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Lydia Babcock-Adams
@seathechemistry.bsky.social
Postdoctoral Associate at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory 🧲
Chemical Oceanographer 👩🏼‍🔬
MIT-WHOI JP Alumna 🌊
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Science at Risk: Protect NOAA
Scientists & experts: Add your name to this open letter calling on Congress and the Trump administration to ensure that NOAA and its sub-agencies remain fully funded and staffed, and that the independ...
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March 15, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I’m so excited to announce that my paper on the structure of marine copper ligands is published in JASMS! Thanks to all of my awesome co-authors 🎉

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Detection and Structural Elucidation of Copper Binding Tri- and Tetrapyrrole Ligands Produced by the Marine Diatom Phaeodactylum Tricornutum
In seawater, most dissolved copper (Cu) is complexed by organic ligands, many of which are thought to be produced by phytoplankton. Although very little is known about the composition and structure of...
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February 14, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Reposted by Lydia Babcock-Adams
Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

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Don't let science be hidden
February 5, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Reposted by Lydia Babcock-Adams
There's natural variability in climate, but it's never changed so rapidly and dramatically. We know it's due to humans because when we only look at the natural forcing and ignore human influence, we can't reproduce the observed changes. It's real and it's us.

www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w...
January 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Reposted by Lydia Babcock-Adams
New paper out led by @pmonreal.bsky.social showing that iron from whale poop is organic and bioavailable. He also found REALLY high copper bound by strong ligands, rendering it not toxic. Such a fun study with help from amazing coauthors!

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Organic ligands in whale excrement support iron availability and reduce copper toxicity to the surface ocean
Communications Earth & Environment - Whales transform prey biomass into labile micronutrients and inject them directly into the surface ocean, according to chemical analyses of whale excrement...
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January 10, 2025 at 4:37 PM