News: Leading atmospheric science summer undergraduate research program canceled due to NSF funding loss Quieter weather on tap for a few days for most of the country

News: a leading NSF supported University of Oklahoma atmospheric science summer undergraduate research program that has mentored hundreds of top atmospheric scientists over two decades has been canceled for 2026 due to funding loss. (repost w/correct link) More: tinyurl.com/3zjzf7vu

'We are missing data': NWS weather balloon changes scrutinized as tornados hit Midwest For much of Monday, the agency didn't anticipate a tornado threat for Kansas City — then five hit that evening. Did a change in weather balloon launches leave forecasters in the dark?

Now @nbcnews.com is covering the story. www.nbcnews.com/weather/torn...

The Guggenheim Foundation has always been committed to awarding Fellowships at the highest level. Since its founding in 1925, the Foundation has awarded nearly $450 million in fellowships to more than 19,000 Fellows. This year, applications in the Creative Arts and Humanities were up by 50% and applications in the Sciences were up by 86%. At a time when intellectual and creative life is under attack, the Foundation continues to demonstrate its commitment to supporting extraordinary individuals breaking new ground in the Creative Arts, Natural Sciences, Social Sciences, Humanities, and a range of interdisciplinary fields.

External funding is rapidly reaching crazy levels of competition. Good luck, folks.

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GitHub - aedessler/pydlnm: python version of R package DLNM from Gaspirrini et al. (https://github.com/gasparrini/dlnm) python version of R package DLNM from Gaspirrini et al. (https://github.com/gasparrini/dlnm) - aedessler/pydlnm

If you use the R package DLNM to estimate excess risk attributable to environmental conditions (e.g., heat/cold), I've rewritten the package in python: github.com/aedessler/py...

Here a grandmother is forced to do a gig job with no job security because she can’t afford to retire? What are we celebrating here?

Plot showing GRFP awards by directorate shows a big dip last year and major increases for engineering and biology (though this only brings it back to parity with 2024).

The NSF GRFP is now out! There are 2,599 awardees, which is the most ever—and a big shift from last year which initially halved awardees (1,000 awardees + an additional 500).

I've thrown together a plot to break down the changes by field.

www.research.gov/grfp/Awardee...

There's another NSF NCAR Explorer series lecture TODAY in Boulder!

🌪️ Integrating expertise: Predicting hazardous weather through convergence

⏰ Wednesday, April 8, 2026 @ 7:00-8:30 PM MDT (in person or online)

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MINUTE ORDER. The Court has reviewed the parties briefing related to plaintiffs Motion for Expedited Briefing Schedule and Limited Discovery (ECF Nos. 19, 21, 22). The Court finds that there is a good cause for an expedited briefing schedule but, assuming that the stewardship of the NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center will not take place before the hearing, not as expedited as plaintiff requests. If that assumption is incorrect, please so indicate, and the Court with hold a Temporary Restraining Order hearing forthwith. The Court sets the following briefing schedule. Defendants response to the Motion for a Preliminary Injunction is due April 22nd. Plaintiffs reply is due April 30th. The Court will hold a preliminary injunction hearing, assuming one is necessary, on May 7th at 9:00 a.m. Plaintiff also requests the expedited discovery of two categories of communications from three individuals between December 1, 2025 and the present related to NSFs purported decision to transfer stewardship of NWSC. At this juncture, this portion of plaintiffs motion is DENIED. The discovery requests relate to the underlying agency rationale for the transfer. In other words, they pertain to plaintiffs claim that the action was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA), 5 USC 706(2)(A). However, as defendants point out, a reviewing court is ordinarily limited to evaluating the agencys contemporaneous explanation in light of the existing administrative record. Dept of Commerce v. New York, 588 U.S. 752, 780 (2019). The only narrow exception to the general rule against inquiring into the mental processes of administrative decisionmakers is upon a strong showing of bad faith or improper behavior. Id. (internal quotation marks and citation omitted). Presumably, the communications that plaintiff seeks are not part of the administrative record, and therefore, ordering defendants to produce them at this juncture would be inappropriate.

Update in the NCAR case: Hearing about a prelim injunction is scheduled for May 7, but the plaintiff's motion for discovery (i.e. rationale for NSF's actions) is denied for now. www.courtlistener.com/docket/72496...

@ncar-ucar.bsky.social is working on its AI strategy: Advancing Earth system science with and for the community ncarprojects.ucar.edu/ai

We're inviting the broader community to a series of virtual workshops (Apr 20 -30) to gather feedback - please join us! ncarprojects.ucar.edu/ai/workshops

The presidents FY2027 Budget is now out and it is bad for science.

NSF cut 54.7%
NASA cut 23%
- $3.4G (billion) cut to Science
- $297M cut to Space Tech
- $1.1G cut to ISS
-$143M cut to STEM Engagement

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Darn it! Thought that was this years 😭

There’s a section here at least: www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

Half of staff at Boulder's NOAA Global Monitoring Lab face furloughs as funding freeze drags on Most staff at Boulder's NOAA Global Monitoring Lab are funded through federal grants that have not been released.

“Funding officially ran out for CIRES Global Monitoring Lab employees on March 24. The university informed 42 employees this week that they would be furloughed without pay on May 15 unless federal funding comes through”

boulderreportinglab.org/2026/04/02/h...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Screenshot of text that says: "Important Notice (3/24/2026): NOAA NWS/NCEP has terminated the NCEP/NCAR R1 reanalysis as of March 18th, 2026. NCEP/NCAR R1 has been used as the atmospheric forcing data in the PIOMAS reanalysis . We had not been aware of this change in service which was apparently formally announced Feb 13. 2026. This means that we will have to find alternatives and generate a replacement. It will take considerable effort and time to update data streams, re-calibrate the model and generate updated time series. We don’t yet have a good sense if that’s possible with available funds and if so, when we will be able to resume production of a new PIOMAS time series. While a replacement of the NCAR/NCEP R1 as the forcing product makes ultimate sense, we would have wished for a longer time period to facilitate the transition. We are sorry what this means to our many users. PIOMAS has been in production since March 2010 and we rarely missed updates by more than a couple of weeks (except for government shutdowns). This will be longer. Check back here for updates! "

I had a feeling this was going to happen. Sad news, especially given the poor state of sea ice after this winter.

Looks like we won't be getting any more data for Arctic sea-ice thickness and volume for a while from PIOMAS. See: psc.apl.uw.edu/research/pro...

Image of an almost full Empower Stadium in Denver with the Jumbotron displaying record attendance for any NWSL game.

Absolutely incredible experience at Empower Field today, where @denversummitfc.bsky.social absolutely SMASHED the record for NWSL attendance!! The world feels so heavy everyday, it was incredible to share joy with 63k others 💕

No Kings Denver #FDT

Correct.

Hey climate science pals!

My Ecological Climatology class has been building up to one awful lecture about ecosystem-level perturbations in the carbon cycle.

It's an overwhelmingly terrifying powerpoint that I want to end with good climate related news (however small). Any news I should share?

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More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted:

More and more rot.

Most detailed reporting I've seen on what might happen with NCAR. FYI, the president of Lynker is a former UCAR exec and was in the W. Bush administration.

Neguse calls for investigation amid reported plans to sell NCAR program to private, for-profit company Federal officials are reportedly planning to sell parts of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s space weather program to a private, for-profit company, according to U.S. Rep Joe Neg…

#savencar @ncar-ucar.bsky.social #heliophysics #SaveOurScience

OMB and admins at NSF are selling off NCAR by using a Dear Colleague Letter to solicit buyers.

🚨 A whistleblower says the DCL is a feint and a for-profit company is already set to buy parts of NCAR's space weather program 🤬

Yeah, not a great sign that they're just going to be experimenting on trans inmates like this and it's not a big story.

6-Hourly NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis Data Composites Data Notice: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 updates to end on or about March 9. Learn more: [Text under link] Data Notice: NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 updates to end The National Weather Service's National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) Central Operations has announced that the Climate Data Assimilation System (CDAS) will be discontinued in favor of the Conventional Observation Reanalysis ( CORe) effective on or about March 9, 2026. What this means Because of this change, PSL will no longer be able to update NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 starting around March 9, 2026, The exact date is pending the discontinuation of CDAS by the National Weather Service. The historical NCEP/NCAR Reanalysis 1 data will remain available on our site. We are in the process of identifying other products that may no longer be able to be updated or will require a suitable alternative to CDAS to continue operating.

And yet another long standing weather and climate dataset to be terminated. While other reanalyses provide higher resolution data, none are available in as close to real-time (lag ~36 hours) as R1. #weather #climate @wxmanms1.bsky.social

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

certainly makes me feel less than enthused about the US hockey team but I continue to hold that Kash treating the FBI director job as an extended make-a-wish trip is the absolute least damaging thing he could do with the position given this administration's goals

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."