Matthew Stotts

A satellite picture of a mountainous desert landscape. The upper and central areas feature rugged mountain ridges, while the lower right displays sandy dunes and eroded valleys in warm brown and orange tones.

Mali

🌍 : maps.app.goo.gl/SMoZ3ZihRGPN...
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SWOT reveals the largest ocean waves Building on the 34 years of wave height measurements by satellite and the capabilities of the new SWOT satellite, a study reveals a new record for the highest ocean waves ever measured in the open oce...

🌊 I've been working on the SWOT satellite for some time, and on ocean waves even longer, including as the science lead for @esaearth.esa.int SeaState Climate Change Initiative. This paper is about the largest ocean waves, looking back at 34 years of data www.umr-lops.fr/en/SWOT-reve...

@loworbittourist.bsky.social have you visited the geoglyphs of California?

Cerulean.vc just dropped an update with new news, upcoming events and a podcast with PopularPower.io

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Postdoc Fellowships • MBARI Each year, MBARI invites applications for several in-person postdoctoral fellowships in the fields of biological, chemical, and physical oceanography, marine geology, and ocean engineering. MBARI also...

🧪📍🌊 🦑🍎 @mbarinews.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship now accepting applications. Deadline Dec 2 www.mbari.org/about/career....

Gravity Is Gone Independent reporting and commentary on science, politics, and policy

My pre-labor day reward was to get laid off, do me a favor and sign up to get my now-independent reporting and writing

3 Gorges

Cooperative National Geologic Map | NGMDB Explore the Cooperative National Geologic Map, a unified view of our Nation's geology, with interactive layers and geologic data.

You want to see this new geologic map of the contiguous US that the USGS just released.

What an absolute waste of time and money — the definition of bureaucratic waste. About 3 in 4 Americans live with at least one of these chronic health conditions or risk factors: Obesity (42%), smoking (30%), mental health conditions (20%), physical inactivity (25%), and diabetes (11%) and so on.

If you like to breath clean air & live on a habitable planet, consider commenting on EPA’s proposed rollback of the Endangerment Finding (which classifies fossil fuels as health threats so EPA can regulate them):

www.regulations.gov/document/EPA...

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This is figure 1, which shows the Southern Patagonian Icefield and the location of Glaciar Perito Moreno, its bedrock topography and frontal change.

The Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina — often described as one of the most stable glaciers in Patagonia — is retreating far more rapidly than previously thought, according to a paper in Communications Earth & Environment. go.nature.com/45tPiZu ⚒️ 🧪

Can’t say that we saw this coming as part of our earth observation investment thesis at cerulean.vc

GP Snapshot: With second fund, Cerulean still seeks non-consensus in physical AI and nature tech Everybody’s investing in AI. But not everybody’s investing in AI for reducing plastics in the pharmaceutical supply chain or certifying deforestation-free cocoa and ...

Cerulean Ventures is targeting $50 million for early stage investments in “physical AI” and nature tech.

“When people look at us, they go, ‘This is crazy. This is going to work?’ And that’s how we know that we’re on the right track,” says @mlstotts.bsky.social.

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🧁 Happy birthday to Elinor Ostrom!
Ostrom was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. The committee recognized her work on "economic governance, especially the commons." We are not doomed to overuse our shared resources - sustainability through collaborative governance is possible.

Exclusive: LGND wants to make ChatGPT for the Earth | TechCrunch LGND has raised $9 million to convert geographic data into vector embeddings to power AI models that understand the Earth.

I’ve known the founders of LGND.AI for years. They’re thoughtful, capable, and working on a huge problem: making Earth data useful, searchable as the Internet.

Thrilled to join their $9M round.

👉 Details: techcrunch.com/2025/07/10/l...

#LGND #GeoAI #ArtificialIntelligence #EarthObservation

Great write-up of LGND - the AI for Earth startup unlocking the exponentially growing data from Earth-observation (satellite, sensor, drone, etc). @againstutopia.bsky.social and I are honored to have the team join the Cerulean.vc portfolio of Nature-tech and Nature-positive companies.

hmm. not really. given how long it takes to build, doubtful many if any will skirt establish practices.

Hammers are for building. ⚒️

In California's largest landback deal, the Yurok Tribe reclaims sacred land around Klamath River More than 17,000 acres around the Klamath River in northern California,have returned to the Yurok Tribe, completing the largest landback deal in California history.

The “largest landback deal in California history” was just completed, and it could be a model for the future.

Jigar Shah, Tina Brown, Leah Stokes, Matthew Stotts at The Santa Barbara Energy & Resilience Summit 2025

The future is bright for clean and renewable energy.

turns out Alito was just grumpy about being woken up at midnight to tell POTUS to obey the law; he’s clear about the illegality of WH actions (inaction)

Earth Day Insights: SF Climate Week 2025 with Celo & Cerulean Ventures · Luma The Celo Foundation & Cerulean Ventures invite you to Earth Day Insights, a San Francisco Climate Week happy hour and celebration of Earth Day 2025! Celo…

If you’re in SF next week, us Earth-nerds are getting together to talk about how we use exponential tech like AI for Earth-scale problems: lu.ma/cb09niuj

Join us. Hammers are for building. ⚒️

For me, I believe #AI is a hammer - a mere tool - it’s how you use it that matters (and how you incentivize the most people to use if for good as well).

A History of the Future, 2025-2027 A scenario, part 1.

If you really want to have your mind blown on AI, this series is worth a read: nosetgauge.substack.com/p/a-history-...

It’s a 3-part series - will take an hour of your life - and creates many more questions than it answers, but at least they are new questions.

A History of the Future, 2025-2027 A scenario, part 1.

My partner @againstutopia.bsky.social Jahed Momand is a voracious reader and I'm generally just cleaning up the table scraps, but he dropped some choice cuts on me today since we're going deep into the Earth-nerd AI weeds at SF Climate Week, 9Zero Climate Innovation Hub, CELO and Super Climate.

OECD countries hit "peak fossil" consumption in 2007 (way ahead of the curve), and China's about to join the clean energy party within three years. Turns out Mother Nature's not just the ultimate tree-hugger - she's also one savvy businesswoman. Who knew saving the planet could be so profitable?

Think the energy transition's moving at a snail's pace? Think again! While politicians squabble, the market's having a field day - solar and wind are leaving fossil fuels in the dust, like a Tesla smoking a Model T.

DUK what % = wind? Link primary source?

He who wants to rule a kingdom so badly he will destroy its foundations to ascend the throne. 🤮

So circumcision is now illegal in the U.S.?