Green roofs work, y'all. Heres the one on my building, in action a few minutes ago. youtu.be/9NbZjKiycLU?...
Aiken Green Roof in action- July 2026
YouTube video by Anne Jefferson
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Anne Jefferson
@annejefferson.bsky.social
Watershed hydrology and geomorphology prof and Lake Champlain Sea Grant Director here for science, the environment, and life as an academic & mom. Formerly @highlyanne. Posts are personal and do not represent organizations. Reposts are not endorsements.
'Historical trends (1950–2023) ... reveal statistically significant increases in the frequency and intensity of extreme fire weather in regions such as the Iberian Peninsula ...' esd.copernicus.org/articles/17/...
Stop what you’re doing and listen to the Mr. Trash Wheel song. Now. I’m not kidding. Do it. Do it now. youtu.be/KUgAOBlEEzM?...
Mr. Trash Wheel: Hero of the Harbor OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO
YouTube video by Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore
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⚒️ And the falls makes a 90 degree turn due to faulting!
Chris Rowan@allochthonous.bsky.social · 2w ago⚒️ We were in New Hampshire last weekend and discovered this gem: Sabbaday Falls cuts down through a basaltic dike intruded into the surrounding granite. A highly effective visual demonstration of these rocks' relative hardness!
⚒️ We were in New Hampshire last weekend and discovered this gem: Sabbaday Falls cuts down through a basaltic dike intruded into the surrounding granite. A highly effective visual demonstration of these rocks' relative hardness!
If you are going to comment on the proposed changes to how science is done in the US, please use this guide. The rules specify that you have to mention the number associated with the proposed changes, and this blog has those. Here is where to comment: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
Regulation for Federal Financial Assistance
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) proposes to revise the Guidance for Federal Financial Assistance to improve government- wide policies and requirements related to the management of grants, co...
federalregister.gov
Susana Wadgymar🌿🔬@smwadgymar.bsky.social · 2mo agoHere's a summary of what is being proposed: elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
PFAS is everywhere - including the drinking water supplies for remote British islands... thanks to sea spray. Underlining how it's all through the ocean in the process. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?
Scientists believe they may now have found the cause of Fair Isle’s pollution – and warn that it should be ringing alarm bells in other coastal areas
theguardian.com
@drandrewthaler.bsky.social my family is having a vigorous dinner time debate over this sticker's taxonomy? One Patreon post IDed it as a snail fish, but another IDed as a cusk eel. We've looked at images of each, but we are not marine biologists. Help us settle the debate with a definitive ID!
The National Science Board was created in 1950 with staggered 6 terms so that scientific research priorities would outlast any single administration. The statute says members must be chosen "solely on the basis of established records of distinguished service." www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...
Trump Fired The Entire National Science Board. Here's Why That Matters
Trump fired all 24 members of the National Science Board, the body that oversees NSF. The institutional design that built American science is at stake.
forbes.com
MIT Sea Grant is hiring a Research Coordinator. If enabling research that serves coastal communities floats your boat, check out: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
Research Program Administrator
MIT - Research Program Administrator - Cambridge MA 02139
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At least Kilauea is pretty. The V1 camera gets knocked (down but not out) by tephra at 11:13: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tk0t...
[V1cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (west Halemaʻumaʻu crater)
YouTube video by USGS
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Mount St. Helens Archive@mountsthelens1980.bsky.social · 5mo agoIt's a good episode, folks. Tephra fall is showing up way over on camera V2. V3 has a good, close-up shot without ash and gas obscuring the view. V2: youtube.com/watch?v=fiyttmA7YkA V3: youtu.be/gXKuUyKt8mc
Another own goal by the Administration. Rolling back the GHG endangerment means the federal government isn't regulating them, so their argument against Climate Superfund laws is invalid. Plus, the laws are about past emissions not future ones. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
How Trump’s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits
Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump’s DoJ
theguardian.com
Why is Devils Lake, ND always flooding? Last night I went down a rabbit hole. 🧵 below:
Anne Jefferson@annejefferson.bsky.social · 5mo agoDevils Lake (ND) flooding occurs because there are no natural outlets to the lake until it reaches an elevation of 1458 ft. Back in 1993, it was ~1422 ft. At that elevation it covers ~69 sq. miles. Today, the lake surface is at 1449 ft, and it covers 213 sq. miles. ND is flat.
Tonight, I was looking at water.noaa.gov to see where the US is flooding. My 11-year old pointed to the ongoing major flooding in North Dakota, and I said "Oh, that's Devils Lake. It's always flooding there." They asked "Why?" and a rabbit hole yawned before me.
National Water Prediction Service - NOAA
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In person meeting over and an hour until I have to be on zoom. Nicest weather we've had since I arrived in DC, and I found a swing by the river. A few days of vacation starts very soon!
Enjoying my Minnesota @startribune.com subscription as a way to follow what's happening in my natal state, but also for articles like this: www.startribune.com/blue-snow-mi...
You’ll never guess what’s making those weird blue spots in the snow
It’s a surprising downstream effect from one of Minnesota’s biggest invasive plant problems.
startribune.com
I spent four weeks camping on the High Arctic tundra in grad school. I'm going to be able to make some nice charitable donations.
Saint Nusjuro 🌙@oniwar.bsky.social · 5mo agoI don’t think I could make it past 5 days (Please don’t say no dumb ass shit about baby wipes or any other loopholes)
There is a lot of uncertainty with this storm. That's what this map shows. What this map doesn't show is what snowfall has the highest probability of occurring. For the sake of my trip tomorrow, I'm hoping for the lower end of the range in DC.
Jordan Tessler@jztessler.bsky.social · 5mo agotruly, the most helpful map
A new report, DepaveLA, finds that 44% of Los Angeles County’s 312k acres of pavement may not be essential for roads, sidewalks and parking, and could be converted to greener cooler cover and habitat. www.latimes.com/environment/... acceleratela.org/depavela/
Nearly half of L.A. County’s pavement may be unnecessary, new map finds
Researchers have released the first parcel-level analysis to map all paved surfaces across L.A. County. In particular, large parking lots are ripe for change, they say.
latimes.com
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
nature.com
Students applying for NSF funding are having their applications “returned without review” for being “ineligible,” despite their proposed research falling squarely within the application guidelines. eos.org/research-and...
Graduate Students’ NSF Fellowship Applications Are Being “Returned Without Review” - Eos
Graduate students applying for NSF funding have had their applications returned without review—even though their proposed research appears to fall squarely within the fields of study outlined in the p...
eos.org
Devastated to learn that a recent UVM RSENR graduate was the NOAA Fisheries Observer on this vessel. All these lives lost are a tragedy, but I will especially mourn the loss of this member of the RSENR community whose adult life and professional career was just beginning.
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 6mo agoUPDATE | The Coast Guard suspended its search for those aboard the Lily Jean. Authorities had launched a search and rescue mission after receiving an alert from the 72-foot vessel about 25 miles off the historic Cape Ann peninsula. They have since launched an investigation.
"the EPA announced it would no longer calculate the economic benefits of lives saved when setting limits [on pollution]...From now on, the agency will only tally the costs to industry. The benefits to human beings? Too uncertain to count, according to the EPA."
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 6mo ago“This isn’t just a policy change. It’s a betrayal of more than a century of hard-won victories by public health heroes who fought, often at great personal and professional sacrifice, to establish a principle that should be beyond debate: American lives have value.”
A fun case study since there have been 72 million articles on the cold in the east and 4 on the warmth in the west
Climatologist49@climatologist49.bsky.social · 6mo agoJanuary 2026 temperature rankings compared to all Januarys since 1895.
As always, my strong advice is not to watch a person be violently murdered. You will learn nothing by watching a video that you could not understand by reading a description. And it will scar your heart. It will not make you tougher or a better activist.