Jay T. Cullen
Failed astronaut. Chemical Oceanographer. Professor and Director @seos-uvic.bsky.social
Interested in aviation, the ocean, climate science, space and music…
- This is my Fender Precision bass guitar…1971. I saved up and bought it in high school. Show me your Fender bass
- Or any other bass
- About 24 years ago I defended my thesis at Rutgers University int the great state of New Jersey. All of the work in the thesis was supported by grants from the NSF. Pic me in the centre with colleagues L to R Paul Field, @joegjoeg.bsky.social Sasha Tozzi @carolinelear.bsky.social and Trevor Bailey
- 🌊🧪 Great write up of our involvement in the recent Canadian 🇨🇦 expedition to #Antarctica 🇦🇶 featuring newly graduated @tiaanderlini.bsky.social @seos-uvic.bsky.social @uvicscience.bsky.social . www.linkedin.com/pulse/dr-tia...
- 🌊⛏️🧪 This is a seawater sample from ~4000 meters in the Canada 🇨🇦 Basin of the Beaufort Sea in the #Arctic Ocean. Rock hammer for scale
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- 🌊 But @davidho.bsky.social, aren't microplastics in the ocean actually ocean captured carbon? ;)
- ⛏️🧪 #Geology friends. I took this picture in Archer Fiord on Ellesmere Island Nunavut. The dusting of snow some interesting lines on the cliff face. What exactly is going on here? Thanks
- A wider angle showing the beauty of this remote fjord in the Canadian #Arctic 🇨🇦🍁
- 🌊🧪 A bit of ice floating in Makinson Inlet Ellesmere Island Nunavut from the icebreaker CCGS Amundsen summer 2024
- Industry in the Alberni Valley British Columbia this morning
- Domtar paper mill in Port Alberni
- My mom on her graduation from St. Joseph’s School of Nursing in Peterborough Ontario some time ago. She has since retired after a long career as a dedicated and talented nurse. She continues to be an even better Mom. Happy Mother’s Day Mom
- Sky above Port Alberni British Columbia right now
- 🧵🧪 It’s like watching your friend who has the most expensive Lego set on the block, after painstakingly building it up brick by brick so that it is the envy of everyone everywhere…start smashing it so that it lacks form or function. Just a pile of bricks… #NSF
- As Poincare said: “Science is built up of facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house.”
- Well…he sort of said that…sorry for the typo
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- Maybe all sci patent holders could withhold any use of their research derived tech…I’m not sure. Been keeping me up at night for sure
- I have an idea for a theme park…
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- Was think more along the lines of crudely distilled spirits and witty repartee
- 🌊🧪 It’s @tiaanderlini.bsky.social somewhere in the Labrador Sea sampling for trace elements and isotopes @geotraces.bsky.social Photo from Dr. Erin Bertrand (Dalhousie)
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- Welcome Saurabh!
- Maybe not being vaccinated is an underlying condition…
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- Hi Norm! 👋
- I can turn it down
- AI is neither artificial nor intelligent.
- 🌊🧪 From @rmbundy.bsky.social
- New paper out from the lab showing efficient uptake and recycling of cobalamins in the North Pacific by Jiwoon Park urldefense.com/v3/__http://...
- 🌊🧪Job Alert!!! @oceannetworks.ca is looking for a Chief Executive Officer. Come join us at the University of Victoria 🇨🇦 www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/ch...
- Mount Saint Helens, 1980. The big boom really grabs your attention, of course. I think the first part of the video, where nothing much seems to be happening until you realize the *entire mountainside* is sliding down, is even more awesome. 🧪⛰️🧵
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- Not difficult to do. Would be easy for OP to point out to Bluesky users that it is generated…
- People sharing generated video of the eruption like it is real
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- This is not actual video of the eruption as none from this vantage point exists. This is generated/made up using still photos of the slump and lateral blast
- Otter on approach to CYWH Victoria Harbour #aviation
- 🌊🧪 A new Polar Icebreaker is being built by Seaspan in BC to extend Canada's 🇨🇦 capabilities in the #Arctic with respect to economic and scientific activities. Key for Canadian sovereignty and security in the North www.seaspan.com/seaspan-ship...
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- The application of nuclear power was never something seriously considered for the Canadian fleet. Power and range limited with ICE driven power plants
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- Shipbuilding in Canada is a bit of a political football...hopefully good things come to those who wait
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- Cutting steel I am pretty sure
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- They are building two...one at Seaspan and one in Quebec
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- I see @davidho.bsky.social and a figure by @scottdoney.bsky.social
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- Ryan, physical copies are hard to come by anymore but I will keep an eye out. There is a nice searchable pdf I can send. Do you already have it?
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- Rideau Canal, Parliament Hill and Chateau Laurier. Peak Canada 🇨🇦🍁
- Subsidiary peak Canada🇨🇦
- These mofos filed a lawsuit against Hawaiʻi to prevent us from suing fossil fuel companies for climate change damages.
- This seems the opposite of justice
- But many do vary…
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- Congratulations Jens!
- Democracy. Always under construction 🇨🇦🍁
- Behold the hole in the parchment! MS Dd.4.17; Books of Hours; 14th Century C.E.; East Anglia; f.36v @camdiglib.bsky.social
- Why the shoes?
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- Congratulations Scott!
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- Ahhh!
