Katerina Petronotis
@kpetronotis.bsky.social
Geoscientist, Manager of Science Operations (retired) at IODP/TAMU
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@tamu.bsky.social's new Scientific Ocean Drilling website just went online! Your hub to all things repository, sample requests, SOD reports, news, expeditions...
sod.tamu.edu
sod.tamu.edu
Scientific Ocean Drilling
Making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the Earth.
sod.tamu.edu
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
@tamu.bsky.social's new Scientific Ocean Drilling website just went online! Your hub to all things repository, sample requests, SOD reports, news, expeditions...
sod.tamu.edu
sod.tamu.edu
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And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!
November 13, 2025 at 10:40 PM
And we’re up and running. First Antarctic cores have been CT scanned! The GCR has truly become a world-class core analysis facility!
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The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 AM
The underwater seismometer network is so great, as evidenced from yesterday's EQ off-Tohoku.
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
Reposting unofficial visualization by x.com/kotoho76/sta...
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Looks like the Gulf Coast Repository @tamu.bsky.social is getting a new "toy" today.
So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!
So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Looks like the Gulf Coast Repository @tamu.bsky.social is getting a new "toy" today.
So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!
So exciting, can't wait to see it up and running!
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My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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November 6, 2025 at 9:26 PM
My co-authored marine GDGT « cookbook » review paper led by Peter Bijl 👨🔬 and @kasiasliwinska.bsky.social 👩🔬 is now published in @egubg.bsky.social!
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
(1/3)
doi.org/10.5194/bg-2...
Again, I am so happy to be the @cerege.bsky.social @climatecerege.bsky.social expert on #GDGTs!
@egu.eu
🧪 ⚒️ 🌊
#PaleoSky
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I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
i don’t know how to cross-post this from FB but this is absolutely heartbreaking. The age of scientific ocean discovery we were brought up in is gone & will never come back. I can’t.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
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#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through September 2025...
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
October 5, 2025 at 12:21 AM
#Arctic air temperature rank by month over the satellite era - now updated through September 2025...
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
+ Ranks: 1=warmest (red), 46/47=coldest (blue)
+ Download higher resolution version: zacklabe.com/arctic-tempe...
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it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
August 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
it shouldn't be easier to get a gun in America than the covid vaccine
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Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time – and that has some big implications for the economy.
Colleges see significant drop in international students as fall semester begins
Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time – and that has some big implications for the economy.
n.pr
August 27, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Delays and increased screenings for visas mean that many students didn't make it to campus on time – and that has some big implications for the economy.
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🚨Job alert
Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
August 26, 2025 at 8:46 PM
🚨Job alert
Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
Want to know what’s behind these doors? TAMU’s Gulf Coast Repository is looking for a Curatorial Specialist to support the GCR on shore & who will be sailing on expeditions operated by the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordinating Office (SODCO).
tamus.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/System-wide_...
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The article made the cover of GRL, celebrating the now-retired JOIDES Resolution. Floating in the pitch-black Aegean Sea, the JR was an island of light and color.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
August 18, 2025 at 3:23 PM
The article made the cover of GRL, celebrating the now-retired JOIDES Resolution. Floating in the pitch-black Aegean Sea, the JR was an island of light and color.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
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Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.
This Tuscan startup sold all its olive oil in the U.S. Then came Trump's tariffs
Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.
n.pr
August 5, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Americans love olive oil — and import 95% of it. But tariffs are making it harder for Europeans to sell it to Americans.
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This message is powerful.
Question for Mike Flood: With $450 million being allocated to Alligator Alcatraz, and ICE burning through $8.4 million a day to illegally detain people—How much does it cost for fascism? How much do the tax payers have to pay for a fascist country?
August 5, 2025 at 1:14 AM
This message is powerful.
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Austin is on the way out as TX most desirable city!
Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.
Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.
August 1, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Austin is on the way out as TX most desirable city!
Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.
Many of the rich and famous are instead moving to Bryan, TX. Elizabeth Holmes moved first, and she has convinced other rich people like Ghislaine Maxwell to join her here.
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Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America.
More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
July 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM
Watch the seismic waves from today's magnitude 7.3 Alaska earthquake ripple across seismic stations in North America.
More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
More ➡️ loom.ly/kaJp5I0
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Mass layoffs in the US power sector begin following the Big Beautiful Bill:
-20% RIF yesterday at New Leaf Energy
-15% RIF today at Pine Gate Renewables
-Enel suggesting potential exit from US renewable market
More likely to come, along with project delays and cancellations
-20% RIF yesterday at New Leaf Energy
-15% RIF today at Pine Gate Renewables
-Enel suggesting potential exit from US renewable market
More likely to come, along with project delays and cancellations
July 17, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Mass layoffs in the US power sector begin following the Big Beautiful Bill:
-20% RIF yesterday at New Leaf Energy
-15% RIF today at Pine Gate Renewables
-Enel suggesting potential exit from US renewable market
More likely to come, along with project delays and cancellations
-20% RIF yesterday at New Leaf Energy
-15% RIF today at Pine Gate Renewables
-Enel suggesting potential exit from US renewable market
More likely to come, along with project delays and cancellations
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These people are literally cult members.
July 12, 2025 at 4:10 PM
These people are literally cult members.
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This is great, Marshall. Thanks for posting it.
My deep dive on whether there were adequate weather warnings for the catastrophic flooding in Texas. Mentions Alan Gerard Balanced Weather and Jordan McLeod. I am really interested in your thoughts on my take.
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...
Catastrophic Flooding In Texas - Were There Warnings?
Deadly flooding in the flash flood alley of Texas is raising questions about warnings. Here's a preliminary (but not conslusive) analysis.
www.forbes.com
July 6, 2025 at 12:24 AM
This is great, Marshall. Thanks for posting it.
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When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
July 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
When history marks the point where we lost the future to China, this will be it.
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Japan has managed a huge accomplishment: fully covering the offshore parts of their subduction zones, which generate massive earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 200 fiber-connected geophysical stations -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nothing else in the world can compare.
Nothing else in the world can compare.
Japan’s new seafloor monitors could reveal how ‘slow slip’ earthquakes turn into big ones
Network could add 20 minutes of tsunami warning at dangerous Nankai Trough
www.science.org
June 30, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Japan has managed a huge accomplishment: fully covering the offshore parts of their subduction zones, which generate massive earthquakes and tsunamis, with more than 200 fiber-connected geophysical stations -- at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars.
Nothing else in the world can compare.
Nothing else in the world can compare.
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The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren't America's to mine.
This company wants to be the first to mine the ocean floor, with Trump's help
The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren't America's to mine.
n.pr
July 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The Metals Company is applying for permission from the Trump administration to mine for nickel and cobalt beneath a remote patch of the Pacific Ocean. Other countries say the minerals aren't America's to mine.
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🚨Check out our latest publication on Low Heat Flow in the Anhydros Basin, indicating that there are no magma bodies within the crust in the northwestern part of the basin.
📸JR drilling off Anydros Island
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
📸JR drilling off Anydros Island
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
June 30, 2025 at 3:53 PM
🚨Check out our latest publication on Low Heat Flow in the Anhydros Basin, indicating that there are no magma bodies within the crust in the northwestern part of the basin.
📸JR drilling off Anydros Island
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
📸JR drilling off Anydros Island
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:25 PM
The proposed NOAA budget for 2026 contains the literal line:
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Total, Climate Research: $0
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
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Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
June 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.
This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.
www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...