Woahhh super cool

Well hello @altnoaaclimate.bsky.social. Extremely glad to e-meet you. 🫡

Call your senators, call your representatives, called your governors, call your local officials. Whoever will listen.

Donate to the ACLU and other local legal aid funds. Donate to protestor GoFundMes

The transition to authoritarianism is never abrupt. It’s often a slow and incremental but this definitely feels like a critical inflection point.

I’m begging my US followers to please do what you can to support protestors and protect the immigrants communities who honestly and truly make America great.

Sending in the national guard and now the US military is an abuse of power, a clear escalation, and an attack on our civil liberties.

Thanks Jarrett ! 😃

Thanks Katie! Appreciate all your contributions and collaboration!

End/ Grateful to co-authors & funders who made this work possible. Many of whom aren't on BlueSky.

It was a prividge to work together.

@baumlab.bsky.social @dkokamoto.bsky.social @marinekathleen.bsky.social @annamet.bsky.social @scuba-timmer.bsky.social @cneufeld.bsky.social @hakai.org

10/ Protecting & restoring kelps won’t replace forests or wetlands in national inventories.

And they’re certainly no substitute for cutting fossil fuel emissions.

But our study suggests they could play a complementary role to other climate strategies, especially given kelps' other benefits.

9/ While data gaps and uncertainties remain, our framework helps constrain the possibilities—and highlights where better monitoring, mapping, and validation is still needed.

In our study we recommended greater public investment in research to fill critical knowledge gaps.

8/ We also found significant differences in kelp standing stocks and productivity across coasts and kelp species.

Although Canada’s Pacific kelp forests really stand out, even lower-productivity Atlantic and Arctic kelp beds showed some potential for deep ocean export which is promising!

7/ In its first application to Canada, we found that between 40,000 to 400,000 metric tons of kelp carbon is being exported annually to deep ocean sinks.

That’s on par with carbon burial in better-known sinks in Canada like its peatlands, saltmarshes, and wetlands.