Amanda Whitmire

This is a great question! I need to ask the donors (one of which is Bruce himself) to see if they would prefer public domain or CC BY or what. I'll be sure to let you know.

Bruce Robison ca. 1968 or 1969 aboard the R/V Te Vega as part of the Stanford Oceanographic Expeditions.

Bruce Robison waves from inside a WASP atmospheric diving suit (ADS) being launched off the fantail of the R/V New Horizon in 1982. This is in the Santa Barbara Basin.

Bruce Robison looking like an absolute boss while being interviewed aboard the R/V New Horizon in 1982.

Bruce Robison wrote a wonderful retrospective on his career that I didn't mean to read at work but I couldn't stop. Bruce's career is sprinkled all through our library collections. Here's a few photos we're working on uploading to the digital repository. 🤩 Paper🔗: doi.org/10.1093/ices... 🌊

Careful asking a librarian for a reference, you'll get more than you asked for! ☺️ This paper looks to be the first: doi.org/10.1016/0198.... As per usual, the @wikipedia.org page has a nice summary w/ references. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spice_(...

Apparently coined by Walter Munk in 1981 - I should have known! Absolute legend.

How thoughtless of me! 😂 This is so neat. It has to do with seawater density and how water of the same density can be warm+saltier (spicy) or cold+fresher (minty). Thought I had a pretty good understanding of the physical nature of seawater but I never realized it could be spicy! 🌶️

I love how being a librarian means I'm learning new things *all* the time. I've got a PhD in oceanography, but this morning I was answering a reference question & learned about ocean spiciness & how seawater can be "spicy" or "minty." 😍 TY to the person who asked about velocities of deep currents. 🌊

A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women

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The best! I’ll never write a pattern with such perfect instructions. 😂

"How do you start a frog hat? Rib it! Rib it!" 🐸

Hell yes here for this. 🤘🦑

We saw a bumper sticker on the way to school this morning that said "LEGALIZE UPDOG" and I am still laughing about it.

A landscape photo looking up a rocky coastline on a foggy morning. There is a large wave hitting the shore. A beige, single-story building with a clay tile roof sits in the background, a bit further up the coast.

A photo from this morning of waves hitting the beach with my library in the background. The sea is angry today, my friends. 🌊

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A young Asian woman in a lab coat is sitting at a large piece of scientific equipment and is turned back to face the camera with a big smile. It’s Isabella Abbott!

Absolute legend!

Yesssss. This is the way. 🧣

Hell, I live in Monterey and even I'm considering purchasing a Lenny Kravitz scarf. Let's all prioritize comfort this year.

That was my first immediate thought, too! Will be following along with great interest ... 😍

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Screenshot of an automated text exchange between me and the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The aquarium sent a photo of an otter floating in a kelp forest along with the text: “Did you miss us? The Aquarium is shellebrating Sea Otter Awareness Week starting Sunday. Text SOAW to dive into daily quizzes, furry facts, and more all week!” I responded quickly with “SOAW”.

Hell yeah, @montereybayaquarium.org, send me that otter content! 🦦🌊🦑

Comic. [Building with large sign in front of it[ SIGN: Welcome to the *Biology Department* It has been [changeable sign: 3] days since we discovered something existentially horrifying about bugs that makes you question your whole reality

Biology Department

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Overhead projectors? Oh sure! You don't see them much, but we have one somewhere at the marine station.

A set of color transparency sheets of slides for a presentation on thin layers sit on a desk in my office.

I am “I better print transparencies of this talk for the overhead projector in case the technology fails” years old.

A woman in Carhartt work pants, Xtratuf boots and a PFD stands on the deck of a research vessel with a small set of oceanographic instruments. She is smiling, presumably happy about the sunny weather and lack of swell.

On the starboard deck of a research vessel, a CTD rosette sits next to an open rail. A woman wearing a PFF is walking up to the rosette. The coast is in the background.

Someone holds two 3.5-inch floppy disks with “Dickey Mooring CTD data” written on them. They are from February 01, 2006 and May 5, 2006.

Photos and data from nearly 20 years ago, back when we put CTD casts on floppies! 😂 Found the disks in my garage - an apparently safe storage method …

Came here for the comments and have not been disappointed.

I'm really proud that as I mentally ran through candidates of things to take home, most of what came to mind are things we've already scanned & uploaded to Stanford Digital Repository - no action needed. Humbled that I didn't have a grab-list already composed, so I'm working on that now. 🤔 /end

A series of large scrapbook volumes sit on a table in a library. The closest album is the oldest and the fattest.

A look inside the oldest album. There is a photo of Timothy Hopkins, who donated money to build the marine station, and a letter from Hopkins to the director of the marine station at that time (1934), Walter K. Fisher.

Last but not least, I grabbed the scrapbooks that document the history of @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social. Only the first album has been scanned & this is now at the top of my digitization list. Totally irreplaceable. 4/

A photo of a very old looking album that has a waetherd black leather binding and a blue cover with the word "photographs" on it.

A page in the algae album with 4 small specimens arranged on it. They were all very carefully laid out before being pressed so you can see all the parts. The colors are well preserved for being over 100 years old.

A very close-up shot of one of the algae specimens so you can see the texture of the paper, the thickness of the algae, and the rust color of the pigments.

This beauty is one of a kind, and even though it's been scanned, I'd be heartbroken if it was reclaimed by the sea. It's an album, "Marine algae of New England coast," created by collector Grace A, Hall in 1895. Please go admire the photos. searchworks.stanford.edu/view/13786250 3/

A side-view photo of a very large book opened on a table in a library. There is an etching of a species of marine algae that fills one page.

A top-view photo of a different page in the album showing the marine alga Macrocystis pyrifera, which is very common here in Monterey.

What I just call "Postels" is an 1840 folio in Russian & Latin that has etchings of marine algae from Russian surveys of the North American west coast in the late 1820s. Not SUPER rare, but rare enough. I love it, so I took it. cc. @gworthey.bsky.social See: searchworks.stanford.edu/view/2225739 2/

The trunk of a small SUV has several large books and albums stacked in the back.

The tsunami warning yesterday was a good reminder to have an emergency plan, whether it's your house or it's your library or lab. What would you take with you to safer ground? Here's what I took home from Miller Library ... 1/ 🌊🦑📚

Watch how seismometers recorded the passing earthquake waves from the magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula.

Each dot in this animation is a seismic station—red 🔴 means the ground moved up, blue 🔵 means it moved down.

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