@tamu.bsky.social's new Scientific Ocean Drilling website just went online! Your hub to all things repository, sample requests, SOD reports, news, expeditions...
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This reminded me that I need to get a cap for running - got swooped on the trails in Perth at the weekend, they're evil! Love the jacarandas!
Thought I would have loads of time to relax with 6 weeks off between jobs - instead it flew past with travel, house hunting and a flurry of paper revisions for my students (which is great to see!) - new adventure starts next week in Perth! π¦πΊπ
Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! βπ§ͺπ₯Όπ
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Hey Science Communicators - We are looking for you - join us on an IODPΒ³ Expedition this year #Scicomm #OceanDrilling
Hey folks!
#Geology often gets overlooked in schools
Which is crazy, because it explains why the world looks the way it does β from #mountain ranges to the ground beneath your feet
So I want to fix that! How?
By making a new educational tool for cool experiments in schools <3
View of the horizon at sunrise, the foreground is dark hills in silhouette and the sky is pink and orange.
View of a concrete bridge with buildings in the background. Under the bridge there are some large boulders at the edge of the sea. In the middle of the photo there is a small brown fur seal (kekeno) with a shiny wet coat.
View across a calm sea with hills on the horizon, there is a small rowing boat in the middle with two people in it. The sun is low in the sky and there are light clouds.
A row of colourful blue, white, yellow and red painted boat sheds next to the sea.
Last chance for a run commute, gorgeous morning for it and even found a little kekeno down on the waterfront π
Check out these great new story maps from @geomarkiel.bsky.social on discovering the "seascapes" of the ocean floor, including dangerous hidden volcanoes!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...
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Anchoring Is Damaging the Fragile Antarctic Seabed
The damage had narrowly missed three giant volcano sponges, which can live for up to 15,000 years and grow larger than the divers who study them
Cruise ships should be banned in fragile Antarctica waters
eos.org/articles/anc...
Head of school for geography, Earth and environment (SGEES) and environmental science job opening at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. I have lots of awesome colleagues in this school. Wellington is a nice place to live. Just a bit windy and occasionally shaky!
As much as I am enjoying a few days of summer in northern Spain before I return to winter in Aotearoa - headlines like these are a good reminder that this weather is not normal, and we are going to see more of this going forward π₯΅βοΈ. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Spent a while looking through these plots for different places across the globe - no matter where you are, the trend is the same and none of it is good! #showyourstripes
showyourstripes.info/c/australasi...
Apparently these are Eocene nummulites!
A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils. Someoneβs hand is in the photo for scale.
A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils. Someoneβs hand is in the photo for scale.
A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils.
View across an old city with a large cathedral in the distance. There are green trees in the foreground. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
Spent today exploring the city walls of Girona - which are full of forams! Anyone know more about these? View from the city walls is stunning as well! βοΈπ
Expedition 501 is at sea right now, exploring offshore freshened groundwater - learn more in our latest newsletter, as we hear directly from Co-Chief Scientist Brandon Dugan:
issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs...
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A woman standing on a stage next to a large screen that shows some text over a pale grey background and an image of a cloud of sediment cascading down a slope underwater
Next up is @mribo.bsky.social presenting some beautiful high resolution bathymetry data from KaikΕura Canyon!
A woman is standing on a stage next to a large screen showing hillshaded images of a submarine landslide with each image showing the same structure in different resolutions
Now into the scientific talks, starting with Canyon Geomorphology. Here Susi Woelz (NIWA) is talking about a dramatic landslide on the edge of Pegasus Canyon - offshore Aotearoa πβοΈ
People standing around a pool of water that is lit up by bright lights underwater. These lights are on a small remotely operated vehicle in the pool. There is a tripod structure in the pool with a yellow buoy on top.
A pool of water that is lit up by bright lights underwater. These lights are on a small remotely operated vehicle in the pool. There is a tripod structure in the pool with a yellow buoy on top.
Great start to the 7th INCISE conference in Barcelona - Structure from Motion workshop on day one, including a chance to drive an ROV in a mini survey around the pool at ICM!
The @anzic.bsky.social science committee 2025 lead by @nzseds.bsky.social hosted in Auckland at the Pasifica Fale. ππ¬π§ͺ nice to see so many Early career researchers involved.
βFigure 2: Warming stripes for the surface and ocean depths (1960-2024), and for different layers of the atmosphere (1979-2024).β Hawkins et al. (2025), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0212.1. Image license: CC BY 4.0.
A US/UK team led by @edhawkins.org has extended the climate βwarming stripesβ upward and downward: Illustrating temperature changes across the world, the stripes now also show how surface temps interact with those in the upper atmosphere and oceans.
Read more in #BulletinAMS: bit.ly/4jtctbk
Do you have a passion for marine geohazards and want a permanent job? Join us!
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead missions surveying nearshore active faults with an autonomous kayak!
A top down view of a 3D printed wooden model of a meandering seafloor channel. The wood is pale beige with darker brown lines that form contours of equal height on the wooden surface.
A side view of a 3D printed wooden model of a subduction margin. The wood is pale brown with darker lines indicating contours of equal height. There are some maps in the background on the table.
A top down view of a wooden box with a black acrylic lid. The lid has holes drilled in it which are about the size of a pencil. There is a map of New Zealand reflected in the box lid.
Can't wait to take these out for the first test run next week! Using our 'BathyBoxes' to help teach the concepts of seafloor mapping - based on 3D models of real seafloor landscapes around Aotearoa πβοΈπ§ͺ
Left panelβrepresentative seismic profiles for each of the three northern (a), central (b) and southern (c) Hikurangi zones showing the key mass transport deposit (MTD) size, location and relationship to surrounding structures (for locations of seismic profiles see Figure 6a). Green arrows in seismic profiles represent bottom simulating reflection. Incoherent seismic facies interpreted to be sediment wave fields from overspilling channels are labeled adjacent to MTDs to demonstrate similarities in seismic facies. Right panelβschematic block diagrams of key morphostructural domains, relationships to landslide occurrence in bathymetry data (Watson et al., 2020) and MTD emplacement and preservation across each of the northern, central and southern zones along eastern Aotearoa New Zealand. Note: seismic profiles in left panel are not strictly represented within schematic diagrams.
This figure sums up the variation along the margin really nicely! ππ§ͺβοΈ
A legacy of failure (of the submarine slope variety π)! Great to see this published, awesome work led by Sally Watson! By mapping subseafloor MTD along the Hikurangi Margin we show how many landslides we lose in the geologic record. @mribo.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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@anzic.bsky.social have just announced their 2025 Marine Geoscience Masterclass - an unforgettable 12-day field and lab experience in stunning Fiordland - applications are open now! www.iodp.org.au/masterclass-...
December 1-12, with fully-funded spots for students from Australian & NZ unis π
π A wave-making paper! π Despite covering 66% of Earth's surface, the deep ocean remains largely unexplored. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social researchers are first to document that, in decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed <0.001% of the deep seafloor. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
If you need some views far away from all-of-this... EV Nautilus has started exploration season in the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument. Today the are already at 3K m deep exploring a caldera and finding oodles of squat lobsters.
#NautilusLive #NA171
nautiluslive.org.
