Dr Karen Kohfeld (she/her)
@karenkohfeld.bsky.social
Professor, climate scientist, clarinetist, cat lover, traveler, mom.
Nice modulation, Iceland. #Eurovision2025
May 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Nice modulation, Iceland. #Eurovision2025
I think the Lithuanian singer is in pain. #Eurovision2025
May 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I think the Lithuanian singer is in pain. #Eurovision2025
I spoke too soon. Way to go, Estonia!! #eurovision2025
May 17, 2025 at 7:31 PM
I spoke too soon. Way to go, Estonia!! #eurovision2025
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PANGAEA is rescuing numerous datasets scheduled for decommissioning in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of other endangered datasets, please contact them. Importantly, let others know where to find the data.
www.pangaea.de
www.pangaea.de
April 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
PANGAEA is rescuing numerous datasets scheduled for decommissioning in May. PANGAEA has opened its archive to help safeguard these valuable resources. If you become aware of other endangered datasets, please contact them. Importantly, let others know where to find the data.
www.pangaea.de
www.pangaea.de
Nope, no plans for today..
April 21, 2025 at 10:30 PM
Nope, no plans for today..
I voted today.
April 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I voted today.
Such a beautiful day in the garden.
April 18, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Such a beautiful day in the garden.
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Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈
Accurate weather forecasts save lives.
See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...
Accurate weather forecasts save lives.
See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...
March 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Radiosondes on weather balloons are essential for collecting data from the upper atmosphere for accurate forecasting. Due to the mass firing at NOAA, the NWS doesn’t have enough people to launch balloons. 🎈
Accurate weather forecasts save lives.
See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...
Accurate weather forecasts save lives.
See data here: www.spc.noaa.gov/exper/soundi...
Best way to be greeted in the morning.
March 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Best way to be greeted in the morning.
"The environmental agenda now before the Congress includes laws that deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development, and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship." R Nixon, 1972
February 11, 2025 at 2:20 AM
"The environmental agenda now before the Congress includes laws that deal with water pollution, pesticide hazards, ocean dumping, excessive noise, careless land development, and many other environmental problems. These problems will not stand still for politics or for partisanship." R Nixon, 1972
Excited that my student Maggie Duncan's masters paper came out today. It has nothing to do with these adorable birds in the preview photo....
Frontiers | Coastal moderation of Holocene fire and vegetation change on the Pacific coast of Canada
www.frontiersin.org
February 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Excited that my student Maggie Duncan's masters paper came out today. It has nothing to do with these adorable birds in the preview photo....
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I don’t only care about climate change because I’m a scientist. I care about climate change because I’m a mom.
Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love?
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Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love?
Read more:
“Protect What We Love”: At the Katrina Super Bowl, the First Ever Climate Ad Plea for Immediate Action - Moms Clean Air Force
The first ever Super Bowl ad making a plea for immediate climate action will be seen by millions on February 9. It airs as America's newly elected President Trump has been stuffing his cabinet with sc...
www.momscleanairforce.org
February 9, 2025 at 11:06 PM
I don’t only care about climate change because I’m a scientist. I care about climate change because I’m a mom.
Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love?
Read more:
Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love?
Read more:
We get a big snow in Vancouver maybe once per year, and when it happens, our neighbours always block off their icy road and collectively turn it into a tobagan run. I love Vancouver.
February 8, 2025 at 5:24 AM
We get a big snow in Vancouver maybe once per year, and when it happens, our neighbours always block off their icy road and collectively turn it into a tobagan run. I love Vancouver.
Very excited to have received the news last night that the SFU School of Environmental Science masters program was approved by the BC Ministry of Education! We have been working on this since 2021, since before my tenure as School director. Now the real work begins!
February 4, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Very excited to have received the news last night that the SFU School of Environmental Science masters program was approved by the BC Ministry of Education! We have been working on this since 2021, since before my tenure as School director. Now the real work begins!
Signs your first three days back at work were taxing: (1) first all-day headache since that cold in October, (2) spending 15 minutes to remove the packaging from the paper wrapped teabags you mistakenly bought.
Note: I didn't remove the little staples. That's for the next headache.
Note: I didn't remove the little staples. That's for the next headache.
January 10, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Signs your first three days back at work were taxing: (1) first all-day headache since that cold in October, (2) spending 15 minutes to remove the packaging from the paper wrapped teabags you mistakenly bought.
Note: I didn't remove the little staples. That's for the next headache.
Note: I didn't remove the little staples. That's for the next headache.
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As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area.
It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
January 8, 2025 at 1:42 AM
As climate change increases the risk of dry conditions and fire weather, fires across western NAm are bigger, more dangerous, and burning greater area.
It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
It’s the difference between accidentally dropping a match into a pile of green, wet wood versus dropping it into a stack of bone dry kindling.
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Important and fascinating data! 🌊
"This month marks 25 years since Argo floats began drifting with currents & diving for data. The array has helped scientists to better understand changes in the ocean, improve climate & weather forecasts & ultimately help society prepare for environmental change."
"This month marks 25 years since Argo floats began drifting with currents & diving for data. The array has helped scientists to better understand changes in the ocean, improve climate & weather forecasts & ultimately help society prepare for environmental change."
Argo, the 'crown jewel' of ocean observing systems, turns 25
Somewhere in the middle of the ocean, a merchant mariner lowers a cylindrical robotic ocean observing instrument from a ship into the sea to record ocean temperature and salinity. Another instrument i...
www.noaa.gov
December 11, 2024 at 8:17 PM
Important and fascinating data! 🌊
"This month marks 25 years since Argo floats began drifting with currents & diving for data. The array has helped scientists to better understand changes in the ocean, improve climate & weather forecasts & ultimately help society prepare for environmental change."
"This month marks 25 years since Argo floats began drifting with currents & diving for data. The array has helped scientists to better understand changes in the ocean, improve climate & weather forecasts & ultimately help society prepare for environmental change."
First week back at work after five months of sick leave. Tiring, but not as bad as I had thought.
December 7, 2024 at 12:54 AM
First week back at work after five months of sick leave. Tiring, but not as bad as I had thought.
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Two papers on a couple of high-profile rewilding-related cases in Spain showing the importance of historical ecology in informing conservation. Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain 🌍 🧪 #bioinvasions conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain
The increasing pressure to release bisons as a wild species in Spain, as an ecological analogue of the extinct steppe bison Bison priscus, makes it an excellent example to reflect on whether the rewi...
conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 20, 2024 at 11:53 AM
Two papers on a couple of high-profile rewilding-related cases in Spain showing the importance of historical ecology in informing conservation. Rewilding through inappropriate species introduction: The case of European bison in Spain 🌍 🧪 #bioinvasions conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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Depressing: Fossil fuel emissions projected to be almost 8% higher in 2024 than in 2015, the year the Paris climate agreement was signed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
November 20, 2024 at 10:14 AM
Depressing: Fossil fuel emissions projected to be almost 8% higher in 2024 than in 2015, the year the Paris climate agreement was signed.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Exciting night on the Pacific coast as a bomb cyclone and an atmospheric river brought heavy winds, rain, and lots of power outages.
Fierce winds, heavy rain continue in B.C. as bomb cyclone sweeps through region - The Weather Network
The latest B.C. bomb cyclone will create additional disruptions on Wednesday as it continues to make its notable presence felt
www.theweathernetwork.com
November 20, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Exciting night on the Pacific coast as a bomb cyclone and an atmospheric river brought heavy winds, rain, and lots of power outages.
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www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New paper alert: new method to determine changes in water masses of the southern ocean (SWPac) using Radiolaria assemblages and statistical analyses. Paleo-🌊
Southern Ocean Water Mass method: A new statistical approach using microfossil radiolaria for paleoceanographic insights for the Southwest Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean
Ocean circulation and the formation and upwelling of water masses in the Southern Ocean play a critical role in the exchange of heat and carbon with t…
www.sciencedirect.com
November 15, 2024 at 8:02 PM
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... New paper alert: new method to determine changes in water masses of the southern ocean (SWPac) using Radiolaria assemblages and statistical analyses. Paleo-🌊
Not sure if anyone can see this (yet...) but we just had a very cool paper published! Check it out!
Using human observations with instrument-based metrics to understand changing rainfall patterns - Nature Communications
This paper provides an analysis or rainfall changes that integrates human-based and instrument-based observations, identifying regions of agreement and disagreement, and providing insights on how trad...
www.nature.com
November 19, 2024 at 10:06 PM
Not sure if anyone can see this (yet...) but we just had a very cool paper published! Check it out!