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New paper out by @willerstorfi et al. in documenting the evaluation of planktic foraminiferal Na/Ca as a proxy for ocean salinity using plankton tows, sediment traps, and core tops: sciencedirect.com/science/arti?

Take home message: looks like this proxy can be quite complex due to varying Na-bearing phases of the foraminiferal calcite, even though the Na/Ca in some of these phases may be strongly correlated to salinity. The authors conclude instead that due to the effect of [CO₃²⁻], foraminiferal Na/Ca over Cenzoic timescales may be a better proxy for major ion chemistry than salinity changes in the ocean.

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Tuesday - greatly enjoying using Anonymous Pro (marksimonson.com/fonts/view/an) these days for most text entry (DayOne/Obsidian etc.) Preference for using fixed width fonts has increased over the years…

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@kau These are super cool. I wish I’d had these when I started grad school — they would have made the monotony of picking palatable with a respectable soundtrack.

Chalk another one up for the ever-charismatic universa - this time as 's classic, From Mars to Sirius.

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Led by former student in my lab @raventurelli@twitter.com and other collaborators (on that other site), we find layered lake #sediment! So, what? That's been done before, you say?

Well, this lake was under 1100 m of Antarctic ice and had never been accessed by humans before we cleanly (no #microbial contamination, and no easy feat!) accessed it! These sediments give us an idea of how long #Antarctic #subglacial #lakes exist.

beta.nsf.gov/news/first-ever-l

resembling (resurrecting a 🧵 from the birdsite).

A classic to begin with - Orbulina universa as ’s Altars of Darkness

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The upper ocean heat content (0-700 m) is just as striking and rising well above the graph's upper limits for the 2022 annual update...

See my #climatechange indicators page for more: zacklabe.com/climate-change-in #DataViz

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#Arctic sea ice in the Barents Sea continues to remain new record low levels. I will have more on this in a blog late next week!

+ Data from: nsidc.org/data/seaice_index.
+ Map of this region on the Atlantic side of the Arctic: zacklabe.com/arctic-climate-se.

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