Lily Dove
@solilyquy.bsky.social
Oceanographer and climate scientist 🌊 | Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech 🐝 | MIT/Caltech alumna 🦫 | Penguin enthusiast 🐧
Italy did a nice job hosting the Olympics opening ceremony in four cities. 🔥
I propose the LA Olympics 2028 do the same: SoFi Stadium (Inglewood), Rose Bowl (Pasadena), somewhere in the Valley, and somewhere in Orange County.
I propose the LA Olympics 2028 do the same: SoFi Stadium (Inglewood), Rose Bowl (Pasadena), somewhere in the Valley, and somewhere in Orange County.
February 7, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Italy did a nice job hosting the Olympics opening ceremony in four cities. 🔥
I propose the LA Olympics 2028 do the same: SoFi Stadium (Inglewood), Rose Bowl (Pasadena), somewhere in the Valley, and somewhere in Orange County.
I propose the LA Olympics 2028 do the same: SoFi Stadium (Inglewood), Rose Bowl (Pasadena), somewhere in the Valley, and somewhere in Orange County.
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After yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊
Deep Inside an Antarctic Glacier, a Mission Collapses at Its Final Step
www.nytimes.com
February 6, 2026 at 1:11 AM
After yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊
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Reposted by Lily Dove
To study the distribution of phytoplankton🦠 and marine snow❄️, we are sending a holographic camera down on the CTD rosette to a take a 3D image every second. Then we can reconstruct bio volume and export! The most common phytoplankton on this cruise has been Chaetoceros socialis (⬇️) #oceanography 🇦🇶🐧🌊
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
To study the distribution of phytoplankton🦠 and marine snow❄️, we are sending a holographic camera down on the CTD rosette to a take a 3D image every second. Then we can reconstruct bio volume and export! The most common phytoplankton on this cruise has been Chaetoceros socialis (⬇️) #oceanography 🇦🇶🐧🌊
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Know an awesome undergraduate student who would benefit from the opportunity to do research in the geosciences this summer? Applications are open for the Georgia Tech Broadening Participation REU (due February 15). 🌊 ☁️ 🌍 🧪
Georgia Tech EAS REU Program - Summer 2026 | EAS Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
easreu.eas.gatech.edu
January 21, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Know an awesome undergraduate student who would benefit from the opportunity to do research in the geosciences this summer? Applications are open for the Georgia Tech Broadening Participation REU (due February 15). 🌊 ☁️ 🌍 🧪
Science research vessel traffic jam in Punta Arenas! 🌊⛴️Currently around port are the RV Roger Revelle (USA), RSS Sir David Attenborough (UK), Icebreaker Noosfera (Ukraine), and Xue Long 2 (China). Soon we on the RV Sikuliaq (USA) will join the party!
January 8, 2026 at 7:00 PM
Science research vessel traffic jam in Punta Arenas! 🌊⛴️Currently around port are the RV Roger Revelle (USA), RSS Sir David Attenborough (UK), Icebreaker Noosfera (Ukraine), and Xue Long 2 (China). Soon we on the RV Sikuliaq (USA) will join the party!
A lullaby from the skies in the Magellan Straits last night. 🌊 ☁️
January 8, 2026 at 3:40 PM
A lullaby from the skies in the Magellan Straits last night. 🌊 ☁️
We’ve entered the Straits of Magellan, at the southern end of Chile. It’s absolutely beautiful!
January 7, 2026 at 10:10 PM
We’ve entered the Straits of Magellan, at the southern end of Chile. It’s absolutely beautiful!
51S, 94W: we have a new guest on board - a Nazca booby! Usually found near the Galapagos, this guy is far out of his typical range. Aptly, our stowaway is hanging out on the crow’s nest.
Photo by Pablo Cohn.
Photo by Pablo Cohn.
January 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
51S, 94W: we have a new guest on board - a Nazca booby! Usually found near the Galapagos, this guy is far out of his typical range. Aptly, our stowaway is hanging out on the crow’s nest.
Photo by Pablo Cohn.
Photo by Pablo Cohn.
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2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
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Know an undergraduate looking for an opportunity to get paid to do cryospheric or other geoscience research this summer? Let them know about the GT EAS Broadening Participation REU here in Atlanta. Now accepting applications through ETAP! easreu.eas.gatech.edu
Georgia Tech EAS REU Program - Summer 2025 | EAS Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU)
easreu.eas.gatech.edu
January 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
Know an undergraduate looking for an opportunity to get paid to do cryospheric or other geoscience research this summer? Let them know about the GT EAS Broadening Participation REU here in Atlanta. Now accepting applications through ETAP! easreu.eas.gatech.edu
It’s very biologically quiet out here on the South Pacific, but we got the company and blessing of a beautiful albatross earlier. 🌊
39S, 122W
39S, 122W
December 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
It’s very biologically quiet out here on the South Pacific, but we got the company and blessing of a beautiful albatross earlier. 🌊
39S, 122W
39S, 122W
Today's satellite shoutout 🛰️ is to NASA PACE, which gives us data of ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology! 🌊 🧪
Here is chlorophyll-a (signature of photosynthesizing plankton) along with ocean current magnitude and direction (arrows). The red dot is where I currently am on the RV Sikuliaq! ⛴️
Here is chlorophyll-a (signature of photosynthesizing plankton) along with ocean current magnitude and direction (arrows). The red dot is where I currently am on the RV Sikuliaq! ⛴️
December 28, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Today's satellite shoutout 🛰️ is to NASA PACE, which gives us data of ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology! 🌊 🧪
Here is chlorophyll-a (signature of photosynthesizing plankton) along with ocean current magnitude and direction (arrows). The red dot is where I currently am on the RV Sikuliaq! ⛴️
Here is chlorophyll-a (signature of photosynthesizing plankton) along with ocean current magnitude and direction (arrows). The red dot is where I currently am on the RV Sikuliaq! ⛴️
Living a dream come true and chasing ocean eddies in real time thanks to the NASA SWOT satellite. 🌊 🛰️ ⛴️ 🧪
SWOT provides us "swaths" of data about water elevation for both the ocean and large freshwater reservoirs. I use this data to track small-scale ocean currents and watch how they evolve.
SWOT provides us "swaths" of data about water elevation for both the ocean and large freshwater reservoirs. I use this data to track small-scale ocean currents and watch how they evolve.
December 27, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Living a dream come true and chasing ocean eddies in real time thanks to the NASA SWOT satellite. 🌊 🛰️ ⛴️ 🧪
SWOT provides us "swaths" of data about water elevation for both the ocean and large freshwater reservoirs. I use this data to track small-scale ocean currents and watch how they evolve.
SWOT provides us "swaths" of data about water elevation for both the ocean and large freshwater reservoirs. I use this data to track small-scale ocean currents and watch how they evolve.
A Christmas gift to the ocean from the team aboard the RV Sikuliaq: one specially wrapped biogeochemical-Argo float from @bgc-argo.bsky.social! 🌊
Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.
Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.
December 26, 2025 at 9:20 PM
A Christmas gift to the ocean from the team aboard the RV Sikuliaq: one specially wrapped biogeochemical-Argo float from @bgc-argo.bsky.social! 🌊
Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.
Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.
Home for the next few weeks. Gotta say, Tahiti is a funny place to board an icebreaker! 🌊⛴️
December 21, 2025 at 10:40 PM
Home for the next few weeks. Gotta say, Tahiti is a funny place to board an icebreaker! 🌊⛴️
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Everyone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA.
In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers.
NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not.
🌊
In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers.
NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not.
🌊
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Everyone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA.
In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers.
NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not.
🌊
In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers.
NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not.
🌊
Reposted by Lily Dove
AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
Save NCAR from being dismantled today!
The Trump Administration has vowed to dissolve the center that provides critical extreme weather and climate data for our nation.
agu.quorum.us
December 17, 2025 at 7:33 PM
AGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
Reposted by Lily Dove
Friends at NCAR, we're with you.
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.
We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.
We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
Exclusive: The Trump administration is moving to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, according to a senior White House official, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
Trump moves to dismantle major US climate research center in Colorado
The Trump administration is breaking up the National Center for Atmospheric Research, taking aim at one of the world's leading climate research labs.
bit.ly
December 17, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Friends at NCAR, we're with you.
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.
We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down.
We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
For a few weeks, I will be sailing on the RV Sikuliaq from Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile. ⛴️ Stay tuned for some fun science in the South Pacific!
In an especially fun fact, we will be sailing close (in an ocean sense) to Point Nemo, the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 🌊
In an especially fun fact, we will be sailing close (in an ocean sense) to Point Nemo, the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 🌊
December 16, 2025 at 4:26 PM
For a few weeks, I will be sailing on the RV Sikuliaq from Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile. ⛴️ Stay tuned for some fun science in the South Pacific!
In an especially fun fact, we will be sailing close (in an ocean sense) to Point Nemo, the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 🌊
In an especially fun fact, we will be sailing close (in an ocean sense) to Point Nemo, the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 🌊
I regret to inform everybody that I failed and now have to settle for my backup: being a professor.
December 14, 2025 at 2:58 PM
I regret to inform everybody that I failed and now have to settle for my backup: being a professor.
Reposted by Lily Dove
⚒️ Article: Earthquakes influence the amount of hydrothermal iron entering the ocean over the Australian Antarctic Ridge, which can support phytoplankton blooms by relieving surface iron limitation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Southern Ocean net primary production influenced by seismically modulated hydrothermal iron - Nature Geoscience
Earthquakes influence the amount of hydrothermal iron entering the ocean over the Australian Antarctic Ridge, which can support phytoplankton blooms by relieving surface iron limitation, according to ...
www.nature.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
⚒️ Article: Earthquakes influence the amount of hydrothermal iron entering the ocean over the Australian Antarctic Ridge, which can support phytoplankton blooms by relieving surface iron limitation
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category.
Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.
royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.
royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
December 4, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Delighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category.
Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.
royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers.
royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
Reposted by Lily Dove
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s data has been crucial in predicting and guiding preparation efforts for severe weather events across the country, especially throughout hurricane season.
November 20, 2025 at 5:36 PM
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s data has been crucial in predicting and guiding preparation efforts for severe weather events across the country, especially throughout hurricane season.