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Fun Day 2 yesterday with a variety of & talks; particularly enjoyed this session:

Koll ends his talk with the quote: “We don’t inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.”

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Roxy Koll (twitter.com/rocksea) now focuses on how ongoing Indo-Pacific warming is “warping” the Madden-Julien Oscillation () & modifying global rainfall patterns.

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Now at - the lakeside building (E352) - Roxy Koll from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (Pune) gives the Devendra Lal Memorial Medal lecture on his Indian Ocean/monsoon research.

A full on lineup here at the Indian & Southern Ocean (paleo)circulation session in S403b. First, Jim Wright provides a fresh (first?) look into Argentine drift sediments and the insights they hold regarding Neogene glaciation.

Now: Liz Sykes talks about the history of δ¹³C in the southeastern Indian Ocean and its implications for deglacial carbon change.
Take Home MEssage: Differential δ¹³C histories of proximal cores

Mark Yu, from , gives an interesting talk about reconstructing variability from sediment cores offshore the and finds that the isotopic difference between this record and foraminiferal records from the Arabian sea and Bay of Bengal, are a reflection of monsoon variability.

Now at S403b at : Pedro DiNezio presents research on Indian Ocean climate variability and its similarities across past global states and projected states for the future; in particular, Pedro focuses on the related hydroclimate response.

At the Science Advisors meeting right now at & here is a list of the top 5 most popular scientist-authored articles of 2022. I sense a theme!
Link to EOS Magazine, if you don’t already know about it: eos.org/homepage

Now at S405a () - Central University of Ph.D. student, Ammoose Jayan (also currently a Fulbright visitor at the ), talks about investigations in the Gulf of () focusing on paleoproductivity changes across the late Holocene using . Main result: lower productivity in Gulf of Mannar along with a relatively weaker summer winds during the Little Ice Age (), some ~500-700 years ago.

I wonder about the potential impact on coastal southern Indian societies & seafood intake during the time!

One of my favorite to see out in the wild - an Indian Paradise Flycatcher- this one seen a few weeks ago at Hunasinakere in Hassan Taluk, . They seem so ethereal & otherworldly upon first sight!

I missed these birbs - here is a House at the banks of the River & confluence of its tributaries in , , chomping down on rice leftover from an ash scattering (death) ritual.

Inside the Chennakeshava Temple ಪುಷ್ಕರಣಿ (temple tank) in , Karnataka: a White-Browed Wagtail sizes up what appears to be an (invasive?) Red-Eared Terrapin

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