Lily Dove
Oceanographer and climate scientist 🌊 | Assistant Professor at Georgia Tech 🐝 | MIT/Caltech alumna 🦫 | Penguin enthusiast 🐧
- Reposted by Lily DoveAfter yrs of planning & preparing, things didn't work @ the last minute. I deeply feel for these scientists. Our Antarctic project is smaller scale—but we faced continuous setbacks, from govt, Mother Nature, tech. We get so little time to do our work here; setbacks are heartbreaking #oceanography 🇦🇶🌊
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- Know an awesome undergraduate student who would benefit from the opportunity to do research in the geosciences this summer? Applications are open for the Georgia Tech Broadening Participation REU (due February 15). 🌊 ☁️ 🌍 🧪
- Science research vessel traffic jam in Punta Arenas! 🌊⛴️Currently around port are the RV Roger Revelle (USA), RSS Sir David Attenborough (UK), Icebreaker Noosfera (Ukraine), and Xue Long 2 (China). Soon we on the RV Sikuliaq (USA) will join the party!
- A lullaby from the skies in the Magellan Straits last night. 🌊 ☁️
- We’ve entered the Straits of Magellan, at the southern end of Chile. It’s absolutely beautiful!
- 51S, 94W: we have a new guest on board - a Nazca booby! Usually found near the Galapagos, this guy is far out of his typical range. Aptly, our stowaway is hanging out on the crow’s nest. Photo by Pablo Cohn.
- Reposted by Lily Dove2025 goes down as the ~3rd-warmest year on record (based on ERA5). Like in 2024, every single day this past year was warmer than the average of even the most recent reference period (1991-2020).
- Reposted by Lily DoveKnow an undergraduate looking for an opportunity to get paid to do cryospheric or other geoscience research this summer? Let them know about the GT EAS Broadening Participation REU here in Atlanta. Now accepting applications through ETAP! easreu.eas.gatech.edu
- It’s very biologically quiet out here on the South Pacific, but we got the company and blessing of a beautiful albatross earlier. 🌊 39S, 122W
- Today's satellite shoutout 🛰️ is to NASA PACE, which gives us data of ocean color, biogeochemistry, and ecology! 🌊 🧪 Here is chlorophyll-a (signature of photosynthesizing plankton) along with ocean current magnitude and direction (arrows). The red dot is where I currently am on the RV Sikuliaq! ⛴️
- Living a dream come true and chasing ocean eddies in real time thanks to the NASA SWOT satellite. 🌊 🛰️ ⛴️ 🧪 SWOT provides us "swaths" of data about water elevation for both the ocean and large freshwater reservoirs. I use this data to track small-scale ocean currents and watch how they evolve.
- A Christmas gift to the ocean from the team aboard the RV Sikuliaq: one specially wrapped biogeochemical-Argo float from @bgc-argo.bsky.social! 🌊 Profiling floats allow us to get real-time ocean data, helping us be in tune with ocean health and changes.
- Home for the next few weeks. Gotta say, Tahiti is a funny place to board an icebreaker! 🌊⛴️
- Reposted by Lily DoveEveryone always asked why I moved to landlocked Colorado to do oceanography. Because it was the world's largest concentration of climate scientists. Because of NCAR and NOAA. In Boulder, fewer are alarmists; they are overwhelmingly problem solvers. NCAR's science is patriotic. Vought is not. 🌊
- Reposted by Lily DoveAGU has a Congressional email and call script up on NCAR:
- Reposted by Lily DoveFriends at NCAR, we're with you. @ncar-ucar.bsky.social is a trailblazer in community modelling driven not by idealogy, but by open science. We share all our code, thoughts, ideas. These can't be shut down. We'll fight and find every mechanism to support the ongoing CESM community.
- For a few weeks, I will be sailing on the RV Sikuliaq from Papeete, Tahiti to Punta Arenas, Chile. ⛴️ Stay tuned for some fun science in the South Pacific! In an especially fun fact, we will be sailing close (in an ocean sense) to Point Nemo, the place in the ocean that is farthest from land. 🌊
- I regret to inform everybody that I failed and now have to settle for my backup: being a professor.
- Reposted by Lily Dove⚒️ Article: Earthquakes influence the amount of hydrothermal iron entering the ocean over the Australian Antarctic Ridge, which can support phytoplankton blooms by relieving surface iron limitation www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Lily DoveDelighted that one of my Antarctic winter photos has won the 2025 Royal Society Photography Competition, Earth Science & Climatology category. Captured during polar-night surveys of ocean conditions near Antarctic Peninsula glaciers. royalsociety.org/journals/pub...
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- “I have found that the longer I exist as an expert in my own field of science, the less I like to assert a piece of knowledge with great certainty.” Beautiful writing that is helping me reflect on my assumptions in oceanography (and all the other amazing things I have the honor of learning!). 🌊
- Reposted by Lily DoveThings that will get you kicked out of academia forever: - taking maternity leave at the wrong time - spending too much time with your kids - reporting harassment - not moving every 2-3 years - taking a partner's job/preferences into account - mouthing off before tenure
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- Taking solace in the great Isabel Allende's words today: "The patriarchy is stony. Feminism, like the ocean, is fluid, powerful, deep and encompasses the infinite complexity of life; it moves in waves, currents, tides and sometimes in storms. Like the ocean, feminism never stays quiet."
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- No committee needed. Proud alumna today. 🦫🧪 “Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
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- Reposted by Lily Dove"After nearly 40 years, the Arctic Research Consortium of the United States, or ARCUS, will close September 30." "The Arctic Research Consortium of the United States funded programs that aided Indigenous communities and tracked melting sea ice, among dozens of initiatives."
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- Reposted by Lily DoveOver 14,000 physicians currently practicing in the United States, concentrated in underserved Midwestern+Southern states, are currently working on H-1B visas. This is the high-skill visa program, lifeblood for critical sectors, that the US Administration is sledgehammering. doi.org/10.1007/s116...
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- 9/16/25: Happy Pythagorean Triple Square Day! (3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2)
- Mentees absolutely benefit from high-quality mentoring. Turns out so do the mentors! The Mentoring Physical Oceanography Women to Increase Retention (MPOWIR) program shows it with 20 years of data. 🌊 🧪
- Typing "RE" in Google now autodirects me to research.gov instead of reddit.com, which is how I know I'm officially a real adult scientist. 🧪
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- Week 1 of faculty life checklist: ✅ Be overwhelmed with responsibility, gratitude, and excitement ✅ Begin building new habits and life patterns ✅ Accidentally twin with the mascot
- Reposted by Lily DoveOur new paper shows how recent prescribed (Rx) burns in the western US impacted later wildfires. We find that Rx fires reduced wildfire severity + net smoke emissions, even when factoring in smoke from Rx fires. But, we find that these Rx fires were less effective in the wildland-urban interface.
- My banker: "So your job is to nerd out about water?" Couldn't have said it better myself! And what an awesome job it is. 🌊
- Reposted by Lily DoveThe National Science Foundation plans to abruptly end operation of the RV Nathaniel B. Palmer, the sole U.S. research ship capable of braving the farthest reaches of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean. scim.ag/4mB8LOX
- Reposted by Lily Dove🌊❄️🧪 🇦🇶 Please share: We have learned that the National Science Foundation is moving ahead with plans to decommission the U.S. Research Vessel/Ice Breaker Nathaniel B. Palmer this October. If you care about Antarctic research, please read on (1/n)
- Continued evidence that climate change will impact us all: Bachelor in Paradise had to change filming locations to provide AC to the cast and crew. 🌤️ 🏖️ 🎥
