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Baylor Fox-Kemper
@baylorfk.bsky.social

Oceanography, Climate & Music all at #BrownUniversity. Opinions my own, facts are everybody's.

https://fox-kemper.com

Environmental science 40%
Geology 28%

Nice... Didn't see that (obvs)

I want to be able to overlay modern roads and see which have survived...
Sometimes you have an idea so dumb that you HAVE to do it (I didn’t get this up in time for Halloween though)
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is leading a team of Brown faculty members involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.

Learn more about Brown's role in the project ⬇️
Modeling microplastics: Brown’s role in a $7M coastal initiative
IBES Fellow Baylor Fox-Kemper is the leading Brown faculty member involved in SIMCoast, an NSF initiative to track how microplastics move from land to sea, and explore what this means for ecosystems, climate, and communities.
ibes.brown.edu

On it
Here’s an idea and you want to help people in you area, turn your itty bitty book library 📚 into a tiny food pantry.

Again, please repost.
Here’s an idea and you want to help people in you area, turn your itty bitty book library 📚 into a tiny food pantry.

Again, please repost.

Colloquiooooom

I have no idea, but I do fear that I'm missing out on something... I'm still a sucker for the ole whizz-bang internet gizmos:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hx93...
Hamster Dance Original 10 Hours
YouTube video by the college fixer
www.youtube.com

I still have a defunct account over there... what from here should I post there?

You know DG was only 40 years old during filming.... At 52, I am definitely too old ...

Lupin!
Just published in PLOS Climate:

"Towards provision of regularly updated climate data from the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project"

🔗 journals.plos.org/climate/arti...

@wcrp-cmip.org @juliearblaster.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social @tatianailyina.bsky.social

Thank you senator. You do your work and I'll do mine.

Biject this you ingrates!

One to one AND onto?
A quick summary by me of a new instance of an old story.

@realclimate.org Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman www.realclimate.org/index.php/ar...
RealClimate: Time and Tide Gauges wait for no Voortman
RealClimate: Here we go again. An obscure, methodologically poor, paper published with little to no review makes a convenient point and gets elevated into supposedly 'blockbusting' science by the merc...
www.realclimate.org
It's about time we start organizing the Liege Colloquium for 2026! Submesocale Processes in the ocean will be the topic, a revisit of the Colloquium of 2016. 10 years of advances!

I'll try to document here the journey towards organizing such an event, maybe there's interest? #LiegeOcean26 🌊🧪
Here‘s a rare and excellent career opportunity for outstanding physical oceanographers at the Potsdam Institute (PIK) and the University of Potsdam, in beautiful surroundings just outside Berlin. Tell qualified friends or colleagues! 🌊
www.nature.com/naturecareer...
Full Professorship (W3) for Physics of the Oceans - Potsdam-Mittelmark, Brandenburg (DE) job with Universität Potsdam | 12844582
Founded in 1991, the University of Potsdam has firmly established itself in the scientific landscape and has become an outstanding economic factor ...
www.nature.com

Hot weiners all the way
AMS released a statement on climate change today that points out five foundational flaws with the Department of Energy's 2025 climate report: www.ametsoc.org/ams/about-am...
The Practice and Assessment of Science: Five Foundational Flaws in the Department of Energy's 2025 Climate Report
Adopted by the Executive Committee of the AMS Council on 27 August 2025
www.ametsoc.org

More bad news for Rhode Island wind farms. Now they are going after transparency in funding of activists:

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Portal to help support the NASEM fast-track effort to assess the EPA endangerment finding (deadline for submissions, Aug 27)

www.nationalacademies.org/our-work/ant...
www.nationalacademies.org
Small advertisement for the session on emulators convening by me & @baylorfk.bsky.social , Helene Hewitt, @shrutinath97.bsky.social , Katsumasa Tanaka, @dwatsonparris.bsky.social, @cwomack101.bsky.social.

Excited to (finally) share my new paper on Pacific SST and western North America hydroclimate during the Holocene! TL;DR They are connected, CO2 and precession both affect hydroclimate. Thanks @xiaojingdu.bsky.social @meredithparish.bsky.social @baylorfk.bsky.social+others
dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024...
The Influence of Carbon Dioxide and Precession on Western North American Hydroclimate and Pacific Sea Surface Temperature During the Holocene
A network of proxy records shows western North American hydroclimate and Pacific sea surface temperature co-evolved during the Holocene The western North America became wetter while the eastern e...
dx.doi.org