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Jess Hillman
@jhgeo.bsky.social
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Marine geoscientist in Australia | she/her | Mountain biking, trail running and baking
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thomasronge.bsky.social
@tamu.bsky.social's new Scientific Ocean Drilling website just went online! Your hub to all things repository, sample requests, SOD reports, news, expeditions...
sod.tamu.edu
Scientific Ocean Drilling
Making fundamental contributions to our understanding of the Earth.
sod.tamu.edu
November 18, 2025 at 10:57 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Thought I would have loads of time to relax with 6 weeks off between jobs - instead it flew past with travel, house hunting and a flurry of paper revisions for my students (which is great to see!) - new adventure starts next week in Perth! 🇦🇺🌏
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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antarcticabella.bsky.social
Geologists of bluesky, great opportunity at Otago Uni, NZ for a Lecturer in Earth Science! Special shout out to my #biomarker colleagues, the dept has a well set up, near new Org Geochem lab without a PI, with GCMS/FID and HPLC, if anyone wants a change of scene! ⚒🧪🥼🌊
otago.taleo.net/careersectio...
Lecturer/Pūkenga - Geology
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
otago.taleo.net
September 16, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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ecord.bsky.social
Hey Science Communicators - We are looking for you - join us on an IODP³ Expedition this year #Scicomm #OceanDrilling
August 14, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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chmee2.bsky.social
Hey folks!

#Geology often gets overlooked in schools

Which is crazy, because it explains why the world looks the way it does – from #mountain ranges to the ground beneath your feet

So I want to fix that! How?

By making a new educational tool for cool experiments in schools <3
August 13, 2025 at 8:41 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Last chance for a run commute, gorgeous morning for it and even found a little kekeno down on the waterfront 🌊
View of the horizon at sunrise, the foreground is dark hills in silhouette and the sky is pink and orange. View of a concrete bridge with buildings in the background. Under the bridge there are some large boulders at the edge of the sea. In the middle of the photo there is a small brown fur seal (kekeno) with a shiny wet coat. View across a calm sea with hills on the horizon, there is a small rowing boat in the middle with two people in it. The sun is low in the sky and there are light clouds. A row of colourful blue, white, yellow and red painted boat sheds next to the sea.
August 5, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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deepseadawn.bsky.social
Check out these great new story maps from @geomarkiel.bsky.social on discovering the "seascapes" of the ocean floor, including dangerous hidden volcanoes!
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5b3e...
and
storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/ea60...

🌊 🦑
Discover the landscape of the ocean floor
There's more to it than continental shelfes, abyssal plains and mid ocean ridges!
storymaps.arcgis.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:26 AM
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ecowarriorss.bsky.social
Anchoring Is Damaging the Fragile Antarctic Seabed

The damage had narrowly missed three giant volcano sponges, which can live for up to 15,000 years and grow larger than the divers who study them
Cruise ships should be banned in fragile Antarctica waters

eos.org/articles/anc...
Anchoring Is Damaging the Fragile Antarctic Seabed - Eos
Scientists call for better protection of Antarctica’s vulnerable seafloor ecosystem as ship traffic increases around the continent.
eos.org
July 13, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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oceanhelen.bsky.social
Head of school for geography, Earth and environment (SGEES) and environmental science job opening at Victoria University, Wellington, NZ. I have lots of awesome colleagues in this school. Wellington is a nice place to live. Just a bit windy and occasionally shaky!
About us | Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington
www.wgtn.ac.nz
July 4, 2025 at 5:11 AM
jhgeo.bsky.social
As much as I am enjoying a few days of summer in northern Spain before I return to winter in Aotearoa - headlines like these are a good reminder that this weather is not normal, and we are going to see more of this going forward 🥵☀️. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Southern Europe swelters as heatwave spreads
Spain, Italy and France are among the countries issuing warnings to protect health and stop wildfires.
www.bbc.com
June 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Spent a while looking through these plots for different places across the globe - no matter where you are, the trend is the same and none of it is good! #showyourstripes
showyourstripes.info/c/australasi...
Show Your Stripes
Visualising how the climate has changed for every country across the globe
showyourstripes.info
June 21, 2025 at 11:01 AM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Spent today exploring the city walls of Girona - which are full of forams! Anyone know more about these? View from the city walls is stunning as well! ⚒️🌊
A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils. Someone’s hand is in the photo for scale. A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils. Someone’s hand is in the photo for scale. A close up view of a rock that is mostly made up of rounded, whitish fossils. View across an old city with a large cathedral in the distance. There are green trees in the foreground. The sky is blue and the sun is shining.
June 20, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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ukiodp.bsky.social
Expedition 501 is at sea right now, exploring offshore freshened groundwater - learn more in our latest newsletter, as we hear directly from Co-Chief Scientist Brandon Dugan:

issuu.com/uk-iodp/docs...

@ecord.bsky.social @anzic.bsky.social
UK IODP Newsletter 2025 Issue 6 June
issuu.com
June 17, 2025 at 10:18 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Great start to the 7th INCISE conference in Barcelona - Structure from Motion workshop on day one, including a chance to drive an ROV in a mini survey around the pool at ICM!
People standing around a pool of water that is lit up by bright lights underwater. These lights are on a small remotely operated vehicle in the pool. There is a tripod structure in the pool with a yellow buoy on top. A pool of water that is lit up by bright lights underwater. These lights are on a small remotely operated vehicle in the pool. There is a tripod structure in the pool with a yellow buoy on top.
June 17, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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oceanhelen.bsky.social
The @anzic.bsky.social science committee 2025 lead by @nzseds.bsky.social hosted in Auckland at the Pasifica Fale. 🌊🔬🧪 nice to see so many Early career researchers involved.
June 11, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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ametsoc.org
A US/UK team led by @edhawkins.org has extended the climate “warming stripes” upward and downward: Illustrating temperature changes across the world, the stripes now also show how surface temps interact with those in the upper atmosphere and oceans.

Read more in #BulletinAMS: bit.ly/4jtctbk
“Figure 2: Warming stripes for the surface and ocean depths (1960-2024), and for different layers of the atmosphere (1979-2024).” Hawkins et al. (2025), Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. doi: 10.1175/BAMS-D-24-0212.1. Image license: CC BY 4.0.
June 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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mikeaclare.bsky.social
Do you have a passion for marine geohazards and want a permanent job? Join us!
isobelyeo.bsky.social Isobel Yeo @isobelyeo.bsky.social · Jun 2
We’re hiring! Come and work wit @mikeaclare.bsky.social and me at @noc.ac.uk. We’re recruiting for an open-ended position in marine geohazards.

careers.noc.ac.uk/vacancy/rese...
Careers | National Oceanography Centre
careers.noc.ac.uk
June 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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geoluca.bsky.social
We are looking for a postdoctoral researcher to lead missions surveying nearshore active faults with an autonomous kayak!
May 31, 2025 at 10:25 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Can't wait to take these out for the first test run next week! Using our 'BathyBoxes' to help teach the concepts of seafloor mapping - based on 3D models of real seafloor landscapes around Aotearoa 🌊⚒️🧪
A top down view of a 3D printed wooden model of a meandering seafloor channel. The wood is pale beige with darker brown lines that form contours of equal height on the wooden surface. A side view of a 3D printed wooden model of a subduction margin. The wood is pale brown with darker lines indicating contours of equal height. There are some maps in the background on the table. A top down view of a wooden box with a black acrylic lid. The lid has holes drilled in it which are about the size of a pencil. There is a map of New Zealand reflected in the box lid.
May 29, 2025 at 2:09 AM
jhgeo.bsky.social
A legacy of failure (of the submarine slope variety 🌊)! Great to see this published, awesome work led by Sally Watson! By mapping subseafloor MTD along the Hikurangi Margin we show how many landslides we lose in the geologic record. @mribo.bsky.social agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
A Legacy of Submarine Slope Failure in Seismic Reflection Data Along the Active Hikurangi Margin, Aotearoa New Zealand
We identify 737 mass transport deposits using marine seismic reflection data along New Zealand's active Hikurangi subduction margin Along strike variation in landslide occurrence and preservation...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 25, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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nature.com
📢 Calling PhD students 📢 we want to hear from you!

Help shape the future of PhD education. Take our survey to tell us all about your experiences

https://go.nature.com/3FhzbVE
PhD students in STEM: Nature wants to hear from you
Nature - Buried in lab work or drowning in data? Take a break and help shape the future of PhD education.
go.nature.com
May 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
@anzic.bsky.social have just announced their 2025 Marine Geoscience Masterclass - an unforgettable 12-day field and lab experience in stunning Fiordland - applications are open now! www.iodp.org.au/masterclass-...

December 1-12, with fully-funded spots for students from Australian & NZ unis 🌊
ANZIC Marine Geoscience Masterclass 2025 - ANZIC-IODP
Join us for the 2025 ANZIC Marine Geoscience Masterclass, a unique field and lab opportunity to investigate climate and environmental influences on carbon
www.iodp.org.au
May 15, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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schmidtocean.bsky.social
🌊 A wave-making paper! 🌊 Despite covering 66% of Earth's surface, the deep ocean remains largely unexplored. @oceandiscleague.bsky.social researchers are first to document that, in decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed <0.001% of the deep seafloor. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
How little we’ve seen: A visual coverage estimate of the deep seafloor
In decades of deep-sea exploration, humans have observed only 0.001% of the deep seafloor, leaving 66% of planet Earth unseen.
www.science.org
May 12, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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kbyip.bsky.social
If you need some views far away from all-of-this... EV Nautilus has started exploration season in the Mariana Trench Marine National Monument. Today the are already at 3K m deep exploring a caldera and finding oodles of squat lobsters.
#NautilusLive #NA171
nautiluslive.org.
Nautilus Live | Ocean Exploration Trust
Explore the ocean with us! We seek out new discoveries while conducting scientific exploration of the seafloor and stream live to the world aboard Exploration Vessel Nautilus.
nautiluslive.org
May 7, 2025 at 2:58 PM
jhgeo.bsky.social
Some snippets of plane geology/geomorphology on my way home - lovely half empty flight with good views of Greenland and Canada 📷🏔️✈️
Four panels of photos taken from a plane window. The first is of snow capped peaks sticking above a large ice sheet. The second is snowy, undulating terrain and frozen lakes. The third is a large lake with ice cover starting to break up. The fourth is of a meandering river cutting through fields.
May 7, 2025 at 3:46 AM