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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Please check out our new course for Polar-focused graduate students who are interested in gaining real field research experience! www.juneauicefield.org/grad-course

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Graduate Program Information — Juneau Icefield Research Program

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 29/05/2025

Thanks @katebgr.bsky.social for having me join the podcast! Great fun as always, talking with you!

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Rachael Sirianni, PhD @docsirianni.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

“essentially closing research operations in my group” = no new experiments save 1 recently funded grant. Spending freezes limit our ability to order supplies and reagents. We need to focus remaining funding on maintaining personnel + analyzing existing samples w whatever’s left in the cabinet

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The Trump Administration is eliminating the Office of the Chief Scientist at NASA. The current head of that office is Dr. Katherine Calvin, an expert on climate change, global modeling, and international scientific negotiations. www.science.org/content/arti...

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NASA to eliminate chief scientist position

Long-running advisory role cut along with two dozen others in agencywide reduction

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Dear universities, scientists, lawyers, farmers, workers, artists, doctors... Being silent won't protect you.

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Doug was a NSF program officer for a few of my projects before stepping into his role below. His loss is an example of the many negative impacts. I speak often on the value of collaboration and cost sharing to get the most bang for our buck. Losses like Doug’s work affect everyone in the U.S. 🧪

Photo of text from Doug Kowalewki: “On Tuesday Feb 18, 2025 at 10:00 am, I, along with 167 of my dedicated colleagues at the US National Science Foundation (NSF) were mass terminated without cause. We were told our continued employment would not be in the public interest.
In my role as Partnership Lead, I delivered on bringing in 25-30 times my salary of external funds to the NSF for use on research grants. The admin recovery costs from partnership funds to NSF more than recouped my salary and benefits; in essence I was a no-cost employee to the federal government and added millions of external funds per year for federal research grants. My work was motivation by the fact that investment in science (and our scientists/engineers) is critical for national security, robust economy, and health of our nation.
While driven by this mission every day, what I will miss most are the amazing colleagues I met along the way at NSF. Their innovation, expertise, and dedication rival none. To all of my NSF, federal, and philanthropic friends I say thank you and keep up the amazing mission!”

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John Cassidy @earthquakeguy.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Did you know that in southwestern #BritishColumbia, tectonic plates are moving at about the same speed your fingernails grow and that we get 3 types of #earthquakes here? Every day, small earthquakes are recorded (1000+/year). For details, see: www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pu... ⚒️🧪

A map showing the location of deep, and shallow earthquakes in southwest British Columbia over a 15-year period. Also, a cartoon showing the tectonic setting with the different tectonic plates, including the North American Plate, the Pacific Plate, and the smaller plates that are between them and subducting beneath North America.

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Gregor Kalinkat @gkalinkat.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

We can have a similar special programme in the EU as well. We already had (a small) one during Trump's first term 🧪🇪🇺

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

Disgusting decisions being made at this point. 🧪

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Please share this REAL impact! AK colleagues tell me 17 of 20 ppl were terminated from Mendenhall Glacier Visitors Center (MGVC) in AK. I’ve worked w/ this professional and wonderful group serving the public & they have a display in their museum about the Juneau Icefield Research Program (JIRP). 🧪

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 16/02/2025

“But despair is not an option,” writes Gretchen Goldman in Nature. “It is important to remember that notable gains have been made in federal scientific-integrity protections in the past two decades.” 🧪

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‘Despair is not an option’ — how scientists can help protect federal research

Government scientists in the US must be clear-eyed and continue to serve the public.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Five former Treasury secretaries sound the alarm: "Not since the Nixon administration has [withholding of federal funds authorized by Congress] been contemplated. At that time, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the president did not have the power." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/10/o...

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Opinion | Robert Rubin, Lawrence Summers, Timothy Geithner, Jacob Lew, Janet Yellen: DOGE Is a Threat to U.S. Democracy.

Former Secretaries Rubin, Summers, Geithner, Lew and Yellen argue that DOGE is a threat to America.

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

Some people asked if I could list real impacts from some of the recent federal decisions. Here are SOME real impacts our team has faced already in 3 weeks: 1. Im quite certain 1 project (likely 2) I have that support low income high school students across the country, will be canceled. 🧪

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

For U.S. science, I could not imagine much worse, but if history repeats itself, I suspect this is just the start. 🧪 www.science.org/content/arti...

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NIH slashes overhead payments for research, sparking outrage

Move to cut indirect cost rate to 15% could cost universities billions of dollars

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

We collectively haven’t been taking the plans laid out by Project 2025 seriously enough. They want to destroy NOAA so people won’t know that climate change is happening. It sounds stupid and alarmist if you haven’t been paying attention.

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Project 2025 plan calls for demolition of NOAA and National Weather Service

The call to dismantle the United States' vital weather department has raised the hackles of experts who say NOAA provides not only important free data but also life-saving information.

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 06/02/2025

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

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Alt: a man in a black shirt is looking at a screen with a red background

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

If there’s anyone out there who might want to move to Canada and is a senior-level scientist working on marine ecosystems and global change, check out this research chair position at @seos-uvic.bsky.social 🧪⚒️ @jaytcullen.bsky.social www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

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SEOS 270-146 - Faculty & staff - University of Victoria

School of Earth and Ocean Sciences and Department of Biology

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Dreaming of ice filled chimneys to climb, beautiful scenery, and more relaxing times… sometimes it helps to remind yourself of some of the beauty in life too!

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View of a lake covered in snow and ice in Maine from a cliff top overlook

Looking up a steep ice filled chimney, one of the finest local ice climbs in Maine

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Originally introduced in 2018 to congress, and reintroduced on Jan 31, 2025, the attempted termination of the U.S. Dept of Education. I would recommend scientists & educators share this one and bombard your representatives to make sure it doesn’t make it anywhere. 🧪

Photo of the actual bill 899 introduced to terminate the department of education in the United States.

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Dr Joanne Johnson @geologicaljo.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

🔥New paper alert! 🔥🧪❄️🥼 Ever wondered what to consider when drilling through an ice sheet into rock? We take you through how we chose a drill site in West #Antarctica using field observations, samples, radar survey, modelling & satellite imagery. tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @bas.ac.uk 🧵1/n

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Assessing the suitability of sites near Pine Island Glacier for subglacial bedrock drilling aimed at detecting Holocene retreat–readvance

Abstract. Unambiguous identification of past episodes of ice sheet thinning below the modern surface and grounding line retreat inboard of present requires recovery and exposure dating of subglacial b...

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Hi Earth Systems Science friends looking for jobs, please consider applying to work with us at @umaine.bsky.social! & please share this so your soon-to-graduate PhD students, postdocs, & other ECR see the opportunity! 🧪 fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

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Lecturer of Earth Surface Processes (Fixed-Length)

The University of Maine is a community of more than 11,900 undergraduate and graduate students, and 2,500 employees located on the Orono campus, the regional campus in Machias, and throughout the stat...

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Today those of us funded by @NSF received this memo. Perhaps the most concerning statement: “Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis.”🧪

MESSAGE to the NSF PI Community,
Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-13, issued on January 27, 2025, directs all Federal agencies to conduct a comprehensive review of their financial assistance programs to determine programs, projects, and activities that may be implicated by the recent Executive Orders. Therefore, all review panels, new awards, and all payments of funds under open awards will be paused as the agency conducts the required reviews and analysis. NSF has created an Executive Order Implementation webpage to ensure the widest dissemination of information and updates. We will continue to communicate with you as we receive additional guidance.
All NSF grantees must comply with these Executive Orders, and any other relevant Executive Orders issued, by ceasing all non-compliant grant and award activities. Executive Orders are posted at https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/. In particular, this may include, but is not limited to conferences, trainings, workshops, considerations for staffing and participant selection, and any other grant activity that uses or promotes the use of DEIA principles and frameworks or violates Federal anti-discrimination laws. Please work with your institutional research office to assist you in complying with the Executive Orders. You can also direct your questions through the form on this NSF webpage.
Thank you for your work advancing science, engineering, technology and innovation for our nation.
Sethuraman Panchanathan
Director

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

NSF's Undergraduate Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology program has been abruptly archived. The deadline was tomorrow. People were submitting proposals. This program is designed to support the American scientific workforce. I cannot see the point of this level of self-sabotage.

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Research Coordination Networks in Undergraduate Biology Education (RCN-UBE)

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

This seems truly unprecedented. In my team alone: 10 grad students, multiple undergrads, two ECR researchers, each at risk of job loss & worse ramifications. I hope I am wrong but the trend of government decisions are not suggesting that I am. 🧪 www.cnn.com/2025/01/27/p...?

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All federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House | CNN Politics

The White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans, according to an internal memorandum sent Monday.

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Had a great visit to the summit of Mount Washington in NH this week to meet with Observatory staff & discuss science & education efforts we are working on together. Not a bad day for some windy weather as well! Peak gusts hit 86 mph. Check out this worthy organization! 🧪 mountwashington.org

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 23/01/2025

Our science program has arrived on Bluesky! If you squint, you can spot me in one of those pictures with our Empowering Global Voices program, a cohort of young scientists from all over the world who Natalie (at the end) is mentoring to write and submit their first peer reviewed article 💚

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Chris W 64.9N @borealchrys.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I've been taking screenshots of climate.gov, epa.gov, and globalchange.gov . Downloaded the 5th National Climate Assessment report. I expect all of these to be pretty much obliterated within days. But at least we're better prepared for preserving content - see the effort at climatemirror.org .

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U.S. Global Change Research Program | GlobalChange.govLock

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 08/01/2025

Did you know that you can simply bridge your Bluesky account to the fediverse (Mastodon + beyond) by following @ap.brid.gy? It's a great way to ensure what you share here is widely available. Give it a try, it just takes one click!

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Logan Mitchell PhD @loganemitchell.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

My quote in the @kuer.org article below: “It's our choice, as a society and as a state,” Mitchell said. “When we adopt those [clean energy] technologies, we will improve our #AirQuality. And so whether we do that in the next decade or in 3 decades, that's up to us.” #utpol @davidcondos.bsky.social

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Hi friends & colleagues! We have an exciting new position as an Assistant Research Professor at @umaine.bsky.social working with our team on snow, water, and landscape evolution research! Please share this far & wide! fa-ewca-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid... 🧪

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Assistant Research Professor

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Peter Gleick @petergleick.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

The real reason confidence in science (still high) is dropping is the intensive propaganda campaign by Trump and the GOP to ignore, disavow, or dispute science when it conflicts with their economic interests and drive for power. Read this: www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

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The Real Reason People Don’t Trust in Science Has Nothing to Do with Scientists

Propaganda works, is the real upshot of a survey showing lingering post-pandemic distrust of science

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Glaciers store much of Earths freshwater in frozen AND liquid form. Many such as the Juneau Icefield (JIF) store water within its pore spaces year-round. Here is a firn core extracted from the JIF draining water. We are mapping aquifers across the JIF to estimate how much water is stored! 🧪

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Debbie Nunnja @iamthephoenixfreed.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

It has started a movement. Cartoonists are paying homage to Ann Telnaes. Here are two of them. Ann’s is the final. Steve Brodner, @danboriscreates.bsky.social @anntelnaes.bsky.social

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Katharine Hayhoe @katharinehayhoe.com · 05/01/2025

Last time, they didn’t even find out NCA4 was happening until too late to do anything more than delay its release + publicly contradict its conclusions. As one of the only non-fed authors on Vol 1, I ran a Twitter thread tracking + rebutting these claims. Not surprised by this at all ⬇️

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Trump team takes aim at crown jewel of US climate research

A top aide to the president-elect wants tighter control over the National Climate Assessment.

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Mark Hamill @markhamillofficial.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

They give us unconditional love, devotion & loyalty. They are a reliable source of peace, joy & contentment. That they have made this a better world is an undisputed FACT. 👁️❤️🐶🐕

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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This tracks. Also, see all other university faculty work (not just research).

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

ICE-DAY! Cool layers & melt/refreeze features in ice cores extracted from Thwaites Glacier, Antarctica. We drilled thru ice to collect subglacial bedrock to determine the last time the bedrock was exposed to the sun using cosmogenic nuclide exposure dating. Also, a beautiful ice crystal! 🧪❄️

An ice core resting on a core tray with Dr. Brent Goehring working nearby and the sun just barely rising over the mountains in the background.

Incredible tear-drop melt-refreeze spirals within an ice core sample. I had never seen anything like this in a previous core from Alaska, Canada, Antarctica, or Greenland, but we were in an area that experiences some melt and refreeze unlike most of the ice core sites I've worked at. Really beautiful structures!

Elliot (who happens to be working with our UMaine and New Mexico Tech team currently at Mount Waesche in West Antarctica currently to again collect subglacial bedrock samples) holding the bottom of an ice core sample from Thwaites Glacier. You can see the core has a ton of sediment in it where it contacted the bedrock. This sediment suggests that there is significant freeze, thaw, grinding up of bedrock at the bed, and sediment getting entrained in the ice as the glacier ice slides along the bed. You can also see lots of ice layers in this core.

This ice crystal was a very "small" piece of a 2-3 meter chandelier of ice crystals hanging from the ceiling of a giant crevasse I rappelled into at Thwaites Glacier. My goal of rappelling into this crevasse was to see if it reached bedrock so I could collect a sample of it for cosmogenic nuclide dating. Instead of finding bedrock, I found these incredible ice crystals. You can see my hand for scale, so this chunk of angular ice crystals is probably about 25 cm or 10 inches in size.

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Seth Campbell @alpinesciences.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

I made this flubber model in 2008 & still show it all the time to teach about glacier ice flow in a valley & related topics. I’ve used this to talk about basics of glaciers with grade school students up to deriving shear & normal strain rates, & vorticity, with undergrad & grad students! Enjoy! 🧪

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