Steve Phillips

Expedition 403: Sailing the Last Expedition of the JOIDES Resolution - Eos Early-career geoscientists share melancholy memories about hard science and intangible networks of collaboration.

Sailing on the JOIDES Resolution was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity; find out why with three early-career researchers who sailed on one of the legendary ship's final voyages.

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Read more in the June issue of Eos: bit.ly/Eos-Jun2025

The IODP3 team standing together on the ship's deck. Some are in red boiler suits and white hard hats, others are in casual dress. In the background is a lifeboat and various large containers. A lighthouse can be seen in the background to the left. It is a sunny, cloudy day.

The IODP logo, which features an illustration of the shoreline with a town on the left and a shipyard on the right.

In the 1960s, scientists were surprised - data clearly showed there was fresh water under the ocean floor.

Scientists have been trying to find out why since their intriguing discovery.

This month, an international team will take a closer look.

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Ocean Current Affairs in the Gulf of Mexico - Eos Multinational and multidisciplinary studies of the past and present of the Gulf’s Loop Current are helping to reveal what might be in store for coastal communities.

The Loop Current is a major pathway for water flowing from the tropics to the high-latitude North Atlantic and a key component of oceanic thermohaline circulation that affects climate in North America and Europe.

Extreme Indian summer monsoon states stifled Bay of Bengal productivity across the last deglaciation Nature Geoscience - Changes in terrestrial runoff into the Bay of Bengal during both extremely weak and strong Indian summer monsoon phases since the Last Glacial Maximum caused a collapse in...

New paper alert 🚨🚨 Here we posit a non-linear relationship between Indian Summer #Monsoon (ISM) intensity & marine productivity in the Bay of #Bengal: extremely weak & strong #ISM states of the last 22,000 yrs were *both* associated with sharp disruptions to primary production! (1/6)

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Figure 1 from Faulkner et al., 2025, showing proportion of wall type from the Cambrian 500 million years ago to today. Agglutinated and organic-walled foraminifera were dominant in the Cambrian and Ordovician. Calcareous walled taxa appeared in the Ordovician and quickly increased in diversity, representing about 60% of all genera by the end of the Devonian. This remained constant until the end Permian Mass extinction, when many calcareous walled genera disappeared, and agglutinated foraminifera briefly dominated. In the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous, agglutinated foraminifera made up about 55-60% of all foram genera, but slowly declined through the Late Cretaceous to today, as calcareous foraminifera became more diverse.

Happy #ForamFriday, here's a fresh new paper from former UT undergrad Katherine Faulkner published this week in Proceedings B, about how the number of calcareous and agglutinated foram genera has changed over the Phanerozoic, and what that means: royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/...

Apply now to attend the Gulf Coast Repository's 5-day CORE (COres for Research and Education) School. The overarching goal of CORE School is to provide a mechanism to maintain expertise in scientific ocean drilling methods and subseafloor core analysis.
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The Geological Society of America invites all undergraduate #geoscience students to apply for GSA’s Section Research Grants! These grants support students conducting original research by providing funding to fuel their curiosity & advance their studies. Apply by 10 April here: geosociety.co/RG25

The feel-good movie we need right now: Eocene Park. Like Jurassic Park but with a petting zoo full of tiny horses and nothing goes wrong and everyone is happy.

Assistant Professor of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy, Department of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science - HigherEdJobs Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

The Department of Biology, Geology, and Environmental Science at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sedimentology & Stratigraphy beginning August 2025.

#geology #jobs #academia #geologyjobs

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Congrats Hugh!!

Achieve your research goals with GSA's Graduate Student Research Grants! These grants offer up to $3,000 to support Master's and Doctoral thesis research in the geological sciences & are open to students across the U.S., Canada, Mexico & Central America. Apply by 18 February: geosociety.co/RG

🧑🏽‍🔬Hey #undergrad juniors and seniors! Seeking paid, hands-on experience in #marinescience + #engineering? Spend the #summer doing research with a WHOI #SummerStudentFellowship!

📲 Applications are due Feb. 5 - get the details: go.whoi.edu/ssf-program

💥New Paper💥 by Katherine O'Malley, David De Vleeschouwer, et al. (including me!) on the sequence and cyclostratigraphy of the Paleocene interval of IODP Site M0077 in the Chicxulub Crater pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/gsabulle...

On Thurs, I’ll be presenting a poster on organic carbon deposition/recycling and early diagenesis in the Cascadia accretionary wedge, integrating new and archived #IODP #ODP and #DSDP data. #SciOD #AGU24

If you’re at #AGU24 this week come check out our sessions on the interdisciplinary legacy of the JOIDES Resolution! Posters on Thurs and Fri am and talks Thurs and Fri pm. Looking forward to a lot of exciting #IODP #SciOD science!

On your way to #AGU24 and looking for something to read? May I recommend the latest issue of Nature Geoscience?
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The title slide of my talk! Words and university logos against a bright blue background of the ocean taken over the rail of a ship. The words say: Taira Lecture: Thursday, December 12 15:05-15:30 143 A-C (Convention Center) Title: Towards Understanding the History of the Loop Current Authors: Chris Lowery, Ligia Perez Cruz, Jaime Urrutia Fucugauchi, Jingxuan Wei, Jamie Austin, Patty Standring, Kaustubh Thirumalai

Hey if you're coming to #AGU2024 you should come check out my talk, it's Thursday afternoon, and it's about the Loop Current and how we're trying to understand its past
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Portland Sea Dogs AA baseball and newly named PWHL team Boston Fleet

drill ship on the water with a life ring attached that is lowering a microphone into the deep sea, towards the words Tales from the Deep

I produce the Tales from the Deep #podcast, with >30 recorded conversations relating to scientific ocean drilling - not the scientific results, but the personal/professional stories of being an onboard and onshore researcher. 🌊 ⚒️ Check out the collection: archive.storycorps.org/communities/...

We’re stuck in a tough place when folks just don’t seem willing to engage with complex topics. Friends/family often send me podcast links to show me the “simple truth” about climate/energy topics. I calmly encourage a deeper conversation, but they just shut down and say I’m being “condescending”…

In August 2023 we drilled and cored sediments through a hydrate system in the Gulf of Mexico. We recovered excellent records to understand microbial methane generation and how hydrate systems respond to paleoenvironmental changes. Check out our preliminary report here: zenodo.org/records/1364...

Led by University of Bordeaux Ph.D. student Charlotte Clément, we have a new paper out on pollen reconstructions to understand Holocene and Last Interglacial vegetation changes over India using IODP sediments in the Bay of Bengal.

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