Check out this open PhD student position to work with Dr. Davide Oppo on some exciting methane seep questions!
risingfluids.org/phd-usam-adv-1
Boston / Cambridge - come on by April 15th to hear more about The Dark Frontier 🌊🦑🐋🦠 Get your ticket today!
www.harvard.com/event/jeffre...
This Boston winter has me thinking fondly of my time at the beautiful Caltech campus 😍
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Our lab will be headed back to Iceland, this time in pursuit of new vents and unusual microbes, thanks to National Geographic! Excited to partner with Skylar Tibbits, Jessica Todd, Erlendur Bogason, and Geir Borg on this one. 🌊
news.nationalgeographic.org/meridian-gra...
The deep sea has been spared the brunt of anthropogenic harm so far...but that may change if deep-sea mining and/or marine CO2 removal technologies gain steam...
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Yeah for sure - happy to chat any time!
Many more book-related snippets to come here! I'd love to share a bit more about what went into the reporting and the very nice things others are saying about it so far. Stay tuned...
Hey guess what - I wrote a book, and it's coming out soon!
The Dark Frontier is about the wonders of the deep sea...and the threats they face. Check it out, and if you're so moved, you can preorder from your favorite purveyor of fine literature 📚❤️
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/652987...
Interesting...China joins Chile and Belgium as potential seats for the High Seas Treaty secretariat...
dialogue.earth/en/ocean/chi...
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"Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious ‘dark oxygen’ "
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exciting new work starting in the lab!
It’s live! Now the real work begins…making the BBNJ treaty as strong and effective as possible.
I was humbled to call Kristina a mentor and a friend - she made the complicated world of marine policy legible, and showed me that scientists no longer have the "luxury" of detachment.
We don't need to choose between understanding and protecting the natural world - we can, and should, do both!
We lost an absolute legend recently - Kristina Gjerde was fearless defender of the ocean and all of its marvels 💪 🌊
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Well this seems important: perhaps Titan doesn't have a subsurface ocean after all...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Good morning Nee Orleans 👋 Excited to #AGU!
With a rockstar team of researchers and diplomats, we put together a list of requirements, recommendations, and opportunities for scientists to keep in mind.
Science is at the core of the BBNJ treaty, and scientists have many key roles to play!
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The UN's "Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction" treaty (aka the "High Seas Treaty") is about to take effect - great! But what does it mean for scientists working in international waters? What will we need to do to be compliant and, ideally, helpful?
We wrote a paper to answer these questions 👇
Biological surveys reveal unexpectedly high faunal diversity at Nankai Trough methane seeps
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(For reference, this is what we were hoping that view would look like...)
And the next highly anticipated geological pilgrimage: the grand vista at the Cliffs of Moher 😂🤦
Major geological pilgrimage yesterday! 😍
Despite their prominence in the deep sea, ammonia oxidizing microbes don't play a huge role in carbon cycling. They're around, just not very active, starved for nitrogen... 🧪🌊
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
And here's the initial news and recent update on the UNL situation 🧪 It's not too late!
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/breakin...
unlcas.github.io/eas-budget/p...
I was in geology depts from undergrad through my PhD, and they've given me an expansive sense of time and space as they operate in the natural world. These scales are completely different from our own lived experience, but are essential to understand if we're to exist long-term on this planet. 🧪
Between this and similar news at the University of Nebraska (where the Dept of Earth & Atm Sci has been earmarked for elimination), geology departments seem to be on the front lines of academia budget cuts.
This would be a tragic loss for young scientists and citizens alike 🧪
western science 🤝 traditional knowledge
What exactly is it about Marshall Islands sailors that allows them to navigate across vast oceanic distances without fancy tools? Excited to see what comes of this study!
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/s...
Oranges left for two weeks in tupperware: a completely intentional microbiological study 😂😜
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