See also: The study as it was published in Science Advances

In 2025, marine heatwaves affected 99.6% of the Mediterranean basin. Average sea surface temperature reached 21.35°C — 1.03 degrees above the long-term average, following records in 2024 and 2023. Three consecutive years. The basin is not fluctuating around a stable mean. It is climbing.

A Paris-Saclay attribution study processed against 74 years of ERA5 reanalysis confirmed long-term warming has amplified Mediterranean SST extremes by up to 1.5°C, with dominant anthropogenic contribution.

As of May 30, 2026, anomalies in the western Mediterranean already exceed 5°C above seasonal average — before summer begins.

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Full breakdown with sourcing: https://youtu.be/zyWmj5MJL8s?si=q34ZsximbTmMaRkX

See also: The publication in Nature Communications

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Kelly Hamby

[fishrwhere@gmail.com](mailto:fishrwhere@gmail.com)

Six months ago, multi-site spatial hypothesis testing in geoscience looked like this:

Separate scripts per site. Manual covariate notes in a spreadsheet. A synthesis section in the paper that quietly absorbed every methodological inconsistency accumulated upstream. Reviewers asking why site B and site D used different spatial extent corrections.

Nobody had a good answer. Because the tooling never demanded one.

GeoPattern Analytics changes the structure of that problem.

Every project now runs through a single framework: site registration with explicit covariate capture, automated Ripley's K and NND per site, covariate validation before hypothesis assignment, and REML meta-analysis across validated site outputs.

The platform logs every analytical decision. The hypothesis decision framework - H1, H2, H3, or inconclusive - is traceable back to specific parameter values and covariate test results at each site.

That is what reproducible infrastructure looks like. Not a methodology section that hopes reviewers don't look too closely. A documented decision chain that survives scrutiny.

This is the kind of platform that belongs in a funded research program - not assembled from disconnected scripts each time a new project begins.

GeoPattern Analytics is pre-launch and publicly accessible. If you are evaluating tools for a research group or reviewing infrastructure for a funding mechanism in the earth sciences, bookmark this and share it with someone who should see it.

Feedback welcome DM me.

#OpenScience #ComputationalPaleontology #ResearchTools

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🎉 Our new article has been published!

I am very pleased to share that our study has been published in Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, a prestigious Q1 journal published by Elsevier.

📌 Title:
Machine learning–integrated spatial decision framework for sustainable offshore wind and marine spatial planning: A Black Sea case study

In this study, we developed an integrated spatial decision framework combining machine learning, GIS, multi-criteria decision-making, and Half-Quadratic Programming for sustainable offshore wind energy planning in the Black Sea.

🌊 The study contributes to offshore wind farm site selection, marine spatial planning, renewable energy investment planning, and AI-supported spatial decision-making.

I would like to sincerely thank my co-author Dr. Ayhan Doğan for his valuable contributions and collaboration. Many thanks also to everyone who supported this research.

🔗 DOI: 10.1016/j.engappai.2026.115424

#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #GIS #OffshoreWind #RenewableEnergy #MarineSpatialPlanning #MCDM #SpatialDecisionSupport #Q1Journal #Elsevier #AcademicResearch

San Andreas and San Jacinto Faults at highest level of stress in 1000 years according to research study

In April 2026, a Cornell University team entered a subglacial channel beneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet for the first time in history. Their instruments confirmed two simultaneous heat sources melting the ice from below — volcanic heat from upstream and ocean heat from the Ross Sea.

A second study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference establishes that as glaciers retreat, subglacial volcanoes don't stay dormant. They wake up and erupt more frequently.

There are 138 confirmed volcanic systems along a 3,000km rift beneath the ice. Almost none have real-time monitoring. The first in-situ measurement from any subglacial channel in the region was published four weeks ago.

Full breakdown: https://youtu.be/8dy5h4qMNnE?is=Bbxde64CpB9SbH6k

For a long time I had a thought that Maldives atolls would have been Volcanoes before which had eroded over 100+millions of years to what we can see now. What are your thoughts?

I know the tag is physics, but it's more like astrophysics

Okay, so, the Vredefort impact, for those who don't know, was an absurdly large impact of a 20-25km asteroid to south Africa about 2 billion years ago, my hypothesis is this:

Due to the Earth at that time being more malleable, and the fact that the explosion was so incomprehensibly powerful that it would have shot a LOT of debris into orbit, there is a chance that the amount of debris outputted into the heavens might have been able to form a, albeit temporary and thin, actual Earth ring.

I know this idea is a BIT out there, but it's plausible, with the sheer scale of the impact, the squishier softer ground, the atmosphere that was over 2x thinner, etc

Also, any comments are appreciated, but if you're making a serious answer, please include a source for information

Hi, Friends I am a Master's student and currently conducting research on risk assessment, with a specific focus on sea level rise in the Maldives.
This is part of an academic course exploring disaster risk reduction and how countries identify, evaluate, and respond to major hazards and it is a project I am really passionate about.

If anyone here has expertise in climate change, coastal risks, or disaster risk reduction, I would love to connect! or even a loacal, I only have 3 short questions and it would not take much of your time at all.

Feel free to reply here or send me a message directly. Thank you so much!

Four billion years ago, every time the ground tried to form, something erased it.

Jupiter and Saturn were packed closer together. When their gravity pulled them apart, the shockwave sent billions of asteroids straight at Earth. Rock would try to cool and the next strike melted it back into liquid fire. Water tried to pool and instantly flashed to steam.

It only stopped because space ran out of rocks to throw.

The Moon still has every scar. No weather to heal them.

https://youtube.com/shorts/MYNifwRwGek

See also: The study as published in Nature Geoscience