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With much of the Bay Area in "Shelter in Place" mode, this is the new reality of our Farallon Institute Monday Morning Meeting.

Farallon Institute's Winter State of the Ocean Newsletter was just released. Click below to learn about what is happening at Farallon Institute and in your local ocean. And subscribe to our quarterly newsletter at http://www.faralloninstitute.org/support-us.

Now to introduce you to our second new addition to the Farallon Institute team...Dr. Daisy Hui Shi comes to FI after her Ph.D. study and postdoc research at University of Hawaii, Manoa. Originally from China, her background includes atmospheric sciences, climate change and adaptation, and environmental engineering. Daisy will join FI’s West Coast Climate Extreme project, bringing her experiences in general circulation models, statistical analysis and climate variability. To learn more about Dr. Shi and the work she will be doing at Farallon Institute head over to our website! http://www.faralloninstitute.org/about

We would like to introduce you to the newest addition to the Farallon Institute! Dr. Chelle Gentemann has been a long-time collaborator with Farallon Institute and we are excited to have her join our team as a Senior Scientist. She works on using satellites to measure sea surface temperature, salinity, and the exchange of heat between ocean and atmosphere...all important factors in weather prediction and accurate climate modeling. Her recent research focuses on interdisciplinary science using cloud computing, open source software development, and machine learning for applications. To find out more about Dr. Gentemann and our work at the Farallon Institute please check out our website: http://www.faralloninstitute.org/about

Several years ago, the west coast of the United State saw unprecedented numbers of dead common murre washing up on its beaches. Researchers believe the die-off was caused by the extreme warming of the North Pacific water, termed "The Blob", that lead to lack of forage fish and thus seabird starvation. A brand new study by Dr. John Piatt and others (including several of us here at Farallon Institute) has now estimated that the total loss of murre is closer to 1 MILLION birds! ...Here are a few new articles about the study: https://www.sciencenews.org//massive-marine-heat-wave-blob https://www.adn.com//pacific-seabird-die-off-linked-to-a/ https://www.nytimes.com//ap-us-pacific-seabird-mass-die-of And here is the link to the study itself: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article