Nick Pizzo
@nickpizzooceans.bsky.social
Asst. Prof. of Oceanography. Interested in fluid mechanics, waves, air-sea interaction, physics, geometry, applied math and the history of science. He/him. https://www.nickpizzooceans.com
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In 1869, long before Einstein, the famous mathematician Sylvester announced that Clifford - the Clifford algebra guy - was studying whether space is curved!
Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him!
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him!
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space
Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that geom…
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January 11, 2026 at 9:56 PM
In 1869, long before Einstein, the famous mathematician Sylvester announced that Clifford - the Clifford algebra guy - was studying whether space is curved!
Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him!
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
Clifford's mission to study this was almost thwarted by a shipwreck. But that didn't stop him!
johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2026/01/10/s...
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Great article by @zhonggg.bsky.social and Esther Horvath highlighting our EGNOG project on the Northeast Greenland Shelf! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/c...
Dodging Icebergs and Storms on the Hunt for an Ocean Tipping Point
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December 6, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
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November 26, 2025 at 4:05 PM
And the paper is out! Great to work with my good friend @rocangel.bsky.social who led the way.
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
www.seismosoc.org/news/tsunami...
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The School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware is hiring! We are looking for a talented Coastal Physical Oceanographer to join us.
More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The School of Marine Science & Policy at the University of Delaware is hiring! We are looking for a talented Coastal Physical Oceanographer to join us.
More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
More information is available here, and don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
careers.udel.edu/en-us/job/50...
🌊🧪 Go see Lulabel's talk at DFD if you want to learn more about how wind makes waves! An old question, yet one we still don't know the full answer to.
November 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
🌊🧪 Go see Lulabel's talk at DFD if you want to learn more about how wind makes waves! An old question, yet one we still don't know the full answer to.
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Here's a view by #Sentinel-2 of the Rhone river plume within the Gulf of Lion waters. Other the change in water colour, and the strong front between the two water masses, I love how there are more wind-induced whitecaps in the bluer waters, although I do not have a direct explanation about it... 🧐🌊
November 19, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Here's a view by #Sentinel-2 of the Rhone river plume within the Gulf of Lion waters. Other the change in water colour, and the strong front between the two water masses, I love how there are more wind-induced whitecaps in the bluer waters, although I do not have a direct explanation about it... 🧐🌊
South County Rhode Island 9pm 11/11. Aurora is visible to the naked eye, but this is taken with 3s exposure.
November 12, 2025 at 2:17 AM
South County Rhode Island 9pm 11/11. Aurora is visible to the naked eye, but this is taken with 3s exposure.
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Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Job Opening **ASSISTANT PROFESSOR MARINE ECOLOGY**, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rhode Island.
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
jobs.uri.edu/postings/15960
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Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
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Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
Equatorial upwelling of phosphorus drives Atlantic N2 fixation and Sargassum blooms - Nature Geoscience
High near-surface nitrogen-fixation rates that promoted the recent growth of the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt were tied to greater upwelling of phosphorus from the equatorial Atlantic, according to c...
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November 6, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Check out our latest work, led by Jon Jung, Ph.D. student in the @amglab.bsky.social at @mpic.de:
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Here we show that the supply of excess phosphorous from accounts for the majority of observed Sargassum variability since 2011.
🌊 🧪 #Paleosky #CoralReefs
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Our amazing students rand a whole class, including a week at sea, to teach other students about turbulence and mixing. 🌊
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Shaken and Stirred: Teaching the Next Generation of Oceanographers about Ocean Turbulence and Mixing
If you’ve ever been on an airplane, you know how turbulence feels: shaky and chaotic. Just like there is turbulence in the air, there is turbulence in the ocean, except ocean turbulence doesn’t requir...
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November 5, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Our amazing students rand a whole class, including a week at sea, to teach other students about turbulence and mixing. 🌊
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/shaken-...
scripps.ucsd.edu/news/shaken-...
A modern treatment of water waves from one of the few people alive who is an expert on the whole story, from theory to practice. I will use sections of this for my classes. 🌊
I have not updated all I wanted ... but it is here now : github.com/ardhuin/wave...
So much new stuff from SWOT that should be in there, but we will have to write the papers first. Here is a teaser from chapter 5. And if you are wondering what is H_L=5 km,T > 18 s, well that is "some" wave height.
So much new stuff from SWOT that should be in there, but we will have to write the papers first. Here is a teaser from chapter 5. And if you are wondering what is H_L=5 km,T > 18 s, well that is "some" wave height.
November 1, 2025 at 2:37 PM
A modern treatment of water waves from one of the few people alive who is an expert on the whole story, from theory to practice. I will use sections of this for my classes. 🌊
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Most people know how to draw an ellipse by pinning two ends of a string to a board and sweeping a pencil around inside the string, keeping it taut.
But what about the 3D equivalent?
Start with an ellipse and a hyperbola in orthogonal planes, with each curve’s vertices being the other’s foci.
But what about the 3D equivalent?
Start with an ellipse and a hyperbola in orthogonal planes, with each curve’s vertices being the other’s foci.
October 31, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Most people know how to draw an ellipse by pinning two ends of a string to a board and sweeping a pencil around inside the string, keeping it taut.
But what about the 3D equivalent?
Start with an ellipse and a hyperbola in orthogonal planes, with each curve’s vertices being the other’s foci.
But what about the 3D equivalent?
Start with an ellipse and a hyperbola in orthogonal planes, with each curve’s vertices being the other’s foci.
I took a class on analog electronics (using Horowitz and Hill, of course) at UCSB from Martinis as an undergraduate and I remember him as an enthusiastic teacher who always had time to answer questions.
John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis have won the Nobel Prize in physics for showing that quantum mechanics describes the behavior of objects much larger than atoms.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2025
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2025 was awarded jointly to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis "for the discovery of macroscopic quantum mechanical tunnelling and energy quantisation in an...
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October 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I took a class on analog electronics (using Horowitz and Hill, of course) at UCSB from Martinis as an undergraduate and I remember him as an enthusiastic teacher who always had time to answer questions.
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Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!
#BerkeleyME is seeking applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Fluid Mechanics/Fluid Dynamics.
me.berkeley.edu/faculty/me-o...
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Assistant Professor - Fluid Mechanics - UC Berkeley Mechanical Engineering
University of California, Berkeley Department of Mechanical Engineering POSITION OVERVIEW Position title: Assistant Professor Salary range: The current salary range for this position is $107,100 – $...
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September 30, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!
It's great that @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social is on bluesky -- I've learned a ton from him about math and physics over the years. 🧪🔭
If you had a negative mass star next to a positive mass star, what would it do? It would *chase after* the positive mass star, with the both accelerating toward the speed of light!
A negative mass black hole is not a white hole. What is it?
Fun with physics....
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A negative mass black hole is not a white hole. What is it?
Fun with physics....
mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosb...
John Carlos Baez (@johncarlosbaez@mathstodon.xyz)
I've been trying to lose weight, so I've been studying the physics of negative mass.
Basically it doesn't exist. But physicists are have run into a serious problem. They think they can use astro...
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September 28, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's great that @johncarlosbaez.bsky.social is on bluesky -- I've learned a ton from him about math and physics over the years. 🧪🔭
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🦞💙 Happy #NationalLobsterDay!
Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊
Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊
September 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
🦞💙 Happy #NationalLobsterDay!
Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊
Meet the star of the Ann Gall Durbin Aquarium on the University of Rhode Island's Bay Campus: a rare blue lobster, found in the wild in about one in two million! 🦑 🌊
September 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.
How Climate Scientists Saw the Future Before It Arrived | Quanta Magazine
Over the past 60 years, scientists have largely succeeded in building a computer model of Earth to see what the future holds. One of the most ambitious projects humankind has ever undertaken has now…
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September 21, 2025 at 3:46 PM
In the 1960s and 70s, Syukuro Manabe pioneered ways to model Earth’s atmosphere. In 2021, he received the Nobel Prize in Physics for this work, which is often cited as foundational to modern climate science.
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Bon voyage to our lab member Katie Stone on the very last @urigso.bsky.social R/V Endeavor cruise! As the sole URI scientist aboard, Katie is the last URI scientist to sail on this historic vessel that began its work in 1976.
August 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Bon voyage to our lab member Katie Stone on the very last @urigso.bsky.social R/V Endeavor cruise! As the sole URI scientist aboard, Katie is the last URI scientist to sail on this historic vessel that began its work in 1976.
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Video is almost certainly real. From colleagues in Russia:
August 5, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Video is almost certainly real. From colleagues in Russia:
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You might have heard that the elliptical orbits of a planet around a star under Newtonian gravity have a kind of *four*-dimensional symmetry. There is a lot of beautiful mathematics behind the ideas that make this notion precise, but here is a simple way to get a handle on the underlying symmetry.
July 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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Some eye candy: Görtler vortices in an underexpanded jet by PhD graduate Meet Patel
July 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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If you happen to be interested in ocean mixing variability, stratified turbulence, or the fate of shoaling nonlinear internal waves on the inner shelf, our recent study has just appeared in JPO: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal.... Fun to work on this with @alexisonfluids.bsky.social & crew! 🌊🌊🌊
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July 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
If you happen to be interested in ocean mixing variability, stratified turbulence, or the fate of shoaling nonlinear internal waves on the inner shelf, our recent study has just appeared in JPO: journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal.... Fun to work on this with @alexisonfluids.bsky.social & crew! 🌊🌊🌊
Happy #WorldOceanDay! 🌊🧪 Photo of Kelvin-Helmoltz instability: Nick Statom
June 8, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Happy #WorldOceanDay! 🌊🧪 Photo of Kelvin-Helmoltz instability: Nick Statom
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Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025:
What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10).
Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes?
That's exactly what we do! 1/n
What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10).
Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes?
That's exactly what we do! 1/n
May 21, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fun new paper at #SIGGRAPH2025:
What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10).
Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes?
That's exactly what we do! 1/n
What if instead of two 6-sided dice, you could roll a single "funky-shaped" die that gives the same statistics (e.g, 7 is twice as likely as 4 or 10).
Or make fair dice in any shape—e.g., dragons rather than cubes?
That's exactly what we do! 1/n