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Dr. Jessica N. Cross
@jessicancross.bsky.social
Chemical Oceanographer. Climate recovery enthusiast. Hockey fan. Views are mine only. RT ≠ Endorsement. She/Her.
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If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250
Scoop: The Trump administration is backing off its plan to dismantle a $368 million ocean monitoring system crucial to understanding climate change, after a bipartisan backlash in Congress. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/c...
Trump Administration Backs Off Plan to End Ocean Monitoring
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🌊 For 77 years, CalCOFI has been taking the pulse of the California Current, creating the world’s longest-running marine ecosystem monitoring program & one of science’s best ocean archives. @rosannaxia.bsky.social of LA Times shares more about the crucial program. ⤵️ https://lat.ms/4vqAw1v
This hidden gem in ocean science unlocked the secrets of El Niño
Nowhere else on the planet has such a large swath of ocean been studied as thoroughly and for so long, and much of our modern approach to oceanography can be traced back to this hidden gem.
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By shutting off ocean observation, the United States is making itself less prepared for a climate-changed future at a time when China is doubling down on ocean monitoring, writes Erin Sikorsky.
Going Dark: Why Dismantling America's Ocean Sensors Is a Security Risk
Shutting off ocean observation will reduce the United States' ability to see and respond to developments in fast-changing seas.
justsecurity.org
The most helpful reminder for me, being now many years past my own emotional reckoning with climate change, is that ignoring emotions is like holding a ball underwater - it takes energy, and eventually that ball is coming up. So yes, even climate old-timers need to regularly check in and take care.
“The exercise of imagination is dangerous to those who profit from the way things are because it has the power to show that the way things are is not permanent, not universal, not necessary.” -Ursula K. Le Guin
Our new paper on the challenges of marine CO₂ removal has a pretty figure. Please admire it. 🌊🧪
Three challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal - npj Ocean Sustainability
npj Ocean Sustainability - Three challenges to marine carbon dioxide removal
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To see how important US science is, consider measurements of changes in ocean heat content. US data are ~53% of the total. Over half! But removing the US data is worse than randomly removing 80% of the total data, because unlike other countries, the US makes measurements everywhere. 🧪🌊
Critical dependence of global ocean heat monitoring on the ocean observing system - Nature Climate Change
International collaboration has facilitated a global ocean observing system, providing data to measure ocean heat content at a resolution that enables the tracking of climate change. This study looks ...
nature.com
The Planetary Society built an interactive side-by-side "track changes" comparison for the proposed OMB rules. They show exactly what the current rules say versus what the proposed rules would change, section by section, across all *399* affected provisions. dashboards.planetary.org/rules-change/ 🧪🔭
Federal Grant Rule Comparison
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THE OFFICIAL @standupforscience.net GUIDE FOR TALKING TO ANYONE ABOUT THE OMB RULE PROPOSAL!! www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-a...
How To Talk to Anyone About OMB-2026-0034 — Your Site Title
Written By: Colette Delawalla, PhD, CEO
standupforscience.foundation
This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.
Alan Alda’s Solution to Eroding Trust in Science: More Improv
The “M*A*S*H” star’s program to help researchers overcome their communication challenges now draws thousands. We sat in on a class.
wsj.com
On global temperature inching closer to body temperature: "The more the world’s conditions mimic our bodies', the more likely fungi are able to overcome this thermal barrier that’s protected us for millions of years." www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Our Warming Planet Is a Petri Dish for New and Deadly Microbes
“Flesh-eating” bacteria is spreading. Infectious fungi are emerging. Microbiomes may never be the same. Are we ready?
newyorker.com
"Unprecedented climate reality calls for a new asset pricing toolkit": Climate change is an immediate macro-financial force that is reshaping economic growth, financial stability, asset returns, and investor behaviour for decades, warns Edhec Institute professionalparaplanner.co.uk/climate-risk...
Climate risk in financial markets: A quantitative framework - Professional Paraplanner
Climate change is no longer a distant environmental concern. It is an immediate macro-financial force that is reshaping global economic growth, financial stability, asset returns, and investor behavio...
professionalparaplanner.co.uk
I'm so relieved to live in a city with herd immunity to whatever this is.
The Needling@theneedling.com · 2mo agoSun-drunk Seattleite Accidentally Says ‘Hello’ to Stranger: tinyurl.com/3z3b6au2
The desiccation of the Great Salt Lake carries annual health costs of $1.1-2.3 billion
Dust in the Wind: The Health Costs of Great Salt Lake Desiccation
Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...
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www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202... The U. of Rochester loves lasers - laser-etched black metal desalinates seawater with sunlight, minerals are directed to a passive area for collection. With doping, the panel can select for minerals like Lithium to separate, all while making clean drinking water
New solar desalination breakthrough makes fresh water without toxic brine
Scientists have developed a solar desalination system that turns seawater into drinking water without creating environmentally damaging brine. Special laser-textured metal panels use sunlight to evapo...
sciencedaily.com
Tomorrow: our AI and climate roundtable at the @nationalacademies.org is hosting a webinar on "Bridging Science and Accounting: AI for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Markets" www.nationalacademies.org/projects/DEP...
Webinar 3 - Bridging Science and Accounting: AI for Carbon Dioxide Removal and Carbon Markets
Scaling carbon dioxide removal (CDR) requires not just scientific advances, but credible, high-integrity markets. Yet persistent gaps between how carbon is measured in the real world and how it is acc...
nationalacademies.org
This one hits home to the Polar Programs community.... "NSF continues to offer fellowship opportunities ...in the fields of engineering, entrepreneurial research, mathematics and physical sciences. ..postdocs in biology are available only if they involve the use of artificial intelligence." 🧪🌎🇦🇶🌊
NSF Eliminates Geoscience Postdocs - Eos
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.
eos.org
Residents of the Bering Strait region who depend on the sea for food and culture are trying to understand the risks to traditional foods and wildlife populations in an area undergoing myriad changes. (via @alaskabeacon.com) www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Algal toxins emerge as a new concern in Alaska’s Northern Bering Sea
Locals who depend on the sea for food and culture are trying to understand the risks to traditional foods and wildlife populations in a region undergoing myriad changes.
adn.com
"The document itself is an odd grab-bag of micromanaging grant processes, assertion of presidential power, and airing of cultural grievances... Its lack of coherence, however, will not prevent it from causing staggering damage to the US scientific system." 👇 arstechnica.com/science/2026...
Proposed new US funding rules: We can cancel any grant at any time
Peer review now optional, political staff would screen grants for forbidden topics.
arstechnica.com
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule. Russell Vought is going destroy American Science. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...
Summary of Key Changes in OMB’s Proposed Federal Financial Assistance Rule
Russell Vought is going destroy American Science
elizabethginexi.substack.com
I wrote something about creativity in science. Why would one write such a thing? That's the first question the piece addresses. There's general reasons, and then there's my current weird personal quest... deepconvection.substack.com/p/creativity...
Creativity in science: why talk about it?
Because we usually don't, and we aren't good at teaching it either.
deepconvection.substack.com
Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage, writes @alaska.bsky.social for the @alaskabeacon.com alaskabeacon.com/briefs/solar...
Solar power expected to soon be cheaper than natural gas power in Anchorage | Alaska Beacon
Because gas prices are expected to rise in coming years amid a growing shortage in Cook Inlet, the solar project is poised to become cheaper.
alaskabeacon.com
Round-the-clock renewable power is moving from theory to economics, according to a new report from the International Renewable Energy Agency. www.energylivenews.com/2026/05/26/r...
Round the clock renewables? - Energy Live News
IRENA says 24/7 renewable power is now viable in some cases as prices fall
energylivenews.com
Instead of trying to browbeat all the various factions & groups & interests into a single understanding of climate change, which is what the movement has been unsuccessfully doing for close to 50 years now, you need to find ways to meet people where they are, to talk about it in *their* language.
"Out of 177 faculty respondents, close to half reported significant concern about being disciplined by the university for their public engagement. One-fifth indicated that they had been asked by an administrator to change language related to their courses, research, or website."
Yale AAUP@yaleaaup.bsky.social · 2mo agoToday, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.