Clark Richards, PhD

Hey author friends! Please help! I do freelance writing, and I’m trying to find my DC pro and semi-pro writer friends.

How do I find them? Are there Bluesky starter packs, meetup group, professional societies?

How do writers find each other?

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen . ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

Why not both? (Actually, I don’t care about views, and think there’s plenty of land without infilling to make lots of homes)

Ok, now to make this happen for the North Atlantic Right Whale.

Haha I lol’d

For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages… | F... For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages bett...

Just got featured as part of Science Literacy Week for my work with the @argocanada.bsky.social #AdoptAFloat program and for other outreach. What can I say -- I like to talk about what I do! 😀🌊

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A screenshot of a fb post saying "I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall"

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@christosargyrop.bsky.social

Kale sales and autism

www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

1000%

Another beautiful September Halifax morning, another day watching visitors to our city trying to figure out to pay for the ferry by taking out cash from a private ATM, turning it into different cash, and feeding it into a little box. @samaustind5.bsky.social @tonymancini2025.bsky.social time for tap

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

Incredible

If there is a position you are interested in and the application process asks you to answer very specific things -- you should address them

Sending a form letter about why you love the ocean is a waste of my time and yours

This is a public service announcement

Moar density!! And better transit to support it, which means higher taxes if not offset by the density (but hopefully it would be).

I’ve been there. In the moment I convinced myself that there was a special quiet to working so early in the morning and I should appreciate it. Then 6:30 hit and I had to also get 3 kids up, fed, and ready for school while still in the conference. Never again.

Can confirm. Tides are weird. And awesome.

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

The reputational risk to #Dalhousie University from its misguided and ill-considered lockout of Faculty is massive. A glance at the Board makeup, mainly corporate types, makes me worry they may have no idea what makes a successful University, what Faculty do, and why.

They didn’t even wait to see if the union was going to reject their offer!

I’m Clark, based in Halifax NS Canada. I use robots to study the ocean and work primarily in the Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Atlantic. I’m a foster parent for a bunch of #Argo floats that I get school classes to adopt before they get deployed across the global ocean. 🌊 🧪🌎🌡️

Here’s my “I haven’t seen the basin recently so am just guessing” oceanographer reply:

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On the other hand, if the water is very clear, that would indicate the opposite (low nutrients and so not much growth). I might have to take a drive by before leaving town for two weeks tomorrow 😊.

I haven’t seen in person, but usually a greenish hue would be the result of a phytoplankton bloom (eg tiny plants). There has been lots of light so maybe that’s kicked off something. I can ask colleagues to see if our regular sampling has picked up anything! 🌊

Screen shot of the article by Liniger et al. "Two decades of increase in Southern Ocean net community production revealed by BGC-Argo floats. https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GB008371

Graphs shown the increase in mean (a) and total (b) Annual Net Community Production over the Southern Ocean from 2004 to 2022. The spatial distribution of the ANCP increase in shown in panel (c).

🌊The Southern Ocean is warming, is productivity changing? New paper by Liniger et al. uses the nitrate sensors on 274 SOCCOM/BGC-Argo floats to compute annual NCP. It has increased significantly over the past two decades.
@mbarinews.bsky.social @soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social‬

You should come! Halifax is fantastic.

A photo of a copepod collected in Halifax harbour.

We caught some calanus finmarchicus!!

A selfie of middle-aged oceanographer aboard the CSS Acadia.

🌊 Another beautiful day teaching kids about the ocean and how we measure it in Halifax NS, aboard the historic CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. One of the oldest hydrographic research ships still afloat! #CSSAcadia

I just learned a lab appropriate alternative to rock, paper, scissors- Kelp, Urchin, Rock. Kelp covers the rock, urchin eats the kelp, rock squashes the urchin!

Everything we've made will break, buildings and streets will crumble, and cities will be abandoned. But the CO₂ we emit into the atmosphere will persist for centuries, and the climatic impacts will last longer than human civilization has existed. This is our legacy for the future.

I haven't, that I know of. But I've been reading the literature and about other things found in this area, and now I'm going to be looking everywhere for them!

Apparently the shells are a species of brachiopod (a two-shelled animal) and the worm-like bits are likely the stem from a crinoid. Apparently there are trilobytes in the fossil record around here too, so now I'll be looking out for them 😀