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Warren Currie 🦠🦐

Weekend #Plankton Factoid 🦠🦐
The new Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) satellite is crazy accurate. It can measure ocean altimetry to a mm, imaging internal waves and small sub eddies (rotating mixing zones). Tiny changes in height happen when water swirls (try it in a sink) with greater height at the edges due to centripetal force. These may be even more important for temperature & nutrient flux, so ultimately #ecosystem productivity & #carbon cycling. #science
stories.tamu.edu/news/2025/05/

image/jpeg a gold satellite with extended solar panels is shown in orbit around the earth. Image from NASA.
image/jpeg a visualization of currents off the eastern coast of North America shows hundreds of interconnected swirling eddies spinning in the Atlantic Ocean. Image from NASA.
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MikeF

Sorry folks, I'm reposting... This originally seemed to have gotten appended to someone else's thread on a different topic.

Some nesting and baby shorebirds at Nickerson Beach Park, in Nassau Co., NY. Shorebirds figure prominently among the 3 billion birds that have disappeared in the past 50 years, according to the Audubon Society. This is largely due to habitat loss and degradation, climate change, pollution and introduced predators. To be blunt, Capitalism with its inherent drive for growth is anathema to biodiversity and all life on our planet.

American Oystercatcher female and one of two chicks face each other on a sandy beach. These are large shorebirds, black or dark brown and white, with long stout orange bills and yellow eyes. The downy chick is brown above and light below. Chicks are semi-precocial, able to move about freely after hatching, but still reliant on parents for food.
Female American Oystercatcher standing over her three eggs in their nest, a shallow depression in the sand. Both males and females incubate the eggs, care for the young and teach the young to forage. Population status is considered stable, overall.
Adult Piping Plover in a nesting colony foraging on a sandy beach among low dune vegetation. These small plovers are gray-black above and on the crown of its head with a single white-bounded black collar ring and a black band across the forehead, and a light-colored underside. Bill is black-tipped red. Superbly camouflaged on a sand beach.
One of a pair of Piping Plover chicks which were actively scurrying about in the low dunes and dune grass, while mom remained still. Described as "cotton balls with tooth-picks," these downy chicks are brown with black streaks above and buffy below. Very hard to see against the sand and vegetation. These are a precocial species, actively foraging under mom's watchful gaze shortly after hatching. This species is considered endangered.
#birds#birding#birdphotography
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The Bright Side

The Siletz Tribe has dedicated two decades to this reintroduction project.

As Michaela noted, a scientist stated that bringing otters back has “cascading effects” on the ecosystem.

This holds true culturally as well: multiple tribes will work together to renew their relationship with the sea otter once it returns.

#IndigenousWisdom#Ecosystem
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

💁🏻‍♀️ ICYMI: 🐝🌻 More than 4,000 species of wild #bees were already thriving in #NorthAmerica when European honeybees arrived in 1622. From tiny metallic green sweat bees to bumblebees that vibrate pollen loose through buzz pollination, these native species are often more effective pollinators than their famous cousins.

Many wild bees specialize in just one or a few #plant species, creating partnerships that have developed over millions of years where each partner's survival depends on the other.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/b0YJp

A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
#tksst#video#animals
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The Kid Should See This 🌈🪐✨

🐝🌻 More than 4,000 species of wild #bees were already thriving in #NorthAmerica when European honeybees arrived in 1622. From tiny metallic green sweat bees to bumblebees that vibrate pollen loose through buzz pollination, these native species are often more effective pollinators than their famous cousins.

Many wild bees specialize in just one or a few #plant species, creating partnerships that have developed over millions of years where each partner's survival depends on the other.

👉 Learn more: zurl.co/b0YJp

A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
A fuzzy golden-brown native bee with visible antennae and wings feeds on a pale yellow flower with prominent white stamens against a blurred green background.
#tksst#video#animals
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