@lindseydanderson.bsky.social
Atmospheric Chemistry Ph.D. Student at CU Boulder :)
Seeing GRFPs cut by half is heartbreaking. I literally wouldn't have my PhD without GRFP support!
There were already far too few awards for the number of deserving applicants, and now this.
Great to see the support from the Boulder community for the science and scientists in our Federal laboratories.
03.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 25 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0The stretch of road connects NCAR, NOAA, NIST and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
Homes to people doing some of the most important research on Earth and its warming climate.
I commuted this exact stretch of road on a free bus for 3 years and this video hit me smack in the feels.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
27.02.2025 23:17 — 👍 2195 🔁 1035 💬 60 📌 79
Here are some pictures of activities from our first two site visits! The students loved making giant balloons with baking soda and vinegar. They also got to explore how to make a light bulb light brighter and brighter by adding batteries to their circuits :)
20.02.2025 02:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Thankfully, CU Science Discovery is helping fund the program for this semester. The future is very uncertain, but I wanted to pop on here to share some of the fun activities we are doing each week. I made a new Chemistry curriculum for this semester and am excited to show some of that here :)
20.02.2025 02:09 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A highlight of my PhD has been working with PISEC, an informal science education program. I’ve been part of PISEC for the past 4 years, visiting the same school 10x each semester with fun STEM activities. PISEC was paused because of the Executive Orders. 200 kids, 50 volunteers, 7 schools impacted.
20.02.2025 02:06 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0NSF postdocs have had their paychecks cancelled this week with no indication of when they will be re-started. This impacts some of the best scientists and communicators in our field like @chemj.bsky.social. #PayThePostdocs
31.01.2025 04:35 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0Early-career atmospheric chemistry colleagues! Click on the link below to learn more about applying to attend the Atmospheric Chemistry Gordon Research Seminar (GRS) and the GRC that follows. www.grc.org/atmospheric-...
27.01.2025 16:21 — 👍 23 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 1How to deal with abysmal #airquality in SoCal due to the fires 🔥
mask up w/ a good mask (N95 or P100)
Avoid outdoor intense activity
Turn on air filters if you have them
a Corsi-Corsi-Rosenthal box *really* worked during NorCal's fires
Sadly, this story about our work in Chemical & Engineering News a few days ago is very timely again due to the #Palisades and #Eaton fires. bsky.app/profile/cenm...
08.01.2025 23:33 — 👍 19 🔁 17 💬 0 📌 0
After the Marshall Fire in 2021, there were many questions from residents about the environmental impacts: did the smoke from the fire leave a lasting impact on air quality and health? And how could people protect themselves? Yesterday our groups published 2 papers on this topic. #MarshallFire
24.12.2024 16:32 — 👍 35 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 1
I will also be presenting a poster this afternoon about working to connect some field measurements we took this past summer in Denver to space-based remote sensing measurements!
09.12.2024 14:12 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Looking forward to presenting some research we have been doing about air quality forecasting during wildfires. Hope to see some of you there at #AGU24!
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