President & Director Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Deep-sea mud enthusiast. @pdemenocal@mas.to
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🎉 Please join us in celebrating today’s announcement from @macfound that @bvanmooy, a #WHOI Sr. Scientist & Interim Vice President for Science & Engineering, has been awarded a #MacArthurFellowship, also known as a #geniusgrant.
📲 Learn more: go.whoi.edu/van-mooy-award
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
21 Aug 2024
Exciting times @WHOI thanks to the W. M. Keck Foundation! Hoping this project enables new discoveries under #Antarctica's ice shelves through technology development and collaboration!
ecomagazine.com/news/researc…
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
13 Jun 2024
🎉 Woods Hole celebrated the arrival of the R/V Roger Revelle this week! Operate @Scripps_Ocean-operated ship will use #WHOI as a port through November for Atlantic research. As part of the @unols fleet, research vessels are owned by the @USNavyResearch and funded by the @NSF.
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
What a week! #WHOI leadership researchers spent #CapitolHillOceanWeek talking with legislators, federal agencies, and conservation groups about the future of #BlueTech and strategies for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal or #mCDR.
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
#GulfCoast sea levels are rising at alarming rates. #WHOI scientist @chrispiecuch says the frequency of flooding across the region wouldn't have happened two decades ago.
📲 Take a tour of the impacts with @washingtonpost (subscription required): go.whoi.edu/Southern-Sea-Lev…
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
7 May 2024
What will it take to fix climate change? Just two (very big) steps.
Get a full recap from the President and Director of @WHOI @PdeMenocal's #INBOUND session - where he explained how our ocean holds the key to a sustainable future: bit.ly/3URup6w
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My first update of 2024 for changes in land ice mass observed by GRACE(-FO) satellite in Antarctica (left) and Greenland (right) 🧊📉
Methods can be found from @NASAClimate at climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs…. My visualization can also be downloaded: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-…
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3 May 2024
Makes tons of sense, if counterintuitive. Reduced demand is the priority for reduced future CDR obligations.
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
3 May 2024
The Blue Machine paperback is now out 🥳 . This is the story of the ocean - not the things in it but the water itself, the giant engine that defines our world.
'A dazzle of stories beautifully told...Outstanding ... Her readers will see the seas anew.' - Horatio Clare
#ocean
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
30 Apr 2024
👏Congratulations to marine chemist @Chris__Reddy, whose book, "Science Communication in a Crisis," has been recognized with a gold award from the @NonfictionAssoc!
Get your copy from the #WHOI Shop:
go.whoi.edu/reddy-book
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
28 Apr 2024
Accepting the 2024 John J. Carty Award for the Advancement of Science is #NASmember Ben Santer of @WHOI and @UCLA for pioneering new approaches to address global climate change. #climate #NAS161 #NASaward
Watch live: ow.ly/apkG50RqelY
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Dive into the future of our oceans at 'Exploring Ocean Climate Solutions'! 🌊 May 7th at MIT, @ocean_visions Brad Ack, @droceanjulie, Simon Freeman (@ARPAE) & @PdeMenocal discuss innovative approaches to tackle climate change head-on #OceanSustainability #Climatesolutions
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11 Apr 2024
RT @rahmstorf: Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point?
Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years.
Open access, peer-r…
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
As we look ahead to the @UNOceanDecade first conference next week, it’s worth looking back on the progress we’ve made through the #OceanPavilion at COP28.
📲 Find out why science-based ocean solutions are finally having a moment: go.whoi.edu/ocean-takeaways
@kramakrishna247
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
30 Mar 2024
Are concerns about the impact of #offshorewind on North Atlantic right #whales based on facts– or misconceptions?
#WHOI scientist Mark Baumgartner discusses balancing renewable energy goals w/ marine conservation on @scifri! Listen: go.whoi.edu/NARW-Wind
📸 courtesy @WCAI_NPR
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
29 Mar 2024
Four Arts Revisited @fourarts #Revisited
Season 3, Episode 5: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea with Bob Ballard – Peter de Menocal (2023) Revisited
@WHOI @EVNautilus @PdeMenocal
fourarts.org/event/revisited…
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
27 Mar 2024
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current speeds up as the world warms. Check out our new @Nature paper tracing its dynamics over the past 5 million years & what it means for Antarctics's past&future. Shoutout to #Exp383 team
@LamontEarth @columbiaclimate @TheJR
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20 Mar 2024
Congratulations Margaret!
Thank you for recognizing Scripps Oceanography Director @Leinen4ocean for her tireless dedication to advancing the knowledge and understanding of our planet! You can read her full bio here:
scripps.ucsd.edu/about/leade…
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Peter de Menocal retweeted
19 Mar 2024
"We need answers for why 2023 turned out to be the warmest year in possibly the past 100,000 years. And we need them quickly."
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