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Shawn Wang

@syiwang.bsky.social
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Postdoc at University of Colorado, Boulder interested in rainfall and climate. Opinions expressed are my own. Website: syi-wang.github.io

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Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution @whoi.edu · 30/09/2026
📣 Calling all marine science and engineering majors! Could the -WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering be your next step? Find out in one of our live virtual info sessions on October 6 and October 28! 📲Get the deets and register at go.whoi.edu/mit-info
Four smiling young adults pose in front of a blue "ocean PAVILION" backdrop. On the left, a man in a black suit and a woman in a dark blazer shake hands with the two people on the right: a person wearing glasses and a dark green shirt, and a man wearing a light blue dress shirt.A medium shot shows a smiling young man with short brown hair and a beard standing at a wooden table in a spacious lab or workshop, looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark grey, long-sleeved athletic shirt. 

In front of him on the table are several items:
- A tall, narrow, rectangular container made of clear acrylic, partially filled with a translucent, light-orange liquid.
- A small, white cardboard box with a colorful circular logo that reads "LED STRIP LIGHTS," with a small black camera lens sitting on top of it.
- An open black laptop displaying a dark screen with software interface elements.

In the background, the room is brightly lit with high ceilings. Two other people are visible but slightly out of focus: a person with dark hair and glasses sitting behind the laptop, and another person on the right facing away from the camera. A bright yellow structure is visible in the middle background.An eye-level medium-shot captures two people on a gray inflatable boat in glacial water. On the left, a person sits facing slightly right, looking ahead. They wear a gray beanie with the word "MITWHOI" in blue letters, an orange and black jacket, and red and black gloves. They hold a small yellow device up to their left eye. A yellow notebook lies open next to their lap. In the center, a person in a green and black jumpsuit and a bright teal beanie with black sunglasses resting on top sits facing right, holding a black camera to their face as if taking a photo. 

They are in a calm, light teal body of water with small ice chunks floating. The water reflects the cloudy, white sky and the mountains in the background. High, jagged mountains line both sides of the water, with patches of snow on them. On the far right is a glacier that extends into the water.An eye-level shot captures two smiling female researchers on a ship’s deck collecting water samples from a CTD rosette. 

On the left, a researcher wearing a blue hard hat with a "NES-LTER" sticker, a black fleece, grey trousers, and brown tall boots squats down. She holds a small, clear sample bottle with a red cap under a tube releasing water from one of several large grey Niskin bottles on the CTD frame. 

Squatting next to her on the right, the other researcher, with blonde hair in a bun, wearing a black long-sleeved shirt, blue jeans, and red shoes, looks on with a smile. She wears purple protective gloves. 

The background shows the ship's white superstructure, a blue metal barrier on the right, and the wet, white deck.
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Check out our new paper on evidence of a stronger Pacific Walker circulation during the Little Ice Age, now out in Science Advances!
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Jenna Norton @jenna-m-norton.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Russell Vought wants to be in charge of #ScienceDeathPanels at NIH. Congress has made it pretty clear they don’t want political appointees in charge of funding decisions. Science community: it’s time to get loud (again)! www.politico.com/news/2026/09...
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Trump asked budget chief to draft order bringing health research funding under his control
The move came after the NIH director refused Trump’s request to cut Harvard grants in an Oval Office meeting.
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National Weather Service @nws.noaa.gov · 16/09/2026
🧵 We’re continuing to hire a wide variety of positions throughout the National Weather Service! New vacancies are being posted all the time. Here’s a sample of what’s open as of today:
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Jeffrey Mervis @policyhound.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
A deep dive into the memo that marks the end of how NSF has done business for 76 years www.science.org/content/arti...
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NSF memo implementing Trump’s ‘golden age’ of science unsettles researchers
New document emphasizes support for White House priorities over curiosity-driven ideas
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Dr. Thomas Felis @thomasfelis.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
So happy that this paper is finally out!
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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 07/09/2026
The stability of inter-basin coupling between the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean remains uncertain. A study in Nature Communications shows that past volcanism can temporarily weaken this relationship, but recent decoupling due to global warming is unprecedented. go.nature.com/4gTwzfH ⚒️ 🌎🌊🧪
This is figure 1, which shows Indo-Pacific climate modes and proxy-based reconstructions.
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Sang-Ki Lee @sklee621.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A new study by Dong et al. (2026, GRL) reports a rapid intensification of the Gulf Stream since 2014 🌊🧪 www.aoml.noaa.gov/satellite-da...
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Satellite data reveals Gulf Stream intensification - NOAA/AOML
A new NOAA study reveals the Gulf Stream underwent a rapid intensification from 2014 to 2023
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 01/09/2026
September is Baby Safety Month. Don't you dare put that baby in pelican mouth.
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Prof Ian Hall @ianhall.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability disrupted by 19th century volcanism (inc. Tambora, 1815) A fascinating intersection of paleoclimate, ocean dynamics and climate risk. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability disrupted by 19th century volcanism - Nature Communications
The stability of inter-basin coupling between the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean remains uncertain. This study shows that past volcanism can temporarily weaken this relationship, but recent decoupl...
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thrilled to share that my last PhD chapter is now published in @natcomms.nature.com! We investigated how past and present forcings have disrupted the interactions between the tropical Pacific and Indian Oceans using paleo-archives and models! www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Coupling of Pacific and Indian Ocean variability disrupted by 19th century volcanism - Nature Communications
The stability of inter-basin coupling between the tropical Pacific and Indian Ocean remains uncertain. This study shows that past volcanism can temporarily weaken this relationship, but recent decoupl...
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Nature @nature.com · 20/08/2026
The US National Science Foundation will award about 30% fewer new research grants this fiscal year than in the last one, Nature has learnt. go.nature.com/3UcGoNW
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Exclusive: NSF set to issue lowest number of new grants in four decades
The US science-funding agency is withholding $1 billion of its budget so that the money can go to a special White House project.
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Eos @eos.org · 03/08/2026
The 10 people we're profiling in our annual Career Issue aren’t just Earth and space scientists. They’re musicians, runners, scuba divers, equestrian therapists, musicians, and backpackers. Take a look! eos.org/agu-news/wor...
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Work-Life Balance - Eos
These 10 scientists carry their curiosity outside their nine-to-fives.
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Kau))) @carbon8.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
🚨🚨We have a new paper out in @natgeosci.nature.com led by postdoctoral scholar Na Wang (now @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social), where we identify a last-millennium climate “seesaw” linking extreme #hydroclimate events across both Central Asia & mainland Southeast Asia ☔️ www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Opposing hydroclimate extremes in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over past millennium - Nature Geoscience
Opposing wet and dry conditions in Central and mainland Southeast Asia over the past millennium were controlled by climate variability over the Pacific and Indian oceans, a pattern likely to become mo...
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Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. @repdexteror.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Pressure works. Three days ago, I joined lawmakers pressuring the White House to stop its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system that is CRITICAL to understanding climate change and marine ecosystems, including right here off the coast of Oregon. Today, Trump backed down.
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Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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Dan Garisto @dangaristo.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Breaking: Judge Jackson blocks NSF from dismantling NCAR. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...
For the reasons stated above, Plaintiff’s Motion for Preliminary Injunction,
ECF No. 18, is hereby GRANTED. Defendants are hereby PRELIMINARY
ENJOINED from divesting UCAR or NCAR of any rights, resources, or
responsibilities related to the NWSC.
SO ORDERED this 1st day of June, 2026.
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Dr. Jonathan Foley @globalecoguy.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
The American government is turning its back on the things that made us a global leader in science, engineering, and technology. Independent science — vetted by rigorous peer review, not political hacks — is crucial. This undermines our future. www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...
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White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants
These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque
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Tess Wei-Ping Jacobson @tessweiping.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
the final bit of my PhD work is now out in ERL! we look at how recent trends in tropical Pacific SSTs contributed to forest fire & climate trends in the Southwest US vs Eastern Australia (two super fire-prone regions with opposite-signed ENSO teleconnections) 🔥🌬️ iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
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Opposing contributions of the tropical Pacific to recent burned forest area trends in Eastern Australia and the Southwestern United States
Opposing contributions of the tropical Pacific to recent burned forest area trends in Eastern Australia and the Southwestern United States, Jacobson, Tess W P, Seager, Richard, Clarke, Hamish, Cook, Benjamin I, Juang, Caroline S
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MS @mimosaishere.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
A web page just told me everything it learned about me without asking. It knew my city, my device, my GPU, and how long I hesitated before scrolling. sinceyouarrived.world/taken
sinceyouarrived.world
taken.
A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.
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Ross Ong @paleoross.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Excited to be at #EGU26 in Vienna! I’ll be presenting our coral-based reconstruction of tropical north Atlantic winter SSTs revealing interdecadal variability and evidence of NAO–SST non-stationarity. 🌊📊 If you are around pls. come say hi! meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/EGU26-...
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Abstract EGU26-4127
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 11/04/2026
A 1200+ year climate record is at risk. Do you know know anyone in Japan who could help? See below.
A message from Tuna Acisu asking for help maintaining cherry blossom record in Kyoto Japan.A figure showing the cherry tree record since 812 from world in data.
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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 01/04/2026
Glued to the Artemis 2 launch. Watch here NOW! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tf_U...
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NASA's Artemis II Crew Launches To The Moon (Official Broadcast)
YouTube video by NASA
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Moriaki Yasuhara @moriakiyasuhara.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
SIO faculty position - Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04481
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Paleoclimate/Paleoceanography/Sediment Geochemistry - Assistant Professor
University of California, San Diego is hiring. Apply now!
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The Eyewall @theeyewallwx.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Today’s post focuses on weather in the Plains. High winds and fire danger there. Additionally, we take a look at the failure of Colorado River negotiations this weekend. This is a big deal, and we have a bevy of links to primary sources that explain this issue. Details below or at theeyewall.com.
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Wild winds on the Plains today, along with fire risk as we look at how the Colorado River negotiations failed spectacularly
Deadpool in Glen Cayon may loom
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riskmarketnews.com @riskmarketnews.com · 16/02/2026
The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide. "Uncertainty carries a positive cost." www.riskmarketnews.com/trumps-clima...
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Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries
A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.
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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act
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We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It!
YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream
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Dr. Sharon Homer-Drummond @shomerdrummond.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
AGU has an easy-to-use toolkit set for public feedback to proposed government actions. Now is a great time to respond to NSF’s proposed shuttering of NCAR. agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
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Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
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Dan Visioni @danvisioni.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
We knew the NSF letter about NCAR would come. I think this is an occasion that will require great coordination and strategical thinking. UCAR should respond as a block, coordinating a response across universities (especially in the South, and large public universities that use NCAR data a lot)
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.
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LegraLeGra @atthenius.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
#savencar So much American science passes through ncar. Some of my closest collaborators and smartest colleagues are at NCAR.
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Thrilled to share our new paper in GRL investigating future changes to Indonesias Seas currents using a high resolution climate model (CESM-HR)! doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Remote and Regional Drivers of the Indonesian Throughflow Under Future Warming: Implications for Inter‐Basin Freshwater Transport
Under future warming, Pacific wind changes reduce Indonesian Throughflow surface transport through the Halmahera Sea Future Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation decline induces oceanic adj...
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Nature Communications @natcomms.nature.com · 31/12/2025
New study by Hu et al. reveals #IndonesianThroughflow’s nonlinear response to #CO2, with a rapid decline after crossing a #TippingPoint. The first point may be approaching, signaling a potential climate #Tipping element with implications for global #climate. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
Chris Piecuch shows how the rate of sea-level rise along the US coast has doubled since 1900, from 2 cm to 4 cm per decade. It has risen by 40 cm by now. Here he briefly explains this (and how the DOE claimed the opposite) at the AGU25 meeting last week. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fI0K...
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Chris Piecuch: Sea Level Rise - AGU 2025
YouTube video by greenmanbucket
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Kerry Cook @kerrycook.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
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Eos @eos.org · 18/12/2025
To help #SaveNCAR, read our update below and visit this @aguscipolicy.bsky.social page, where you can find email text and a call script to share with your representatives. agu.quorum.us/campaign/151...
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Trump Administration Plans to Break Up NCAR - Eos
The Trump administration is planning to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research, one of the world’s leading climate and Earth science research laboratories, according to a statement fro...
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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
If nothing is done to stop Trump and the GOP, in three more years there will be nothing left of this country. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
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Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
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Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs (SPP 2299) @climatereefs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Last keynote for today by Sara Sanchez on "Data assimilation with coral d18O"
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Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs (SPP 2299) @climatereefs.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
First keynote of today by Caroline Ummenhofer on "Indo-Pacific climate variability of the last millennium"
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Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs (SPP 2299) @climatereefs.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
Next to presentations from 18 #SPP2299 projects, we have an impressive line-up of keynote speakers, including Andrea Grottoli, Alyssa Atwood, Caroline Ummenhofer, Sara Sanchez, Ben Henley, Christian Voolstra, as well as other excellent talks from our invited guests incl. Xuefei Chen and Mandy Freund
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
🌊🦠#FieldworkFriday Our fieldwork doesn't only happen at sea! C-CoMP researchers working with @maratimes.bsky.social collected Providence River water to test extraction methods for samples collected on C-CoMP cruises. In terms of filtering speed, 5 L of Sargasso sw = 50 mL of Providence River water!
C-CoMP Bridge-to-PhD Fellow Emily Hu stands in front of the Providence River while holding brown collection bottles containing river water. Photo by Arianna Krinos.A filter that was used to filter water from the Providence River is tinged with yellow, indicating a plethora of biomass in the water. A peristaltic pump is shown on the lab bench behind a gloved hand holding the filter. Photo by Arianna Krinos.
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Yuxin Zhou @yzhouclimate.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Earth scientists know a lot more about getting out of an ice age than going into one. We report an episode of AMOC slowdown at 115 thousand years ago that's likely astronomically forced (via sea-ice) and coincides with a delayed drawdown of atmospheric CO2 @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eALD1
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Abrupt weakening of deep Atlantic circulation at the last glacial inception - Nature Communications
Zhou et al. report an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at the last glacial inception. The observed circulation slowdown could explain the delayed timing of the atmos...
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Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-CoMP) @microbialplanet.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
📣#MTTM 🔬Emily Hu (@yunqianhu.bsky.social‬) is a C-CoMP B2P Fellow working with @maratimes.bsky.social & @akrinos.bsky.social at Brown. She uses microbial sequence data and computational tools to uncover how biotic🦠& abiotic drivers shape microbial community assembly in the North Atlantic Ocean 🌊.
Photo of Emily Hu on the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Emily is standing outside with the bow of the ship and the ocean behind her. Photo provided by Emily Hu.Emily collects seawater from the CTD rosette into a bottle on the deck of the R/V Atlantic Explorer during the 2025 C-CoMP March Cruise. Photo by Arianna Krinos.Emily uses sterile forceps to load filters onto filter holders in one of the labs on the R/V Atlantic Explorer. Emily is using the filters to capture particles, including microbes, from the seawater. The DNA from the microbial cells will be extracted, sequenced, and analyzed to understand the microbial community composition of the seawater. Photo by Arianna Krinos.
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Now out in Nature Geoscience! Evidence of subsurface Atlantic warming during past AMOC slowdown periods. It's an amazing study led by Wanyi Lu and I'm honored to have played a small role in generating some of the data! www.nature.com/articles/s41....
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Warmer shallow Atlantic during deglaciation and early Holocene due to weaker overturning circulation - Nature Geoscience
A build-up of warm water in the shallow tropical Atlantic during the last deglaciation and early Holocene probably resulted from intervals of weaker Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, accord...
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Science Magazine @science.org · 28/07/2025
The National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
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NSF plans abrupt end to lone U.S. Antarctic research icebreaker
Imminent termination of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer shocks polar scientists
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Ronnie Rattanasriampaipong @paleolipidrr.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We are pleased to have @cavemangriff.bsky.social and Sam Bova as invited speakers for our 4th #PaleoSEA session at #AGU25. Last week to submit abstract: tinyurl.com/paleoSEA2025 AGU Student Travel Grant: www.agu.org/honors/fmstg
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Interested in how data, models, and theory can help us advance #paleoclimate research? Submit an abstract to #AGU session! Deadline to submit abstracts is July 30th 🌍⛰️📊💻 agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/pr... @agu.org
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Lily Dove @solilyquy.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
The Secretary of Commerce's new policy requiring his personal review of all NOAA contracts over $100,000 is directly harming American science. 🧪 How do I know? Because this morning, twelve of America's rising leaders in climate science (including myself) were furloughed.
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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc
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NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...
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Ronnie Rattanasriampaipong @paleolipidrr.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Calling all (paleo)climate thinkers, data wranglers, and storytellers of the Earth system! Join us for our 4th #PaleoSEA PP030 – Southeast Asia and the Indo-Pacific: Past, Present, and Future Climate and Environment at #AGU Fall Meeting 2025 in New Orleans, Louisiana. (1/2) @syiwang.bsky.social
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Shawn Wang @syiwang.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Absolutely thrilled (and shocked) that our NSF proposal at P4CLIMATE was just recommended for funding! A ray of good news in the midst of everything going on 🎉🥳🙏
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