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Dr. Patrick Rafter

@OceanAndClimate

ocean and climate scientist & enthusiast @UCIrvine @uciess Ocean-Atmosphere carbon: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow @Oceanandclimate.bsky.social

 Irvine, CA
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Joined November 2013
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During Covid lockdown, 12 friends and I made a massive synthesis of deep-sea radiocarbon (14C) over the past 25,000 years. Our paper, out today, provides strong evidence that deep-sea 14C ventilation during the last glacial period was SLOWER and LOWER science.org/doi/10.1126/scia…
Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age

Global reorganization of deep-sea circulation and carbon storage after the last ice age

A compilation of radiocarbon measurements is used to characterize deep-sea overturning since the last ice age.

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UCI OCEANS@UCI_OCEANS27 Jan 2024
Wonderful farewell presentation by @OceanAndClimate
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A student working with me @UCIrvine @uciess (Chloe Selby) just had a nice write-up on the main UCI webpage (and she mentions our lab! OceanAndClimate.com) See it here: ps.uci.edu/news/2971
UC Irvine undergraduate Earth System Science major Chloe Selby talks about navigating life as an anteater. LVWJ: What's a favorite memory of yours from your time at UCI Physical Sciences? CS: A favorite memory during my time at UCI Physical Sciences has been working as a Peer Academic Advisor and helping incoming undergraduate students figure out their class schedules. I’m very organized and I love putting together schedules, so advising these students and sharing my tips has been very fulfilling. Another favorite has been working in a research lab and analyzing sea-floor sediment samples with paleoceanography expert Dr. Patrick Rafter. We are interested in determining the water quality and historic conditions of the ocean by carbon dating microscopic forams sampled from across the world.

ALT UC Irvine undergraduate Earth System Science major Chloe Selby talks about navigating life as an anteater. LVWJ: What's a favorite memory of yours from your time at UCI Physical Sciences? CS: A favorite memory during my time at UCI Physical Sciences has been working as a Peer Academic Advisor and helping incoming undergraduate students figure out their class schedules. I’m very organized and I love putting together schedules, so advising these students and sharing my tips has been very fulfilling. Another favorite has been working in a research lab and analyzing sea-floor sediment samples with paleoceanography expert Dr. Patrick Rafter. We are interested in determining the water quality and historic conditions of the ocean by carbon dating microscopic forams sampled from across the world.

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Tom Marchitto@TomMarchitto28 Sep 2023
Please help spread the word about a new postdoctoral fellowship in Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Lucas J. Kimes Fellowship. Applicants must identify a faculty mentor in the department. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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@consequence23 Sep 2023
Inside the Ramones’ earliest gigs: cos.lv/3F4950POT2z
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Erin McClymont@ErinMcClimate22 Sep 2023
If you haven't yet read our @plioceneclimate review of ocean and ice sheet changes in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene, @AGU_Eos have published an overview @theAGU #AGUpubs. Cover photo taken by me in Gulf of Alaska IODP Exp. 341 @uk_iodp @TheJR eos.org/editors-vox/marine-s…
Marine Sediments Reveal Past Climate Responses to CO2 Changes - Eos

Marine Sediments Reveal Past Climate Responses to CO2 Changes - Eos

Climate records stored in marine sediments reveal different ice sheet and ocean responses to falling atmospheric CO2 concentrations from the warm Pliocene to the ice ages of the Pleistocene.

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Wow, yeah Heather! @US_OCB
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Congratulations to Dr. Heather Benway of @WHOI, the recipient of the 2023 @theAGU Ocean Sciences Award in recognition of her excellent leadership of @US_OCB. Her tireless work helps advance science and maintain a sense of community. 🎉 agu.org/honors/announcement/…
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Thanks @marmite_usf !
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Michael Vardaro@Echinocrepis6 Sep 2023
Mystery! Still looking for a better shot, but does anyone know what these green orbs are? We saw them on a few dives, mostly at 200 - 500 m depths, off the OR coast and at Axial Seamount. At first I thought they were clogged larvacean houses, but they're all perfectly circular.
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Brianna Hoegler@BriannaHoegler22 Aug 2023
Scientific ocean drilling folks! Please consider signing and sharing our letter to @NSF detailing why we need concrete commitments now to support our field given the rapidly approaching retirement of @TheJR @AcademicChatter @JRSO_IODP docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F… – at Providence, RI

The Future of Scientific Ocean Drilling: Letter to NSF Division of Ocean Science (OCE) Director

Members of the scientific ocean drilling community, colleagues, friends, and supporters, Thank you for your interest in our letter to NSF Division of Ocean Science Director James McManus regarding...

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I’m on the Bluesky app with a similar handle Oceanandclimate dot bsky dot social Need more friends there so hit me up (I have no codes to give her but I will offer when I have them) Thanks @ZLabe !
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Can I have an invite to blue sky please? Anyone?
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Chris Maupin@ChrisATX16 Aug 2023
Kaustubh Thirumalai and I were inspired to highlight the accomplishment of @PaleoRoss et al., who’ve put a fresh coral species through its paleo-archive paces: a significant undertaking with a rich scientific history. agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
Chasing Interannual Marine Paleovariability

Chasing Interannual Marine Paleovariability

We briefly recount how scientists have reconstructed past year-to-year variations in marine temperatures

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Love that there is a Sticky Bumps (a surf wax company) sticker on this oceanographic instrument who @WHOI put it on?
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July 30, 1920, birthday of American #geologist Marie Tharp. Her seafloor profiles and maps based on data collected by Bruce Heezen provided evidence that mid-ocean ridges are rift zones, supporting the theory of plate tectonics in the 1960s 🌍 tinyurl.com/2yxv2by9
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Does the US-based marine #CDR community realize the new NSF directorate (new.nsf.gov/tip/about-tip) is requesting guidance for funding future research? This RFI is due in about 24 hours (it's here tinyurl.com/mr4dbu4v). Are any #mCDR groups going to submit an RFI? We should!
About NSF TIP

About NSF TIP

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@dieworkwear23 Jul 2023
People often answer this with "dress timeless," but I don't think that's really the answer. A lot of guys bought tweed sport coats and oxford shoes 15 years ago and are now in totally different clothes because those styles were ultimately not them. 🧵
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David Ho@_david_ho_22 Jul 2023
When those of us who work on CO₂ removal (CDR) meet, it’s apparent that no one wants to do this and no one thinks it’s easy. It’s far easier and cheaper to stop emitting CO₂. The fact that some of the smartest people I know decide to work on CDR signals our desperation.
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