🌊Excited to let you know that my paper (second chapter from my dissertation) is published! 🌊
Title: Spatial Distribution and Temporal Variability of Dissolved O2 in the Santa Barbara Channel and Basin, California
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#CALCOFI #AUVSentry #Oxygen
Illustration titled "The Comb of Pearl" from 1897 depicts a mermaid with long flowing hair, naked upper body adorned with a necklace of small shells. She is holding and combing her hair with a large, spiked shell resembling a seashell comb. The mermaid's fish tail is faintly visible in the background, blending with the water. The detailed shell she uses has elongated spines, emphasizing its natural texture. The scene evokes a serene underwater moment, blending human and marine elements with soft shading and delicate lines.
🧜♀️ The hall of shells;.
New York, D. Appleton and company, 1897..
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This would be a fun pre-post test for the beginning and end of a Dinosaurs class semester…will need to remember this for when I next teach it.
@paleosoc.bsky.social invites applications for its new Collections Grants program, which provides funding for members working in natural history collections to support paleontological/paleobiological curatorial and digitization projects, proposals due June 1st!
paleo.memberclicks.net/the-paleonto...
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
Funded in part by a @paleosoc.bsky.social Student Research Grant!
Looks like Miss Reveille is a geoscientist! (“this dog” is Texas A&Ms mascot)
Marine organic debris under UV light. Seaweed glows orange, diatoms glow red, other objects glow blue.
Marine organic debris under UV light. Seaweed glows orange, diatoms glow red, other objects glow blue.
Marine organic debris under UV light. Seaweed glows orange, diatoms glow red, other objects glow blue.
Marine organic debris under UV light. Seaweed glows orange, diatoms glow red, other objects glow blue.
My sample this weekend was full of debris and sediment, so I wanted to see what it looked like under UV! Absolutely gorgeous and quite a difference to the muddy gunk under white light. All the little red dots? Diatoms! Mainly Trieres mobiliensis/regia.
#marineplankton 🦑
📢 Early Career Researchers, this one is for you
📌 Paleobiology is accepting proposals for special issues.
🐭🐌 Submissions on all fossil organism groups and trace fossils are welcome. 🐾
For more information: cambridge.org/core/journals/paleobiology/call-for-proposals
My PhD student is researching the experiences of neurodivergent geoscience faculty and understanding how their neurodivergence shaped their academic experiences. Please see the following and consider taking her survey (full consent/description in the link).
🎨🦖 ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS: Paleo-art Highlight!
👉 We’re accepting submissions of tattoos, sculptures, drawings, paintings, and all paleo-inspired art.
📢 Submit your favorite work through the Google Form: forms.gle/LENSX8YF59bjRcVS6
📸 Sent by @macc_ench, tattoo artist @buddyclarke_tattoos
SIO faculty position - Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04481
Screen shot from PowerPoint showing a paleogeographic map with color shading representing paleobathymetry (blues) and land forms (browns to greens). The automatically generated description for alt text reads "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated."
PowerPoint's automatic alt text is endlessly entertaining.
No, this is not "A picture containing cake, birthday, blue, decorated"
Reminder to edit the auto alt text before distributing slides to your class....
I am standing with newly-defended Ph.D. Beatriz Rios in the sunshine. I am holding the cake, and she is holding a bouquet of flowers.
A view of the cake. It is a square cake, and the decorations depict a Principal Component Analysis of seaweed functional traits. The first two Principal Component axes are shown, with clusters of points (in different colors) denoting the four functional groups. I’ve cut and assembled candy and fruit snacks to represent each functional groups, and those are placed on their respective clusters.
Whenever a Ph.D. candidate in our lab defends their dissertation, I bake and decorate a cake to celebrate. This is from earlier today, my rendition of a Principal Component Analysis of #seaweed functional #traits. Congratulations, Bea! 🎉🐡🦑🌊
An octopus in Southern California occupies a boring clam burrow on a rocky reef in shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean.
Another use for a boring clam hole. An octopus rests in clam burrow on a rocky reef. Or maybe it's waiting for a crustacean to walk by, maybe both.
Hey buddy, get that light outta my face!
Entrance to an exhibit under a big archway. There's a globe with the words Evolving Planet over a door, and further forward, a model Pteranodon is suspended.
Evolving Planet—itself a reskin/update of 1994's Life Over Time—is now two decades old (it opened on March 10, 2006). Here's a 🧵 of what's changed since then.
Wow. Foraminifera!
ROV pilots paused and carefully zoomed in to collect footage of these single-celled microorganisms, or protists, at 843 m during the #OBVI #LivingBioreactors expedition w/ @schmidtsciences.bsky.social offshore of Argentina. Read the full caption: youtube.com/shorts/Yv_ud...
Picture of women on a beach John Leech, ‘The mermaids' haunt’. The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1854 - 1869. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs. Picture Collection, The New York Public Library.
Call for Papers: Women’s Fieldwork and the Making of Nineteenth Century Natural History Collections
We seek articles to complete a special issue on women’s field collecting, and contributions to nineteenth century natural history for Nuncius.
#Histsci #NaturalHistory #WomensHistory #Fieldwork
“The first major breakthrough was foraminiferal micropaleontology — made by three young “girls” in 1921, which, within three years, created oil industry jobs for 300 micropaleontologists and gave rise to micropaleontology courses in 31 geology departments.”
“The typical early professional female geologist was unmarried and worked in specialized fields considered particularly ‘feminine’, such as paleontological collection curator, micropaleontologist…”
Check out the dual view scope for visitors to follow along!
Attended a lovely online Quekett meeting about foraminifera this evening! So here’s one from last week’s sample, from the class Globothalamea.
#marineplankton 🦑
SODCO is hiring a Science Program Officer based at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory. If you’re a scientist with excellent organizational skills and excited to advance the next phase in U.S. scientific ocean drilling, check it out: academic.careers.columbia.edu#!/177103
Compare and Contrast! The living species, Calliderma emma from deep-sea habitats throughout the Indo-Pacific! Are they the same genus? An interesting question! Could this genus been around since the Cretaceous? #echinoday
An historic black and white illustration of a paper nautilus floating on the ocean. There are boats, a city and hills in the background.
🎉 Huge news for BHL: The Field Museum is taking over the hosting of BHL’s website, servers & infrastructure, ensuring long-term stability and access for its 63+ million pages of open biodiversity literature. Learn more:
blog.biodiversitylibrary.org/2026/02/tran...
#BHLTransition #ILoveBHL 🌍 📚 🧪
Figure 2.1 the variety of organisms with very different habits and habitats which may accumulate as fossils in one layer of sediment on the sea floor. Drawn by Miss Mary E. Pugh.
I don’t know what I like better: the bloat-and-float kangaroo(?) or the expression on the whale as it is taken down by a giant squid #FossilFriday
From: Ager 1963 Principles of Paleoecology
Extant mollusks Phalium bandatum (top left) from Nakayama, Japan; Cymbiola imperialis (top center) from the Philippines; Muricanthus radix (top right) from the Pacific coast of Panama; Pteria penguin (center) from Palau; Chama lazarus (bottom left) from Guam; and Fimbria fimbriata (bottom right) from Palau. CREDIT: Tracy J. Thomson
Early mollusks evolved a new skeletal feature every 2 million years. Since the Ordovician, that rate has slowed to one per 9 million years—suggesting that despite growing diversity, molluscan evolution has become substantially more predictable. In PNAS: https://ow.ly/IHSt50Ymv1s
SODCO at Texas A&M is hiring for the role of Chemistry Technician!
Learn more and apply at tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/TAMU_External/job/SODCO-Chemistry-Technician_R-090805-1
📷 Erick Bravo, IODP JRSO
Flyer for My COAST Galveston PD. The text reads: My COAST. Galveston, Texas. April 19-22, 2026. Application deadline: February 27. Imagery: Decorative drawings of various marine life.
Reminder: Friday, February 27 is the application deadline for My COAST coming up in Galveston, TX! This unique hands-on PD is primarily focused around the Texas Gulf Coast but is open to all teachers who may benefit. Learn more and apply: forms.gle/2ScAWPWyPyQE... #edusky #iteachbio #scienceteachers
