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Kirstin Holsman
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scientist, artist, mother, ocean enthusiast —posts are my own & reposts are not endorsements; personal account—
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mojoshark.bsky.social
Current mood = short bigeye. 🐟
Photo of a short bigeye fish. Credit: T. Curtis.
March 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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phillevin.bsky.social
Thank you @lenfestocean for 20 years ! @blueconvergence will follow the lessons learned and continue supporting useful & useable transdisciplinary #science. I'm so excited to see this! Learn more and sign up for their newsletter here: blueconvergence.org/newsletter-s... #oceanscience #codesign
March 6, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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rissarwx.bsky.social
All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.
February 27, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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pseanmc.bsky.social
🦀 + 📈 = 💯
🦀 + 📈 + 🧑‍🎓👨‍🎓👩‍🎓 = 💯💯💯💯💯

Lean about how marine bio students in @uwenvironment.bsky.social contribute to crab science!
marinebiology.uw.edu/2025/01/28/s...
Students collecting data at Shilshole marina light trap. When involved with the PCRG monitoring project, students get to experience fieldwork, learn how to collect biological data, practice species identification, and develop their professional networks through the wide range of study partners. P. Sean McDonald, UW students, and the light trap used to monitor Dungeness crab larvae at Shilshole marina in Seattle, Washington
February 2, 2025 at 4:45 AM
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nickdulvy.bsky.social
🧪🌎🍀🔬
salmonscience.bsky.social Salmon Watershed Science @salmonscience.bsky.social · Jan 31
Welcome to the Salmon Watersheds Lab! We are a group of fishy folks doing aquatic ecology research @ Simon Fraser University! 📚🤓🐟 Led by our fearless fish leader, Dr. Jonathan Moore. Follow along for lab updates, opportunities, and some good ol’ fish content! #salmon #AquaticEcology
February 2, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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theonion.com
Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
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Report: Everything Slightly Worse Than Yesterday
January 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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jalangan.bsky.social
Postdoc Opportunity Alert!

Interested in exploring the performance of harvest control rules for long-lived species with spasmodic recruitment?

Keen on population dynamics and Alaska sablefish? tinyurl.com/2d72c7tw

Come work at UAF with Curry Cunningham and the NOAA AFSC!
Flyer describing the job ad Picture of Curry Cunningham on a vessel holding a sablefish
October 11, 2023 at 2:56 AM
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marinednadude.bsky.social
Red King Crab Pop Gen from our NOAA ‘Omics colleagues at AFSC. Evidence for strong regional divergence despite long larval stage. Great example of whole genome sequencing data for fisheries management www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-stor...
Genetic Diversity in Alaska Red King Crab May Provide Resilience to Climate Change
New genetic research on the Alaska red king crab reveals previously undiscovered diversity among different regions, suggesting the species is more resilient to climate change and changing ocean condit...
www.fisheries.noaa.gov
January 4, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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nytimes.com
Scientists are warning that the world has entered a dangerous new era of chaotic floods, storms and fires made worse by human-caused climate change. The wildfires in Los Angeles are just the latest examples of this extreme weather.
The California Wildfires Are the Latest Disaster Supercharged by Climate Change
Extreme weather events — deadly heat waves, floods, fires and hurricanes — are the consequences of a warming planet, scientists say.
www.nytimes.com
January 10, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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ehazen.bsky.social
New paper by Steph Brodie in @NatureComms shows how #ecologicalforecasts can help management during climate extremes. We use 12 month forecasts of ocean temperatures to forewarn human-wildlife conflict.

Read it here: rdcu.be/dsPSP
December 12, 2023 at 3:20 PM
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ehazen.bsky.social
NOAA has made a $40 million investment to implement CEFI - the Climate, Ecosystems, and Fisheries Initiative - to expand ocean modeling capacity and decision support systems for decision-makers. This includes high-resolution nowcasts, forecasts and projections of ocean conditions. bit.ly/3CMauiJ
Climate, Ecosystems, and Fisheries Initiative: Regional Activities
We will build decision support systems to deliver high-resolution forecasts of future ocean conditions in all U.S. marine regions and the Great Lakes.
bit.ly
November 26, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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phillevin.bsky.social
Great opportunity for climate scientists! Do you have downscaled climate projection datasets? @usgcrp.bsky.social has a Request out for such data sites for possible use in the 6th National Climate Assessment and to develop an updated data atlas for NCA6. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Notice of Request for Information; Downscaled Climate Projection Datasets Available To Be Considered for Use in the Sixth National Climate Assessment
With this notice, the U.S. Global Change Research Program (USGCRP) is issuing a Request for Information (RFI) on downscaled climate projection datasets for possible use in the 6th National Climate Ass...
www.federalregister.gov
November 27, 2024 at 8:53 PM
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ehazen.bsky.social
A good reminder about the important economic and human benefits provided by NOAA science.
What the US Needs from a New NOAA Administrator (Science, Please)
We need independent non-partisan science to solve the nation's problems.
blog.ucsusa.org
December 14, 2024 at 8:07 PM
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mojoshark.bsky.social
A reminder that simply listing things on CITES isn’t a conservation end point on its own. Listing is just the beginning of the work. 🦑
December 16, 2024 at 10:19 PM
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markandrachuk.bsky.social
I haven't seen a conservation social sciences starter pack so I decided to make one #ConSocSci #MarSocSci
I am sure that I have missed people... please help me identify more people to add and let me know if you'd like me to add you!
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December 2, 2024 at 2:47 PM
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jennifermolidor.bsky.social
Looking for the best #naturewriters?

Check out this pack to get you started with storytellers, poets, science communicators, podcasters, nonfiction writers and more, who weave wild words to show us the magic of nature and a planet worth protecting

We are at 134 and counting…

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December 4, 2024 at 11:20 PM
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trevorabranch.bsky.social
Global risk of ship strikes on whales, new paper in Science by Anna Nisi et al. [incl. me]
www.washington.edu/news/2024/11...
Paper: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
Fewer than 7% of global hotspots for whale-ship collisions have protection measures in place
A new study led by the University of Washington has for the first time quantified the risk for whale-ship collisions worldwide for four geographically widespread ocean giants that are threatened by...
www.washington.edu
November 21, 2024 at 8:15 PM
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drjacekdebiec.bsky.social
" #ClimateChange, #nature loss, and #food insecurity are all inextricably linked and dealing with them as separate issues won't work."

www.bbc.com/news/article...
IPBES report sees climate, nature and food challenges interlinked
A new approach is needed to tackle the interlinked crises afflicting the planet, scientists warn.
www.bbc.com
January 6, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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npr.org
The Biden administration set a new climate goal for the U.S. The White House argues states, cities and corporations will continue the work, even as Trump plans to exit the Paris climate agreement.
Biden set an ambitious new climate goal. Will it still matter under Trump?
The Biden administration set a new climate goal for the U.S. The White House argues states, cities and corporations will continue the work, even as Trump plans to exit the Paris climate agreement.
www.npr.org
December 19, 2024 at 4:52 PM
kholsman.bsky.social
Thrilled to be part of this important study led by Dr. Goodman. Key takeaway? Climate change is transforming the Bering Sea, shifting species distributions northward and reshaping populations as warming intensifies—novel conditions will reshape much of the Bering Sea by century’s end. bit.ly/3P0U1dd
Hindcasted (1995–2015) summer log biomass density and projected end of century (2080–2099) change in log biomass density under low warming or "SSP 1–2.6" and high warming or "SSP5-8.5" scenarios. Scales for biomass density and change in biomass density differ among species and life stages to allow for intercomparison of spatial patterns. Inset: Map of the EBS survey region, showing NBS and SEBS sub-regions and corresponding stations on the standard survey grid. Maps of two metrics of environmental novelty in the Bering Sea survey region for average temperature, pH and oxygen conditions during 2040–2059 and 2080–2099, under each climate scenario (low warming or "SSP 1–2.6" & high warming "SSP 5–8.5") and each climate model (CESM, GFDL & MIROC). Areas in grey are those for which temperature, pH and oxygen are within the range of the average hindcasted conditions between 1995 and 2015. Areas in red/orange are those for which temperature, pH and/or oxygen lie completely outside of the set of average conditions observed between 1995 and 2015. Areas in blue/green are those for which temperature, pH and oxygen lie inside the range of hindcasted conditions, but represent novel combinations of these covariates. For both metrics, brighter colours indicate more novel conditions.
December 19, 2024 at 7:17 PM