Congratulations to Arden Radford, our group's latest PhD! @buearth.bsky.social

For perspective: a recent study suggested that economic savings from just a *single* well-predicted hurricane, thanks to NOAA research advancements, are on order of *$5 billion.* That exceeds NOAA's *entire proposed annual operating budget.* So much for government efficiency.

It was nice knowing y'all.. the apocalypse cometh to Blackstone.

Catching some summer vibes while we have them. Moving to the country has its (limited) perks... Not shown: the fireflies 🪰 and glass of whiskey 🥃

New from The Strain Team: 🎊 Springer Nature Discovers MDPI 🎊 Springer Nature has spawned a copycat journal series called "Discover" mimicking #MDPI journal titles and citation behaviours. We even made a browser game to prove it (see 🔗). Gross! 😀 1/n #ResearchIntegrity #SciPub #AcademicSky

Today I submitted the final report for my CAREER award granted after my start at @buearth.bsky.social. The project advanced our understanding of biosphere-atmosphere-chemistry interactions, funded so many trainees, and supported major expansions of the curriculum in our department. Thank you, NSF!

It's rather interesting, and immensely heart warming, to see how many Americans are posting congrats about the Canadian election. Haven't seen that before, but I understand why. And so many say "elbows up." It's nice when your friends get you.

'Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics' is looking for new editors. Consider applying to support top scientific quality and interactive publishing with public peer review. - Share the link with interested, suitable colleagues. @egu.eu www.atmospheric-chemistry-and-physics.net/about/news_a...

Join our Extreme Weather and Mental Health Webinar Join us for the first in our State of the Science webinar series, which will feature expert speakers across disciplines delivering a primer on the health impacts of disasters. April 3, 12:00 pm ET. Register: loom.ly/NAkNAz4

Satellite observations show evidence of atmospheric ammonia Inequalities (highest concentrations for American Indians>Hispanics/Latinos>Black/African Americans>whites) associated w/ industrialized swine facilities in Eastern North Carolina | ES&T @amgcarlton.bsky.social pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10....

Such an important facility and atmospheric record. I use any excuse to show my students a photo of me at MLO.

✊Massive turnout for STAND UP FOR SCIENCE rally in Boston #StandUpForScience

Did Monday's earthquake rattle you? BU seismologist and research professor of @buearth.bsky.social Rachel Abercrombie spoke to The Brink about the 3.8 magnitude earthquake centered six miles off the southeast coast of York Harbor, Maine. Read more: www.bu.edu/articles/202...

If you would like to join us at BU, we have an ongoing search for multiple faculty members in environmental health. Please apply and help make a difference within a community of fantastic and fun people! #AcademicSky #PublicHealth #EnvironmentalHealth academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/29115

I’m increasingly convinced that the love that powers long term climate action grows out of all the time we spend doing the things we love, in the places we love, with the people we love. Without that, what are we fighting for?

It should be a legally mandated global requirement that every conference has a puppy play zone. #AGU24 @agu.org

It's showtime! So many great talks already this week covering the exciting developments with TEMPO and other space-based pollution monitoring efforts. If you're around, check out my talk this afternoon: agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/me...

Excited for a full week of sciencing with 25,000 of my best friends #AGU24

For the #agu24 podcast listeners looking for recs during their travels, I highly recommend "The Big Dig" (www.wgbh.org/podcasts/the...) by @iancoss.bsky.social. It's genuinely enjoyable and also has some important lessons for those of us working in climate-risk management

Current mood

Another #AGU24 tease... I'm excited to share success we've had with ground-based remote sensing at four sites across the Boston area. Our Pandora network helps us carefully interpret unprecedented tropospheric pollution mapping from the TEMPO satellite instrument. Big effort with many collaborators.

My slightly tongue-in-cheek commentary ⬇️ reflecting on DOGE and what it means to have an efficient government (My take - investing in public health and other programs that improve health and well-being, especially when they save $, is the poster child of efficiency) thehill.com/opinion/fina...

TFW you're trying to figure out your #AGU24 schedule.

Title slide done ✅ ...Now I just need figure out what I'm going to talk about. #AGU24

In preparation of the AGU mtg in 2 weeks, I've been making some TEMPO NO2 animations using the Beta data. Here's an animation for the most polluted ozone day in the mid-Atlantic last summer (Aug 1, 2024). Also can see wildfires out West and most of the largest cities. I could stare at this all day!

The pile on to Bluesky coincides perfectly with the last minute scramble to work on #AGU24 presentations, no? Finally took the time to compare exciting new TEMPO NO2 data (dark circles) with our Boston area ground-based Pandora observations (light circles). A couple of nice examples here.

Because social media isn't the same until you've introduced people to your pets.

Our FarmFlux Science Team solicitation was just released today! This NASA Earth Venture Suborbital mission will present exciting new opportunities to learn about atmospheric trace gas fluxes over U.S. agriculture. science.nasa.gov/researchers/...

Wrapping up at NASA Goddard. It's been great to catch up with colleagues and discuss new collaborations in person. Thanks to folks with the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, the In Situ Observations Laboratory, and of course the Pandora Global Network Project for all their time!