Very troubling news that'll have major implications for the state of forest management and science in the US. morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

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Carbon market oversight requires knowing the location of individual offset projects. That’s why we’ve added project location information for 500 forest offset projects to OffsetsDB. These data were released by Renoster last year and, by bringing them into OffsetsDB, we hope they find wider use. 1/1

We’ve added boundary data for forest offset projects to OffsetsDB – CarbonPlan

Knowing the location of offsets projects enables more robust market oversight. We’ve added geographic information for 500 forest offset projects to OffsetsDB to assist those efforts.

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Interested in pursuing a Ph.D. that empowers you to couple environmental economics with interdisciplinary training in environmental sciences? Apply to join Bren by Dec 15! I'm specifically looking for students eager to advance forest conservation through econ. bren.ucsb.edu/phd-environm...

PhD Admissions | UC Santa Barbara Bren - Bren School of Environment

The Bren School PhD admissions team is here to answer your questions about eligibility, the application process, research, faculty sponsorship, and how to choose your path in a PhD program in environm...

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Recirculating this announcement given the upcoming deadline (Monday). Come join us in Santa Barbara to figure out how to create credible markets for nature-based climate solutions!

Environmental Markets Lab (emLab)@emlab.ucsb.edu · 9mo ago

🚨 @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social job alert 🚨 In collaboration with @envdefensefund.bsky.social, we are hiring postdoctoral researchers to lead applied research projects in environmental & resource economics. 📨 Apply by Dec 8th for full consideration. Learn more here 👉 recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF03036

Re-upping this position before the December 1st application deadline. I'm looking to hire a post-doc - could be a climate scientist or environmental economist. Ideal start early 2026 but could be later. Please circulate!

ClimateFran@climatefran.bsky.social · 9mo ago

🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨 Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

"The secret sauce has been poured down the drain," says David Draper, former Deputy Chief Scientist of NASA, over the recent firing or departure of 1000s of NASA employees, which will be catastrophic for the legacy of the US🇺🇸😖🚀 www.planetary.org/articles/400... h/t @floragraham.bsky.social 🧪

4,000 gone: Inside NASA’s brain drain

In exclusive interviews, ex-NASA scientists speak out on the impact of the agency's mass departures.

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Super interesting new paper that systematically explores what types of outcomes can be reliably observed through optical remote sensing. Would be super interested to see predictive performance of changes in outcomes, rather than just cross-sectional variation.

NBER@nber.org · 10mo ago

Characterizing the potential and limits of using satellite imagery and machine learning technology to measure ground conditions, from Proctor, Carleton, Chong, Fransen, Greenhill, Katz, Murayama, Sherman, Tseng, Druckenmiller, and Hsiang https://www.nber.org/papers/w34315

DOE's embarrassment of a "climate science" report is 150 pages where as this response from the scientific community is 500. My take: It takes much more effort to refute nonsense than it does to generate it, a tax on the time of all who care about fact and accuracy sites.google.com/tamu.edu/doe...

The letter is ready, thanks to all those who helped out! Starting to gather signature now, please consider signing (link at top of letter) & spread the word. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Open letter

Click here to add your signature. An Open Letter from Economists in Support of Governor Lisa Cook and Federal Reserve Independence To the President, Members of Congress, and the American public: We wr...

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Tatyana Deryugina@tderyugina.bsky.social · 11mo ago

OK, who wants to help me draft & distribute a letter of support for Lisa Cook & Central Bank independence? I already have a first draft & a bunch of academics' emails If you want to help get this going, email me (tatyana@deryugina.com) www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddo...

Was so rewarding getting to work with a team of brilliant ecologists (@dudney-joan.bsky.social @lauradee.bsky.social @jebyrnes.bsky.social @katherinesiegel.bsky.social ) to think through how to use causal inference to attribute ecological changes to climate change. Hope this framework helps!

Dr. Joan Dudney@dudney-joan.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Really excited to share our new paper on #causalinference & #climatechange attribution out in #EcologyLetters today! Are you asking "how much" or "if" climate change has impacted your system, then this paper is for you! 🧪🌏🌐🍁🌺🌱🌿 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

The most important U.S. climate legislation over the next few years is out! ASM Irwin's draft California Assembly Bill 1207 reauthorizes California's ground breaking GHG cap-and-trade (C&T) program. Here are 5 key takeaways from AB 1207 1/

The tragic landslide in Blatten gives me the excuse to tell you the story of how we found out Ice Ages existed. It's a cool story and the most important bit is rather similar to what's happening now.

Melaine Le Roy@subfossilguy.bsky.social · last yr.

Aerial view westward over the Blatten deposit and the newly formed lake upstream! 🧊🌊 📷Via Christian Petit/Linkedin

1/9 We are excited to share our new working paper: arxiv.org/abs/2502.12323 If you use ML predictions (like remote-sensed data) as outcomes, the resulting regression coefficients can be biased by measurement error. With @megan-ayers.bsky.social @mdgordo.bsky.social @eliana-stone.bsky.social

Adversarial Debiasing for Unbiased Parameter Recovery

Advances in machine learning and the increasing availability of high-dimensional data have led to the proliferation of social science research that uses the predictions of machine learning models as p...

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Did you know how many billions of dollars California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard makes drivers pay to out-of-state biofuel producers? Turns out it's a lot — a peak of about $2.9 billion in 2021, which is more than enough to give a $7500 rebate to all of the battery EVs sold in 2023.

Should California Subsidize Out-of-State Biofuels or In-State Electric Vehicles? - Kleinman Center for Energy Policy

Energy policy research from the University of Pennsylvania

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🌍 How have donors allocated conservation funding in a world with shrinking forests and expanding protected areas? Our new paper in People and Nature explores trends in South American forests and woodlands: doi.org/10.1002/pan3... - Nice work by Siyu Qin @biogeoberlin.bsky.social!

Links between deforestation, conservation areas and conservation funding in major deforestation regions of South America

Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

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Biodiversity is declining, yet we have limited knowledge about how that affects human well-being. My work linking bats, insecticide use, and human infant health is out today in Science (science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adg0344), and tells a complex story about how those are connected.

A few more weeks left to submit you application to join the amazing Environmental Studies Program @ucsantabarbara as our new Mellichamp Chair in Racially Just, Resilient and Sustainable City Futures! recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02558

Mellichamp Chairs in Racial Environmental Justice

University of California Santa Barbara is hiring. Apply now!

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