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Baoning Wu

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Earthquake modeler, part-time seismologist, current post-doc at UC San Diego, former post-doc at USC, and PhD at UC Riverside.

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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A quick reminder: abstracts for our #AGU26 late-breaking session on the 2026 Venezuela & Colombia earthquakes are due Sept. 29 at 11:59 PM EDT. We welcome work across seismology, geodesy, geology & engineering. Session info: www.agu.org/annual-meeti...
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Present | AGU26
We invite you to submit session proposals that explore <em>Where Science Connects Us</em> —across disciplines, communities, and perspectives. Whether it's through collaborative research, innovative te...
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography @scrippsocean.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
🌊 🚢 Scripps Oceanography graduate student Charles Lindsay takes us aboard a California Current Ecosystem research cruise, where scientists deployed a new mini-mooring and collected data from the surface to the deep ocean: bit.ly/3TLgvVr
Charles Lindsay next to a large buoyCCE mooring after one year at sea. Photo: Yang Zhang & Charles Lindsay
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Yijian Zhou @yijianzhou.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Wang, B., Wu, B., & Zhou, Y. (2026). Reinterpreting the recurrence time–moment relation of global repeating earthquakes: A scattered data cloud bounded by crack-model physics. Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth doi.org/10.1029/2025... feat. @baoningwu.bsky.social & @Binhao (not in BSky...)
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Reinterpreting the Recurrence Time–Moment Relation of Global Repeating Earthquakes: A Scattered Data Cloud Bounded by Crack‐Model Physics
Long-term quasi-periodic repeaters from latest global catalogs reveal a triangular data cloud rather than a simple power law The 1/3-slope lower bound reflects ruptures under long-term loading wh...
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Dear colleagues, I would like to highlight an upcoming AGU26 late-breaking session, S030, focused on the recent 2026 Venezuela earthquake sequence: agu.confex.com/agu/agu26/pr... Please consider submitting an abstract and feel free to share this session with colleagues who may be interested.
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The 2026 Venezuela Earthquake Sequence: Insights from Seismology and Beyond
In June 2026, a large, complex earthquake sequence struck north-central Venezuela along the boundary between the Caribbean and South American plates, a right-lateral strike-slip fault system that had ...
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Dr. Eric J. Fielding, PhD @ericjfielding.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
NASA-ISRO SAR (NISAR) satellite imaged Venezuela June 25. NISAR SAR interferometry (InSAR) enabled calculation of surface displacement. Displacements have red tones for east and blue tones for west, with white in middle near-zero over fault rupture. Fault ruptured far to east under ocean. #venezuela
Map of north-central Venezuela with NISAR line-of-sight displacement map shown in false color varying from red to white to blue. Red land moved east (towards satellite) and blue land moved west. InSAR only measures land, so ocean and lakes have no measurements. Background map from Google satellite natural-color images on land and bathymetry in ocean.
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SPECFEM @specfem.org · 28/06/2026
#shakemovie simulation - Venezuela Mw7.5 event using the USGS finite-fault solution #specfem3d
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Made a first-motion focal mechanism for the M7.2 Venezuela earthquake. Seems consistent with the initial rupture fault shown by InSAR.
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Preliminary finite fault inversion results by Yuhe Liu at Peking University pku-geophysics-source.group/htmls/202606... Seems like a normal SINGLE event with multiple asperities.
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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
An explanatory article from @evanbush.bsky.social at NBC News about the Venezuela earthquake(s). www.nbcnews.com/science/eart... ⚒️
Screenshot of text from the article reading: “Tobin said scientists are still weighing whether Wednesday’s sequence was indeed a doublet, though the USGS described it as such.

“It’s actually a subject of lots of discussion right now among seismologists about whether to call it two earthquakes or one earthquake with multiple phases or pulses of energy,” Tobin said, adding that the debate was a little semantic.”
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
A replot of the latest aftershock locations from FUNVISIS (Jun-26 night, California). It seems that there is a gap between the east rupture and the west rupture. One needs a Python script to download the catalog, using the link that the browser uses. www.funvisis.gob.ve/monitor.html
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
I can see a fault bend/gap story emerging from the discussion I had with colleagues about why the USGS reports two events (M7.2 → M7.5). Maybe there is a fault bend or gap between the west rupture (M7.2) and the east rupture (M7.5)? Here is an iPad schematic:
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Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · 25/06/2026
Composite plot of the two coseismic interferograms (Sentinel-1, from Copernicus) with the USGS epicenters of the two earthquakes and faults from GEM. The shoreline San Sebastián fault lines up with the fringes in the west and is probably the fault responsible.
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
@baoningwu.bsky.social Baoning Wu and Jeena Yun attended the International Joint Workshop on Slow-to-Fast Earthquakes in Japan as recipients of the 2025 Paul Andrew Spudich Travel Grant. Learn more about their experiences and how you can apply in Feb 2026 www.seismosoc.org/news/paul-an... ⚒️🧪
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Slow Slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Thinking Outside the Plane - Sammis - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Slow Slip in the Cascadia Subduction Zone: Thinking Outside the Plane
Large episodic slow slip events in Cascadia can be modeled as stick-slip at the interface between a viscoelastic layer above an elastic layer The model is motivated by (a) slip in an event < plat...
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Seismological Society of America @seismosocam.bsky.social · 31/08/2025
Could drought explain why the southern San Andreas fault has been quiet for more than 300 years? A new #SRL study explores this question, and more. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...
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Henning @geohenning.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Tsunami video allegedly taken at Pionerskaya bay after the M8.8 Kamchatka #earthquake. HOLY SHIT! This guy and his dog are unbelievably lucky. 🧪⚒️ #geology youtube.com/shorts/LhFQ2...
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MASSIVE Tsunami Hits Pionerskaya Bay, Kamchatka, Russia (HQ)
YouTube video by 2025 Kamchatka Earthquake & Tsunami Archive
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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
Japanese GSI published the InSAR result of ALOS-2. It may be helpful for the interpretation. www.gsi.go.jp/cais/topic20...
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Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · 01/08/2025
First Sentinel-1 interferogram from southern Kamchatka! Lots of what I am assuming are tropospheric signals (e.g. over the volcanoes), but I also see long-wavelength fringes that change in azimuth from the NE (~shore-perpendicular) to the SW (~shore-parallel). Optimistic it could be the earthquake!
Screen grab of a wrapped interferogram over southern Kamchatka
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International Seismological Centre (ISC) @iscseism.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Literature regarding the 1923 and 1952 #Kamchatka #earthquakes are available at these links: 1923-02-03: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form... 1952-11-04: www.isc.ac.uk/cgi-bin/Form...
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
Quickly plot the rough location of the 2025 Mw8.8 Kamchatka earthquake (USGS hypocenter) on Figure 1 in Pinegina et al. (2018). I wonder if the 2025 event re-rupture the northern rupture of the 1952 Mw9.0 event? Also, did the 2025 event rupture across the "segment boundary" at ~N53? rdcu.be/eyrre
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Yijian Zhou @yijianzhou.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Azúa, K., Ide, S., Yano, S., Ruiz, S., Sugioka, H., Shiobara, H., et al. (2025). Shallow tectonic tremors reveal the beginning of the slab window at the Chilean triple junction. Geophysical Research Letters, 52, e2025GL115019. doi.org/10.1029/2025...
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Shallow Tectonic Tremors Reveal the Beginning of the Slab Window at the Chilean Triple Junction
We detected ∼500 shallow tectonic tremors at the Chilean Triple Junction (CTJ), using nearly two continuous years of ocean bottom seismometers data A gap between tremors and fast seismicity is ob...
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
One of the best tsunami education I have seen video on YouTube. Very intuitive animation, especially the parts on wave shoaling and how waves breaks at the coast line. youtube.com/watch?v=piH4...
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The CRUEL Physics behind Tsunamis!
YouTube video by Sabin Civil Engineering
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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)
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Fumihiko Ikegami @fikgm.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I am speechless... >> First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar m.youtube.com/watch?v=77ub...
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First fault movement ever filmed. M7.9 surface rupture filmed near Thazi, Myanmar
YouTube video by 2025 Sagaing Earthquake Archive
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Katrin Kleemann @katrinkleemann.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
If you are near the @scrippsocean.bsky.social in La Jolla, come by to the Ritter Memorial Fellowship Lecture tomorrow at 3 pm, I will be talking about the emergence of the German Maritime Observatory (Deutsche #Seewarte).
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Gareth Funning @gfun.earth · 03/04/2025
The whole #MyanmarEarthquake rupture in one interferogram! This is three consecutive wide swath frames of ALOS-2 data, provided by JAXA through agreement with NASA. The line-of-sight (LOS) is ~perpendicular to fault strike, so most of what you see is vertical motion at bends and steps of the fault.
A radar interferogram covering 17.5 to 23.5 degrees north, in Myanmar. Tightly clustered fringes delimit the likely 2025 earthquake rupture zone.
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
A historical seismicity map shows several #earthquakes of similar size to today’s M7.7 in Myanmar occurred in the region in the early 20th century, but this section of the Sagaing fault probably hasn’t ruptured since 1839 🧪⚒️
Seismicity map of the Myanmar area generated by Jascha Polet using GMT and a myriad of earthquake catalogs
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Katleen Wils @katleenwils.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
📢📢 Excited to announce that the #openaccess book on "Understanding Past #Earthquakes" is out now... 🤩 So proud to have been able to contribute to this by co-authoring the chapter on Lacustrine #Paleoseismology 👩‍🔬📕 Happy to finally see it come to live 🥳 Check it out by clicking the link below ⬇️
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Lacustrine Records of Past Seismic Shaking
Reliable seismic hazard analysis builds upon a robust reconstruction of spatiotemporal rupture variability over multi-millennial timescales. Lacustrine sediment sequences can provide long and complete...
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Jason "Jay" R. Patton @earthjay.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
#EarthquakeReport for M7.6 #Earthquake #Sismo #Terremoto near #CaymanIsland Left-lateral strike-slip earthquake along Swan Island fault #Tsunami observation at Isla Mujeres See 2020 report for tectonic background earthjay.com?p=9322 earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...
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UC San Diego @ucsandiego.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
What began as a student project in 2016 from @scrippsocean.bsky.social alumna Allison Cusick has developed into a NASA-funded program (@fjordphyto.bsky.social) that trains tour vessel operators and “citizen scientists” to collect samples of phytoplankton in Antarctica. 🧊➡️ bit.ly/4gmsX3e
Allison Cusick, MAS ’17, MS ’20, with citizen scientists. (Photo by Allison Cusick)
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Walk and think around the campus until I see this.
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Crustal Structure of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone Revealed by Four Decades of Onshore‐Offshore Seismic Data: Implications for the Dimensions and Slip Behavior of the Seismogenic Zone - Bassett - 2025 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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Crustal Structure of the Hikurangi Subduction Zone Revealed by Four Decades of Onshore‐Offshore Seismic Data: Implications for the Dimensions and Slip Behavior of the Seismogenic Zone
Four decades of controlled-source seismic data constrain a high-resolution, regional P-wave velocity model of the Hikurangi subduction zone Spatial variability in wavespeeds reflect the tectonic ...
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Hildur Knútsdóttir @hildur.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Since nobody asked, here is a map showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after drifting over from Greenland on icebergs.
A map of Iceland with dots showing where polar bears have been found in Iceland after coming over from Greenland on icebergs. There are a lot of dots.
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Harold Tobin @haroldtobin.bsky.social · 14/01/2025
The JMA panel acted quickly, deciding less than 3 hours after the earthquake not to issue an advisory. www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/01...
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Miyazaki quake falls short of triggering Nankai Trough megaquake advisory
Though Monday's temblor struck a similar area to one in August that sparked the first advisory, no such alert was issued.
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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
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Kai Kronfield @kaikronfield.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Super helpful app recommendation for Watchduty App to track wildfires. They even have large and small animal shelter locations called out on the maps of fire locations, which scores points in my book.
screen grab from Watch Duty app showing the Palisades Fire boundary and both a small and large animal shelters are located on the map for peoples' reference
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Joshferatu Scare @joshscherr.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
An app for the folks in LA: www.watchduty.org
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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts
Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.
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EarthScope Consortium @earthscope.org · 23/12/2024
📯Applications are now open for our internships for undergraduates (including community college students), graduate students, and recent graduates! Apply by Feb. 15 for these 11-week summer programs. Details and applications 👇 loom.ly/rUXjFGo
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 23/12/2024
Kīlauea is erupting again. Our planet has been doing this since virtually the beginning, and I think it's beautiful. 🎥: USGS Volcanoes
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
Interesting! Gemini & Physical World: Large Language Models Can Estimate the Intensity of Earthquake Shaking from Multi-Modal Social Media Posts academic.oup.com/gji/article/...
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Gemini & Physical World: Large Language Models Can Estimate the Intensity of Earthquake Shaking from Multi-Modal Social Media Posts
Summary. This paper presents a novel approach to extract scientifically valuable information about Earth's physical phenomena from unconventional sources,
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Danré, P., De Barros, L., Cappa, F. et al. Parallel dynamics of slow slips and fluid-induced seismic swarms. Nat Commun 15, 8943 (2024). doi.org/10.1038/s414...
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Parallel dynamics of slow slips and fluid-induced seismic swarms - Nature Communications
Migrating earthquake sequences from a wide range of tectonic contexts exhibit two distinct behaviors. One is linked to slow slip and characterized by elevated migration velocities and moments, and the...
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
A new example of "tsunami earthquake". The 2022 MW 7.3 Southern Sumatra Tsunami Earthquake: Rupture Up‐Dip of the 2007 MW 8.4 Bengkulu Event - Xia - 2024 - Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth - Wiley Online Library agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
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The 2022 MW 7.3 Southern Sumatra Tsunami Earthquake: Rupture Up‐Dip of the 2007 MW 8.4 Bengkulu Event
The 2022 Sumatra event ruptured up-dip of the 2007 Bengkulu event on a near-trench shallowly dipping fault, producing a moderate tsunami Joint modeling of seismic and tsunami data resolves shallo...
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Prof. Diego Melgar @diegosismologo.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
No tsunami threat friends, straight from the warning centers...
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Dr. Paula Marques Figueiredo @paleoquake.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Tsunami Alert was canceled. Still, be careful with anomalous rip currents
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Tsunami Warning Bot (UNOFFICIAL) @tsunami.nws-bot.us · 05/12/2024
Preliminary magnitude 7.3 (Mwp) earthquake / Lat: 40.348, Lon: -124.733 at 2024-12-05T18:44:24Z Location:NEAR THE COAST OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA Severity:Minor Urgency:Unknown Certainty:Unlikely Additional Details Here.
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Dr. Julian Lozos @seismogenic.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
⚒️🧪 Looks like there was also a M5.8 in Lake County after today's Humboldt M7.0. This is called triggering! When a fault has a quake, it releases energy into the surrounding ground, which can affect other faults. If one is nearly ready to go off, that little push might be all it takes. 1/2
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This was a big earthquake (M7) and there will likely be felt aftershocks. Drop, cover and hold on when you feel earthquake shaking. If you are near the coast immediately move away from shore and seek high ground.
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Baoning Wu @baoningwu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Any paper suggestions for understanding the physical meaning of duration magnitude Md? I am wondering whether Md is a magnitude scale more closer to moment magnitude Mw or to local magnitude Ml.
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CIRES @cires.colorado.edu · 13/11/2024
Join the thriving community of researchers in Boulder, Colorado, as a CIRES Visiting Fellow! Work alongside stellar scientists and staff at world-class @cuboulder.bsky.social and Boulder’s NOAA Laboratories. Apply by Jan 2, 2025: cires.colorado.edu/award-progra...
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