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Catherine Walker
@capcomcatwalk.bsky.social
Earth and Planetary Scientist at WHOI and NASA. Animal lover. Wannabe astronaut. I do all my own stunts.

Posting about science sometimes; mostly just quotes reflect on.

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” -JRR Tolkien
And so it continues (and by “it” I don’t mean US scientific greatness)

#science #leadership #nsf

www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Exclusive: NSF stops awarding new grants and funding existing ones
US science funder also plans to screen grant applications for compliance with ‘agency priorities’.
www.nature.com
May 2, 2025 at 2:46 PM
Reposted by Catherine Walker
Delighted to write for this first issue of this new journal Dialogues of Climate Change @dialoguescc.bsky.social
Thank you so much to @drrobbellamy.bsky.social for inviting me, and thanks to my coauthors Ben Galton-Fenzi, @bryonyfreer.bsky.social and @capcomcatwalk.bsky.social
Introducing the special inaugural double issue of Dialogues on Climate Change @dialoguescc.bsky.social, with 27 authors addressing the state of research in 20 articles on hotly debated topics!

Volume 1 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/1/1

Volume 2 Issue 1: journals.sagepub.com/toc/dcca/2/1
April 30, 2025 at 3:05 AM
Reposted by Catherine Walker
The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.

www.tsunami.gov
February 28, 2025 at 12:07 AM
Reposted by Catherine Walker
We are #hiring! Search extended through end of February for a tenure track scientific staff position in #Coastal Systems in the Geology and Geophysics Department at @whoi.edu (ad still says Feb 15, but last time we tried to change the wording we broke workday so, you know, just trust me on this!)
Tenure Track Scientist - Geology & Geophysics
Job Summary The Department of Geology and Geophysics (G&G) at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) invites candidates to apply to the open full-time tenure track position on our scienti...
whoi.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com
February 21, 2025 at 7:03 PM
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
February 7, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Reposted by Catherine Walker
A new special issue of Science highlights research on Earth’s frozen places—from the Arctic to the Antarctic—and how it’s changing due to climate change and the geopolitical challenges this important work faces.

Learn more: https://scim.ag/4jPYRID
February 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Scenes from the week in Pasadena, CA #pasadena #earthviews #wildfires #santaanawinds
January 15, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Reposted by Catherine Walker
🌊 The 2022 collapse of the Conger–Glenzer ice shelf in East #Antarctica shows that ice-shelf loss due to warming is committed long before it actually happens.

@naturegeosci.bsky.social paper led by @whoi.bsky.social (with authors @utas.bsky.social) tracks its demise over 25 years ➡️ rdcu.be/d2k3r
December 4, 2024 at 5:17 AM
New paper out today in @natureportfolio.bsky.social highlighting the 2022 collapse of Conger-Glenzer Ice Shelf in East Antarctica!

(Thanks for the highlight @jdkirkham.bsky.social!)
December 3, 2024 at 10:55 PM
The unprecedented retreat (read: one of the fastest retreats on record!) of Hektoria Glacier in Antarctica in 2022-2023 highlighted in new paper!

Great work by
@eapsmit.bsky.social
@whoi.bsky.social MIT-WHOI Joint Program student Bailey Fluegel!

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Two‐Decade Evolution of Antarctica's Hektoria Glacier and Its 2022 Rapid Retreat From Satellite Observations
Hektoria Glacier retreated ∼23 km between March 2022 and August 2023—one of the fastest observed marine-terminating glacier retreats Changes in buttressing support and mid-depth ocean temperature...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 24, 2024 at 5:25 PM
“"It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
- Albus Dumbledore/JK Rowling
November 14, 2024 at 5:22 PM
“Acknowledging the physical realities of our planet does not mean a dismal future of endless sacrifice. In fact, acknowledging these realities is the first step in dealing with them. We can meet the resource problems of the world if we tackle them with courage and foresight.” - Jimmy Carter, 1981
November 14, 2024 at 4:21 AM