Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 03/12/2025From Belém #COP30 to Paris #IPCC… Starting my AR7 journey. The First IPCC Leading Author Meeting is underway in Paris. For the first time, authors from all three working groups are meeting for a full week to review and assess the latest climate research... 030
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 17/11/2025When they announced that #COP30 would be in Belém and all the logistical problems that followed, I was convinced it was a bad idea... On 09/11 flying to Belém, the plane was packed with foreigners talking and laughing... as we approached landing, we could see the forest, silence took over... 0111
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 03/11/2025On the opening day of #COP30 here in Brazil, we will be launching this year’s “10 New Insights in Climate Science” @futureearth.bsky.social , The Earth League & @wcrpclimate.bsky.social If you are attending COP30 in person, please reach out (agenda in the comments) 10insightsclimate.science 1114
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 25/08/2025 This is another webinar organised by @wcrp-clivar.bsky.social Marine Heatwaves Research Focus 🌡️ We will have two fantastic talks by Dr. Amandine Schaeffer & Dr. Neil Malan, followed by a Q&A session 🌡️ Please take a look at the details below on how to register 🌡️ August 25 2025, 23:00 UTC 🌊 020
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 19/08/2025Our recent paper @natgeosci.nature.com shows that over the Med, marine heatwaves are linked to subtropical ridges rather than atmospheric blocking, the typical cause of atmospheric heatwaves in central Europe. The brilliant ECRs Giulia Bonino and Ronan McAdam led this work! 🌊Link in the comments. 12913
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 16/06/2025🌡️ This is another webinar organised by @wcrp-clivar.bsky.social Marine Heatwaves Research Focus 🌡️ We will have two fantastic talks by Dr. Alexa Fredston & Dr. Kathryn Smith, followed by a Q&A session 🌡️ Please take a look at the details below on how to register 🌡️ June 25 2025, 15:00 UTC 🌊 184
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 06/06/2025🌊 Last day of the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC heading to the UNOC3… lots of good science to back up our decisions. #ScienceForTheOcean Thanks to @jpgattuso.bsky.social for leading this extraordinary meeting and @froeltho.bsky.social for chairing our session on extreme ocean events! 040
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🌊🌡️The frequency and intensity of these triple compound events have increased dramatically over the past two decades, occurring practically every year since 2016. This threatens the capability of marine ecosystems to recover from these compound extremes. Example for the eastern equatorial Atlantic... 110
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 16/04/2025🌊🌡️The adverse effects of ocean warming combined with acidification on marine ecosystems can be mitigated by increased food availability. However, this is not possible when extremes of warming and high acidity co-occur with low net primary productivity, i.e., a decrease in food availability. 120
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 27/03/2025I just returned from Hawaiʻi, energised by two fantastic events at the Univ. of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa The symposium celebrating the scientific legacy of Klaus Wyrtki & the ENSO winter school I made new acquaintances, met old friends & learned a lot! Mahalo to Christina Karamperidou & Malte Stuecker 080
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 19/03/2025The extreme warming during the summer/fall of 2020 led to the largest bleaching event recorded along the Brazilian coast, with 85% of stony corals and 70% of zoanthids areas bleached in Rio do Fogo. 161
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Marine heatwaves are 5.1 times more frequent and 4.7 times more intense since the records started in 1982, with the 10 most extreme summers/falls in terms of marine heatwave cumulative intensity and spatial extension occurring in the last two decades. 151
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 19/03/2025We've just published a study @commsearth.bsky.social about the severe 2020 coral bleaching event in the tropical Atlantic caused by massive marine heatwaves 🌊🌡️🧵 Link: www.nature.com/articles/s43... 12311
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025The PIRATA committee is currently facing the challenging task of determining which buoys in the array to keep in the water. This decision will disrupt the long-term series established in 1997. What a sad way to show that science has no borders. 1100
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025For many years, I have been involved in the Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic (PIRATA) Programme, and I can attest to this. PIRATA is a successful collaboration among the US (NOAA), Brazil, and France. However, its data are assimilated and used by many across the globe. 192
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 28/02/2025I have been receiving the sad news about massive NOAA firing. I cannot explain how important NOAA is for science globally. The data and model outputs generated by NOAA globally allow researchers from countries that don’t have the funding or capability to develop those to do their own science. 🌊🧵 37319
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 20/02/2025I am proud to have helped interpret this analysis, which highlights the impacts of climate change on land and the oceans 🌊 with great visualisation... 2/3 of the Earth's surface experienced record heat in 2024! lnkd.in/d4v9rRSB 04616
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 12/02/2025🌊 This is the first of a series of webinars organised by @wcrpclimate.bsky.social CLIVAR Marine Heatwaves Research Focus 🌊 We will have two fantastic talks by Prof Shoshiro Minobe & Hirotaka Sato, followed by a Q&A session 🌊 See details below on how to register 🌊 March 3 2025, 23:00 UTC 083
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 06/02/2025And now the heat is on! We are heading for a 10-day heatwave. Not fun waking up at 6:00am with 27C already… Though with a beautiful sky! 020
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 06/02/2025Climate change will affect all of us! Two weeks ago it was my turn. Record-breaking rainfall in Florianópolis where I live reached 390 mm in 36 hours. A similar event in 1995, considered the worst extreme in history, was 165 mm in 36 hours. We @wwattribution.bsky.social have released a statement. 1185
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 15/11/2024#COP29 Painel Nexus Oceano-Clima e Sociedade promovido pela Rede Clima, rede de cientistas ligada ao MCTI discutirá ações de adaptação e mitigação do oceano, incluindo o uso de finanças azuis e cooperação entre estruturas de governança e convenções para melhor apoiar a capacitação. 031
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024Momento de tietagem na #COP29… nossa ministra dos povos indígenas! 1101
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 13/11/2024🌊 Join us tomorrow at our UNFCCC event on Ocean-Climate-Society at #COP29 (registration online required). 030
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 12/11/2024Opening ceremony of the Brazilian pavilion with Marina Silva, Ministry of Environment, and vice president Alckmin. 031
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 12/11/2024So it begins… I am here with the Brazilian science delegation to the running up to COP30. I hope we can do differently in Brazil, with science and people at the centre of COP30… 2213
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 04/11/2024Esta quarta as 18:30 será a abertura da SEPEX na UFSC estarei em uma mesa redonda com o Sergio Sacani e Eslen Delanogare. O evento é aberto ao público e gratuito. Estão todos convidados! 020
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 30/09/2024The 2023 drought was exceptional (left panel). Without El Nino (green square), the drought would be almost the same (pink circle). But in a cooler climate (blue diamond), it would have been less intense and less frequent (right panel)... 020
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 04/09/2024🌊Celebrating the Scientific Legacy of Klaus Wyrtki We are organizing a symposium and an ENSO Winter School 2025 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of two milestone events of early ENSO research that involved Klaus Wyrtki of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. 1114
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 22/08/2024It is shocking to have severe fires in a wetland. This week, the smoke from fires in the Amazon and Pantanal (1S-16S) was brought to my home town in southern Brazil (27S) by a lower-level atmospheric jet (left). We could barely see the sun (right). 120
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 22/08/2024A few weeks ago, we released an attribution study about the fires in Pantanal, the largest wetlands in the world. In the last decades, the rainfall has decreased while temperatures are sore (left), fueling fires (right). @WWAttribution ✍️https://ow.ly/oKQs50STRfF 173
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 30/01/2024We just released the World Weather Attribution study about the role of climate change in the Amazon drought in 2023. The message is simple: Climate change, not El Niño, main driver of exceptional drought in highly vulnerable Amazon River Basin. Link for the full report: lnkd.in/dKuanvKE 010
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 10/01/2024In this study by Da Nial, Niklas Boers & colleagues, we investigate the interplay between two tipping elements of the climate system: the AMOC and Amazon forest! A potential collapse of the AMOC could lead to cooler and wetter conditions in parts of Amazon and less rainforest conversion to savanna. 000
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 30/12/2023In my last post of the year, in retrospect, I started 2023 writing this guest post for @carbonbrief.org, in which I discuss how the South Atlantic is overcoming its history as an under-researched ocean. The “Improper Ocean”… Check it out here: www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-h... 030
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 05/12/2023In spite of all our problems and setbacks, Brazil is making history today at #COP28 with the first Indigenous head of a delegation Sônia Guajajara, Brazilian Minister of Indigenous Peoples! 020
Regina R Rodrigues @rrrocean.bsky.social · 05/12/2023The Brazilian version of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services “BPBES” released the SPM of the Special Report on Coastal and Oceanic Ecosystems. I’m proud to have coordinated Chap. 4 on the impacts of climate changes. www.bpbes.net.br/produto/diag... 020
