Dr. Becky Totten

Assistant Professor of Geological Sciences at the University of Alabama. Paleoclimatologist, micropaleontologist, stratigrapher. Views are my own.

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

Our @NatureGeosci article featured on @StephenAtHome! Wow! Just for the record, we’ve been telling everyone our science is “worth the Thwaite” since we finally arrived @GlacierThwaites in 2019… @AGCGraham @rdlarter @a_wahlin @houston_wellner @icy_simkins @FrankAtSea @shelfyice

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

This pair of graphics shows the changes to the average #seaice extent around Antarctica and the Arctic.

The most obvious changes are to the summer extent - the purple line shows the 30-year average (1981-2010) and the purple area shows the 10-year average (2013-2022).

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

Here's the 2018 map of the Amundsen Sea Embayment, and the new 2023 map.

The West Antarctic is one of the areas being changed fastest by a changing climate.

Comparing these two maps, you can see visible changes to the ice sheet near #Thwaites Glacier and the Kohler Range.

[British Antarctic Survey 🐧 @BAS_News]

Today our cartographers released new Antarctic and Arctic maps - with lots of changes to these fast changing and fragile places:

🧊 ice sheet loss
🌊 new sea ice data
📌 using indigenous town names in the Canadian Arctic

#WorldOceansDay #climatechange
https://t.co/GNfe2F5BEF

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@OrbulinasDad 🤩

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@geologywill Now that would be a blast!

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@geologywill I’m really sad to miss it! I am traveling to meet program managers otherwise you know I’d be there!

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@GlacierThwaites It won’t work for me either :/

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@PREAUX_FISH Crinoid!!! Picked it up with my hands from a box core offshore Antarctica. Honestly I could go on and on but all my favorites are weird marine inverts 🤩

[Dr James Kirkham @JD_Kirkham]

Dramatic ice losses in the Bellingshausen Sea mean that we are now surveying marine areas that are literally 'off the chart' as they dont exist on the ship's ice cover maps. #PS134

[CIROH at The University of Alabama @UA_CIROH]

Are you interested in a faculty position related to water research within @bamaengineering at @UofAlabama? Several multiple tenure/tenure-track positions are now open that complement our work with @NOAA and @USGS.

Learn more and apply here: https://t.co/tmYuJzafxp

#TideResearch

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@RobertCMahon I show this to students at the beginning of every semester. I grew up below sea level. House got 9’ of water during Katrina. Now I study sea level and storms!

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@BassisJeremy I was ONBOARD! You know I’m from 9’ below sea level and this is how I start my Antarctic talks too�� great talk, Jeremy. I really enjoyed it

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@paleo_ray @prehistormic @DrEmilyAElliott @climateclay I will be there, my pretties!

[Jasmin M. Link @JasminMLink]

That's a wrap!
The very last section of #EXP397 #IberianMarginPaleoclimate just got measured! Over 6 km of sediments are now waiting for our post-cruise research👩‍🔬

@TheJR
@ECORD_IODP

[Dr. Nicole LePera @Theholisticpsyc]

8 Signs of An Emotionally Safe Person

A THREAD 🧵:

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@JennieLThomas I had to do that last year… with a virtual poster :/

[Carlos Alvarez Zarikian @cytheropteron]

Tour around the #JOIDESResolution - where over 100 crewmen, scientists and technicians of #Exp397 are working around the clock to unearth the Iberian Margin paleoclimate record. #IODP

[Carlos Alvarez Zarikian @cytheropteron]

While most of North America is looking up to sky for tonight’s #bloodmoon , on #Exp397 in the Iberian Margin, we could look through an opening in the cloudy horizon and see a clear & bright #fullmoon

[Dr. Becky Totten @PaleoTotten]

@RobertCMahon Yeah you did! I feel like that is City Park. I want to go eat beignets and climb oak trees now.