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🇦🇺🇺🇸Author/illustrator/editor. Antarctica 🇦🇶Education & Outreach Coordinator/US Media Contact for @SWAIS2C #OceanDevotion kayaker, birder

Near the beach, Outer Cape Cod
Joined March 2009
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
9 months
Lovely, aren’t they?
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In other news, my daughter and her coworker (teens/restaurant) were accosted by a 40-something patron yesterday. Him: “Why are you wearing f-ing masks?!” Kid: “It’s where we hide Hilary’s emails and the stolen ballots.”
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5 years
Sea ice Mountain glaciers worldwide. The Greenland Ice Sheet The Antarctic Ice Sheet Low-lying islands Coastlines #ThingsThatKeepDisappearing
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4 years
I have a treat for you this morning! [Thread] Found this little limulus lady, who battled the surf zone and lost. But all was not lost!
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5 years
And this is why we need polar ice: it reflects solar energy = high albedo = keeps our planet 😎. Darker ice-free water absorbs solar energy = low albedo = 🥵
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
5 years
Good morning! Nature has a treat for you today. Here’s your 2-min #AnxietyRelief . #SundayMotivation #SundayThoughts #QuarantineDiaries #SundayMorning
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4 years
The beach was an artist this morning.
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
2 years
@SavannahClawson As someone who comments on manuscripts for a living, I’d suggest that this is not the way to deliver feedback and help a student or writer grow. Quite awful. Abusive, really.
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
1 year
People just sitting eating as the world is destroyed around them. A perfect metaphor for how people are responding to climate change.
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1 year
Restaurant tables and chairs swept away in #Athens flash floods in a touristic area near the Acropolis. 📍Monastiraki
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2 years
@fesshole The algorithm 😂
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4 years
4/ And then! Not 10 seconds later, I was mightily rewarded! (Hardcore Limuli porn warning)
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
6 months
Good morning! I often say “glorious” or “magnificent” to describe sunrise, but I’m out of superlatives for this one! 🔥🔥 #OceanDevotion @Eweather13 #sunrise
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8 months
Friends, it's bizarre that in nearly 21 years of living in New England, I've never seen an eastern bluebird – until now. I look up from my work and... ...not one, not two, but seven? Eight? Right outside my office window!
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4 years
3/ I gently put her in. Don’t want to damage those tail ligaments. Can she turn herself over?
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
7 years
DID YOU KNOW THAT THE BUMPS ON A HUMPBACK WHALE'S HEAD ARE ACTUALLY ENLARGED HAIR FOLLICLES WITH SENSITIVE WHISKERS? #SHOUTYSCICOMM
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4 months
Good morning! I almost missed this one. Peeked under the bedroom blind, saw red, raced down here in my pjs. 😂 And if you’re wondering: no saturation, no enhancement, just what the phone camera captured. #OceanDevotion
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2 years
Good morning! You’ve never seen anyone get from bed to the beach as fast as I just did. It faded within 5 min of me arriving. (Pics in next tweet.) #OceanDevotion @Eweather13 @weatherinri
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7 years
@Maltaplication @MalcolmNance @th3j35t3r @POTUS Rising at about 100 a min. I've been watching.
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 years
1/ Friends, I'm SO excited to share something I've been sitting on for a while: I'll be the US Education & Outreach Coordinator for SWAIS 2C (Sensitivity of the Antarctic Ice Sheet to 2°C of Warming). I'm so happy to be part of this vital work. #Antarctica [Image: UNL]
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4 years
1/ Saw a piece of wood almost buried in the sand. But something made me stop to check it out. I’m glad I did because it wasn’t a piece of wood. This limulus (horseshoe crab) was in dire straits.
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5 years
Ok #Antarctica #geology twitter, here’s a fun challenge for you. Explain this thing I found high up on this hiking trail, around Ob Hill, McMurdo Station. #sciencetwitter
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Good morning!!! Today is the one-year anniversary (can you believe it?) of moving to Outer Cape Cod, and the sky threw me a party. 🎉🥳🍾 #OceanDevotion
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Wow, the stairs at Marconi are gone. I’m out here with Parks Service folks, and we don’t think the bit we’re standing on will be safe much longer. So they’re shutting it off. @Eweather13 @PeteNBCBoston
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5 years
@wholovesike @morningmika Without a four-year-old’s capacity for empathy.
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
4 years
Got some new ones. I mean, why WOULDN’T you want to wear a mask? 🤷‍♀️
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 years
So… some personal news. This thing is coming to live in my house today. I don’t know cats. Not a cat person. Also allergic to cats. Any bets on how long before I fall in love with it anyway?
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 months
Good morning! Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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4 years
2/ Is she still alive? Yes! And she’s not so little. She’s the size of a very large dinner plate across, and I’ll wager she weighs 8- 9 pounds, which I carried for 3/4 of a km up to the tidal river...
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Good morning! After 3 days, the #noreaster is finally pushing out, but the waves are still pretty huge. They’ve ripped out what I assume is a wave height buoy. #OceanDevotion
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5 years
Just when you thought you'd never see the word #firn in a children's book, ICEBERG OF ANTARCTICA is here! I created this free, downloadable educational book for @TheJR #Exp382 #IcebergAlley @NSF_GEO #NSFFunded #Antarctica #glaciers #scicomm #sciart
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4 years
3/ Ok, now we’re by calm water. Time to put her in!
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4 years
Good morning! Fog again today and #TropicalStormFay a few hours away. Sea is still pretty calm and I’m about to jump in. Here’s your 2 min of the calm before the storm. #fridaymorning #OceanMeditation
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7 months
Good morning! This is the one I’ve been waiting for. Glorious! 🔥🔥🔥 #OceanDevotion #sunrise @Eweather13
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
4 years
I, for one, welcome our new penguin overlords. 🐧🐧🐧
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Lewis Pugh
4 years
BREAKING NEWS: Penguins taking back control in Cape Town. 🐧😃
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4 years
Hard to believe I get paid to paint birds sometimes. A page I did today for a children's book I'm illustrating for a private client. (Will need a click.) #kidlitart #sciart #illustration #birdart
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Good morning! Wait for it… 🔥😍 #OceanDevotion
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
5 months
Today in birding-from-my-office-window
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
2 years
My pollinator garden changes weekly, and it’s so pretty right now and chockfull of bees, butterflies, bugs, and birds during the day. Pulling out the lawn for this? Zero regrets! #pollinators #pollinatorgarden
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4 months
Good morning! Worth getting up at 4:30 for! #OceanDevotion
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
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It’s still roaring here in Wellfleet #OceanDevotion #noreaster
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6 months
Good morning! Sunrise was at 5:57… I need to start getting up earlier. #OceanDevotion
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
4 months
Good morning and Happy Solstice, which is around 4:50 pm here today! #OceanDevotion
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 months
My tiny cup collection is one of the few things I plan to grab in an emergency!
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High Seas Science
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People say scientists are serious but marine biologists will spend hours quietly sitting around tables drawing on styrofoam cups and then tying said cups to deep sea submarines Because ocean pressure will squeeze the air from the cups And we are but human & we want tiny cups
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Good morning! The sea is still raging, but… the sun! #OceanDevotion
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 months
Good morning! Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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7 months
Never a dull moment outside my office window
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
2 years
Should I impulse buy this old microscope in this antique store? 🧐
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
3 months
Morning. Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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5 months
Good morning! Red sky in the morning… well, you know the rest. #OceanDevotion @Eweather13
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
5 years
This graphic is my first publication in a science journal. 😎
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AGU (American Geophysical Union)
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Lenaerts et al. (2019) review advances in measuring and modeling the mass balance of #ice sheets, as well as advances in understanding the processes that affect how surface mass balance “varies over time and space.” #glaciers #AGUPubs
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2 years
Question for a book I'm editing. US folks, what do you call these? And what part of the US are you from? (If you're not from the US, I'm also interested to hear what they're called where you live.)
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Good morning! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! #OceanDevotion
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3 years
If I had 5000 followers, I’d have a better chance of getting this life-changing job I really want doing something good for climate science and by extension the world. 🙏 Here are some diatoms I painted. (A vague allusion to my dream job!) #scicomm #sciart
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Marlo Garnsworthy 🌊❄️
2 months
Morning! Smoky skies again… Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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1 year
So, some personal news… After 20 years, we are sadly leaving Rhode Island. I’m really going to miss our great little town & my garden & studio. But… we will be living IN a National Park—Cape Cod National Seashore—& even closer to the ocean! #OceanDevotion 📷 @NASAEarth
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8 months
Good morning! Its 15 minutes before sunrise. A longer video today, so you can be mesmerized by the waves rolling in from far out. #OceanDevotion
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After yesterday’s severe storms, it’s a glorious day on Martha’s Vineyard. #OceanDevotion
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2 months
Very special experience today with my best friend, who’s visiting from Australia. Here are your two minutes of magnificence. #OceanDevotion
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2 months
Going to have a very special #OceanDevotion for you later today… 👀
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Good morning! I could stand here all day. I’m on vacation, so I may stand here all day. #OceanDevotion
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4 years
@mmfa Words matter. Stop calling them "militia." They are domestic terrorists. Call them what they are.
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SO envious of my husband, who has just driven along the beach for the entire length of Cape Cod National Seashore on an ATV for the sake of science, which apparently is every bit as fun as it sounds.
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2.5 hours before high tide. This storm is magnificent! #OceanDevotion #noreaster #wxtwitter
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3 years
@TooheyMatthew @mckinnon_a @karaschlegl As an Aussie living in the US, I can attest it is dire indeed.
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A few more shots. It was a stunner! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! Wait for it… 🔥😍 #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! Wow, I haven’t seen this for a while! #CapeCod #OceanDevotion @eweather
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2 months
Good morning! It’s a beautiful Friday. #OceanDevotion #HopeScrolling
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3 months
Morning… Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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4 years
My dad just came upon this echidna while he was on a walk. So cute!
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5 years
@LindseyGrahamSC @realDonaldTrump Wow. You're really prepared to go down with this sinking ship? Wow.
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@MichaelEMann @KatyTurNBC Pence is ever thinking, "I'm going to be President once this #shithole finally goes down."
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It’s been a very long day, but I finally reached the Pacific just in time for sunset! #OceanDevotion
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2 months
Good morning! Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion #HopeScrolling
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20 days
Ok… I’m reconsidering. Only light can stamp out darkness and hate, and god knows this site needs more light and beauty. And today’s sunrise was very beautiful. #OceanDevotion
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2 years
1/ URGENT: The legendary @theJR is a scientific ocean drilling ship that drills deep into the seafloor to teach us about Earth's past & inform the future. But she's getting old. Science needs a new drillship, & we need your signature! #ScienceTwitter
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She’s been my friend and my cuddles and the best listener during this very challenging visit home. She was a very good girl, and I loved her. Rest well, sweet Dahlia.
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@jaketapper This and you calling Trump’s offspring his “spawn” are keeping me centered and amused.
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2 years
Treasure! Got to my desk to find a gift from the Toolpusher. This drill cone (now buffed and laquered) has been deep into the seafloor on @TheJR #Exp390 . I will hold it precious forever—it and the guenuine kindness of a few people on this ship.
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5 months
Good morning! #OceanDevotion
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3 months
Here are your 90 seconds of peace & calm. I have a much-needed day off today—doesn’t look like much of a beach day, but I’ll take it! #OceanDevotion
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3 months
Hey there. Here’s your minute and a half of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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9 months
Good morning! About 30 minutes ago, I completed another trip around the sun, and I’m taking the day off. So, I am standing here waiting for my coffee to brew and a glorious sunrise to fire up. What could be better? #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! This is 25 minutes before sunrise. Waiting to see if it fires up a bit, so this may be 1 of2, but I love the drama of the sky in this moment! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! One of those days where I wake at 4:30, check the cloud cover on my weather app, peek through my bedroom window, leap out of bed, and race down for a magnificent treat. The showers out at sea are the frosting on the cake. Enjoy! #OceanDevotion @Eweather13
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Good morning! I’m taking a day off today and contemplated staying in bed. Really glad I didn’t! #OceanDevotion #sunrise
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2 months
Beautiful (+ very hot & humid) day on the Outer Cape.
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@Katie_Beanz @rohansuth @KevinKuechle @nicanope @iggigg My grandmother antagonized a goanna once. It climbed the nearest tree and promptly puked on her. She never antagonized a goanna again.
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Good morning! I see their fresh footprints every morning, but this is the first time I’ve spotted these coyotes in the flesh! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! I always loved May fog when living in coastal Rhode Island. I’m glad it’s here on Cape Cod, too! #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! I’ve 🚴‍♀️ down to White Crest this morning for the expansive view. Happy Friday—who’s ready for the weekend? 🙋‍♀️ #OceanDevotion
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My lunchtime 🚴‍♀️ means you get another #OceanDevotion today. Still churning out there, but it’s a gorgeous autumn day!
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Happy Antarctica Day! It's the coolest day of the year. 😉 #SWAIS2C #AntarcticaDay #Antarctica #penguins
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Good morning! Here are your 90 seconds of peace and calm. #OceanDevotion
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Good morning! Sunrise was at 5:18 today. It’s a wild one… with seals! Can you spot them? #OceanDevotion
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Wild day on the Outer Cape and I 😍 it #OceanDevotion
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Typing with something on my shoulder. Is this my life now?
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