Ian Walsh

Go Beavs!

Soybean diesel is a real thing, and probably pencils out much better than corn to ethanol

pick up some manganese nodules next time y'all are down there, you should get plenty of interesting sequences, though the transformation into todorokites probably wipes out some of the 'evidence'

Ah, great idea (we have lots of rinds)

Beans and rice for breakfast is common for breakfast in Nicaragua. Beans are really easy to grow too, and gives me an excuse to shuck and watch tv.

Check out the history of UK coal mining unions for some good lockouts (and the US too).

The same argument holds well for scientific papers, it may be useful to some to read 40/80/100 year old paper, but apart from realizing how little data went into those papers, I can’t imagine it’s terribly enlightening in general

How about “dashing mainstream scientists” ?

I'm not a great fan of that particular lede, and if it went away i doubt it would change much of anything, but I'm not sure why you think it is 'false.' Is the statement "some oxygen in the atmosphere comes from photosynthesis in the ocean" not false?

That thread discussed the current equilibrium and doesn't address [02]atmo at all in terms of origin! [02]atmo is a function of net photosynthesis and (mostly) sedimentation. It took a long time to accumulate 02 in the atmosphere (had to get rid of a lot of reduced Fe, and sequester a lot of C.

But what exactly is 'false'? Are you asserting that [02]atmo is not of marine origin at all, or much less than 50%? I'm assuming you are talking about oxygen and not argon and nitrogen (i have no idea of where denitrification is predominant)

This is a very confusing thread, as your assertion of "false" isn't specific nor is the Conversation article specific, so it is hard to get a handle on just what is right or wrong. Are you asserting that [O2atmo] doesn't have a marine origin, or that it isn't 50%? Or something else?

Well then, I’m curious what nurse shark heads are like

cool, wasn't disagreeing (or i didn't think i was!). burning coal mobilizes lots of heavy metals (uranium too)

whoa, that seems far too apropos.

mercury input is pretty widespread (via the atmosphere), and methylation occurs in sub oxic environments which in the ocean includes marine aggregates within the surface water. Human activity has increased the loading, but mercury bioaccumulation is 'natural'. eg: www.frontiersin.org/journals/env...

I worry about wide areas of the gyres getting warmer and more stratified pushing the nutricline (and pro and syn) down below the ‘enough light to grow’ depth. Marine heatwaves that don’t dissipate. That will be bad.

Please add me, 9 pm Pacific, Thursday (though I don’t post much at the moment)

If you do you’ll win a pickle

I'll be talking tommorrow night @ 9 pm pacific: Wading into the Ocean (of Data): Biogeochemical Floats and NSF's Ocean Observatories Initiative 🌊

At some point all these actions against university budgets are going to impact football

Well yeah, I’m in!

First guess is an intrusive sill, assuming you mean the horizontal lines, not the verticals which mark rock fall chutes.

Absolutely must have levels,

And Relics,

The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) The Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI) is a science-driven ocean observing network that delivers real-time data from more than 900 instruments to address critical science questions regarding the wor...

One major exception is the oceanography division (OCE) where infrastructure costs are high and operational budgets consume a large fraction of the top line budget (i.e. for the Ocean Observatories oceanobservatories.org and the ships www.unols.org)

Good luck, I guessed Tony Blair in my family group text

Tunnel de la Croix-Rousse - Wikipedia

Yeah! Had a great time riding a bike tunnel in Lyon on the local city bikes a couple of years ago. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunnel_...

I think I most enjoy your stuff when you build your own maze to get out of. And needless to say, ‘template for humanity!’ would be a great band name, and/or a multi-level marketing scheme

a bit more than halfway through a Bruegel jigsaw puzzle now....

the croatian embassy in Vienna

Was in Vienna just a couple of weeks ago for three days and took this picture to send to you. We mostly walked (20K steps per day) and rode the hop on hop off bus. went to upper belvedere and Kunsthistorisches, dance program at opera (and did not fall asleep). Brats on the street were excellent.