Excited to launch a new project with colleagues at USGS NOROCK 🎉 FishCast let's you explore potential impacts of drought on the prized trout fisheries of Montana thru short-term forecasts of low flow and high temp, and long-term forecasts of fish abundance. www.usgs.gov/apps/fishcast/

I just submitted my abstract for the upcoming Visualizing Climate conference. I guess I’m committed to organizing all those thoughts on color that have been rattling around in my brain for the past decade or so. visualisingclimate.com/submissions/

"Science is being destroyed across many agencies" say federal researchers. For my latest @nature.com piece, I spoke to 19 different scientists across EPA, NOAA, NIH, NASA, and USGS to document how science is being dismantled across US federal agencies.

Brunswick, #maine #nokings

Was not aware we could tag butterflies. That’s incredible.

Excited to share our new open‑access paper in PLOS ONE! We present a Monte Carlo framework to estimate how far resident killer whale pulsed calls can be detected in the Salish Sea by combining in‑situ ambient noise, tagging data and propagation modeling. 🧪🔊🐋 journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

Nicely researched article on the effects of warming temperatures in Maine (gift link) www.pressherald.com?p=7503460&uu...

Despite broad political support, one third of the nation's Climate Adaptation Science Centers will wind down in coming days due to lack of funds. The Northeast, South Central, and Pacific Islands will be left without actionable science on drought, floods, wildfire, sea level rise and other hazards.

Our Mission: To be a nonprofit successor to Climate(.)gov, delivering climate data and information to promote public climate literacy and to equip people to turn knowledge into meaningful conversations and climate-conscious actions. Read more at Climate.us

Motherfucking wind farms…

Nice thing about living in Maine is all the world class coastal camping just 20 min from home.

This comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...

Climate.gov, a major US government website supporting public education on climate science, will likely shut down after almost all of its staff were fired. What would be worse is if the website were co-opted to publish climate denial content.

Excited to announce the launch of a new homepage for passive acoustics monitoring at NOAA Fisheries. This is just the start of something big! #bioacoustics #NARW

Yep, it’s faster, easier and cheaper than running a traditional tile server, and can handle way more features than geojson. If you build web apps to show large geospatial vector datasets, highly recommend giving this a try.

USGS’s Ecosystems Mission Area faces elimination, threatening salmon, bat, and wildlife research. Cuts align with Project 2025’s rollback of environmental protections. A generational setback for science. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/c...

Trump Has Cut Science Funding to Its Lowest Level in Decades www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

The Lost Decade of Small Data? Pretty amazing what we can do with @duckdb nowadays. duckdb.org/2025/05/1...

What do monarchs, trout, bison, black bears & YOU have in common? You're all supported by the USGS Ecosystems Mission Area. Join our Rally for the Cornerstone of Conservation Science! May 22 | 12–1 PM ET Rally with us: www.mobilize.us/nwf/event/79... #ScienceForWildlife #ForPeopleAndWildlife

Unfortunately, federally funded climate adaptation science and services are being cut well ahead of the FY26 budget. We've been doing our best to speak up for what would be lost if the Climate Adaptation Science Centers are eliminated.

From @leahstokes.bsky.social aka one of the smartest energy folks in the country, the details on the GOP attempt to kneecap clean energy development

Rümeysa Öztürk has been freed!!

He's basically saying they're considering declaring martial law and suspending the Constitution if the courts continue to rule against them. This guy is seriously the worst of them all.

Our NOAA Climate Adaptation Partnership for the Northwest region was terminated this week. I'm so proud of the work we did to support the climate resilience efforts of frontline communities and Tribal Nations. And I'm deeply concerned for what the loss of this support means for NW communities.

Federal scientists will stop updating the NOAA list of billion-dollar weather disasters. The list, which had grown rapidly in recent years, reflected both worsening extreme weather and expanding development nationwide.

This is terrible news. Been working with USGS Ecosystems Mission Area for almost 10 years, and it's all about to go POOF, just like that.

Time to catch up on the past week’s news about science and medicine in the US. Whew. 1/10

Remember: NOAA is not its social media accounts. Do not let the takeover of NOAA communications take away your support of the real NOAA and the very real scientists behind it. The administration would want nothing more than for us to stop supporting our science agencies 🧪

This is a WILD list of data to disappear. I was braced for climate stuff, but not, like, shoreline maps and coastal bathymetry

Speaking of heroes, kudos to Governor Mills and AG Frey for standing up for school funding AND the rule of law. Maine won’t cave to bullies.

I had the honor of speaking at today’s #HandsOff rally in Bangor. Hundreds of people from all walks of life came together for our state, our seniors, our veterans, our friends and neighbors, and our country’s future. #mepolitics

Brunswick ME #handsoff

I may be tired and a little hoarse, but as I said again and again on the Senate floor, this is a moment where we cannot afford to be silent, when we must speak up.

Cory Booker is doing an amazing job, worth watching/listening www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2ut...

Need more of these. Pondering how a similar map for EPA/DOI/NOAA cuts on environmental research could be created...

The eventual fate of the GOP

Ok this crosses the line (not that they haven't already crossed countless lines already). But you don't fuck with the Keeling curve.

Honestly not sure how I ever survived without the {targets} #rstats package. Trying to do this with just plain old R scripts would be completely bonkers 😵‍💫

I wrote something on the state of and outlook for indie dataviz. "Crisis? What crisis? — Why 2024 was a dead year for indie dataviz — and how we’ll do much better in 2025" truth-and-beauty.net/texts/crisis...

OPEN biodiversity DATA ALERT: iNaturalist has released range data for 100k+ taxa: www.inaturalist.org/posts/106918 🌍🧪

While all of this is happening to our scientific agencies, the current extent of sea ice globally remains at record low levels... More visuals at zacklabe.com/global-sea-i...

You’d think SpaceX would rely on those models

We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country. This Friday, where will you be? standupforscience2025.org

NOAA returns/produces so much more money to the American economy than it costs, no stories about any of this should allow them the absolutely bullshit "savings" framing

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net

I’m a federal employee, a research meteorologist at a NOAA lab (OAR-NSSL). I still have my job tonight. Many of my NOAA colleagues and many more of my fellow civil servants don’t. I want to share what people like me do. Instead of doomscrolling, maybe we can learn what civil service looks like.

Maine Sea Grant is such a beneficial program for both conservation and industry (one of maine’s largest) alike. A true win-win will become a lose-lose because of this.