Zooplankton ecology lab. Food-web dynamics, plankton and biogeochemistry, isotope ecology, gelatinous zooplankton, and long-term change.
Scripps Inst. Oceanography
Joined November 2020
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Do you study marine mammals?! Join me and apply for our new TT position as an Asst. Prof. of Marine Science with a focus on marine mammals @unetweets! First review of applications will be on Nov. 8th. Please RT and feel free to DM me for more info.
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New Open Access
Global gradients in species richness of marine plankton functional groups academic.oup.com/plankt/arti…
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A study led by @DecimaLab out of @niwa_nz highlights the impact salp’s fast sinking fecal pellets can have on carbon export. When salps are present the biological carbon pump is more efficient, sequestering atmospheric carbon to the ocean! #RVTangaroa nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Josefina Castellví (1935) fue la primera mujer en el mundo en dirigir una base antártica 🇦🇶
Pepita decía que en los hielos antárticos están escritas las vivencias del planeta y trabajó para que cientos de científicos nos revelasen algunos de estos secretos 🙋♀️🐧❄️
#11F2023
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Don't be scared of the ghost fish 👻 🐠—despite its haunting name, these helpful creatures act as the ocean's vacuum. Scripps biological oceanographer @LadyZooplankton shares more about how these fish are an important part of the carbon cycle. ⬇️
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Last Wednesday I had the pleasure to present my #research @ the Ecology Seminar Series of the @Scripps_Ocean . Thanks @gcawlz from @DecimaLab for inviting me and for all the people who attended. It was a really nice #science & #art moment! #plankton #ocean – at Barcelona, Spain
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We’re hiring an Assistant Professor in Marine Animal Physiology at Scripps-UC San Diego!!! @Scripps_Ocean Ask here or DM if you have any questions apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF034…
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@Scripps_Ocean folks - join us TOMORROW at Surfside for a good old end-of-the-week TG! 🎉
Come learn about @wmis_sio and unwind with a beverage while watching the sun go down as we welcome the weekend!
Hope to see you there! 🥳
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Meet Moira Décima (@LadyZooplankton), curator of the Pelagic Invertebrate Collection at Scripps, who seeks to understand changes caused by a warmer, more acidic ocean and how it impacts marine food webs, biochemistry, and the human population. Full video: bit.ly/3dNNraO
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Hoy es mi primera charla en Guatemala @usac_cema @CEMA_USAC ! Gracias Academics Without Borders USA, Lic. Karla Paz y Lic. Erick Villagrán!
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Found a hungry hungry Atlantid heteropod slurping the inside of a Diacria pteropod 🐌 #ZooplanktonKaiju #OpenOcean #MarineAnimals @MIZ_BIOS
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[#Limnologist] A #newspecies of Acantholeberis (Crustacea, Branchiopoda) suggests an ancient geographic distribution of the genus in South America.
🔗 DOI: doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.821…
✒️ Francisco Diogo R. Sousa et al.
#Branchiopoda #Crustacea #Zooplankton #limnology
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Chanel Robles is a master's student in the Marine Biodiversity and Conservation program at Scripps. The green sea turtle has always held a special place in her heart, and she's been studying their role in Baja California. 🌊🐢 Meet Chanel here: scripps.ucsd.edu/news/scripp…
ALT Portrait of a smiling woman near a pier.
ALT A researcher on a small boat releases a green sea turtle into the ocean.
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Join us for our next Student Seminar Series feat. Tricia Light & Vanessa ZoBell on Tuesday, May 17th, at 12pm on Zoom! 🐋💡
RSVP👉forms.gle/Vi81DaoH46yMDjA9A
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So many salp gut dissections this week. Most samples covered in copepods :/ but I get to see cool things like the copepod with eggs at the bottom of the pic. #Salps #TwilightTuesday #OTZ #oceantwilightzone
ALT Salsa áspera covered in copépodos. Cópepod with egg sack.
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Although there aren’t any cephalopod species that live their entire lives at the ocean’s surface, some regularly frequent the surface! Female argonaut octopus dip their paper-like shells into the air to trap bubbles, helping them maintain buoyancy! 📷: renehodges on @inaturalist
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Euplokamis dunlapae, my favourite arctic comb jelly. This is the only ctenophore (that I know) that can swim backwards. Supposedly they are able to do this by employing giant axons controlling the comb rows. Most likely to evade predators, but could also be a hunting manoeuvre.
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A tiny larval Lobster hanging onto a single larval Acorn Worm which is roughly 1.5 cm in size. I included the picture of the Lobster with 4 Acorn Worms as a comparison to one that is so much bigger. Blackwater off Kona, Hawaii. #ikelite
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I thought that being called Dr. was too fancy. Being Assistant Professor is going to take some time to getting used to. Regardless, the fledgling (naupliar) Briseño-Avena Lab for Plankton Ecology at #uncw is now officially open for business. #firstgen #LGBTQSTEM #LatinxMarineSCI
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Salps (pelagic tunicates) come in all sizes, shapes, and colours, and are our closest relatives among the gelatinous zooplankton organisms. Even after decades of research, we know very little about their biology and ecology. @DecimaLab @OceanDiversity
