Nick Foukal

🩰Ballet at sea, anyone? Recently, WHOI engineers & crew orchestrated a Nutcracker-level production with winches, pulleys, and ropes to deploy moorings in the treacherous waters off the coast of eastern Greenland.

Go behind the scenes with @nytimes.com: go.whoi.edu/nyt-greenland

📸 Esther Horvath

The EGNOG project is supported by NSF, and @universityofga.bsky.social, with collaborators at @whoi.edu, Johns Hopkins University, University of Bergen, and the Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Dodging Icebergs and Storms on the Hunt for an Ocean Tipping Point

Great article by @zhonggg.bsky.social and Esther Horvath highlighting our EGNOG project on the Northeast Greenland Shelf! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/c...

🌊 New study out on freshwater pathways in the subpolar North Atlantic:

With @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social and @foukalpoint.bsky.social we used surface drifters to describe the circulation of Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay waters over and away from the Labrador Shelf

os.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Is a key ocean current system slowing down? A new study adds to the debate A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — in computer models and found no evidence of long-term weakening ...

A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — in computer models and found no evidence of long-term weakening over the past 60 years.

Circulation of Baffin Bay and Hudson Bay waters on the Labrador shelf and into the subpolar North Atlantic Abstract. In the coming decades increasing amounts of freshwater are predicted to enter the subpolar North Atlantic from Greenland and the Arctic. If this additional freshwater reaches the regions whe...

New paper published today by @elodieduyck.bsky.social, myself, and @eleanorfrajka.bsky.social on the freshwater pathways along the Newfoundland and Labrador Shelf. Freshwater anomalies from Hudson/Baffin Bays likely bypass Labrador Sea convection region: os.copernicus.org/articles/21/...

Is a key ocean current system slowing down? A new study adds to the debate A team of researchers reconstructed a critical ocean current system — called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — in computer models and found no evidence of long-term weakening ...

Great writing by Kasha Patel from the Washington Post summarizing our recent AMOC article @polarocean.bsky.social @linusvogt.bsky.social : www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Atlantic overturning inferred from air-sea heat fluxes indicates no decline since the 1960s - Nature Communications The AMOC is crucial for the global ocean overturning circulation and controls the climate around the North Atlantic. Here, the authors use 24 Earth System Models from the CMIP6 to demonstrate tha...

Has the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) weakened over the last decades? In our new study, we combine state-of-the-art CMIP6 models and observation-based estimates of the air-sea heat flux in the North Atlantic to show that the AMOC has not declined since the 1960s! 🌊

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This study has been a real team effort and would never have been possible without @foukalpoint.bsky.social l and @linusvogt.bsky.social ogt.bsky.social !!! It was really great working on this together.