For the West Coast crowd this converts to 53 miles per burrito.

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The Department of Geography & Spatial Sciences (GEOG) is seeking applications and nominations for the position of Department Chair at the rank of full professor with tenure--human geography specialization.
#geosky #geogchat

“For us, it was quite clear that climate change does impact our basic human rights."

For the NYT Magazine's climate issue, I wrote about a group of law students from the South Pacific whose clarity and tenacity helped reshape international law

gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/m...

🚨 Important paper in Nature: "Systematic attribution of heatwaves to the emissions of carbon majors".

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Our lab at Yale literally studies government suppression of outbreak reporting. Please: don't promote unverifiable reports from anonymous accounts. They're very likely to be false, and it boosts unreliable actors. (If this is happening, I suspect CDC sources know how to text a journalist just fine.)

The idea that insurance premiums are a good way to mitigate climate risk to housing is a common misconception that, unfortunately, can obscure real solutions to the risks of climate change and perpetuate existing inequities.

Why is that? Well...
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Seminal paper published by Althoff et al. in Nature last week.

"...moving from a less walkable (25th percentile) city to a more walkable city (75th percentile) increased walking by 1,100 daily steps, on average."

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

concise and informative. many deferred investments. no immediate substitute.

🎙️ New podcast episode of America Adapts!

Inside the MR2025 Conference:
→ Climate mobility
→ Managed retreat
→ Real estate + risk
→ A global call from 🇨🇷 Pres. Carlos Alvarado

Retreat isn’t failure—it’s adaptation.

🎧 Listen!

feeling the value of local archives and community history. also, in this history, that a longtime resident tried to directly guide new development away from hazard

the stage hunting this year has been much more thrilling thrilling than the gc. Ben Healy!

great new work led by my colleague Helena. over twenty years of building damage from #flooding mapped in eastern NC. repetitive flooding more common than previously thought. methods could be applied nationally. 🧪⚠️

As this week's heatwave bears down on parts of the US, important to highlight many households in heat-exposed areas either 1. don't have air conditioning, or 2. can't afford to run their ACs.

E.g., in NYC ~10% of households don't have AC. In contrast to...(1/2)

a816-dohbesp.nyc.gov/IndicatorPub...

We've made an interactive map with data US Treasury collected that shows at the ZIP code level for 2018-2022 what US homeowners paid for insurance, what % of policies weren't renewed, and more. @brookings.edu Hutchins Center. www.brookings.edu/articles/hom...

I’m at MR2025 at Columbia! I’m presenting at the Flood Risks section at 5:15 pm. Come say hi!

An immobility trap in the making? And implications for aging and late-life care when thinking about who can buy into coastal amenity areas

Full paper in Nature Communications Earth & Environment, "Land-based sensors reveal high frequency of coastal flooding" (gift link) rdcu.be/eo8IT

New study from the Sunny Day Flooding Project. By placing sensors in communities, the team saw flooding happening an "order of magnitude" more often than prior estimates suggested. One location saw flooding 126 days (over one-third) of a year. Planning for sea level rise "is a problem of today." 🧪

Most Americans frequently use federal science information. But few are concerned that cuts to federal science spending could affect their access to such information, a new poll finds.

Here's a short soundbite from the latest #podcast with @madisoncondon.bsky.social where she gives an update on what's likely happening within federal agencies to protect climate data.

Full episode available here: tinyurl.com/3c4mxzb6

#climatechange #adaptation

Postdoc opp at the Center for Coastal Futures & Adaptive Resilience at Rice 🧪

emdz.fa.us2.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The @noaa.gov science seminars continue! All are online and open to the public.

Upcoming topics include:

Listening to Whales: Using bioacoustics & behavior for conservation

Changing Estuaries & Shrimp

Monterey Bay’s Iconic Kelp Forests

Increasing educational impacts through citizen science

Dr. Justin Minder and I are seeking a postdoc to perform research on the characteristics and predictability of rainfall events over the Catskill mountains that impact the NYC water supply.

See www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tan... for more info.

Application deadline is May 9, 2025.

congrats @conteristo.bsky.social !