join us with the Global Flood Partnership next Wednesday am for our ALL WOMEN remote sensing and flooding webinar! @mirelagtulbure.bsky.social @ekta-aggarwal.bsky.social and I discuss AI and flood mapping +applications re: migration + emergency response www.globalfloodpartnership.org/events/gfp-2...

This is a very handy guide to different negotiating positions at COP30 by @carbonbrief.org - www.carbonbrief.org/interactive-...

Job alert!! Project Drawdown is hiring for 3 roles: 🌐 Program Manager, Global Strategic Partnerships (deadline: Nov 7) 🔬 Research Fellow (deadline: Nov 2) 💹 Senior Analyst, Climate Philanthropy & Investing (deadline: Nov 19) 🔗 View the position descriptions here: drawdown.org/careers #ClimateJobs

latest out from our lab- led by Saurabh Kaushik- we find at least one geofoundational model (just testing Privthi here) is outperforming CNNs and transformers for mapping glaciers (esp. termini and snouts). we released a dataset with >1800 global images with it too! doi.org/10.1016/j.sr...

launching the AI for a planet under pressure report with @sthlmresilience.bsky.social and Google's Deep Mind this Wednesday am- Ill be speaking about the role of AI in flooding and climate justice- link here- I will be teaching an undergrad class on this content spring 26! su.bmc.nu/Modules/Even...

The western end of Jamaica where #Melissa is projected to make landfall has the least well-built structures of anyplace on the island. Graphic is from a 2021 paper, "Poverty and hurricane risk exposure in Jamaica": www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Social pixel lab social last month. Someone said to me in my first week the uw memorial union is the best place to get a beer on any college campus in the us. I’m pretty sure that’s true :) lake life!!!

Do you work on vulnerability and or dimensions of power or politics in cities? We'd love you in our #aag2026 session email us by oct 31 with your abstract->The role of formal and informal power structures in shaping vulnerability and risk in cities from the Global North to the Global South.

Yet again, we can't afford to let LLMs become a source of epistemic grounding for society.

News that shocks no one: Carbon offsets do nothing for climate.

another consequence of failing to take action before the shutdown- the national flood insurance program lapsed on Sept 30- which insures 5M us homes www.realtor.com/advice/finan...

Horrific and wrong we cannot let this continue to happen in our country

great writeup U Arizona did on my student Alex Saunders' new lead authored paper with @arbennett.bsky.social @thirstygecko.bsky.social @benamie.bsky.social + S. Islam, J. Giezendanner, S. Houssain news.arizona.edu/news/u-resea... paper here: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

Wrapping up my 8th and 9th grant since April when almost all my labs funding was terminated. $1.1M. So far got $330k funded by rewriting a grant for work I was supposedly funded to do. This is the least fun I have had in this job. I know I am sadly not alone and more important things are defunded

At Grist, Laura Mallonee has just published a critically important article on the Texas flood recovery and how unincorporated boundaries are impacting equitable recovery. I was happy to chat with Laura about my ongoing research on these issues in Texas and California. grist.org/extreme-weat...

First NISAR images!! www.nasa.gov/news-release...

Terrific investigation by the @houstonchronicle.com finds that 20% of residential properties built since Harvey in greater Houston are in a mapped floodplain, 57,000 in-all. www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/202...

Flood risk lines are mapped to keep us safe. What happens when they can be bought? Dr. Beth Tellman tells it like it is. nelson.wisc.edu/the-commons/...

trying to beast thru revisions on my LAST unpublished dissertation chapter. 2 babies, 3 jobs and 6 years later! data is data baby! its still an solid paper. publishing is about persistence never give up! a revise/resubmit from a good journal and worth it! pumping up myself and others if they need it

🚨 NCA5 is now LIVE! 🚨 They took it down, but we've brought it back at: nca5.climate.us Bookmark. 👏 this. 👏 page. 👏 This is just our first step in restoring trusted science information that Americans need to understand what's happening with the climate.

I spy Ufuoma Ovienmhada postdoc at @uarizona.bsky.social @uazenvironment.bsky.social on this list re: her work on The Toxic Prisons Mapping Project and amazing environmental justice coproduction work- lucky for me shes an affiliate of the Social Pixel Lab! congrats-so deserved- a true inspiration!

Major bummer

neat paper using AI to improve flood forecasts in the US for discharge- more accurate that the National Water Model and Google's Flood Model- agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

A group of Indigenous and settler scholars (including Hilary H. Hunt and the incomparable @moreorloess.bsky.social) have created these AMAZING educational modules on dispossession. While of interest to US Land Grant institutions, they are universally relevant. campushistory.wisc.edu/education/in...

NEW: Last week, oil literally rained down on a Black town in rural Louisiana where 60% of folks live in poverty. The company isn’t taking responsibility & the federal + state governments are saying residents have to clean it up themselves. capitalbnews.org/louisiana-oi...

Nice article re @floodbase.bsky.social flood insurance program with amwins for California municipalities www.governing.com/resilience/h...

www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/n... Quoted in nytimes today re flood net- this neat network of sensors detecting water height all over nyc (which I am not involved with but really admire!)

Researchers found that moisture lost to evaporation and drought, plus runoff from pumped groundwater, now outpaces the melting of glaciers and the ice sheets of either Antarctica or Greenland as the largest contributor of water to the oceans. By @abrahm.bsky.social

Scoop: The U.S. billion-dollar disaster database is set to return this fall over at @climatecentral.org. They've hired the former NOAA scientist who ran the project for 10+ years www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEW: Trump's suspensions of UCLA's research grants is around 800 -- the ~300 we knew about for NSF and *500* NIH grants. That's according to a memo a UCLA administrator sent to the campus's researchers with grants two hours ago.

👎 BOOO: Federal judge just denied to reinstate terminated NSF grants in the 16 state AG case. There's still two other cases about NSF grant terminations (one has a hearing next week!). Next post. So, not the end of the story. But not a great update either. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

$300k grants from Klarna to fund AI for climate adaptation in low and middle income countries! Apps due Aug 31 check it out and share widely! program includes some support to deploy the AI solution! www.milkywire.com/ai-for-clima...

If you are having trouble finding National Climate Assessment reports, they are here. www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...

My god, how can anyone see this photo and not be outraged. Also read the article. www.bbc.com/news/article...

🧪 CRITICAL UPDATE: The House draft version is now out. ✅ Like the Senate's version, there's no cut to NASA's budget. ❌ There's a 23% proposed cut to NSF's budget. 8-page summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Draft bill: appropriations.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Senate appropriators showed today they are *not* down with Trump's proposed budget cuts for NASA and NSF. (Likely NOAA too, but can't say for 100% yet.) Long way to go to a law. But this is rare good news for scientists this year. www.science.org/content/arti...

ROSES is out Which i guess is a win But list for this year Is looking quite thin solicitation.nasaprs.com/ROSES2025

🧪 BREAKING (good news): Senate subcommittee says NO! to Trump's proposed slashes to NASA & NSF funding. Today, the subcommittee said to keep NASA + NSF funding at $33.9 billion, the same as in FY24. See 7:15 below. Full Senate appropriations committee meets tomorrow about it. 🧵 1/3

We've had A LOT of interesting stories in the past week, and you may have seen them in a lot of places (because we're a nonprofit and give all our work away for free republication by media outlets large and small) So the Gettysburg Connection used our story on hurricane forecasting blind spots...

Reporting on the NOAA Fellow furlough, from the @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/c...

CALL YOUR SENATORS TODAY OR TOMORROW AND ASK THEM TO SAVE NSF!!! Full Committee Markup of NSF Appropriations for FY26 is happening Thursday morning at 9:30 EDT.

There have been claims that NOAA/NWS did not foresee catastrophic TX floods--but that's simply not true. This was undoubtedly an extreme event, but messaging rapidly escalated beginning ~12 hrs prior. Flood Watch mid PM, "heads up" outlook late PM, flash flood warnings ~1am.

@lucasbelury.bsky.social on the news with FLUJOS last nite! check out the FLUJOS flood database here for the RGV with the March 2025 floods recently added- assets.rgvflood.arizona.edu

Shiloh residents are suing ALDOT after years of flooding, broken promises, and stalled progress. The lawsuit calls it a violation of the #FifthAmendment and an illegal #takings. Their fight for justice continues. #JusticeForShiloh 🔗 ow.ly/fhVy50WmjgT

really powerful blog post my student Elise Arellano-Thompson wrote about her field experience during her Fulbright in Honduras + what the dismantling of USAID meant for her trandisciplinary research plans when her partner GOAL's flood adaptation work got defunded climas.arizona.edu/news/navigat...

@floodlab.bsky.social examined flood hazard maps and found that the summer camp's cabins were within a federally designated “floodway.” "There was a breakdown somewhere along the way, in the understanding of risks and the ability to take action in a timely way." www.latimes.com/environment/...

Excited to share me and (part of!) the Social Pixel Lab has moved to University of Wisconsin-Madison Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies. Ill be joining new faculty also hired under the RISE-Earth cluster to strengthen sustainability science, ed and outreach at UW rise.wisc.edu/rise-earth/

As of today, all current NOAA Climate and Global Change postdoctoral fellows have been furloughed due to the Dept of Commerce not releasing the funding for the program. In addition no new Fellows were awarded this year. cpaess.ucar.edu/cgc

Why Texas Hill Country, where a devastating flood killed dozens, is one of the deadliest places in the US for flash flooding theconversation.com/why-texas-hi...