Jonathan Beverley

@jbeverley.bsky.social

Research Scientist at CIRES researching El Niño and seasonal forecasting

Although not unexpected, it’s still shocking to see this written down in black and white: the proposed elimination of virtually all NOAA research and the Cooperative Institutes, including all four Boulder labs.

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“If you want to call it a trainwreck, you can." Colorado research into weather forecasting, drought and wildfires is at risk of grinding to a halt if planned budget cuts by President Trump’s administration come to fruition and eliminate funding crucial to the Colorado labs’ existence.

‘Trainwreck’ of NOAA funding cuts could derail Colorado research on wildfires, earthquakes and storms

At a lab in Fort Collins, scientists are researching how to incorporate artificial intelligence into the forecasting of hurricane paths and how to better predict storms’ impact on wildfires. …

denverpost.com

Reports indicate that the Trump administration may attempt to slash billions from NOAA’s budget — including cutting research that forecasts natural disasters like wildfires & droughts. The Commerce Department must reverse these plans! Read our letter with Senator Bennet & Senator Hickenlooper 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

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The Trump administration plans to gut climate research at NOAA and NASA—key goals of the #Project2025 agenda. But what does that really mean, and why should you care? Dr. Marc Alessi breaks down how these cuts could impact us all:

5 Reasons NOAA and NASA Cuts Will Be Disastrous for Everyone in the US

The Trump Administration plan to cut research on climate change and extreme weather events, including tornadoes and hurricanes, puts us in peril.

blog.ucs.org

When we heard reports this morning that DOGE may have entered NOAA & NIST, we showed up to see for ourselves. We’ll continue to do everything we can to protect our Federal labs across Colorado.

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I have the honour(?) of giving the last talk of #AGU24 today! I’ll be talking about our recent paper on seasonal forecast trend errors and their links to climate model trend errors and changing model mean biases. Room 202A at 17:20!