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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 2d

Why not both? (Actually, I don’t care about views, and think there’s plenty of land without infilling to make lots of homes)

a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

ALT: a little girl is asking why not both while standing in a kitchen .

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 2d

Ok, now to make this happen for the North Atlantic Right Whale.

David Shiffman, Ph.D. 🦈 @whysharksmatter.bsky.social · 2d

Eastern Australian humpback whale population now well above pre-whaling levels, report finds - ABC News 🦑🧪🌎

These whales were hunted to 150 individuals. Now there's 50,000 of them

Once hunted almost to extinction, the population of humpback whales currently migrating down Australia's east coast has bounced back and is now greater than before whaling.

www.abc.net.au

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 2d

Haha I lol’d

Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 3d

Just got featured as part of Science Literacy Week for my work with the @argocanada.bsky.social #AdoptAFloat program and for other outreach. What can I say -- I like to talk about what I do! 😀🌊

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For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages… | F...

For many Canadians, access to science starts in the classroom. Dr. Clark Richards, a research scientist at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography, is passionate about helping students of all ages bett...

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A Salty Redhead @asaltyredhead.bsky.social · 5d

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A screenshot of a fb post saying "I want to live in a world where the flags are lowered for Jane Goodall"

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John D. Cook @johndcook.bsky.social · 16d

@christosargyrop.bsky.social

Kale sales and autism

www.wmbriggs.com/post/58413/

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 25d

1000%

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · 25d

Another beautiful September Halifax morning, another day watching visitors to our city trying to figure out to pay for the ferry by taking out cash from a private ATM, turning it into different cash, and feeding it into a little box. @samaustind5.bsky.social @tonymancini2025.bsky.social time for tap

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Andrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 29d

i think anyone saying he practiced politics the right way or that we should continue his work should first have to read out loud his last days worth of posts to someone they love who doesnt know who he is

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Sep 10

Incredible

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Angelo Villagomez @taotaotasi.bsky.social · Sep 9

If there is a position you are interested in and the application process asks you to answer very specific things -- you should address them

Sending a form letter about why you love the ocean is a waste of my time and yours

This is a public service announcement

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Sep 9

Moar density!! And better transit to support it, which means higher taxes if not offset by the density (but hopefully it would be).

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Sep 9

I’ve been there. In the moment I convinced myself that there was a special quiet to working so early in the morning and I should appreciate it. Then 6:30 hit and I had to also get 3 kids up, fed, and ready for school while still in the conference. Never again.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Sep 2

Can confirm. Tides are weird. And awesome.

Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 2

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

Comic. [Two people on shore looking at body of water] PERSON 1: Hey, where’s that big island we were looking at this morning? PERSON 2 with short hair: Oh, it’s underwater. The ocean’s depth here goes up and down by like ten feet every day. PERSON 1: What? PERSON 2: It’s because the planet has a big moon orbiting near the surface. It causes weird gravity effects. PERSON 1: *What???* [caption] People here are used to them, but tides are one of the weirdest and most sci-fi elements of life on Earth.

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Sep 2

Sea Level

xkcd.com/3135/

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Doug Wallace @dougieocean.bsky.social · Aug 20

The reputational risk to #Dalhousie University from its misguided and ill-considered lockout of Faculty is massive. A glance at the Board makeup, mainly corporate types, makes me worry they may have no idea what makes a successful University, what Faculty do, and why.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 21

They didn’t even wait to see if the union was going to reject their offer!

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 21

I’m Clark, based in Halifax NS Canada. I use robots to study the ocean and work primarily in the Canadian Arctic and the Northwest Atlantic. I’m a foster parent for a bunch of #Argo floats that I get school classes to adopt before they get deployed across the global ocean. 🌊 🧪🌎🌡️

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 17

Here’s my “I haven’t seen the basin recently so am just guessing” oceanographer reply:

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 17

I haven’t seen in person, but usually a greenish hue would be the result of a phytoplankton bloom (eg tiny plants). There has been lots of light so maybe that’s kicked off something. I can ask colleagues to see if our regular sampling has picked up anything! 🌊

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 17

On the other hand, if the water is very clear, that would indicate the opposite (low nutrients and so not much growth). I might have to take a drive by before leaving town for two weeks tomorrow 😊.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 17

I haven’t seen in person, but usually a greenish hue would be the result of a phytoplankton bloom (eg tiny plants). There has been lots of light so maybe that’s kicked off something. I can ask colleagues to see if our regular sampling has picked up anything! 🌊

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Ken Johnson @montereyken.bsky.social · Aug 12

🌊The Southern Ocean is warming, is productivity changing? New paper by Liniger et al. uses the nitrate sensors on 274 SOCCOM/BGC-Argo floats to compute annual NCP. It has increased significantly over the past two decades.
@mbarinews.bsky.social @soccomproject.bsky.social @bgc-argo.bsky.social‬

Screen shot of the article by Liniger et al. "Two decades of increase in Southern Ocean net community production revealed by BGC-Argo floats.
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2024GB008371

Graphs shown the increase in mean (a) and total (b) Annual Net Community Production over the Southern Ocean from 2004 to 2022. The spatial distribution of the ANCP increase in shown in panel (c).

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

You should come! Halifax is fantastic.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 12

We caught some calanus finmarchicus!!

A photo of a copepod collected in Halifax harbour.

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Clark Richards, PhD @clarkgrichards.bsky.social · Aug 11

🌊 Another beautiful day teaching kids about the ocean and how we measure it in Halifax NS, aboard the historic CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. One of the oldest hydrographic research ships still afloat! #CSSAcadia

A selfie of middle-aged oceanographer aboard the CSS Acadia.

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