
PhD candidate in Biological Oceanography at @Columbia @LamontEarth. @BrownUniversity 2016. nutrient cycling. diversity and inclusion. she/her 🇵🇷
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Don’t miss tomorrow’s Seamount Deep Dive Webinar!
Explore new science from our #AroundAfricaExpedition with @oqfoundation — including a newly mapped seamount and first-ever visuals of Walters Shoal.
Register for the webinar
🗓️ May 29 | ⏱️ 9–11 AM EST
🔗 bit.ly/seamountdeepdive01
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Spatial and temporal variation in surface nitrate and phosphate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico over 35 years @_kailani
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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Spatial and temporal variation in surface nitrate and phosphate in the Northern Gulf of Mexico over 35 years @_kailani
nature.com/articles/s41598-0…
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.@_Kailani Acosta is curating an exhibition that uses maps of the Southern United States to explore how geology, history, and culture intersect and influence each other.
news.columbia.edu/news/resea…
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Calling all two year college faculty!
Come sail with us and the #RVThomasGThompson! #nsffunded
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Thank you @oceanx for connecting me with some amazing folks!!! Back home to reflect and forge into the future ❤
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hosting a FREE summer camp at @theislandschool for girls 13-17 to use photos, film, poetry, and art to connect with their natural environment and learn about climate change with @marjahnf! share the link to apply with anyone who would be interested 💚💙 bit.ly/42n4pk8
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TOMORROW @Columbia we’ll host Kailani Acosta @LamontEarth ! :) The surface ocean of the Gulf of Mexico has changed a lot since the 1980s; Kailani's work investigates how nutrients have changed spatially and temporally in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and more. See you there!
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A 5,000-mile-long belt of seaweed weighing more than 11 million tons is threatening to wreak havoc in the coastal waters and beaches of the Atlantic Ocean.
@johnyangtv spoke to oceanographer Ajit Subramaniam to learn more.
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We're proud to announce Zelalem Adefris as Catalyst Miami's new #CEO! A collaborative, compassionate, visionary leader, Zelalem embodies what it means to be a catalyst for change.
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This week's guest @HydroGeoTrini is such a good science communicator that @jvn felt like a groundwater expert halfway through their convo. And you can, too!
Learn about Dr. Allen's work on fractured rock aquifers + water sustainability in Tobago at apple.co/jvn 🎸
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Today's #GoogleDoodle highlights Marie Tharp, a leading oceanographer whose drawings created the first set of maps of the ocean floor! As a woman in #STEM I’m honored to join @GoogleDoodles in highlighting the great work of Marie Tharp 🙌🏾#WomenInSTEM #BlackInMarineScience #Ad
Marie Tharp put ocean floors on the map. Today’s interactive #GoogleDoodle celebrates Marie Tharp—American geologist and cartographer who found evidence of continental drift along the seafloor.
Learn more about her life's work here → goo.gle/3hNLehj

ALT Painted illustration of Marie Tharp sitting at a desk drawing. She has red hair, fair skin, and is wearing eye glasses and a blue dress shirt. The background is an office setting with a world map on the wall and bookshelfs beside. The "GOOGLE" logo frames Tharp and her head stands in for the second "O".
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If you haven't seen it yet, check out the paper by CERF board member @_kailani on Lessons from the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Task Force. Great info for those also organizing #DEI Task Forces in the #geosciences. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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50 years ago Bromery said, “a few people working together who seriously want to make change, can succeed.” 50 years from now, what people we will be saying is up to us.
we have no choice left but to be brave. @foramsraqu 💙 @rachelxbernard #snc22
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My bestie @_kailani just sent me this picture of her dog and now I am not okay 🥹
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omg I need y'all to know that there is a microbiologist on love island this season and he is DISCUSSING PIPETTES
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girls will literally say ‘i have 3 brain cells’ and then open their laptop to write their phd thesis
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So I’ve been obsessed with phosphorus for years. Why? It’s basically the most important element in the history of life on Earth. And our quest to get more of it is a classic natural resource parable.
I wrote about it for @TheAtlantic:
theatlantic.com/science/arch…
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Columbia Climate School@columbiaclimate24 May 2022
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Archaeologist and anthropologist @kgdouglass has been appointed the first Columbia Climate School faculty hire, joining faculty from across @Columbia to train the next generation of leaders addressing #climatechange in first-in-the-nation graduate program. news.climate.columbia.edu/20…
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congratulations to these two GRADUATES of @Columbia @kwolanne_felix and @laurenalexar 💙
working with y’all was the highlight of my postdoc experience. wishing you all the best on your next chapters - excited to see the incredible things you will do in the world. much love!! 💙




























