Dr. Xochitl Clare | #DancingBiologist

Updated link here!: ucla.zoom.us/j/94668842622

New pub in press! 🌊📚
“Here Comes the Hurricane” explores viral hurricane dance parodies as embodied climate response 🌪️
Honored to present this work w/ @UCLAradicalimaginations.
Marine ecology meets performance meets resist-dance.🔥
Link 🔗https://ucla.zoom.us/my/oliviasimon

Presented my work on peptide-induced spawning & long-term larval culture of the Giant sea cucumber at #SICB2026 🧬🌊
Grateful to share this research and kick off my final year as a postdoc alongside such an inspiring community!

Updated flyer! TODAY🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar at Western Washington University! 🎃

I’ll be sharing my talk:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨

Bringing ocean + community storytelling to WWU!🌊💙

#WWU #EcoTrace #MarineScience #Conservation

🦑 Giving a Halloweek seminar tomorrow at Western Washington University! 🎃

I’ll be sharing:
✨ EcoTrace Project: Mapping Environmental Pollution & Community Awareness in Belize ✨

Honored to bring ocean + community storytelling to the WWU crowd 🌊

#WWU #MarineScience #Halloweek #Conservation

Final lap of my WRF Postdoc 🎉 #tbt 2025 Symposium + feeling grateful to present with such a powerhouse cohort.
This year is finishing reports, manuscripts, invited talks, stepping into independence as a scientist through eco-entrepreneurship—Year of risks. Year of growth. Let’s go. 🚀

#CucSquad 2.0 has entered the chat! 💫💜 Working alongside legends like Prof. Billie Swalla @ Friday Harbor Labs. Let’s gooo 💪🏽 sea cucumbers have spawned! 🌊✨

I’m kicking off a study on how plastic leachates impact early development! 🎉
#WomenInSTEM #PlasticPollution #CucSquad

The waterfront is calling! Join me & @waterfrontparkseattle for the 5K Community Celebration on Sat, May 31, 10am–2pm at Overlook Walk & Pier 62. I’ll be hosting the Ocean Poetry Table—come co-create poems by the sea!
#SeattleWaterfront #EcoArt #Poetry

COUNTDOWN DONE!✅ My 138 samples are officially off to Dartmouth for metals testing! 🧪📦

Collected in 🇧🇿 by fishers & students!:
🐊 Croc nails & scutes
🐟 Finfish gills & fins
🌊 Sediment from mangroves
🦑 Sea cucumber tissue

Processed by hand with care—data coming soon!
#CommunityScience #WomenInSTEM

It’s official! I’m co-facilitating the Marine Science Ocean Arts workshop at #FridayHarborLabs 🌊🎭🎨 Grateful to Marjorie Wonham & Astrida Neimanis for the vision 💙 As a marine scientist & artist, I’m so excited to dive into this eco-art adventure! 🐚✨ #SciArt #OceanArts

💙🐻 Fun fact: my parents met at UCLA!—now I get to give a seminar there!

Speaking @ #UCLA next week for the RUA Research Exchange!

🗓️ Apr 16
🕐 12pm PST
🔗 Zoom Link: lnkd.in/gb9cKae2

👉🏽 Second photo is of little me!—this moment’s a long time coming 💫

#RUA #BruinBaby @uclaioes.bsky.social

So excited to have launched my Ocean Improv Poetry Table here @scistoriesproject.bsky.social !🩵🌊✨

🌊💙 Full circle @scrippsocean.bsky.social ! Grateful to return as an invited speaker, sharing how research, communities & storytelling shape my work.

📸 Presenting, reconnecting with mentors from my REU days, & iconic Scripps views.

Until next time, Scripps! 💙✨ #JT-SURF #Mentorship #FullCircle

Doctor Arlenie Rogers, Assistant Professor at the University of Belize 1 YouTube video by Channel 5 Belize

▶️Check this interview from my mentor Dr. Arlenie Rogers during the research expedition I led in August! 🎥🌊 Stay tuned for my segment soon! 🪸🐚
Video: youtu.be/XJwTLcSMlOw
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🎣✨ Fieldwork memories from 2024! #tbt Out on the open ocean with Placencia fishing legend Doyle Gardiner & team, collecting predatory fish for the EcoTrace Project. Monitoring heavy metals in seafood across ecosystems. 🌊🐟

Ocean Poetry Pop-Up: Improv Poetry with Marine Biologist YouTube video by Xochitl Clare

🎄✨ Brewing poetic ocean steam this holiday season at #GeorgetownSteamPlant ! ✨Using a typewriter, I’m crafting ocean poems, blending improv, sharing the gift of words for the holidays!🎁💌
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✨ From Placencia to the @uwsafs.bsky.social lab bench, here’s a glimpse of the #EcoTraceProject ! 🌊🐚This fall, we’ve investigated heavy metals in Belizean sea cucumbers. 💪 Excited to share results in Placencia in the Spring. Until then, the grind continues! ✨
#MarineBiology #Belize #SeaCucumber

Thank you, UB, for including UW in this year’s partners list—it’s a privilege!✨ Honored to partner with the University of Belize & @uwsafs.bsky.social for my postdoc! 🌊🐚 Excited for more in 2025! 💡🐟
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🌊✨ Hi Bluesky! I’m Dr. Xochitl Clare, a Marine Biologist & Performing Artist ( #DancingBiologist ). Afro-Latina 🇯🇲 🇧🇿 🇺🇸 studying community-based climate solutions in WA & Belize. 🎭🌊 Ph.D., 🧜🏾‍♀️ diver, 🩰 dancer, & filmmaker mentoring future scientists. Let’s connect! 💙 #blackinmarinescience

Connecting Over Sea Cucumbers: The Cuc Squad’s Holistic Science Education Program — FIELDNOTES Reshaping undergraduate research structures with an interdisciplinary approach to educating the next generation of climate change problem-solvers.

📣CUC SQUAD, a marine science pilot I directed this Spring, hits UW Environment FieldNotes' latest issue with some pitchy science journalism by our very own Anouk Janess 💦🐙 Read on Cuc Squad’s latest accomplishments @ UW SAFS! fieldnotesjournal.org/new-blog/202...

🌵🏜️💛 #tbt An unforgettable week @ the #2024NDiSTEM conference! 🌵✨Connecting with folks share both scientific & cultural backgrounds close to my own 🌄🧡🌞 Thanks to #UWEnvironment & #SACNAS ! 🌵🌞 #SACNAS2024

✔️Temperature loggers deployed! 🌡️✨ #tbt Tough day in the mangroves, but big smiles! 🌿 Huge thanks to Crocodile Research Coalition intern Alejandra Ariza for the help! 🙌🏾 Monitoring temperature our sites for EcoTrace 🌱🌊

✔️✔️Croc surveys complete! 🐊✨#tbt First time this close to a croc! These predators face coastal pollution just like the smaller species in our project. After safely collecting samples with the #CrocodileResearchCoalition we returned him to the water! Next up: fish & temp loggers 🌊🙌🏾

✔️✨ Collected sea cucumbers & sediment in a 3-site mangrove crawl @ lagoon & reef! 💦 Dream team: University of Belize Prof. Arlenie Rogers, fishermen & students. 🙌🏾🌊 #tbt my EcoTrace Project analyzing pollutants in marine life & sediment!🐙

An ambassador for diversity in marine science A conversation with post-doc Xochitl Clare

🏅🌟Cheers to completing my first full academic year as a postdoctoral researcher ! Such an honor to be a part of this feature by UW SAFS--Year 2 let's go! #cantstopwontstop
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#tbt Juneteenth in Miami🌺✨with BIMS! Meeting Presidents of the National Association of Black Scuba Divers & celebrating the BIMS Immersion Program (BIP) was everything #WEOUTSIDE #blackinmarinescience

🌊💜#tbt Sharing my Thinktank on Mentoring in an REU Setting for the FHL Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) mentors ! I shared my work on our UCSB FUERTE “Mentoring the Mentors” (Hofmann et al., Oceanography 2023) publication

#tbt 🌊💜My first Open House with the Padilla-Gamino Lab!🔬🪸🐠🐙It was a blast teaching the public about all our invertebrate eco-physiology research! 🌊💜
#sciencecommunication #marinescience #marinebiology #education

📆 🎙️#tbt My first talk on my holistic marine science work in Belize 🇧🇿& PNW🏔️ @ UW SAFS last year !➡️Swipe to see how it went! Was super nervous sharing complex work so close to my heart ! So proud! 💜✨ #SciComm #HolisticMarineBiology #blackinmarinescience

📣🏅#repost I’m a 3 yr Washington Research Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship @ the University of Washington @ Padilla-Gamiño Lab in Marine Biology🌊📣🏅🔥More to share as I get more comfy on here! #AddtoBlackSky #blackinmarinescience