Peter de Menocal

Florida’s ocean economy depends on science | Column From sharks to plankton, ocean life matters deeply to Florida.

It's not just Florida, the US ocean economy depends on science. Great piece by Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)!🧪🌊
www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...

One of our paper from 2016 on the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on crops was cited in the DOE report commissioned by the Trump administration, giving misleading conclusions that rising CO2 emissions are beneficial to agriculture.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.

Read this from @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @msleinen.bsky.social, and John Richardson, retired Navy admiral, whose son was my student, about how investing in ocean science is not just about curiosity, but about ensuring our future readiness, resilience, and national security. 🌊

Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.

Please read this OpEd in the Wa Post by @pdemenocal.bsky.social. Federal investment into fundamental research about our ocean planet has led to profound discoveries with direct implications for national security. (h/t: @ashevenell.bsky.social)

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

In recognition of his deep commitment to ocean advocacy, WHOI President @pdemenocal.bsky.social officially recognized His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco with a #WHOI Centennial Medal at #UNOC3 this morning. Here's to a continuing legacy of ocean leadership!

The potential of wastewater treatment on carbon storage through ocean alkalinity enhancement The global carbon sink potential of coastal wastewater treatment plants through alkalinity enhancement is 18.8 Tg CO2 per year.

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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article) Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.

The importance of being there! HOV Alvin and the first live observation of a deep sea eruption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...

A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/..., much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/....

This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!).

What does this mean?

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Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth, such as amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in...

Bennu asteroid geochemistry results in - Evidence for extraterrestrial soluble organic matter
e outer protoplanetary disk."... "We detected amino acids (including 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology)…” www.nature.com/articles/s41...

An ice core in a drill. 📷 Joel Pedro

Welcome to the feed from the Million Year Ice Core Project, or MYIC. This project has been underway for some years, preparing to drill the oldest continuous ice core record from Antarctica, extending to more than a million years, possibly to 1.5 million years or more. /1

YouTube video by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution WHOI Best of 2024

Why is WHOI such an inspiring place to work? - sharing our 2024 year end reel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmc...

🙏We have much to be grateful for, including the #philanthropicsupport that drives our search for solutions. This year, the Grossman Family Foundation gifted $10 million towards innovative projects at #WHOI.

📲Find out what inspired this generous gift: go.whoi.edu/grossman

#GivingTuesday

Show Your Stripes Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe

You can now share the Warming Stripes directly to BlueSky, such as these for my town of Reading:

showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni...

(Find the graphic you want to share, click the blue options button - the one with three horizontal lines - and select the butterfly!)

YouTube video by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Representing the Ocean at COP29

Welcome to the #COP29 #OceanPavilion!
With @scrippsocean.bsky.social + partners from around the world, we’re forming an #ocean-climate nexus, pushing the needle for #sciencebased, marine policy #solutions in the UN’s #climate negotiations.

📲 Hear from @pdemenocal.bsky.social: youtu.be/O_63TlozFfI

How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔
In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Hi Roz!

A picture of new Alvin pilot Kaitlin Beardshear sitting on top of the sub

Such fantastic news from @whoi.bsky.social! Onward and “downward” 🌊🦑 we go and congratulations Kaitlyn!
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Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.

As ever, Gavin breaks it down to a hard, pithy truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...

What It Means to Come of Age in Climate Chaos Today’s teenagers were born into the global-warming crisis, but already it’s upending their adolescence — and will define their future.

A gutting piece in the New York Times as we’re here at #cop29 “What it means to become of age in climate chaos”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Wonderful to see my old friend and great colleague again, Ousmane N’diaye, renowned Senegalese meteorologist and newly Knight in the Order of the Lion

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- fisherman in Iceland
- juggie in S Texas
* fired for burning out the heating element

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Time series from 1880 to 2023 showing steadily rising global temperatures and an estimate record for 2024.

With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record.

Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).

Great you have you back Ed! And together with you.

Thanks Leah! Peter de Menocal (P/D WHOI) here and great to see so many familiar folks again!

Great resource Katharine - thank you!

WHOI announced our newest Alvin pilot yesterday, Kaitlyn Beardshear. The attached picture shows Kaitlyn with the Alvin team and the Navy representatives that served as her “murder board” yesterday, the final step in a rigorous training and testing process.

@whoi.bsky.social

Timeseries of GISTEMP annual temperatures with uncertainties from 1880 to 2023 and including an estimate for 2024 using YTD temperatures. The 2024 estimate is clearly above and distinct from all previous years and straddles the '1.5ºC above the late 19th C' line.

With the (belated) September data now in, the updated prediction is that 2024 is almost certain to be a new annual surface temperature record, and possibly by more than 0.1ºC. 50% change of exceeding 1.5ºC above the late 19th C.

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on LinkedIn: #hurricanemilton #whoi As Florida braces for #HurricaneMilton, #WHOI’s fleet of Argo floats are helping forecasters predict the storm’s path and intensity. Seen in this map from the…

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