Rosalind Franklin update!
“A new paper based on long-lost documents confirms that DNA discoverer Rosalind Franklin should be credited for discovering the double helix.”
https://www.livescience.com/health/genetics/rosalind-franklin-knew-dna-was-a-helix-before-watson-and-crick-unpublished-material-reveals?fbclid=IwAR3AhaUWlB4QejBW6ESk1IAn-IPKqF8PUUs4KHPbZ2jMnQcCgCDcGPOjA74#lgymp4kotadc1a3pafg #HistoryRemix #history #science /2
This looks v interesting! PyGMT: A #Python interface for the Generic Mapping Tools
#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#Coroner
Mental Vortex
Semtex Revolution
YouTube Search:
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Coroner+Mental+Vortex+Semtex+Revolution
Lyrics:
https://genius.com/Coroner-semtex-revolution-lyrics
Song Link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ln-hU0Q6RQQ
#thrashmetal #TechnicalThrashMetal #Progressivemetal #metal #thrash
Delighted to have two Great Horned Owls move into the neighborhood recently. A few #photographs below.
I painted this portrait of a redbreast European Robin - Erithacus rubecula - in acrylic on a loose abstract background in vibrant orange.
I have great fun watching the birds in my garden and in nature. In winter they come to the bird feeder and enjoy sunflower seeds. In spring and summer they visit the garden looking for insects. So much inspiration for an artist!
Robin portrait - get it here:
https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/robin-portrait-karen-kaspar.html
#birds #bird #birdwatching #art #artist #mastoart #FediGiftShop #BuyIntoArt
🌊 🌊 New Paper Out! 🌊 🌊
Led by Chris Brierley, our manuscript on Indian Ocean variability across the latest edition of various paleoclimate modeling intercomparison projects (#PMIP) is out in Climate of the Past (#CotP): https://cp.copernicus.org/articles/19/681/2023/cp-19-681-2023.pdf
We look at the consistency (& lack thereof) of simulated temperature responses & impacts on interannual hydroclimate changes over the Indian Ocean rim for the #midHolocene, #LGM, last #interglacial, and an abrupt 4 x CO₂ simulation. #Paleoclimate #Climate #IndianOcean #ClimateSimulations #ClimateOfThePast #ClimateChange
An intruder appeared while doing #Raman spectroscopy on submarine volcanic tephra... a #foraminifera! #ThinSectionThursday
Two shots of a neighborhood Curve-Billed Thrasher.
A short #GoPro #timelapse video of sunset last evening seen from my office at #TheUniversityOfArizona (5th floor of the Gould-Simpson building). #Tucson
#Foraminifera resembling #metal #albumcover #artwork (resurrecting a 🧵 from the birdsite).
A classic to begin with - Orbulina universa as #MorbidAngel’s Altars of Darkness
Some #macro #photography experiments with #succulents & #skulls using an #Olympus #Zuiko 30mm Macro lens + an #OMD EM1MarkII.
Yarrow’s Spiny Lizard seen on a gorgeous Spring day close to General Hitchcock campground, Mt. Lemmon in the #SantaCatalinas. #Tucson #lizards
Map showing which climate element was most unusual in winter (Dec-Feb) 2022-23. I looked at high snowfall, warm anomalies, cold anomalies, wet anomalies, dry anomalies, cloudy anomalies, and uncloudy anomalies. The period of analysis is the last 50 winters and whichever element had the highest rank (most uncommon) was mapped. @AlaskaWx
Gorgeous sunset last evening at #Biosphere2 viewing the northern face of the #SantaCatalina #mountains
Nerdy details: we show using #stableisotopes of #carbon (δ¹³C) and #oxygen (δ¹⁸O) that **ONLY** Miliolida benthic foraminifera (including #Pyrgo, #Quinqueloculina, & #Spiroloculina - pictures attached) found **ONLY** in sediments proximal to methane hydrates (site U1446 is in the NW Bay of Bengal) contain wildly negative δ¹³C signatures characteristics associated with methane dynamics in marine sediments. Check out those δ¹³C values!!
🚨🚨New Paper Alert🚨🚨
We have a new paper out in Earth & Planetary Science Letters (#EPSL) entitled “Indian margin methane hydrate dissociation recorded in the carbon isotopes of benthic (Miliolida) foraminifera”
Main take home message: we have identified a group of #benthic #foraminifera (unicellular organisms living at the bottom of the #ocean) whose shell chemistry carries signatures of #methane dynamics within #marine #sediments.
Link to paper: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012821X23001140
Earth/climate scientist at the #UniversityOfArizona (#Tucson).
📝 #GTD
🦜 #birds
🎹 #synths
🎸 #bassguitar
☀️ #mindfulness
📸 #photography
🌡️ #climate & #paleoclimate
🌊 #oceans & #paleoceanography
⚗️ #geochemistry & #biogeochemistry