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UAlbany Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences @ualbanydaes.bsky.social · Sep 8

Introducing our new Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies, and Master's and PhD in Climate Science, degree programs! Learn more at www.albany.edu/news-center/... and www.albany.edu/daes/programs.

UAlbany Launches Environmental Studies Major, Climate Science Graduate Programs

The University at Albany is offering new academic programs that will help shape future leaders to address the world’s evolving climate and environmental challenges.

www.albany.edu

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Brian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · Jun 22

Mesoscale convective system materialized overnight and moved through central NY, producing isolated severe wind gusts (62 mph gust at @nysmesonet.org Westmoreland station) and flash flooding (3-5" of rain). (1/)

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Dr. David Miller 🏳️‍🌈 @davidimiller.bsky.social · May 30

🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪

NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**

🧵 on some highlights...

Senior Researchers 60,400 --> 16,900
Other Professionals 14,400 --> 4,100
Postdoctoral Associates 5,500 --> 1,000
Graduate Students 41,500 --> 12,400
Undergraduate Students 37,300 --> 8,000
PreK-12 Teachers 42,900 --> 8,200
PreK-12 Students 128,100 --> 39,400
Total Number of People 330,100 --> 90,000

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Joshua Weitz @joshuasweitz.bsky.social · May 31

How bad will it be? Catastrophic.

Proposed cuts to #NSF, #NIH, and #NASA will set the US R&D landscape back 25 yrs+, cause economic and job loss now, and undermine innovations to come.

But, this is the WH's *proposed* budget.

Speak up now before it is too late.

(inflation adjusted $-s below)

NSF, NASA and NIH budgets per year, inflation adjusted from 2000-2025 along with the proposed cuts. NSF includes research component only. Massive cuts across all sectors, well below support spanning 25 years.

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UAlbany News @ualbanynews.bsky.social · May 13

A class of #UAlbany undergrads spent the semester analyzing trends in environmental data & developing machine learning tools that support weather forecasting.

Through the AI Plus initiative, UAlbany is developing AI-related courses like this one: www.albany.edu/news-center/...

Assistant Professor Zheng Wu (left) works with a student in her class.

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UAlbany Department of Atmospheric & Environmental Sciences @ualbanydaes.bsky.social · May 12

A fully-funded postdoctoral scientist position is available in the research group of Distinguished Prof. Mathias Vuille. The position is open to scientists with interest & experience in: (1) South American (paleo-)climate, (2) Andean glacier-climate interactions, or 3) regional climate modeling.

Opportunities

www.atmos.albany.edu

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David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · May 9

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

Thomas Martin @thomasmgeo.bsky.social · May 9

News coming out of @unidata.bsky.social www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

www.unidata.ucar.edu

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Kevin Tyle @nywxguy.bsky.social · May 9

Today, students in my @ualbanydaes.bsky.social data viz class present their final projects, which wouldn't be possible without the folks at @unidata.bsky.social. The consequences of this administration's attacks on science and education just keep on hitting closer and closer to home.

David John Gagne II @djgagnedos.bsky.social · May 9

Unidata maintains a lot of key weather data infrastructure, including the netCDF data standard and libraries, metpy. data dissemination servers for accessing models and observations from NOAA, and educational resources for the university community. Now everyone is furloughed b/c of Trump and DOGE.

Thomas Martin @thomasmgeo.bsky.social · May 9

News coming out of @unidata.bsky.social www.unidata.ucar.edu/blogs/news/e...

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Andrea Lopez Lang @alopezlang.bsky.social · May 8

One of the motivations for NOAA’s (a Department of Commerce agency) creation of this list was to quantify the economic importance of weather and climate information for the US. It is widely used to support further investments in weather and climate operations and science at the federal level. 🧐

Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · May 8

NEW: NOAA retires its widely cited billion-dollar weather and climate database amid staff cuts. Unique database had been tallying disaster costs for 45 years. www.cnn.com/2025/05/08/c...

NOAA ends extreme weather database that tracked cost of disasters since 1980 | CNN

Its discontinuation is another Trump-administration blow to the public’s view into how fossil fuel pollution is changing the world around them and making extreme weather more costly.

www.cnn.com

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Brian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · May 5

2nd Call: @justinminder.bsky.social 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. Application deadline is this Friday 5/9. www.atmos.albany.edu/facstaff/tan...

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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · May 2

Science news is particularly grim this week. For NSF funding, 2 key fronts:

1) freeze on ALL existing grants (portal is down - no $$ going out, including reimbursements) www.nature.com/articles/d41...

2) budget proposes 40% overall cut & 15% cap on indirects (lawsuits blocked same for NIH in Feb)

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Andrew Freedman @afreedma.bsky.social · May 2

NEW: US weather forecasting is in worse shape than previously known, with 30 NWS forecast offices missing meteorologists-in-charge and about a dozen offices at risk of no longer serving their communities 24/7. www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/w...

US weather forecasting is more crippled than previously thought as hurricane season nears | CNN

Several current and former agency meteorologists and staff told CNN they are concerned warnings won’t be issued in time as hurricane season nears.

www.cnn.com

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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · May 1

I talked to Nature about the latest development at NSF, which is a five-alarm fire for American science. The scale of immediate impact is massive. We narrowly escaped this affecting @viralemergence.org for now, but will have to shut down in a few months if this stays.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones

US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.

www.nature.com

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Apr 24

New AMS Statement and Special Report: The Federal agencies in the public sector provide a foundational role in supporting the rest of the weather enterprise. A failure of these systems would be catastrophic.

Read the AMS Statement: bit.ly/4lLTdbk

Without a Strong Weather Enterprise America's Economic Leadership Is at Risk

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

www.ametsoc.org

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Justin Minder @justinminder.bsky.social · Apr 18

I use it frequently. It is the foundation of a lab activity that I teach in one of my classes.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Apr 17

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences.

Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Stand Up for NOAA Research – The Time to Act is Now

The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

bit.ly

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Apr 17

Oh no! Several of the Regional Climate Centers have had their funding lapse through DOC/NOAA. These institutes are critical for connecting weather and climate data and services to local communities across the United States.

Spread the word to drive attention and support!

Funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025 due to a suspension of federal funding from NOAA through the Department of Commerce. It is unknown if or when funding will resume. All data and services offered under the HPRCC contract, including this website, are unavailable.

If there are particular products and services you rely upon, please fill out this form so we can identify products to prioritize for continuance. Unfortunately, some products will be discontinued indefinitely because of their association with the Regional Climate Center program.

Support for all MRCC-hosted products and services is currently suspended as of April 17, 2025, due to a lapse in federal funding from the Department of Commerce through NOAA.

Federal funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025. It is unknown when or if funding will resume, pending decisions by NOAA and the Department of Commerce. If there are particular products and services that you rely upon, please contact us at sercc@sercc.com or reach out to your federal representatives and communicate their value and why you need them.

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OCCRI @occri.bsky.social · Apr 17

Climate is the statistics of weather. And weather doesn't discriminate on the basis of politics.

Colorado Climate Center @climate.colostate.edu · Apr 17

You may see messages like this on parts of our website, including the drought page. We rely heavily on maps & data from the High Plains Regional Climate Center, which no longer has funding. We'll do our best to point to alternative data sources, but many of these products are not easy to replicate.

Image with text: "Funding for the Regional Climate Center program lapsed on April 17, 2025 due to a suspension of federal funding from NOAA through the Department of Commerce. It is unknown if or when funding will resume. All data and services offered under the HPRCC contract, including this website, are unavailable."

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Justin Minder @justinminder.bsky.social · Apr 16

More details on how vital NWS services will be affected as a consequence of federally induced staffing reductions...

Weather Service Prepares for ‘Degraded Operations’ Amid Trump Cuts www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/c...

Weather Service Prepares for ‘Degraded Operations’ Amid Trump Cuts

An internal document describes how severe shortages of meteorologists and other staff members could affect forecasts and other operations.

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Minder @justinminder.bsky.social · Apr 14

Come work with @btangywx.bsky.social and me on hydrometeorology over the Catskill Mountains!

Brian Tang @btangywx.bsky.social · Apr 14

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.

www.atmos.albany.edu

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Steve Nesbitt @70dbz.bsky.social · Apr 11

Congress has a chance to have input on this, but slashing weather and climate research is incredibly irresponsible from the administration. www.science.org/content/arti...

Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency

White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted

www.science.org

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Jeff Frame @vortexjeff.bsky.social · Apr 11

This NY Times article is probably the most thorough that I've read on the president's extremely shortsighted budget outline for NOAA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/c...

White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled

A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.

www.nytimes.com

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CNN @cnn.com · Apr 11

The Trump administration plans to eliminate the research arm of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, close all weather and climate labs and eviscerate its budget along with several other NOAA offices, according to internal documents obtained by CNN.

Trump’s draft budget eviscerates weather and climate tracking and research | CNN

The move would devastate weather and climate research even as weather is becoming more erratic and extreme, and would cripple the US industries — including agriculture — that depend on free, accurate ...

www.cnn.com

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Jared Rennie @jjrennie.bsky.social · Apr 11

Here's how your area fared with snowfall this season, compared to a 14-year climatology.

Greens=Above Normal
Browns=Below Normal

#snOMG

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Apr 9

ICF has supported the National Climate Assessment and the IPCC for nearly two decades with professionalism & integrity.

Yesterday, ICF's contract to support NCA was cancelled. All federal staff details for OSTP + USGCRP were already returned to their agencies.

There's no one left to work on NCA.

Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Apr 9

I have served as a lead author on the 2nd, 3rd, 4th and author on the 5th national climate assessment.

Our ICF colleagues were highly trained professionals who put the science first, second and last. I have never heard one of them ever voice a political opinion.

These claims are simply untrue.

Meet The Government Consultants Raking In Millions To Spread Climate Doom

More than three decades ago, Congress launched an initiative called the U.S. Global Change Research Program. Today, it spends billions of dollars a year empowering liberal climate scientists to spread...

www.dailywire.com

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