From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.
I will look forward to reading the restoration sections once they’re are available!
This is a fantastic resource and very nicely delivered! Amazing level of detail and diligence to citing scientific evidence.
I was just reviewing the protect peatlands section and noticed a typo in the citation for Melton et al.. year should be 2022 instead of 2012.
I had this same problem both with Canvas and with Gradescope.
Creates all sorts of headaches. [Answer one of questions…] aren’t (or shouldn’t be) that rare.
Interesting to think how tech tends to shape and constrain pedagogy rather than enabling innovation
Looking for a way to do something? read the EPA reversal of the endangerment finding, and then file a public comment explaining why it is false, wrong, misguided. Your comment can be scientific, legal, or just about what the American people want..
Reversal: www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
Nice brief from @pewresearch.org about the ecological and economic importance of peatlands in the US.
www.pew.org/en/research-...
These are some of the most valuable ecosystems and there's still so much we don't know about them.
My article is trending at Environmental Research Letters!
Retweet and help it trend more ;)
iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
This is an absolute disaster. If we don't stop this, they will turn NSF into a pawn of the Trump administration. There will be no research on climate, biodiversity, or anything that isn't eugenics or AI or how to more efficiently destroy the planet for profit.
This cannot be allowed to happen.
Things are going from bad to worse at NSF; www.science.org/content/arti...
Just went to an amazing seminar by @weatherwest.bsky.social at @ucscscicomm.bsky.social . This guy is a national treasure. Be sure to give him a follow if you experience weather and climate in the US west
“The War on Science”
Yall wanna hear something extremely embarrassing? Before Trump’s election, a bunch of academics who lumbered rightward after being criticized by the left (Pinker, Dawkins, Krauss) wrote essays for a book that is coming out in July about the threats to academia from the left.
YALL, THE TITLE!!
And UCSC just released a great lay summary of the work!
📰 news.ucsc.edu/2025/04/colo...
Thanks for reading — and if you're into tropical ecology, carbon, or conservation, this one's for you. 💚
There’s more to come: new studies on GHG fluxes, threats & conservation needs, and a deep dive into the white-sand ecosystems.
But this first paper lays the foundation: what these peatlands are and why they matter.
📖 Open access: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1...
Also grateful for the generous support that made this work possible:
🤝 @Stanford's King Center (@KingCenterStan) & Alison Hoyt
🇨🇭 Bernhard Wehrli, @ETH_en, @EawagResearch & the Swiss National Science Foundation
🐌 My new home @UCSC
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Mapping was led by Antje Uhde (MPI Jena), whose JGR Biogeosciences companion paper also dropped this week — it’s the first chapter of her dissertation. Check it out:
🔗 agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
This was only possible thanks to a team of incredible collaborators. Especially the Colombian scientists:
Prof. Juan Carlos Benavides
Edmundo Mendoza
Andrés Hernández
And our local Colombian NGO partner, Fundación Horizonte Verde
Over 4 years, we collected 130 meters of peat cores, surveyed 51 forest plots, processed 1,000+ samples, and built a custom mapping model to estimate peatland area, depth, and carbon stocks across the region.
And perhaps the most unexpected? White-sand peatlands in Guainía — so unusual we had to invent a new term to describe them.
The real breakthrough came near the town of Puerto Lleras in Meta. I was living nearby at the time, and this find opened the floodgates — soon we were locating peatlands in Guaviare, Vaupés, Caquetá, even the Llanos.
But models hinted they should exist. And they were sort of right — peatlands are widespread — but the models were also terrible at pinpointing them. The first few months, we mostly found mineral soils and disappointment.
When I started this project, almost nothing had been documented about Colombia’s lowland peatlands. Conflict had made access to remote areas risky. And with so much biodiversity to study, carbon-rich wetlands weren’t top of the list for field researchers.
Thrilled to finally share my new paper in Environmental Research Letters on Colombia’s lowland peatlands — ecosystems that store vast amounts of carbon, were almost unknown, and are now newly mapped thanks to years of fieldwork. 🌍🌿
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