Cathy Garcia

Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years - Nature Geoscience Fifty years of plankton and water samples show that the proportion of carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus in the ocean now substantially differs from the Redfield ratio, probably reflecting a reduction in...

Global-scale shifts in marine ecological stoichiometry over the past 50 years www.nature.com/articles/s41... #jcampubs 🌊

Welcome to the USA - a former protector of free speech 🤦‍♀️

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Functional biogeography of marine microbial heterotrophs Heterotrophic bacteria and archaea (“heteroprokaryotes”) drive global carbon cycling, but how to quantitatively organize their functional complexity remains unclear. We generated a global-scale unders...

Out in Science! Zakem et al. mechanistically modeled global marine prokaryotic functional diversity, grounded with field data. Shifts in community composition drive respiration and thus biological C storage. This facilitates C cycle projections in a warming ocean
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Exclusive: NSF faces radical shake-up as officials abolish its 37 divisions Changes seen as a response to presidential directives on what research to fund

Report from @science.org:

• NSF staff told that its 37 divisions are being abolished. Programs within to be drastically reduced.

• Layoffs expected, details via memo Friday 5/9.

• Another round of grant terminations expected. (Already 1400 cancelled ~$1bn)

www.science.org/content/arti...

GOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...

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US Weather Agency Websites to Vanish Under Planned Contract Cuts The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency is poised to eliminate most websites tied to its research division under plans for the cancellation of a cloud web services contract, a move that could s...

Almost all NOAA Research websites that rely on cloud services - including Amazon, Google and WordPress - are poised to disappear at midnight ET Saturday after a contract was targeted for "early termination." Labs may also feel the effects.

Story for @bloomberg.com (free link):

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Diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus acquisition in the Sargasso Sea | PNAS The daily cycle of photosynthetic primary production at the base of marine food webs is often limited by the availability of scarce nutrients. Micr...

New @pnas.org paper alert, led by QBioS PhD Daniel Muratore & now Omidyar Fellow @sfiscience.bsky.social, Naomi Gilbert, Gary LeCleir & @tn-marine-micro.bsky.social: we find evidence for diel partitioning in microbial phosphorus uptake in the Sargasso.

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

The real (non-political) news on GOP and CR you actually want to read about!

The Words Federal Agencies Are Discouraged From Using Under Trump Federal agencies have issued guidance to employees on hundreds of terms to limit or avoid using. An analysis of government websites shows many of the same words being removed.

We’re really at the point where I wouldn’t be shocked if “carbon” was on a list like this in the future. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Is the bow tie necessary? No, but Wrecker looks too dang cute not to include it. #Caturday

Tell Elected Officials: Support NOAA Marine Sanctuary Staff! Without public input, America has lost NOAA marine sanctuary scientists, enforcement officers, and conservation specialists who are the backbone of our nation’s marine protections, supporting critical...

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Nice review on connecting marine biogeochemistry models with -omics:
Microbial Ecology to Ocean Carbon Cycling: From Genomes to Numerical Models doi.org/10.1146/annu...

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

Reminder to enjoy the small things like afternoon sunshine. #CatsOfBluesky

Speak Up for the Flathead Lake Biological Station - Flathead Beacon We are scientists from the University of Montana’s Flathead Lake Biological Station (FLBS), where our research and facilities have long been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation (N...

Here's our piece objecting to recent federal actions that weaken #science and weaken the ability of FLBS to serve our community with the best possible scientific approaches.
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flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/24/s...

I’m very excited to finally share the results of a passion project that has been on my mind for nearly a decade. You can find the pre-print below, but what follows is the saga of how this project came to be:

Happy #caturday!