This Saturday, SODCO will be participating in the American Museum of Natural History EarthFest. If you're in NYC, check it out!
We'll be in the Hall of Ocean Life with a giant inflatable model of the JOIDES Resolution, ready to chat about SciOD!
EarthFest details: www.amnh.org/calendar/earthfest
As a fire scientist, I am devastated for my many good friends and colleagues who will be affected by the mass closure of so many research stations and offices. Many will leave the agency.
USFS has pioneered so much foundational fire science. The consequences of this will be catastrophic.
Welcome to the GCR! We serve the global scientific community by preserving scientific ocean drilling sub-seafloor samples, facilitating cutting-edge research through access to geologic samples and world class laboratory facilities, and training the next generation of geoscientists. #GCR #NSFfunded
Check out our International Ocean Discovery Program Data Report from Site U1521 in the Ross Sea, published today! Thanks to my coauthors including A. Shevenell, D. Kulhanek, C. Prunella, and the Exp 374 Scientists for their efforts towards this 🎉 🇦🇶 🚢 publications.iodp.org/proceedings/...
Love how this image captures the mission's "For All Humanity" motto. There are no borders in space!
But to get oriented a bit better, here is a version I annotated.
Still can't wrap my head around how amazing this picture, the Artemis crew took, is.
🌊 "Antarctica is not just some distant, irrelevant, frozen continent; it is a critical element that is deeply intertwined with all of us and will profoundly shape the future destiny of human society"—Yu Wang, PhD student @utas.edu.au @imas-utas.bsky.social
▶️ aappartnership.org.au/zoom-rotate-...
🚢 After 55 days in the Southern Ocean, the COOKIES voyage to the Cook Ice Shelf marine region has returned with something rare: a glimpse into Antarctica’s past – and clues to its future.
Learn more ▶️ antarctic.org.au/cookies-blog...
Beautiful spot! As well as beach erosion, the Icelanders probably had to rescue too many tourists eroded into the sea
Texas A&M’s Melting Point: Five presidents in five years. High-profile firings and cancellations. Crackdowns on dissent. Inside state leaders’ efforts to remake one of our finest institutions.
archive.ph/q0wgP
A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.
The sign for the Scientific Ocean Drilling Building in front of a tree. A red bicycle is leaning against the sign.
An areal photo of the entire TAMU main campus and the surrounding areas of Bryan and College Station. A label marks the location of the Scientific Ocean Drilling Building on the West Campus.
New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.
Photo of a marine terminating glacier in Greenland with icebergs in front of it
🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
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Speaking of the GCR, if you want to spend a week there to learn about scientific ocean drilling, analytical techniques, work with legacy cores, etc. apply here by Feb 15th, 2026
gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...
A new field of “soilsmology” :)
🌊 Our latest study reconstructs the tropical Indian Ocean during the mid-Pliocene - a past warm world with CO2 similar to today.
A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
IODP EXP361
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
We invite applications for two graduate students to investigate Antarctic ice sheet instability during past warm interglacials using marine sediments. Please share with students who may be interested to join our group at USF! Contact me for details; deadline 15 Dec.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
The former IODP research drillship JOIDES Resolution being pulled by two tug boats in a Norwegian fjord.
Not under her own power anymore, the vessel that revealed more about our planet than most others, the legendary JOIDES Resolution is being towed to a pre-cleaning yard in Lyngdal, Norway.
First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔
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New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Map showing the Antarctic Peninsula, overlayed with a grid depicting the percentage of rock outcrop change comparing the previous Antarctic Digital Database rock outcrop dataset to the newly released one.
Satellite image map of Day Island in Antarctica depicting a green line to illustrate positions of the Antarctic Digital Database v7.10 coastline, and a red line illustrating the position of the Antarctic Digital Database v7.11 coastline. This illustrates where the new coastline has been improved.
New data alert 🚨📣:
Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop!
📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.
The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc…
www.sodco.org
I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
🌊In a new study co-led by USF professor @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Patrick Rafter, researchers used forams from the Pliocene to show that warming in the tropical Pacific may not trigger the severe decline in nutrients predicted by earlier models.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change?
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Texas is nearing 100 gigawatts of emission-free power (solar, wind, storage, nuclear). EIA reported yesterday that the US will install 50 gigawatts of solar + storage in 2025, 40% of it in Texas. That & much more in today's Grid Roundup. Link in reply.
#Antarctic sea ice is:
⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability
🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
Great summary of our recent paper on sea level rise during a past warm period and what it means for our future. Thanks, @climateages.bsky.social , for featuring our work.
