I’m always ready!

I know this is totally not the point but now I want to know what you were looking at with carbon cycle feedbacks @drkatemarvel.bsky.social !

I also just submitted a first-author paper after a gap since 2018. There are many reasons, but also increasing seniority in US academic positions sends to come with increasing service responsibilities. My job is too many jobs, and that’s before the complications of life!

This looks like so much fun! Grad students take a look!

I know we have a problem of reviewers not responding quickly enough and not agreeing to review manuscripts. But I have had three requests today already and it's not even 9am. That's on top of the ~one/day I haven been getting over the last two weeks. I can't even keep up with responding!

Trees Shed Their Leaves to Adapt to Droughts - Eos The browning or loss of tree leaves that can be observed during droughts may be a coping mechanism to deal with dry circumstances by avoiding additional water stress.

I started working on leaves and climate in 2012...still at it with some new tools (plant hydraulics - the plumping of the terrestrial biosphere) to try and predict interannual variation. Response to drought suggests an adaptive acclimate to leaf shedding. eos.org/editor-highl...

UW has a new climate related Postdoc fellowship, application due April 15! Please reach out if you are interested in working with me!

Plants! You left off plants from your boundary conditions list!

Map of western and central North America showing the earliest calendar date (Mar 17 to Jun 16) when historical 500 hPa heights met or exceeded the current 10-day forecast peak at each grid point. Gray areas indicate locations where that threshold was already met by today. Earliest dates (purple/blue, late March to mid-April) cluster in parts of the Southwest and southern Plains, while later dates (orange/yellow, May to mid-June) appear across much of California, Nevada, Utah, and nearby interior regions.”

The upcoming SW USA heat dome is predicted to be so anomalous that the 500 hPa heights over the entire region will exceed every historical daily max (1990-2025) from now until JUNE.

This may be a short lived event, but the consequences for snowpack, water supply, and drought will be felt all year.

Photo looking from the ground up at a canopy of oak trees just starting to leaf out.

The California heat wave says summer, the trees say spring, and the snow storm in Seattle says winter. #confusedseasons

NCAR is the backbone of Earth system science in the US and a global leader in open climate research. It directly supports our mission. Alongside a wide range of peers in the scientific research community, we submitted a letter to NSF strongly opposing any efforts to dismantle or restructure NCAR.

Today is the deadline to respond to NSF's Dear Colleague Letter about restructuring NCAR -- there is still time to submit comments by emailing NSF_NCAR@nsf.gov! www.nsf.gov/funding/info...

In summary, more happiness. Less war. Ride a bike.

Figure of global mean surface temperature over years as CO2 is emitted at a constant rate of 10PgC/yr for 300 years. Temperature increases linearly through this range, with a different slope for each of several Earth System Models.

Temperature keeps going up very linearly in CMIP6 ESMs with emissions through to very high cumulative emissions. This is Fig 4a from the Sanderson et al. 2025 flat10MIP paper. X-axis is years and emissions are 10PgC/yr, so the slope is the temperature response to cumulative emissions (TCRE).

Not seeing the same advance for land sink yet tho (in my opinion).

I'd love to talk to prospective postdocs who are thinking about the role of land in the climate system about applying! If that's you please reach out!

Program on Climate Change (PCC) Postdoctoral Scholar Program 2026 | Program on Climate Change

Postdoc Fellowship opportunity! UW Program on Climate Change has a new for a Postdoctoral Scholar program for fellows to develop and conduct novel climate science research that benefits from collaborations at UW. Apply by April 15th! pcc.uw.edu/research/fun...

Agree on TCRE and ZEC framing. For ZEC and what it represents maybe Koven et al 2023 ERL

Boos and Korty 2016?

The landscape of jobs that value climate science training is changing fast! You can find some profiles from the earth science women’s network here, probably with a research heavy skew n0o.15a.myftpupload.com/our-members/...

The Land Model and Biogeochemistry working groups at NCAR have their meetings Tu-Th this week, and you can join virtually! Register (free) to get the link to join and find the agenda of talks here: www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/worki...

I have a distinct memory of watching biathlon in a prior Olympics and the commentator said the Norwegian team had 23 wax technicians (!).

Time to show them Portlandia?

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We didn’t know where it was yet when I was in grad school!

Someone without a science degree or any science research experience nominated to be in charge of NSF.

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

Need more industries to speak up against the attacks on NCAR.

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We ❤️ NCAR - Let's Save It! YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Last December, weather and climate scientists sat down with us to tell us why they loved the National Center for Atmospheric Research, and why it benefits us all. Last night, the NSF began dismantling it. Listen to what they have to say, and why it's urgent that we #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act

A Climate Supercomputer Is Getting New Bosses. It’s Not Clear Who.

The NCAR-Wyoming Supercomputing Center was created to protect us against extreme weather and climate change. Now it's being transferred to an unknown "third party": www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/c... Tell Congress and the NSF to stop the transfer and #SaveNCAR wclivestream.com/act youtu.be/pT8dCoZgH_M

Trump's Climate Supercomputer Plans Threaten US Insurance Market: Actuaries A new letter from the American Academy of Actuaries draws a direct line between the planned dismantling of NCAR and higher homeowners insurance costs for US consumers.

The American Academy of Actuaries warns that dismantling NCAR would degrade the catastrophe models insurers depend on to price climate risk—driving up premiums and threatening coverage availability nationwide.
"Uncertainty carries a positive cost."
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