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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

My GEOMAR group feels at home in Gran Canaria, first time for me. In a few days, we set up a mesocosm experiment on OAE (a type of mCDR). My role: impact on phytoplankton, base of the food web. I believe environmental impact will be a key factor in whether OAE can be deployed. Excited to be here

An overcast view of a rocky Gran Canaria coastline with breaking waves, a dark sand beach, and coastal buildings in the distance

Four smiling people pose for a selfie indoors at PLOCAN under a skylight: Ivo -one of the helping student- Juliane Tammen wearing a GEOMAR-branded t-shirt, Giulia Faucher (me), and Charly Moras

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Ahahah they’re so funny! Love them 😂

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Love that place!!! Stunning in winter

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

It really feels like our society is becoming increasingly angrier and more violent, and it really leaves me wondering where we’re headed.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

I’m stunned by how many incidents of harassment and intimidation towards women around me I have witnessed or heard about lately. I know it’s nothing new and has been happening for far too long, with little to no meaningful change. But it feels like it has been happening more and more often lately.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

🌊 Direct Ocean Removal implies that you removed the carbon from the ocean but there is no discussion of CO2 capture or storage. Was wondering whether we could come with a new name? I suggest DORCS, for Direct Ocean Removal with Capture and Storage…

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Gotta love Ryo! He’s the best!

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Never underestimate marmots!

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

People don’t seem to realise that we might be witnessing one of the coldest summers of the remaining of our lives…

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Any other advice or relevant output I may have forgotten is welcomed. Trying to navigate the complex world of academia as an ECR…

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

To the 🌊 10+ yrs academics on here, what matters the most for early career researchers future? 1) Consistent high quality publication record (1-2 first authored paper/year?) 📈 2) Strong teaching record? 📚 3) Successful grant applications? 💰 4) Public and online visibility? 📸 Asking for a friend… 🙄

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Loved playing with these little sprinkler/equilibrators and helping design some of the water circulation system. Felt like real life Lego!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

My prediction is that we will never have enough CO₂ removal (CDR), so overshoot is not a thing. We will hit 1.5°C global warming by 2030, and every tonne of CO₂ we emit will make the world warmer. Where we stop is entirely up to us, but there’s no dialing down the temperature after that.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Pretty cool central station not gonna lie! Looking forward to the next 3 days of CDR conference in Milano! 🌊🇮🇹

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Missy @mdyewx.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Rawr.

SPC thunderstorm outlook that is shaped like a dinosaur (plus added emoji eyes)

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

The TV in the ship’s galley is hooked up to the underway instrument in the lab so we can see the results in real time as we eat. That’s @cmoras.bsky.social looking stressed that we’re not going to find the tracer.

Inside the cramped but cozy galley of a ship, six men are gathered around a dining area, their attention collectively fixed on a large television screen mounted on the wall that mirrors a lab computer’s interface. The screen features a graph showing the concentration of a chemical in the water. one man sits directly in front of the monitor while others watch from the long dining table and the adjacent kitchenette. The room features wooden cabinetry, overhead industrial lighting, and kitchen appliances that surround the scientists and crew.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Thanks @davidho.bsky.social for featuring me in your black and white photo thread. And thanks for all the great discussions and ideas, looking forward to the next ones!

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

@cmoras.bsky.social is a researcher at the University of Hamburg who specializes in carbonate chemistry. His research focuses on the efficacy and feasibility of ocean-based climate solutions.

A black-and-white portrait photo of a young man with curly dark hair, smiling warmly at the camera. He has a light stubble and is wearing a patterned striped t-shirt with a dark collar. The background is softly blurred and light-toned.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

This film ends with a warning about global warming and sea level rise. But in the 1950s, they didn’t know why it was happening, which must’ve been really scary. We now know it’s due to our burning of fossil fuels. The fact that we don’t stop it is very stupid.

This framed vintage movie poster for the 1953 documentary *The Sea Around Us* features a dramatic, hand-painted underwater scene where a shirtless diver in white trunks and a diving mask fends off a large, coiled moray eel with a spear. The background is a deep turquoise ocean filled with small schools of fish and coral formations, while the bottom right of the poster is dominated by a large white title block featuring the film’s name in bold red and black sans-serif typography. To the left of the title, the text "A Thrilling World of Wonders You've Never Seen Before!" is printed in white, and at the bottom center, a bright yellow graphic of a book and a gold Oscar statuette proudly declare the film an "Academy Award Winner" for Best Documentary Feature.

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

We organize Session 36 at #XMAS2027 Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Marine CDR #mCDR 🌊 with @jiayingabbyguo.bsky.social, Koji Suzuki and @nadlehmann.bsky.social. OAE, iron fertilization, blue carbon, macroalgae, DOC and more… Abstract deadline: 30 June mel-xmas.net/all_session....

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The Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences (XMAS 2027)

XMAS 2027,The Xiamen Symposium on Marine Environmental Sciences

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

As sad as it reads, it is unfortunately true and hard for most to even start comprehending… or at least notice…

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Today's thought: academia has had centuries to figure out that women exist and contribute to science, their presence in leadership is still somehow rare, and the men in the room are often the last to notice (probably because they don't invite women into the room in the first place)

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

Marine CO₂ removal R&D has focused on efficacy, treating ecosystem harm as a gating criterion to overcome. Hence, these efforts have made only minimal measurements of environmental impacts and then claimed that no harm was observed. It’s the attitude that if you don't measure it, it doesn't exist 🌊

Mesocosm experiment enclosures floating on calm seawater near Bergen, Norway (2022). Three numbered cylindrical marine mesocosms (visible numbers: 5, 6, 7) are arranged in a row on a glassy fjord surface. Each unit consists of orange vertical support poles holding a transparent plastic dome lid above a large semi-transparent cylindrical enclosure bag that extends below the waterline to isolate a column of seawater. The structures are reflected clearly in the still blue water. A forested coastline and scattered buildings are visible in the background under a clear blue sky. Photo credit: Dr. Michael Sswat.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

📄 PREPRINT 🌊 New preprint in Biogeosciences. Long MS, sorry, but cool concepts (CAP, alkalinity stability, and CO2 uptake rates at low open ocean wind speeds). Now hoping the reviewers will be as excited about the results as I am! Read it? Let me know your thoughts! doi.org/10.5194/egus...

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Impacts of water advection and CO2 exchanges on the carbon dioxide removal potential of ocean alkalinity enhancement

Abstract. Ocean alkalinity enhancement is a carbon dioxide removal strategy with high CO2 uptake potential and rather low cost. Long term modelling studies have focused on this strategy, but most labo...

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Are we still on track to meet them? Or is it too late already?

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Universität Hamburg @uni-hamburg.de · 15/07/2025

Wie kann das Meer helfen, CO₂ aus der Atmosphäre zu holen? 🌊 Dr. Charly A. Moras (@cmoras.bsky.social) von der Uni Hamburg erforscht, wie die Speicherfähigkeit der Ozeane gesteigert werden kann. Seine Arbeit ist jetzt in der Doku-Reihe „NZZ Format“ von @nzz.ch zu sehen.

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CO2 entfernen und speichern — wie weiter nach dem Hype? | Doku NZZ Format Langfassung

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

The CDR documentary for the Swiss TV @nzz.ch I could be part of (26:11) is out! Check it out, English subtitles are available. Grateful to be part of it and trying to make the tricky concepts of CDR and OAE available to all! youtu.be/dZHYDvAAuzo?...

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CO2-Sauger für Klimaschutz? Wie die Branche ums Überleben kämpft | Doku NZZ Format Langfassung

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

For those ones, yes! I join you in celebrating!

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Now that’s the proper way. You made a French person very proud 👌😂

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@bopplaurent.bsky.social kicking off #LiegeOcean25 with a talk about the state of the climate and potential need for CO₂ removal (CDR). The surface ocean has warmed by more than 1°C, which is astounding if you think about how much energy it takes to do that. 🌊

The image shows a presentation at the 56th International Liège Colloquium. A speaker, standing behind a wooden podium, discusses climate change, highlighting trends in global surface temperature, ocean warming, land temperatures, and sea levels.

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Made it to Liege! 56th International Liège Colloquium by @universitedeliege.bsky.social starting tomorrow, list of talks and posters looks quite exciting! PS: Thursday’s session at 9:50 looks real fun… just saying… Programme: ocean-colloquium.fsc.uliege.be/Presentation...

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Every year I have a great time visiting Washington DC, so many amazing buildings and landmarks. And on top that, getting to attend the Carbon to Sea convening makes the whole trip awesome!

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Ready for the 2025 Carbon to Sea Initiative convening. Looking forward to the talks and posters over the next few days 🌊

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I'm on an mCDR panel at #EGU25, but I just learned that our convener Carolin Löscher from Denmark won't be there. She's been diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer whose expensive treatment is only available in the US and UAE. Please consider helping: www.gofundme.com/f/help-for-m...

Screenshot of the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly 2025 website showing the session details for "Session US2 – Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal: Fostering Earth Science Forces for Combating Global Warming." The session is scheduled for Friday, May 2, 2025, from 14:00 to 15:40 CEST in Room E1. It is chaired by Giulia Faucher, Carolin Löscher, and Gerhard Herndl. The program includes a 5-minute introduction, speaker presentations, a discussion on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR), and audience questions. Featured speakers are Louis Legendre (France), Daria Atamanchuk (Canada), and David Ho (USA). The session is hybrid with Zoom access. 🌊

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Jiaying A. Guo @jiayingabbyguo.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

🎉New publication alert! 🌊 We tested how different ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) substances—NaOH, olivine, and steel slag—affect plankton in the Equatorial Pacific🌞. 🫙Repeatitive onboard incubations, open ocean data. Check it out 👉: rdcu.be/egM0x #OAE #ClimateChange #CDR

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Effects of ocean alkalinity enhancement on plankton in the Equatorial Pacific

Communications Earth & Environment - Olivine-based ocean alkalinity enhancement can disrupt phytoplankton communities, whereas sodium hydroxide has a negligible impact on plankton, according to...

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Ever wondered what 6 months of OAE with Ca(OH)₂ and Mg(OH)₂ look like? I’ll be giving an oral presentation on it at the 56th Colloquium on Ocean Dynamics in Liège this May! 🔍 SPOILER: CaCO₃ makes a comeback… but maybe not in the way you'd expect... 🌊 #OAE #LiegeOcean25 #CDR

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Here’s the press release about what we’re up to these days. What isn’t mentioned in the text is how amazing it is to work with people as enthusiastic as I am, how incredible it is to see students so engaged in this project, and how teamwork truly feels like teamwork 🌊 www.geomar.de/en/news/arti...

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Global Comparative Study on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement Begins in Kiel

13.03.2025/Kiel. How do plankton communities respond to increased alkalinity in different oceanic regions? This question is at the heart of the international research project "Ocean Alkalinity Enhance...

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Charly A. Moras @cmoras.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I had such a lovely time. Looking forward to next one with some more interesting ideas to discuss eheh @giuliafaucher.bsky.social

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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Look who came to Kiel! Hamburg isn’t too far away, but only today did we finally manage to catch up for brunch. mCDR, projects, some reasonable complaining about life in Germany 🙃 and the idea of doing something together. Thanks @cmoras.bsky.social for visiting me (and for my 1st Christmas present)

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