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Kelsey Malloy
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Climate scientist & Assistant Prof @UDelaware Dept Geog & Spatial Sciences 🌍⛈️ | Ph.D. UMiami Rosenstiel 🌀| B.S. UMD 🐢 | often post about weather & climate | she/her
An atmospheric general circulation model you can run on a Python Jupyter notebook?! Heck yeah! Check out this project- both an educational tool for undergraduates/graduate students, and a research tool for scientists interested in idealized climate modeling.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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We're hiring! We have an open search for an Assistant Professor in physics of the ocean and/or atmosphere in Columbia's Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences. Please circulate this information to good candidates, and apply yourself if you are one! Ad & link to apply: apply.interfolio.com/173819
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September 16, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Curious what we are all about?
Click the link: www.cnn.com/2025/08/28/c...
August 28, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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Sad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager.

Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
June 27, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
June 27, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Trump's Budget is out. For NOAA, it's exactly what the previous passback document showed.
Trump administration eliminations NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research in its ongoing fight against science and reality.

www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...
May 30, 2025 at 9:38 PM
How do a climate-scale patterns, like La Niña, influence extreme weather events, like tornado outbreaks? I break it down in this ENSO Blog post, plus discuss this hyperactive 2025 season in particular. 🌪️
Tornado activity to date has been above average. How does La Niña make tornado-friendly weather more likely? Our guest blogger explains: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
May 28, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Federal weather & climate science is under threat. Starting TODAY at 3:00 PM ET, join a coalition of scientists--including AMS leaders--for a 100-hour livestream. Learn what federal science does for you, ask questions, and help build awareness to "Save Our Forecasts": wclivestream.com
May 28, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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A major loss to our understanding of how extreme weather events are affecting us. There are 3 alternative databases I will be using:
Gallagher Re: www.ajg.com/gallagherre/...
Aon: img.clients.aonunited.com/Web/Aon5/%7B...
EM-DAT: www.emdat.be
May 8, 2025 at 4:25 PM
I usually include NOAA NCEI billion-dollar weather/climate disaster figures in my talks. Over the last couple months, I've spent extra time highlighting who makes them and why it's so valuable, including "while we still have this data..." to convey my worry. Sadly I guess my fears were warranted.
May 8, 2025 at 1:56 PM
How QBO affects weather/climate patterns can be confusing, but @jorgelgf.bsky.social tries to break down the main QBO teleconnection routes in this post. As usual, we had fun with graphics... here's an animated schematic:
May 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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The Spencer Foundation is offering rapid response bridge funding for those who lost NSF research grants.

www.spencer.org/grant_types/...
Rapid Response Bridge Funding Program
In the face of recent abrupt shifts in federal funding for education research, including large-scale terminations of National Science Foundation (NSF) research grant awards, we have developed a rap...
www.spencer.org
May 2, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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The canceled grands are shock and awe, but the real damage will come from the long-term (massive) reductions in funding to the entire US research ecosystem and the defunding of entire fields and initiatives for training, growing, and diversifying the research workforce.
April 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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✨ Explore NCDP's new map application that examines how natural hazards, including tornadoes, wildfires, sea-level rise, and tropical cyclones, may be influenced by climate change. Read the full story: ow.ly/8sro50VFP57
Map application: bit.ly/nhccp

@climate.columbia.edu #climatechange #earthday
April 22, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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The gap between where people live and where insurance remains available is widening across the U.S. We explore this in our recent paper, “The Growing Void in the U.S. Homeowners Insurance Market: Who Should Bear the Rising Cost of Climate Change” co-authored with Ian Gray @stevebowen.bsky.social
April 14, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency.

Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
www.science.org
April 11, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Get this: Commerce is slashing $ to Princeton's world-renowned climate research b/c modeling changes to Earth systems is "contributing to a phenomenon known as 'climate anxiety,' which has increased significantly among America’s youth."

No research, no problem! www.commerce.gov/news/press-r...
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 2:59 AM
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Here are just some of the websites that will go dark at Midnight because of this cancelled contract.
research.noaa.gov
epic.noaa.gov
globalocean.noaa.gov
cpo.noaa.gov
seagrant.noaa.gov
testbeds.noaa.gov
April 4, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Scoop(let): NOAA is folding the Climate Prediction Center in with the Weather Prediction Center, partly so CPC doesn't stand out so much with the word "climate." (CPC does not study/predict climate change so much as El Niño/La Niña, seasonal climate.) www.axios.com/2025/03/27/n...
NOAA merges Climate Prediction Center with another unit, reflecting climate anxiety
The move reflects concerns over the Trump administration's sensitivity to CPC's title.
www.axios.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Check out the timely early online release of @mktippett.bsky.social and I's paper Forecasting U.S. Tornado Outbreak Activity and Associated Environments in the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) 🌪️
doi.org/10.1175/WAF-...
Forecasting U.S. Tornado Outbreak Activity and Associated Environments in the Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS)
Abstract Tornado outbreaks are high-impact events, often causing significant loss of life and property. This study evaluated the forecast skill of U.S. tornado outbreak activity using the Global Ensem...
doi.org
March 19, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Insurers warn that mass firings at NASA, the US Geological Survey and other science agencies could threaten the public weather and geospatial data they use to manage natural disaster risks — and could raise prices for consumers:
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Insurers warn that US weather agency mass firings will hit climate risk data
[FREE TO READ] Reinsurance trade group appeals to US commerce secretary Lutnick to preserve data collection after thousands of jobs axed
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March 14, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Yes, I'm a climate reporter. But the story of how the Trump admin's moves are threatening science & research is bigger than climate. So I spoke w/economists, physicists, sociologists, computer scientists, health scientists, and climate researchers for this piece: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
Trump’s Science Cuts Have Thrown the Research World Into Chaos
Firing federal workers and freezing grants are upending a world-class system the US has built since World War II.
www.bloomberg.com
March 14, 2025 at 1:33 PM