Helen Phillips

1⃣ The Antarctic Circumpolar Current is the world’s strongest, swirling around #Antarctica like a shield from warmer water. But it doesn’t just flow straight. The mountainous seafloor steers the current to create flexing patterns called ‘standing meanders’. Anim: @monashclicomm

Coal dominated Europe's electricity mix over the 20th century, but it is quickly dying in many countries in the 21st. The chart shows the share of electricity that comes from coal for a range of countries in Western Europe. The data comes from @EmberClimate. Transitioning away from coal has helped reduce carbon emissions and local air pollutants. (This Data Insight was written by @_HannahRitchie)

Job opportunity: We are recruiting a Computational Modelling Specialist in Climate Modelling Science based at @UniMelb. The successful candidate will enhance climate and weather research through high-performance computing and big-data approaches. More: 21centuryweather.org.au/about-us/posit…

Under the Tasman Bridge, down the River Derwent, and out to the Southern Ocean. Stay with us over the next month or so! @CSIRO, @BOM_au , @AusAntarctic , @GeoscienceAus, @IMOS_AUS, @UTAS_ 📷 Mark Horstman

The Australian Government has approved $650 million in funding to support national research infrastructure through NCRIS. The funding will help NCRIS projects to maintain and build new capabilities to deliver a significant boost to research excellence. bit.ly/3S5fEff

Today @WilliamJRipple et al released the 2023 report on the terrifying state of our #climate. It should be read by every policymaker, decisionmaker, and journalist on the planet. Here is a thread of some key takeaways. 1/n

US GO-SHIP (@US_GOSHIP) is  seeking to fill the student/early career positions for the 2024 re-occupation of the GO-SHIP meridional line known as I08 – a hydrographic transect from ~66.5° to 28°S in the southeastern Indian sector of the Southern Ocean. usgoship.ucsd.edu/2023/10/07/u-s…