All the usual awesome things apply about doing exciting science, plus this one might save the world! @sulpis.bsky.social hiring a 2 year position to observe and model deep ocean processes using high-pressure reactors.

*Goes to gather a bunch of forams to be dissolved* 😅

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

Today was a hard day for Ph.D. students who found out that they can no longer apply for NSF's prestigious Graduate Research Fellowship Program. "Devastating“ was how one student described it to me. #GradSchool #NSFGRFP

www.science.org/content/arti...

Three tariff announcements tonight, each one is dumber than the last. I don’t even know how to read this except as a way for the White House to exempt US pharma multinationals (who import a lot but are always building *something*) and push out smaller foreign competitors.

Arctic CO2 emissions amplified by aerobic methane oxidation during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum - Nature Geoscience Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the event, according to biomarker records from an Arctic sediment core.

⚒️ Article: Enhanced aerobic oxidation of methane in the Arctic Ocean intensified carbon dioxide emissions during the Palaeocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, potentially extending the event

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pore Fluid Origins, Circulation, and Links With Methane Hydrate on the South‐Central Chilean Margin Sediment cores taken <10 km apart near a seafloor venting structure have different pore water chemistry Regional overpressures from mineral dehydration and crustal alteration reactions at depth f...

A few years in the making (and many months late), but I am thrilled to share that the last paper from my PhD has been published! Feel free to read the open access paper to learn more about links between subduction and methane hydrate offshore Chile 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

We are ruled by absolute fucking morons.