@dkokamoto.bsky.social I make my oceanography students report ocean news during the semester and yesterday someone reported this: news.berkeley.edu/2025/11/14/e... you are now famous at the other Berklee!

It’s Doctor McCollum now! 🎉

It’s probably just a music school thing but sometimes I get applause after a lecture and it feels really nice

You guys, it’s finally happening!

I’m trying to find a seminal paper explaining how species ranges are shifting up attitudinally. I think it might be C. Parmesan’s 1996 Nature Paper “Climate and species’ ranges” but I don’t have access to it via my institution. Any help or advice would be super appreciated! DOI 10.1038/382765a0

First dive of the year is in the books! Canoe Beach, Nahant, MA. 56 minutes at 16ft (hah!), a chilly 47 degrees F. Always nice to find out that your wetsuit still fits! 😅

I haven’t even finished reading it yet, but I have to tell you all to go check out Lotze et al., 2022 “Long-term (~4000 years!) ocean and resource dynamics in a hot-spot of climate change”, especially if you’re interested in the Gulf of Maine! DOI: 10.1139/facets-2021-0197

Although NOAA's page on atmospheric CO2 levels has vanished, you can still get this vital information from Ralph Keeling's team at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, UC San Diego keelingcurve.ucsd.edu

Please follow bsky.app/profile/keel... for updates and share

Don't let science be hidden

Another excellent final project for oceanography:

Strongly recommend having your students write haiku about your lecture topics!

Here are my favorites:

Divergent boundary
Convergent boundaries and
Transform boundaries

Continental shelf
Separates the land and sea
Slope to the abyss

Baby volcano
I live above the mantle
Feed me some magma

For the last question on my Environmental Science final, I have my students fill out @ayanaeliza.bsky.social’s joy in climate action Venn diagram. The responses are so heartwarming! ❤️ my @berklee.bsky.social students

Probably the hardest question on my exam, but who remembers how Coriolis Effect modifies prevailing wind directions? #popquiz #oceanography #finalsweek ignore that the down arrow is there twice (hint: it’s a red herring)

One of my oceanography students made Medusa and Polyp (Cnidarian) treats for our final exam today!

Just ate fries made out of spam while waiting for my flight out of SeaTac. After 3 hours of delays, they were a weird choice but not the worst part of my travel day!

Hi All, happy to be here with you! Loved and missed our Twitter community over the last few years. Looking forward to reconnecting and catching up on all the amazing marine ecology research out there!