Khashiff Miranda

🌊 PhD. student in Oceanography at Université Laval, QC | Drones, Diving, Kelp, Ice | Studying food sustainability in Inuit Communities in Ungava Bay 🌊

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Microbial minions might fuel these marvelously productive ecosystems 🌊

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

New pub out on how oxygen dynamics have an influence on metabolisms in microbial communities in West Coast #surfgrasses and #kelp @BrookeWeigel @ca_pfister @merenbey @emily_fogarty11 @ivaglj1va

https://t.co/Qtv7ZAMBcL

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Found low O2 environments in the rhizomes of surfgrasses that show possibilities of tight sulfur and nitrogen cycling

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@BrookeWeigel @PaxTempleton @projectseahorse that I am! DM me, happy to hear more about this

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

If the ocean is hell, it froze over. But it’s not so here’s a pretty video instead.
4 days in the field (-17C🥶) winter testing the #DJIInspire1 and #DJIMavicPro2. Looking at how rocks stabilize the ice, potentially protecting wee critters from getting powdered to smithereens

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@BrookeWeigel Plenty of pics pls!

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@AbbouRuben -16C with 25kmph winds. No messing around here.

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Scrambled around some bigger jumbles of #SeaIce today. Looks completely different from yesterday because this ice was rammed up against some rocky ridges by the wind creating these crevices that have air pockets, insulating marine critters inside! 🔈on

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Just a couple days in the field made me reevaluate my dismissive idea that ice is just plain destructive. A lot more complex than that!

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

An old quebecois once advised me to put pepper in my socks to keep my toes toesty. Yesterday I conducted an experiment: left foot control, right foot peppered. Worked like a GEM. Next up Cholula?? #scienceInAction #coldFacts

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Frozen Khashiff meets frozen marine-scape. Walking across the bay at low tide on probably 2 ft of ice! Confused popsicles of seaweeds (fucus and ascophyllum) lay popped up over icy explosions over boulders - never seen the sea like this…

[rileyleff 🌲 @RileyLeff]

the ecology community settling around R instead of Python makes me want to bash my head against the wall. My dollar sign key can't handle this kind of abuse

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@RileyLeff but at least r documentation is a lot more forgiving than pythons - babying us around 😂

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@RileyLeff Yo I just had the same thought today... `stat.test` was considered as an acceptable variable name even though test wasn't an attribute of a stat obj (tf). $ in dataframes make me puke. Don't even get me started on for loops ffs

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@kj_nickols This is brilliant, I want in!

[The Microbiome Center @microbiomecntr]

New #microbialEcology preprint from @khashiff et al:

The diversity and functional capacity of microbes associated with coastal phototrophs https://t.co/JTFJslQv6X

@emily_fogarty11 @ivaglj1va @BrookeWeigel @merenbey @ca_pfister #annegiblin @MBLScience @ScienceLife

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

@fieldomics Mandelbrot’s fractal dimension after a night out!

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@BrookeWeigel @intertidalecol Any secrets to pressing algae to keep the colour 👨🏽‍🎨

[Khashiff Miranda @khashiff]

Brrrrrrr. Ice baubles on Fucoids Christmas trees, popsicled urchins, frozen tidepools. I suspect frozen mud is protecting mussels out here while those on rocks are smashed to bits #tidepooling