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Your weather app gets its info because of NOAA. Your mail arrives at your home because of USPS. Your plane navigates the skies because of the FAA. Your food is safer -- and we get alerts when it isn't -- because of USDA. You hear about earthquakes worldwide because of USGS.

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Oh my... it's actually been 24 years since my Master's defense?!? 😬

submitted 2 days ago • 4 comments

Mixing it up with our first Resilience Mixer! We brought together some new and familiar faces to share ideas among different disciplines here at the U. Thank you to all who attended and participated so thoughtfully. Hope to see you at the next one! 🙂

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The end of the country as it was founded/created is near. Weird to be alive for it.

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

So many orchids in bloom right now, and dozens more on the way!

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Pretty cool plant... quickly closes all of its leaves when touched.

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

I am beyond words at what is happening to recent hires across the federal government, specifically within NOAA. Firing everyone who started working within the past year means anyone from new college graduates getting their first job to seasoned professionals changing positions. [1/2]

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

At least 63 lawsuits have been filed against illegal executive orders since Jan. 20. I just finished attending an intense planning meeting with the board of the Climate Science Legal Defense Fund, @csldf.org. We are fighting hard and could use your support. www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

By amazing coincidence, this is the third consecutive year I'm giving a guest lecture on sea level rise on February 13! Two years ago it was at NOVA Southeastern University, and last year and this year are at the University of Miami. @univmiami.bsky.social

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Shocker...

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The extent of sea ice globally is now at an absolute record low level for the entire satellite-era. [Graphics: zacklabe.com/global-sea-i.... Note: the poles are affected by very different Earth system processes/seasonality. I am using 5-day running mean data.]

submitted 13 days ago • 11 comments

My primer on NOAA www.forbes.com/sites/marsha...

submitted 13 days ago • 3 comments

Nothing to see here...

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Gulf of Mexico. 475 years and counting...

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I was just told that I have to remove “climate” from the title of an ongoing grant if I want to keep it. And publications from that grant cannot include “climate” and other forbidden words. I can’t believe I’m writing this from the United States of America. #AcademicSky

submitted 14 days ago • 402 comments

I don't routinely teach as part of my job, but I do get asked to give guest lectures now and then and I enjoy those. I have 2 this week (neither of them in my department): today in the Dept. of Environmental Science & Policy, and Thursday in the Dept. of Ocean Sciences. @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

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New record alert on the #StateOfClimate front: Our colleagues at @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social confirm that January 2025 was the warmest January globally on record. This comes despite the onset of #LaNiña, a phenomenon that typically brings temporary cooling. climate.copernicus.eu/copernicus-j...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Our latest scoop: An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause all work with 'foreign nationals.'

submitted 18 days ago • 153 comments

Last August, I wrote an Op-Ed piece about Project 2025 and NOAA. It passed the scrutiny of several reviewers, then I submitted it to WaPo. It was apparently too far-fetched for them to publish. Six months later, here we are...

submitted 19 days ago • 11 comments

hey quick question does Goliath win in that story

submitted 22 days ago • 1122 comments

A steamy afternoon... best spent with a poolside margarita and a cute puppy on my lap.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

January 2025 was quite unexpectedly the warmest January on record at 1.75C above preindustrial, beating the prior record set in 2024. This is despite the presence of La Niña conditions in the tropical Pacific, with the El Niño event of 2023/2024 long faded. www.theclimatebrink....

submitted 22 days ago • 20 comments

BREAKING NEWS: CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed. Goes beyond MMWR +other CDC pubs. Applies to research already submitted to top medical journals. Take a look. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

submitted 23 days ago • 604 comments

Aides to Elon Musk charged with running the government's human resources agency have locked career civil servants out of computer systems that contain the personal data of millions of federal employees. "We have no visibility into what they are doing." www.reuters.com/world/us/mus...

submitted 23 days ago • 119 comments

Miami-folk: if you think it feels strangely swampy outside today, you'd be right. We hit a record-high dewpoint of 72°F for the date, which would be more typical of mid-late May, not February 1. The heat index has reached 86° as of 2pm, short of today's 88° record. 🥵

submitted 23 days ago • 3 comments

Here's a striking visualization of sea level rise that I just made for Key West FL, which has a 112-year history. The colors indicate the number of hours each day that the water level was above the mean high tide (1983-2001 mean). I show five months of the year, centered on "King Tide season". 🌊

submitted 24 days ago • 4 comments

Extraordinary on all levels!

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

I just added @melissapiper.bsky.social from SUNY Albany to my Starter Pack, please give her a follow! (Am I missing other hurricane peeps from that department who are on here?) go.bsky.app/88mXQKD

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Five years ago this morning, I shot this photo from work... still one of my all-time favorite sunrise photos (and I see a lot of sunrises). @miamirosenstiel.bsky.social

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment