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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Hello everyone. I am taking a social media wellness break from posting my Weekend #Plankton Factoids for the boreal summer. I hope you have the opportunity to do something you enjoy over the season as well. Until then ❤️.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐 Recent news has documented warming in polar regions reducing upwelling of cold nutrient rich water and thus algae production. Researchers investigated the change in carbon to chlorophyll ratio to determine nutrient stress.

image/jpeg a number of oval bright green cells with internal ringed structures is seen in a coloured transmission electron microscope image. Source: Luke Thompson from Chisholm Lab and Nikki Watson from Whitehead, MIT. CCO 1.0 public domain.

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Robert Arlinghaus @rarlinghausfish.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

I gave a keynote at #aslo and #Sil conference today in Montreal. Was lots of fun.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐 Since March is the last week of Antarctic summer, it is appropriate to discuss a 2025 international study of the "seasonal vertical migration pump" which sequesters an enormous 65 million tonnes of carbon every year. doi.org/10.1002/lno.70120

image/jpeg a collection of shrimp-like copepods are shown with bright orange tails and antennae. Long transparent blobs are found at the top of their carapaces which are fats and lipids.
Photo from Daniel Mayor, University of Exeter.

image/jpeg a large red and white research ship floats in calm waters which reflect the rugged, icy, mountainous coast of Antarctica. The RRS Sir David Attenborough, British Antarctic Survey.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 08/03/2026

Grand River, Ontario #spring freshet is underway after temperatures in the teens and significant rainfall. Bank-full and rising.

A bank-full river flows carrying blocks of ice and branches downstream under a deep blue sky.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A satisfying outcome of being a scientist is when an organically developed collaborative project comes to fruition, and an early career researcher seizes an opportunity to publish new findings.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

I haven't been actively installing feeders this winter with bird flu outbreaks in our rural area, but decided to put out a seed cylinder for the holiday. This resulted in a common, but new bird for me: a Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker. #birding

A photo of a woodpecker clutching onto a seed cylinder with a laddered black back, yellow tinged belly and bright red head and chin.

A photo of a woodpecker clutching onto a seed cylinder with a yellow tinged belly, bright red head and chin, and distinct black bib.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

The CCGS Amundsen is a Canadian research icebreaker run by the non-profit Amundsen Science at Université Laval and operated by Canadian Coast Guard. This past summer, the ship was able to navigate into areas previously off limits due to very thick multi-year ice (5+ yrs, 7 or more metres thick).

image/jpeg researchers in orange life suits take measurements on a snow covered ice sheet that extends into the distance. A red ship with a helicopter and Canadian flag sits in the background. Source: Amundsen Science.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

I am glad this old shipwreck hasn't been entangled in equipment over the years. This zone of Lake Ontario regularly has active surveys using a variety of equipment, including bottom net trawls. Must luckily be in-between standardized stations.

image/jpeg a satellite image of Lake Ontario is dark blur against the brown of the watershed. MODIS NASA November 2009.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

This is not good. The energy that is required to heat the volume of one of the world's largest lakes by an extra 3°C is enormous. Excellent comments by colleagues Jay Austin and Maggie Xenopoulos on the anomalous heating of Lake Superior.

image/jpeg a satellite image shows the dark waters of Lake Superior with the greens and bronze colours of the land surrounding it. Public Domain. MODIS satellite image.

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 27/09/2025

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐 This is the phyllosoma larva of a Spiny "Rock" Lobster, which can spend as much as a year drifting in the plankton. #MarineBiology #science

image/jpeg a darkfield micrograph of a spider-like transparent crustacean larva with extremely long legs and bulging stalked eyes.
CC BY-SA 4.0

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Warren Currie 🦠🦐 @drplanktonguy.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

So anyone at the beach around eastern Toronto GTA will be noticing significantly colder water due to an UPWELLING resulting from recent prolonged winds from the NW. This process is explained in a recent video for Lake Michigan from 13 News western Michigan.

image/png a surface water temperature map of Lake Ontario shows mostly yellow and orange colours of about 20C except for bluish-green colour along the northern coast from Toronto to the east of 10-12C. Sept 1 2025. Image from NOAA Coastwatch.

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