North American Carbon Program

Efforts to #Decarbonize the world’s buildings are heading in the right direction but are well off track.

This includes:
📉 Carbon intensity of buildings operations
⚙️ Heat pumps
☀️ Renewables in district heating

Read more from #SystemsChangeLab: bit.ly/4lD9S0c

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

New: After a long wait, the GRFP solicitation is live! Deadlines have been extended to early November, so applicants have a bit over a month to submit. www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

Climate Variability and Change The CVC committee divides among its members the responsibilities, which include organization of the Climate Variability and Change Symposium at the AMS annual meeting, various awards (AMS and STAC), s...

The @ametsoc.org Climate Variability & Change (CVC) Committee is recruiting new members! If you’re passionate about advancing climate science and service, I encourage you to get involved. It is incredibly rewarding.

Apply here: www.ametsoc.org/ams/get-invo...

September newsletter is out!
Info on:
* 2026 @usocb.bsky.social Activity Proposals
* GHG Coalition
* 2026 @fluxnet.bsky.social Secondment Program
* Job highlights
... and more!

tinyurl.com/55k4p5x4

Registration for experts interested in serving as Expert Reviewers and providing scientific comments on the First Order Draft of the Special Report on Climate Change and Cities is now open!

Register here: apps.ipcc.ch/comments/src...
⚠️ Registration closes 30 Nov2025

🔗 www.ipcc.ch/2025/09/17/p...

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2026 OCB Activity Proposal Solicitation now open until Oct 24 - spread the word! www.us-ocb.org/science-supp... @nacp-carbon.bsky.social @usclivar.bsky.social @ccspo.bsky.social @solas-ipo.bsky.social 🌊

In the August Newsletter:
* @nationalacademies.org Fast-track Review on Anthropogenic Greenhouse Gases...
* @fluxnet.bsky.social Figures Challenge
* @iclei.org What NDCs 3.0 are (and aren't) saying about multilevel, inclusive climate action
* Jobs + Funding oppty's
* and more!

tinyurl.com/25au8e92

Assistant Professor - Physical Climate Science - Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!

We are hiring! Join us as an Assistant Professor of Physical Climate Science. Apply by Sep. 29th here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05084 Help us spread the word!

Atmospheric methane is still rising fast—even as we make progress cutting human emissions.

What’s going on?

We break down the leading hypotheses here:
📖 www.sparkclimate.org/article/what...

Join our Aug 13 webinar for more 👇

Great paper bringing together folks who know forest ecology and wildfire with the strongest critics of the current carbon offset regime. The answers proposed are not simple to implement given financial incentives but they are the only path forward to a sustainable market for nature based solutions.

World’s Forest Carbon Sink Shrank to its Lowest Point in at Least 2 Decades, Due to Fires and Persistent Deforestation Forests have been quietly cooling the planet for decades, but their role is increasingly under threat.

"The margin between forest emissions and carbon removals appears to be narrowing. With emissions from deforestation and other forest disturbances rising, the world’s forests risk shifting from a carbon sink to a carbon source." 🌏 www.wri.org/insights/for...

July newsletter just dropped!
* Update on PACE Land Users Group
* AGU Sessions of Interest
* Job Highlight
* Community Events
tinyurl.com/2339t5wh

For those looking for the National Climate Assessments:

NCA5 (2023): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
NCA4 vol. 1 (2017): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...
NCA4 vol. 2 (2018): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...
NCA3 (2014): repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/19...

Seeking abstracts for #AGU25: Carbon Monitoring Systems Research and Applications!

Advances in MRV research and applications, including decision support and policy. Local, state, and national government agencies, NGOs, and the private sector are encouraged to submit by 7/30.

tinyurl.com/yc7z5ufr

Check out our new pre-print on how to use soil mass balance (“TiCAT”) to quantify rock dissolution in enhanced weathering trials. Includes key do’s & don’ts, a deep dive into signal-to-noise (constrained in data from from 5 sites), and open-source code to try it yourself. Feedback welcome! #EW #CDR

NACP Logo, text that reads "North American Carbon Program Update June 2025"

Check out our June update!
* @usclivar.bsky.social report: Confronting Earth System Model Trends with Observations
* @rockymtninst.bsky.social article: Following the Carbon: A New Lens on the Carbon Dioxide Removal Ecosystem
* NACP Science Highlight
* Job + funding opportunities
tinyurl.com/4wjzce2y

AGU AND AMS JOIN FORCES ON SPECIAL COLLECTION TO MAINTAIN MOMENTUM OF RESEARCH SUPPORTING THE U.S. NATIONAL CLIMATE ASSESSMENT The AMS is a global community committed to advancing weather, water, and climate science and service.

Fantastic news:
American Geophysical Union (AGU) and American Meteorological Society (AMS) are planning a special collection of papers on #climate change and the US, in response to the Trump administration's efforts to cancel the mandated National Climate Assessment.
www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...

Looking for CDR funding?

Join us next week on May 6th, 11am ET for a special webinar from Carbon Removal Challenge sponsors Tencent, who will be introducing you to their CarbonX program, which provides millions of USD for CDR and more!

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Logo for the North American Carbon Program, with the words "Update" and "April 2025"

In our April Newsletter:
* Alaska's Changing Wildfire Environment 2.0
* NASEM Report: A Vision for Continental-Scale Biology
* New PACE *Terrestrial* Data User Working Group
* Ocean Visions: Comprehensive mCDR Database
* Meet the Fluxers Podcast

and more! Check it out:
tinyurl.com/2s38htx9

Creating the CDR Leaders of Tomorrow · Luma We at the Carbon Removal Challenge have always maintained the future of CDR will come from University faculty and students. And we're not the only…

Excited to announce our next Carbon Removal Challenge webinar: Creating the CDR Leaders of Tomorrow!

This panel discussion, hosted by OpenAir Cofounder
@maddparker.bsky.social, will include academics & industry leaders to discuss how higher ed is key to CDR development.

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Next generation Arctic vegetation maps: Aboveground plant biomass and woody dominance mapped at 30 m resolution across the tundra biome The Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, placing tundra ecosystems at the forefront of global climate change. Plant biomass is a fund…

First circumpolar maps of aboveground tundra biomass at 30 m resolution 💪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

These new estimates show that in total tundra plants (above-and belowground) store around 8 Pg C while the upper 30 cm soils store ca 53 Pg C.

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal - ESSIC Prof. Scott Doney Joe D. and Helen J. Kington Professor in Environmental Change Dept. of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia Monday March 31, 2025, 2 PM ET Abstract: Scenarios to stabilize ...

Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal webinar this afternoon (2pm EDT) 🌊

Review paper: www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...

Webinar: essic.umd.edu/events/marin...

🚨 New blog post 🚨

In it, we show off our recent work deploying #icechunk on top of #NASA's existing archives of Earth observation data. The results: 100x speed up when extracting time series from existing datasets stored as netCDF.

"Satellite plume detection is important in greenhouse gas abatement because methane accounts for about 30% of total anthropogenic global warming." Read more from Visualizing Energy at Boston University: visualizingenergy.org/satellite-de...

SoilCoRE

My @soilcore.bsky.social team put together these resources on soil sampling & carbon monitoring following initiation of conservation practices. They did a great job. Hopefully we get to implement these methods to build healthy soils across CONUS, AK, HI, & territories.

www.youtube.com/@Soil_CoRE

Call for Experts for Upcoming IPCC | AGU The U.S. Academic Alliance for the IPCC, hosted by AGU, is facilitating nominations to the Seventh Assessment Cycle.

For U.S. climate scientists wanting to volunteer their time for the seventh IPCC report, a nonprofit coalition led by @agu.org is stepping in to forward nominations if the State Department fails to do so. (There's no indication it will act right now.)

Plumbing the Global Carbon Cycle: Integrating Inland Waters into the Terrestrial Carbon Budget - Ecosystems Because freshwater covers such a small fraction of the Earth’s surface area, inland freshwater ecosystems (particularly lakes, rivers, and reservoirs) have rarely been considered as potentially import...

@aslo.org Martin award for a fundamental new perspective on aquatic sciences goes to Jon Cole www.nasonline.org/directory-en... and colleagues for 'Plumbing the Global C cycle' doi.org/10.1007/s100... This 2007 paper still gets hundreds of citations. @monicagturner.bsky.social

An opportunity to join in Arctic science with the FORTE Science Team - proposals due April 21
From M. Tzortziou at OCB Leaky Delta's workshop

🛰️FireSat Protoflight Commences, Ushering in a New Era of Wildfire Monitoring & Detection

www.earthfirealliance.org/press-releas...