Emma Boland
@emmaboland.bsky.social
Physical Oceanographer, Polar Scientist, Climate Science Communicator. Working @bas.ac.uk. Views my own.
www.emmaboland.co.uk
www.emmaboland.co.uk
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📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
A special collection with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges
🗓️1 March-31 May 2026
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
#TippingPoints
Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
A special collection with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges
🗓️1 March-31 May 2026
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
#TippingPoints
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
📢 CALL FOR PAPERS!
Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
A special collection with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges
🗓️1 March-31 May 2026
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
#TippingPoints
Solution-Based #DataScience for #Environmental #Biology Challenges
A special collection with @cu-esiil.bsky.social to advance data-intensive approaches to better understand today's environmental challenges
🗓️1 March-31 May 2026
ℹ️https://bit.ly/4q0b68m
#TippingPoints
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With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds
Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating
www.theguardian.com
November 13, 2025 at 12:55 PM
With current pledges, the world's on track for 2.6°C of warming in 2100 compared to preindustrial levels.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
10 years ago, before the Paris agreement, it was 3.6°C
20+ years ago, we thought it would be 4-5°C
So 2.6°C is better, but the problem is that climate impacts are way worse than we predicted.
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This week I started a new chapter @bas.ac.uk 🎉
As part of the GIANT project I will be modelling how Greenland’s glaciers are melting 🧊🌊 I am excited to see how this multi-disciplinary approach will improve our understanding of such an important topic!
www.bas.ac.uk/project/gian...
As part of the GIANT project I will be modelling how Greenland’s glaciers are melting 🧊🌊 I am excited to see how this multi-disciplinary approach will improve our understanding of such an important topic!
www.bas.ac.uk/project/gian...
November 7, 2025 at 4:23 PM
This week I started a new chapter @bas.ac.uk 🎉
As part of the GIANT project I will be modelling how Greenland’s glaciers are melting 🧊🌊 I am excited to see how this multi-disciplinary approach will improve our understanding of such an important topic!
www.bas.ac.uk/project/gian...
As part of the GIANT project I will be modelling how Greenland’s glaciers are melting 🧊🌊 I am excited to see how this multi-disciplinary approach will improve our understanding of such an important topic!
www.bas.ac.uk/project/gian...
🌊 Important new report alert🚨
Whilst its easy to get used to scary graphs, this one made me pause! The 2025 State of the Cryosphere report published yesterday has this one overlaying observations of #AMOC slowdown against model predictions.
The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”
The report states that “AMOC shutdown appears all but inevitable”
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
🌊 Important new report alert🚨
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📣 🌊 Call for abstracts #EGU26 !!! Please consider our session:
ITS1.9/OS4.1
Machine Learning for Ocean Science
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/abstra...
Deadline 15 January 2026 (1 December for travel grant applications) @brajard.bsky.social @rachelfurner.bsky.social @redouanelg.bsky.social
ITS1.9/OS4.1
Machine Learning for Ocean Science
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/abstra...
Deadline 15 January 2026 (1 December for travel grant applications) @brajard.bsky.social @rachelfurner.bsky.social @redouanelg.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 9:03 AM
📣 🌊 Call for abstracts #EGU26 !!! Please consider our session:
ITS1.9/OS4.1
Machine Learning for Ocean Science
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/abstra...
Deadline 15 January 2026 (1 December for travel grant applications) @brajard.bsky.social @rachelfurner.bsky.social @redouanelg.bsky.social
ITS1.9/OS4.1
Machine Learning for Ocean Science
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU26/abstra...
Deadline 15 January 2026 (1 December for travel grant applications) @brajard.bsky.social @rachelfurner.bsky.social @redouanelg.bsky.social
Ocean burp! Love it! We do like to call the Southern Ocean the 'lungs of the earth' so maybe a hiccup is more consistent? 🌊🫧😆
October 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Ocean burp! Love it! We do like to call the Southern Ocean the 'lungs of the earth' so maybe a hiccup is more consistent? 🌊🫧😆
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October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
October 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Record high temperatures are currently being set across the northernmost portions of the #Arctic. In fact, it is effectively ice-free on the Atlantic side of the Arctic all the way up to about 85°N latitude! This includes record low sea ice around Svalbard.
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
Graphic by zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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Up to 90% of all life on this planet died during the Permian Triassic extinction event when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years.
We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.
It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.
We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.
It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.
October 9, 2025 at 9:22 AM
Up to 90% of all life on this planet died during the Permian Triassic extinction event when temperatures increased by 8C across 60,000 years.
We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.
It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.
We’re on track for a rise of 4C+ just in our children’s lifetimes.
It’s impossible to overestimate how much trouble we’re in.
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🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Yixi Zheng, a postdoctoral researcher at the British Antarctic Survey specialising in Antarctic physical oceanography 🧊
Learn more about Yixi here: ocean-ice.eu/?p=9055...
Learn more about Yixi here: ocean-ice.eu/?p=9055...
October 7, 2025 at 4:16 PM
🆕 Check out our latest 'Researcher in the Spotlight' feature on Yixi Zheng, a postdoctoral researcher at the British Antarctic Survey specialising in Antarctic physical oceanography 🧊
Learn more about Yixi here: ocean-ice.eu/?p=9055...
Learn more about Yixi here: ocean-ice.eu/?p=9055...
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🚨 phd to research drivers and mechanisms of marine heatwaves in the Pacific 🌊 supervised by by Dr Erik Behrens at NIWA/Earth Science New Zealand to improve the predictability of these extremes.
⏰Applications close 12 October.👇
niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/s...
⏰Applications close 12 October.👇
niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/s...
Scholarships
Scholarships available to both Masters and undergraduate students in the fields of fisheries science and marine biology.
niwa.co.nz
October 2, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🚨 phd to research drivers and mechanisms of marine heatwaves in the Pacific 🌊 supervised by by Dr Erik Behrens at NIWA/Earth Science New Zealand to improve the predictability of these extremes.
⏰Applications close 12 October.👇
niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/s...
⏰Applications close 12 October.👇
niwa.co.nz/about-niwa/s...
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🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history!
The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.
The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.
October 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🧊Our researchers have just finished analysing ancient Antarctic ice spanning 1.2 million years of climate history!
The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.
The Beyond EPICA project extends the ice core climate record by 400,000 years, helping us to understand long-term climate patterns and improve future predictions.
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In three days, our iconic red planes will take off from Canada to make the epic journey across the world to Antarctica.
These flights mark the start of a new polar science season.
BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com
These flights mark the start of a new polar science season.
BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com
September 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
In three days, our iconic red planes will take off from Canada to make the epic journey across the world to Antarctica.
These flights mark the start of a new polar science season.
BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com
These flights mark the start of a new polar science season.
BUT ALSO that means there's three days left to send your name to Antarctica with us! tickettoantarctica.com
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New paper alert 🚨 🌊
The Southern Ocean and the Arctic are freshening. In our new paper we link, for the first time, such freshening to sea ice decline through salinity and stable oxygen isotopes observations and machine learning techniques.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Southern Ocean and the Arctic are freshening. In our new paper we link, for the first time, such freshening to sea ice decline through salinity and stable oxygen isotopes observations and machine learning techniques.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
Freshwater Sources in the Global Ocean Through Salinity‐δ18O Relationships: A Machine Learning Solution to a Water Mass Problem
This study quantifies meteoric water and sea ice meltwater in the ocean freshwater budget by estimating multiple freshwater endmembers
δ18O shows that Antarctic bottom water has significantly fre...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:56 AM
New paper alert 🚨 🌊
The Southern Ocean and the Arctic are freshening. In our new paper we link, for the first time, such freshening to sea ice decline through salinity and stable oxygen isotopes observations and machine learning techniques.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Southern Ocean and the Arctic are freshening. In our new paper we link, for the first time, such freshening to sea ice decline through salinity and stable oxygen isotopes observations and machine learning techniques.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Kaitlin Naughten giving presentation at the Royal Society this morning on how ice shelf melting will respond to a warming climate emphasises conclusion from her 2023 paper in Nature Climate Climate Change 🧵🧪🌊 -
doi.org
September 30, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Kaitlin Naughten giving presentation at the Royal Society this morning on how ice shelf melting will respond to a warming climate emphasises conclusion from her 2023 paper in Nature Climate Climate Change 🧵🧪🌊 -
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Paracetamol during pregnancy does NOT cause autism. More bollocks non-science shaming pregnant people is JUST what we don't need. We are already told what to do and what not to do so much during pregnancy (much worse in the states of course). This has made me furious tbh.
September 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Paracetamol during pregnancy does NOT cause autism. More bollocks non-science shaming pregnant people is JUST what we don't need. We are already told what to do and what not to do so much during pregnancy (much worse in the states of course). This has made me furious tbh.
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We are hiring two new postdocs in Greenland ocean and ice sheet modelling to join our team at @bas.ac.uk! Apply by 8 October:
September 18, 2025 at 11:58 AM
We are hiring two new postdocs in Greenland ocean and ice sheet modelling to join our team at @bas.ac.uk! Apply by 8 October:
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🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2026.
If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely! (1/2)
If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely! (1/2)
Oceanography MS/PhD Positions for Fall 2026
This is an effort to collect the **contact information of potential advisors** for MS/PhD students in Oceanography.
Please note that if you answer **you are agreeing to have your contact information...
docs.google.com
August 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
🌊With the Fall semester upon us, it's time to start thinking about recruiting/applying to grad school for 2026.
If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely! (1/2)
If you are a marine scientist looking for a graduate student, I've created a form where you can add your name and other info:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely! (1/2)
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I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
ENOUGH of the BBC legitimising anti-asylum protests!
YouTube video by Zoe Gardner
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:00 AM
I don't know about you but I've had about enough of mainstream media & politicians legitimising racist anti-asylum protests that terrorise refugees & communities.
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
I had to push back hard, TWICE on BBC yesterday about supposed "legitimate concerns" www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtkA...
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🌊🧪
Advertising this PhD student position once more (deadline 30 August) workingat.nioz.nl/o/phd-positi...
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
We are looking for someone with a MSc in physical oceanography, fluid dynamics or physics to study how ocean eddies contribute to the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
NIOZ - PhD-position "Overturning the ocean''
The department of Ocean Systems (OCS) at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Sea Research (NIOZ) is looking for an enthusiastic and motivated PhD candidate to work on the exchange of lighter and denser
workingat.nioz.nl
August 20, 2025 at 10:41 AM
🌊🧪
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Me, @codeandcurrents.bsky.social, and ChatGPT had an excellent time vibe-coding our way to an assessment of the citations in the DOE's "critical review" of climate science.
A wee 🧵 of highlights...
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A wee 🧵 of highlights...
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August 14, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Me, @codeandcurrents.bsky.social, and ChatGPT had an excellent time vibe-coding our way to an assessment of the citations in the DOE's "critical review" of climate science.
A wee 🧵 of highlights...
1/n
A wee 🧵 of highlights...
1/n
So good to be back as a visiting fellow to the @whoi.edu GFD Summer Program 😎🌊 The program has been running for over 70 years and is largely funded by the NSF #standupforscience
August 10, 2025 at 7:39 PM
So good to be back as a visiting fellow to the @whoi.edu GFD Summer Program 😎🌊 The program has been running for over 70 years and is largely funded by the NSF #standupforscience
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🚨 New paper alert 🚨
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
July 14, 2025 at 5:48 AM
🚨 New paper alert 🚨
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
We developed the new PanAntarctic model and assessed the sensitivity of Antarctic Bottom Water (AABW) formation and export to horizontal model resolutions of 1/10°, 1/20° and 1/40°.
Open access paper in JAMES:
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
@bas.ac.uk's latest ever season with a ship, South at midwinter! 🇦🇶🧊🌊
We went on a voyage into the depths of polar night on RRS Sir David Attenborough.
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
The fab @itvnews.bsky.social team came with us, and made a short doc about the adventure! From hoardes of whales, to sticking a camera in a crevasse - there's something for everyone ⬇️
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KbP...
July 10, 2025 at 11:12 AM
@bas.ac.uk's latest ever season with a ship, South at midwinter! 🇦🇶🧊🌊