Dr. Diane Thompson

Thrilled to share my invited review paper on environmental records from coral skeletons: a follow-on from Lough 2010 (talk about giant shoes to fill!). An incredibly daunting & rewarding chance to highlight a decade of advances in our field [Thread👇] wires.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Cheers to Professor Jay Quade! Being elected to the National Academy of Sciences is one of the highest honors that a U.S. scientist can receive kgun9.com/news/local-new…

Stay tuned for more on the hydroclimate record & implications for water resources in the Marshall Islands, coming next!

All-in-all, this work emphasizes the importance of pairwise screening of samples when studying climate variability (e.g., ENSO)--- statistical metrics that are sensitive to small changes in preservation!

BUT rest-assured, he also finds geochemical proxies that are robust and insensitive to calcite diagenesis. Read the paper to learn more on which!

Using a refined method that allows screening of the same sample used for geochem, @MudithW shows that even intra-skeletal calcite with small % contribution to a sample can result in significant paleo-temperature offsets

"Spot-checking" the core for diagenesis on co-located skeleton has therefore become standard for screening for diagenesis

The impact of these seemingly "minor" features (not visible by x-ray) have been largely overlooked by traditional screening methods, which require large sample sizes and/or time-consuming methods

Congrats @MudithW for his new contribution in @AGU_Paleo: a direct look at the impact of fine-scale calcite diagenesis on coral geochemical records agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.102… w/ co-authors @gabriela_farfan @e_v_reed @alicechap_ @uazgeos & Marshall Islands Marine Resource Authority

@secanno @FNFish @UBCoceans @SFUBioSci @wildsalmoncntr Fantastic news!!!!! Congratulations, Sara, so well deserved!

Found preparing for remote field work as a lactating momma challenging, so wanted to share my hot tips after a huge success & ~8L of frozen milk safely home! uathompsonlab.com/2024/03/13/bre… #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #womeninSTEM @AcademicMamas @mamacademic @AcademicMomLife

@madscientistA2 You're rocking it too!! So excited to see all of your hard work come to fruition! 🙌🙌🙌

I love method development. I frickin love it. Sometimes when I’m not in lab during method development phases I feel sad. I dreamt about method development last night. I also simultaneously need method development to end. Thanks for coming to my Ted talk

@ocean_keshi Glad you went with (and liked) Water Matters. We have had a great experience w/ Victoria & their custom products!!

The tanks are in!! 🥳🪸 great job by Water Matters 👌 thrilled with the result! #ASU_SMS #ASU_SOF #forthecorals 🤩🔬🧪🥼

@noam_vv @mitarais Flattered to hear that--- we need so many more of these studies & I cannot wait to read your latest work!!

I’m recruiting PhD students for Fall 2024 at @CUBoulderATOC! 🌊⛈️❄️🏔️ I’m looking for students interested in the interplay between forced and internal variability in the tropics using some diverse data sources— climate models, instrumental observations and paleoclimate proxies.

Our new paper on the #climate and #vegetation of the last 7 interglacials in the Peruvian Andes just came out rdcu.be/drd2e. We find that the #Holocene followed a similar trajectory to other interglacials until about 4000 years ago…an early start to the #Anthropocene!

@DantheClamMan Haha yeah. It's not the ideal time. Breastfeeding and postpartum body is strangely buoyant & still getting ab strength back from them literally splitting apart in pregnancy. 😅 But where there is a will (READ: STUBBORNNESS) there is a way 🤪🤣

@dianethompso Which is utterly badass! I passed DM by the skin of my teeth lol

There's nothing like trying to be cleared for scientific diving after a period of infertility and pregnancy related inactivity to make you want to burn down the f^$@# patriarchy.

@DaviesswPhD @jess_carilli @coralsncaves @IRockClimate & so many other badass women in scientific diving: let's rebuild it in our own image 💪🧜‍♀️ All ideas welcome!

We can and will do better.