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Nan Wu

@nanwu1112.bsky.social
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Ecological modeller/postdoc at British Antarctica Survey working on the biological pump and microplastics. PhD from QMUL geography for Microplastics and Flocs. www.bas.ac.uk/profile/nanwu/#about

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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 23/08/2025
When ordered atomic structures clashing with intrusion! This study defines what’s small is small in invaded ion size. Congrats @jingming1017.bsky.social
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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
OK, this is wild. In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them. It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*. What the HELL? 1/
Unsplash image of the Earth, mostly the nightside with a tracery of city lights on every continent.
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Jing_Ming @jingming1017.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
It’s a great pleasure working with @natrevcleantech.nature.com Thank you for giving me the opportunity to contribute this article. I am always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested. 😜😜😜
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Jing_Ming @jingming1017.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
I’m delighted to share that my short article has just been published as Tools of the Trade @natrevcleantech.nature.com 🔗 The full article can be found here: rdcu.be/ekrpD www.nature.com/articles/s44... Always happy to connect and chat with anyone interested.
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Detecting defects in solid electrolytes with neutron total scattering
Nature Reviews Clean Technology - Jing Ming explains how neutron total scattering can be used to detect defects in solid electrolytes and help prevent disruptions in the diffusion of oxide ions in...
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Josh Ahmed @geomorphicjosh.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
A great day for @qmul.ac.uk Geography PhD student Grace and @bas.ac.uk researcher @nanwu1112.bsky.social presenting their research at @egu.eu #EGU25
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
Another berg faces the storm! #biopole2 @bas.ac.uk @biopole.bsky.social
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
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IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool
Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.
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Laura Gerrish @lauragerrish.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
Lovely image from the NOAA-20 satellite yesterday showing the location of grounded A23a iceberg close to the island of South Georgia 😍 It's still crazy to me that this iceberg has been in the Southern Ocean since 1986, taking a few little pauses along its way to this current position! @bas.ac.uk
A satellite image showing a large iceberg as a big white block, and an island in the NE corner with blue-ish sediment blooms coming away from the glaciers on land. There are clouds in the south/bottom of the image.A satellite image showing a large iceberg as a big white block, and an island in the NE corner with blue-ish sediment blooms coming away from the glaciers on land. There are clouds in the south/bottom of the image. The image has labels showing the sizes of the main island (170 km long) and the iceberg (57 x 62 km), and the distance from the iceberg to land (73 km).
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HR Wallingford @hrwallingford.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
This new paper is available open access in 'Limnology and Oceanography'. It was written by @qmul.ac.uk's @nanwu1112.bsky.social, @sgrieve.bsky.social and @profkatespencer.bsky.social and our Andrew Manning. aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This is the name of the paper with where it was published
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
So a fossil fuel company that bought a CO₂ removal (CDR) startup for $1.1 billion plans to use the CO₂ captured from the atmosphere to get more oil out of the ground. It's…not great at all.
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Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says
Occidental wants to use climate tech to boost oil and gas production.
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Kate Spencer @profkatespencer.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
How does buoyant #marineplastic litter get removed from the ocean surface? Only the smallest #microplastic (< 100 micron) can reach the ocean floor through aggregation with #marinesnow. Read more about this great PhD research from @nanwu1112.bsky.social. @sgrieve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments
Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o....
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Kate Spencer @profkatespencer.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Buoyant #microplastics reach deep ocean sediments through multiple cycles of aggregation and disaggregation. Great #phd output from @nanwu1112.bsky.social #floc #marinesnow #oceanplastic @sgrieve.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/lno....
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Marine snow as vectors for microplastic transport: Multiple aggregation cycles account for the settling of buoyant microplastics to deep‐sea sediments
Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
The most iconic figure in the environmental sciences is the Keeling Curve, the CO₂ record from Mauna Loa, Hawaii. @noaa.gov had a wonderful site where you could visualize and download these data, and now it's just gone. These data belong to us and we should not let this happen!
A line graph showing atmospheric CO2 levels at Mauna Loa Observatory from 1955 to 2025. The y-axis represents CO2 mole fraction in parts per million (ppm), ranging from 320 to 420 ppm, while the x-axis is years.
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British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @bas.ac.uk · 06/02/2025
Sometimes you just need to get away from your screen 🏃‍♀️ Host Nadia Frontier is joined by early-career scientists Dr Emily Rowlands, Laura Taylor, and Kat Turner, who are working on the BIOPOLE investigation on the RRS Sir David Attenborough. 🎧 Search for ICEWORLD in your normal podcast place.
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
If you ever wondered why buoyant microplastics have been found in the deep-sea sediment with high concentrations, our newest paper might give you some ideas. The multiple aggregationes with marine snow takes the buoyant microplastics (can be some other particles) to deep sea sediments.
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Plymouth Marine Laboratory @pml.ac.uk · 27/01/2025
#NewStudy 📢 #Microplastics offer a platform for antimicrobial-resistant (#AMR) and pathogenic #bacteria, responsible for #diseases in both humans and animals. Full story here: pml.ac.uk/news/marine-...
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Marine Plastic Pollution: A breeding ground for disease-causing bacteria
New study reveals for the first time that particle type affects colonization, enrichment and spread of both antimicrobial-resistant and pathogenic (disease-causing) bacteria.
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Mike Tyka @mtyka.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
Our new paper is out: We're exploring the intersection of electrochemical OAE and concrete waste recycling - turns out they're a match made in heaven. One produces weak waste acid and the other requires weak acid to valorize demolition waste! pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/...
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Negative Emission Enabled by Combining Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement and Waste Concrete Upcycling
Electrochemical ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is a promising technology for negative carbon emissions, but the resulting dilute acid stream poses a disposal challenge. This study presents an inno...
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Nature Reviews Clean Technology @natrevcleantech.nature.com · 15/01/2025
In Issue 1, we have reviews on: - Grid enhancing technologies 🔌 - Lithium ion battery recycling ♻️ - Flash Joule heating ⚡ - Solar driven evaporation technologies 🌅 - Stakeholder heterogeneity in carbon dioxide removal 👥 www.nature.com/nrct/volumes...
The front cover of the journal, a cartoon showing a variety of clean technologies such as renewable energy sources, electric vehicles, and hydrogen fuel cells
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
Last chance to submit an abstract for session for #microplastics
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Six wonderful smiles 😃😄😀😁😉😜
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Kate Hendry @krhendry.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
This will be how I spend my Christmas! Heading South to work on polar biogeochemistry in a changing climate as part of NERC projects BIOPOLE and SiCLING, out of Rothera Research Station @bas.ac.uk www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cg4zqkqg61xo.amp
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Preparing for Christmas in the wilds of Antarctica
A few hundred people get ready for Christmas in the snowy continent thousands of miles from home.
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Not a new paper, but a new one to me. Thanks @chelseyabaker.bsky.social for drawing it to my attention (and to Sophia Johannessen and James Christian for writing it!). My eyebrows have been raised many times by #BlueCarbon claims so it's good to read a corrective ... 🌊 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Why blue carbon cannot truly offset fossil fuel emissions - Communications Earth & Environment
Blue carbon will not solve climate change. The effect is too small; existing sediment carbon stock is a liability; and there is a timescale mismatch between ancient fossil fuel emissions and uptake by...
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Dr Catherine Russell @seddyrocks.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
🎉 New Paper Alert! ✨ “Plastic as a Sediment: A universal and objective practical solution…” Now we can assess plastic as a sediment and better understand the relationship of its physical properties with its environmental distribution! ✨It’s so exciting!✨ www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A demonstration of the importance of using Absolute Density over just polymer type. The bottles contain varying amounts of air, water, and sand, and so behave differently in the environment.
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Prof Alessandro Tagliabue @altagliabue.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
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Kerim Hestnes Nisancioglu @nissenjo.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
#AGU24 Emiliani Lecture by Jess Adkins: “Paleoclimate in the service of our climate crisis” From the rate law for carbonate dissolution to a chemical engineering solution to climate change - removing emissions from shipping (3% of global) calcarea.com
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About Calcarea - calcarea.com
Our Team Crafts Scalable, Safe, Permanent and Economical CO2 Storage Solutions through Natural Processes Our Solution Calcarea’s technology helps reduce and remove carbon emissions by accelerating the...
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Josh Voorhees @joshvoorhees.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
A second #plastics starter pack to check out, from @jlconkle.bsky.social (also featuring @rebecca-altman.bsky.social; that's how you know it's a good list! :) and @legolostatsea.bsky.social @jameswakibia.bsky.social @nanwu1112.bsky.social go.bsky.app/Ld46AhM
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Diane Orihel, PhD @dianeorihel.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Hey, ecotoxicologists! Check out this new starter pack for us to unite to chat about #ecotoxicology. Please message me to add you to this list. go.bsky.app/Sj5Dc3F
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The Ricciardians @ricciardilab.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Climate change-pollution synergy: Elevated temperatures for the lower Great Lakes (predicted by climate models) and environmentally-relevant microplastic concentrations reduce growth & predatory performance of an invasive freshwater fish (round goby). aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Nanna B. Hartmann @nannahartmann.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I’ve put together a (micro)plastics starter pack. It’s not an exhaustive list—just those I’ve found on the platform so far. I’m excited to grow my Bluesky network with both new and familiar faces! If you know others in this field joining the platform, let’s bring them into the conversation! 💙
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Calling all plastic researchers to submit your abstracts for EGU25 in Vienna! Check this line for three different sessions ⬇️⬇️
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Jeremy L. Conkle Ph.D. @jlconkle.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I haven't seen one yet, so I created a Plastic, Microplastic, etc starter pack. Let me know if you want to be added or know of others to add. go.bsky.app/Ld46AhM
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Jing_Ming @jingming1017.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
#F24MRS I am so excited to present my recent research on Material Research Society 2024 Fall Exhibition . Presentation Location: Hynes, Level 1,Hall A CH 04. 07 Presentation Time: Tuesday 8pm -10pm Eastern Standard Time Talk with me what makes gadolinium doped Ceria an excellent ion conductor😇😇😇😇
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Andrew Yool @dryool.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
🚨New publication alert!🚨 🌊 (not mine!) Version 2 of the BOATS #FisheryModel has just set sail with new ecological and economic features, from Jerome Guiet and colleagues (incl. @egalb.bsky.social) ... gmd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
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BOATSv2: new ecological and economic features improve simulations of high seas catch and effort
Abstract. Climate change and industrial fishing are having profound effects on marine ecosystems. Numerical models of fish communities and their interaction with fishing can help assess the biogeochem...
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Aly Lough @alylough.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Post doc position available with prof. Brandy Toner studying marine particles and colloids, deadline 3rd Jan, please rp eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Position Title: Post-Doctoral ResearcherAnticipated Start Date: April 1, 2025Employer & Funding: The employer is the University of Minnesota. The funding is from the U.S. National Science Foundation’s joint program with the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), United Kingdom.Location of Workplace: University of Minnesota-Twin CitiesDuration: Appointment is 1 year full-time and renewable for 2nd and 3rd years upon satisfactory progress.Position Description: The Post-Doctoral Researcher will be mentored by Dr. Brandy Toner (University of Minnesota) and will measure the physical and chemical properties of marine colloids and particles. The Post-Doc will have the following responsibilities:
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Huw Griffiths @huwiceandstuff.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
A handy starter pack for anyone wanting to follow @bas.ac.uk people and projects. Let me know if you want to be added! go.bsky.app/TaqF39K
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NOC Marine Physics @nocmarinephys.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Save the date! 🌊UK Coastal Research Conference🌊 📅 1st-3rd July 📍The Liner, Liverpool 🔗https://noc-events.co.uk/save-date-ukcrc-2025 @nocnews.bsky.social #coastal #marinescience
The image shows the banner of the UK coastal Research Conference in Liverpool 2025 and includes a map of the UK & Ireland showing the location of Liverpool with a blue dot. The text reads "UK Coastal Research Conference Liverpool 2025. Tuesday 1st July - Thursday 3rd July. The Liner Hotel, Liverpool"
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
Did a talk in DAMTP at Cambridge Uni for my postdoc project on krill feces 💩💩 @bas.ac.uk I was absolutely delighted by the best comment ever: You are talking shit, but your talk is not shit at all.
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biopole.bsky.social @biopole.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
🌐 We’re officially on Bluesky 🌐 Welcome to @biopole.bsky.social account 👋 Kicking things off, we’re unveiling an exciting animation that dives into what BIOPOLE is all about 👀 Here is the Part 1 🍿 @bas.ac.uk @nocnews.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social @cpom-uk.bsky.social @britgeosurvey.bsky.social
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Nan Wu @nanwu1112.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
First Post for our three EGU plastic sessions. Abstract submission deadline is Wednesday, 15 January 2025, 13:00 CET HS1.1.5– (Small-scale) transport processes of plastics in the aquatic environment: From laboratory experiments to advanced modeling: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...
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Session HS2.3.6
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