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Science Magazine @science.org · Aug 29

New research demonstrates that waves breaking near shorelines release large amounts of sea spray aerosols—boosting both cloud-seeding particle numbers and airborne particulate mass.

Learn more in this week’s issue of #ScienceAdvances: https://scim.ag/4oVFiAX

The photo shows sea spray aerosol generation along the Azores coastline.

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CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Aug 22

📢 Are you an ECR interested in sea ice, snow, clouds, aerosols and how things are connected? Join the Saroma Sea Ice School 2026 in Hokaido, Japan! Application deadline: 30.9. Details here 👉 sites.google.com/site/bepsiiw... @bepsiiseaice.bsky.social @igac-ecr.bsky.social @igacproject.bsky.social

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CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Aug 5

Don't miss the upcoming and super cool ECR online conference from IGAC and ICACGP! Sign-up until 21st of Sept. More details: www.ecr-igac-icacgp.org/2025/03/05/i...

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CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Aug 4

👋 This months #CATCHseminar will be given by Christina McCluskey (NCAR) on August 27th, 16:00 UTC. Don't miss it! Get the calendar entry and zoom link here: www.catchscience.org/seminar-series

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jun 27

Don't forget next week's #CATCHscience seminar!

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Jun 27

📣 Check out our next CATCH seminar on "Atmosphere-snowpack mercury exchange" by Sae Yun Kwon (POSTECH). 3 July (Thur) at 13:00 UTC! Link: www.catchscience.org/seminar-series #CATCHscience @igac-ecr.bsky.social @igacproject.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social @bepsiiseaice.bsky.social

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · May 31

NASA’s iconic Goddard Institute for Space Studies—home to Jim Hansen and hundreds more scientists, creator of the GISS model and keeper of the global temperature record—has been evicted from its longstanding NYC office above the “Seinfeld” restaurant.

Why? The government told them to move out.

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CleanCloud Project @cleancloud-he.bsky.social · May 30

#MeetOurScientists: With the help of a cloud sampler, Aiden Jönsson is able to investigate the particles inside the clouds. Important to better understand aerosols and their interactions with clouds - and how future climate and weather will impact our lives.

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · May 29

New @catchscience.bsky.social paper out in @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org highlighting some of the key open questions in cold-region atmospheric science. Check it out! 👇🐻‍❄️ @bolincentre.bsky.social

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · May 29

🎉 New CATCH publication by @thorbarra.bsky.social et al. This work highlights key open questions in cold-region atmospheric chemistry - from polar sulphur emissions to wintertime haze. Check it out here 👉 pubs.rsc.org/en/content/a...
@igacproject.bsky.social @thorbarra.bsky.social

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CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · May 28

Mark your agendas for the next #CATCHseminar by Christian Pilz on vertical properties of aerosols in the Arctic: Wednesday 18th June 2025 (13:00 UTC). More info and zoom link: www.catchscience.org/seminar-series @tropos-de.bsky.social

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CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · May 29

📣Are you an ECR interested and working on topics around Atmospheric Chemistry? Then join the 2nd IGAC-iCACGP ECR 2025 online conference, which will be organized around 3 different time zones. Abstract until 10th of Aug. More details here: www.ecr-igac-icacgp.org/2025/03/05/i...

IGAC-iCACGP ECR 2025 online conference – ECR-IGAC-iCACGP

General Information We are happy to announce that the second edition of the IGAC-iCACGP online Early Career Researcher science-focused conference will take place this year on Thursday, September 25th,...

www.ecr-igac-icacgp.org

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · May 27

75th anniversary and re-launch of the legendary Tellus Journal with amazing science talks and panel discussion at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. @bolincentre.bsky.social

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Apr 8

Check out the upcoming CATCH seminar next week Thursday by Christina McCluskey! 👇

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Apr 8

📣 Hej all, don't miss the upcoming CATCH seminar by Christina McCluskey (NCAR, US) on "Ice, Ice, Maybe? Aerosol-cloud interactions over the Southern Ocean Region" on April 17th (Thu) at 16:00 UTC. Zoom link will be here www.catchscience.org/seminar-series #CATCHscience #CATCHseminar #INPsAreCool 🌍🌨️❄️

Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Mar 15

Hej Langley, I and a lot of @catchscience.bsky.social will also be at EGU! We will also screen our #ARTofMELT documentary at the EGU GeoCinema. See you there!

langleydew.bsky.social @langleydew.bsky.social · Mar 15

For the first time, I'm heading to EGU this year (and after, the WCRP meeting). Will anyone else be there that wants to talk IGAC? We should connect if so!

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Scott Dance @byscottdance.com · Mar 14

New: A NOAA lab in Hawaii that is connected to the longest-running observation of global greenhouse gas concentrations is slated for closure in August, according to a list of lease terminations Democratic members of Congress shared with @washingtonpost.com.

Trump moves to close government lab that tracks planet-warming pollution

The lab is connected to the Mauna Loa Observatory, where scientists gather data to produce the Keeling Curve, a chart on the daily status of atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Feb 21

If you have the chance to join a @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org conference, do it! It's an excellent event, where submitted papers are discussed lively and in detail by renowned scientists. I loved it and learned a lot!

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Feb 18

Day 2 of @faradaydiscussions.rsc.org on *Atmospheric Chemistry in Cold Environments* in full swing. Cool concept: Fresh & new publications are intensively discussed & comments/questions of the expert audience are published together with the final publication. #CATCHscience

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Feb 6

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

An internal email obtained by WIRED shows that NOAA workers received orders to pause “ALL INTERNATIONAL ENGAGEMENTS.”

www.wired.com

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Feb 5

Check out this month's CATCH seminar! 👇

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Feb 5

📣 Please mark the date and time for the next CATCH seminar given by Alli Moon (University of Washington) on February 2025 (Wednesday) at 18:00 UTC / 10:00 PST. Zoom link will follow here: www.catchscience.org/seminar-series #CATCHscience

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Feb 5

👉Join the information event on Feb 14th, 10-12 (CET) about our *new international master program in climate environment and energy* developed within CIVIS 👉 www.su.se/department-o...

New international Master’s Programme in Climate, Environment and Energy - Department of Environmental Science

Online Info Session Master’s Programme in Transdisciplinary Studies of Climate, Environment, and Energy (TRACEE) February 14, 2025, from 10:00-12:00 CET

www.su.se

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jan 27

19 years after I attended the European Course on Atmospheres (ERCA), from which I have many good memories, I'm back in Grenoble🇫🇷 now as a teacher 👴 at the new ERCA course (now only 2 instead of 5 weeks). Very excited to be here!

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jan 22

Had a fantastic time at the Nordic Aerosol Symposium (NOSA2025) @au.dk and could also explore beautiful Aarhus and its amazing art. Hope to be back 2025 in Lund, Sweden!

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jan 13

Don't forget to submit your abstract to our session @eurogeosciences.bsky.social "on aerosols, clouds, biogeochemistry over sea ice"! The deadline is Wednesday January 15, 13:00 CET! 👇 #interdisciplinaryscience

CATCH Science @catchscience.bsky.social · Dec 18

Join our interdisciplinary session @eurogeosciences.bsky.social on aerosols, clouds, biogeochemistry over polar sea ice and oceans! Abstract submission until 15 Jan. More details here: meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jan 12

Good article. A small thing almost everybody can do, is to get a newspaper subscription. We need good, diverse and paid journalists, who do their job!

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Paul Zieger @pzieger.bsky.social · Jan 10

Excellent. More than 60 of the largest German and Austrian Universities are leaving X/Twitter due to the lack "cosmopolitanism, scientific integrity, transparency and democratic discourse" on this platform. Press release (in german): idw-online.de/de/news845520 #WissXit

Hochschulen und Forschungsinstitutionen verlassen Plattform X - Gemeinsam für Vielfalt, Freiheit und Wissenschaft

idw-online.de

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · Jan 9

I didn’t include YouTube in this comparison because it isn’t a text-based social media platform… but I happened to notice today that it has limited access to my video about wildfire myths and facts.

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Santiago Gassó @sangasso.bsky.social · Jan 9

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Seminar on microplastics in the ocean surface organized by SOLAS.
registration

www.solas-int.org/events/solas...

@usocb.bsky.social @susannecraig.bsky.social @planktonteuta.bsky.social @aida-alvera.bsky.social @davidho.bsky.social

SOLAS Semianr X - SOLAS INT

www.solas-int.org

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