Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Trace elements in the ocean attributed to a surprising source The finding that the sea floor is a source of low-abundance elements in the ocean up-ends conventional views of marine biogeochemistry.

Have you'se guys seen the new News & Views article in @nature.com by @dohnemus.bsky.social ?!

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

❗We are hiring a postdoctoral scientist to join us at UGA SkIO and lead a project investigating microeukaryote ecology in continental shelf ecosystems. Please share! ⚓ Applications currently being accepted: www.ugajobsearch.com/postings/421...

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#marinescience #omics #oceanography

this is awesome, thank you!

Undergraduate Internships - Skidaway Institute of Oceanography “The classroom is where we lay the foundation, but an internship at the Skidaway Institute provides the framework to build a... Read more »

I am looking for a summer undergraduate intern to help out with harmful algal bloom monitoring in coastal GA! Fully funded internship and housing is available. Pls help spread the word! www.skio.uga.edu/undergraduat... #habs #REU #aquaticecology #internship #oceanography

What drives me crazy about the anti-DEI rhetoric is everyone wants to be judged on merit. But you can't be judged on merit if you can't even get in the door because you don't fit some prejudiced definition of who is capable and who isn't

We are excited to announce a new faculty position here in Cambridge, for researchers in computational and/or theoretical biology, based jointly in Genetics and Mathematics. Come and join us! Happy to answer questions about research, teaching and working here. www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/50414/

Fantastic leadership from ASLO (@drplankton.bsky.social and staff):

"It is more important than ever that we come together as a community and push back against attempts to suppress ideas, knowledge and objectivity"

Hats off to @aslo.org. Proud member here - this is the way. This note, and not hiding/removing DEI resources when it's raining.
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A graph of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations at the Mauna Loa observatory, Hawaii, from 1958 to 4th February 2025. It shows carbon dioxide levels rising at an accelerating rate over the decades. This is known to be due to emissions of carbon dioxide from human activity, mainly fossil fuel burning but also deforestation. The first CO2 concentration value in March 1958 was 315 parts per million (ppm). The latest daily value is 426 ppm. The graph also shows a seasonal cycle of a few ppm within each year, which is known to be linked to the growing season in the northern hemisphere causing a temporary uptake of carbon in spring and summer and release in autumn. The graph is produced routinely by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego.

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Don't let science be hidden

and with session chair @cynthiabecker25.bsky.social !!

#ASLO25 abstracts due Oct 21st!!

Please consider submitting an abstract to our session SS08: Integrating and developing #omics technologies in #aquatic community #ecology with @aliciareigel.bsky.social

*invited speakers* @nekton4plankton.bsky.social and Anders Kiledal !
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Temperature dependency of metabolic rates in the upper ocean: A positive feedback to global climate ... The temperature of seawater can affect marine plankton in various ways, including by affecting rates of metabolic processes. This can change the way c…

How ocean warming will influence plankton abundance and metabolism is the multi-million dollar question! Respiration probably increases, and nutrients will likely become harder to access. A recent modeling study also found that increasing temperature decreases N-rich proteins in ocean phytoplankton:

Database-independent de novo metaproteomics of complex microbial communities Metaproteomics has emerged as one of the most promising approaches for determining the composition and metabolic functions of complete microbial commu…

Thank you! I have only used transcriptomes collected from the same location and time. It would be interesting to see how community distributions change with a de novo approach. Apparently it can work well. Would be fun to compare the two methods side by side..
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Woo we finally have our preprint out! Using transcripts and proteins collected with a AUV Clio, we found shifts in marine microeukaryotes vertically in the water column and signatures of changing nutrient stress across a coastal gradient: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Does anyone have experience shipping non-hazardous samples on dry ice internationally? Concerned about samples getting stuck in customs, either on the way out the Netherlands or into the US.... Recommendations appreciated!!