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‘Eat local’ is a common recommendation to reduce the carbon footprint of your diet.

But transportation makes up a very small amount of the greenhouse gas emissions from food.

*What* you eat is far more important than *where* your food traveled from.

https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local

The Google doodle today is of Marie Tharp — pretty neat. Marie Tharp (July 30, 1920 – August 23, 2006) was an American geologist and oceanographic cartographer who, in partnership with Bruce Heezen, created the first scientific bathymetry map of the Atlantic Ocean floor while at #ldeo #columbia in the 1950’s. Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory has a visiting researcher fellowship in her name to this day. #womeninstem #geoscience #MappingMondays https://www.google.com/?fpdoodle=1&doodle=240342495&hl=en&gl=us&ictx=3&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjciuXz0L_7AhVcFjQIHVBdA5EQPQgR

Ever wondered where the numbered ENSO indices come from?

Rasmussen & Carpenter (1982) numbered ship tracks going across the Pacific and these were adopted for the sub-regions that they crossed.

https://doi.org/10.1175/1520-0493(1982)110%3C0354:VITSST%3E2.0.CO;2

My first post: Let me share some oceanography history.

The Sputnik plot originated at Lamont-Doherty in the early 1990s. Rick Fairbanks was the visionary behind the plot. He asked Jim Wright, his postdoc, to make the first draft for δ¹³C. Chris Charles then modified it for Charles and Fairbanks (1992) in Nature (submitted mid-1991). Arnold Gordon was Chris' PhD committee chair and was familiar with the plot. He had a version made for meridional overturning circulation in a 1991 Lamont report.