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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I often despair about the state of our climate (especially after this summer), but this plot of high-end emission scenarios from successive IPCC reports is a welcome bit of good news and shows how far we have come. Still a long way to go but we have started. see www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-th....

Fossil CO2 emissions relative to 1850-1900 for the highest scenario of each climate modelling generation: SRES A1FI (CMIP3, used in AR4), RCP8.5 (CMIP5, AR5), SSP5-8.5 (CMIP6, AR6) and CMIP7’s high, all run through AR6-calibrated FaIR ensemble. Data: SRES database v1.1, RCMIP v5.1, ScenarioMIP database; chart by Carbon Brief. A1F1, RCP8.5 and SSP5-8.5 all increase way faster than current IPCC AR7 High Emission Scenario.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Thanks for the inspiration James!

A picture of some duct tape holding together some card and a pair of binoculars

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Sure that’s a dirty car, but that’s no ordinary dust. It’s sand from the Sahara Desert!

A black car with dust on it, exceptions no ordinary dust - it’s and from the Sahara Desert

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Happy Boron Day everyone! For those of you who have forgotten: on this day in 1808 French chemists Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac and Louis Jacques Thénard first isolated boron. Coincidently, 9 days later UK Chemist Sir Humphry Davy also isolated boron, so they share the credit en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boron

Diagram showing the electron structure of the element boron. A red ball in the middle is the nucleus, surrounded by 5 green electrons in 2 shells.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

!New Paper Alert! Corals are thought to make their skeletons from amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC). @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and I show here that this is however not compatible with their chemical composition. www.geochemicalperspectivesletters.org/article2623/ 1/2

A false coloured SEM picture of rounded particles of amorphous calcium carbonate with an overlay of a photo of a branched coral (Stylophora pistillata)

$Three X-Y cross plots showing the trace element distribution coefficients in amorphous calcium carbonate (ACC), inorganic aragonite, and coral aragonite, and the impact of Rayleigh fractionation in a closed reservoir on these (see the Supplementary Information of the paper for sources). (a) ACC is characterised by trace element distribution coefficients 1–2 orders of magnitude higher than aragonite in many cases (see Evans et al., 2020 for ACC data and the Supplementary Information for aragonite data sources). (b) In contrast, inorganic aragonite precipitated from seawater and coral skeletons are characterised by broadly similar distribution coefficient ranges. (c) A Rayleigh fractionation model demonstrates that the composition of many corals (circles) can be reconciled with the inorganic distribution coefficient and moderate degrees of Ca utilisation.$

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Nice reminder that the legacy of anthropogenic climate change could be LONG. Notice here temperatures still elevated by 3000 CE even in the optimistic scenario's. From this paper: eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A.... 🧪⚒️

Global mean temperature from 0 CE to 3000 CE (common era). A black line shows instrumental and proxy data around 0 oC spiking from 1850 to around 1.5 oC. The coloured lines show scenarios of future warming with red most pessimistic and green most optimistic. The red line peaks at 5 oC at 2200 CE and slowly declines toward 3000 CE. the green line peaks at 2 oC at 2050 CE and then declines and flatlines to about 1 oC warmer than pre-industrial. This shows that there impact of anthropogenic warming is long-term.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Not as long a time-series as some others (e.g. ourworldindata.org/grapher/date...) but I just turned on my office fan in April! Perhaps too soon to definitively define a global warming trend...

a graph clearly made in excel showing a negative trend line of dubious significance through 3 data points. The axes are: x = year, and y = date in year when fan was turned on for the first time.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Wow - such a cool image from Artemis II. I love seeing the atmosphere on these sorts of images - such a fragile looking layer of gas but so important to all life on our planet

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

@zifeiyang.bsky.social has been working hard on getting laser boron isotope analysis of individual benthic forams working and I am pleased to say her paper just came out: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... . Shows that single benthics can capture the evolution of T and pH on seasonal timescales

Multipanel figure showing a comparison between instrumental observations of the water column and IFA-derived estimates of bottom water temperature (BWT) and seawater pH from C. lobatulus at WCO Site L4 (English Channel).

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Ever wanted to see how a coral skeleton grows? In this paper (led by: @jtrendbio.bsky.social) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... we use Live CT, a method of scanning live organisms using microCT, to visualise how the skeleton grew over about one month.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Very effective illustration of what has happened to Florida's coral reefs in response to anthropogenic climate and environment change. The loss of this important ecosystem is all but complete - attempts to rescue it discussed here: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/... 🪸🧪🌊

A schematic image showing Recent changes in reef zonation of western Atlantic coral reefs, brought about by lack of recruitment of elkhorn, staghorn, and massive boulder corals. Without these key reef builders, the reefs have already measurably eroded. Image credit: Rashpal Dhilon. Adapted from ref. 6, which is licensed under CC BY 4.0. The panel on the left labeled Late Pleistocene to ~1978 shows a vibrant ecosystem, the middle panel (the 1980s) is depleted but still many corals remain (though some key species are lost). The panel on the right (2020s) is like a moonscape with a few hardy species left.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Earth's crust extracted from the mantle post-3.5 Ga - revealed by these exquisite Laser Ablation Sr isotope maps. Great example new technology yielding new information about the Earth. Also the lowest 87/86Sr ever measured on Earth (0.700050)!! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

a Optical image of plagioclase megacryst (An80) from the 3.73 Ga Manfred Complex, Narryer Terrane, Western Australia, with the area analysed by LA-MC-ICPMS enclosed by the grey line (laser ablation spots visible within this area). Fractures and altered areas appear optically white in colour relative to the fresher domains, which appear dark grey. b Interpolated map of measured 87Sr/86Sr. c Interpolated map of 87Rb/86Sr. d Interpolated map of 87Sr/86Srinitial (at 3.73 Ga). Analyses with elevated (>0.005) 87Rb/86Sr are excluded from this map to avoid overcorrecting the data. e Weighted mean of measured 87Sr/86Sr calculated for the outlined map domains in (b). Domains were selected on the basis of clusters of adjacent low 87Sr/86Sr and 87Rb/86Sr measurements. f Weighted mean of 87Sr/86Srinitial (at 3.73 Ga) calculated for the outlined map domains in (d).

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

End of a busy week delivering a new Analytical Geochemisty module for our 4th year @unisouthampton.bsky.social Geologists. I think they enjoyed it!

A geochemist wearing lab coat in front of our Agilent QQQ ICPMS

A lab coat wearing geochemist at a mass spec

Four geochemists collecting a core in a saltmarsh near Hamble

A geochemist proudly displaying a sediment core

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Day 1 and coral 1 (of many) getting scanned at the Diamond synchrotron with @jtrendbio.bsky.social @tomarney.com and others! 🧪🌊🪸

A small match stick shaped coral being mounted in the path of the XRay beam

Monitor showing coral sample number one in the beam line

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 26/07/2025

Eocene Fossil turtle shell from Yarmouth Isle of Wight (~30 Ma). It was a fossil like this that led to the birth of the science of Palaeoclimatology: in the late 17th C, IoW native Robert Hook proposed that such turtle fossils indicated the climate must have been warmer in the past. ⚒️🧪

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

!!Conference Alert!! Southampton Imaging Conference - Light on Life: illuminating all things Big and Small. 18/06/2025 @unisouthampton.bsky.social. It focuses on correlative imaging workflows across scales and modalities. Registration still open, here: tinyurl.com/332b9h8x 🧪⚒️🪸🔬

Southampton Imaging Conference | Light on Life: Illuminating All Things Big and Small
Date and time: 18 June 2025, 09.30 - 17.00
Venue: Avenue Campus, University of Southampton, SO17 1BF

Conference abstract: This is a one-day in-person event organised by the Institute for Life Sciences aimed at showcasing cutting edge, interdisciplinary and translational research with the theme of ‘Light on Life: Illuminating All Things Big and Small’. The event is designed for researchers with interests in the development of new imaging technologies or new applications of more established methods. The conference will feature sessions on Molecular and Nanoscale, Micro- and Mesoscale, as well as Macroscale including Biomedical Imaging. The focus will be on correlative workflows across scales and modalities, covering studies that span in vitro models, animals, humans, and the environment. Presentations will highlight both technological advancements and practical applications focusing on the role of correlative imaging in providing a holistic understanding of biology, physiology, and the environment. The organisers would like to express their gratitude to all sponsors for their support.

The programme will include invited presentations, flash presentations and a poster session to encourage networking, discussion and sharing of information. Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Keynote speakers include: Dr Sharif Ahmed (Diamond Light Source), Dr Thomas DeCarlo (Tulane University), Dr Alexander Morrell (KCL), Dr Theodora Stewart (KCL), Prof Philipp Thurner (TU Wien)

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Every night is a disco for our foraminifera in their respiration chambers @biosstation.bsky.social with @case4climate.bsky.social @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social 🧪⚒️🌊🪸

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Look at this beauty! freshly fished out of the Sargasso Sea and imaged at the Bermuda Institute of Ocean Sciences with @chalkyoceans.bsky.social @juliemeilland.bsky.social and others 🧪🌊⚒️

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Great to finally hold this in my hand! Pleasure to work with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby in editing this issue of Elements: Biomineral Geochemistry. Thanks also to all the authors who made such a great set of articles! www.elementsmagazine.org 🧪🌊⚒️

Cover of the latest issue of Elements Magazine called Biomineral Geochemisty: Windows into Past Climates and Calcification. The cover shows a picture of small clusters of amorphous calcium carbonate

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

!New Paper Alert! Matrix independent and interference free in situ boron isotope analysis by laser ablation MC-ICP-MS/MS pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a.... In it we use our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS to overcome the complexities of measuring boron isotopes by Laser Ablation in carbonates and other minerals. ⚒️🧪🌊🪸

Cross plots of d11B reference value vs. what we measure using Laser Ablation on our Neoma MC-ICPMS/MS. All the data lie on the 1:1 line showing that we can get accurate d11B data using laser ablation on a range of matrices from carbonate to silicate when normalised to NIST 612 glass.

Mass scans from m/z 9.7 to 11.1 for the Neoma MS/MS, base Neoma and Neptune when ablating carbonates. The Neptune shows an elevated background due to scattering of Ca and Ar 4+ ions. This is reduced in the base Neoma and entirely eliminated in the Neoma MS/MS. We think this is because the formation of Ca4+ and Ar4+ is reduced in this design of MS and scattering of this multiply charged ions is reduced once Ar and Ca are cut out by the pre-filter.

This shows the problem with laser ablation boron isotopes in carbonates on our Neptune MC-ICPMS. It shows a mass scan from m/z 9.7 to m/z 11.1 with peaks at the boron masses 10B and 11B. Rather than being a flat line - the baseline is elevated around boron 10 (and 11) due to scattering of 4+ Ar and Ca.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

Very pleased to have co-edited the latest version of Elements Magazine (www.elementsmagazine.org) "Biomineral Geochemistry" with @amoeba-lab.bsky.social and Ros Rickaby. Topics range from controls on CaCO3 polymorph to the role of amorphous intermediate phases and "vital effects". 🧪🌊🪸⚒️

Cover of Elements Issue entitled Biomineral Geochemistry: Windows into Past Climates and Calcification. The picture shows amorphous calcium carbonate particles - the precursors to many biominerals

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Looking forward to telling the public about all the metals and resources needed for modern tech in @unisouthampton.bsky.social #sotsef “what’s in your smartphone”. Can you solve our riddles?

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Norfolk Broads are beautiful…who knew?

Windmill from the river Ant Norfolk with big grey sky

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

What a pleasant surprise to watch David Thornalley on BBC News this morning while eating my breakfast! He did a great job explaining the threat of AMOC collapse. More here from @rahmstorf.bsky.social www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar... if you want to know more 🧪🌊⚒️

LEFT: David Thornalley (“I am a geologist so I look at time differently to the public”) talking to the BBC about AMOC. RIGHT: lovely picture of the RRS Discovery at sea

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

End of an era yesterday with the retirement of my good friend and colleague Prof Steve Roberts. Happy retirement Steve!

Picture of Steve Roberts giving a thank you speech at his retirement party.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Artists rendition of the death of the Late Palaeozoic Ice Age from this great paper by Hana Jurikova @mudwaterclimate.bsky.social and others (www.nature.com/articles/s41...). The papers also contains some lovely boron isotope data tracing CO2 300 million years ago! 🧪⚒️🌊

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Depends on what you think! but yes, uncertainty in pre-industrial T is around +/- 0.25 (see this figure from this paper: www.nature.com/articles/s41...). Most of this uncertainty is down to ocean temperatures being poorly measured as technologies evolved from buckets to satellites

Comparison of instrumental and tree-ring-based temperature reconstructions. Land air temperature anomalies for the Northern Hemisphere growing season (May-August) are compared across instrumental datasets – DCENT (red), CRUTEM5 (green), and Berkeley Earth (blue) – and a tree-ring-based temperature reconstruction (black). Anomalies are calculated relative to the 1900-2000 mean, and the tree-ring-based temperatures are re-scaled to have the same interannual variance as the instrumental temperatures following the methodology of ref. 33 in the paper linked in the post. The comparison is performed using the least common coverage over the Northern Hemisphere (20° N poleward) across all datasets to ensure a fair evaluation

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

Happy Isotope Day everyone! 🥳On this day in 1913 Nature published Federick Soddy's paper "Intra-atomic Charge" www.nature.com/articles/092... in which he introduced the term "isotope" (coined after a dinner conversation in Glasgow with Margaret Todd the classics scholar). how will you celebrate?🧪⚒️🌊

black and white picture of Federick Soddy looking at the camera.

A plaque on a wall in Glasgow celebrating Federick Soddy the text says: At a dinner party held in this house in 1913 Federick Soddy (1877-1956) introduced the concept of "isotopes". He was awarded the Nobel prize in 1921 for his work on radioactivity. Photo from X account of @is_glasgow

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Hard to believe it’s going to rain all weekend! Lovely winter sunset bathing the NOC canteen and RRS James Cook @unisouthampton.bsky.social 🌊

View of the RRS James Cook from the canteen at NOCS Southampton. Wintery sunsetting behind the ship

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

We have 9 PhD projects in the general area of Geochemistry on offer this year via our DTP in a range of subjects (see flyer) from exploring rainfall in a past warmer world to studying the eruptive behaviour of a young stratovolcano. Please share with interested parties 🧪⚒️🌊🪸🐙

A poster listing the PhD opportunities available in the Geochemistry Group of the School of Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton. Geochemistry at Southampton comprises over 30 researchers and postgraduate students who apply state-of-the-art geochemical analysis and modelling to scientific questions of
major societal, economic and environmental importance. With over £5M investment in new facilities over the past 5 years, the Geochemistry Group is one of the best equipped centres
of its type in the world, allowing us to offer PhD projects that span a wide range of low and high temperature geochemistry research. Go to this link to find out more: https://noc.ac.uk/education/gsnocs/how-apply. There are also four images: a banner with a volcano, two photos of the laboratory, a diver sampling coral and a geologists in the field

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

My PhD student Jake Kleboe is not only an awesome Raman wrangler but he also regularly bakes to raise money for Movember. Today he is going to bake 200 loaves of banana bread in 24 hours! Live stream starts at 10am UK m.twitch.tv/kleboes_kitc... please donate here: uk.movember.com/mospace/1337...

Poster showing Jake sporting a tache advertising his attempt to bake 200 banana bread loaves in 24 hours. Includes links to donate and live stream

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 01/11/2024

The future of low-C shipping? www.southampton.ac.uk/smmi/news/20... 🧪🌊

The Pacific Grebe alongside the National Oceanography Centre during the reveal of the FastRig™ wing sail (left) and at sea during trials (right). (Photos of Winds of Change project between University of Southampton and Smart Green Shipping.)

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

Getting definite Cylon vibes from our laser today 🧪⚒️

A Cylon from Battle star galactica (the old one) with red “eye”

A Teledyne Iridia Laser Ablation System with a Red “eye”

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

We are advertising 2 funded PhD projects this year: Project 1: Its getting hot in here - coral-based reconstructions of ocean warming and Project 2: Exploring the eruptive behaviour of a rare young stratovolcano. Please share!! www.thefosterlab.org/blog/2024/10/23/phd-topics-for-entry-september-2025

A picture of our geochemistry labs - showing two people working at mass spectrometers and one person, blurred, walking towards the camera (because we thought this looked cool).

A picture taken underwater in Bermuda showing a diver drilling a coral to collect a coral core.

A free stock photo of a volcano erupting.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

Not the best comet picture ever but also saw a line of Musk’s starlink satellites too! 🔭

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

I changed my route to walk slightly this morning and came across this! wasnt expecting to learn about oceanic Rossby waves on my commute! My next task - to find more around the streets of Southampton 🌊

A plaque in the pavement in Southampton with text reading "until recently we couldn't even see oceanic Rossby waves. Only when we tracked them by satellite could we confirm the existence of these mysterious waves, which are thought to be capable of steering ocean currents and affecting how the oceans respond to climate change" Paolo Cipollini National Oceanography Centre 2006

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 04/10/2024

Laser ablation - Time of Flight ICPMS is a fantastic new tool to collect high-resolution multi-element images of geomaterials. Here in our latest paper we apply LA-TOF-ICPMS to make high-speed images of biogenic marine carbonates at 1 and 2 um resolution www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 🧪⚒️🪸🌊

Geochemical images of deep-sea coral Desmophyllum dianthus skeleton DY081-914DD. The image shows a lot of variation in Na, Mg, Sr, Ba, La and U content

Geochemical images of tropical coral Siderastrea siderea skeleton BR-06

Geochemical images of Globigerinoides ruber (sensu stricto) foraminifera test F8–2.

Geochemical images of coralline algae Boreolithothamnion cf. soriferum skeleton CS9

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Zoe Thomas from University of Southampton talks here about Miocene-aged (15-30 myr old) peat from the Falkland Islands that contain fossils indicating the island was covered by a Nothofagus forest! www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... 🧪⚒️

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

The past IS the key to the future. Fantastic effort - 485 million years of global temperature correlating with atmospheric CO2 in this new paper by Judd and others www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... . 🧪⚒️

Top panel shows two black wiggly lines going up and down in parallel- one is CO2 the other is global temperature. They cover the last 485 million years. Panel on the bottom left shows a x-plot of CO2 vs Global Temperature- the data are beautifully correlated implying an Earth System Sensitivity of around 8 oC per CO2 doubling. Not sure what the figure in the bottom right panel shows but it looks cool!

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 19/09/2024

Write up of a recent meeting I attended last week in Bremen as part of the DFG Priority Programme “Tropical Climate Variability & Coral Reefs” (SPP 2299). Thanks @thomasfelis.bsky.social for inviting me! www.marum.de/en/Meeting-S...

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 12/09/2024

New paper alert! We apply correlative multimodal imaging (CMI) to a coralline algae from Loch Sween, Scotland (doi.org/10.1016/j.ep...). We show that seawater in Loch acidified at a whopping -0.018 pH units/yr since 2004. This is 10x the rate of the open ocean!! 🧪🪸⚒️🌊

Time series of carbonate system reconstructions for Loch Sween from the δ11B data generated on our sample of coralline algae. The data from the algal skeleton (in red) show a large acidification trend superimposed on a seasonal cycle. Panels c and d show a reconstruction of CO2 content of the water and that the Loch became a source of CO2 to the atmosphere in ~2008

A picture of the species for coralline algae used here.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 09/09/2024

No trip to Bremen would be complete without seeing the birth place of some of my favourite mass spectrometers 🧪

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 07/09/2024

Did you know that the skeletons of tropical corals show annual density banding - like tree rings? Did you also know that we found this out thanks the US Pacific Ocean nuclear testing in the 1940s and 50s? www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧪🌊🪸🐙⚒️

Nuclear bomb exploding at Eniwetok Atoll in 1956

Xray image showing annual density banding (top) and auto-radiograph (bottom) showing radioactive lines when the skeleton grew in 1956, 1954 and 1952. These markers proved vital to demonstrate the banding was annual

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 02/09/2024

Biominerals play a central role in Earth's past, present and future climate, but there are major gaps in our understanding of how they form. In this chapter, led by @oscarbranson.bsky.social, we show how the geochemistry of CaCO3 biominerals can fill these gaps tinyurl.com/3uvmfuc8 🧪⚒️🪸🐙🌊

A geochemical schematic of the biological and crystallographic processes of biomineralisation. A mineralized skeleton (bottom) grows from a calcifying fluid which is separated from external seawater by a layer of tissue. There are multiple possible ways to transport ions across this tissue layer to the site of calcification
(solid arrows), which are often associated with the co-transport or counter-transport of other ions (dashed arrows).

A conceptual space for exploring the dynamics of biomineral geochemistry, with labels for a calcite biomineral.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

If you see this and are so inclined, please post a picture you took at sunset.

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 20/08/2024

Check out the Etsy store of my friend and colleague @aniekebrombacher.bsky.social www.etsy.com/uk/listing/7..., fancy some G. ruber earrings? 🧪⚒️🌊🐙

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

I agree, though mostly when people say that, they are talking about historical weather records, where we do have daily resolved data (and sometimes better). The records dont go back that far at a global scale. In the UK we have this though: www.metoffice.gov.uk/research/cli...

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 15/08/2024

Some corals grow BIG. Check this one out - you can actually see it from space!! (from this website www.mapthegiants.com)

map of Australia showing the location of massive porities colony (called Sheree )

close up of Wilson Island with location of Sheree shown

satellite imaging showing Sheree the giant porities colony

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 07/08/2024

How hot future Earth will be depends on how much CO2 we emit and how sensitive the climate system is to radiative forcing. New paper by Eisenman and Armour (doi.org/10.1038/s414...) shows in a model that CS is state dependent, consistent with what we see in the geological record 🧪⚒️

a graph showing climate sensitivty (global surface T change for a doubling of CO2) as a function of global T

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Gavin Foster @thefosterlab.bsky.social · 05/08/2024

Loving the Evolution Garden at the NHM London. A great way to show the enormity of geological time and our small but significant place in it ⚒️🧪

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