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Bryce Mitsunaga

@bryceotopes.bsky.social

Postdoc at Harvard HEB / EPS Brown (PhD) '24, UCLA (MS) '18, Williams (BA) '13 Terrestrial + marine (paleo) climatologist | organic + carbonate (isotope) geochemist

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Bryce Mitsunaga @bryceotopes.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I’m offshore til 7/20 drilling into an LGM freshwater aquifer (www.ecord.org/expedition501/); expedition blog at expedition501.wordpress.com. This Thursday, 7/3, at 1 pm UK / 8 am Eastern, when I’m on shift, there’s a public “ship-to-shore” broadcast tour: le.ac.uk/gge/events/r... Come see!

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Bryce Mitsunaga @bryceotopes.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)

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Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition

The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.

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