Poop alert!! Salp poop!!!!

A NASA and NSF funded mission full of scientists obsessed with poop, and where does it go. One may say we study the fate of #primaryproduction in the #ocean, but honestly - there was lot of poop collected.
These episodic poop events, such as the one encountered in low productive waters of North Pacific question our ideas about low flux ecosystems biological pump.

Fancy paper: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2022GB007523

Popular paper:
https://eos.org/research-spotlights/jet-propelled-tunicates-pump-carbon-through-the-oceans

@helmholtz @MPI_Meteo
ICON-Coast captures processes sustaining enhanced #coastal #PrimaryProduction (poorly represented in coarse models): #river inputs, #sediment #resuspension, import of #nutrient-rich water masses from the open ocean.

Such a #seamless connection of the #open and #coastal #ocean via regional grid refinement and enhanced process representation is a promising approach for #HighResolution modeling at the global scale.
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Would be intriguing to see a fediverse server set up specifically for rural people involved in food production (farmers, market gardeners, orchardists etc). It could be a way for them to talk to each other across regional/ factional boundaries, and to talk directly with us city folk, instead of only through gatekeepers (Fed Farmers, Groundswell, media organizations, etc).

https://www.rnz.co.nz/national/programmes/mediawatch/audio/2018867437/framing-farming-s-important-debates-via-the-mailbox

#farming #agriculture #GroundSwell #FedFarmers #PrimaryProduction #rural