I donate all the money to Alzheimer’s research. As a PSA? Should you want to support a musician? Buy the record. Whoever it is. Streaming pays next to nothing.

Hickory, by Andy Bunn 11 track album

Folks that might want to listen? It’s on all the things. And you can buy it here.

andybunn.bandcamp.com/album/hickory

Opinion | The Town That Reveals All of Trump’s Bad Economic Ideas

Long time friends and such might remember that I made a record a few years ago titled “Hickory” after the town where my mom’s people lived. The NYT has an article about the town (not the record!)

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/o...

PS. If you ever want to support a
musician? Buy the record. Streaming services don’t pay nuttin.

Hickory, by Andy Bunn 11 track album

Those interested can find the music on any streaming service. Or buy the record. All the money get donated to Alzheimer’s research.

andybunn.bandcamp.com/album/hickory

Ah! Yeah. Well let me know if you get a good one.

Termination shock? Too old I guess.

🌲🌳 PhD opportunity: Forest Vulnerability to Hotter Droughts

Interested in forest ecosystems, climate extremes & tree stress resilience?

🎓 Dual PhD (KIT 🇩🇪 + Melbourne 🇦🇺)
🔬 Plant Ecophysiology Lab, Garmisch-Partenkirchen 🇩🇪
🌍 +1-year research stay 🇦🇺

👉 Apply here: t1p.de/g39co

Oh no! This is my favorite phenology record.

The Druid.

There is a new spiffier interface for xDateR. Since I'm teaching shiny apps this quarter I used it as an excuse to learn new UI and UX stuff. And I'm doing some more work on more graceful error handling that will come soon.
viz.datascience.arizona.edu/xDateR/

Welp.

charts.ecmwf.int/products/sea...

This is so, so well-articulated.

Or run it locally via

library(shiny)
runGitHub("xDater", "opendendro",ref = "main")

Happy cross dating.

Hey dendro folks. I did a full redesign of the xDater app. I've heard from several folks that last push busted the canonical link (hosted by UA). Until we fix it you can use it here:
andybunn.shinyapps.io/xDateR/

Sort of surprised this isn’t big news in the (especially) west coast media.

www.fs.usda.gov/about-agency...

"...virtually everything they say about the historical evidence is incorrect."🍿

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...

Exciting new work from Taylor et al in J of Clim. showing tree-ring PDSI reconstructions can identify compound drought-heatwave events in regions with strong land-atmosphere coupling. Clever disentangling of temp and ppt in PDSI recons!
journals.ametsoc.org/downloadpdf/...

Oh yeah. We start reviewing next week. But all applications will be reviewed up until finalists have been approved.

Holler at me with questions.

We are especially interested in candidates whose work incorporates toolsets, such as:

Remote sensing and geospatial analytics
Coding and reproducible computational workflows
Management and analysis of large or global datasets
Downscaled regional climate or ecological modeling

Areas of emphasis may include:
Climate-driven changes in forest structure and function, including the impacts of altered temperature, precipitation, and wildfire frequency
Carbon cycling and sequestration
Deforestation and land-use change
Impacts of invasive species, disease, and pests

Assistant Professor in Forest Systems - Bellingham, Washington State job with Western Washington University | 677245 Full-time, tenure-track position in Forest Systems with focus on forest ecosystems in the context of global environmental change.

The Env Sci dept at WWU (my department!) is hiring a TT forest systems scientist.
jobs.sciencecareers.org/job/677245/a...

I agree. This event has been meteorologically astonishing, and its impacts will be felt long after it ends in terms of record low snowpack, sharply increased wildfire risk, and extreme low watershed runoff/streamflow into summer and beyond.

It is important to remember that the 'Breakthough Institute' is run by terrible people with bad ideas and even worse opinions

Long Science in the Nevada Bristlecone Preserve Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia.

Ancient bristlecone pines have been collecting data for us for millennia.

Scientists like Long Now Research Fellow Anne Heggli (@driscience.bsky.social) work to build a long-term scientific legacy among these ancient trees. longnow.org/ideas/long-s...

Obscure hot take: Having POSIXct and POSIXlt is overkill. POSIXlt should be deprecated.

This is a silly headline and story. This fire is not particularly near the ancient BCP stand and is 70% contained.

This was a huge collaboration—dozens of co-authors, terabytes of data, and years of work. We’re excited to share it. Big thanks to the team, the field crews, and the data contributors.