Bryce Mitsunaga
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Bryce Mitsunaga
@bryceotopes.bsky.social
Postdoc at Harvard HEB / EPS
Brown (PhD) '24, UCLA (MS) '18, Williams (BA) '13
Terrestrial + marine (paleo) climatologist | organic + carbonate (isotope) geochemist
I’m offshore til 7/20 drilling into an LGM freshwater aquifer (www.ecord.org/expedition501/); expedition blog at expedition501.wordpress.com.

This Thursday, 7/3, at 1 pm UK / 8 am Eastern, when I’m on shift, there’s a public “ship-to-shore” broadcast tour:

le.ac.uk/gge/events/r...

Come see!
July 2, 2025 at 7:32 AM
New Science Advances paper on Plio-Pleistocene northern African hydroclimate! Tl;dr the wet summer monsoon = summer insolation & the dry winter monsoon = global ice volume

Paper here (www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...), Brown press release here (www.brown.edu/news/2025-06...)
Fundamentally unchanged northwestern African rainfall regimes across the Plio-Pleistocene transition
The northern African summer monsoon was unaffected by global cooling at the end of the Pliocene 3 million years ago.
www.science.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:32 PM