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Mustafa Yücel
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Ocean biogeochemist, Professor at METU Turkiye. Deep-sea, planetary redox, nanogeoscience, sci. policy @ERC_research grantee. PhD Delaware, Postdoc UPMC, GEOMAR
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Eruptive activity wiped out all the habitats at Tica - a famous site among hydrothermal vent scientists.

An ERC-funded fluid chemistry team led by Mustafa Yucel are busy understanding the effects on deep-ocean chemistry.

#FrontierResearch @Middle East Technical University @mustyucel.bsky.social
Volcanic Eruption in Deep Ocean Ridge Is Witnessed by Scientists for First Time
Researchers diving in a submersible in the eastern Pacific realized that the landscape they had studied the day before had been glassed over by fresh lava.
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May 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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Choose Europe for Science
erc.europa.eu/news-events/...

The details of the new “super grants” funding instrument are being developed by the Scientific Council and will be announced soon.
Choose Europe for Science: ERC welcomes new budget for 'super grants'
The Scientific Council of the European Research Council welcomes the offer of substantial additional budget from the European Commission for the development of a new ERC funding instrument offering la...
erc.europa.eu
May 8, 2025 at 5:40 AM
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🚨New preprint alert!🚨

We mapped Mo-dependent pathways across microbes and show this reliance emerged before oxygen showed up. Our results challenge assumptions about Mo scarcity on early Earth. Study led by Aya Klos!

Biology’s been metal since the very beginning🤘

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
April 7, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Finally on board R/V Atlantis and on our way to East Pacific Rise 9 north. The team met with the submarine Alvin for the first time. We’re busy preparing labs, with safety briefings and science meetings. @whoi.edu @erc.europa.eu
April 6, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Final online meeting as we finalize our preparations for our upcoming expedition to the hydrothermal vents of the East Pacific Rise. In 2 weeks we’ll board R/V Atlantis in Costa Rica! @erc.europa.eu @udelaware.bsky.social @whoi.edu @metu
March 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Final online meeting as we finalize our preparations for our upcoming expedition to the hydrothermal vents of the East Pacific Rise. In 2 weeks we’ll board R/V Atlantis in Costa Rica! @erc.europa.eu @udelaware.bsky.social @whoi.edu @metu
March 17, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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Hello, Bluesky! ☀️

We fund frontier research in Europe—bold ideas, unexpected discoveries and science that shapes the future. So it’s only fitting we’ve landed here. Sorry for being late.

Follow us for updates on ERC funding, research policy, and our grantees' discoveries.
February 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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Instead of listing my publications, as the year draws to an end, I want to shine the spotlight on the commonplace assumption that productivity must always increase. Good research is disruptive and thinking time is central to high quality scholarship and necessary for disruptive research.
December 20, 2024 at 11:18 AM
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We talk a lot about ocean warming and ocean acidification... but we should also be talking more about ocean deoxygenation, as it is an ongoing problem. To understand just how bad it can get (extinction event bad), we must turn, as usual, to the geological record. 🧪⚒️🌊
doi.org/10.1016/j.ea...
December 22, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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Countdown for April 2025 Alvin Pacific expedition is on! We will participate in this @UDelaware -led expedition in the frame of our @ERC_Research DeepTrace project. So excited to be back to this special area of the world ocean once again.

Stay tuned for updates!

(Alvin photo by Luis Lamar @WHOI )
December 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM
Countdown for April 2025 Alvin Pacific expedition is on! We will participate in this @UDelaware -led expedition in the frame of our @ERC_Research DeepTrace project. So excited to be back to this special area of the world ocean once again.

Stay tuned for updates!

(Alvin photo by Luis Lamar @WHOI )
December 9, 2024 at 6:13 PM
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The ocean takes up anthropogenic CO₂ emissions, 26% on average over the past decade.

The #GlobalCarbonBudget 2024 confirms that the ocean sink increased in 2023 after 3 years of stagnation due to rare triple La Niña event. 2023 was an El Niño year, with an expected increase in the sink.

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November 13, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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There's not much good news about the new Global Carbon Budget, but here's one.

Two methods are used to estimate the ocean carbon sink; the final number (10.6 ± 1.5 GtCO₂/yr in 2023) is an average. A few years ago, there was a huge discrepancy between the two methods but they're converging. 🌊
The ocean carbon sink, estimated by Global Ocean Biogeochemical Models and observation-based data products, amounts to 10.5 ± 1.5 GtCO2/yr for 2014–2023 and 10.6 ± 1.5 GtCO2/yr in 2023.
The ocean sink increased in 2023, in line with the expected sink response to the 2023 El Niño conditions.
November 13, 2024 at 9:03 AM
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So, is anyone interested in and wants to follow people doing marine biogeochemistry?
I might have a starter pack for you!
(also, I blame @malinodalen.bsky.social for this)
bsky.app/starter-pack...

Spot anyone not there (maybe you?), say something.
November 9, 2024 at 4:13 PM
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Ocean Metaproteomics intercomparison study out. Really fun project working together with colleagues to examine this method. And Intercomparisons are really valuable to connect between dstasets across time and space in the environment bg.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Results from a multi-laboratory ocean metaproteomic intercomparison: effects of LC-MS acquisition and data analysis procedures
Abstract. Metaproteomics is an increasingly popular methodology that provides information regarding the metabolic functions of specific microbial taxa and has potential for contributing to ocean ecolo...
bg.copernicus.org
November 10, 2024 at 9:22 AM
Preparations for our busy @ERC_Research DeepTrace 2025 field season have started. On board RV Lamas of @METU_IMS, we have successfully conducted the first underwater tests of the new deep-sea electrochemical analyzer, to be deployed over Pacific hydrothermal vents and Black Sea redox zone next year.
November 10, 2024 at 11:54 AM
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Oceans folks please subscribe to this feed 🌊
I've created an oceanography feed for ocean science related content. If you're an ocean scientist and would like to be added as a contributor, please reply to this message and tell me what you do.

Please subscribe to the feed if you're interested in the ocean sciences. 🌊

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August 17, 2024 at 3:46 PM