On vacation for a couple weeks, unexpected delay so we got an extra day to explore Santiago. The mountains were a bit hazy but there was a recreational closure of some roads for biking and waking/running. Really nice!

NCAR is a unique & valuable asset - far more than a climate model, or observations, or technology, or training ground, or gathering space. It covers weather, space weather, data, climate, paleo-climate, and everything in-between. It's building is an icon, but it's iconic status goes far beyond that.

Huge congratulations to the six Best Poster Prize winners of the #ECRConference2025! 🥳 Hannah Kessenich Vasu Singh Biplob Dey Mishka Rawatlal Stephanie Elkins Pablo Lichtig Your research was outstanding. See you at the iCACGP-IGAC 2026 Science Conference! #ECR #AtmosphericScience #PhD #SciComm

You will find us at IGAC early Career Workshop in the Americas time slot on 25th of September!! @igac-ecr.bsky.social

Okay so this is not atmospheric chemistry related BUT I finished my first 100 mile trail run this weekend! Run Rabbit Run in Steamboat Springs. And like all long running endeavors I must talk about it on all social media. It was lovely except for the cold hail!! Many aspens changing color.

🚨 New publication! The BBURNED review paper on fire emission estimation in the MODIS era, resulting from our 2023 Fire Emissions Workshop, led by @mparrington.bsky.social from our scientific steering committee is now published in Elementa online.ucpress.edu/elementa/art... @ucpress.bsky.social

I recently analyzed LMIC participants by location and year and found out that conference location REALLY matters for this--40% LMIC participation in 2014 in Natal, 57% in 2024 in Kuala Lumpur, 15% in 2022 in Manchester (COVID still a big thing for that conference, though), ~3% for Colorado in 2016.

The women of the IGAC SSC (minus Katerina, Liya, and Louisa) in Abidjan!.

Finally at the GEIA conference in Abidjan!

Due date coming up!!

Been up since 230 am hoping my evisa for Cote D'Ivoire comes in last minute (applied 12 days ago). I've had good luck with visas so far and have a strong passport so not complaining but much sympathy for all the scientists that make it to IGAC events despite visa hurdles!

Looking for people who want to help advance atmospheric chemistry towards a sustainable world and steer the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry Project! IGAC (like many US-based organizations dealing with climate/science) is in a time of transition, and you could help shape its future!

📣Are you an ECR interested and working on topics around Atmospheric Chemistry? Then join the 2nd IGAC-iCACGP ECR 2025 online conference, which will be organized around 3 different time zones. Abstract until 10th of Aug. More details here: www.ecr-igac-icacgp.org/2025/03/05/i...

Mark your agendas for the next #CATCHseminar by Christian Pilz on vertical properties of aerosols in the Arctic: Wednesday 18th June 2025 (13:00 UTC). More info and zoom link: www.catchscience.org/seminar-series @tropos-de.bsky.social

Applications are now open for the EGU Science Journalism Fellowship 2025! Up to €5000 awarded to #journalists reporting on ongoing #research in Earth, planetary, or space sciences. Apply Now! 📆 Deadline: 17 June 2025. 👉 Learn more: egu.eu/783DX3

Left the world climate research programme meeting to go to a museum, found more climate science!

Somehow even mid-career I still get quite nervous before talks. Shout out to the people who look thoughtful and soothingly nod during presentations you are the unsung heroes of science.

Representing IGAC as a partner organization at the World Climate Research Programme meeting this week. Learning a lot about their different projects and activities! Keeping an eye on their WCRP academy to see what capacity building & resources they develop.and collect

For anyone at #egu25, I'll be at the EDI booth at 1-2 pm talking about @earthsciencewomen.bsky.social, what's coming up, and how you can get involved! Plus listening to your feedback on what you'd like to see next!

Seba Diez introducing the Allin Wayra session (small/low-cost sensors) at #egu25! Allin Wayra is a newer IGAC activity.

Article interviewing CIRA and @cires.colorado.edu directors on the impact of proposed NOAA cuts from the @denverpost.com www.denverpost.com/2025/04/25/c...

At EGU25! Did a nice long run this morning, got my badge, now doing a bit of tourism at Belvedere Palace before heading back to do some work and figure out my schedule for tomorrow. Excited to see all the science this week!

The 2026 budget passback plan calls for eliminating NOAA Research, the scientific backbone that keeps weather forecasts, alerts, and warnings accurate and effective. This would have disastrous consequences. Read the AMS statement, in partnership w/ @nwas.org: bit.ly/4cz2RtC

Does anyone going to EGU know what the AGU leadership dinner is about? Probably I should just reply to the email from the organizer and ask, that is the adult thing to do.

The report from the [email protected] Fire UNcertainty in CHemistry Emissions, and Modelling (FUNCHEM) workshop last September can be found in the latest @igacproject.bsky.social newsletter (pp 10-13) igacproject.org/sites/defaul...

Trying to build up my community a bit more in Boulder! Group trail runs with the trail sisters and fun ski touring mountain hut trips a good way to start.

For the first time, I'm heading to EGU this year (and after, the WCRP meeting). Will anyone else be there that wants to talk IGAC? We should connect if so!

Our inter-journal special issue on Biomass burning uncertainties: emissions, chemistry, and physics is now open for paper submissions at agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...! Please consider this special-issue when submitting any biomass burning research to @agu.org journals (see thread).

This special issue is an outcome from the Fire UNcertainty in CHemistry Emissions, and Modelling hybrid workshop we co-organized with @ileaps.bsky.social at the @igacproject.bsky.social conference last September. The recorded presentations are available at www2.acom.ucar.edu/bburned/work...

📢 ‼️ Deadline extended ‼️ 📢 Abstract submission deadline has been extended to Monday, March 31st! Still some time to work on your abstract! But if you already have it ready, just submit it now 😉 icnaa2025.univie.ac.at/submission/

Interested in global monitoring networks? ICNAA2025 will have a dedicated special session on "Global observations of aerosols, clouds and trace gases: longterm monitoring networks and research infrastructure". Tick the box during abstract submission ☑️

Today's 'Stand Up for Science' rally drew thousands to D.C. It was the first major protest in response to actions by the Trump administration that critics see as a threat to scientific progress, including the recent firing of hundreds of employees at NOAA. More at cwg.live

For those of you on the job hunt, Claude AI does a great job on a first draft of a cover letter or tailoring your CV. You have to edit it to make sure it reflects reality, but if companies use AI to screen resumes, you should use AI for your application ;).

One of my very first conferences was AbGradCon! (In Puerto Rico many years ago). Was a great experience and a welcoming conference.

Survey for early career scientists, upcoming #atmoschem event information, announcements for IGAC Activity events, and more in the IGAC e-bulletin!

The Democrats on the House Science Committee have set up a website to collect stories from fired federal employees, anonymously if desired. Please amplify. (This helps the lawyers establish standing for bringing legal cases against the administration!) democrats-science.house.gov/sciencefirings

Would you like to work at Max Planck Society tenured? A new round of the Lise Meitner Excellence Program for #tenuretrack group leaders opened today - pls consider applying! The program aims to recruit and promote exceptionally qualified female scientists. mpg.de/lise-meitner-e…#LiseMeitnerGroupsps

Working on a fundraising campaign for IGAC and reaching out to different funders. Those of you who are involved in IGAC, what is your favorite thing about the community? What sort of metrics and goals do you feel we are achieving? (I have my own ideas but IGAC is very community-run!).

Yooohou! @aeris-dataterra.bsky.social , IR DataTerra's "atmosphere" data center, has just joined BlueSky! Welcome to BlueSky! And for those who want to access all the atmospheric observation data (and more!) from the French community, follow the link : www.aeris-data.fr

Upcoming deadlines for IGAC and IGAC-related Events! ACAM, GEIA, and BACO - mailchi.mp/igacproject/...

From. The. Rooftops. You're not going to find a magic money-printing machine that will give you these types of reliable returns year-after-year. NOAA and NWS don't just keep us safe - they create immense value for the American taxpayer.

A lot of what has made America great is scientific innovation. Private companies are good at taking existing science and expanding it and making it profitable, but a lot of innovation initially comes from basic science funded by the government. www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

5 am meetings are rough but always great to hear what other Future Earth Global Research Networks are up to. Tons of cool inspiring things! Meetings, workshops, courses, cool community collaborations in their sustainability science niche and broader

opening my DMs for the first time, don’t make me regret this - help me help you!

Great summary of concerning new findings about microplastics in the brain. Exposure? "Human exposure to MP through dust ingestion, inhalation of air and food/drinks consumption revealed that indoor air and drinking waters were the main sources of MP." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... /1

This is also a problem for the NSF postdocs in the AGS (atmospheric & geospace sciences) program: NSF is still not issuing them paychecks. The total lack of information (and rent money) is terrible.

National Science Foundation suspends salary payments, leaving researchers unable to pay their bills www.statnews.com/2025/01/30/t... Story by @ericboodman.bsky.social

Early-career atmospheric chemistry colleagues! Click on the link below to learn more about applying to attend the Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and the GRC that follows. www.grc.org/atmospheric-...

Younger people like to ask if I had a career plan and I feel bad saying nah I just vibed it. But it's the truth, I'm mostly doing ok, and maybe that's a relief to hear? I mean always build skills and figure out what you like in your current job and what you want more of next, but it's not rigid?