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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · Jul 11

Tomorrow: Save NOAA Labs event, hosted by Boulder Public Library. Speakers, including CIRES' Laura Riihimaki, will brief Congressman Neguse on work happening at NOAA Boulder labs & why it matters.

🗓️: July 12
🕙: 10:15 am
📍: Canyon Theater, Main Library
calendar.boulderlibrary.org/event/14927555

Save NOAA Labs

The Administration is proposing to zero-out funding for the NOAA labs in Boulder and other operations for the Office of Oceanic & Atmospheric Research. Speakers will brief...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jul 8

I can't stress enough how close U.S. science is to the cliff.

"Numbers released in May by the National Science Foundation (NSF) indicate that if Congress approves the cuts to the agency proposed by the White House, the number of early-career researchers it supports could fall by 78%" (@science.org)

‘It’s a nightmare.’ U.S. funding cuts threaten academic science jobs at all levels

“There is a lot of pressure to essentially leave the country or not pursue research,” one Ph.D. student says

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Jessica Tierney @leafwax.bsky.social · Jul 7

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

NOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Programs for the Advancement of Earth System ScienceNOAA Climate & Global Change (C&GC) Postdoctoral Program | Cooperative Progra...

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Erin Dougherty @edougherty.bsky.social · Jul 2

It's that time of year to start submitting #AGU25 abstracts!

We invite those studying droughts, floods, extreme precipitation, heatwaves, etc., to submit to our session on Hydrometeorologic extremes (H083) 🏜️⛈️🌊: lnkd.in/gCFPecVE

Abstracts are due July 30!

This link will take you to a page that’s not on LinkedIn

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Jun 30

What a tragedy this is even being proposed on paper... 💔

NOAA FY2026 Congressional Justification: www.noaa.gov/sites/defaul...

Termination of OAR’s Climate Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (-$102,292, -204 FTE/ -216 Positions) –NOAA will continue to support high priority ocean and weather research programs in NOS and NWS.

In coordination with the requested terminations for Weather Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-10) and Ocean Laboratories and Cooperative Institutes (see OAR-19), NOAA will close the Atlantic Oceanographic & Meteorological Laboratory (AOML) in Miami, FL; the Air Resources Laboratory (ARL) in College Park, MD, Idaho Falls, ID, and Oak Ridge, TN, as well as a nation-wide network of soil moisture sensors; the Chemical Sciences Laboratory (CSL) in Boulder, CO; the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) in Princeton, NJ; the Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML) in Boulder, CO, Utqiaġvik, AK, Mauna Loa, HI, Hilo, HI, Big Island, HI, American Samoa, and the South Pole; the Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory (PMEL) in Seattle, WA; and the Physical Sciences Laboratory (PSL) in Boulder, CO.

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Tom Di Liberto @tdiliberto.bsky.social · May 30

Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Table showing FY26 budget numbers for NOAA from the Trump Administration.

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Anthony Edwards @edwardsanthonyb.bsky.social · May 30

The National Science Foundation budget proposal would be a devastating blow to American science. 240,000 fewer people would be involved in federally-funded science in fiscal year 2026, according to estimates in the document.

nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...

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The Weather & Climate Livestream @wclivestream.bsky.social · May 14

Calling all US meteorologists and climate scientists! Come speak at the 🌊 Weather & Climate Livestream 🌪️. Starting May 28th, we will be having a marathon livestream to share our work with the public, and show why the vital services we provide should not be cut.

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AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · May 10

A victory for the federal scientific workforce! We could not stand by while this irreparable harm continues at NSF, NOAA and all our scientific agencies.

TODAY the judge granted our request to temporarily HALT the mass firings at federal agencies under Trump’s Executive Order.

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NSF Unidata @unidata.bsky.social · May 9

Due to the current gap in funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program is pausing most operations effective 12 May 2025. Nearly all staff will be furloughed until funds from our existing NSF grant become available. For more information, see buff.ly/d2TC1Oy

NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations

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Emily Gordon @emilygordynz.bsky.social · Mar 4

New paper by me and Noah Diffenbaugh on identifying predictable Pacific variability in the observational record 1/6 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Identifying a Pattern of Predictable Decadal North Pacific SST Variability in Historical Observations

A pattern of predictable sea surface temperature variability in the North Pacific Ocean is identified by a neural network trained on CMIP6 models The neural network skillfully predicts the same p...

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Zack Labe @zacklabe.com · Feb 27

Last Tuesday, I was set to give a talk on 'climate change in the Northeast' at a retirement home but had to cancel due to hourly job threats.

After nearly two weeks of overwhelming uncertainty, today it happened. I was fired from my dream of working at NOAA. I'm so sorry to everyone also affected.

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Feb 21

The AMS is temporarily opening its career services to all who need them, regardless of membership status, and offering dues waivers and meeting registration fee reductions for those impacted by job loss due to changes in the government.

Read more: bit.ly/4gRiHAk

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Kirsten J. Mayer @kirstenjmayer.bsky.social · Jan 16

Congrats @eabarnes.bsky.social 🎉🎉

AGU (American Geophysical Union) @agu.org · Jan 16

🎉 Congratulations to nearly 400 scientists and engineers honored with the PECASE by President Biden !

We’re especially proud to see AGU members among this incredible group of early-career trailblazers. 🌍✨ 🚀

President Biden Honors Nearly 400 Federally Funded Early-Career Scientists | OSTP | The White House

Today, President Biden awarded nearly 400 scientists and engineers the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on…

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American Meteorological Society @ametsoc.org · Jan 6

The Gerald Meehl Symposium at #AMS2025 will present cutting-edge science in climate dynamics, climate change, climate modeling and Earth system predictability, and honor Jerry Meehl's contributions to the field. Read more from symposium co-chair Aixue Hu on the AMS blog: bit.ly/4j8E3vB

Jerry Meehl (right) and Warren Washington (center) awarded the AMS Charney Award, in Phoenix, AZ (2009). Photo credit: American Meteorological Society.

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