Delphine Farmer

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Assistant/Associate Professor The Department of Atmospheric Science at Colorado State University invites applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant to Associate professor level:1) Climate dynamics. We see...

We invite applications for two tenure-track faculty positions at the Assistant to Associate professor level: jobs.colostate.edu/postings/167...

Hey Colorado residents, particularly people in Fort Collins, but also those who are somewhat near: my sister and brother in law are running a study on an easy, portable method to help maintain indoor air quality during adverse outside events (like smoke or pollution).

America’s brain drain

No words

I think this explains what is going on with papers at JGR-Atmos - I have two stuck in reviewer purgatory for >90 days!?! Anyone else?

Under Trump, E.P.A. Explored if Abortion Pills Could Be Detected in Wastewater

alarming mention of mass spec in this article about Congressional requests for EPA to track mifepristone in wastewater #chemsky ⚗️🧪

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Investigating transport of particulate matter from cooking emissions in a multi-story house using low-cost sensor measurements and different modeling approaches This work investigates the transport of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) in a multi-story test house using cooking emissions as a point source. The tes…

So proud to share this new paper from my research group in collaboration with NIST scientists during the CASA Field Study! We look at particle transport in a house and compare 3 models: a box model, an empirical model, and CONTAM.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

This work hinged on combining bulk ACSM and speciated GCxGC measurements plus a vast array of other instruments - and a boatload of data analysis. Congratulations @emfranklin.bsky.social & thanks to @dbm.bsky.social @roseatmos.bsky.social @mvermeuel.bsky.social @reobrien.bsky.social + the FROG team

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.

Great news! Congratulations!

A four panel comic called Happy Halloween From The Birds. In panel 1, a pileated woodpecker has pecked its huge gaping rectangular holes in a pumpkin. In panel 2, a yellow-bellied sapsucker has pecked a face using its standard rows of small holes. In panel 3, a satin bowerbird has carved a pumpkin into a bower and placed its favorite blue candies all around it. In panel 4, a loggerhead shrike has impaled mini pumpkins on a fence's metal spikes and is saying "fight me."

Spooky season approaches, so I'm going to repost some of my Halloween comics from years past.

I do not want the video. I will never watch the video. I usually won’t even give the video the effort of complaint.

I just want to read the news story. Give me the text. This would be my Ted Talk but that would be text too.

‘Completely shattered.’ Changes to NSF’s graduate student fellowship spur outcry The announcement comes months later than usual, leaving many would-be applicants stranded

NSF today released instructions for the next round of applicants to its Graduate Research Fellowship Program. A key group—second-year Ph.D. students—is no longer eligible, and students who are still able to apply will face an unusually narrow timeframe. https://scim.ag/3KlQkQk

Efficient Pollination Stinks: Corpse Flowers Use Floral Trapping and Persistent Emissions Sulfur compounds dominated the female flowers of a Titan arum bloom, while the male flowers had more chemically diverse floral emissions We identified evidence toward the use of floral trapping d...

The original paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.

A rare bloom of Cosmo, CSU’s corpse plant, gave my group (Rose Rossell and @chemj.bsky.social) the chance to study corpse flower emissions in a fun collaboration with Tofwerk. Turns out to be an interesting, if stinky, story of pollination chemistry…

The Ayrshire wedding crasher mystery solved after four years For years Michelle and John Wylie were puzzled about the presence of a mysterious tall man in a blue suit at their wedding.

This was the story I needed today www.bbc.com/news/article...

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-...

Assistant Professor Plant-Microbe Interactions We seek a creative, collaborative, and visionary plant biologist to establish an internationally recognized research program at the forefront of plant-microbe interactions aimed at understanding how t...

The Department of Biology at Colorado State University is hiring an Assistant Professor in the area of plant-microbe interactions! Please spread the word!

jobs.colostate.edu/postings/165...

And people don’t believe me when I say bioaerosol deposition matters…

Ugh. I’m so sorry.

For more info on the project: www.eol.ucar.edu/news/skimmin...

Lauren and me flying Mission Scientist together!

Adam is a grad student in charge of SP2 data and keeping the AMS running…

The NSF C-130 getting ready for a flight!

So it’s been about four years in the making, but #GOTHAAM is finally happening. We’re two weeks in with a phenomenal team - and some impressive datasets! Three Farmers flew today and we had a blast taking transects of urban pollution plumes and then studying stratification over the ocean!

A rule of thumb for tsunamis is that in open ocean, they move at similar speeds to commercial airliners. If you're ever curious how long it would take for a tsunami to get from one place to another, look up the duration of a similar-length flight.

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

EPA announces layoffs The agency plans to eliminate its Office of Research and Development.

I am so sad to see this. This organization is essential for understanding pollution and its impacts. The people who work there are incredibly dedicated, experienced, and world leaders. This is incredible loss of national investment and capacity.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Yeah, I think there is a certain amount of mixing correlation and causation in that interpretation of this plot… I think one would have to separate out by cause of death (heart attacks or just more car accidents because people are walking around more in the spring and summer in Europe?).

Recipients of a U.S. Climate Science Fellowship Are Put on Unpaid Leave

This is such a loss. I've served on the selection committee for this program for the past three years, because it has funded so many incredible people doing such important research over the years. It should be expanding to meet the new challenges of climate change, but instead is totally defunded.

‘This is bull——”: National Science Foundation employees protest HUD's takeover Dozens of National Science Foundation employees crowded the agency’s headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday to protest the news that the Department of Housing and Urban Development, or HUD, w...

Another day testing the limits of resilience.

The Alexandria NSF building was designed for the NSF merit review process (gold standard), complete with a floor devoted to panels.

Now we aren’t allowed to have in person panels.

The loss of US science leadership will haunt this country for decades.

Screenshot from NSIDC that says: "Dear Colleague: The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing and delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025. The SSMIS data are used as input for the following NSIDC DAAC-produced data sets, which will therefore stop processing no later than 30 June 2025:"

Awful. More horrible science news

"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."