Gretchen McCarthy

I’m sad.

19.01.2025 00:49 — 👍 28828    🔁 1813    💬 1683    📌 118

Finally made the switch over from the other side. While it stings to loose the history of posts, it’s been amazing to experience a “blast from the past” BlueSky has provided - feels like a decade ago with the community and engagement I have seen so far!

04.12.2024 06:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

How does #offshorewind impact our favorite #seafood? 🦞
#WHOI scientists are measuring the #stressresponse of #flounder, #scallops, and #lobsters to construction noise to understand potential changes in these high-value New England species.

📲Tune into the research with #WCAI: go.whoi.edu/bam-wcai

26.11.2024 19:47 — 👍 36    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1

Twenty years of microplastic pollution research—what have we learned? Twenty years after the first publication that used the term microplastic, we review current understanding, refine definitions, and consider future prospects. Microplastics arise from multiple sources,...

Science has provided increasing evidence of the sources, distribution & effects of #microplastics

🌎 Global action, reducing and rethinking the way we produce and use plastic are critical
#PlasticsTreaty #INC5

Read more in our multidisciplinary summary in Science
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

20.11.2024 19:58 — 👍 35    🔁 16    💬 0    📌 2

Arsenic, heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, tyre waste, microplastics, brake fluid, oil, lead from road runoff belting unfiltered into what should be a crystal clear brook. Few creatures can survive such a toxic environment. Happening to a waterway near you every time it rains.

23.11.2024 19:02 — 👍 113    🔁 57    💬 1    📌 1

a white coloured sea star from Antarctica

a closer view of the sea star with tiny star like patterns visible

Tiny stars, on a star, in the freezing darkness!

An #Antarctic #seastar or #starfish, found in seawater as cold as -2°C

25.11.2024 13:48 — 👍 52    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 2