The Weather & Climate Livestream Join us starting May 28th, as meteorologists and climate scientists from across the US share their research and answer your questions.

Starting Wednesday 200 weather and climate experts will conduct a 100 hour marathon on Weather and Climate

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Youtube page will be

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I plan to talk on Breathing of the Biosphere, next Saturday at 3 pm Pacific time.

Two people conducting plant research

Researcher arranges harvested root system for data collection. Photo: Salk Institute

Researchers at @scrippsocean.bsky.social and @gpsucsd.bsky.social are comparing methods of carbon dioxide removal from the atmosphere, discovering that genetically enhanced crops could be the best way to meet CO2 removal at the scale it needs. ➡️ bit.ly/4d3u48f

Sonoma County gets it!! We need a healthy, science-driven NOAA!!

Shocking to learn

'more than 90% of people use weather forecasts, job market reports, food safety warnings and other information that is based on federal science. But only 10% of respondents are concerned that cuts to federal support for science might impact their access to such information'

Congratulations Iryna! Well deserved :)

Today I start as a Co-Editor-in-Chief in Landscape and Urban Planning - one of favorite journals with a broad interdisciplinary scope. Look forward to working with the editorial team to help promote landscape research and innovation. (this is not an April 1 joke 😄).

This Method of Cooking a Perfect Egg Sounds Absurd, But Scientists Swear Its Worth It Materials scientists have found a way to perfectly cook an egg white and egg yolk simultaneously

This story by @arminda.bsky.social was my quiet source of joy this week. Ridiculous cooking method? ✔️ A whole heap of eggs cooked in the name of science? ✔️ Plot twist at the end? ✔️ 🧪

This and all the other fascist action to remove facts is not right. Plus this is data we paid for as tax payers. They think out of sight out of mind. Now spread the high and low the unAmerican things it and his maga crowd are doing that is also illegal and unconstitutional

If you use any USDA climate or carbon data or reports - download them NOW. The are being removed from the web.

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis Forest service website among many sites affected as agencies scramble to comply with president’s orders

This and all the other crap tRump & maga are doing harkens back to the book burning of Savonarola and bon fires of the vanities. If history is a guide it did not end well for Mr S

Trump orders USDA to take down websites referencing climate crisis

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

While We too are converting drained peatlands back to wetlands, a very effective and long term C sink, I find it Interesting that in Germany they are harvesting tules and using them for building products

If you're interested in river drying and cross-ecosystem linkages, check out our new Ecology paper led by undergraduate extraordinaire Amin al-Jamal! -> Aquatic top predator prefers terrestrial prey in an intermittent stream esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Tidal mudflat emerging next to a rocky shoreline as the water recedes in San Francisco Bay, California, USA.

Mudflats are such critical wetland habitats, yet, in tidal systems their ephemeral emergence may be not too obvious to human eyes. It's fun to discover them in less expected places like channels that seem to look deep at high tides. (The birds, of course, know their mudflats).

Don't forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems! Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits

Happy to get this week’s post out. Don’t forget non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems!

Non-forest carbon-rich ecosystems need to be conserved and restored for biodiversity and climate benefits.

Check it out (and subscribe). I’d love to get your thoughts.

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When you’ve been running a job on a computer cluster for 72 hours and it unexpectedly dies at 97% completion 🙃

Long‐term data reveal widespread phenological change across major US estuarine food webs Climate change is shifting the timing of organismal life-history events. Although consequential food-web mismatches can emerge if predators and prey shift at different rates, research on phenological...

What a good way to ring in the new year! Our new paper is (finally) out in Ecology Letters!

doi.org/10.1111/ele....

We looked at climate driven phenological patterns across food webs in the San Francisco, Chesapeake, and Massachusetts Bay estuaries.

A great AGU so far. Thanks to everyone for coming by the poster to chat about carbon and wetlands with me and @irynad.bsky.social !

If you are up at #AGU2024 this Monday morning, check out our presentations: @erthromero.bsky.social's morning session poster B11L-1478 on remote sensing and wetland carbon fluxes and my lightning talk GC12H-01 on urban greening and social vulnerability at 10:20am, Screen 0001‚ eLightning Theater 4.

Gentoo penguins

Antarctic ice floating

Antarctic shag couple

Antarctica sunset with a leopard seal

5 years ago I visited Antarctica with #teamHB4. The stunning beauty of this place reminded yet again of the fragility of our global ecosystems and special gifts they keep bringing us even in the face of peril. But there was also a deep sense of hope, of which we must not let go.

Speakers at today's Geolunch lightning talks

Great turnout at our 2nd UC Berkeley GIF Geolunch on a very rainy day! This time we had lightning talks from 7 faculty groups in 4 departments on mountain snow, California water, public health, air pollution, plant spectral ecology, vulnerable wetlands, and more. Thanks to all speakers and guests.

Our free in-person workshops on open-access geospatial tools for @UCBerkeley students, faculty, postdocs and staff are back at Geospatial Innovation Facility - starting tomorrow Nov 1, more to come in later weeks & next semester, register here:
gif.berkeley.edu/support/work...

Eric Romero awarded NASA Future Investigators graduate fellowship The ESPM PhD student received a fellowship from NASA Earth and Space Science and Technology for his research on wetland resilience.

Congratulations to our ESPM PhD student Eric Romero @erthromero.bsky.social on the 2024 NASA FINESST fellowship! Eric's exciting project is applying remote sensing to better understand wetland potential for nature-based carbon-subsidence solutions. ourenvironment.berkeley.edu/news/2024/10...

Let me know how this goes, I need to start making non-microsoft word decisions soon 😅

Late, but some great photos from family trip to CO this summer. Climbed our first 14-er and came across what might have been (?) a sub-alpine fen.

Small wetland located in the rangeland area with senescent vegetation

Even small wetlands are very important for biodiversity and hydrology of rangelands in our dry-summer climate. End of summer makes this especially evident!

A hilarious sticker made by my talented lab-mate #Wetlands #MakeLandWetAgain

Trees reveal climate surprise: Microbes living in bark remove methane from the atmosphere Tree bark surfaces play an important role in removing methane gas from the atmosphere, according to a study published 24 July in Nature.

Tree bark removes methane from the atmosphere, making trees 10% even more better for climate than we previously thought!

New study: phys.org/news/2024-07...

In non-science related news, here are some photos I captured of gorgeous coastal Oregon earlier this summer

Excited to announce I was officially selected for this years NASA FINESST student fellowship! Big thanks to @irynad.bsky.social, @cgerleinsafdi.bsky.social, @biometlab.bsky.social, and so many others for helping me develop my ideas for wetland science.