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Peter de Menocal

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President & Director Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution

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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
NSF grantmaking update Three weeks ago (6/28) New grants: 1835/5202 — 35.3% of avg. Obligations: 1.9/3.08 billion — 61.6% of avg. Now (7/20) New grants: 2850/6,397 — 44.6% of avg. Obligations: 3/4.04 billion — 74.3% of avg. Data from grant-witness.us/funding_curv...
NSF cumulative new awards, shows FY26 behind paceNSF cumulative obligations
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Michael E. Mann @michaelemann.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Latest multimodel plume of El Niño forecasts courtesy of @columbiauniversity.bsky.social/IRI. As we begin to cross the spring predictability barrier, model consensus converging toward peak Niño3.4 anomaly of 1.8-2.2C in late winter (comparable to 2023/2024 event). iri.columbia.edu/our-expertis...
https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/current/https://iri.columbia.edu/our-expertise/climate/forecasts/enso/2025-april-quick-look/
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Jesse Farmer @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Fantastic work by Aidan Starr, @ianhall.bsky.social & colleagues published in Paleo Paleo yesterday: Subsurface-to-deep C isotope gradients in the Southern Ocean across the MPT! agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Southern Ocean Vertical Carbon Stratification Across the Mid‐Pleistocene Transition
Breakdowns of Southern Ocean carbon isotope stratification occur at multiple glacial terminations back to at least 1.55 million years ago An increasingly efficient Southern Ocean biological pump ...
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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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Delphine Deryng @deryng.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
One of our paper from 2016 on the effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 on crops was cited in the DOE report commissioned by the Trump administration, giving misleading conclusions that rising CO2 emissions are beneficial to agriculture.
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 07/05/2025
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Read this from @pdemenocal.bsky.social, @msleinen.bsky.social, and John Richardson, retired Navy admiral, whose son was my student, about how investing in ocean science is not just about curiosity, but about ensuring our future readiness, resilience, and national security. 🌊
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Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking
The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.
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Aaron Putnam @aaronputnam.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
Please read this OpEd in the Wa Post by @pdemenocal.bsky.social. Federal investment into fundamental research about our ocean planet has led to profound discoveries with direct implications for national security. (h/t: @ashevenell.bsky.social) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
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Opinion | Why U.S. dominance at sea is shrinking
The U.S. still has an advantage on the waves, but ocean science needs more — not less — investment.
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 11/06/2025
In recognition of his deep commitment to ocean advocacy, WHOI President @pdemenocal.bsky.social officially recognized His Serene Highness Prince Albert II of Monaco with a #WHOI Centennial Medal at #UNOC3 this morning. Here's to a continuing legacy of ocean leadership!
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
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The potential of wastewater treatment on carbon storage through ocean alkalinity enhancement
The global carbon sink potential of coastal wastewater treatment plants through alkalinity enhancement is 18.8 Tg CO2 per year.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
The importance of being there! HOV Alvin and the first live observation of a deep sea eruption www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/s...
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Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time (Gift Article)
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
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Glen Peters @glenpeters.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
A record increase in atmospheric CO2 according to data released by NOAA gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/..., much higher than projected in the Global Carbon Budget essd.copernicus.org/articles/17/.... This occurred in the presence of an El Niño (red bars, data also from NOAA!). What does this mean? 1/
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Bennu asteroid geochemistry results in - Evidence for extraterrestrial soluble organic matter e outer protoplanetary disk."... "We detected amino acids (including 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology)…” www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu - Nature Astronomy
Rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu contain some of the molecular building blocks of life on Earth, such as amino acids and nucleobases. They also carry ammonia that formed billions of years ago in...
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Million Year Ice Core Project @millionyearice.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
Welcome to the feed from the Million Year Ice Core Project, or MYIC. This project has been underway for some years, preparing to drill the oldest continuous ice core record from Antarctica, extending to more than a million years, possibly to 1.5 million years or more. /1
An ice core in a drill. 📷 Joel Pedro
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Why is WHOI such an inspiring place to work? - sharing our 2024 year end reel. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dmc...
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WHOI Best of 2024
YouTube video by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 03/12/2024
🙏We have much to be grateful for, including the #philanthropicsupport that drives our search for solutions. This year, the Grossman Family Foundation gifted $10 million towards innovative projects at #WHOI. 📲Find out what inspired this generous gift: go.whoi.edu/grossman #GivingTuesday
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Ed Hawkins @edhawkins.org · 27/11/2024
You can now share the Warming Stripes directly to BlueSky, such as these for my town of Reading: showyourstripes.info/s/europe/uni... (Find the graphic you want to share, click the blue options button - the one with three horizontal lines - and select the butterfly!)
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Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 18/11/2024
Welcome to the #COP29 #OceanPavilion! With @scrippsocean.bsky.social + partners from around the world, we’re forming an #ocean-climate nexus, pushing the needle for #sciencebased, marine policy #solutions in the UN’s #climate negotiations. 📲 Hear from @pdemenocal.bsky.social: youtu.be/O_63TlozFfI
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Representing the Ocean at COP29
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Cyril Brunner @brunncy.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
How long does CO₂ have to be stored in #CarbonDioxideRemoval #CDR? At least 35 years? 100 years? Longer?🤔 In a new study, @hausfath.bsky.social, @retoknutti.bsky.social & I find that for #netzero CO₂, anything less than 1000 years is not enough to neutralize warming.🧵 www.nature.com/articles/s43...
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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Such fantastic news from @whoi.bsky.social! Onward and “downward” 🌊🦑 we go and congratulations Kaitlyn! 🧪
A picture of new Alvin pilot Kaitlin Beardshear sitting on top of the sub
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
As ever, Gavin breaks it down to a hard, pithy truth. www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/o...
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Opinion | Climate Science Can’t Keep Up With the Warming Planet
We need more timely updates in response to the rapid changes to the climate.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
A gutting piece in the New York Times as we’re here at #cop29 “What it means to become of age in climate chaos”. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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What It Means to Come of Age in Climate Chaos
Today’s teenagers were born into the global-warming crisis, but already it’s upending their adolescence — and will define their future.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Wonderful to see my old friend and great colleague again, Ousmane N’diaye, renowned Senegalese meteorologist and newly Knight in the Order of the Lion
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Climate Science Legal Defense Fund @csldf.org · 06/11/2024
We are here, and we are ready. If you are a scientist in need of free legal help: csldf.org/contact If you are a lawyer who can provide pro bono support: csldf.org/contact If you are able to support our work for the fight to come: csldf.org/donate
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Contact - Climate Science Legal Defense Fund
CONTACT If you’re a scientist and would like a free, confidential consultation with one of our attorneys, please reach out.…
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
With the October data in GISTEMP, it is almost certain that 2024 will be a new annual temperature record. Best estimate is for 1.47°C above pre-industrial, but it could be above 1.5°C depending on the this month and next (of course).
Time series from 1880 to 2023 showing steadily rising global temperatures and an estimate record for 2024.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 01/11/2024
WHOI announced our newest Alvin pilot yesterday, Kaitlyn Beardshear. The attached picture shows Kaitlyn with the Alvin team and the Navy representatives that served as her “murder board” yesterday, the final step in a rigorous training and testing process. @whoi.bsky.social
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Gavin Schmidt @climateofgavin.bsky.social · 22/10/2024
With the (belated) September data now in, the updated prediction is that 2024 is almost certain to be a new annual surface temperature record, and possibly by more than 0.1ºC. 50% change of exceeding 1.5ºC above the late 19th C.
Timeseries of GISTEMP annual temperatures with uncertainties from 1880 to 2023 and including an estimate for 2024 using YTD temperatures. The 2024 estimate is clearly above and distinct from all previous years and straddles the '1.5ºC above the late 19th C' line.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 08/10/2024
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution on LinkedIn: #hurricanemilton #whoi
As Florida braces for #HurricaneMilton, #WHOI’s fleet of Argo floats are helping forecasters predict the storm’s path and intensity. Seen in this map from the…
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 02/10/2024
Congratulations Ben Van Mooy! www.whoi.edu/press-room/n...
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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s Benjamin Van Mooy named 2024 MacArthur Fellow
The goal of the fellowship is to provide recipients the greatest possible flexibility to pursue their vision in the absence of specific obligations or reporting requirements.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
“No year has confounded climate scientists’ predictive capabilities more than 2023 has” - Climate by Gavin www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Climate models can’t explain 2023’s huge heat anomaly — we could be in uncharted territory
Taking into account all known factors, the planet warmed 0.2 °C more last year than climate scientists expected. More and better data are urgently needed. Taking into account all known factors, the pl...
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
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WHOI Board Chair Paul Salem Gives $25 Million for Ocean-based Climate Solutions
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) announced a $25 million gift to support ocean-based climate solutions from the chair…
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 01/01/2024
A timely read shared with me on New Year’s Eve by friend and colleague George Philander: “ the usefulness of useless knowledge” Flexner 1939. www.ias.edu/sites/defaul...
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 31/12/2023
A great NYT interview with @HannahRitchie.bsky.social "What If People Don’t Need to Care About Climate Change to Fix It?" www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 30/11/2023
Arrived Dubai for COP28 and the first person we meet at the #oceanpavilion is Peter Thompson, UN SG special envoy on the ocean.
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
A virtual fly- through of the COP28 Ocean Pavilion? Here you are youtu.be/r6e2l4bfVpY
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Welcome to the Ocean Pavilion at COP28
Pay a virtual visit to the Ocean Pavilion at COP28. The Pavilion is a dedicated space in the Blue Zone at COP28 November 30 – December 12 that puts the ocean...
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 21/11/2023
We’re a blue planet - The COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration is now live, with dozens of signatories oceanpavilion-cop.org/dubai-ocean-...
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Dubai Ocean Declaration - Ocean Pavilion
COP28 Dubai Ocean Declaration View the signatories The ocean is both the largest living space on Earth and a fundamental part of our planetary climate system. But human activity, particularly in the f...
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Peter de Menocal @pdemenocal.bsky.social · 18/11/2023
A powerful guest OpEd from Kate Marvel ”Consider this your last warning from me.”
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Opinion | I’m a Climate Scientist. I’m Not Screaming Into the Void Anymore.
Something has changed in the United States, and not just the climate.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 16/11/2023
Hey everyone, the President and Director of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution is here: @pdemenocal.bsky.social Also, if y’all keep emailing me your invite codes, I will bring more ocean and climate people over.
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