Great success story for salmon restoration. “If you (un)build it they will come” is at least partially true for this resilient species. Climate change remains the bogeyman www.ucdavis.edu/climate/news...

The institutional memory of NOAA has suffered: “All these leaders of things who’ve been around for a long time and know how it operates, we’re kind of moving on.” NOAA lost 2,000 of its 11,800 employees through layoffs and retirements since Trump took office”. Now at its lowest staffing level ever.

maryland football before and after october 1st

The Trump administration’s lawless attack on Senator Mark Kelly is part of a much broader project to turn the US military into a partisan militia and silence veterans who might speak out against that by threatening their pensions www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Calling any Central Cal biologists who want to lend their field skills to a bioblitz day in Madera County! Saturday, Jan 24th, on a 4500 acre ranch that sits at about 1000ft of elevation and is roughly 40 minutes N of Fresno. It’s a beautiful property and there is lots of ground to cover!

Thanks so much to @emilypont.bsky.social for covering what might be the most underrated climate battlefield there is. As I say in the piece, in the Trump era, there is no clearer opportunity for state and local elected officials to make a tangible difference on climate than saving transit.

I'm hiring a postdoc to work with myself, Dr Jim Lyons and the entire NOAA Firebird team on the adaptive management part of our larger project focused on the impacts of prescribed fire on Gulf Coast wetlands Accepting applications until Feb 15th blogs.illinois.edu/view/7426/19...

30+ years of unchecked capitalism, a society raised on individualism, "i don't owe you shit", "fuck you, i got mine", demonizing socialism, collectivism or even caring about others is it really any wonder there is a narcissism "epidemic" right up alongside a loneliness epidemic happening right now?

I learn something new every time I read the NWS forecast discussion.

Another institution capriciously demolished. Another sad day in America.

Yay! Dr. Tanya Atwater finally getting public credit for her (very big) role in the plate tectonics revolution.

inject it into my veins

The #SFBayArea this king tide weekend. #ClimateChange #SeaLevelRise

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

There has never been a moment when ending the oil industry has been more urgent or important. Here is a thread of seven tools that can help. Brief, readable 2-pagers, and a 30-page overview from @michealpodgers.bsky.social at @clicabedu.bsky.social.

SMART Train crossing the Petaluma River at Haystack Bridge during #KingTides

(Looking for) San Gregorio State Beach during #KingTides

I wanna emphasize this, especially for folks who will be out on levees along SF Bay tidal marshes. In a lot of marshes, sensitive wildlife like Ridgway’s rail and salt marsh harvest mice will be concentrated along levees, where they’re trying to not get eaten by harriers. Give them some space!

Still working on photo review, but I have to say that the California #KingTides photographers/volunteers/community scientists (what would you like to be called? Superstars?) are superstars. This is where the photos are being posted: arcg.is/0Gy5Cq (1/?)

What if every state had a plan--and a fund--for climate resilience? Rhode Island’s about to. Read all about it in my column today: susanpcrawford.substack.com/p/a-small-st...

Chuck Bonham is over it

At +8.1 ft NAVD (measured at the Golden Gate, NOAA station 9414290) Muzzi and Heerdt Marshes outside Corte Madera are completely underwater! @kingtides.bsky.social

🌊🦉🧪🌎 #KingTides are back January 2nd + 3rd! help Head to your local tidal marsh and help @kingtides.bsky.social document the California King Tides for #conservation! Learn more: www.coastal.ca.gov/kingtides/

New Year’s Eve recovery today, tomorrow #KingTides!

One of the best things that happened to me in 2025 was that we got a permit to visit The Wave in Arizona. Here are some photos from last Friday; needless to say, photos do not do justice to this place

spending New Year’s Day as God intended: eating bougie seafood next to Tomales Bay, followed by streaming the Mummers Parade while baking cookies at home

Las Vegas: We have Elvis weddings Philadelphia: So do we, but they’re freezing cold, on live television, and with an inexplicable number of saxophones (In case it’s not clear, Philadelphia remains the best city in the United States)

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

I DO NOT REGRET TO INFORM YOU THAT WE ARE GOING TO WIN

SHE PERFORMED AN INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE AS PART OF THE ROUTINE WOKE 2.0 OFFICIAL

We haven't seen an Indiana squad turn back an Alabama offense this decisively since Antietam

Our Solar System is orbiting the center of our Galaxy at about 220 km/s so in 2025 we collectively traveled something like 7 billion kilometers across the Milky Way. Once in a while, when you have a moment, it’s worthwhile to take a look around, see where you are, and appreciate how far you’ve come.

Happy New Year everyone! We are at the end of our 2025 earthquake year, if we follow the convention that earthquakes are recorded in UTC, and in Zulu time, it is 2026. I thought I would do a little 2025 California earthquake roundup for everyone (1/5)

Happy New Year’s Eve from a wetland I helped the National Park Service design at Point Reyes National Seashore a few years ago. The elephant seals use it as a swimming pool/playground.

It was bad enough when the Gen-Z Fascist Kiddos thought that "Beethoven" was a slice-of-life film about Real World America 1991, but now they've convinced themselves that 1980's Japanese Vaporwave art represents Our Country That Was Taken From Us.

Artist: Hiroshi Nagai Born: Tokushima Prefecture, Japan, 1947 Title: Untitled (Beachcomber Series, 2017) Sold: $19,000

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

Big shakeup: The head of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife is stepping down. Chuck Bonham is the longest-serving director of the agency that's at the center of heated debates over how to manage salmon and wolves. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Just finished The Rose Field (thanks for the heads up, @sammyroth.bsky.social!) and I have more questions than answers!! Anyone else?!?

The EPA has announced changes to the definition of Waters of the U.S. that leave critical systems supporting drinking water, floodwater storage, and biodiversity unprotected. Public comments on the changes are open until January 5, 2026. Read SFS's response: freshwater-science.org/news/sfs-res...

“having to mask made me go fash” is so common and it’s just baffling I mean, yes, it was annoying to wear one all the time? it also wasn’t that big a deal? if, today, someone asks me to put a mask on I go “ok” and put one on and yet so many people treat it as a life-ruining imposition

🚨ADOPTABLE DOG ALERT🚨 Hopefully "Jax" can squeeze in some outside time Wednesday morning, before the first round of rain moves in during the afternoon. This handsome fella is available from Lily's Legacy Senior Dog Sanctuary in Petaluma: www.lilyslegacy.org/available.html

It’s 3 PM on December 30th, time to change out of my pajamas.

Hey, you could be my neighbor! Assistant Prof position at the Naval Academy: www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/... 🌊

This concern is appreciated and warranted, but to clarify: 3 out of 9 regional Climate Adaptation Science Centers have had their funding frozen (DOI won’t approve their 5-year renewals). 6 regional CASCs are still (mostly) funded. We haven’t given up on restoring funding for the full network.

NJ’s answer to flooding: it has bought out and demolished 1,200 properties insideclimatenews.org/news/2512202...

OK, I'll play:

James Merril’s poem “Christmas Tree,” written while he was dying of AIDS. 1995.

Captive bred sunflower stars (Pycnopodia helianthoides) successfully released into Monterey Bay for the first time! This species has been more or less extirpated south of Washington since the 2014 outbreak of sea star wasting disease.🧪🦑

Oh man, this was a year with a lot of great bike memories (thank you, new Levo SL!), but my favorite has to be riding Thunder Mountain Trail outside Bryce Canyon National Park. Riding a bike through hoodoos is the most wild feeling!