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Matthew E. Clapham

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Paleontology professor at UC Santa Cruz, studying mass extinctions and effects of climate change on marine life in the fossil record. He/him, Canadian, ♠️. https://people.ucsc.edu/~mclapham

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Great opportunity, but - warning - may lead to you spending years of your life entering data...

03.04.2025 22:13 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
QR code linking to survey about gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences, geometaphorsurvey.com.

QR code linking to survey about gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences, geometaphorsurvey.com.

A colleague, Tamara Pico, is conducting a study about potentially gendered, sexist, or sexual language in the geosciences: ucsantacruz.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_.... Responses welcome from subtle to more memorable, and even if you have not heard this language!

06.12.2024 23:22 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
Real estate sign with label describing agent as Cambrian specialist.

Real estate sign with label describing agent as Cambrian specialist.

When your realtor just has to know their trilobites.

27.05.2024 14:53 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Research Explainer: How giant clams record their diet in their shells Two giant clams near Eilat in the Northern Red Sea. To the left is the small giant clam, Tridacna maxima, and to the right is a mature individual of the rare endemic giant clam Tridacna squamosina, on...

A new blog about our paper that came out earlier this year! dantheclamman.blog/2023/12/13/r...

13.12.2023 21:31 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Graph showing atmospheric CO2 over the last 66 million years superimposed on bands indicating levels of global warming

Graph showing atmospheric CO2 over the last 66 million years superimposed on bands indicating levels of global warming

Just out, a 66 million year history of atmospheric CO2. Key take away: CO2 hasn't been at today's levels for at least 3 million years. These high CO2 worlds in the geological past had less ice and *much* higher sea levels 📈🌊 ⚒️🧪 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

07.12.2023 22:04 👍 47 🔁 37 💬 3 📌 0