Maya Fields
@mayafields.bsky.social
she/her • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor PhD Candidate • Glaciology • Ice Shelf Processes • Climate Action • Social Justice •
Crafting and baking my way through the PhD 🥐🏺🪴
Crafting and baking my way through the PhD 🥐🏺🪴
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Maya Fields
@mayafields.bsky.social
· Dec 7
🌍🌌 AGU is thrilled to join Bluesky!
We’re here to share exciting discoveries, spotlight incredible scientists, and connect with YOU in this vibrant community.
Follow along as we explore how Earth and space sciences make the world a better place. 🌟
We’re here to share exciting discoveries, spotlight incredible scientists, and connect with YOU in this vibrant community.
Follow along as we explore how Earth and space sciences make the world a better place. 🌟
Thrilled to be in D.C. for AGU 2024! I'll be presenting my poster on 'Evaluating Ice Shelf Surface Melt Parameterizations using ERA5' on Dec. 9th in session C13A. If you're around, come say hi—I’m looking forward to meeting new folks and having some great conversations at the conference! #AGU24
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October 23, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Connect with top Earth & space science talent at #AGU25!
Join AGU Recruiter Connect—a FREE chance to interview exceptional candidates over 4 days.
✅ 5-hr custom schedule
✅ 1 free full exhibitor reg
✅ Interview space at AGU Central
Apply now 👉 buff.ly/1LACUpH
Join AGU Recruiter Connect—a FREE chance to interview exceptional candidates over 4 days.
✅ 5-hr custom schedule
✅ 1 free full exhibitor reg
✅ Interview space at AGU Central
Apply now 👉 buff.ly/1LACUpH
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We're marching to the Capitol on 11/5 to deliver thousands of petitions demanding Congress impeach and remove RFK Jr! Will you add your signature to the list?
LINK in Bio! zurl.co/jl1oo
911 March for Health and Science!
⏰ 11/5, 4pm ET
📍Washington, DC
🔗 zurl.co/fapcS
LINK in Bio! zurl.co/jl1oo
911 March for Health and Science!
⏰ 11/5, 4pm ET
📍Washington, DC
🔗 zurl.co/fapcS
October 22, 2025 at 8:35 PM
We're marching to the Capitol on 11/5 to deliver thousands of petitions demanding Congress impeach and remove RFK Jr! Will you add your signature to the list?
LINK in Bio! zurl.co/jl1oo
911 March for Health and Science!
⏰ 11/5, 4pm ET
📍Washington, DC
🔗 zurl.co/fapcS
LINK in Bio! zurl.co/jl1oo
911 March for Health and Science!
⏰ 11/5, 4pm ET
📍Washington, DC
🔗 zurl.co/fapcS
Made ice-themed mugs for my research group! Love how the glaze crackles like ice-shelf fractures. Question is: how would it calve? Working theory — accidentally (or intentionally) thrown thanks to buggy code. 🧊
October 22, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Made ice-themed mugs for my research group! Love how the glaze crackles like ice-shelf fractures. Question is: how would it calve? Working theory — accidentally (or intentionally) thrown thanks to buggy code. 🧊
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Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change — @newscientist.com
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change
A review of the five main methods proposed for cooling down the poles or slowing the loss of ice concludes they are all wildly impractical, wouldn't work, or both
www.newscientist.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Geoengineering is not going to save the poles from climate change — @newscientist.com
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This is such important data to document… But not good news at all.
I recognize *things* are happening, but we seriously have to do better.
Support your trusted climate communicators!
I recognize *things* are happening, but we seriously have to do better.
Support your trusted climate communicators!
Newspaper coverage of climate change around the globe dropped 6% from May to June 2025 -- and by 28% compared to June 2024, despite increasing frequency and severity of climate-fueled extreme weather events.
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
Read more from the @media-climate.bsky.social here: mecco.colorado.edu/summaries/is...
July 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
This is such important data to document… But not good news at all.
I recognize *things* are happening, but we seriously have to do better.
Support your trusted climate communicators!
I recognize *things* are happening, but we seriously have to do better.
Support your trusted climate communicators!
In our final PhD year, we (@gsundaram98.bsky.social @ericawhiting.bsky.social) built a dissertation quest system: track goals, earn rewards (donuts, craft nights, etc.), face punishments (yes, a princess hat). It’s silly, it’s motivating, and it might actually get us to the finish line.
July 9, 2025 at 9:19 PM
In our final PhD year, we (@gsundaram98.bsky.social @ericawhiting.bsky.social) built a dissertation quest system: track goals, earn rewards (donuts, craft nights, etc.), face punishments (yes, a princess hat). It’s silly, it’s motivating, and it might actually get us to the finish line.
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Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
June 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Awful. More horrible science news
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
"The NASA National Snow and Ice Data Center Distributed Active Archive Center (NSIDC DAAC) learned yesterday that the Department of Defense (DoD) will stop processing & delivering the Special Sensor Microwave Imager/Sounder (SSMIS) data no later than 30 June 2025."
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So far this week:
❌ SSMIS data halted (think sea ice, snow, hurricane, ice sheet monitoring, etc)
❌ climate[dot]gov removed and redirected to...
❌ NOAA Climate homepage, which was modified (e.g., removed Climate Stripes and Climate Ready Nation references)
❌ false bills to ex-probationary employees
❌ SSMIS data halted (think sea ice, snow, hurricane, ice sheet monitoring, etc)
❌ climate[dot]gov removed and redirected to...
❌ NOAA Climate homepage, which was modified (e.g., removed Climate Stripes and Climate Ready Nation references)
❌ false bills to ex-probationary employees
June 25, 2025 at 9:50 PM
So far this week:
❌ SSMIS data halted (think sea ice, snow, hurricane, ice sheet monitoring, etc)
❌ climate[dot]gov removed and redirected to...
❌ NOAA Climate homepage, which was modified (e.g., removed Climate Stripes and Climate Ready Nation references)
❌ false bills to ex-probationary employees
❌ SSMIS data halted (think sea ice, snow, hurricane, ice sheet monitoring, etc)
❌ climate[dot]gov removed and redirected to...
❌ NOAA Climate homepage, which was modified (e.g., removed Climate Stripes and Climate Ready Nation references)
❌ false bills to ex-probationary employees
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Horrified by the sickening act of political violence in Minnesota. I pray for the family of Melissa Hortman and her husband, who were murdered in cold blood, and for the recovery of John Hoffman and his wife.
The killer must be held accountable. This has no place in America.
The killer must be held accountable. This has no place in America.
June 14, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Horrified by the sickening act of political violence in Minnesota. I pray for the family of Melissa Hortman and her husband, who were murdered in cold blood, and for the recovery of John Hoffman and his wife.
The killer must be held accountable. This has no place in America.
The killer must be held accountable. This has no place in America.
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Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Swiss village almost entirely destroyed after collapse of glacier buries it in mud
One person missing and Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town
www.theguardian.com
May 29, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Thankfully, the village was evacuated already, but one person is missing and everyone else’s homes are destroyed.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
Make no mistake: this is a climate disaster.
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(you + me + all our science friends)yelling about science = flood the zone
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#SummerfightforScience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#SummerfightforScience
May 29, 2025 at 3:00 PM
(you + me + all our science friends)yelling about science = flood the zone
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#SummerfightforScience
@standupforscience.bsky.social
#SummerfightforScience
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Read a message & watch a special video from AGU President Brandon Jones about Where Science Connects Us & how we’re shaping the future together: ➡️ buff.ly/PWv8WXF
Who We Are, What We Fight For: AGU and the Administration's First 100 Days - From The Prow
Today is Day 100 of the U.S. Administration. Media pundits, policymakers, and legal scholars are all marking this with a..
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April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
Read a message & watch a special video from AGU President Brandon Jones about Where Science Connects Us & how we’re shaping the future together: ➡️ buff.ly/PWv8WXF
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🌎 Today marks 100 days of the U.S. Administration—& 100 days of AGU standing strong for science.
From advocacy to action, our community is meeting the moment.
From advocacy to action, our community is meeting the moment.
Who We Are, What We Fight For: AGU and the Administration's First 100 Days - From The Prow
Today is Day 100 of the U.S. Administration. Media pundits, policymakers, and legal scholars are all marking this with a..
fromtheprow.agu.org
April 29, 2025 at 2:22 PM
🌎 Today marks 100 days of the U.S. Administration—& 100 days of AGU standing strong for science.
From advocacy to action, our community is meeting the moment.
From advocacy to action, our community is meeting the moment.
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If you and your colleagues are wishing there was something you could DO to call on your university leadership to stand up against Trump's attacks on higher ed...look no further!
📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
FILL THE MAP!
#standupwithus
#standupforscience
📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
FILL THE MAP!
#standupwithus
#standupforscience
April 9, 2025 at 11:42 AM
If you and your colleagues are wishing there was something you could DO to call on your university leadership to stand up against Trump's attacks on higher ed...look no further!
📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
FILL THE MAP!
#standupwithus
#standupforscience
📣 REGISTER YOUR CAMPUS ACTION HERE: actionnetwork.org/event_campai...
FILL THE MAP!
#standupwithus
#standupforscience
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I wrote up a tiny 2d shallow ice approximation python notebook for my continuum mechanics course.
gist.github.com/grinsted/d5d...
gist.github.com/grinsted/d5d...
shallow ice approximation
shallow ice approximation. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
gist.github.com
March 26, 2025 at 11:56 AM
I wrote up a tiny 2d shallow ice approximation python notebook for my continuum mechanics course.
gist.github.com/grinsted/d5d...
gist.github.com/grinsted/d5d...
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You can now get REALLY location specific warming stripes thanks to @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=59.93&ln...
era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=59.93&ln...
March 19, 2025 at 9:23 PM
You can now get REALLY location specific warming stripes thanks to @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social
era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=59.93&ln...
era-explorer.climate.copernicus.eu?lat=59.93&ln...
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By attacking science:
We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care.
We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit.
We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care.
We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit.
We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
March 19, 2025 at 2:21 PM
By attacking science:
We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care.
We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit.
We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
We are less safe because science informs national security and medical care.
We are less prosperous because science drives innovation and economic benefit.
We are less free because science and democracy depend on the liberty to ask questions, and seek and share knowledge.
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Science needs stability, not stopgaps.
A continuing resolution further weakens U.S. research, innovation, and public safety. AGU is taking action to defend science funding and protect federal scientists.
Read more: fromtheprow.agu.org/a-continuing...
#FundScience #SciencePolicy #AGU
A continuing resolution further weakens U.S. research, innovation, and public safety. AGU is taking action to defend science funding and protect federal scientists.
Read more: fromtheprow.agu.org/a-continuing...
#FundScience #SciencePolicy #AGU
A Continuing Resolution Is a Blow to U.S. Science — and the Public
The American public deserves better. Science drives progress, but it can’t do that with stopgap funding and political gridlock. It’s..
fromtheprow.agu.org
March 14, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Science needs stability, not stopgaps.
A continuing resolution further weakens U.S. research, innovation, and public safety. AGU is taking action to defend science funding and protect federal scientists.
Read more: fromtheprow.agu.org/a-continuing...
#FundScience #SciencePolicy #AGU
A continuing resolution further weakens U.S. research, innovation, and public safety. AGU is taking action to defend science funding and protect federal scientists.
Read more: fromtheprow.agu.org/a-continuing...
#FundScience #SciencePolicy #AGU
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AGU is relieved at the court’s ruling to extend the temporary restraining order in our case today, sending thousands more probationary federal employees back to work.
#StandWithScience
#StandWithScience
March 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM
AGU is relieved at the court’s ruling to extend the temporary restraining order in our case today, sending thousands more probationary federal employees back to work.
#StandWithScience
#StandWithScience
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As an early career scientist and PhD student one thing I plan on making a staple in my career is climate communication and education. With the recent attacks on science, now seems as good a time to start. So if you have a few minutes please check out my first post:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ind...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ind...
10 Indisputable Facts for Understanding Climate Change
Conversations about climate change can often be confusing, complex, and loaded with field-specific scientific jargon, making it nearly unreadable for larger audiences. While some of the target audienc...
www.linkedin.com
March 10, 2025 at 8:43 PM
As an early career scientist and PhD student one thing I plan on making a staple in my career is climate communication and education. With the recent attacks on science, now seems as good a time to start. So if you have a few minutes please check out my first post:
www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ind...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/10-ind...
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The US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) stands in solidarity with the scientific community against recent funding cuts for climate change research and the unjust dismissal of federal agents. A statement of solidarity from the USAPECS board is enclosed with this post.
March 11, 2025 at 4:09 PM
The US Association of Polar Early Career Scientists (USAPECS) stands in solidarity with the scientific community against recent funding cuts for climate change research and the unjust dismissal of federal agents. A statement of solidarity from the USAPECS board is enclosed with this post.
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Congratulations to PhD student Emily Glen @lancasteruni.bsky.social for publishing her first First Author paper in The Cryosphere! Read to learn about high vs. low melt seasons in #Greenland 🧪
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
A comparison of supraglacial meltwater features throughout contrasting melt seasons: southwest Greenland
Abstract. Over recent decades, the Greenland Ice Sheet (GrIS) has lost mass through increased melting and solid ice discharge into the ocean. Surface meltwater features such as supraglacial lakes (SGL...
tc.copernicus.org
March 6, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Congratulations to PhD student Emily Glen @lancasteruni.bsky.social for publishing her first First Author paper in The Cryosphere! Read to learn about high vs. low melt seasons in #Greenland 🧪
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
tc.copernicus.org/articles/19/... @lancasteruninews.bsky.social @cires.colorado.edu @nsidc.bsky.social
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#StandUpForScience Denver. Photo by Jeff Kanipe.
March 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
#StandUpForScience Denver. Photo by Jeff Kanipe.
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Short snippet of my speech today at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC, with the Lincoln Memorial behind me (courtesy of @ianlivingston.bsky.social)
March 7, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Short snippet of my speech today at the #StandUpForScience rally in DC, with the Lincoln Memorial behind me (courtesy of @ianlivingston.bsky.social)