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Marcos Fontela

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Oceanography and climate change🌍| Now IIM-CSIC (Vigo) & CCMAR. Always the sea🌊 mfontela.github.io/web

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Leni Hauss @lenihauss.bsky.social · 15h
"A global consistent database of plankton and detritus from in situ imaging by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5"- led by Ariadna Nocera. 🧪🌊🦑 essd.copernicus.org/articles/18/...
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A global consistent database of plankton and detritus from in situ imaging by the Underwater Vision Profiler 5
Abstract. Plankton and detritus are essential components of the Earth's oceans influencing biogeochemical cycles and carbon sequestration. Climate change impacts their composition and fluxes, and mari...
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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
1/2 Today we manipulated our mesocosms by increasing their alkalinity. In this video (courtesy of Kristian Spilling, from SYKE Finland) you can see our device — "the spider" — releasing NaOH solution into the mesocosm. Isn’t it cool?
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Ocean Acidification Research Center @uaf-oarc-alaska.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Check out the new interface for ocean carbon dioxide (CO₂) products! 🧪🌊🦑🙌 A catalogue of 78 ocean carbonate data products — from shipboard measurements to multi-product analyses. @socatco2.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social oceanco2.github.io/co2-products/
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Mark Hopwood @markinchina.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A nice piece in @jgroceans.bsky.social looking at the effects of meltwater on carbonate chemistry in Svalbard. Glaciers not only dilute TA but can also induce strong vertical mixing which alters DIC:TA 🐻‍❄️ 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Radiocarbon and Stable Carbon Isotopes Constrain Rapid Mixing and Deep Meltwater Influence on Dissolved Inorganic Carbon in an Arctic Fjord
Dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) correlates with salinity in Kongsfjorden, reflecting the influence of freshwater inputs Δ14C and δ13C measurements of DIC show weak vertical gradients in Kongsfjo...
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
🌊 Coral reefs are running out of time... 👉 Global hard coral cover has fallen 9.5% from historical levels. 👉 Every global bleaching event since 1998 has driven further losses. 👉 Recovery windows are shrinking to just 5–6 years. Cut warming + reduce local pressures = a chance gcrmn.net/2025-report/
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Eos @eos.org · 24/08/2026
When marine heat waves and ocean acidification events strike together, it’s a double whammy that can affect fisheries and sea creatures. New #AGUPubs research examines these dual events. 🧪🌊 eos.org/research-spo...
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Why Marine Heat Waves and Acidification Strike Together - Eos
A chemistry tug-of-war between ocean acidity and carbon in warming oceans determines when and where these damaging events strike.
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Aaron Becker @aaronjbecker.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Which moves more over a year, the tropics or the ice? Two years of ocean surface temperature. The orange band never really changes, almost half the ocean shifts less than 2C. The ice at both ends does all the visible work. Data: NOAA OISST v2.1 #dataviz #ocean #seaice
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 18/08/2026
NEW – Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather ✍️ written by @rtmcswee.carbonbrief.org & @daisydunne.carbonbrief.org 🎨 designed by @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org & @jjgoodman.bsky.social Read here ➡️ buff.ly/CIZnhHs
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Explainer: How the ‘super El Niño’ will reshape the world’s weather
The world is currently experiencing what is expected to become the strongest El Niño on record – dubbed a “super El Niño” by many.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
🌊 Central role of Labrador Sea convection for transport of oxygen into the deep North Atlantic Ocean www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Central role of Labrador Sea convection for transport of oxygen into the deep North Atlantic Ocean - Nature Geoscience
The Labrador Sea plays a crucial role in transporting oxygen into the deep limb of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, despite its limited contribution to density transformation, accordin...
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Jean-Pierre Gattuso @jpgattuso.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
"... the Arctic Ocean experiences not only the greatest acidification but also the most delayed benefits from negative emissions" #OceanAcidification 🌊 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Persistence of Arctic Ocean acidification under negative emissions - Nature Climate Change
Changes in the Earth system may persist long after atmospheric CO2 levels decline. This study examines ocean acidification and how it will persist in ocean regions globally, with the Arctic identified...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 06/08/2026
In 1963, WHOI biologist Dick Backus set his sights on a question that had puzzled scientists for decades: what caused the daily vertical movement of plankton? The sun or an internal clock? During an eclipse, Backus was able to monitor that the migration was triggered by changing light levels!
Whoi biologist, Dick Backus, is using a machine to see if plankton are migrating with the eclipse. The room is filled with complex equipment and wires, suggesting a scientific or technical environment.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
🌊 Convection injects labile particulate organic carbon to the deep ocean www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Convection injects labile particulate organic carbon to the deep ocean
Autonomous ocean robots and models reveal deep convection as a major pathway for the export of fresh organic carbon.
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EGU Ocean Sciences @egu-os.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
🌊 𝗙𝗶𝗳𝘁𝘆 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗼𝗰𝗲𝗮𝗻 𝗰𝗵𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗿𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗚𝗟𝗢𝗗𝗔𝗣𝘃𝟯 One seawater sample captures one place, one depth and one moment. Combined with millions of others it can help reveal how the ocean is changing. This blog post introduces GLODAPv3 and the work behind this global synthesis 👉 bit.ly/3Rj4K7K
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Fifty years of ocean chemistry in one place: GLODAPv3 is here!
Working with marine carbonate-system observations has taught me how much effort lies behind every row of an oceanographic dataset: long hours at sea, careful sampling, laboratory analyses, calibration...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Bubbles enhance air-sea gas exchange, but quantifying their contribution is complex due to nonlinear wind speed dependence, solubility effects, and oversaturation. Read about it all in our latest review. 🌊🧪
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The Role of Bubbles in Air‐Sea Gas Exchange: A Critical Review
Studies regarding the role of bubbles on air-sea gas exchange over the past decades are reviewed Bubble-mediated gas transfer is strongly nonlinear, solubility-dependent, and asymmetric; its role...
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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
🌊 A BGC-Argo/El Niño update from @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social & @bgc-argo.bsky.social. El Niño is on. Temp. is over 30C along the equator between 180 and 150W. Ocean pCO2 has dropped below atmospheric. Nitrate is zero and plankton/chlorophyll are crashing as they run out of fertilizer when.... 1/2
Time series (2020 to July 9, 2026) of the ENSO Index (positive = El  Nino) at top. Next are  temperature in the upper 200 m, partial pressure of carbon dioxide (computed from float pH), nitrate (an essential plankton nutrient), chorophyll, and Particulate Organic Carbon (plankton living and dead) measured by BGC-Argo floats deployed by the GO-BGC project.  The white contour on all  plots is the 29C isotherm. pCO2 and nitrate drop because reversing El Nino winds stop upwelling at the equator. 

All data freely available at go-bgc.org in real-time.
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Our favourite dataset is updated! 😍😍 Massive thanks to everyone involved: seafarers, marine techs, scientists, data managers, developers… and a long list behind the scenes who make this observation product possible!
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BGC_Argo @bgc-argo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
🌊 25 years of Argo and ocean observation records! ▸ 50,000 km: the longest journey ▸ 6,000 m: the greatest depth reached ▸ 16 years: the longest operational lifetime ▸ 3 years: the longest continuous mission beneath sea ice Challenge: can you guess which float achieved each records?!
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Sang-Ki Lee @sklee621.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It become a bit stronger. 🌊🧪
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Felix Leinemann @felixleinemann.eurosky.social · 30/06/2026
Heatwaves do not stop at the coast, either way... 🌊
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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · 28/06/2026
On average, global ocean temperatures right now are the hottest in our historical records for this time of year! Follow along at zacklabe.com/climate-chan... 🌊
Graph showing daily global mean sea surface temperatures for 2026. This is also compared to the daily data from the 1981-2010 average and 1991-2020 average. Annotations are also shown to the current year with the other years from 1940 to 2026. There is a seasonal cycle. There is a long-term warming trend. 2023 and 2024 are also indicated, which were the warmest years on record. Data is from ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis and updated through 15 June 2026.
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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
🌊🌏🧪 How do you say ocean mixing in your first language(s)?
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Surface Ocean CO₂ Atlas @socatco2.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
SOCAT v2026 is released today, with 2.8 million new observations! Download the new version from socat.info/index.php/ve... The annual poster summarising the key points of the release (including the continued decline in observation coverage) is available: socat.info/wp-content/u...
Partial thumbnail of the SOCAT v2026 release poster. Link to the PDF is in the main text.
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
How much blue carbon accumulation rate do you need to overcome 2000 ųatm of pCO2? Asking for a friend in #Aveiro
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
What a good time to sail through the North Atlantic, don’t you think? ⛵️ Here I am, with the feets on the ground and the mind on the L’Atalante #OVIDE2026 is coooooming ✊🏻
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Giulia Faucher @giuliafaucher.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A new cross-journal @natureportfolio.nature.com collection on carbon dioxide removal (#CDR) is now open for submissions until 16 January 2027. Bringing together science on risks, opportunities, and accountability. Edited by Jay Fuhrman and me go.nature.com/48dU6V8 #CDR #ClimateScience #mCDR 🌊
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Carbon Dioxide Removal
In this cross-journal collection, we showcase articles that help with understanding how carbon dioxide removal can contribute to climate change mitigation.
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Carbon Brief @carbonbrief.org · 27/04/2026
Is global warming tipping key Atlantic ocean currents towards ‘collapse’? ✍️ @ceciliakeating.carbonbrief.org 🎨 @tomoprater.carbonbrief.org and Kerry Cleaver Read here ➡️ buff.ly/mgaIBvM
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
Marine mammals 🐬 and DIY observational oceanography under a bright sunny ☀️ day. What else do you need? 😅👌🏻
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
FAV💙sentence of the week: "observations at the western boundary [...] constitute the canary in a coal mine for the tendency of the AMOC."👌 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Meridionally consistent decline in the observed western boundary contribution to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Western boundary observations in the Atlantic suggest a meridionally consistent decline in the ocean overturning circulation.
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Guillaume Maze @gmaze.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
🚀 The largest code base for anything related to #argofloat data: "euroargodev" has just hit 100 repositories ! 🤗 I'm very proud to have quick started this effort a few years ago. Code is the hidden machinery of the Argo research infrastructure, visit github.com/euroargodev for more 💎 @euro-argo.eu
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Out of Context Tracers in the Sea @tracers-in-the-sea.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
🌊🧪 Thus any study of the chemistry of sea water is heavily dependent on knowledge derived from physical oceanographic and marine biologic studies. - Broecker and Peng (1982), Tracers in the Sea
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
🌊Warming oceans are quietly changing what phytoplankton are made of... Their “nutritional makeup” shifts with the environment. Protein-rich in cold waters, but more carbs and lipids in warm, nutrient-poor seas. ..and the very base of the marine food web is evolving www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Biochemical remodelling of phytoplankton cell composition under climate change - Nature Climate Change
The authors simulate phytoplankton macromolecular composition—proteins, carbohydrates and lipids—under present and future scenarios. They show increased protein allocation in subtropical phytoplankton...
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CSIC @csic.es · 08/03/2026
👩‍🔬La Real Academia Galega de Ciencias reconoce a la científica del #CSIC, doctora en biología y oceanógrafa española Aida Fernández Ríos (1947-2015) como “Científica Gallega del Año”
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CSICGalicia (@csicgalicia.bsky.social)
🏅Aida Fernández Ríos (CSIC), “Científica Gallega del Año” por la Real Academia Galega de Ciencias 🐟Profesora de investigación del CSIC en Galicia, fue la primera mujer en dirigir el IIM-CSIC y en 2015 ingresó como académica numeraria en la RAGC. 👉 http://tiny.cc/726z001
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
No matter how early you arrive to #OSM26… black-headed gull /Chroicocephalus ridibundus/ are already there. Lovely venue and meeting place behind, bytheway.
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Surface Ocean - Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) @solas-ipo.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
As #OSM2026 approaches, a reminder that SOLAS and SOLAS-related activities will take place in Glasgow (22–27 Feb 2026), including the SOLAS 3.0 Town Hall and scientific sessions. We look forward to seeing you there. 🌊 Details: mailchi.mp/xmu/solas-an... #SOLAS #OSM2026 #OceanScience
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SOLAS Announcement: SOLAS and SOLAS Relevant Activities at OSM 2026
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Nós Diario @nosdiario.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
🌊 As claves para coñecer a oceanógrafa Aida Fernández Ríos, nomeada "Científica Galega do Ano" pola RAGC www.nosdiario.gal/articulo/soc...
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As claves para coñecer a oceanógrafa Aida Fernández Ríos, nomeada "Científica Galega do Ano" pola RAGC
A Real Academia Galega de Ciencias recoñece a traxectoria e o legado da oceanógrafa viguesa Aida Fernández Ríos, pioneira no estudo da acidificación mar...
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Lisa Beal @letstalkocean.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Got ocean science you’re excited about?Want to support 🌊community programs? Looking for editors and reviewers who care? @jgroceans.bsky.social
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CSIC @csic.es · 05/02/2026
El #CSIC lamenta profundamente el fallecimiento de Josefina Castellví, pionera de la investigación antártica y primera mujer que dirigió la Base Antártica Española Juan Carlos I Oceanógrafa y experta en microbiología marina, trabajó en el @icmcsic.bsky.social y fue delegada del #CSIC en Cataluña
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Daniel Sandborn @danielsandborn.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Need an observation-based open-source tool to estimate ocean anthropogenic carbon? - Transit Time Distribution approach - Improved accessibility & flexibility - Updated inventories thru 2500 Our preprint is live! egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... #oceanography #oceancarbon #python
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TRACE-Python: Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation Implemented in Python (version 1.0)
Abstract. An implementation of Tracer-based Rapid Anthropogenic Carbon Estimation (TRACE), an algorithm for estimating anthropogenic carbon in the ocean, was produced using the Python coding language....
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
🌊 Where the ocean mixes, carbon follows. 2003–2024 satellite + reanalysis data show that ocean fronts host 72% of global CO2 uptake and strongly regulate primary production via enhanced mixing and nutrient supply. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Global trends in ocean fronts and impacts on the air–sea CO2 flux and chlorophyll concentrations - Nature Climate Change
Changes in ocean fronts could impact biological productivity and carbon exchange. By analysing satellite and reanalysis data, the authors identify areas with active frontal activity and rapid change i...
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CCMAR @ccmar.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Having the entire Atlantic Ocean as your classroom and teaching on the high seas! 🚢Caio Ribeiro immersed himself in the NoSoAT expedition and was part of a team of five junior teachers responsible for training 20 young scientists in the middle of the ocean! More here: ccmar.ualg.pt/en/news/caio...
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GEOTRACES @geotraces.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
New! GEOTRACES Data Product 2025-Now available! 🌊 Hydrographic and marine biogeochemical data from 123 cruises covering the global ocean *Bulk download bodc.ac.uk/geotraces/data/dp/ *Data subsetting geotraces.webodv.awi.de *Data analysis, visualisation explore.webodv.awi.de *Atlas egeotraces.org
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Marcos Fontela @marcosfontela.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Wonderful reading! 📖 Eastern subpolar North Atlantic is a key region for ventilation. 👌🏻
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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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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
🌊 Southern Ocean freshening stalls deep ocean CO2 release in a changing climate www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Southern Ocean freshening stalls deep ocean CO2 release in a changing climate - Nature Climate Change
The Southern Ocean carbon sink is predicted to decline under climate change. This study explores why this is yet to be seen in observations, finding that recent surface freshening increases stratifica...
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JGR: Oceans @jgroceans.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
East Greenland is characterized as a transition zone between cold, fresh Arctic waters and warm, salty Atlantic waters. Gjelstrup et al., highlight the central role of the East Greenland Polar Front in mediating climate-ocean-ecosystem variability 🌊 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Schematic of major surface circulation features in southeast Greenland.
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CDRmare @cdrmare.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
Do you know that our CDRmare infographics are published under a CC-BY licence? We do this to provide fact-based, scientifically accurate graphs to help everyone communicate on the topic of #mCDR. You can browse & download all our English-language infographics here. lnkd.in/eWcmmxsN.
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Anna Sanchez-Vidal @annasanchez.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
📣 PhD offer together with @davidamblas.bsky.social to investigate how ocean currents transport sediments in SE Greenland using hydrographic 🌊, biogeochemical 🔬, acoustic 🚢, satellite 🛰️, and modelling 💻 data. Start: Spring 2026 (likely March), 4 years 📥 anna.sanchez@ub.edu (before 26/09!)
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
A new #BiologicalPump rears its head (or maybe its tail feathers?) … 🌊
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Periodic excretion patterns of seabirds in flight
Uesaka and Sato report on the excretion patterns of seabirds in the open ocean determined using a rear-facing video logger.
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Jens Daniel Müller @jens-d-mueller.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
🌊 In 2023, the ocean carbon sink weakened for the first time in a record-hot year 🌡️🌎 Our new study in Nature Climate Change quantifies this unexpected decline and explains how it came about. 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
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Unexpected decline in the ocean carbon sink under record-high sea surface temperatures in 2023 - Nature Climate Change
The ocean carbon sink strengthened in previous warm El Niño years due to reduced CO2 outgassing in the tropics. Here the authors show that the ocean carbon sink declined in 2023 despite record-high se...
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Mark Hopwood @markinchina.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
Meltwater strongly perturbs the carbonate system in the ocean. Henson et al., use new data from Greenland to show that, as well as driving an inorganic CO2 sink, the diluting influence of meltwater on alkalinity weakens the buffering capacity of these regions 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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