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Unprecedented Imaging of an Upwelling Event: RCA Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring - Ocean Observatories Initiative Co-registered instruments on the Slope Base Shallow Profiler Mooring, located 108 km offshore Newport, Oregon, yield unprecedented high resolution imagery of a possible short-lived upwelling event and...

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This is cool!

@usocb.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social

oceanobservatories.org/2025/08/unpr...

OPINION
Counterintuitive Range Shifts May Be Explained by Climate Induced Changes in Biotic Interactions

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Timeline of the AlkalOcean mesocosm experiment (14 d, D1–D14) highlighting the days where the three grazing incubations were conducted (Exp1 on D1, Exp2 on D4, and Exp3 on D8), and a summarized scheme showing the experimental workflow including mesocosm sampling, incubations, and sample processing.

I still have my (many) reservations about ocean alkalinity enhancement. But I'm very happy to see this sort of study about it, looking at how it may affect plankton.
Also, the title is brilliant.

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Link: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Connectivity and Adaptation Patterns of the Deep-Sea Ground-Forming Sponge Geodia hentscheli Across Its Entire Distribution Abstract. Geodia hentscheli, a species forming sponge grounds in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans, is a common deep-sea organism, that plays a fundamen

New research led by Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales and involving School of Ocean Sciences @bangoruniversity.bsky.social found genetic connectivity in a deep sea species over 1000s of km, but genetic isolation over depth. Read all about it here:
academic.oup.com/mbe/article/...

The {styler} R package styling a whole directory with a single command in mere seconds.

I *LOVE* the {styler} #rstats package.
📦 styler.r-lib.org
📖 design.tidyverse.org

🎉New preprint!

"TADA! Simple guidelines to improve code sharing"

tinyurl.com/8rmnwjrk

We present simple guidelines to help researchers of all coding levels improve the transparency and reproducibility of their analytical code, TADA!

Transferable, Accessible, Documented, Annotated.

Pantropical tree rings show small effects of drought on stem growth Increasing drought pressure under anthropogenic climate change may jeopardize the potential of tropical forests to capture carbon in woody biomass and act as a long-term carbon dioxide sink. To evalua...

How do tropical #trees deal with droughts? The answer is published today in @science.org

Our pantropical #treering analysis revealed 2.5% growth reduction during #drought years. Yet, growth declined by >10% in 1/4 of 500 study sites, and in hotter & drier regions.

doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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This surprisingly relaxing footage is from SIX MILES under the ocean – and it’s the deepest ecosystem yet discovered

NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists

My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October.

So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.

Nitrogen deposition and climate drive plant nitrogen uptake while soil factors drive nitrogen use efficiency in terrestrial ecosystems Abstract. The role of plants in sequestering carbon is a critical component in mitigating climate change. A key aspect of this role involves plant nitrogen (N) uptake (Nup) and N use efficiency (NUE),...

How much nitrogen are plants taking up from the soil? How efficient are they at building biomass with it? Are models doing a good job assessing it? Find your answers in our last publication (open access!): esd.copernicus.org/articles/16/...

More Than Just For Cleaning: The importance of Sponges through the Eyes of Báslavi Cóndor Luján and Her Students In this feature, we spoke with some of Báslavi Cóndor Luján's students to learn more about their work exploring sponges, one of the ocean’s most overlooked but ecologically vital organisms.

“Sponges are among the least studied organisms in Peru, along with many others that at first glance seem to have no significant importance to humans. As a result, the biodiversity of our country is highly undervalued”
— Hugo Vicente, sponge biologist

Read the article oceancensus.org/more-than-ju...

Samenvatting “Staat van de Waddenzee 2025” gepubliceerd De Staat van de Waddenzee geeft een integraal beeld van de huidige status en recente ontwikkelingen in de Waddenzee gebaseerd op 238 indicatoren voor de thema’s weer & klimaat, leefomgeving en soorten...

De publiekssamenvatting is al verschenen: www.waddenacademie.nl/nieuws/nieuw...

The world’s largest cold water coral reef lies beside the first experimental deep-sea mining test site In a region once thought to be so ecologically uninteresting that it was viewed as a useful testbed for deep-sea mining equipment, NOAA researchers have detected what could be the world’s lar…

In the documentary, I mention that the first experimental deep-sea mining site just barely missed dredging up the world's largest cold water coral reef.

Here's my write up of that discovery: www.southernfriedscience.com/the-worlds-l...

Opinie: Alleen nu kunnen we het koraal nog redden Lisa Becking en Erik Meesters roepen namens onderzoekers op tot actie in Caribisch Nederland.

'Behoud van bestaande koraalriffen is veel effectiever én goedkoper dan achteraf proberen te herstellen wat verloren is gegaan', schrijft Naturalis-onderzoeker Lisa Becking in Trouw.
www.trouw.nl/opinie/opini...

Tropical biodiversity loss from land-use change is severely underestimated by local-scale assessments - Nature Ecology & Evolution Analysis of data on 971 bird species in natural habitat and cattle pasture in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, sugges...

Analysis of data on 971 bird species in Colombia finds that near-national-scale losses of bird diversity greatly exceed losses recorded at the local scale, suggesting that extrapolations from local studies will severely underestimate biodiversity losses
www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧪

Herring spawned poleward following fishery-induced collective memory loss - Nature A critically low abundance of older herring due to age-selective fisheries resulted in an approximately 800-km poleward shift in main spawning.

have you heard about the fish that forgot its migration?

herring used to feed in northern Norway and migrate south (>1000km) to spawn

a few years ago they abruptly stopped doing that

authors think older adults were overfished & didn't "teach" younger fish to migrate!

doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#JustOut: "Spatial distribution of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in natural and restored intertidal wetlands in the Scheldt estuary"
👉 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Take a stroll on the Arctic Ocean..

Station 2 successfully completed – AWI Polarstern It’s all happening here on board: we have already successfully completed the second station. This time, we were much faster and more efficient. The experience from the first station is already paying ...

Live from the #Arctic #Ocean: Watch real-time webcams of the ocean surface and the underside of the sea ice! +1 station to come. #CONTRASTS 🌊❄️🛰️

awi.panomax.com/ice1_surface
awi.panomax.com/ice2_surface
awi.panomax.com/ice1_water
awi.panomax.com/ice2_water

follow-polarstern.awi.de/blog/18-07-2...

Taxonomic trolling 26 May 2025 Darren Naish looks at how a small number of authors can cause chaos in biology’s system for naming species and what can be done about it The term ‘taxonomy’ refers to the branch of sc...

How a small number of authors can cause chaos in biology’s system for naming species and what can be done about it. #taxonomy #bugsky thebiologist.rsb.org.uk/biologist-fe...

A Transatlantic Communications Cable Does Double Duty - Eos A new device enables existing submarine cable networks to measure deep-sea movements. It could ultimately help improve tsunami warnings and climate monitoring.

Could the same tools that bring us Internet and phone service be used to monitor the seafloor?

New #AGUPubs research investigates. 🧪

eos.org/research-spo...

An exciting new study from our group, led by @polarguy.bsky.social, sheds light on the ancient pre-glacial landscape beneath East Antarctica and how an extensive network of fluvial surfaces has modulated subsequent ice sheet response to climate. Read more here! 👇❄️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

WeTransfer TOS says they can use all your uploaded content for genAI

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Voor mij nieuw dit. Laatste keer dat ik WeTransfer heb gebruikt.

Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services Nature Reviews Biodiversity, Published online: 07 July 2025; doi:10.1038/s44358-025-00058-5Marine heatwaves (MHWs) have become more intense and widespread globally, affecting species, ecosystems and people. After summarizing how and why MHWs are changing, this Review explores these impacts and their underlying mechanisms, highlights knowledge gaps and considers opportunities to mitigate the effects of MHWs.

ICYMI: New online! Marine heatwaves as hot spots of climate change and impacts on biodiversity and ecosystem services

Sunrise from a salt marsh on Sapelo Island, Georgia, in February 2023. CREDIT: Kyle Runion

Salt marshes that look healthy aboveground may be losing biomass in their roots, according to a study of spartina marshes on the coast of Georgia between 2014 and 2023. This below-ground biomass loss could be a harbinger of salt marsh loss. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

We are super proud of this paper led by @jcuofficial.bsky.social PhD student @joelgaylard.bsky.social - so cool that #sharks follow these centuries-old mathematical scaling 'rules' almost perfectly!!

Biomass and Biodiversity Were Coupled in Earth's Past - Eos Measuring shells and skeletons encased in thousands of limestone samples has revealed that the sheer amount of living stuff in Earth’s oceans changed alongside the diversity of organisms.

Data on how ecosystems evolve over geologic time may be key to understanding modern-day ecosystem changes. A study of marine biomass over the past 541 million years gets scientists one step closer.

The developing polynya north of Greenland looks impressive. It will likely open a bit further in the coming days. The sea ice is being pushed away from the coast by the prevailing southerly winds. This area is usually covered with sea ice.
#Arctic #SeaIce #AMSR2 #CONTRASTS