Joel Thornton
@atmostaj.bsky.social
Professor of Atmospheric and Climate Science at the University of Washington. I study the natural and perturbed chemistry and composition of the atmosphere and how it interacts with weather and climate. But, I like other things too. Opinions my own, etc.
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Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements
Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.
See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!
Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.
See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!
PostdocAd-FarmFlux
Postdoctoral Associate: aircraft-based measurements of atmospheric ammonia Join our team! The atmospheric chemistry group at the University of Minnesota (UMN) seeks applications for a Postdoctoral A...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Postdoc opening: airborne NH3 measurements
Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.
See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!
Join our team! The UMN atmospheric chemistry group is recruiting a postdoc to collect and analyze airborne NH3 measurements as part of NASA FarmFlux.
See z.umn.edu/aw67 for details, & contact Julieta (junco004@umn.edu) and I (dbm@umn.edu) with questions!
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If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7
Session AS3.2
meetingorganizer.copernicus.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:11 AM
If you work on sources and impacts of VOCs (biogenic or anthropogenic) from measurement to modeling perspectives please submit an abstract to our atmospheric organics session at #EGU26! Our invited speakers are @dbm.bsky.social and @jacquirickard.bsky.social See you in Vienna! tinyurl.com/55vda8u7
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A new University of Washington-led study in Science shows that space dust sandwiched between layers of sediment tells scientists where and when ice covered the Arctic, and what happened to marine life when it disappeared.
https://bit.ly/4orvD4q
@science.org @uwnews.uw.edu
https://bit.ly/4orvD4q
@science.org @uwnews.uw.edu
Space dust reveals Arctic ice conditions before satellite imaging
A new University of Washington-led study shows that space dust sandwiched between layers of sediment tells scientists where and when ice covered the Arctic, and what happened to marine life when it...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:39 PM
A new University of Washington-led study in Science shows that space dust sandwiched between layers of sediment tells scientists where and when ice covered the Arctic, and what happened to marine life when it disappeared.
https://bit.ly/4orvD4q
@science.org @uwnews.uw.edu
https://bit.ly/4orvD4q
@science.org @uwnews.uw.edu
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Happy #Halloween! 🎃 🐟 👻 Check of some of our favorite creepy creatures in our UW Fish Collection.
@uwsafs.bsky.social @burkemuseum.bsky.social
@uwsafs.bsky.social @burkemuseum.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Happy #Halloween! 🎃 🐟 👻 Check of some of our favorite creepy creatures in our UW Fish Collection.
@uwsafs.bsky.social @burkemuseum.bsky.social
@uwsafs.bsky.social @burkemuseum.bsky.social
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Cosmic crisp are generally even better than honey crisp, IMHO. I will pay almost anything for them.
October 17, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Cosmic crisp are generally even better than honey crisp, IMHO. I will pay almost anything for them.
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A new study proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of Anegada between 1381 and 1391, carrying huge coral boulders inland and leaving behind a valuable record of geologic and climatic history.
https://bit.ly/4nUN90N
@uwess.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu
https://bit.ly/4nUN90N
@uwess.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu
Coral skeletons left by a medieval tsunami whisper warning for Caribbean region
A new collaborative study led by scientists at the University of Washington and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of...
www.washington.edu
October 16, 2025 at 9:13 PM
A new study proposes that a tsunami struck the Caribbean island of Anegada between 1381 and 1391, carrying huge coral boulders inland and leaving behind a valuable record of geologic and climatic history.
https://bit.ly/4nUN90N
@uwess.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu
https://bit.ly/4nUN90N
@uwess.bsky.social @uwnews.uw.edu
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You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
October 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
You feel that Seattle?! Check out that Polanco P-Wave! Polanco Game Winning Single, Crawford Scores, MARINERS WIN!! @Mariners are Toronto Bound! @Tmobilepark @FoxSports
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
#SeisTheMoment #SeizeTheMoment
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Congratulations to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, @uwmad-aos.bsky.social associate professor and UW Atmospheric and Climate Science alum, for being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
https://bit.ly/3IIHxHQ
@uwnews.uw.edu @macfound.org
https://bit.ly/3IIHxHQ
@uwnews.uw.edu @macfound.org
UW Atmospheric and Climate Science alum Ángel F. Adames Corraliza named 2025 MacArthur Fellow
University of Washington Department of Atmospheric and Climate Science alum and University of Wisconsin–Madison atmospheric scientist Ángel F. Adames Corraliza has been awarded a prestigious MacArthur...
environment.uw.edu
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Congratulations to Ángel F. Adames Corraliza, @uwmad-aos.bsky.social associate professor and UW Atmospheric and Climate Science alum, for being named a 2025 MacArthur Fellow!
https://bit.ly/3IIHxHQ
@uwnews.uw.edu @macfound.org
https://bit.ly/3IIHxHQ
@uwnews.uw.edu @macfound.org
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the work underway to produce positive energy buildings (buildings that produce more energy than they consume) is really quite rad
renplushomes.eu
renplushomes.eu
Homepage - Ren + Homes
As the urgency to combat climate change intensifies, RENPLUSHOMES takes the lead in developing a universal methodology for Positive Energy Homes and residential districts. This approach addresses the ...
renplushomes.eu
October 6, 2025 at 12:28 AM
the work underway to produce positive energy buildings (buildings that produce more energy than they consume) is really quite rad
renplushomes.eu
renplushomes.eu
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Join us for our flagship fall event on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at Town Hall Seattle.
More info and tickets: https://bit.ly/42AiP39
More info and tickets: https://bit.ly/42AiP39
September 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Join us for our flagship fall event on Wednesday, Oct. 22 at Town Hall Seattle.
More info and tickets: https://bit.ly/42AiP39
More info and tickets: https://bit.ly/42AiP39
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🥇🥇TWO @agu.org AWARDS
📢@chriskenseth.bsky.social, a NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, was selected as the recipient of the 2025 James R. Holton Award.
📢Professor Dale Durran received the Jule Gregory Charney Lecture.
Congratulations to both and all the 2025 AGU Honorees!
📢@chriskenseth.bsky.social, a NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, was selected as the recipient of the 2025 James R. Holton Award.
📢Professor Dale Durran received the Jule Gregory Charney Lecture.
Congratulations to both and all the 2025 AGU Honorees!
September 25, 2025 at 11:46 PM
🥇🥇TWO @agu.org AWARDS
📢@chriskenseth.bsky.social, a NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, was selected as the recipient of the 2025 James R. Holton Award.
📢Professor Dale Durran received the Jule Gregory Charney Lecture.
Congratulations to both and all the 2025 AGU Honorees!
📢@chriskenseth.bsky.social, a NSF AGS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department, was selected as the recipient of the 2025 James R. Holton Award.
📢Professor Dale Durran received the Jule Gregory Charney Lecture.
Congratulations to both and all the 2025 AGU Honorees!
Just doing some Chemical Ionization research with Google AI - I'm learning a lot!
September 21, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Just doing some Chemical Ionization research with Google AI - I'm learning a lot!
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For years, researchers have hypothesized that westerly winds were ferrying warm water toward the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, accelerating ice melt. A new @uwess.bsky.social study flips the existing narrative on its head, pointing toward winds from the north instead.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
September 10, 2025 at 5:20 PM
For years, researchers have hypothesized that westerly winds were ferrying warm water toward the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, accelerating ice melt. A new @uwess.bsky.social study flips the existing narrative on its head, pointing toward winds from the north instead.
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
www.washington.edu/news/2025/09...
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Atmospheric Physics faculty position at Univ of Toronto - help us make use of satellite and aircraft capabilities that are on their way in Canada! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
Assistant Professor - Space-based and Suborbital Experimental Atmospheric Physics
Assistant Professor - Space-based and Suborbital Experimental Atmospheric Physics
jobs.utoronto.ca
September 11, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Atmospheric Physics faculty position at Univ of Toronto - help us make use of satellite and aircraft capabilities that are on their way in Canada! jobs.utoronto.ca/job/Toronto-...
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Scientists long believed that Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium will decline sharply as oceans heat up. @uwnews.uw.edu
Read the @apnews.com story: https://bit.ly/46celQV
Read the @apnews.com story: https://bit.ly/46celQV
Warming seas threaten key phytoplankton species that fuels the food web, study finds
New research suggests that a tiny phytoplankton that is an essential part of the marine food web may decline sharply as oceans warm.
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September 11, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Scientists long believed that Prochlorococcus, the smallest and most abundant phytoplankton on Earth, would thrive in a warmer world. But new research suggests the microscopic bacterium will decline sharply as oceans heat up. @uwnews.uw.edu
Read the @apnews.com story: https://bit.ly/46celQV
Read the @apnews.com story: https://bit.ly/46celQV
Today has taken a turn. A river of smoke from BC through WA
September 5, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Today has taken a turn. A river of smoke from BC through WA
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“We are developing a tool that examines the variability in our current climate to help answer this lingering question: Is a given event the kind of thing that happens naturally, or not?” said Dale Durran, @uwatmossci.bsky.social.
This AI model simulates 1000 years of the current climate in just one day
University of Washington researchers use AI to simulate the Earth’s current climate and interannual variability for up to 1,000 years. The model runs on a single processor and takes just 12 hours to.....
www.washington.edu
September 3, 2025 at 6:15 PM
“We are developing a tool that examines the variability in our current climate to help answer this lingering question: Is a given event the kind of thing that happens naturally, or not?” said Dale Durran, @uwatmossci.bsky.social.
More measuring while biking (funded by Beckman Foundation): air pollution measuring, mass spectrometry development, & e-bikes
w/Tofwerk @uwchemistry.bsky.social @uwengineering.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social
goes back to a dream I had as grad student (in which the bike was always stolen) 🧪
w/Tofwerk @uwchemistry.bsky.social @uwengineering.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social
goes back to a dream I had as grad student (in which the bike was always stolen) 🧪
September 1, 2025 at 4:46 PM
More measuring while biking (funded by Beckman Foundation): air pollution measuring, mass spectrometry development, & e-bikes
w/Tofwerk @uwchemistry.bsky.social @uwengineering.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social
goes back to a dream I had as grad student (in which the bike was always stolen) 🧪
w/Tofwerk @uwchemistry.bsky.social @uwengineering.bsky.social @uwenvironment.bsky.social
goes back to a dream I had as grad student (in which the bike was always stolen) 🧪
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A familiar bird of Northwest summer takes a perilous journey to Costa Rica. #UWEnvironment #UWPOE
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A familiar bird of Northwest summer takes a perilous journey to Costa Rica
The Swainson’s thrush is a common sight here in the Northwest. But this is only its summer home. Join us on a trip to Costa Rica.
www.seattletimes.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:12 PM
A familiar bird of Northwest summer takes a perilous journey to Costa Rica. #UWEnvironment #UWPOE
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
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@uwess.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
www.king5.com/video/tech/s...
#UWEnvironment
www.king5.com/video/tech/s...
#UWEnvironment
UW professor on threats to glaciers, impact on western Washington
UW Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
www.king5.com
August 18, 2025 at 9:14 PM
@uwess.bsky.social Assistant Research Professor TJ Fudge talks about the status of glaciers in the Pacific Northwest and the dangers of shrinking glaciers.
www.king5.com/video/tech/s...
#UWEnvironment
www.king5.com/video/tech/s...
#UWEnvironment
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Seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 #earthquake that struck the #Kamchatka Peninsula July 29 reached a seafloor observatory offshore from Oregon just 9 minutes later. The vibrations were so intense they rattled a seafloor instrument for over four hours. Listen: environment.uw.edu/news/2025/08...
Offshore observatory detects Russian earthquake and tsunami
The July 29 magnitude 8.8 earthquake that struck the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia and unleashed seismic energy and a tsunami that surged across the Pacific Ocean was captured in remarkable detail by ...
environment.uw.edu
August 16, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Seismic waves from the magnitude 8.8 #earthquake that struck the #Kamchatka Peninsula July 29 reached a seafloor observatory offshore from Oregon just 9 minutes later. The vibrations were so intense they rattled a seafloor instrument for over four hours. Listen: environment.uw.edu/news/2025/08...
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Former graduate student Aodhan Sweeney and Prof. Qiang Fu's paper, "Recent Warming of the Southern Hemisphere Subtropical Lower Stratosphere and Antarctic Ozone Healing," is featured on EOS Editor's Highlight. <2% of all AGU papers are selected to be featured this way!
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Southern Hemisphere Subtropical Lower Stratosphere is Warming - Eos
Warming of the Southern Hemisphere (SH) subtropical lower stratosphere is due to slowing of Brewer-Dobson Circulation, thus cooling the Antarctic lower stratosphere and masking anticipated ozone recov...
eos.org
August 13, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Former graduate student Aodhan Sweeney and Prof. Qiang Fu's paper, "Recent Warming of the Southern Hemisphere Subtropical Lower Stratosphere and Antarctic Ozone Healing," is featured on EOS Editor's Highlight. <2% of all AGU papers are selected to be featured this way!
eos.org/editor-highl...
eos.org/editor-highl...
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Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
Nominate an Impactful Dataset
You are invited to nominate a dataset to be included in a commentary about the impact of Earth, space, and environmental data using the dimensions of people, planet, and prosperity. Selected…
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August 12, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Know a dataset making an impact for people, planet, or prosperity?
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
🌎 Nominate it for AGU’s upcoming commentary by 10 Oct. You may be featured!
🔗: buff.ly/XLFfYqM
#ImpactfulData #EarthScience
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Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults #UWEnvironment
www.washington.edu/news/2025/07...
@uwnews.uw.edu @uwess.bsky.social @ooi-cabledarray.bsky.social #UWOceanography
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@uwnews.uw.edu @uwess.bsky.social @ooi-cabledarray.bsky.social #UWOceanography
Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults
University of Washington researchers showed that they can monitor seismic activity at the ocean floor using fiber optic cables without disrupting telecommunications. They developed this technique in.....
www.washington.edu
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Seismologists tapped into the fiber optic cable network to study offshore faults #UWEnvironment
www.washington.edu/news/2025/07...
@uwnews.uw.edu @uwess.bsky.social @ooi-cabledarray.bsky.social #UWOceanography
www.washington.edu/news/2025/07...
@uwnews.uw.edu @uwess.bsky.social @ooi-cabledarray.bsky.social #UWOceanography
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What makes a tsunami — and what to do if one comes.
www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
@haroldtobin.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social @uwess.bsky.social #UWEnvironment
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@haroldtobin.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social @uwess.bsky.social #UWEnvironment
What makes a tsunami — and what to do if one comes
Several factors help determine whether a given earthquake will generate a dangerous tsunami, but the process is not yet fully understood.
www.npr.org
July 31, 2025 at 11:21 PM
What makes a tsunami — and what to do if one comes.
www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
@haroldtobin.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social @uwess.bsky.social #UWEnvironment
www.npr.org/2025/07/30/n...
@haroldtobin.bsky.social @pnsn1.bsky.social @uwess.bsky.social #UWEnvironment