It is difficult to describe just how disastrous it would be if just-released NOAA budget proposal (or even large portions) were to be enacted: It would involve a wholesale dismantling (decimation, really) of entities relevant to weather, climate, & ocean research & prediction.

just got hit by news that DOC was ending (part of the) funding to the CI at Princeton and Trump has frozen more than $1 billion (10% of the total endowment) in funding for Cornell, simultaneously. Both institutions I am affiliated with. What a terrible time to check my phone.

As a grad student @ Princeton, I was fortunate to meet & work alongside many of probationary scientists at GFDL, many of whom worked as postdocs and were recently appointed as fed employees. They were the ones who readily responded to my frantic emails ranging from running the model to life advice.

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

All probationary federal employees at NOAA’s EMC that’s responsible for keeping all US weather model systems running have been fired with 1 hours notice. And that includes me and colleagues. We will not go quietly because we care about the NOAA mission to protect the public.