Yuxin Zhou
@yzhouclimate.bsky.social
Postdoc at Georgia Tech/WHOI. Paleoceanography. Geochemistry. U-series. Bayesian cyclostratigraphy. Ocean modeling. Pronouns: he/his Website: https://yz3062.github.io/
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Quick writeup about our recent paper on atmospheric rivers during the Last Interglacial in @eos.org!
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Atmospheric Rivers Shaped Greenland’s Ancient Ice - Eos
New simulations reveal how atmospheric rivers influenced Greenland’s ice sheet during the Last Interglacial—offering clues to future melt in a warming world.
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November 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Quick writeup about our recent paper on atmospheric rivers during the Last Interglacial in @eos.org!
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🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
Job ad for postdoctoral research in ice sheet modeling | Andrea Dutton
🌊 🌊 JOB ALERT!! Looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding?? Looking to live in a city that is routinely ranked as one of the best cities to live in across the entire U.S.? Come jo...
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October 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
🌊🌊JOB ALERT!! Are you an ice sheet modeler looking for a postdoc that does not rely on federal funding? Come join our research team at University of Wisconsin-Madison to study the physical and human dynamics of sea-level rise. www.linkedin.com/posts/andrea...
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Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Persistent eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean upwelling since the warm Pliocene
Upwelling generates a nutrient-rich “cold tongue” in the eastern equatorial Pacific Ocean (EEP), with impacts on global climate, oceanic biological productivity, and the carbon cycle. The cold tongue ...
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October 3, 2025 at 12:04 AM
Today, we published a study long in the making on how upper and subsurface tropical Pacific waters responded (and maybe will adjust) to warmer global climate. Here’s the story of how we got here after 15 years. many authors but shout out @jfarmersalmanac.bsky.social
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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🚨New work🚨 led by Ph.D. student Dipesh Chuphal (IIT Gandhinagar), shows that the recent drying of the Ganga River basin is unprecedented in 1,300 years—more severe than historical famines. This ~multidecadal drying appears forced, but many models do not capture it. ☔️ 🌧️
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September 22, 2025 at 7:45 PM
🚨New work🚨 led by Ph.D. student Dipesh Chuphal (IIT Gandhinagar), shows that the recent drying of the Ganga River basin is unprecedented in 1,300 years—more severe than historical famines. This ~multidecadal drying appears forced, but many models do not capture it. ☔️ 🌧️
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Unbelievable experience with the journal Palaeo3. Our manuscript was rejected because… they couldn’t find a second reviewer, and it had been in their system “too long” (7 weeks), according to the editor. In other words, just to preserve their review-speed metrics, they rejected our submission.
August 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Unbelievable experience with the journal Palaeo3. Our manuscript was rejected because… they couldn’t find a second reviewer, and it had been in their system “too long” (7 weeks), according to the editor. In other words, just to preserve their review-speed metrics, they rejected our submission.
Earth scientists know a lot more about getting out of an ice age than going into one. We report an episode of AMOC slowdown at 115 thousand years ago that's likely astronomically forced (via sea-ice) and coincides with a delayed drawdown of atmospheric CO2 @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eALD1
Abrupt weakening of deep Atlantic circulation at the last glacial inception - Nature Communications
Zhou et al. report an abrupt weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation at the last glacial inception. The observed circulation slowdown could explain the delayed timing of the atmos...
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August 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Earth scientists know a lot more about getting out of an ice age than going into one. We report an episode of AMOC slowdown at 115 thousand years ago that's likely astronomically forced (via sea-ice) and coincides with a delayed drawdown of atmospheric CO2 @natcomms.nature.com rdcu.be/eALD1
We all know an AMOC slowdown impacts tropical rainfall, but how exactly? DiNezio et al. point to cooling in the tropical Norht Atlantic as the main pathway. Today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Tropical response to ocean circulation slowdown raises future drought risk - Nature
An Atlantic meridional overturning circulation slowdown drives widespread shifts in tropical rainfall through the propagation of high-latitude cooling into the tropical North Atlantic.
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July 30, 2025 at 7:09 PM
We all know an AMOC slowdown impacts tropical rainfall, but how exactly? DiNezio et al. point to cooling in the tropical Norht Atlantic as the main pathway. Today in Nature: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com!
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
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July 19, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Our new study is out in @natcomms.nature.com!
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh
We present a glacial CO₂ reconstruction from the Chinese Loess Plateau over the past 2.6 million years and explore what it reveals about climate sensitivity during the Pleistocene.
🔗 rdcu.be/ewIfh
I think I just did my part but it's nice to be recognized!
May 16, 2025 at 8:28 PM
I think I just did my part but it's nice to be recognized!
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⚒️ Article: North Atlantic Deep Water formation was only moderately weaker than present during the Last Glacial Period, even when freshwater inputs were high
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
May 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
⚒️ Article: North Atlantic Deep Water formation was only moderately weaker than present during the Last Glacial Period, even when freshwater inputs were high
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
@paddylaser.bsky.social @unil.bsky.social @fpoeppelmeier.bsky.social @unibe.ch
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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SESAR2 (www.geosamples.org) is rescuing NOAA's Index of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples. The IMLGS will be hosted by SESAR2 in the future.
SESAR2
Welcome to the System For Earth Sample Registration (SESAR²) An Allocating Agent for IGSN
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April 18, 2025 at 1:54 PM
SESAR2 (www.geosamples.org) is rescuing NOAA's Index of Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples. The IMLGS will be hosted by SESAR2 in the future.
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Just published open-access in @agu.org's Paleo Paleo: A new foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotope perspective on one of geology's evergreen mysteries: The history of the Central American Seaway agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (1/a few)...
Early Pliocene Shoaling of the Central American Seaway Reconstructed From Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes
Foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes trace the early Pliocene restriction of nutrient exchange across the Central American Seaway Geochemical data indicate four phases of seaway shoaling between ...
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April 18, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Just published open-access in @agu.org's Paleo Paleo: A new foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotope perspective on one of geology's evergreen mysteries: The history of the Central American Seaway agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... (1/a few)...
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🚨Opening of the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office (SODCO). The US' IODP successor is a collaboration between @tamu.bsky.social and @lamontearth.bsky.social.
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Announcement: Opening of U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office
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April 4, 2025 at 5:51 PM
🚨Opening of the Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office (SODCO). The US' IODP successor is a collaboration between @tamu.bsky.social and @lamontearth.bsky.social.
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 5, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
"...the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting"
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This paper by Barker et al resolves many details about how Earth’s orbital wobbles caused glacial cycles of expansion & contraction of ice sheets over the last ~800,000 years 🧵 ⚒️🧪 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Distinct roles for precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in Pleistocene 100-kyr glacial cycles
Identifying the specific roles of precession, obliquity, and eccentricity in glacial-interglacial transitions is hindered by imprecise age control. We circumvent this problem by focusing on the morpho...
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February 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
This paper by Barker et al resolves many details about how Earth’s orbital wobbles caused glacial cycles of expansion & contraction of ice sheets over the last ~800,000 years 🧵 ⚒️🧪 1/11 www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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I bet every single one of you have heard "it takes a village to raise a child".
Maybe you don't know, but it also takes a village to "raise" scientists. People like Margaret have been pivotal in supporting my work as I grew into a scientist, through rich conversations besides funding.
Heartbroken💔
Maybe you don't know, but it also takes a village to "raise" scientists. People like Margaret have been pivotal in supporting my work as I grew into a scientist, through rich conversations besides funding.
Heartbroken💔
Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.
February 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I bet every single one of you have heard "it takes a village to raise a child".
Maybe you don't know, but it also takes a village to "raise" scientists. People like Margaret have been pivotal in supporting my work as I grew into a scientist, through rich conversations besides funding.
Heartbroken💔
Maybe you don't know, but it also takes a village to "raise" scientists. People like Margaret have been pivotal in supporting my work as I grew into a scientist, through rich conversations besides funding.
Heartbroken💔
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Not all adaptation strategies to #climatechange will be sufficient for planktonic #foraminifera to survive, an international team of researchers with #MARUM participation comes to this conclusion in the scientific journal @nature.com ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Climate-c...
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January 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Not all adaptation strategies to #climatechange will be sufficient for planktonic #foraminifera to survive, an international team of researchers with #MARUM participation comes to this conclusion in the scientific journal @nature.com ➡️ www.marum.de/en/Climate-c...
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@juliemeilland.bsky.social
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Another in the Pioneering Women in Earth Sciences series - Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924) - Scotland’s foremost fossil collector, spent her life in well-worn boots, wielding a hammer over rocky bluffs and rubble in search of Lower Paleozoic specimens www.geological-digressions.com/elizabeth-gr... ⚒️🧪
Elizabeth Gray (1831 - 1924)
Elizabeth Gray, spent a life in dusty boots, wielding a hammer over rocky bluffs in search of Scotland's Lower Paleozoic fossils.
www.geological-digressions.com
January 30, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Another in the Pioneering Women in Earth Sciences series - Elizabeth Gray (1831-1924) - Scotland’s foremost fossil collector, spent her life in well-worn boots, wielding a hammer over rocky bluffs and rubble in search of Lower Paleozoic specimens www.geological-digressions.com/elizabeth-gr... ⚒️🧪
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Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
An ice core suggests that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet lost ice 125,000 years ago, but not to the extent proposed by some scenarios.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Antarctic ice shelf kept its cool during the last interglacial period
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
@cambridge-earthsci.bsky.social @ercresearch.bsky.social @royalsociety.org @bas.ac.uk
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Does an increase in AMOC variability signal an imminent tipping point? In a recent article in GRL (@agu.org), authors explore the possibility of false positives (increased variance but no bistability) depending on gyre circulation intensity.
#AMOC #TippingPoint #Climate
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#AMOC #TippingPoint #Climate
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Slowed Response of Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Not a Robust Signal of Collapse
Critical Slowing Down (CSD) indicators can raise a false alarm of a nonexistent collapse when applied to an idealized Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) model
Applying CSD to the ...
doi.org
January 27, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Does an increase in AMOC variability signal an imminent tipping point? In a recent article in GRL (@agu.org), authors explore the possibility of false positives (increased variance but no bistability) depending on gyre circulation intensity.
#AMOC #TippingPoint #Climate
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
#AMOC #TippingPoint #Climate
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Honored to be featured in this article. It shows the power of journalism to find something remarkable in my circuitous journey as a scientist
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January 6, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Honored to be featured in this article. It shows the power of journalism to find something remarkable in my circuitous journey as a scientist
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The application is now open for paleoCAMP 2025 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies)! For graduate students in any area of paleoclimatology, our 2 week summer school is timescale agnostic and multidisciplinary - please apply or share widely! paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
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November 19, 2024 at 11:38 PM
The application is now open for paleoCAMP 2025 (Paleoclimate Training in Climate Archives, Models, and Proxies)! For graduate students in any area of paleoclimatology, our 2 week summer school is timescale agnostic and multidisciplinary - please apply or share widely! paleoclimate.camp/apply
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I'm thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper! We present ice core methane isotope data revealing that past abrupt climate changes likely triggered surges in wildfires, simultaneously driving rapid methane—and possibly CO2—rises 🌎🔥
Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Abrupt changes in biomass burning during the last glacial period - Nature
An increase in wildfire extent and related greenhouse gas emissions can be linked to abrupt climatic changes during the last glacial period.
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January 2, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I'm thrilled to share our new @nature.com paper! We present ice core methane isotope data revealing that past abrupt climate changes likely triggered surges in wildfires, simultaneously driving rapid methane—and possibly CO2—rises 🌎🔥
Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Read it here 👉 www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Blwyddyn Newydd Dda / Happy New Year 2025!
Great to see our latest IODP EXP 361 paper out today:
Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great to see our latest IODP EXP 361 paper out today:
Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years
Shifts in the world’s largest ocean current are closely linked to Southern Ocean upwelling during warm intervals in Earth’s past.
www.science.org
January 1, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Blwyddyn Newydd Dda / Happy New Year 2025!
Great to see our latest IODP EXP 361 paper out today:
Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Great to see our latest IODP EXP 361 paper out today:
Shifting Antarctic Circumpolar Current south of Africa over the past 1.9 million years www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Happy New Year !
Also happy to share our new review paper with you in AREPS on the usefulness of Coccoliths in Paleoceanography! 🐚⛴️🌊
@cnrs.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social
Also happy to share our new review paper with you in AREPS on the usefulness of Coccoliths in Paleoceanography! 🐚⛴️🌊
@cnrs.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social
Coccoliths as Recorders of Paleoceanography and Paleoclimate over the Past 66 Million Years | Annual Reviews
Coccolithophores are a major group of oceanic calcifying phytoplankton, and their calcite skeletal remains, termed calcareous nannofossils, are a major component of deep-sea sediments accumulating sin...
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January 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Happy New Year !
Also happy to share our new review paper with you in AREPS on the usefulness of Coccoliths in Paleoceanography! 🐚⛴️🌊
@cnrs.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social
Also happy to share our new review paper with you in AREPS on the usefulness of Coccoliths in Paleoceanography! 🐚⛴️🌊
@cnrs.bsky.social
@climatecerege.bsky.social