Christina Ravelo and I are looking for a post doc to work on N Pacific Paleoceanography at UCSC. Diatoms! Sea Ice! Geochemistry! Please circulate! recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01575

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One of my favorite finds in #Rome after #INQUARoma2023 wrapped up, was the Pietro Canonica museum in the @VillaBorghese. The funerary monuments (such as The Gust of Wind) were particularly haunting, and #TheAbyss sculpture was truly a masterpiece. Plus I was the only one there!

AGU abstracts are due next week! Consider submitting to our session focused on lakes and paleohydroclimate: Lacustrine Records of Paleohydroclimate from the Last Glacial Maximum to Present @ AGU23 agu.confex.com/agu/fm23/preli… AGU_Paleo AGU (American Geophysical Union) @MkirbyE

Whooaaa check out this cool new paper out today in Nature Geoscience 😎 AND it's open access?! Absolutely thrilling. If you're interested in the 100-kyr problem or orbital forcing on glacial cycles, please give it a read 👀 nature.com/articles/s4156…

Two days left to submit an abstract to #AGU23! Consider submitting to this session on Beringia and North Pacific paleoclimate:

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So excited to see what Beth Caissie and the science party aboard the R/V Sikuliaq dig up from the #BeringLandBridge!

Thousands of footprints pepper the salty expanse of White Sands National Park, preserving ancient vignettes in the sand. Now, a new study bolsters the controversial claim that humans left these tracks ~21,000-23,000 years ago! My latest The New York Times nytimes.com/2023/10/05/sci…

Congratulations to my USGS colleagues: Kathleen Springer, Jeff Pigati, Dave Wahl, Marie Champagne, and all the other coauthors on their excellent work in getting additional pollen and OSL dates on the White Sands Footprints! This is a game-changer!

So excited to see this new paper out today in Science Magazine by Kathleen Springer and many other USGS scientists! These new dates support the LGM age (21,000-23,000 yr ago) of the White Sands Footprints. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Attending #AGU23? There's a special After Dark event at the Exploratorium to celebrate the intersections between art and science - join us for a night of interactive creativity!

Check out my nature World View piece on the need for radical change within academic & scientific institutions to support deep and sustained public engagement so that we can rapidly increase our capacity for successful and equitable response to #ClimateChange!

Today as part of our "Best of" package, we're sharing the reported essays we loved in 2023. Read unforgettable work by Summer Praetorius, Jennifer Senior, Nick Bowlin, Guy D. Middleton, and @tomvanderbilt longreads.com/2023/12/07/bes…