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Ankur Desai

@profdesai.bsky.social

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Professor and Chair@UW_AOS Meteorology, Ecology, Climate Sci (Biosphere-Atmos) Parent to 3 kid chaos. Https://flux.aos.wisc.edu

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Ankur Desai @profdesai.bsky.social · 9h

AMS and AGU are no fun without students. These dollars are one of our primary ways to get them there!

UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 14h

Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences.

Will you join our AOS flock?

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - Fill The Hill

Since 1948, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) has been at the forefront of weather, climate, and ocean science, with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. O...

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 14h

Fill the Hill and the flamingos are back! Be part of the feathered fun Oct 9–10, and support AOS at go.wisc.edu/5348a6. Gifts go to our discretionary fund and are used in impactful ways, helping students gain research experience and attend academic conferences.

Will you join our AOS flock?

Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences - Fill The Hill

Since 1948, the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences (AOS) has been at the forefront of weather, climate, and ocean science, with nationally recognized graduate and undergraduate programs. O...

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Ankur Desai @profdesai.bsky.social · 1d

So thrilling to see our very own genius, Ángel Adames Corraliza, receive this fitting recognition!!!

UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!

Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84

Ángel F. Adames Corraliza

Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.

www.macfound.org

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 1d

We are thrilled and proud to share that AOS prof Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!

Congrats, Ángel! The department is ecstatic for you. In addition to the MacArthur announcement linked below, check out the UW–Madison news release here: go.wisc.edu/r0ff84

Ángel F. Adames Corraliza

Advancing understanding of the forces that drive tropical weather patterns.

www.macfound.org

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Chancellor Jennifer Mnookin @uwchancellor.bsky.social · 1d

WOO HOO!! Proud to share that TWO @uwmadison.bsky.social faculty were just announced as 2025 MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” recipients. HUGE congrats to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza & Sébastien Phillipe, doing amazing work on tropical storms & nuclear security, respectively.👏

Two UW–Madison professors named MacArthur Fellows

Atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza and nuclear security specialist Sébastien Philippe, professors at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, have been awarded 2025 MacArthur Fellowships.

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 6d

The flamingos are coming! 🦩 Will you help us Fill the Hill Oct 9–10? Join in the feathered fun and make a gift starting at 5 pm CDT, Thurs, 10/9: uwflamingos.com/campaign/atm....

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · 8d

Join us today for a Department Seminar at 2:30 CDT! Megan Caldwell, flood and water analyst, Guy Carpenter, will discuss "Private Sector Meteorology: An Introduction to Reinsurance and Catastrophe Modeling."

Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl-D...

Flyer for AOS Department Seminar with Megan Caldwell

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Jose D Fuentes @jdfuentes.bsky.social · 16d

Very nice essay! @biometlab.bsky.social @paulstoy.bsky.social @profdesai.bsky.social

biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 16d

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network - Baldocchi - 2025 - Perspectives of Earth and Space Scientists - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

The Roads Traveled to Reach a Greenhouse Gas Flux Network

A global network of eddy covariance measurements sites is providing direct measurements of carbon dioxide, water vapor and energy fluxes This network evolved over time through technical advances ...

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biometlab @biometlab.bsky.social · 26d

I found an obituary for Steve

www.renner-wikoffchapel.com/obituary/Ste...

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Sep 2

We’re thrilled to welcome Bee Leung to our faculty! A cloud physicist and mesoscale meteorologist by training, her research looks at the physical processes driving land-aerosol-cloud interactions. Learn more about Bee in our Q&A: www.aos.wisc.edu/news/q-a_wel...

Photo of Bee Leung

Andrew Dessler @andrewdessler.com · Sep 2

Our 400+ page comment on the DOE climate working group report is now out.

Our conclusion: The merchants of doubt are back, and they're coming for climate science.

DOEresponseSite

On July 29, 2025, the Department of Energy (DOE) published a report from its Climate Working Group (CWG). This report features prominently in the EPA's reconsideration of its 2009 Endangerment Finding. In response, over 85 scientists have come together to write a comprehensive review, which is

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Aug 20

UW-Madison AOSS Rooftop Camera video from this past Saturday with two spectacular gust front / arc cloud passages, and lots of turbulence right behind them

youtu.be/OfgKADhyET0

2025 August 16 - Storms, Arc clouds - North view

YouTube video by AOSSRooftopCameras

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Aug 19

Some good news to share: NASA's PREFIRE mission has been extended through September 2026 and is broadening its focus from Earth’s poles to the entire globe. AOS professor Tristan L'Ecuyer is the principal investigator.

www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-p...

NASA’s PREFIRE CubeSat Mission Extended

The twin cube satellites will operate through at least September 2026, expanding focus from the poles to the whole planet to improve modelling and weather forecasts.

www.jpl.nasa.gov

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Zeke Hausfather @hausfath.bsky.social · Aug 14

The recent DOE climate science report misrepresents the work of many researchers. Carbon Brief asked those cited to review the parts of the report where their work was used, and we collectively found 100+ misleading or false statements: interactive.carbonbr...

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Albert Ruhí @albertruhi.bsky.social · Aug 14

We’re looking for an Assistant Professor in Physical Climate Science. Apply and join a great interdisciplinary Department! @natureatcal.bsky.social @agu.org @freshwaterscience.bsky.social
#academicjobs

aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management

University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

aprecruit.berkeley.edu

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Aug 14

AOS professor Hannah Zanowski joined The Larry Meiller Show to talk about the role of oceans on Earth and other planets. Have a listen!

How oceans support life; keeping space rovers unstuck; and the scourge of blue-green algae

Oceanography has much to tell us about the health of planet Earth – as well as far-flung exoplanets. Then, we learn why space rovers get stuck on Mars and the moon. Then, an up-to-date report on anoth...

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Aug 7

Through modeling efforts over high-risk regions, including Wisconsin airspace, they aim to apply machine learning tools to improve the identification and prevention of these hazards.

AOS Professor Mayra Oyola-Merced and the SOARs research group at the EAA AirVenture Oshkosh

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Jul 28

CCR Director and AOS Affiliate Scientist Michael Notaro has led STEM camps aimed at fostering neurodiversity in science for several years. He spoke to WMTV 15 News about how their long-term future is unclear due to funding cuts.

Madison STEM camp for neurodivergent kids could see final year after funding loss

Private donations are helping keep the camps going through this summer, but the long-term future is unclear.

www.wmtv15news.com

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Jul 25

AOS Professional MS students made a trip to the Kegonsa Research Campus to visit an agrivoltaics site. They explored research at the intersection of solar energy, agriculture, climate, and water, such as @profdesai.bsky.social and his Ecometeorology Lab's work with flux towers.

📸: Josh Arnold

AOS Professional MS students at an agricvoltaics site

AOS Professional MS students looking at a flux tower at an agrivoltaics site

Research project at an agrivoltaics site

Flux tower at an agrivoltaics site

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · May 2

@profdesai.bsky.social received the Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professorship. This award recognizes distinguished scholarship as well as standout efforts in teaching and service. Congratulations and well deserved, Ankur!

news.wisc.edu/44-faculty-h...

44 faculty honored with Vilas professorships and awards

Extraordinary members of the University of Wisconsin–Madison faculty and staff have been honored during the last year with awards supported by the estate of professor, U.S. Senator and UW Regent Willi

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Manda Adams, PhD @mandaadams.bsky.social · Jul 11

www.science.org/content/arti...

Senate spending panel would rescue NSF and NASA science funding

Its support for a flat budget is a sign of congressional resistance to drastic cuts Trump has proposed

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Jul 7

In partnership with the University of Wisconsin Digital Collections Center, we had the opportunity to archive a portion of the department’s historical photos. We're happy to share that the collection is now live: search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AAOS...

Construction of the UW–Madison Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Space Sciences building in 1967

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Alan Gerard @wxmanms1.bsky.social · Jul 6

I have spent the last 24 hours looking at media reports and social media posts about the Texas Hill County tragedy and being appalled by the level of misinformation I am seeing. I have tried to put together an updated, more reasoned summary I hope you'll read.

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Latest on Texas Hill Country flood tragedy

Chantal makes landfall in South Carolina

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Rupert Seidl @rupertseidl.bsky.social · Jul 6

As the mean rate of forest disturbance is increasing, so does its temporal variance. Proof that Taylor's law also applies to disturbance ecology, and a warning of more severe future extremes. Paper led by @corneliussenf.bsky.social w/ @tommaso-jucker.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Taylor’s law predicts unprecedented pulses of forest disturbance under global change - Nature Communications

Large pulses of disturbance have been observed globally in response to climate change. Using Taylor’s Law, the authors show that those pulses were not unpredictable but expected given a strong scaling...

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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · Jul 5

👇🎯

<all together now>

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Sophia Babai @swingingstorm.bsky.social · Jul 3

My mom and stepdad are from the same diaspora group as Zohran Mamdani’s dad (same like “my stepdad was kicked out of the same town and knows some of his classmates”) and apparently the New York Times doesn’t understand how diaspora works, so I am going to tell you a little about my mom’s people!

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Dr. Dawn Wright @deepseadawn.bsky.social · Jun 27

The US Global Change Research Program a next target of Trump's destruction campaign. My sources report that globalchange.gov will go dark Monday. NOAA is archiving the National Climate Assessment at NCEI.

U.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.gov

globalchange.gov

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News 3 Now / Channel3000 @channel3000.com · Jun 23

From Madison Magazine: Recent uncertainty about the future of local TV meteorologists has the community evaluating how we hear about critically important weather events.

Local TV meteorologists are weathering the storm

Recent uncertainty about the future of local TV meteorologists has the community evaluating how we hear about critically important weather events.

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Ankur Desai @profdesai.bsky.social · Jun 24

New paper, fine-scale modeling of forest harvest treatments and climate change dual impacts to disturbance recovery with ED2: Harvest legacies and climate change interact to shape forest structure and biomass through time authors.elsevier.com/c/1lJk314Z6t... @sciencebails.bsky.social

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UW–Madison Dept. of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences @uwmad-aos.bsky.social · Jun 23

AOS Prof. Tracey Holloway has worked in air quality for more than 20 years, and she continues to make a difference by training the next generation of air quality scientists and conducting critical research through her lab, the Holloway group.

3 Environmental Scientists in Their Element

Water. Fire. Air. When it comes to today’s biggest environmental challenges, these are the elements at the heart of the issues. Meet three L&S experts who are at the top of their field in finding sust...

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