Doug dragged me out for a ride today. So wonderful. Look carefully below. There are about 25 herons.

1/25 Part 1 - Why does soap work so well on the SARS-CoV-2, the coronavirus and indeed most viruses? Because it is a self-assembled nanoparticle in which the weakest link is the lipid (fatty) bilayer. A two part thread about soap, viruses and supramolecular chemistry #COVID19

Thanks for organizing Elise!

Positive impact of distancing.

Summary of two recent papers: Particulate fluxes and circulation in a changing Arctic Ocean: tracer data and modeling geotraces.org/particulate-fl… Changing Arctic Ocean circulation as seen through geochemical tracers, including Th-230.

Corny I know, but as I walked today and took in that spring is emerging regardless of our virus, I felt the robins were singing: spring has sprung, the grass is riz, I wonder where the humans is?

Zoom meetings are better with the smell of cookies baking.

Summer. Starting the close to home adventures.

Manuel Colombo

We can see the North Shore mountains!!!!

The turkey shrank. Just two of us this year.

For high water predictions:

Thanks zwift for the April form. Almost feels like cheating... What a wonderful day for a ride.

As both CTWs and canyons are ubiquitous in the global coastal ocean, this novel mechanism may have an important role in balancing the nutrients and oxygen that reach the shelf ecosystems. 🪱🦀🐟🐳 4/4

A cake!

New Research: Costs and Limitations of Marine Synechococcus Blue-Green Chromatic Acclimation: Benefits and trade-offs of blue/green chromatic acclimation (CA4) have received limited study. We investigated the energetic costs associated… frontiersin.org/articles/10.33… #MarineScience

Planned outage for 24 hours from Tue 19th April 07:00 UTC. NOAA/NOMADS has some engineering work planned, so this will affect RASP for Tuesday (and the overnight runs into Wednesday). If the planned outage finishes on time, forecast runs will fill in from 07:00 Wednesday 20th.

We are searching for a new post-doctoral fellow to join us and improve oxygen in SalishSeaCast, our coupled biological/chemical/physical model of the Salish Sea. Apply by Jul 16. Details here: eoas.ubc.ca/about/job-oppo…

Who else is interested in starting a diamond open access oceanography journal (peer reviewed, free to publish, free to read)? This query is motivated by AGU's recent decision to make GRL gold open access with a $2900 USD per article fee.

Come join us! Postdoctoral Fellow in coupled biological/chemical/physical ocean modelling to research the interplay of oxygen stressors in a diverse coastal environment at time scales from seasonal to decadal. Details and application here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/ubcfacul…