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Noam Vogt-Vincent

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Associate Professor - Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford I'm interested in how corals respond to climate change, and how currents transport things around our ocean! nvogtvincent.co.uk

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Nov 13

Now that I've finally made the move, I'm reposting one of my favourite things I made during my PhD: 1 year of output from a regional simulation of the SW Indian Ocean (colours show SST). We often use neat schematic diagrams to represent ocean currents but in reality, it's a rather turbulent mess!

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 18h

This is really helpful, thank you!

Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 1d

@the-episiarch.bsky.social Do you know if there are any parasitic corals? I got asked this today in an outreach session, and I've never heard of one (and can't find info about any) but I have never really thought about it before!

Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 11d

@oxuniearthsci.bsky.social 2025 Bermuda trip is complete! We were super lucky to see a trichodesmium bloom in the Sargasso Sea and sampled an anoxic layer in Harrington Sound (usually fully mixed at this time). Bermuda is a perfect location to bridge modern and paleo ocean-climate processes!

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 13d

Geology day for the @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social Bermuda trip! Discussed evidence of eustatic sea level change through Bermudan aeolianites, beach rock, palaeosols and palmetto stumps, followed by a cave tour. Students did great despite challenging heat!

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 15d

Exciting Bermuda Day 3 for our @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social undergrads on board the RV Atlantic Explorer with expert guidance from @stannescollege.bsky.social + Earth Sciences alumna Eloise! Sampling and processing water from down to 3500 m depth in the subtropical Atlantic.

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 16d

Another great day doing coastal oceanography in Harrington Sound, successfully sampling an anoxic layer at the bottom of Devil's Hole! Tomorrow we'll be on the RV Atlantic Explorer, heading to Hydrostation S...

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 17d

Our @oxuniearthsci.bsky.social undergraduates on their Bermuda field class! Busy first day doing oceanographic data analysis, looking at fossil dunes from glacial periods, and a snorkel around a modern carbonate factory with some great diploria and gorgonia colonies.

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 21d

That list of examples is... wow. Complete dereliction of duty by the editor for allowing those comments to be passed on to the authors (and allowing those reviewers to keep reviewing).

Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 21d

Also consider Session 98: eco-evolutionary responses of reef organisms to anthropogenic climate change with @ecolology.bsky.social and @liamlachs.bsky.social! Super important for future coral reef dynamics, so I'm really looking forward to this session.

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 21d

#ICRS2026 is now open for abstract submissions! Coral modellers - consider submitting an abstract to our Session 19: modeling coral reef ecosystems across scales. We're hoping to get diverse abstracts spanning a broad range of spatial and temporal scales! 🪸🌊

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · 23d

Interested in doing a PhD in environmental research at Oxford? We offer fully-funded positions through ILESLA, now open for applications at iles.web.ox.ac.uk!

Happy to discuss applications with students whose interests align with modelling marine dispersal or oceanic forcing of coral reefs.

Lettuce coral, Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, Red Sea
Image credit: Renata Romeo / Ocean Image Bank (https://www.theoceanagency.org)

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でんか @k-hermit.com · 29d

The moray eel keeps spinning around

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Exeter Marine @exetermarine.bsky.social · Sep 8

Our September jobs round-up has arrived (early), with lots of great UK marine roles.

Please share this thread widely with your network of ECRs/marine conservationists.

🦑🌍🌐🧪🌊🐟
#PhDsky #academiasky #conservationjobs #sciencejobs

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Danielle Spring @daniellelspring.bsky.social · Sep 8

New paper!

‘Climate change impacts to upwelling and shallow reef nutrient sources across an oceanic archipelago’

Out now in Limnology and Oceanography @aslo.org

aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

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Hilde Oliver @hildeoliver.bsky.social · Sep 6

🌊 I have a new paper out in L&O Letters! We show that ocean color-based estimates of chlorophyll concentrations within 100 km of the Antarctic coastline are severely underestimated when applying the standard NASA L2gen atmospheric processing. This is caused by adjacency effects from ice and snow.

Figure 1 from the paper, showing four subplots of maps of the west Antarctic shelf extending from the West Antarctic Peninsula to the Ross Sea. Figure caption: January 10-yr (2010–2019) mean (a) OBPG/L2gen Chl a (which shows low Chl near the coastline), (b) OBPG nFLH (which shows elevated nFLH near the coastline), (c) OC-CCI Chl a (which also shows high Chl near the coast, agreeing with the pattern in the nFLH), and (d) difference in Chl a products OC-CCI Chl a minus OBPG/L2gen Chl a, over the west Antarctic shelf (which shows a band of much higher Chl, ~5-10 ug/L, extending along the entire west Antarctic coastline).

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Steve Portugal @sjportugal.bsky.social · Aug 26

Come join us in the @biology.ox.ac.uk at @ox.ac.uk! New Associate Professor position in Animal Behaviour, with Merton College:

my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 26

Amazing, where is the place you set up camp in the first photo?

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The Onion @theonion.com · Aug 25

Rock Looked Way Cooler Wet

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 19

Mini-sketches for each talk is such a cool idea!

Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 16

Thank you but why do we even have to do this? Why are they forcing everybody to read this by default?

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 14

As someone who knows very little about this, thank you for writing such a clear manuscript! A very nice read!

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 13

Bluesky is great, but it's not remotely comprehensive and is heavily biased towards US/AU/EU. We shouldn't be relying on a single source for anything, but Google Scholar recommendations regularly introduce me to papers I would not have otherwise known about.

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Hannah Shelley, MLIS (Metadata, Lattes & Impostor Syndrome) @hannahshelley.bsky.social · Aug 13

Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared

Google Scholar Is Doomed

Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?

hannahshelley.neocities.org

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Noam Vogt-Vincent @nvogtvincent.co.uk · Aug 13

Agree that our dependence on Google Scholar is bad news. The fact that there's apparently nobody at Google to contact about issues is already a crazy situation. But Scholar email alerts/recommendations are amazing. Are there any alternatives?

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