Tom Mumford
@kaptnkelp.bsky.social
Phycologist at heart. Studies kelp, ulvoids, Invasives in particular. Involved in conservation and restoration, aquaculture,and the social science of all of these. Teaches phycology.
Does woodworking and restores tube radios for fun
Does woodworking and restores tube radios for fun
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🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3)
@louisefirth.bsky.social
@louisefirth.bsky.social
July 10, 2025 at 12:42 PM
🌿🌊Annals of Botany invites submissions to a new Special Issue on "Macroalgae and ecosystem services", edited by AoB editors Mick Hanley and Kira Krumhansl and guest editor Louise Firth. (1/3)
@louisefirth.bsky.social
@louisefirth.bsky.social
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“Over recent decades, kelp forests lining the southern coast of Maine have suffered drastic declines in abundance—by as much as 80%.” 🌿🌎🦑🐟 scienmag.com/collapse-of-...
Collapse of Kelp Forests Disrupts Food Web and Energy Flow in the Gulf of
In the coastal waters of Maine, a profound ecological shift is quietly reshaping the structure and energy base of marine ecosystems. Over recent decades, kelp forests lining the southern coast of
scienmag.com
June 7, 2025 at 1:18 AM
“Over recent decades, kelp forests lining the southern coast of Maine have suffered drastic declines in abundance—by as much as 80%.” 🌿🌎🦑🐟 scienmag.com/collapse-of-...
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Giving up on #photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows marine #diatoms to live on a #seaweed diet phys.org/news/2025-04...
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
April 19, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Giving up on #photosynthesis: How a borrowed bacterial gene allows marine #diatoms to live on a #seaweed diet phys.org/news/2025-04...
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
Diatom heterotrophy on brown algal polysaccharides emerged through HGT, gene duplication, & neofunctionalization journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...
#algae #protists
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Seaweed might be the new silicon. Scientists decoded how to reprogram algae molecules for use in medicine, materials, and more. #MarineBiotech #GreenInnovation #AlgaeFuture
Brown Algae Enzymes Unlock Custom Biotech Materials of the Future
Scientists at the University of Barcelona have deciphered how enzymes reshape alginate molecules from brown algae—paving the way for custom-designed, sustainable biomaterials.
geekoo.news
April 16, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Seaweed might be the new silicon. Scientists decoded how to reprogram algae molecules for use in medicine, materials, and more. #MarineBiotech #GreenInnovation #AlgaeFuture
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Bull kelp forests are now the official marine forest of Washington, thanks in part to the hard work of Sebastian, a Bainbridge High School student. We can all make a difference, no matter our age.
April 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Bull kelp forests are now the official marine forest of Washington, thanks in part to the hard work of Sebastian, a Bainbridge High School student. We can all make a difference, no matter our age.
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Today is bull kelp day!!
Bull kelp forests are now the official marine forest of Washington, thanks in part to the hard work of Sebastian, a Bainbridge High School student. We can all make a difference, no matter our age.
April 17, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Today is bull kelp day!!
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📣Now Free Access: Marine heatwave duration and intensity interact to reduce physiological tipping points of kelp species with contrasting thermal affinities
Get the Paper:
Get the Paper:
doi.org
April 17, 2025 at 6:15 AM
📣Now Free Access: Marine heatwave duration and intensity interact to reduce physiological tipping points of kelp species with contrasting thermal affinities
Get the Paper:
Get the Paper:
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New Report from @sabincenter.bsky.social! Everything you ever wanted to know about the regulation of seaweed cultivation and sinking for #CDR in Alaska (and maybe more). blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
Regulation of Seaweed Cultivation and Sinking for Carbon Dioxide Removal in Alaska: New Sabin Center Report - Climate Law Blog
Last year, for the first time, global temperatures exceeded 1.5oC above pre-industrial levels. This follows a decade of “record-breaking temperatures,” with the World Meteorological Organization concl...
blogs.law.columbia.edu
April 11, 2025 at 5:35 PM
New Report from @sabincenter.bsky.social! Everything you ever wanted to know about the regulation of seaweed cultivation and sinking for #CDR in Alaska (and maybe more). blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechang...
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In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline.
grist.org/video/seawat...
#Seaweed #Water #Mining #Science #Biology
grist.org/video/seawat...
#Seaweed #Water #Mining #Science #Biology
In the race to find critical minerals, there’s a ‘gold mine’ literally at our shoreline
Instead of continuing to dig tunnels or pits, some scientists are looking to a promising yet challenging source of minerals: seawater.
grist.org
April 8, 2025 at 1:49 PM
And now go watch the movie “Ammonite” to put it in perspective. Who were the real phycologists then?
Ooooh a very timely and interesting article for #phycologyfriday!
The Forgotten Victorian Craze for Collecting Seaweed
Victorian women were excellent at it.
by Cara Giaimo (from the archives)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
Books by or about Margaret Gatty at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#naturalhistory #marinebiology #womeninStem
Victorian women were excellent at it.
by Cara Giaimo (from the archives)
www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...
Books by or about Margaret Gatty at PG:
www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/searc...
#naturalhistory #marinebiology #womeninStem
March 29, 2025 at 1:25 AM
And now go watch the movie “Ammonite” to put it in perspective. Who were the real phycologists then?
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🚨New Study🚨showing that Macrocystis and Nereocystis #kelp canopy cover has remained relatively stable through several decades in a cool-water region of central BC, Canada. #PhycologyFriday 🧪🐙
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
March 28, 2025 at 8:37 PM
🚨New Study🚨showing that Macrocystis and Nereocystis #kelp canopy cover has remained relatively stable through several decades in a cool-water region of central BC, Canada. #PhycologyFriday 🧪🐙
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
👏This was a huge effort led by Lauren with many great collaborators 👏
www.frontiersin.org/journals/mar...
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Can the Emerging European Seaweed Industry Contribute to Climate Change Mitigation by Enhancing Carbon Sequestration?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Can the Emerging European Seaweed Industry Contribute to Climate Change Mitigation by Enhancing Carbon Sequestration?
Blue carbon habitats, which exhibit high rates of natural carbon sequestration, typically refer to salt marshes, seagrass meadows, and mangrove forests. Recent studies, however, have argued for the i...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
March 17, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Can the Emerging European Seaweed Industry Contribute to Climate Change Mitigation by Enhancing Carbon Sequestration?
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds collected by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: "Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea."
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚
CA 19285
#seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚
CA 19285
#seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory
March 17, 2025 at 10:00 PM
An album of over 200 pressed seaweeds collected by an anonymous Victorian collector. A transcribed poem is pasted as title page, it begins: "Oh call us not weeds, we are flowers of the sea."
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚
CA 19285
#seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory
I saw this at UW-Madison Special Collections 🌊📚
CA 19285
#seaweed #herbarium #naturalhistory
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This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating Mrs A. Miller of Eday, who collected and artistically pressed Orkney seaweeds onto small cards in 1929-1930. Her beautiful specimens in our collection feature in the current Seaweed Secrets exhibition: www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/whatson/2024...
March 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This #InternationalWomensDay we’re celebrating Mrs A. Miller of Eday, who collected and artistically pressed Orkney seaweeds onto small cards in 1929-1930. Her beautiful specimens in our collection feature in the current Seaweed Secrets exhibition: www.stromnessmuseum.org.uk/whatson/2024...
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Champions of the kelp industry have made bold claims that farming the fast-growing seaweed will alleviate the climate crisis. But those claims are not substantiated by the science of how kelp removes and sequesters atmospheric carbon.
Kelp Farming Isn’t As Green As It Seems
Opinion | Growing kelp may appear like a simple strategy for removing atmospheric carbon, but the practice has many pitfalls.
undark.org
March 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Champions of the kelp industry have made bold claims that farming the fast-growing seaweed will alleviate the climate crisis. But those claims are not substantiated by the science of how kelp removes and sequesters atmospheric carbon.
Also totally agree. If you want to restore, restore the environment in which seagrasses can thrive. Restore the processes!
A well-written piece by Jillian Ooi: SEAGRASS RESTORATION ON THE RISE – BUT ARE WE MISSING THE POINT?
www.bernama.com/en/thoughts/...
Couldn't agree more! #Conservation should come before #Restoration
www.bernama.com/en/thoughts/...
Couldn't agree more! #Conservation should come before #Restoration
March 3, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Also totally agree. If you want to restore, restore the environment in which seagrasses can thrive. Restore the processes!
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'Like someone put a blanket over the ocean': Kelp could be among fires' casualties
->Los Angeles Times | #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
->Los Angeles Times | #Ocean | More info from EcoSearch
'Like someone put a blanket over the ocean': Kelp could be among fires' casualties
A giant sea bass swims amid kelp at the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach. Kelp is highly sensitive to environmental changes. Fluctuations in temperature, light availability, nutrients and pollutants can have surprisingly swift consequences on kelp populations, which...
www.latimes.com
March 2, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
February 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
New paper hot of the press for #phycologyfriday !!!! 🌱🌊🌞We conducted a warming experiment in the field to test stress responses of the intertidal habitat forming seaweed Fucus serratus: nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Portrayal of Shinagawa Edo era vs. Meiji era (inset), c. 1920, depicting the seaweed industry for which the area was famous. Off-shore nori aqua-culture was established by the first Shogun, Ieyasu, after discovering lush bushes of algae could be harvest from wooden piles driven into the bay.
Drying of Laver at Shinagawa, c. 1910. | Old Tokyo
"Nori doesn't grow naturally in flat sheets. Instead, it collects in little dark green Vandyke beards on rocks or other objects ranging in depth from the tide-line to 25 feet below the surface on the ...
www.oldtokyo.com
February 22, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
February 12, 2025 at 8:37 AM
🚨Preprint Alert🚨 I'm really happy to finally share our exploits in red algae and introduce the wider community to Bostrychia, the new model system we have been developing to tackle the molecular biology of red algae. Isn't she a beauty? Thread below 🧵 1/8 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Ocean-loving undergrads and grad students, take note!
My pal Robin Elahi is offering an excellent Kelp Forest Ecology course at Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, CA
25 June - 25 July, 2025
Learn more below 👇
forms.gle/1HdF54hnM41F...
Ocean-loving undergrads and grad students, take note!
My pal Robin Elahi is offering an excellent Kelp Forest Ecology course at Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, CA
25 June - 25 July, 2025
Learn more below 👇
forms.gle/1HdF54hnM41F...
forms.gle
February 5, 2025 at 10:36 PM
🧪 🐙🦦🌱
Ocean-loving undergrads and grad students, take note!
My pal Robin Elahi is offering an excellent Kelp Forest Ecology course at Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, CA
25 June - 25 July, 2025
Learn more below 👇
forms.gle/1HdF54hnM41F...
Ocean-loving undergrads and grad students, take note!
My pal Robin Elahi is offering an excellent Kelp Forest Ecology course at Hopkins Marine Station, in Pacific Grove, CA
25 June - 25 July, 2025
Learn more below 👇
forms.gle/1HdF54hnM41F...
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I discovered a web site which tells many facets of the kelp forest story, doing an amazing job of it — with images, video, words, references, and no advertising. It also has menus to let you choose different perspectives, such as region, forest community members, restoration, etc. bullkelp.info
The Mysterious World of Bull Kelp
This web-based book celebrates the power of art and science to tell the story of kelp forests on the North Pacific Coast.
bullkelp.info
January 27, 2025 at 9:57 PM
I discovered a web site which tells many facets of the kelp forest story, doing an amazing job of it — with images, video, words, references, and no advertising. It also has menus to let you choose different perspectives, such as region, forest community members, restoration, etc. bullkelp.info