Matthew L. Staitis

📢 @icdpdrilling.bsky.social Proposal Call for Pre-, Workshop, Full and our NEW ❗Fast-track Proposals is now open

📅 Deadline: 15 January 2026
📧 Submit via: proposal.submission@icdp-online.org

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Returning from my 2-day lab visit to National Oceanography Centre University of Southampton preparing my foram samples for Laser Ablation (LA-MS) and Isotope Ratio (IRMS) Mass Spectrometry. Many thanks to Professor J. Andy Milton and Bastian Hambach for making this possible 🔬🐚🧪💥⚛️

🌳 Trees help fight #ClimateChange by capturing #Carbon from the air and storing it.

Explore our new carbon content in the Climate Change Hub to see how you can help enhance carbon stocks and contribute to #ClimateAction.

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Ocean stratification in a warming climate - Nature Reviews Earth & Environment Ocean stratification — density-related layering of seawater — influences oceanographic and climatic processes. This Review outlines observed and projected changes in stratification, noting a 0.8% dec−1 increase in 0–2,000 m stratification from 1960–2024, and a further 1.4% dec−1 increase by 2100 under SSP2-4.5.

🌊 Ocean stratification has increased since the 1960s, rising 0.8%/decade due to warming, with projections of up to 2.9%/decade by 2100 depending on emissions

Impacts: reduced vertical mixing, altered heat and carbon uptake, intensified cyclones, and ⬆️ ecosystem stress
www.nature.com/articles/s43...

Was the similarity in titles intentional? Despite the viewpoints in both books being the antithesis of each other🫣

We are thrilled to partner with @leverhulme.ac.uk and 5x15 for a special event at Conway Hall on the 17th of November, featuring several researchers from our new collection to discuss the importance of knowledge in a changing world !

#PLPEXPeditions @tiffwattsmith.bsky.social

Do you want to raise the profile of your research, and share it with over 10,000 members of the public? The call for proposals to exhibit at the 2026 #SummerScience Exhibition is still open: https://royalsociety.org/science-events-and-lectures/summer-science-exhibition/call-for-proposals-2026/

YouTube video by Savanteum Kennedy's Greatest Speech: A Tiny Ripple of Hope

Still relevant, even today:
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Δ47 water temperature of middle Miocene sabkha carbonate from IODP (International Ocean Discovery Program) Site U1464 (SAB-all) aligned with modeled summer half-year air temperatures in general circulation simulations with a middle or late Miocene configuration (39 model runs from MioMIP; Burls et al., 2021; Sarr et al., 2022).

We have a new paper (in GEOLOGY!)
Using a new way to look at sabkha sediments with clumped isotopes, we found that warming in the Miocene was not that significant in the horse latitudes. Most of the warming was likely in the high latitudes. 🧪⚒️

Link: pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/...

Seven of nine planetary boundaries now breached – ocean acidification joins the danger zone," says PIK director Johan Rockström presenting the key findings of the Planetary Health Check 2025 today. #PlanetaryBoundaries
➡️ www.pik-potsdam.de/en/news/late...

Successful day cleaning planktic foram samples in the @ueaenv.bsky.social Isotope Clean Laboratory ahead of laser ablation mass spectrometry (LA-MS) analyses🔬🐚🧪⚛️

YouTube video by Simon Clark Speedrun the climate skeptic experience

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YouTube video by Simon Clark Speedrun the climate skeptic experience

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“To suggest it is a ‘con job’ is flying in the face both of what we can observe, and of the physics.”

Eric Wolff, Chair of the Royal Society’s Biodiversity, Environment and Climate Committee

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Just because someone says the sky is green doesn't make it so🫣😐

Climate change is not a con-job. If you want to know more about the evidence for and causes of #ClimateChange, head to our website: royalsociety.org/news-resourc...

1850-2025 time series of global mean temperature anomaly from the HadCRUT5 dataset.

After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social

Could the sudden octopus invasion change the future of English fisheries?

An unexpected surge in common octopus numbers is causing ripples across the English Channel. While some fishermen see it as a short-term boon, others face significant drops in their traditional catches.

AN OCTOPUS BLOOM IN THE ENGLISH CHANNEL The ripples of this unexpected event continue to spread. By Guy Baker.

With warming seas and changing marine dynamics, this phenomenon raises pressing questions about the resilience of our coastal communities.

Dive deeper into this unfolding story. Read the full article from The Marine Biologist here for free: mymba.mba.ac.uk/resource/an-...

Photo Umeed Mistry

YouTube video by Matthew Staitis Norfolk Wildlife Trust talk - Fossils of the east of England

Watch last week's talk, now available to view using the link below:
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Interesting talks by @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and Jess Tierney on the latest work on Climate of the Past: Greenhouse Gases and Climate Sensitivity 🌡️🌐

Also reminding us that we wouldn’t know much about the past changes in oceans and climate that was older than 800ka (from ice cores) if we hadn’t had ocean drilling. #IODP

Many thanks to Norfolk Wildlife Trust for inviting me to speak this afternoon at their lovely Cley Marsh Visitor Centre and widely advertise my talk across a variety of mediums!!

Fantastic first talk at #ICP15 by Prof Cristiano Chiessi from Brazil about the climate links between the Amazon and the AMOC - looking at the Heinrich Stadial 1 as an analogue for future climate tipping point if AMOC slows down in the future - how will the Amazon respond?

Atlantic circulation collapse could come sooner than expected, new models warn Cutting carbon dioxide emissions to net zero is becoming even more urgent to prevent climate disaster, caution scientists

✍️ Atlantic circulation collapse could come sooner than expected

Brian McHugh interviews Professor Sybren Drijfhout, lead author of the new report, who explains why cutting carbon dioxide emissions to net zero is becoming even more urgent to prevent climate disaster

@brianmchugh.bsky.social

UK international ocean drilling programme site survey Apply for funding for ship borne and virtual site survey investigations (SSI) to support the development of applications for a scientific ocean drilling expedition.

www.ukri.org/opportunity/...

Nice to see my upcoming Norfolk Wildlife Trust talk on 'Fossils of the East of England' advertised on campus today @ueaenv.bsky.social

Rising seafloor temperatures risk to marine life - Plymouth study - BBC News A new study shows there could be a risk to marine life if seafloor temperatures rise.

🌊 Rising seafloor temperatures risk to marine life

…marine heatwaves on the seafloor could be more than 50% more frequent in future than at the surface of the ocean during hot summer months

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Time-Integrated Matrix for Earth Sciences (TIMES) Kicks Off With Workshop at Carnegie's EPL More than 70 experts in Earth’s geologic history, including geochronologists, astrochronologists, and paleoclimatologists, gathered in person and online at Carnegie Science’s Earth & Planets Laborator...

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Hurricane Erin achieved something most storms do not this weekend. "Extreme Rapid Intensification". Did climate change play a part? Science says, yes.
In 12 hours winds increased by ~65 mph. Only 3 other storms have done that and Erin was the earliest & only August storm to do so.
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