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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

We are hiring a postdoc to improve predictions of hypoxia in Long Island Sound using a combination of observations and models! Read the full ad here: careers.pageuppeople.com/967/cw/en-us...

We are hiring
Open position: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Objective: Improve predictions of hypoxia in Long Island Sound using a combination of observations and models
Apply now!
jobs.uconn.edu / search 498862

Job summary
-Collect data with a wire-following profiler and interpret the data to quantify biological and physical sources and sinks of oxygen
-Analyze output from an existing hydrodynamic model (ROMS-RCA) and compare with observations to evaluate model performance
-Work with modelers to implement new model parameterizations for wave-mediated mixing and bubble-mediated gas exchange
-Develop skills and knowledge in applied research and science policy by presenting project results to managers

Perks
-Located at UConn Avery Point, on the waters of Long Island Sound, with waterfront research facilities
-Outstanding benefits, including access to a retirement plan with employer match
-UConn postdocs are represented by the UConn Graduate Employee and Postdoc Union (GEU-UAW Local 6950)
-Short train ride or drive to New York City and Boston

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Thank you for thinking of me 🥹🫡🌊🫧

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Samantha eff Jones @sjonespoet.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Time for a gas flux meme 🤓 #CO2 #CH4 #CarbonFluxes #GasFluxes

Elton John car meme. Ebullition labelled over Elton John in a pink feather boa and diffusion labelled over John Reid dressed in plain black.

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I made the Atlantic Ocean in my office for my online Introduction to Oceanography class. It is an easy demo to show how density gradients initiate the vertical and horizontal circulation in the ocean.

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

7. 9 cats interned with us 😻

Image contains six photos containing nine different cats

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

6. Cara got her green card 🍏

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

5. Cara taught 266 students Introduction to Oceanography (online!) 👩🏻‍🏫

Photo showing aquarium with food coloring and heat lamp for a demonstration on density-driven circulation in the ocean

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

4. We presented at five conferences (including the world premiere of data from the our lab!) 🌎

Anagha presenting a poster at the US OCB Summer Workshop

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

3. We got two new gas analyzers (an underway nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide analyzer and a membrane inlet mass spectrometer) 👩🏻‍🔬

Image with two inset photos: top photo shows underway gas analyzer and lower photo shows membrane inlet mass spectrometer

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

2. Kelsey and Anagha did a demonstration on how warming temperatures influence gas concentrations in the ocean for an outreach event 🫧

Kelsey and Anagha using a carbonated beverage to demonstrate that gas solubility is higher in cold water

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Cara Manning @carabonate.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

2024 in the UConn Gas Biogeochemistry Lab in 7 photos: 1. Cara and Anagha attended the US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry Summer Workshop 🤓 (@usocb.bsky.social)