Jacob Wenegrat

A line curve showing number of awards for fiscal year 2026 compared to fiscal years 2021-2025 for the Directorate for Geosciences. The fiscal year 2026 curve lies well below curves for other fiscal years.

Directorate for Geosciences

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Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him.

White. Hot. Rage.

The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states.

The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor.

One collision and the whale is dead.

We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍

Also important here as noted is the restriction to not cut overhead rates (for some agencies that includes NSF).

FY 2026 R&D Appropriations Dashboard | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

I come back from my winter PTO and day one Congress drops the text of a minibus. The dashboard has been updated with the Senate Homeland numbers, and all the info in the CJS-Int-E&W minibus. A House vote is scheduled tomorrow night, and Senate likely later this week.

www.aaas.org/news/fy-2026...

An artist's drawing of the Ben Franklin submersible. The sub is shown with its side cut open to reveal the interior and technology of the submersible.

A temperature map of the Gulf Stream with the track of the Ben Franklin superimposed on it. Beginning on July 14, 1969 off Florida, ending on August 14 off Nova Scotia.

Wow, why have I never heard of the Ben Franklin mesoscaphe? Like human argo floats, 6 men descended to ∼600m and drifted submerged in the Gulf Stream for 30 days. Along the drift, the crew mapped seafloor properties, biology, noises, and acted as a human occupied CTD analyzing the water column.

Assistant Professor (Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences) Spring 2026 Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences tenure-track announcement.

Hey, you could be my neighbor!

Assistant Prof position at the Naval Academy: www.usna.edu/HRO/jobinfo/...

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Some festive vortices to spin you into the new year!

visualpde.com/fluids/vorti...

Merry Christmas from the Southern Ocean in 1874 🌊

“Liquid Mirror” is a real technique used for geophysical
fluid dynamics lab experiments!

Although drinking the experiment is not recommended…

www.ocean.washington.edu/research/gfd...

Horn Point Confirms Deep NOAA Cuts A nearly 50 percent reduction in federal funding for oyster restoration threatens to sharply reduce oyster production in the Chesapeake Bay, jeopardizing one of the region’s most successful environmen...

Our first direct hit. Oddly our oyster work is the most popular thing we do. Great return on investment for taxpayers funding bay restoration.

cambridgespy.substack.com/p/horn-point...

In a large conference room full of people, the audience doesn't fit entirely in the frame of a photo. Nearly everyone pictured is standing.

At an @agu.org Town Hall today, @ncar-ucar.bsky.social President Antonio Busalacchi spoke to #AGU25 attendees about what's at stake if NCAR is dismantled.

One attendee asked anyone who uses NCAR research to stand up. Almost everyone in the room stood.

Read more here:

eos.org/research-and...

That’s the hall of rejected proposals.

Protester outside fall agu meeting. "Closing NCAR will harm the American public."

One of the few public protests, here at Fall AGU, of Trump Administration actions.

#AGU25

It’s simply not possible to overstate how important NCAR is to US and world science. We need to fight this with everything we’ve got.

This was so fun to make!! #lamontdoherty #lamont #atmosphere #science #charney #GFS #vallis #geostrophic #quasigeostrophic #hydrostatic #rossby Call Me Charney: A GFD Parody

This is the only parody song about geophysical fluid dynamics you’ll ever need:

urldefense.com/v3/__https:/...

Tis' the season for making paper oceanography globes!

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via Barry Klinger mason.gmu.edu/~bklinger/Se...

Bit late on this, but yesterday DoD appealed this case about indirect costs to the First Circuit.

I can understand the 'financial/logistical' aspects, but am legitimately curious what the accessibility issue with using Keynote for presentations is. @agu.org

Dodging Icebergs and Storms on the Hunt for an Ocean Tipping Point

Great article by @zhonggg.bsky.social and Esther Horvath highlighting our EGNOG project on the Northeast Greenland Shelf! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/c...

We first note that hand-wringing about the decline in US college enrollments has mistakenly linked such declines to the price of four-year colleges.

But the decline is entirely driven by two-year community colleges (and by for-profit colleges). The four-year sector is the dog that didn't bark.

One of my absolute favorite studies.

Ok, so where do I send my money to purchase one of these?

Picture of a bathythermography, used to measure temperature in the ocean until the 1960s.

Proud new owner of a bathythermograph!

Hey fluids friends, we're recruiting in my department this year!

Wow! I was at the 2016 colloquium (which has by far the most beautiful room I've ever presented in), and can't believe we are approaching a decade already!