Mastodawn

User Story - Bringing Steinbeck & Ricketts Into The MBON Era
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https://marinebon.org/blog/2026/02/26/user-story-bringing-steinbeck-ricketts-into-the-mbon-era/ <-- shared technical article 🔗
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https://marinebon.org/p2p/about.html <-- shared MBON Pole to Pole initiative 🔗
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[As a US naturalized citizen, ‘Travels with Charley’ is one of my favourite travel/Americana books (just behind Least Heat Moon’s ‘Blue Highways’), storytelling supreme, especially with Steinbeck’s personal situation at the time; this building on that exploration and observation - including ‘Log from the Sea of Cortez’ - is truly a joy to see]
#Biodiversity #change #OceanScience #MarineBiology #ClimateChange #MBON #Conservation #revisiting #SeaOfCortez #Mexico #monitoring #survey #GIS #spatial #mapping #biology #ecosystems #spatiotemporal #Americas #MBONPoleToPole #GreenFlashConservationScience #conservation #intertidal #DNA #collection #sampling #naturalhistory #Baja #marine #coast #coastal #JohnSteinbeck #EdRicketts #science #citizenscience #tidepool
@MBON | @NOAA

ICYMARE Conference Mar 9

Session 7 Open Session hosted by Theo Krüger and Jory Paap
Didn’t find your topic among our other sessions? Submit your abstract to the Open Session instead!
#ICYMARE2026Bremen #earlycareerconference #earlycareerresearchers #marinescience #marinescienceconference #callforabstracts #ICYMARE #oceanscience #oceandecade

Jamez Barrett 🜃 ॐ Ⓐ Mar 7

Sweden decoded whale language using AI — translating songs that span thousands of miles 🐋

Swedish marine biologists using advanced AI algorithms have partially decoded humpback whale communication, discovering that whale songs contain complex grammatical structures, cultural dialects, and information about ocean conditions transmitted across entire ocean basins. The research reveals whales possess one of the most sophisticated non-human communication systems on Earth.

The AI breakthrough: Machine learning analyzed 8,000 hours of whale recordings from underwater microphones spanning three oceans. The system identified recurring patterns, syntax rules, and contextual variations similar to human language. Whales use "phonemes" combined into "words" that form "sentences" with identifiable meaning.

Discoveries include: Warning calls about predators (transmitted 1,000+ km), mating advertisements containing individual "names," navigational information about food sources, and cultural songs passed down through generations with regional variations. Different whale populations have distinct "accents" similar to human dialects.

Most fascinating: Whales remember and modify songs from year to year, suggesting cultural evolution and possibly history-keeping. Some song elements remain unchanged for decades, like oral traditions.

Sweden's Project CETI (Cetacean Translation Initiative) aims for real-time whale communication by 2027.

Source: University of Stockholm Marine Biology, Science Advances 2025

#WhaleLanguage #MarineBiology #Sweden #ArtificialIntelligence #AnimalCommunication #OceanScience #Conservation #AI #Wildlife #Innovation

The Perpetually Curious!Mar 5

🌊 A tsunami may cross an entire ocean without roaring. It travels not as a wall, but as a whisper of imbalance seeking restoration.

✍️ Discover the quiet physics behind long waves: https://TPC8.short.gy/iHgSgsX4

The ocean does not forget. It answers with motion shaped by depth, distance, and time.

#Tsunami #OceanScience #Ocean #Geophysics #SciComm #TPC8

🌊 Harbor Wave, Ocean Pulse: The Science of Tsunamis from Seafloor to Shore

Learn what a tsunami is and how it works, from ocean-floor displacement to coastal run-up, wave trains, and why the first wave may not be largest.

ICYMARE Conference Mar 5

Session 5.1 A bridge between disciplines: Physics at the heart of Ocean Science hosted by Rosa María Vergara González and Konstantin Mrozik
#ICYMARE2026Bremen #marinephysics #oceanscience #oceandynamics #oceanphysics #physicaloceanography #oceanography #earlycareerconference #oceandecade

ICYMARE Conference Feb 28

Attention early career ocean researchers 🐳

Stay tuned and keep an eye on our socials! We will be opening our Call for Abstracts soon so if you want to share your research this year at ICYMARE 2026 at University of Bremen and connect with your peers, make sure to submit an abstract and join one of our many sessions! 🦐 🌍

#ICYMARE2026Bremen #ECRS #earlycareerresearchers #ECOP #oceandecade #marinescience #oceanscience

Alaska Headline Living Feb 26

🌊 Alaska’s Waters in the Climate Debate
Scientists and senators are looking to Alaska’s ocean for answers. What kind of research are they pushing and what could it mean for the state? 🌊🔬
Dive into the details.
👉🏿 https://tinyurl.com/ycx8emh8
#Alaska #MarineScience #ClimateResearch #OceanScience #Arctic #AlaskaNews #Science #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #LisaMurkowski

Show thread

Richard R Lee Feb 24

#ScienceNotSilence #OceanScience #Glasgow.
@rahmstorf

Tom's Hardware Italia Feb 10

🌊 Gli oceani giocano un ruolo cruciale nel clima: i modelli climatici che ignorano questo attore chiave mancano un pezzo del puzzle. Scopriamo come #ClimateChange #OceanScience.

🔗 https://www.tomshw.it/scienze/modelli-climatici-ignorano-un-attore-oceanico-chiave-2026-02-10