Dr. Xochitl Clare | #DancingBiologist
@xochitlclare.bsky.social
Marine Biologist & Performing Artist
🇧🇿🇯🇲 #FirstGen | Ph.D. UCSB 23’|📍UW SAFS
🌊🎭Sci-Art: @scistoriesproject.bsky.social
🔗: https://linktr.ee/dancingbiologist
🇧🇿🇯🇲 #FirstGen | Ph.D. UCSB 23’|📍UW SAFS
🌊🎭Sci-Art: @scistoriesproject.bsky.social
🔗: https://linktr.ee/dancingbiologist
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🌊✨ Hi Bluesky! I’m Dr. Xochitl Clare, a Marine Biologist & Performing Artist ( #DancingBiologist ). Afro-Latina 🇯🇲 🇧🇿 🇺🇸 studying community-based climate solutions in WA & Belize. 🎭🌊 Ph.D., 🧜🏾♀️ diver, 🩰 dancer, & filmmaker mentoring future scientists. Let’s connect! 💙 #blackinmarinescience
Updated flyer! TODAY🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar at Western Washington University! 🎃
I’ll be sharing my talk:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙
#WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation
I’ll be sharing my talk:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙
#WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation
October 29, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Updated flyer! TODAY🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar at Western Washington University! 🎃
I’ll be sharing my talk:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙
#WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation
I’ll be sharing my talk:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙
#WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation
🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar tomorrow at Western Washington University! 🎃
I’ll be sharing:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊
#WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation
I’ll be sharing:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊
#WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation
October 28, 2025 at 7:36 PM
🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar tomorrow at Western Washington University! 🎃
I’ll be sharing:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊
#WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation
I’ll be sharing:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨
Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊
#WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation
Final lap of my WRF Postdoc 🎉 #tbt 2025 Symposium + feeling grateful to present with such a powerhouse cohort.
This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀
This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀
October 1, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Final lap of my WRF Postdoc 🎉 #tbt 2025 Symposium + feeling grateful to present with such a powerhouse cohort.
This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀
This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀
#CucSquad 2.0 has entered the chat! 💫💜 Working alongside legends like Prof. Billie Swalla @ Friday Harbor Labs. Let’s gooo 💪🏽 sea cucumbers have spawned! 🌊✨
I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉
#WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad
I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉
#WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad
July 3, 2025 at 6:52 AM
#CucSquad 2.0 has entered the chat! 💫💜 Working alongside legends like Prof. Billie Swalla @ Friday Harbor Labs. Let’s gooo 💪🏽 sea cucumbers have spawned! 🌊✨
I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉
#WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad
I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉
#WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad
Reposted by Dr. Xochitl Clare | #DancingBiologist
The waterfront is calling! Join me & @waterfrontparkseattle for the 5K Community Celebration on Sat, May 31, 10am–2pm at Overlook Walk & Pier 62. I’ll be hosting the Ocean Poetry Table—come co-create poems by the sea!
#SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry
#SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry
May 27, 2025 at 10:09 PM
The waterfront is calling! Join me & @waterfrontparkseattle for the 5K Community Celebration on Sat, May 31, 10am–2pm at Overlook Walk & Pier 62. I’ll be hosting the Ocean Poetry Table—come co-create poems by the sea!
#SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry
#SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry
COUNTDOWN DONE!✅ My 138 samples are officially off to Dartmouth for metals testing! 🧪📦
Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!:
🐊 Croc nails & scutes
🐟 Finfish gills & fins
🌊 Sediment from mangroves
🦑 Sea cucumber tissue
Processed by hand with care—data coming soon!
#CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM
Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!:
🐊 Croc nails & scutes
🐟 Finfish gills & fins
🌊 Sediment from mangroves
🦑 Sea cucumber tissue
Processed by hand with care—data coming soon!
#CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM
May 12, 2025 at 11:26 PM
COUNTDOWN DONE!✅ My 138 samples are officially off to Dartmouth for metals testing! 🧪📦
Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!:
🐊 Croc nails & scutes
🐟 Finfish gills & fins
🌊 Sediment from mangroves
🦑 Sea cucumber tissue
Processed by hand with care—data coming soon!
#CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM
Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!:
🐊 Croc nails & scutes
🐟 Finfish gills & fins
🌊 Sediment from mangroves
🦑 Sea cucumber tissue
Processed by hand with care—data coming soon!
#CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM
It’s official! I’m co-facilitating the Marine Science Ocean Arts workshop at #FridayHarborLabs 🌊🎭🎨 Grateful to Marjorie Wonham & Astrida Neimanis for the vision 💙 As a marine scientist & artist, I’m so excited to dive into this eco-art adventure! 🐚✨ #SciArt #OceanArts
May 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
It’s official! I’m co-facilitating the Marine Science Ocean Arts workshop at #FridayHarborLabs 🌊🎭🎨 Grateful to Marjorie Wonham & Astrida Neimanis for the vision 💙 As a marine scientist & artist, I’m so excited to dive into this eco-art adventure! 🐚✨ #SciArt #OceanArts
💙🐻 Fun fact: my parents met at UCLA!—now I get to give a seminar there!
Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange!
🗓️ Apr 16
🕐 12pm PST
🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2
👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫
#RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social
Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange!
🗓️ Apr 16
🕐 12pm PST
🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2
👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫
#RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 11:28 PM
💙🐻 Fun fact: my parents met at UCLA!—now I get to give a seminar there!
Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange!
🗓️ Apr 16
🕐 12pm PST
🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2
👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫
#RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social
Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange!
🗓️ Apr 16
🕐 12pm PST
🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2
👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫
#RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social
So excited to have launched my Ocean Improv Poetry Table here @scistoriesproject.bsky.social !🩵🌊✨
Welcome! I, @xochitlclare.bsky.social host Ocean Improv Poetry Tables—where people create poems on the sea. 🌊✍🏾 This is their archive. 📖
Join for ocean science, performance & storytelling.
📍Find me @:
✨Georgetown Steam Plant
✨Burke Museum
✨Equinox Studios Seattle
#OceanPoetry #ArtScience
Join for ocean science, performance & storytelling.
📍Find me @:
✨Georgetown Steam Plant
✨Burke Museum
✨Equinox Studios Seattle
#OceanPoetry #ArtScience
March 7, 2025 at 6:37 PM
So excited to have launched my Ocean Improv Poetry Table here @scistoriesproject.bsky.social !🩵🌊✨
🌊💙 Full circle @scrippsocean.bsky.social ! Grateful to return as an invited speaker, sharing how research, communities & storytelling shape my work.
📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views.
Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle
📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views.
Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle
March 7, 2025 at 4:54 PM
🌊💙 Full circle @scrippsocean.bsky.social ! Grateful to return as an invited speaker, sharing how research, communities & storytelling shape my work.
📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views.
Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle
📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views.
Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle
▶️Check this interview from my mentor Dr. Arlenie Rogers during the research expedition I led in August! 🎥🌊 Stay tuned for my segment soon! 🪸🐚
Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw
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Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw
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Doctor Arlenie Rogers, Assistant Professor at the University of Belize 1
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December 19, 2024 at 3:18 AM
▶️Check this interview from my mentor Dr. Arlenie Rogers during the research expedition I led in August! 🎥🌊 Stay tuned for my segment soon! 🪸🐚
Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw
Article: earthjournalism.net/stories/will...
Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw
Article: earthjournalism.net/stories/will...
🎣✨ Fieldwork memories from 2024! #tbt Out on the open ocean with Placencia fishing legend Doyle Gardiner & team, collecting predatory fish for the EcoTrace Project. Monitoring heavy metals in seafood across ecosystems. 🌊🐟
December 19, 2024 at 2:49 AM
🎣✨ Fieldwork memories from 2024! #tbt Out on the open ocean with Placencia fishing legend Doyle Gardiner & team, collecting predatory fish for the EcoTrace Project. Monitoring heavy metals in seafood across ecosystems. 🌊🐟
🎄✨ Brewing poetic ocean steam this holiday season at #GeorgetownSteamPlant ! ✨Using a typewriter, I’m crafting ocean poems, blending improv, sharing the gift of words for the holidays!🎁💌
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Ocean Poetry Pop-Up: Improv Poetry with Marine Biologist
YouTube video by Xochitl Clare
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December 19, 2024 at 2:18 AM
🎄✨ Brewing poetic ocean steam this holiday season at #GeorgetownSteamPlant ! ✨Using a typewriter, I’m crafting ocean poems, blending improv, sharing the gift of words for the holidays!🎁💌
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✨ From Placencia to the @uwsafs.bsky.social lab bench, here’s a glimpse of the #EcoTraceProject ! 🌊🐚This fall, we’ve investigated heavy metals in Belizean sea cucumbers. 💪 Excited to share results in Placencia in the Spring. Until then, the grind continues! ✨
#MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber
#MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber
December 19, 2024 at 2:07 AM
✨ From Placencia to the @uwsafs.bsky.social lab bench, here’s a glimpse of the #EcoTraceProject ! 🌊🐚This fall, we’ve investigated heavy metals in Belizean sea cucumbers. 💪 Excited to share results in Placencia in the Spring. Until then, the grind continues! ✨
#MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber
#MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber
Thank you, UB, for including UW in this year’s partners list—it’s a privilege!✨ Honored to partner with the University of Belize & @uwsafs.bsky.social for my postdoc! 🌊🐚 Excited for more in 2025! 💡🐟
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December 19, 2024 at 2:04 AM
Thank you, UB, for including UW in this year’s partners list—it’s a privilege!✨ Honored to partner with the University of Belize & @uwsafs.bsky.social for my postdoc! 🌊🐚 Excited for more in 2025! 💡🐟
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🌊✨ Hi Bluesky! I’m Dr. Xochitl Clare, a Marine Biologist & Performing Artist ( #DancingBiologist ). Afro-Latina 🇯🇲 🇧🇿 🇺🇸 studying community-based climate solutions in WA & Belize. 🎭🌊 Ph.D., 🧜🏾♀️ diver, 🩰 dancer, & filmmaker mentoring future scientists. Let’s connect! 💙 #blackinmarinescience
November 19, 2024 at 5:51 AM
🌊✨ Hi Bluesky! I’m Dr. Xochitl Clare, a Marine Biologist & Performing Artist ( #DancingBiologist ). Afro-Latina 🇯🇲 🇧🇿 🇺🇸 studying community-based climate solutions in WA & Belize. 🎭🌊 Ph.D., 🧜🏾♀️ diver, 🩰 dancer, & filmmaker mentoring future scientists. Let’s connect! 💙 #blackinmarinescience
📣CUC SQUAD, a marine science pilot I directed this Spring, hits UW Environment FieldNotes' latest issue with some pitchy science journalism by our very own Anouk Janess 💦🐙 Read on Cuc Squad’s latest accomplishments @ UW SAFS! fieldnotesjournal.org/new-blog/202...
Connecting Over Sea Cucumbers: The Cuc Squad’s Holistic Science Education Program — FIELDNOTES
Reshaping undergraduate research structures with an interdisciplinary approach to educating the next generation of climate change problem-solvers.
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November 19, 2024 at 5:40 AM
📣CUC SQUAD, a marine science pilot I directed this Spring, hits UW Environment FieldNotes' latest issue with some pitchy science journalism by our very own Anouk Janess 💦🐙 Read on Cuc Squad’s latest accomplishments @ UW SAFS! fieldnotesjournal.org/new-blog/202...
🌵🏜️💛 #tbt An unforgettable week @ the #2024NDiSTEM conference! 🌵✨Connecting with folks share both scientific & cultural backgrounds close to my own 🌄🧡🌞 Thanks to #UWEnvironment & #SACNAS ! 🌵🌞 #SACNAS2024
November 19, 2024 at 5:38 AM
🌵🏜️💛 #tbt An unforgettable week @ the #2024NDiSTEM conference! 🌵✨Connecting with folks share both scientific & cultural backgrounds close to my own 🌄🧡🌞 Thanks to #UWEnvironment & #SACNAS ! 🌵🌞 #SACNAS2024
✔️Temperature loggers deployed! 🌡️✨ #tbt Tough day in the mangroves, but big smiles! 🌿 Huge thanks to Crocodile Research Coalition intern Alejandra Ariza for the help! 🙌🏾 Monitoring temperature our sites for EcoTrace 🌱🌊
November 19, 2024 at 5:37 AM
✔️Temperature loggers deployed! 🌡️✨ #tbt Tough day in the mangroves, but big smiles! 🌿 Huge thanks to Crocodile Research Coalition intern Alejandra Ariza for the help! 🙌🏾 Monitoring temperature our sites for EcoTrace 🌱🌊
✔️✔️Croc surveys complete! 🐊✨#tbt First time this close to a croc! These predators face coastal pollution just like the smaller species in our project. After safely collecting samples with the #CrocodileResearchCoalition we returned him to the water! Next up: fish & temp loggers 🌊🙌🏾
November 19, 2024 at 5:36 AM
✔️✔️Croc surveys complete! 🐊✨#tbt First time this close to a croc! These predators face coastal pollution just like the smaller species in our project. After safely collecting samples with the #CrocodileResearchCoalition we returned him to the water! Next up: fish & temp loggers 🌊🙌🏾
✔️✨ Collected sea cucumbers & sediment in a 3-site mangrove crawl @ lagoon & reef! 💦 Dream team: University of Belize Prof. Arlenie Rogers, fishermen & students. 🙌🏾🌊 #tbt my EcoTrace Project analyzing pollutants in marine life & sediment!🐙
November 19, 2024 at 5:35 AM
✔️✨ Collected sea cucumbers & sediment in a 3-site mangrove crawl @ lagoon & reef! 💦 Dream team: University of Belize Prof. Arlenie Rogers, fishermen & students. 🙌🏾🌊 #tbt my EcoTrace Project analyzing pollutants in marine life & sediment!🐙
🏅🌟Cheers to completing my first full academic year as a postdoctoral researcher ! Such an honor to be a part of this feature by UW SAFS--Year 2 let's go! #cantstopwontstop
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An ambassador for diversity in marine science
A conversation with post-doc Xochitl Clare
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November 19, 2024 at 5:34 AM
🏅🌟Cheers to completing my first full academic year as a postdoctoral researcher ! Such an honor to be a part of this feature by UW SAFS--Year 2 let's go! #cantstopwontstop
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#tbt Juneteenth in Miami🌺✨with BIMS! Meeting Presidents of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers & celebrating the BIMS Immersion Program (BIP) was everything #WEOUTSIDE #blackinmarinescience
November 19, 2024 at 5:32 AM
#tbt Juneteenth in Miami🌺✨with BIMS! Meeting Presidents of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers & celebrating the BIMS Immersion Program (BIP) was everything #WEOUTSIDE #blackinmarinescience
🌊💜#tbt Sharing my Thinktank on Mentoring in an REU Setting for the FHL Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentors ! I shared my work on our UCSB FUERTE “Mentoring the Mentors” (Hofmann et al., Oceanography 2023) publication
November 19, 2024 at 5:29 AM
🌊💜#tbt Sharing my Thinktank on Mentoring in an REU Setting for the FHL Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentors ! I shared my work on our UCSB FUERTE “Mentoring the Mentors” (Hofmann et al., Oceanography 2023) publication
#tbt 🌊💜My first Open House with the Padilla-Gamino Lab!🔬🪸🐠🐙It was a blast teaching the public about all our invertebrate eco-physiology research! 🌊💜
#sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education
#sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education
November 19, 2024 at 5:28 AM
#tbt 🌊💜My first Open House with the Padilla-Gamino Lab!🔬🪸🐠🐙It was a blast teaching the public about all our invertebrate eco-physiology research! 🌊💜
#sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education
#sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education