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Hilde Oliver

@hildeoliver.bsky.social
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Assistant Scientist at WHOI, oceanographer / sea-going modeler 🌊 physical-biological interactions, polar and coastal systems 🇦🇶 Canadian-East Tennesseean www2.whoi.edu/staff/holiver

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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Happy holidays Bsky! - from the MICOlab and our Pyrodinium ❤️🌊 #microbialsky #microsky #phytosky animation by recent MICOlab graduate @lydiaruggles.bsky.social
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Kim Cobb @kimcobb.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It is hard to overstate how critical @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is to climate science in the US and around the world. It's the beating heart of our field. Generations of scientists have trained there, and almost everyone I know relies on deep collaborations with NCAR scientists. It's end is unthinkable.
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 17/12/2025
Oh no... Seeing the direct tweet is even more frightening. Every day is a new crisis, and the repercussions are unimaginable.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 17/12/2025
NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Rep. Joe Neguse @neguse.house.gov · 17/12/2025
A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Most of the scientists at the nonprofit that I cofounded, including my two cofounders, came from NCAR. It’s hard to overstate the importance of this place for climate science.
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Rosie Fisher @rosieafisher.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The beautiful idea of NCAR, to improve understanding of our planet through a cooperative, shared and open intellectual team effort, is literally what has got me out of bed every morning for nearly two decades. This cannot, CANNOT be allowed to happen. eu.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Ben Sanderson @benmsanderson.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Friends at NCAR, we're with you. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down. We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
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Dr. Evan J. Gowan @evangowan.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
I have been seeing posts today that NCAR might be shut down by the US government. This would be a tragic loss for climate science. They develop CESM, probably the most widely used climate model. I used it in the last paper I published!
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
The Trump regime wants to dismantle a world leading climate research center. Why? Because the US has become a petrostate where the government has been captured by fossil fuel interests. They’re calling climate science “green new scam research”, in full denial of reality. 🤯
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Kate Marvel @drkatemarvel.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
Seeking a three year postdoc in the field of ocean biogeochemistry and productivity using mechanistic models and synthesis of observations. Note the short fuse for applications. Please help distribute. All nationalities welcome to apply! 🌊 www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPG117/p...
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Postdoctoral Research Associate at University of Liverpool
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Postdoctoral Research Associate on jobs.ac.uk!
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OSNAP @o-snap.org · 23/10/2025
🌊 #Postdoc position available 📍 At WHOI with Dr. Le Bras Analyse data from moored oxygen as part of the Overturning and Horizontal circulation of the Subpolar North Atlantic Program (GOHSNAP). Requirements ✅ PhD in physical #oceanography To apply: whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E...
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Postdoctoral Investigator – Physical Oceanography
Job Summary The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Investigator (PDI) in observational physical oceanography under the supervision of Dr. Isabela Le Br...
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Maria Pachiadaki @microbiaki.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🌊Exciting opportunity @whoi.edu! The WHOI’s Postdoctoral Scholar Program supports innovative ocean science and interdisciplinary reseearch. If you are interested in marine microbiology, computational biology, biogeochemistry or modelling, get in touch! #Bioinformatics #Deoxygenation #Microbiology
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Postdoctoral Scholar Program - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Eighteen-month Postdoctoral Scholar awards are offered to recipients of new or recent doctorates in the fields of chemistry, engineering, geology, geophysics, mathematics, meteorology, physics, and bi...
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Eos @eos.org · 15/09/2025
Could underwater walls keeping warm water away from glaciers be the key to limiting future ice melt? Not so fast, new research says.
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Underwater Glacier-Guarding Walls Could Have Unintended Consequences - Eos
Although they would likely impede the warm currents that melt glaciers, such walls would also likely block fish migration and nutrient upwelling, harming marine ecosystems and Greenland fisheries.
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Eos @eos.org · 12/09/2025
Underwater barriers might slow warm currents from melting Greenland’s glaciers, but not without hurting fisheries, @markinchina.bsky.social and colleagues point out in a recent commentary. eos.org/research-spo...
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Underwater Glacier-Guarding Walls Could Have Unintended Consequences - Eos
Although they would likely impede the warm currents that melt glaciers, such walls would also likely block fish migration and nutrient upwelling, harming marine ecosystems and Greenland fisheries.
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EGU Biogeosciences Division (BG) @egubg.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
🗞️ New article in Biogeosciences #EGU by Henry F. Houskeeper and Stanford B. Hooker ⬇️ Read more:
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The primacy of dissolved organic matter to aquatic light variability
Abstract. Absorption and scattering by optically active constituents (OACs) modify the sunlit aquatic light environment, facilitating the derivation of biogeochemical data products at scales spanning…
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Hilde Oliver @hildeoliver.bsky.social · 07/09/2025
🌊 I have a new paper out in L&O Letters! We show that ocean color-based estimates of chlorophyll concentrations within 100 km of the Antarctic coastline are severely underestimated when applying the standard NASA L2gen atmospheric processing. This is caused by adjacency effects from ice and snow.
Figure 1 from the paper, showing four subplots of maps of the west Antarctic shelf extending from the West Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea. Figure caption: January 10-yr (2010–2019) mean (a) OBPG/L2gen Chl a (which shows low Chl near the coastline), (b) OBPG nFLH (which shows elevated nFLH near the coastline), (c) OC-CCI Chl a (which also shows high Chl near the coast, agreeing with the pattern in the nFLH), and (d) difference in Chl a products OC-CCI Chl a minus OBPG/L2gen Chl a, over the west Antarctic shelf (which shows a band of much higher Chl, ~5-10 ug/L, extending along the entire west Antarctic coastline).
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 22/08/2025
An excellent article in the NYTimes about the impending demise of the last U.S. Antarctic research vessel, the N.B. Palmer, featuring US and overseas colleagues (including @polarrobs.bsky.social). Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/22/c...
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Trump’s Cuts May Spell the End for America’s Only Antarctic Research Ship
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Ellen Prager, PhD @elprager.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
It's not just Florida, the US ocean economy depends on science. Great piece by Dr. Dennis McGillicuddy, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)!🧪🌊 www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2...
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Florida’s ocean economy depends on science | Column
From sharks to plankton, ocean life matters deeply to Florida.
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Mark Hopwood @markinchina.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
Are technological fixes to climate change better 'solutions' than doing nothing? This narrow framing ignores complex ecological risks & the undermining of climate action. A more realistic framing is that geoengineering 'solutions' at best partially mitigate one problem by creating more risks 🌊 🐳 🧊
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Rob Larter @polarrobs.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
Excellent article explaining the situation relating to the only US Antarctic research icebreaker. Stopping research on why flow of some marine-based glaciers in Antarctica has accelerated, discharging increasing amounts of ice into the ocean, won't stop it happening. We'll just know less about it.
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Maggi Brisbin @margaretbrisbin.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Excited to share new published work on Phaeocystis antarctica microbiomes! Given the world, I was hesitant to self-promote, but a key finding is P. antarctica phycosphere interactions should be studied in situ. Antarctic fieldwork is necessary! onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #microbialsky
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🌊 New study reveals that silica-rich diatoms, not coccolithophores, drive bright satellite signals south of the Great Calcite Belt in the Southern Ocean Diatom frustules mimic calcite reflectance; reshaping how we interpret ocean colour, plankton biogeog and carbon export phys.org/news/2025-08...
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New study illuminates how diatoms thrive in—and light up—the Southern Ocean
An area of the remote Southern Ocean that's long confused ocean color satellites by reflecting large amounts of turquoise-colored light appears to be full of silica-rich diatoms, according to a new st...
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Hilde Oliver @hildeoliver.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
🌊 New modeling study led by Mike Wood: Increasing fluxes of meltwater from Greenland fuel greater summer productivity in Disko Bay, Greenland. Subglacial discharge emerging from the glacier grounding line drives turbulent buoyant plumes that boost local productivity through nitrate upwelling.
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Increased melt from Greenland’s most active glacier fuels enhanced coastal productivity - Communications Earth & Environment
Melting from Greenland’s glaciers increases primary productivity in Qeqertarsuup Tunua by up to 40%, according to analysis of biogeochemical modelling.
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Hilde Oliver @hildeoliver.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
🌊 New paper led by Barney Balch: High-reflectance waters south of 54°S in the Pacific dominated by diatoms, not coccolithophores as satellites suggest (biogenic silica backscattering exceeds calcite >10×). Unexpectedly, however, coccolithophore calcification rates were still elevated down to 60°S!
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Biological, Biogeochemical, Bio‐Optical, and Physical Variability of the Southern Ocean Along 150°W and Its Relevance to the Great Calcite Belt
Particulate inorganic carbon (PIC) concentration was highest in the Great Calcite Belt (GCB) and south of 54°S, where biogenic silica (BSi) was also highest Optical backscatter by BSi exceeded ca...
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 29/07/2025
the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 28/07/2025
My latest: Polar scientists warn that the White House and NSF are planning to terminate the Nathaniel Palmer, the only US research icebreaker capable of handling Antarctic extremes, this October. So far the plan has seen minimal pushback from Congress.
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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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Carlos Moffat @carlosmoffat.com · 25/07/2025
🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
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Eos @eos.org · 18/06/2025
How much of the phytoplankton in the Palmer Deep is homegrown, and how much of it is delivery? New @jgroceans.bsky.com research investigates. Work by @j-veatch.bsky.social, @scottdoney.bsky.social, @lifewesea.bsky.social. eos.org/research-spo...
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Where Do Antarctic Submarine Canyons Get Their Marine Life? - Eos
A new study investigates how much of the phytoplankton in the Palmer Deep submarine canyon is homemade and how much is delivered.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 01/06/2025
this obsession with a handful of high status universities is also low key an indication of elite disdain for the institutions that educate most americans who attend colleges and universities
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 08/04/2025
The SWARM field team built an ocean observatory to uncover how ocean currents create grocery stores of prey for penguins. Their findings published in Communications Earth & Environment could reshape understanding of marine ecosystems. 🧪 🌊
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An Antarctic Ecosystem Influenced by Coastal Currents
It took us about a week to get there, and years of preparation to be ready for the journey that awaited us once we arrived. Alas, after a few plane rides, a few days loading the boat with all our gear, and 5 days sailing across the infamously rough Drake Passage, Palmer Station came into sight from the bow of the R.V.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/03/2025
The election has just been called for April 28. If you are a Canadian living outside the country, get your mail-in ballot here ASAP: travel.gc.ca/travelling/l...
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Canada election live: Canadian PM Mark Carney calls snap election
Carney has asked the governor general to dissolve Parliament, launching an election campaign amid a trade war with the US.
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Peter Crockford @earth2pete.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Marine Zn limitation is a thing bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
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High metabolic zinc demand within native Amundsen and Ross sea phytoplankton communities determined by stable isotope uptake rate measurements
Abstract. Zinc (Zn) is an essential micronutrient for most eukaryotic phytoplankton. Zn uptake by phytoplankton within the euphotic zone results in nutrient-like dissolved Zn (dZn) profiles with a lar...
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Jay T. Cullen @jaytcullen.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
1/n The Gordon Research Conference and Symposium in Chemical Oceanography will be held this coming Jul 27-Aug 1, 2025. Chair Phoebe Lam & GRS co-Chairs Jule Middleton & Gabbie Akpah Yeboah have put together a great program around the theme "Fingerprints in the Ocean" www.grc.org/chemical-oce... 🌊
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Patrick Rafter @oceanandclimate.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
🌊 🧪 Friends! Please amplify our search for a Chemical Oceanographer at the USF College of Marine Sciences in St. Petersburg—an island of beauty, art, culture, and more. I ride my bike to work. More details in thread below www.higheredjobs.com/faculty/deta...
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Tenure-Track Chemical Oceanographer - HigherEdJobs
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Hilde Oliver @hildeoliver.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Come work with us! 🌊 My department at WHOI has two ads out for tenure-track scientific staff positions this cycle: Air-Sea Interaction – AOPE & PO Dept, JR100060, whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/WHOI-E... AOPE Tenure Track, JR100061, whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/WHOI-Externa... Deadline is Dec. 6
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Tenure Track Scientist - Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering
Job Summary The Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOPE) Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites candidates to apply to the open full-time tenure-track or tenured pos...
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 26/10/2023
The wonderful Marina Lévy is seeking a postdoc to work on satellite data at fine scale in the marine biogeochemistry group at LOCEAN in Paris. Expected start date is April 2024. Reach out directly to Marina if interested
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Harriet Alexander @nekton4plankton.bsky.social · 25/10/2023
The Biology Department at WHOI is hiring! social.icims.com/viewjob/pt16... Do you study marine viruses? This position might be a great fit for you! Come work with us! 🌊🦠💻🧪🧬
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Jelena Godrijan 🫧❾🌊🦋 @godi.bsky.social · 30/09/2023
I'm hiring a PhD student for 5 years to work with me on coccolithophores! Applications due 27.10.23. and the start date is December-January. euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/149754 DM/e-mail me if interested!
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Contest point 19 – Doctoral Student | EURAXESS
PhD doctoral student position at the Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb, Croatia, Division for Marine and Environmental Research, Laboratory for Marine and Atmospheric Biogeochemistry, for work on th...
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