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🌊 Interesting that a heterotrophic organism that precipitates CaCO3 could be a carbon sink
🌊🧪 In case you are interested in how urgent efforts to mitigate the impacts of climate warming are becoming. There are groups discussing how to hang artificial, underwater curtains roughly the scale of the length of Manhattan to try to prevent warmer seawater from melting ocean terminating glaciers.
More images of the zodiac and sampling operations onshore. @seos-uvic.bsky.social fieldwork takes place almost from pole to pole. Photos courtesy of @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling
🌊 More images from Otto Fiord which is above 80 N on the west side of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut 🇨🇦 in the Arctic. Sofie Ohrling is heading out from the icebreaker on a zodiac to sample near the glacier front and nearshore for trace elements @geotraces.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
🌊 Lab members now in Otto Fiord in Nunavut in the Canadian Arctic Ocean. Not too shabby. Photos by Sofie Ohrling
As a supervisor nothing makes me happier than seeing my lab members doing what they love. Here are @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling out sampling on a zodiac from the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen near Eureka Nunavut in Canada’s 🇨🇦 Arctic @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social
Trying something pneu?
How about 8:51 worth? youtu.be/EECAUgLX5YI?... This is actually Greenland from 2024
Lab @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling are on the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen conducting research in Eureka Sound Nunavut 🇨🇦. Some sights and sounds from the Arctic
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Intense FOMO but very happy to see @tiaanderlini.bsky.social and Sofie Ohrling of @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social off to a great start on CCGS Amundsen in the Canadian 🇨🇦 Arctic Archipelago. First trace element samples collected for 2025 for us in the North
All of the unvaccinated who have been coasting on our community immunity provided by the responsible vaccinated are in for a pretty rude, tragic and unnecessary awakening if no one has access to vaccines
I will never forget that moment. That he was such a gentleman, lawyer, and devoted public servant later in his life speaks to his character and importance for Canadians across the country. Sad to learn he has passed #29
The book, unlike most sports autobiographies, did not disappoint. Mr. Dryden came to my hometown Peterborough Ontario on a book signing tour. I brought my blocker and my book both of which he signed. Despite the long line he spent a few minutes chatting and giving me some goal 🥅 tending advice
🧵In my youth I was a goalie and am still a Montréal Canadiens fan. When Ken Dryden’s autobiography The Game was released in 1983 I was so excited to learn what it was like to play in the NHL for arguably the best professional sports club in history.
Vaccines do not cause autism to start…but I think you already know that
Has anyone engaged with your posts for any reason other than to say you’re unqualified to comment on scientific matters or unable to report on them accurately?
Officially start of term this week and the start of Smoketember in Victoria #yyj
M5.8 earthquake offshore the Aleutians caused motion in the ocean off Canada's west coast. The shaking was detected @oceannetworks.ca seafloor sensors that help us to better #knowtheocean.
🌊🧪⛏️ Join us in Montréal next summer for Goldschmidt 2026. Propose sessions and workshops here: conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
🌊 From @cproof-uvic.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social. Lower oxygen in bottom waters along the BC coast 🇨🇦
Our paper is out today in @nature.com where we assess a Prudent Planetary Limit for Geologic Carbon Storage: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Groovy cover!
🌊🧪 The Science Committee for @goldschmidt-confer.bsky.social Montréal 2026 is requesting your session and workshop proposals for our July meeting Canada 🇨🇦. Deadline for submissions Oct. 15 @geotraces.bsky.social @usocb.bsky.social conf.goldschmidt.info/goldschmidt/...
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🌊 In 2023, the ocean carbon sink weakened for the first time in a record-hot year 🌡️🌎 Our new study in Nature Climate Change quantifies this unexpected decline and explains how it came about. 👇 doi.org/10.1038/s415...
Graph is for COVID-19 really. I’ve taken some liberty
I’m lucky to have a great family doctor here in Victoria. Dr. Matthew’s office phoned me up a couple of weeks ago to tell me that given my birthdate I could use an MMR vaccine 💉 booster with the measles going around due to vaccine skepticism. I’m part of the vaccine group charted by @xkcd.com below
Congratulations to now-Dr Charlie Killeen, who successfully defended his PhD on Monday. Many thanks to Professor Jolene Reid (UBC), for visiting (and delivering a great seminar) to perform external examiner duties, and committee members Jeremy Wulff and Dave Goodlett
What's the state of climate policy in Canada? What happens if we miss the 2030 emissions target? I talked about these and other questions with CTV's Your Morning... from an undisclosed location with lighting issues... www.youtube.com/watch?v=edsa...
In the shadow of the Chateau Laurier you can witness the locks on the Rideau Canal bring boats around the rapids and back down the Ottawa River
Pleasing to fly out of Vancouver and see Mt. Baker and Mt. Rainier poking through the clouds
Its not every day you wake up and are asked about #radioactive shrimp! I guess Marco Werman at #PRX's the World wanted the down low from this #WHOI marine radiochemist. Listen here to the story. theworld.org/segments/202... 🌊 @theworld.org
The levels of 137-Cs detected here is more than 130 times the level we detected in Pacific salmon in British Columbia following the Fukushima meltdowns in 2011 fukushimainform.ca/2017/12/18/o... 🌊
I don't know how much ¹³⁷Cs they're talking about (because they don't say) but it's kinda everywhere because of our nuclear bombs and reactors. 🫠
This is the perspective I need Andrew!
Did Venus write this @davidho.bsky.social ?
📣 Congratulations to #WHOI marine chemist Chris Reddy, who was recently named an @acs.org Fellow 🎉 The ACS recognized Reddy's pioneering marine pollution research & commitment to #scicomms, both of which have shaped society's response to spills & disasters. 📲Details: go.whoi.edu/reddy-acs
theconversation.com/humans-will-...
There is no net annual production of O2 in the ocean. Photosynthetic production is balanced by respiration losses. @davidho.bsky.social has explained this before
The Beatmor
🌊📄 The Sabin Center published a new #report, International Legal Guidelines for Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal Governance under the London Convention and London Protocol. Read here: scholarship.law.columbia.edu/sabin_climat... #FridayReads
When you stay in a rental home that has 51 stairs from the basement entrance to the top floor on vacation
New research led by Sophie Norris provides the most comprehensive global estimates of glacier erosion to date. Using machine learning, the team analyzed over 180,000 glaciers and found that most erode between 0.02 and 2.68 millimetres per year—roughly the width of a credit card.
This is the Salish Sea. Between Vancouver Island and mainland British Columbia
Link tree here for other podcast services linktr.ee/amundsenscie...
🌊🧪 Thank you to Véronique Rochefort of Amundsen Science for this Passages podcast about my group's work in the #Arctic Ocean to understanding trace element and isotope biogeochemistry under a changing #climate. open.spotify.com/episode/4ozD... @uvicscience.bsky.social @geotraces.bsky.social
Pushing 30C in the office this AM. Warm in #yyj @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social @uvic.ca
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View north from the summit of PKOLS in Saanich yesterday. A fine afternoon for a walk
Finally getting to @johnvaillant.bsky.social ‘s Fire 🔥 Weather this summer. Prologue on the beginnings of the Fort Mac fire compelling
Boss!
🌊 BGC-Argo float of the month. The 300th float of the GO-BGC project was launched in the S Atlantic. Funded by the US NSF, these floats provide essential observations of ocean metabolism - productivity, oxygen, pH... @bgc-argo.bsky.social @globaloceanbgc.bsky.social #OneArgo #Argo
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🌊 Launched in 2024, Ocean Visions' refreshed mCDR Field Trial Database tracks global experiments, MRV strategies, carbon flux data & more. Explore trends, insights & an interactive map to see where momentum is building. 🔗 oceanvisions.org/mcdr-field-t...
🌊 Profile of @phoebejlam.bsky.social from @eos.org !
As all experts in the field have been saying for so long now…seastar wasting wasting disease not caused by #Fukushima Daiichi derived radioisotopes in the northeast Pacific Ocean
Fly fishing the Provo today with my brother-in-laws and son
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Whales are important marine species and should be protected. Their role in the global ocean carbon cycle, however, may not be as large as sometimes suggested. Figure from recent synthesis article compares contribution of different animals to sinking carbon flux in the ocean. doi.org/10.1029/2024...
We should come to terms with the fact that forest, shrubland, grassland, and wetland ecosystems cannot offset fossil fuel CO₂ emissions. But we should still protect and restore them for biodiversity and other ecosystem benefits.
Park City UT is delivering
Cheeky Ohnemus photobomb :)
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🚨 Calling all global research leaders! UVic is inviting established scholars with an academic focus on climate change solutions or mental health to apply for nomination to the 2026 Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) program. 🔗 www.uvic.ca/research-inn... @uvicresearch.bsky.social
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Wait until the Dean hears 😀
Like many Victoria Flying Club trainees and members I have flown C172 C-GTLF many times. Involved in the “hijacking” incident yesterday. Here she is in more uneventful times during my mountain flying training in Lillooet BC #aviation
July 16, 1969 9:32 AM "LIFTOFF!! We have a liftoff, 32 minutes past the hour, liftoff on Apollo 11! " Follow along with the #Apollo11 mission in real time as events happened 56 years ago, #ApolloInRealTime apolloinrealtime.org/11/
Whooo likes Hitachino White Ale? #beersky
TIL That Jocelyn Bell Burnell who discovered pulsar PSR B1919+21 renamed from its original designation of CP 1919, whose radio pulses were famously used on the cover of Joy Division's album Unknown Pleasures, shares a birthday with...Ian Curtis...and me
July 15 is also the birthday of Ian Curtis
Took some time this morning for some work in the circuit to keep my skills current. This is the VFR approach to 09 at CYYJ. Busy this AM but a beautiful day to fly the C172S nonetheless #aviation Shot with @gopro.bsky.social
A natural remedy that has previously helped counter oil spills will be too slow to "do any useful work" if there's a spill in the Canadian Arctic, increasing chances of "catastrophic" harm, researchers say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Last views from Gabriola Island. Lots of hues of blue and the wind whipped up the water for us. The Salish Sea is stunning. I’ll never get over it
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What it looks like on the coast of Vancouver Island today. Ferry traffic 🚢
Sea plane ✈️ on approach to Nanaimo this afternoon #aviation
He showed up and rocked Gabriola
@joelplaskett.bsky.social
Awaiting Joel Plaskett on Gabriola Island. His parking space is reserved
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... New paper exploring the opportunities and limits on nature based open-ocean climate solutions from conservation and restoration 🌊
I am co-convening a meeting at the Royal Society later this year, with @krhendry.bsky.social and other very excellent polar science colleagues. If you have interests relating to Antarctica and the impacts of climate change, please consider participating!
I took a course on evolution in the lecture hall there with Drs. Graham Bell and Robert Carroll a...few years ago. Wonderful building in the heart of the campus
4/ Why UVic? @uvic.ca @uvicscience.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social Strong research infrastructure Deep Indigenous partnerships Leading ocean and climate programs Situated on Lək̓ʷəŋən territory with strong commitments to reconciliation & sustainability www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
3/ Earth System Modelling. Are you a modelling expert? UVic is home to top-tier climate modelers. The CERC could advance models that link mitigation strategies with Earth system feedbacks to better guide global action. #ClimateModels #EarthScience
2/ Areas of interest include: Ocean-Based Solutions The CERC may focus on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) or other carbon capture technologies. UVic is a leader in marine science this is your chance to innovate where land meets sea. #OceanClimateSolutions
🌊🧪 1/ Job Alert! Are you a world-leading researcher in climate change solutions? UVic’s Canada Excellence Research Chair offers 8 years of support for groundbreaking research. Join our interdisciplinary team @seos-uvic.bsky.social Learn more & apply by Aug 29: www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...
Volcano Bear!
The Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association and Victoria Chinese Public School in #yyj today.
🌊🧪 For an analogy to this situation, consider a group of space pioneers living on a large glacier covering the polar region of a distant planet. After realizing the futility of shoveling aside the ever accumulating snow, these colonialists reconcile themselves to lifting their bodies and