Mary Bryan Barksdale

As if my #AGU23 experience wasn’t sweet enough already, the cherry on top 🍒 is that my presentation on coastal foredunes received an Outstanding Student Presentation Award (OSPA)! Thank you to @theAGU & the reviewers for the encouraging feedback!

We shore-ly hope you enjoyed this month's Discovery Lab, Amazing Migrating Islands, with our Margaret A. Davidson Fellow and VIMS graduate student, @MaryBryanBarks1! She discussed her research and the importance of barrier islands...and why they are migrating🏝️😲

Last Wednesday, about 60 collaborators and colleagues in the region came together for the Middle Peninsula Restoration Workshop at @VIMS_News!

Landward barrier migration facilitates erosion of #BlueCarbon stocks faster than back barrier C accumulation, evidencing the ephemeral nature of #BlueCarbon storage @MaryBryanBarks1, @coastalgeology, @theswampboss #CarbonBudget #SeaLevelRise nature.com/articles/s4146…

Postdoc & PhD Student opportunity at VIMS Coastal Geology Lab. Apply by 31 October. See also: csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

Hike the marshy backroads of the #MidAtlantic, and you'll find an insidious thumbprint of #ClimateChange. Some 40,000 acres of dead trees spear the sky. I wrote about efforts to map these #GhostForests and what's at stake for #CoastalCommunities. @PNASNews pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

This afternoon (5p local) at #INQUARoma2023 @KaylaCahoon is presenting updates from our stratigraphic mapping of the southern Delmarva Peninsula, along with new insights for Last Glacial Period sea level & glacioisostacy. Bonus: the room has solid A/C.

ICYMI: Join the @theswampboss (@VMIS_News, @williamandmary) in a conversation about threats to the #ChesapeakeBay. #ClimateCrisis #EPA #Virginia Listen here: withgoodreasonradio.org/episode/migrat…