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Dr. Sara Polanco

@saraearthscientist.bsky.social
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Earth Scientist with a fascination for rivers, deltas and oceans modern, ancient and virtual 🌍 🐍🇨🇴🇦🇺 Fulbright Scholar

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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Thanks to the Colombian newspaper EL TIEMPO to Juan David Escorcia Garcia for featuring my research from Expedition 501—freshwater hidden beneath the sea: a new frontier for water security. @anzic.bsky.social @ecord.bsky.social www.eltiempo.com/bogota/geolo...
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The Conversation AUNZ @aunz.theconversation.com · 25/08/2025
Last week in Sydney, we saw a melodrama acted out that could stand in for the state of Australian universities more generally.
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Universities have lost their way, but cost-cutting and consultants are not the answer
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ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
When science meets poetry 🌎📜 New blog entry from #Expedition501 ➡️ expedition501.wordpress.com/2025/07/14/p... 📷Yakutchik@ECORD_IODP3_NSF #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #OceanScience
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Pure poetry
Beneath ocean floorFossil roots sleep in old soilWhispers of past land Geoscientist Sara Polanco penned this exquisite poem, a haiku, to describe a core that recently arrived on deck of the L/B ROB…
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ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
#Picoftheday Another day of work aboard the L/B Robert for #Expedition501. In the photo, Rachel Bell and Alize Longeau collect a sample from a core at Hole M0113A, while Graham Tulloch observes.🌎 📷 LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF #Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling
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ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
#clipoftheday 📹 Sunrise on L/B Robert during IODP³-NSF Expedition 501 🌅 Footage: LeBer@ECORD_IODP3_NSF #Oceanlove #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling
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ECORD - European Consortium for Ocean Research Drilling @ecord.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
Andrew McIntyre, Adam Wspanialy and Graham Tulloch discuss logging and drilling strategies while Raushan Arnhardt and Margaret Stewart prepare for X501 team transfers. 📷LEBER@ECORD_IODP3_NSF #IODP3NSF #Exp501 #ECORDScienceOperator #NewEngland #ScientificOceanDrilling #PicOfTheDay
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SCIMPI Subsea Borehole Observatory @scimpi.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Another view of the SCIMPI expedition! #SCIMPI #marinetech
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SCIMPI Subsea Borehole Observatory @scimpi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Learn more about the SCIMPI sensor being deployed on #Expedition501 Almost in our backyard 😉 (Transcend is headquartered in Vermont, but we think we can feel the ocean breeze from here.) #oceanresearch #hydrogeology
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SCIMPI — Transcend Engineering
Cutting Edge Subsea Monitoring. SCIMPI is an inexpensive seafloor borehole observatory for unconsolidated sediments.
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SCIMPI Subsea Borehole Observatory @scimpi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Ever wondered how the crew gets from the transfer vessel to the expedition vessel? Hang on!
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SCIMPI Subsea Borehole Observatory @scimpi.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
More about Expedition 501 where SCIMPI (Simple Cabled Instrument for Measuring Parameters In-Situ) is being deployed. SCIMPI is a CORK alternative, notable for being a significantly less expensive, yet full featured option.
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SCIMPI Subsea Borehole Observatory @scimpi.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Great drone shots and overview of the #IODP3NSF #EXP501 mission, currently off the Massachusetts coast. SCIMPI has accomplished its first deployment of this expedition 🙌 THANK YOU to the great team on the L/B Robert –@ecord.bsky.social keep those great sunsets and sunrises coming!
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IODP³-NSF Exp 501: Our home for the expedition
YouTube video by ECORD_IODP
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
🧠💥 In a facultatively social bee, brain development is determined by caste role - not group living. It’s not about living together, it’s about what you do! 🐝👑 #BeeScience #Neurobiology #SocialInsects www.frontiersin.org/journals/eco...
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Democratic Activists @democratswin.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
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UK-IODP @ukiodp.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Our April Newsletter is out now. Learn about Expedition 501 - the first of IODP3, this joint endeavour with NSF sets sail tomorrow! @ecord.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs...
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UK IODP Newsletter 2025 Issue 4 April
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
It’s great to see M@TE out in the world! mate.science has been years in the making to make numerical models more accessible. Huge thanks to everyone who has helped make M@TE possible! @benmather.info @louis.moresi.info @auscope.bsky.social
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Model Atlas of the Earth | M@TE
Model Atlas of the Earth (M@TE).
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Even more misleading reporting from The Gaurdian about Australian uni student experience. Campuses are packed here at UNSW. Yes, they weren't during lockdowns. How about interviewing current uni students? www.theguardian.com/australia-news/…
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‘It’s very lonely’: what are Australia’s university students missing out on? | Australian universities | The Guardian
Many start their studies hoping to find friends, themselves and intellectual stimulation. More and more are finding they’ve been sold something else
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Andrew Gunn @agunn.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
inside a dune!
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Help break the intergenerational poverty cycle! #education www.theguardian.com/the-smith-fa...
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‘We could break out of the intergenerational poverty cycle’: the scholarship that transformed one man’s life
Access to education can change everything – just ask Mark Ryan
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Nominate your Australia-based female colleagues to be elected AGU Fellows!!!!
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Matt King @deformedearth.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Okay, so it's been 30 years since an Australia-based woman was elected Fellow of the @agu.org (not counting those that moved since they were elected). Surely, it's time to change that colleagues. Nominations open and due 13 March: www.agu.org/Honors/union... www.agu.org/honors/union...
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Past Recipients of the Union Fellows Program | AGU
View past recipients.
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Andy Baker @andy-baker.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
La Nina conditions have been reached in Pacific sea surface temperatures. Will we have a wet late summer in Eastern Australia? Will there be more groundwater recharge? www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-07/aust… #climate #groundwater
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Rare summer La Niña could be forming in Pacific, raising risk of wet weather start to 2025 - ABC News
The current edition of La Niña is not playing by the rule book — for only the second time in 75 years its onset has arrived in the middle of summer.
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sinéad @sineadlyster.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Hello!!! It’s been a while. I’ve been busy setting up the new Coastal Landscape Dynamics (CoLD) Group basin at Penn State (I’m now a plumber?!) and running the first experiments in it. Here’s a sneak preview including the very (VERY 😅) preliminary results I showed at #AGU24. More to come!
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Understand the evidence and where the numbers are coming from! www.theguardian.com/australia-ne... @australia.theguardian.com #Netzero
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Here's why Peter Dutton's nuclear power plan is a fantasy - video
Guardian Australia's Matilda Boseley dives into the Coalition's plan, which an overwhelming majority of agencies and experts in the field do not believe is credible
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Carolina Ortiz Guerrero @carolinaogeo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Recommended read: Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it. A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Advising governments about science is essential but difficult. So train people to do it
A great scientist doesn’t necessarily make an effective science adviser — but schooling and practice can help to bridge the gap.
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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Finished reading ‘Breaking Through’, Katalin Karikó’s book - it’s easy to read and it’s full of her refreshingly honest takes on science and careers in science. Here is one example 🧪
My first message is this: We can do better. I believe we can improve how science is done at academic research institutions. For one thing, we might create a clearer distinction between markers of prestige-titles, publication records, number of citations, grant funding, committee appointments, eti-quette, dollars per net square footage-and those of quality science. Too often, we conflate the two, as if they're one and the same. But a person isn't a better scientist because she publishes more, or first. Perhaps she's holding back from publication because she wants to be absolutely certain of her data. Similarly, the number of citations might have little to do with the value of the paper and more to do with external events. When Drew and I published our landmark Immunity paper, it barely got any notice.
It took a pandemic for the world to understand what we'd done and why it mattered.
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Zoltán Sylvester @zzsylvester.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I have seen these features before, but I still think these are some of the most amazing landscapes on this planet. Polygonal weathering in the Navajo Sandstone, Paria Canyon - Vermilion Cliffs Wilderness Area
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 12/12/2024
Flooding can shape a person's health even before birth, according to new #AGU24 research. A global analysis finds that floods elevate preterm births by about 3%, which can increase the risk of diseases like asthma and diabetes later in life.
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Flood disasters associated with preterm births and low birth weights
New research finds that flooding increases preterm births and the likelihood of low birth weight. Both these outcomes are risk factors for developing chronic health conditions such as asthma and…
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Dr. Sara Polanco @saraearthscientist.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Went for a run over the Potomac to spark some inspiration for the talk I’m giving today. Come check it out! 14:10 room 146C agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me... #AGU24
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 10/12/2024
🌟 Day 2 of #AGU24 is here! 🌍 With so many exciting sessions and events on the schedule, we’ve got your suggested itinerary lined up to help you make the most of the day.
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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · 09/12/2024
Curious what the impact of the election will have on science policy? Or want to gain basic science policy skills? Check out the great science policy events happening at #AGU24 today. See our full schedule of events here: buff.ly/3VsTrbZ
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