Trevor Williams
@drtrevorwilliams.bsky.social
Marine geologist and Expedition Project Manager at the International Ocean Discovery Program
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New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.
January 6, 2026 at 11:22 PM
New Year, New Us. Looks like our new Scientific Ocean Drilling branding is up. You can still find us at our usual spot on @tamu.bsky.social’s West Campus.
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I know nothing matters but “weather research good, climate research bad” is the thing currently driving me nuts
The hate I can at least understand.
The desire to shoot ourselves in the foot, repeatedly, will never cease to mystify me.
The desire to shoot ourselves in the foot, repeatedly, will never cease to mystify me.
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I know nothing matters but “weather research good, climate research bad” is the thing currently driving me nuts
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🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
December 17, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨POSTDOC JOB ALERT🚨
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
We have an exciting opportunity for a 2 year postdoc on remote sensing of icebergs and marine terminating glaciers. See the link below for more info!
Please spread widely, and feel free to email me with any Q's :)
tinyurl.com/2jjcmea9
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Speaking of the GCR, if you want to spend a week there to learn about scientific ocean drilling, analytical techniques, work with legacy cores, etc. apply here by Feb 15th, 2026
gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...
gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...
December 10, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Speaking of the GCR, if you want to spend a week there to learn about scientific ocean drilling, analytical techniques, work with legacy cores, etc. apply here by Feb 15th, 2026
gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...
gcr.tamu.edu/outreach/upc...
A new field of “soilsmology” :)
1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧵 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot
I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:54 PM
A new field of “soilsmology” :)
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🌊 Our latest study reconstructs the tropical Indian Ocean during the mid-Pliocene - a past warm world with CO2 similar to today.
A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
IODP EXP361
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
IODP EXP361
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
Photic zone niche partitioning, stratification, and carbon cycling in the tropical Indian Ocean during the Piacenzian
Abstract. The mid-Piacenzian Warm Period (mPWP; ∼ 3.264–3.025 Ma) marks the most recent episode of sustained global warmth, characterised by atmospheric carbon dioxide (pCO2) levels similar to those o...
cp.copernicus.org
December 5, 2025 at 10:00 AM
🌊 Our latest study reconstructs the tropical Indian Ocean during the mid-Pliocene - a past warm world with CO2 similar to today.
A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
IODP EXP361
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
A reminder that future oceans may reorganise in ways that reshape ecosystems and the carbon cycle.
IODP EXP361
cp.copernicus.org/articles/21/...
We invite applications for two graduate students to investigate Antarctic ice sheet instability during past warm interglacials using marine sediments. Please share with students who may be interested to join our group at USF! Contact me for details; deadline 15 Dec.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
Prospective Students - Education | USF College of Marine Science
www.usf.edu
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 PM
We invite applications for two graduate students to investigate Antarctic ice sheet instability during past warm interglacials using marine sediments. Please share with students who may be interested to join our group at USF! Contact me for details; deadline 15 Dec.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
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Not under her own power anymore, the vessel that revealed more about our planet than most others, the legendary JOIDES Resolution is being towed to a pre-cleaning yard in Lyngdal, Norway.
First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔
www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...
First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔
www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...
December 2, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Not under her own power anymore, the vessel that revealed more about our planet than most others, the legendary JOIDES Resolution is being towed to a pre-cleaning yard in Lyngdal, Norway.
First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔
www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...
First pic I've seen of her since stepping off in August 24. Still looking great 🫡💔
www.fvn.no/magasin/i/8q...
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New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A geological carbon cycle sink hosted by ocean crust talus breccias - Nature Geoscience
Mass-wasting deposits that accumulated against mid-ocean ridge faults have high porosity in which calcium carbonate precipitated, storing seawater carbon dioxide, as revealed by cores of a 61-million-...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:11 PM
New publication!! Featuring some of the most gorgeous rocks I’ve ever cored, tremendous work by an international, interdisciplinary team, and interesting implications for marine CDR.
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Article: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
News & views: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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New data alert 🚨📣:
Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop!
📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.
Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop!
📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.
November 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
New data alert 🚨📣:
Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop!
📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.
Updated Coastline and Rock Outcrop of Antarctica released as part of the @scar-antarctic.bsky.social Antarctic Digital Database. With big improvements to date formats, coastline positions and more accurate rock outcrop!
📍View and download via the map viewer add.scar.org.
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The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc…
www.sodco.org
www.sodco.org
SODCO - U.S. Scientific Ocean Drilling Coordination Office
SODCO is a collaboration between Texas A&M University and Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, providing support for scientific ocean drilling proposals, expeditions, and community engagement.
www.sodco.org
November 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The initial SODCO website is now online and will evolve over time. Keep an eye open for Scientific Ocean Drilling events (looking at you @agu.org Annual Meeting) and announcements about proposals, workshops, expeditions, internships, etc…
www.sodco.org
www.sodco.org
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I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
i don’t know how to cross-post this from FB but this is absolutely heartbreaking. The age of scientific ocean discovery we were brought up in is gone & will never come back. I can’t.
October 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
I heard it’s headed to Turkey to be scrapped. RIP
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🌊In a new study co-led by USF professor @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Patrick Rafter, researchers used forams from the Pliocene to show that warming in the tropical Pacific may not trigger the severe decline in nutrients predicted by earlier models.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
How ancient plankton point to the resilience of ocean ecosystems
The researchers used a cutting-edge approach to predict future ocean conditions by examining the distant past through analyses of microscopic fossils.
www.usf.edu
October 7, 2025 at 4:22 PM
🌊In a new study co-led by USF professor @oceanandclimate.bsky.social Patrick Rafter, researchers used forams from the Pliocene to show that warming in the tropical Pacific may not trigger the severe decline in nutrients predicted by earlier models.
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
www.usf.edu/marine-scien...
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🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change?
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Climate Change
This book assesses past climatic change from a geoscience perspective and addresses common misconceptions on climate.
link.springer.com
August 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
🚨Looking for a Geoscience Perspective on Climate Change?
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Exp403 co-chief Kristen St. John and former JRFB chair Larry Krissek just published this OPEN ACCESS book on it! Download it for free below!
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Texas is nearing 100 gigawatts of emission-free power (solar, wind, storage, nuclear). EIA reported yesterday that the US will install 50 gigawatts of solar + storage in 2025, 40% of it in Texas. That & much more in today's Grid Roundup. Link in reply.
August 21, 2025 at 11:43 AM
Texas is nearing 100 gigawatts of emission-free power (solar, wind, storage, nuclear). EIA reported yesterday that the US will install 50 gigawatts of solar + storage in 2025, 40% of it in Texas. That & much more in today's Grid Roundup. Link in reply.
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#Antarctic sea ice is:
⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability
🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability
🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
July 22, 2025 at 5:32 AM
#Antarctic sea ice is:
⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability
🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
⚙️ a global climate engine
☂️ a cooling sunshade
🌀 a pumphouse for currents
🧊 a vast verandah for life
♻️ one of the largest seasonal cycles on Earth
🌬️ highly sensitive to climate variability
🌊 What happens when there's less sea ice?
aapp.shorthandstories.com/a-world-with...
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Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
West Antarctic ice retreat and paleoceanography in the Amundsen Sea in the warm early Pliocene
Nature Communications - A geological climate archive documents the effects of ocean warming on Antarctic marine ice-sheets. Large sediment fluxes from the interior of West Antarctica precede the...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
Check out our latest #IODP #Exp379 contribution about the #Antarctic Ice Sheet's history @natcomms.nature.com. Read the full article here: rdcu.be/euikE
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Great summary of our recent paper on sea level rise during a past warm period and what it means for our future. Thanks, @climateages.bsky.social , for featuring our work.
120,000 years ago, sea levels didn’t just rise
they surged, paused, and dropped in rapid pulses.
Fossil corals recorded it all.
What they reveal could change how we think about our future coastlines.
🌊 Read the story:
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/fHe1a8W
they surged, paused, and dropped in rapid pulses.
Fossil corals recorded it all.
What they reveal could change how we think about our future coastlines.
🌊 Read the story:
🧪 #SciComm
buff.ly/fHe1a8W
Coral Secrets: A Sea-Level Warning 120,000 Years in the Making
Fossil corals from a remote island reveal how fast and unpredictably the oceans can rise
buff.ly
June 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Great summary of our recent paper on sea level rise during a past warm period and what it means for our future. Thanks, @climateages.bsky.social , for featuring our work.
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😓 These are the folks who provide satellite imagery, maps, and geospatial support to American scientists that operate in polar regions where most satellites don’t reach.
FOR DECADES they have done this, supporting critical work.
They have helped me many times. This is terrible. #WithoutNSF
FOR DECADES they have done this, supporting critical work.
They have helped me many times. This is terrible. #WithoutNSF
Effective immediately, the PGC is no longer accepting new NSF-supported requests due to a lack of renewal funding. Current work is wrapping up. Please contact your NSF program officer if impacted. We’re grateful to have supported your polar research. Read our full statement at www.pgc.umn.edu
May 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
😓 These are the folks who provide satellite imagery, maps, and geospatial support to American scientists that operate in polar regions where most satellites don’t reach.
FOR DECADES they have done this, supporting critical work.
They have helped me many times. This is terrible. #WithoutNSF
FOR DECADES they have done this, supporting critical work.
They have helped me many times. This is terrible. #WithoutNSF
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Studying the role ocean circulation played in shaping past climate and glacial dynamics, I’m absolutely captivated by this new NASA simulation.
Check out the full video here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/...
Check out the full video here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/...
April 28, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Studying the role ocean circulation played in shaping past climate and glacial dynamics, I’m absolutely captivated by this new NASA simulation.
Check out the full video here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/...
Check out the full video here: svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a010000/...
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Sediment coring: examining a rich and ancient 'layer cake' of #Antarctic climate change
New records from the sea floor near the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf offer crucial insights dating back thousands of years, writes Dr Taryn Noble ⬇️ #DMV @utas.edu.au
antarctic.org.au/sediment-cor...
New records from the sea floor near the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf offer crucial insights dating back thousands of years, writes Dr Taryn Noble ⬇️ #DMV @utas.edu.au
antarctic.org.au/sediment-cor...
Sediment coring: examining an ancient 'layer cake' - ACEAS
Sediment coring: examining an ancient ‘layer cake’ By Dr Taryn Noble Deep-sea sediment cores have been collected during the Denman Marine Voyage, a first for the RSV Nuyina. These sediments contain a ...
antarctic.org.au
April 16, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Sediment coring: examining a rich and ancient 'layer cake' of #Antarctic climate change
New records from the sea floor near the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf offer crucial insights dating back thousands of years, writes Dr Taryn Noble ⬇️ #DMV @utas.edu.au
antarctic.org.au/sediment-cor...
New records from the sea floor near the Denman Glacier and Shackleton Ice Shelf offer crucial insights dating back thousands of years, writes Dr Taryn Noble ⬇️ #DMV @utas.edu.au
antarctic.org.au/sediment-cor...
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Offshore to the west of the Denman Glacier, the Kasten core sediment tubes keep on coming - and this one, retrieved from the seafloor this week, is a keeper #DMV
Taryn Noble (@utas.edu.au) leads the research team to examine its many interesting layers ⬇️
📷: Katharina Hochmuth, Delphine Lannuzel
Taryn Noble (@utas.edu.au) leads the research team to examine its many interesting layers ⬇️
📷: Katharina Hochmuth, Delphine Lannuzel
April 12, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Offshore to the west of the Denman Glacier, the Kasten core sediment tubes keep on coming - and this one, retrieved from the seafloor this week, is a keeper #DMV
Taryn Noble (@utas.edu.au) leads the research team to examine its many interesting layers ⬇️
📷: Katharina Hochmuth, Delphine Lannuzel
Taryn Noble (@utas.edu.au) leads the research team to examine its many interesting layers ⬇️
📷: Katharina Hochmuth, Delphine Lannuzel
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The first time Sidney Hemming (from @lamontearth.bsky.social) sailed on JOIDES Resolution was in the role of a co-chief scientist. But this is just one part of Sidney’s "big adventure" for IODP Expedition 361. Take a listen at #TalesFromTheDeep in the StoryCorps Archive. 🧪🌊⚒️
"The Mozambique permissions was a major factor in a lot that went on during that expedition... many really depended on Mozambique samples"
Sidney Hemming's first time sailing on JOIDES Resolution was in the role of a co-chief scientist. But this is just one part of Sidney’s "big adventure" for Expedition 361. Take a listen to Sidney’s de...
archive.storycorps.org
April 1, 2025 at 9:21 PM
The first time Sidney Hemming (from @lamontearth.bsky.social) sailed on JOIDES Resolution was in the role of a co-chief scientist. But this is just one part of Sidney’s "big adventure" for IODP Expedition 361. Take a listen at #TalesFromTheDeep in the StoryCorps Archive. 🧪🌊⚒️
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These rocks were retrieved from the first dredge, deployed to a water depth of 2700 metres on the steep eastern slope of the Eastern Bruce Rise.
Further dredges are planned, including to features that may be extinct underwater volcanoes.
@utas.edu.au
📷: Katharina Hochmuth / Delphine Lannuzel
Further dredges are planned, including to features that may be extinct underwater volcanoes.
@utas.edu.au
📷: Katharina Hochmuth / Delphine Lannuzel
April 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
These rocks were retrieved from the first dredge, deployed to a water depth of 2700 metres on the steep eastern slope of the Eastern Bruce Rise.
Further dredges are planned, including to features that may be extinct underwater volcanoes.
@utas.edu.au
📷: Katharina Hochmuth / Delphine Lannuzel
Further dredges are planned, including to features that may be extinct underwater volcanoes.
@utas.edu.au
📷: Katharina Hochmuth / Delphine Lannuzel