Dr. Patrick Rafter

During Covid lockdown, 12 friends and I made a massive synthesis of deep-sea radiocarbon (14C) over the past 25,000 years. Our paper, out today, provides strong evidence that deep-sea 14C ventilation during the last glacial period was SLOWER and LOWER science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Wonderful farewell presentation by @OceanAndClimate

@Echinocrepis I remember this defense!

I made a sped-up time-lapse of Echinocrepis zooming across the seafloor and it reminded me of that time my friend had to leave my Ph.D. defense because she couldn't stop laughing at the "orange nose"

@BeringSea @ECORD_IODP This is amazing

Got a beautiful, very exciting, complex sequence of in situ coral framework at Kohala. Large variety of corals, long sections of massive Porites (small section of one in pic). We're in Hilo region, >30 meters into MIS 6-7 reef. Hooray! @ECORD_IODP #Exp389 #HawaiianDrownedReef

@GlobalEcoGuy Bluesky!

@lauralhaynes Yes!

A student working with me @UCIrvine @uciess (Chloe Selby) just had a nice write-up on the main UCI webpage (and she mentions our lab! OceanAndClimate.com) See it here: ps.uci.edu/news/2971

@rmbundy @USFCMS (Sorry to all the editors I’ve turned down recently but I really truly absolutely deserve an award or a high five or a cookie or something for the past three years of reviews)

@rmbundy Yeah I stepped up HUGELY during Covid and I needed to slow down (also prepare to move to @USFCMS )

Please help spread the word about a new postdoctoral fellowship in Geological Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, the Lucas J. Kimes Fellowship. Applicants must identify a faculty mentor in the department. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail…

Inside the Ramones’ earliest gigs: cos.lv/3F4950POT2z

If you haven't yet read our @plioceneclimate review of ocean and ice sheet changes in the Pliocene and early Pleistocene, @AGU_Eos have published an overview @theAGU #AGUpubs. Cover photo taken by me in Gulf of Alaska IODP Exp. 341 @uk_iodp @TheJR eos.org/editors-vox/ma…

@Echinocrepis Land sloths. Giant land sloths.

Never not thinking about terror birds and giant ground sloths. I love them so much.

Wow, yeah Heather! @US_OCB

@ashevenell My photos alternate between evil pat and goofball pat but I’m just pat

@theFosterlab @marmite_usf Thanks Gav!

Thanks @marmite_usf !

@Echinocrepis @marmite_usf Thanks Mike!

@OceanAndClimate @marmite_usf Congratulations!!!

@drloriz @marmite_usf Thanks Lori Z!

Mystery! Still looking for a better shot, but does anyone know what these green orbs are? We saw them on a few dives, mostly at 200 - 500 m depths, off the OR coast and at Axial Seamount. At first I thought they were clogged larvacean houses, but they're all perfectly circular.

@aitch_bar @mattyglesias I never knew (and grew up nearby)!

@mattyglesias Hey look it's Nothing Feels Good

Even without indulging my parking skepticism, couldn't Ocean City do better than this beachfront surface lot? Like sell half of it to a hotel developer and use the revenue to turn the other half into a multi-level garage.