_"#Ocean #science in a time of political uncertainty"_ townhall at #osm26 #agu #aslo

For example, severe funding cuts of National Science Foundation #NSF #Geoscience grants due to lacking staff to administer.

#BrandonJones: "Fighting forward, not fighting back."
#MikeSieracki: "Hopeful pessimism"
#SabrinaSpeich: "Say things as they are: impacts are global!"
#MargaretLeinen: Instead of the federal government, the community itself is coming up with structures and managing processes in research. "Look how much support you have generated, support from your fellow citizens!"

*Direct actions in science communities?*

Brandon Jones: Hear global voices, partner with professional societies globally!

Margaret Leinen: "Fighting back for reinstating #DEI [diversity, equity and inclusion] grants... you have agency, don't forget that!"
"Early career ocean professionals #ecop are building our future!"

Mike Sieracki: "We expect to have a democracy after the apocalypse." Have a #chaos meeting with your colleagues, share what crazy stuff is happening

#osm26 #agu #aslo

Strolling through the exhibition today, there are some cool data repositories and outreach projects presented 🥳📈

Check out, e.g.,
https://website.whoi.edu/creative/
and the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO-DMO)
https://www.bco-dmo.org/about
#scicomm #osm26 #data #oceanography

_"A Sea of Learning: Sharing Stories of Ocean Engagement"_

*Ocean literacy matters!*
Edem Mahu (University of Ghana) presented the Future Ocean Leaders Academy #FOLA

Other great activities:
"bate-papo com netuno - Chat with Neptune"
by Natasha Hoff (University of São Paulo)
https://www.batepapocomnetuno.com/chat-with-neptune

"Oceansight - Creating Accessible Field Trips" for blind and low-vision middle and high school students
by Anna Pinckney (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, #WHOI)
https://oceaninsight.whoi.edu/accessible-remote-field-trip-kits/

#osm26 #oceanography #oceanliteracy #scicomm

Ocean Sciences Meeting starts today with the *Atlantic Ocean* 🌊📈

@rahmstorf presenting on the "Risk of Major Future [Atlantic meridional overturning circulation] AMOC Changes":

1. AMOC has a thermosaline tipping point, but also a wind-driven one (?)
2. Subpolar gyre might collapse
3. Many different parameters show slowing of AMOC, density changes, deep water formation
4. Underlined by paleoclimatological studies
5. Breakdown of convection might happen already quite early (next decades?)

More on his blog: realclimate.org

#osm26 #atlantic #amoc #tippingpoints #oceanography