Dr. Dawn Wright
@deepseadawn.bsky.social
Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
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What did we see upon 1st touching bottom, at 10,900+m depth w/in #ChallengerDeep? A BEER BOTTLE! 😫 Further evidence that we MUST as humanity do BETTER by the ocean and for the health of habitats that we ourselves share & ultimately depend on!!! #ThereIsNoPlanetB #DeeperSeaDawn
I see that you are in the UK. May I suggest for starters, reaching out to these UK colleagues (www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-s... ; www.linkedin.com/in/lara-salam/ ; www.linkedin.com/in/jules-e-c...) + Esri's climate community of practice co-lead (www.linkedin.com/in/stevekopp..., skopp-at-esri.com)
February 3, 2026 at 6:39 PM
I see that you are in the UK. May I suggest for starters, reaching out to these UK colleagues (www.linkedin.com/in/natasha-s... ; www.linkedin.com/in/lara-salam/ ; www.linkedin.com/in/jules-e-c...) + Esri's climate community of practice co-lead (www.linkedin.com/in/stevekopp..., skopp-at-esri.com)
Where are you based so that I can connect you with our Esri R&D center(s) or related teams in your area? Happy to do so. Let's do indeed work together!
February 3, 2026 at 4:46 PM
Where are you based so that I can connect you with our Esri R&D center(s) or related teams in your area? Happy to do so. Let's do indeed work together!
I think we may have to agree to disagree, 😉but I do wish you well in your work as we’re all trying solve the world’s toughest problems www.esri.com/en-us/capabi...
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February 3, 2026 at 1:52 PM
I think we may have to agree to disagree, 😉but I do wish you well in your work as we’re all trying solve the world’s toughest problems www.esri.com/en-us/capabi...
Congratulations 🎉 again @whysharksmatter.bsky.social !!! All so very beautiful and perfect!
February 3, 2026 at 1:49 PM
Congratulations 🎉 again @whysharksmatter.bsky.social !!! All so very beautiful and perfect!
We’re using a complete platform, not just a single desktop app, e.g., architecture.arcgis.com/en/; www.esri.com/en-us/digita...; architecture.arcgis.com/en/overview/...
Comprehensive geospatial capabilities | ArcGIS Architecture Center
ArcGIS Well-Architected.
architecture.arcgis.com
February 3, 2026 at 1:34 PM
We’re using a complete platform, not just a single desktop app, e.g., architecture.arcgis.com/en/; www.esri.com/en-us/digita...; architecture.arcgis.com/en/overview/...
If you give our course our chance you'll see that we absolutely normalize intelligence frameworks (albeit our own) for discovery, analysis, and visualization.
February 3, 2026 at 12:20 AM
If you give our course our chance you'll see that we absolutely normalize intelligence frameworks (albeit our own) for discovery, analysis, and visualization.
What can you do to helpt turn climate change around? 🌱 Use GIS! 🌐
Register for our free course and learn how. We'll provide all the data and software you need: ow.ly/r4lf50Y6zUz
#gischat #geogsky #geosky 🧪 🦑 ⚒️ 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏
Register for our free course and learn how. We'll provide all the data and software you need: ow.ly/r4lf50Y6zUz
#gischat #geogsky #geosky 🧪 🦑 ⚒️ 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏
February 2, 2026 at 11:58 PM
What can you do to helpt turn climate change around? 🌱 Use GIS! 🌐
Register for our free course and learn how. We'll provide all the data and software you need: ow.ly/r4lf50Y6zUz
#gischat #geogsky #geosky 🧪 🦑 ⚒️ 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏
Register for our free course and learn how. We'll provide all the data and software you need: ow.ly/r4lf50Y6zUz
#gischat #geogsky #geosky 🧪 🦑 ⚒️ 🌊 🌎 🌍 🌏
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
If you care about the climate crisis, who should you support for California governor?
I moderated a forum with the top four candidates and explained where they agreed, where they diverged and who stood out: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...
I moderated a forum with the top four candidates and explained where they agreed, where they diverged and who stood out: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...
My take on the California governor's race
Two candidates shined at last week's climate change forum. One flopped.
www.climatecoloredgoggles.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:28 PM
If you care about the climate crisis, who should you support for California governor?
I moderated a forum with the top four candidates and explained where they agreed, where they diverged and who stood out: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...
I moderated a forum with the top four candidates and explained where they agreed, where they diverged and who stood out: www.climatecoloredgoggles.com/p/california...
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
My newsletter is a year old today, and 77 essays in. www.meditationsinanemergency.com
February 2, 2026 at 10:53 PM
My newsletter is a year old today, and 77 essays in. www.meditationsinanemergency.com
Yes, before you tag me, I already know! 🥰
February 1, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Yes, before you tag me, I already know! 🥰
Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
A scientific foundation is required to establish nations’ responsibilities in a hotter ‘overshoot’ world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A scientific foundation is required to establish nations’ responsibilities in a hotter ‘overshoot’ world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
A scientific foundation is required to establish nations’ responsibilities in a hotter ‘overshoot’ world.
www.nature.com
February 1, 2026 at 1:19 AM
Exceeding 1.5 °C requires rethinking accountability in climate policy
A scientific foundation is required to establish nations’ responsibilities in a hotter ‘overshoot’ world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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A scientific foundation is required to establish nations’ responsibilities in a hotter ‘overshoot’ world.
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Check out this super exciting position for a PhD student in “STRENGTH: Strengthening Resilience & Preparedness to Prevent & React to Emerging Socio-Natural Hazards and Risks,” combining Spatial Data Science + GeoAI w/ disaster forensics! U. of Vienna 🇦🇹
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
#gischat ⚒️
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
#gischat ⚒️
January 31, 2026 at 10:30 PM
Check out this super exciting position for a PhD student in “STRENGTH: Strengthening Resilience & Preparedness to Prevent & React to Emerging Socio-Natural Hazards and Risks,” combining Spatial Data Science + GeoAI w/ disaster forensics! U. of Vienna 🇦🇹
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
#gischat ⚒️
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...
#gischat ⚒️
Took the Washington Post long enough to get around to this🫠
January 31, 2026 at 8:35 PM
Took the Washington Post long enough to get around to this🫠
Five classes I took in college:
1-Children’s Literature (the works of Tolkien, CS Lewis, and L’Engle)
2-Ethnotheology
3-History and Philosophy of Science
4-Christ and Culture
5-Film Studies
plus lots and lots of science 😉
1-Children’s Literature (the works of Tolkien, CS Lewis, and L’Engle)
2-Ethnotheology
3-History and Philosophy of Science
4-Christ and Culture
5-Film Studies
plus lots and lots of science 😉
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
Philosophy of Social Science
History of Economic Thought
Linear Algebra
Radical Political Economics
International Monetary Theory
Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college:
Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
Comic Fiction
Seminar in World Music (learned to play music from Indonesia and Ghana, got into ethnomusicology)
Italian
Intro to Philosophy
Artificial Intelligence /ducks
January 31, 2026 at 8:34 PM
Five classes I took in college:
1-Children’s Literature (the works of Tolkien, CS Lewis, and L’Engle)
2-Ethnotheology
3-History and Philosophy of Science
4-Christ and Culture
5-Film Studies
plus lots and lots of science 😉
1-Children’s Literature (the works of Tolkien, CS Lewis, and L’Engle)
2-Ethnotheology
3-History and Philosophy of Science
4-Christ and Culture
5-Film Studies
plus lots and lots of science 😉
Your coolness 😎 factor rises even further into the stratosphere! 😉
January 31, 2026 at 8:23 PM
Your coolness 😎 factor rises even further into the stratosphere! 😉
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
#SaveNCAR
#SaveNCAR
Share your comments on NCAR with NSF
Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March
agu.quorum.us
January 30, 2026 at 2:43 AM
@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...
#SaveNCAR
#SaveNCAR
College money well spent and needed.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map
It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.
www.chron.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:24 AM
We do have an intractable criminal problem on the high seas but we have to start somewhere.
January 29, 2026 at 6:28 PM
We do have an intractable criminal problem on the high seas but we have to start somewhere.
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
In Santa Barbara, California, an ICE goon point-blank sprayed a woman with pepper spray while she was filming. The woman required medical attention for a potentially pierced eyeball. 1/28/26
January 29, 2026 at 3:56 AM
In Santa Barbara, California, an ICE goon point-blank sprayed a woman with pepper spray while she was filming. The woman required medical attention for a potentially pierced eyeball. 1/28/26
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
Family of Alex Pretti retains lawyers who helped prosecute the George Floyd case
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota’s attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd’s neck of murder.
www.pbs.org
January 29, 2026 at 12:44 AM
The parents of Alex Pretti have retained a former federal prosecutor who helped Minnesota's attorney general convict the police officer who kneeled on George Floyd's neck of murder. https://to.pbs.org/3ZA2HfU
And maybe the word "probe" here is problematic as the meaning there is to visually and chemically assess, but again not to disturb, disrupt, or outright destroy.
January 29, 2026 at 3:14 AM
And maybe the word "probe" here is problematic as the meaning there is to visually and chemically assess, but again not to disturb, disrupt, or outright destroy.
I would say no because the tech used in this science will provide the necessary evidence of environmental impact that will prevent leases from being granted to mine these areas. And these robots are surveying tools, not actual mining tools. cc @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
January 29, 2026 at 3:12 AM
I would say no because the tech used in this science will provide the necessary evidence of environmental impact that will prevent leases from being granted to mine these areas. And these robots are surveying tools, not actual mining tools. cc @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
Scientist who has been to 10,919 m depth here. It is also called that because the entirety of the deep seafloor is in complete darkness, away from the sunlight at the surface that powers the PHOTOsynthesis of plants, that are a major producer of oxygen for our planet over long time scales.
January 29, 2026 at 12:18 AM
Scientist who has been to 10,919 m depth here. It is also called that because the entirety of the deep seafloor is in complete darkness, away from the sunlight at the surface that powers the PHOTOsynthesis of plants, that are a major producer of oxygen for our planet over long time scales.
Deep-sea robots hunting for "dark oxygen," large amounts of the gas from a region in the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to power photosynthesis. The team have developed a suite of instruments that they’ll use to probe the sea floor.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
Deep-sea robots will search for source of mysterious ‘dark oxygen’
Scientists have launched a fresh effort to find out what could be producing oxygen at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean.
www.nature.com
January 29, 2026 at 12:06 AM
Deep-sea robots hunting for "dark oxygen," large amounts of the gas from a region in the ocean that's too deep for sunlight to power photosynthesis. The team have developed a suite of instruments that they’ll use to probe the sea floor.
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
www.nature.com/articles/d41... (paywalled)
#deepseamining 🧪 🌊 🦑
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free
Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen
youtu.be
January 28, 2026 at 5:02 PM
I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.
Stay free
Stay free