Clark Richards, PhD

@clarkgrichards.bsky.social

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Physical oceanographer, father, musician, cyclist. Coauthor of the R oce and argoFloats packages. Arctic Ocean change and processes, autonomous systems, and open software. Opinions are my own. he/him clarkrichards.org

An AI generated ad for a stupid stair-climbing device that is completely pointless.
A Halifax ferry, in Halifax Harbor, just after sunrise.
A photo of a copepod collected in Halifax harbour.
A selfie of middle-aged oceanographer aboard the CSS Acadia.
Screenshot from a linked document about fossils in the Saint John NB area, with the highlighted text reading: "The fossil finds include early sponges (Protospongia), brachiopods (a large group of two-shelled animals called lamp shells, most of which are now extinct), primitive stalked echinoderms called crinoids (distantly related to sea urchins and starfish)"
Photo of a fossil with shell imprints, with a pen for scale
A video of a homemade garbage bag kite being flown over a hayfield.
A screen shot of a text saying “Any hot tips for how to get super glue off your fingers? How about for getting eyelash curlers out of a toilet? Things have gone to shit around here.”
A photo of some oceanographic instruments displayed on a table for World Oceans Day 2025
A screenshot of a video from the BBC film "Oceans", showing marine life being dumped out of a trawl net, along with what appears to be some human-made objects (scientific instrumentation?).
Time series of temperature and absolute pressure measured from a spotter buoy.
A two-panel time series showing sealevel, a tidal prediction, and the anomaly after removing tides.
A time series plot showing temperature and pressure measured by a sofar buoy deployed by @drandrewthaler.bsky.social
A screenshot from a Spotify notification suggesting Johann Sebastian Bach is about to release a new album.
A screenshot of an account deactivation for the website formerly known as Twitter.
Otter prints in fresh snow, with a pen for scale.
A map of the Scotian Shelf in Eastern Canada, showing repeated ocean glider mission track lines intersecting with a red polygon for a potential marine conservation area.
A pot of turkey stock cooling on a stove top, where the fat layer has cooled into hexagonal cells due to Rayleigh-Benard convection
A CTD rosette is lowered over the side of a Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker (the CCGS Pierre Radisson) in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago during a field program in August 2024. The sky is grey with wildfire smoke from wildfires in the Northwest Territories.
Screenshot of the Merriam-Webster gif showing the word “do-over”.
A polar bear standing on an ice floe
A new Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship being launched in Bedford Basin.
A new Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship for the Canadian Navy being floated from a submersible barge in Bedford Basin, Halifax, NS.
A circular slide rule for calculating oceanographic quantities
A young boy on a rocky beach with a dead whale in the background
Two ocean scientists on stern of a boat, after recovering an oceanographic glider.
Map showing the track of an iceberg relative to two oceanographic moorings
A map of a region in the Canadian arctic showing an iceberg track and the location of two scientific moorings.