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Closing tomorrow 25 Feb! An excellent opportunity to join our team and work with academic partners across the climate and health field.

I mean it's not like the whole US team was on the ice at one stage but numbers are not real anymore 🤣🤣🤣

They played like they had an extra man! Great game so far! The goalies have been incredible. It's been a good reason to hide at home during a blizzard 😁

It's also Pancake Tuesday! (Or maybe that's just an Irish thing...)

Ha ha. That's a malfunctioning sensor. It's been reading ridiculous numbers for a while if you look at the time series.

But the Marine Polar Lab is in a hollow that has a pretty strong local temperature inversion that traps emissions from cars, the natural gas boiler and the sewer pump.

Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵

Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...

Lots and lots of well watered plants!! Really makes a difference to the humidity in my apartment.

But what has happened since 2017?!

Best I can tell, review request systems never deliver out of office replies back to handling editors. So you never know if someone saw the email. That has made me less annoyed by lack of replies.

But what do they think will happen when less light comes to the surface (even if it's diffuse)? Less OH = longer methane, etc lifetimes. Already stressed ecosystems could just give up trying to grow (less CO2 uptake). The lack of earth science knowledge expressed by the company here is terrifying!

If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7

PostdocAd-FarmFlux Postdoctoral Associate: aircraft-based measurements of atmospheric ammonia Join our team! The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Minnesota (UMN) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral A...

Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements

Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.

See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!

PhD open day Fri 21st Nov 1-3pm

The Wolfson Atmospheric Chemistry Laboratories will be hosting an informal PhD info event on Friday Nov 21st
Hear about available PhD opportunities
Discuss projects with supervisors
Talk to current students
Ask practical questions
Get a tour
Refreshments provided!

This summer's GOTHAAM campaign to unravel the determining chemistry that affects air quality in the complex NYC metropolitan area - Led by John Mak and supported (A LOT) by NSF-NCAR

Independent federal #science safeguards human health & the environment @ncar-acom.bsky.social

Field demo from rapidly changing northern ecosystems. This shows a violent stream of methane bubbles venting through thawing permafrost soils to the sky. Video credit to Tom Douglas and Torre Jorgenson. Curious bog dog is a Friday bonus.

Emerging drivers of urban aerosol increase global change vulnerability in a US megacity npj Climate and Atmospheric Science - Emerging drivers of urban aerosol increase global change vulnerability in a US megacity

Out this week in npj Climate and Atmospheric Science: VCPs, biogenic VOCs and traditional anthropogenic PM respond to heat and smoke to drive summer PM pollution outside NYC, highlighting vulnerabilities of urban air quality under global change. @chemdelphine.bsky.social @dbm.bsky.social

New paper on what drives organic aerosol in NY - anthropogenic chemicals have emerged as 2x traffic sources, while wildfire smoke is persistent and substantial - and we see evidence that it enhances biogenic SOA.

Come join us in NYC! We are hiring an Assistant Prof. in my Dept at Columbia - info below. Review of applications starts in October.

Atmospheric Physics faculty position at Univ of Toronto - help us make use of satellite and aircraft capabilities that are on their way in Canada! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...

Why Trump's move to undo climate regulations could put businesses at risk The Trump administration wants to revoke a key part of climate-related regulation to save businesses money. But many businesses worry it could cost them more.

Nice article about the DOE report and how the scientific community is responding

www.newsweek.com/why-trumps-m...

I don't use X. But just be careful until it's confirmed. There was a PNAS paper that (I'm summarizing) incorrectly claimed there was a large methane pluse in Siberia when it was a hot rock throwing off the albedo in the retrieval. So there is a history of problems there.

@mparrington.bsky.social Do you know what observations are driving this large methane increase in CAMS? Is it TropOMI? Or is it a tower?

Is that CAMS methane model using TropOMI satellite data? The satellite could predict an increase that is not real before/after a fire when the surface characteristics change. You might want to check that anyone on the ground is seeing an increase.

Congrats Suzana!!!

Wow 👀

Someone calling into WNYC this week asked why their grandma was subsidizing Google! Power charges have gone up 20% in the last year in the NJ/PA/MD utility area.

Congratulations!!! 🎉

MethaneSAT Loses Contact with Satellite

On Friday, June 20 we lost contact with our methane-measuring satellite. Despite considerable efforts we were unable to reestablish contact. This morning we learned that the satellite has lost power, and it is anticipated to be unrecoverable.

methanesat.org/project-upda...

And most of the CFC observations that we need to make sure we don't wipe out the ozone layer... Sigh...

My "adult pokemon" is the Merlin app to id birds I never knew existed. But same vibe...