Dr. Brooke Weigel
Assistant Professor of Oceans at Stanford, Hopkins Marine Station 🌊 (she/her)
Algae, microbes, kelp conservation
weigel-lab.stanford.edu
- Oh how I missed this snowy landscape! Wisconsin 💙❄️
- Absolutely gorgeous day tidepooling with students in my Marine Algae class yesterday! So much algal diversity, and a bonus Hopkins rose nudibranch! 🌊
- Sunday hike reset, ready for another week! ⛰️ 🐕
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe just released #anvio v9, "eunice" 🎉 This version represents over 2,000 changes in the codebase since v8, increasing the total number of programs in the anvi'o ecosystem to 176. Read the release notes: github.com/merenlab/anv... Visit our up-to-date web page: anvio.org
- Finding beauty (& green algae for my phycology class) under the seawater outflow pipe!
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelCome join us at #UWEnvironment! @uwsafs.bsky.social and UW Friday Harbor Labs are hiring an assistant professor who specializes in marine invertebrate organismal biology. About the job and how to apply: bit.ly/44sItYr
- This was a big year, starting my new research lab! So proud of all of my students. Happy Holidays from the Weigel Lab, and the kelp! 🎅🏻❄️🎄🌊
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelDictyota coriacea (“Y-branched algae”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelCryptonemia obovata (which has no common name, but “red lobe weed” seems fitting) is our seaweed of the week! Red blades are notoriously difficult to identify, but supposedly this is one of the most common taxa in San Diego #PhycologyFriday
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelSeaweed pressing as an art and a science: our newly reestablished herbarium collection at Scripps and the history behind it #Phycology
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- Lovely sunset low tide this evening! 🌅 🌊
- Had a wonderful seminar visit to UBC in Vancouver! Thanks to @drseaweed.bsky.social for being an excellent host! Nice to be back in the Pacific Northwest 🏔️🌊
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelRhodymenia californica (“roseweed”) is our seaweed of the week! #PhycologyFriday
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelAlso @hannahgreich.bsky.social shared this great resource with me for anyone else on the hunt: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelIn Sept 2025, Black Ocean Stanford Scholars (BOSS) and the Monterey Bay Aquarium hosted a 3-day gathering celebrating Black scholars in ocean studies. From networking and tide-pool exploring to identity workshops and a moving aquatic-history exhibit, the event ended with a candlelit dinner. 🌊
- Sunset tidepooling always makes me feel happy 😍
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe are hiring!! Biological Sciences as UNC Charlotte has a broad search for a new assistant professor. Apps reviewed 12/15. Please spread the word! 💚⛏️ #PlantSci 🧪🦠🧬 jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/65141
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelIn our latest, we tackle a long-standing conundrum: when and where do diatoms reproduce sexually? Using a lab-to-field strategy, we designed conserved sex markers applied to microcosms & Tara Oceans metatranscriptomes, revealing widespread sex in the global ocean. Read all about it now in NatComm:
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelOn behalf of the Department of Oceanography at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, we are excited to invite applications for a full-time, tenure-track faculty position in Ocean Biogeochemical Modeling at the rank of assistant professor. www.schooljobs.com/careers/hawa... position number 0082726
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelExcited to recruit a new PhD student for Fall 2026 in my lab at Cornell! Looking for someone interested in evolutionary genomics + fisheries/conservation applications. Quick timeline this year—reach out soon. More details: www.therkildsenlab.org/join-us.html
- Another excellent dive in the kelp forest today! 🤿 🌊 @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
- Also ran into these curious sea lions underwater!
- Northern lights alert! Photo from my family near Madison, WI ✨ If you live in a northern state, look outside!
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelThe Brown and Stachowicz labs are looking for a postdoc for an NSF-funded project on the thermal dependence of disease in eelgrass! As a bonus you get to be based at the Bodega Marine Lab! Interested? Find out more here: brown-ecology.com/join-us/
- So proud of my undergrad student, Zulie, for presenting her giant kelp thermal tolerance research at the WSN conference in San Diego! 🌊🌡️ @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelExcited to share our fresh-off-the-press Annual Review on the role of temperature in metabolic scaling! We review the state of the field on this topic and unpack confusion about the various ways the term "scaling" is used in metabolic theories. www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
- Cuteness break, sponsored by Maple 🐕
- Love this... Orca whales playing with kelp! www.cell.com/current-biol...
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe have a bunch of new job ads out @arcadiascience.com. If you haven’t checked them out, take a look! www.arcadiascience.com/careers
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelI'm very excited to announce that UNC Biology has 6 faculty positions open this year! The first is for an Asst Professor who studies organismal resilience using an integrative approach 1/n unc.peopleadmin.com/postings/307...
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelOIST is seeking up to four tenure-track or tenured faculty in Ecology, Environmental Science, Earth Science, and Oceanography. Application deadline: Oct 15. Please share. Thx! www.oist.jp/careers/facu...
- Super excited to be at UC Santa Barbara today to present the Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology seminar! 🌊
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe are searching for a Forest Ecophysiologist (tenure track Assistant or Associate Professor) to join the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia Faculty of Forestry. Please share! Details are here: ubc.wd10.myworkdayjobs.com/ubcfacultyjobs
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelNSF GRFP is out 2.5 months late w/key changes 1. 2nd year graduate students not eligible. 2. "alignment with Administration priorities" 3. Unlike prior years, they DO NOT specify the expected number of awards... that is a BIG problem. a brief 🧵 w/receipts www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...
- Please take a moment away from doomscrolling for this cute post-bath baby 🐕
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelCA Biology job alert My unit at the CA Dep of Fish and Wildlife is hiring a permanent position to write 5 year reviews for species listed under the CA Endangered Species Act. Based in West Sacramento, currently 2x week in office. I am happy to answer questions calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelUPDATE: The 2025-2026 list of faculty and postdoc positions in ecology and evolutionary biology is out! Be sure to check out this active and helpful community run resources! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
- Fascinating dive in a kelp forest to urchin barren transition zone yesterday in Monterey! 🌊🤿
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelCH₄ has a lifetime of about a decade in the atmosphere, whereby it oxidizes to CO₂ and remains in the atmosphere for tens of thousands of years. More than 99% of the cumulative climate impact (i.e., the radiative forcing) is from its life as CO₂. In the end, it's still CO₂ that gets you. 🥲
- Gorgeous hike in Pinnacles National Park yesterday! A hidden gem of a park in central CA ☀️
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelOur department (Berkeley PMB) is hiring an asst. prof. in Plant Resilience to Climate Change! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05049
- Oh, Monterey. Love seeing and hearing (but not smelling!) these sea lions on my bike ride to work 🚲
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelChain bladder kelp* (Stephanocystis osmundacea) is our seaweed of the week! *Despite its common name, it’s not a kelp but a fucoid… #PhycologyFriday
- So proud of my students, Zulie & Camille, for presenting their #kelp marine heatwave research at the undergraduate research symposium @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social last week! 🌊 Such a fun first summer!
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelThe Hopkins Internships - Summer Undergraduate Research Funds Poster Fair at Hopkins showcased undergrads’ summer research on kelp, fisheries, neural activity & more. Funded internships give students a launchpad into real science alongside Stanford faculty, postdocs & grad mentors.
- My 6 yr old niece drew me scuba diving in the kelp forest! 🤿 Then she said “Should I draw trash, too? I learned that there’s trash in the ocean.” 😭
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelThrilled to have a new paper out where we use 12+ years of monitoring data to document the impacts of inbreeding on fitness in eastern massasauga rattlesnakes! www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
- Fun seaweed cyanotype day with the lab! 🌊 ☀️
- Another @stanforddoerr.bsky.social Stanford search for a Tenured Professor in Climate Science! Applications due Oct. 30 🌊 🌎 🌡️ facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
- 1) Sea lion party, 2) my little sea lion
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- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelStanford is hiring Assistant Professors! It would be great to get people familiar with fisheries 🐟 . Please share - or apply if you are a good fit 😊 - Sustainable Food Systems: bit.ly/4m5DPpX - Traditional Ecological Knowledge bit.ly/4fpML7f @oceansolutions.stanford.edu @stanforddoerr.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe are so proud of our sea star wasting work that came out today. This interactive article is very complete and includes beautiful videos. Unmasking the Sea Star Killer www.biographic.com/unmasking-th...
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke Weigelgreat article in NYT about our discovery of the bacterium causing sea star wasting. This is also a chapter in my new book The Oceans Menagerie. @vikingbooks.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/s...
- Absolutely gorgeous green algae from Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷 Possibly Boergesenia forbesii / Valonia forbesii. I believe that the bubbles are single, inflated cells - amazing!
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke Weigel❗️Job Alert: Deep-Sea Benthic Biologist (Assistant Professor) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, USA 🌊 Apply by Dec 1, 2025: apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF04175 📷 Auckland Museum Collections (CC) #MarineBiology
- Post-conference beach vacay: Sargassum seas! 🌊 @raemariew.bsky.social
- PSA roomie dream team! 🇵🇷 ☕️ @hannahgreich.bsky.social @raemariew.bsky.social
- Incredible #PSA2025 field trip to El Yunque National Rainforest! 🌴 🇵🇷 @psaalgae.bsky.social
- ✨Dream job alert!✨ Come join our Oceans Department at Stanford University! We are hiring an Assistant Professor. This faculty search focuses on 3 major areas: Oceans & global change, Ocean technologies & solutions, or Human dimensions of oceans 🌊 facultypositions.stanford.edu/en-us/job/49...
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- Got to meet my scuba diving icon, Sylvia Earle, at the phycology conference in Puerto Rico! 🤿 🌊 @psaalgae.bsky.social
- PSA conference day 2! Some scenes from Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 @psaalgae.bsky.social
- Great first social night at #PSA2025 in Puerto Rico! 🇵🇷@psaalgae.bsky.social
- Had the most gorgeous kelp forest dive this week at Point Lobos in Monterey! 🌊 😍
- The ocean is looking gorgeous today! Views from @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social 🌊
- Excited to share that I was awarded a Stanford Big Ideas for Oceans grant to study carbon cycling in kelp forests! 🌊 woods.stanford.edu/research/fun...
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke WeigelWe’re pleased to announce two new vacancies for senior roles at our institute: Group Leader in Discovery Plant Sciences: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/gr... 🗓️ Closes 25 August Independent Fellowship in Plant-Associated Microbial Interactions: www.jic.ac.uk/vacancies/in... 🗓️ Closes 5 September
- She looks like a different dog, but it’s time for short hair summer! Started grooming her myself & I’m getting better each haircut! 🐕💇♀️
- My first successful wheel-thrown #kelp mug!! ☕️
- Super fun #kelp genetics & microbiome 🧬🦠 fieldwork day yesterday with my amazing interns & UCSC collaborators @meaghansaurus.bsky.social Always nice to be on a boat! 🌊
- Reposted by Dr. Brooke Weigel✨ The Bernhardt Lab at the University of Guelph is recruiting graduate students for 2026! Join us! We have several fully funded grad positions available ✨ Please spread the word! www.bernhardtlab.org/join-us #CSEE2025
- ✨ New paper! ✨ Excited to share our research on #snow #algae! We experimentally tested the physiological responses of diverse snow algal communities collected from the North Cascades of WA to elevated light & CO2 levels ❄️🏔️🔬 @living-snow-proj.bsky.social @newphyt.bsky.social doi.org/10.1111/nph....
- Super cute Monterey pride parade today! The Monterey Gay Aqueerium float was amazing 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
- This #PhycologyFriday we found an amazing diversity of marine algae during the gorgeous low tide @stanfordhopkins.bsky.social
