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Samuel Brenner
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Postdoc at @caltech.edu studying sea ice-ocean interactions.
PhD in physical oceanography from the University of Washington.
🇨🇦(he/him)
https://sdbrenner.github.io/
Caltech has recommended that international scholars on H-1B visas (like myself) not leave the US.
September 20, 2025 at 7:17 PM
As a postdoc on the job market, I've been worried about the impact of ongoing funding/policy uncertainties on faculty positions. So I decided to compare the progression of faculty jobs this cycle to previous years based on positions posted to eswnonline.org/online/earth...
September 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
If you are into Arctic sea ice thermodynamics, here is our new dataset of 82 CRREL ice mass balance buoys deployed in 1997–2024 with estimates of snow and ice thickness and their interface evolution: doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15096485
March 28, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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Casual final sentence here, way to bury the lede CBC!

"Carney is expected to call an election by the end of the week, to take place in late Apr or early May."

If you're out of the country and you want to vote, here's what you need to do as soon as the election is announced ⬇️
March 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
Sharing as a member of AGU's pubs committee:
AGU is joining a lawsuit in support of federal workers. They need stories/examples of how loss of federal jobs is affecting society. Please share this request with your colleagues & communities. Deadline is this week.💧🧪🌲
forms.monday.com/forms/f553b2...
AGU joins suit supporting fired federal employees
The case brought by federal employee unions and nonprofit organizations asserts that OPM’s directive to fire probationary employees at the National Science Foundation and other agencies was illegal.
news.agu.org
March 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
NOAA scientists need to get clearance before talking with Canadian scientists. www.cbc.ca/news/science...
U.S. scientists say their work is under attack. Here's what that means for Canada | CBC News
Some U.S. government scientists have been told they can no longer travel for meetings or even join virtual calls with international counterparts, putting a hold on Canadian research and sending a deep...
www.cbc.ca
February 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
Sea ice paper alert, congratulations to my colleagues!

Krumpen, T., von Albedyll, L., Bünger, H.J. et al. Smoother sea ice with fewer pressure ridges in a more dynamic Arctic. Nat. Clim. Chang. (2025). doi.org/10.1038/s415...

#Arctic #climate 🌊 🥼❄️
rdcu.be/d5rtv
Smoother sea ice with fewer pressure ridges in a more dynamic Arctic
Nature Climate Change - Pressure ridges, a characteristic feature of Arctic sea ice, play an important role in the ecosystem but pose challenges to shipping. Here the authors use aircraft...
rdcu.be
January 6, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
US academics: look after foreign students
US academics: look after foreign students
The first Trump term took a toll on international scholars and collaborations — we can avoid similar pitfalls.
buff.ly
December 3, 2024 at 1:34 PM
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Hello from the JGR:Oceans team 🌊🌊🌊

We're very happy to be the first AGU journal on Bluesky!
I guess that also makes us the best AGU journal on Bluesky 😆

Our Editors will be posting here about our latest news & views, message/tag us if you'd like us to highlight your science 👍
December 4, 2024 at 11:17 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
Welcome @agu.org! It’s great to have the American Geophysical Union here!
December 3, 2024 at 3:02 AM
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Hi all! I've seen an uptick in follows from fellow Federal #Canadian #scientists over the last while, so I figured I'd create a starter pack!

Check here to follow federal Canadian science & scientists!🧪

Reply here if you want to be added; DM me if you want to be removed.

go.bsky.app/Cjr4wAD
November 21, 2024 at 11:18 AM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
Please welcome the @ametsoc.bsky.social to Bluesky!

AMS advances the atmospheric & related sciences (including of course climate), applications, and services for the benefit of society.

I've added them to this starter pack of scientific organizations that do climate-related work ⬇️
October 22, 2024 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
🧪📍 🌊 🦑 Applications are now being accepted from undergraduate students, graduate students, post-docs, and early-career scientists to participate in an NSF-funded research cruise aboard the R/V Marcus G. Langseth mailchi.mp/ldeo/langset...
Call for Participation: R/V Langseth Research Cruise
mailchi.mp
October 1, 2024 at 3:26 PM
I finally got around to adding a Bluesky profile link to my personal research website.
September 30, 2024 at 5:49 AM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
I definitely understand the whole "only candidates who are selected to move on in the process will be contacted" thing. But if I have to make a government/state/provincial account to even submit an application, there should be a portal where I can check application status.
September 26, 2024 at 7:57 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
I’m talking to another person who was barred from the US Antarctic Program because they go to “mental health counseling” (thus, USAP doesn’t consider them “stable”). The NSF has done nothing—nada—to reform that program. My rage is incandescent. 🔥

If you’ve no idea what I’m talking about, a primer:
AGU 2022 Cryosphere Is For All (talk C12A-06) -- The NSF PQ Process
YouTube video by Michael MacFerrin
youtu.be
September 13, 2024 at 4:58 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
A few years ago we crowd-sourced a list of graduate fellowships in earth sciences. The spreadsheet hasn't been updated since 2022, but I imagine its still very relevant to many of you or your students: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Earth Science Fellowship Opportunities
docs.google.com
September 10, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Heads up my climate science colleagues, UW's Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science is looking for an assistant professor in atmospheric dynamics, including the study of weather and climate phenomena. Great department, great colleagues, great location. Info here! apply.interfolio.com/149349
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August 27, 2024 at 2:46 AM
Excited to share a new paper that Ed Blanchard‐Wrigglesworth and I co-first-authored, along with collaborators Melinda Webster, Chris Horvat, Øyvind Foss, and CC Bitz:
"Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone"
doi.org/10.1029/2024...
Model Biases in Simulating Extreme Sea Ice Loss Associated With the Record January 2022 Arctic Cyclone
An Argo float showed cooling and mixing in the Barents Sea during a record Arctic cyclone, accounting for the associated record sea ice loss A coupled GCM with winds nudged to observations shows ...
doi.org
August 26, 2024 at 4:21 PM
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I’ve been told that the more people like a feed, the more visible it is so please like the Oceanography feed even if you hate the ocean. 🌊🧪
August 22, 2024 at 2:40 PM
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My favourite Canadian things:

🇨🇦 Our vast array of lakes
🇨🇦 Our diverse + vibrant cities
🇨🇦 Our amazing parks and lands
🇨🇦 Our image as a mosaic, not a melting pot
🇨🇦 Our national investment in truth + reconciliation
🇨🇦 Our carbon tax that empowers climate action nation-wide

Add yours!

#canadaday
July 1, 2024 at 4:40 PM
Reposted by Samuel Brenner
We are hiring.

Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington, has a new assistant professor position in Geomorphology.

apply.interfolio.com/147791
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June 26, 2024 at 5:49 PM