Elizabeth Kent
@lizk40.bsky.social
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Ocean, climate, Southampton
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lr-foundation.bsky.social
Learn more about our new Heritage funding opportunity. Join us on October 9th in the morning or afternoon to find out more about the eligibility criteria and application process.

Morning session, 10:00 - 11:00 (BST): loom.ly/aR1PLTo
Afternoon session, 14:00-15:00 (BST): loom.ly/2oFOyH4
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hannahdaly.ie
The best guess of climate experts at this Overshoot Conference is that - in an optimistic scenario - we return to 1.5C (where we are now) in 7 generations time.

That's about the same distance from now as the start of the Industrial Revolution.
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stottpeter.bsky.social
The people I work with are not stupid people and our climate predictions of 30 years ago of global warming have proved to be accurate. Just saying. www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cp...
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
This memorial remembers the crew members who lost their lives in the Titanic disaster in April 1912. It was paid for by the widows, mothers, and friends of the crew.

Of the 908 crew members on board, 720 had signed on with a Southampton address. 542 out of 720 perished in the sinking.

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Old photo of a man stood next to the memorial in its original position next to Cemetery Road. The memorial’s current position inside the ruins of Holyrood Church.
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timosbornclim.bsky.social
After a brief (ahem) hiatus, the HadCRUT5 global temperature dataset has now been updated to June 2025 by @metoffice.gov.uk @climateuea.bsky.social and @ncas-uk.bsky.social
1850-2025 time series of global mean temperature anomaly from the HadCRUT5 dataset.
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
Originally unveiled in 1915 next to Cemetery Road on Southampton Common, in 1972 the memorial was moved to the bombed-out ruins of Holyrood Church on the High Street, which had been made a permanent memorial to the Merchant Navy in 1957.

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lizk40.bsky.social
Call for blogposts on maritime history - several of the topics related to marine climate, data transcription, visualisation - apparently no need to moderate your enthusiasm
globalmarhist.bsky.social
CFP: 'Academic Processes and Digital Humanities' - Global Maritime History
GlobalMaritimeHistory welcomes proposals for our new series ‘Academic Processes and Digital Humanities’. We are looking for people to talk about the processes (especially technical processes) that they use to do their research, analysis or both.  Some of the things we would love to have you write about Transcription of Documents Textual Analysis Materials Analysis Materials Conservation/Art Conservation Mapping, GIS and related topics Use of R and data visualization Databases and their varied uses Using websites to display projects and findings Collective projects/collaboration This series is very much about these processes, and it is not at all required that your research be on a maritime topic. If how you do what you do is neat and you think that it would interest other people or help other people with their research, we would love to hear from you. Proposals do not need to be any particular length. The blogposts should be approximately 800-1000 words, however we absolutely do encourage longer posts. We also encourage embedded youtube videos, images, anything that can be embedded into our posts. Also, please do not feel the need to moderate your enthusiasm. This is an audience that appreciates procedural and technical enthusiasm. Posts should be written for an educated but not expert audience. Links to tutorials and similar material is always appreciated. We are also open to tutorial videos, or other formats instead of written blog posts. If it is technically possible to be done on WordPress then we are very much open to creative approaches to discusses processes.  If you are unable to submit something in the near future but are interested in contributing over the longer term, please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you as well. This series is open to grad students, early career researchers as well as more established researchers. We will not be entertaining any proposals either written by or having to do with the use of generative AI. If you are interested in contributing to this series please email Dr Samuel McLean
globalmaritimehistory.com
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eualiens.bsky.social
CS-MACH1: help shaping the future of #marine #CitizenScience data! Contribute to the online survey 👉http://bit.ly/45KKlwH. More info 👉https://bit.ly/3JJlMaL
lizk40.bsky.social
Call for blogposts on maritime history - several of the topics related to marine climate, data transcription, visualisation - apparently no need to moderate your enthusiasm
globalmarhist.bsky.social
CFP: 'Academic Processes and Digital Humanities' - Global Maritime History
GlobalMaritimeHistory welcomes proposals for our new series ‘Academic Processes and Digital Humanities’. We are looking for people to talk about the processes (especially technical processes) that they use to do their research, analysis or both.  Some of the things we would love to have you write about Transcription of Documents Textual Analysis Materials Analysis Materials Conservation/Art Conservation Mapping, GIS and related topics Use of R and data visualization Databases and their varied uses Using websites to display projects and findings Collective projects/collaboration This series is very much about these processes, and it is not at all required that your research be on a maritime topic. If how you do what you do is neat and you think that it would interest other people or help other people with their research, we would love to hear from you. Proposals do not need to be any particular length. The blogposts should be approximately 800-1000 words, however we absolutely do encourage longer posts. We also encourage embedded youtube videos, images, anything that can be embedded into our posts. Also, please do not feel the need to moderate your enthusiasm. This is an audience that appreciates procedural and technical enthusiasm. Posts should be written for an educated but not expert audience. Links to tutorials and similar material is always appreciated. We are also open to tutorial videos, or other formats instead of written blog posts. If it is technically possible to be done on WordPress then we are very much open to creative approaches to discusses processes.  If you are unable to submit something in the near future but are interested in contributing over the longer term, please do get in touch. We’d love to hear from you as well. This series is open to grad students, early career researchers as well as more established researchers. We will not be entertaining any proposals either written by or having to do with the use of generative AI. If you are interested in contributing to this series please email Dr Samuel McLean
globalmaritimehistory.com
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timosbornclim.bsky.social
Useful info about the CRU-TS global climate dataset.

Producing the CRU-TS dataset is an NCAS @ncas-uk.bsky.social and UEA @climateuea.bsky.social @ueaenv.bsky.social activity.
timosbornclim.bsky.social
Do you use the gridded CRU-TS climate dataset? Here's a reminder that you can find the source observations in the observations folder, here:
crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg...

The format of these observation files is described here:
crudata.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/hrg...
CRU TS v4.09 Observations
crudata.uea.ac.uk
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stottpeter.bsky.social
New analysis from @metoffice.gov.uk showing that the record-breaking hot UK summer of 2025 has been made much more likely by human-induced climate change and such a hot summer would be expected about once every 5 years in current climate. www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
Summer 2025 is the warmest on record for the UK
Provisional Met Office statistics confirm that summer 2025 is officially the warmest summer on record for the UK.
www.metoffice.gov.uk
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
RMS Queen Mary at Southampton.
Queen Mary alongside at the Ocean Terminal.
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rjhd2.bsky.social
A privilege to have helped in putting this report together, working alongside fantastic colleagues from around the world to measure, describe and place in context what the climate was like in 2024. #StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024
metoffice.gov.uk
The BAMS State of the Global Climate report 2024 reveals the year was record-breaking for both atmospheric water vapour levels and global temperature.

Find out more in our press release:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
A graph showing the link between temperature and specific humidity
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ametsoc.org
▶️ UPDATE: The 2024 #BulletinAMS State of the Climate Assessment is now available! Check out the highlights in our press release: bit.ly/45tFO0g

#StateoftheClimate #StateoftheClimate2024
The background is a photo taken on September 29, 2024, two days after Hurricane Helene; the image shows the receding Swannanoa River along Highway 70 in Asheville, North Carolina. Overlaid text on the photo reads, “State of the Climate in 2024. Special Supplement to the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, Vol. 106, No. 8, August 2025”.
Photo credit: Deborah J. Misch, former Graphics team member for the BAMS State of the Climate.
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metoffice.gov.uk
The BAMS State of the Global Climate report 2024 reveals the year was record-breaking for both atmospheric water vapour levels and global temperature.

Find out more in our press release:
www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
A graph showing the link between temperature and specific humidity
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
Balmoral, a paddle steamer built in 1900 for the Southampton, Isle of Wight & South of England Royal Mail Steam Packet Company. She would carry tourists on excursions to various seaside towns along the South Coast as well as northern France. Pictured here at Southampton’s Royal Pier.

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Balmoral at Southampton’s Royal Pier.
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eos.org
Eos @eos.org · Jul 3
Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome.

buff.ly/WTgm4IC

Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
The Valuable, Vulnerable, Long Tail of Earth Science Databases - Eos
Community-curated data resources in the Earth sciences, highly valuable but systematically underfunded, are vital to research on a changing planet.
eos.org
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
York Gate was cut into the northern stretch of Southampton’s medieval wall in 1769. There was a little garden on top of the wall for many years. The gate was demolished along with the garden in 1961 in order to widen the road.
York Gate.
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rarohde.bsky.social
Proposed NOAA budget zeros out ALL climate laboratories and cooperative institutions.

GFDL, NSSL, GML, etc.

This appears to also end the US greenhouse gas sampling network, including at Mauna Loa, the oldest continuous carbon dioxide monitoring site on Earth.

www.commerce.gov/sites/defaul...
Excerpt from proposed NOAA budget showing zero funding for Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes
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zacklabe.com
Awful. More horrible science news

"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague:

The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"
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micefearboggis.bsky.social
Some illustrations I worked on last year for the GloSAT project are now available from Figshare in case you find them of interest or use.

glosat.org/illustrations
A cartoon of the Earth juggling. The Earth's tongue is sticking out as if in concentration, or perhaps just derping. The juggled balls are colourfully labelled "NAO", "ENSO", "SAM" and "AMOC". The cartoon is titled "Natural Variability" and the text at the bottom says "Extending the record provides 70 more years with minimal anthropogenic forcings".
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leonsimons.bsky.social
Today is #ShowYourStripesDay

I made a high resolution version of the global warming stripes by using monthly rather than annual temperatures.
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climateofgavin.bsky.social
I was consulted, a while ago, on whether a clock that counted down the estimated carbon budget for 1.5°C would be a good idea.

I asked them what they planned to do when it went past zero?

I did not get an answer, and they didn’t ask me anything again. 🤷
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historicalsoton.bsky.social
On this day in 1939, 288 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution in Nazi Germany arrived at Southampton Docks.

📸: Birmingham Daily Gazette, 22 June 1939

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Two stewards carrying a baby in a pram down the gangway. Refugees on deck, waving at the camera.