Roger Riggin IV, M.S.
@riotrogerriot.bsky.social
Severe Weather Geek
Pro-Python & GIS
Infrastructure & Environmental Systems, PhD Student at UNC Charlotte
Probably somewhere spacing out while listening to Punk Rock and ignoring most of my responsibilities 🤘
Pro-Python & GIS
Infrastructure & Environmental Systems, PhD Student at UNC Charlotte
Probably somewhere spacing out while listening to Punk Rock and ignoring most of my responsibilities 🤘
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CliMAS Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón was featured in @BBCWorld on the importance of trust and communication during extreme weather events.
Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...
Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...
The flood warnings that save lives
When floods hit, getting clear, timely warnings out to people becomes lifesaving, but too often these messages fail. The BBC asks disaster experts about how to get it right.
bbc.com
August 7, 2025 at 11:12 PM
CliMAS Professor Joseph Trujillo-Falcón was featured in @BBCWorld on the importance of trust and communication during extreme weather events.
Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...
Read the article: bbc.com/future/artic...
The REMUS REU group got to launch a weather balloon at UNCC yesterday. Shout out to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social for the quickly-generated and absolute beautiful skew-T analysis plot. If you’re not using SounderPy you need too!
August 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The REMUS REU group got to launch a weather balloon at UNCC yesterday. Shout out to @wxkylegillett.bsky.social for the quickly-generated and absolute beautiful skew-T analysis plot. If you’re not using SounderPy you need too!
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Do you like seeing auroras in a timely manner?
The FY26 budget proposal is planning on decommissioning our satellite systems at L1 (ACE / DSCOVR) making us completely blind to incoming space weather from the Sun until SWFL becomes operational. Please call your representatives.
The FY26 budget proposal is planning on decommissioning our satellite systems at L1 (ACE / DSCOVR) making us completely blind to incoming space weather from the Sun until SWFL becomes operational. Please call your representatives.
July 1, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Do you like seeing auroras in a timely manner?
The FY26 budget proposal is planning on decommissioning our satellite systems at L1 (ACE / DSCOVR) making us completely blind to incoming space weather from the Sun until SWFL becomes operational. Please call your representatives.
The FY26 budget proposal is planning on decommissioning our satellite systems at L1 (ACE / DSCOVR) making us completely blind to incoming space weather from the Sun until SWFL becomes operational. Please call your representatives.
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such a cold, cold world (hello cold world) and it's got me down, but i'll get right back up as long as it's spins around, hello cold world
July 2, 2025 at 7:20 AM
such a cold, cold world (hello cold world) and it's got me down, but i'll get right back up as long as it's spins around, hello cold world
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It's not just #NIH. It's not just #NSF. It's not just #NASA.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
The whole scientific community has to make clear that all science across fed agencies is being destroyed in the US.
We can't just ask for our particular piece of the pie. The whole pie is being thrown out - saving your bit won't work.
June 25, 2025 at 2:11 PM
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I got a title page and outline put together for a new paper.
That’s enough writing for today, right?
That’s enough writing for today, right?
June 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
I got a title page and outline put together for a new paper.
That’s enough writing for today, right?
That’s enough writing for today, right?
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"Supercells in Saskatchewan" sounds like a book in the Magic Tree House series.
June 14, 2025 at 8:46 PM
"Supercells in Saskatchewan" sounds like a book in the Magic Tree House series.
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Days like today make me so proud of this country. I just wish everyone cared this much on election day so we didn't have to be doing this in the first place.
June 14, 2025 at 11:55 PM
Days like today make me so proud of this country. I just wish everyone cared this much on election day so we didn't have to be doing this in the first place.
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Dude's wanted a military parade for himself for years and he finally makes it happen and turnout is worse than at a medium sized city's farmers market on a rainy day while like 2% of the entire country went out to protest his bullshit
June 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Dude's wanted a military parade for himself for years and he finally makes it happen and turnout is worse than at a medium sized city's farmers market on a rainy day while like 2% of the entire country went out to protest his bullshit
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If you are shocked, alarmed, or disappointed about the news that Climate.gov has been effectively shut down with the firing of its content team, here are some things you can do to help! (1/6) 🧪
June 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
If you are shocked, alarmed, or disappointed about the news that Climate.gov has been effectively shut down with the firing of its content team, here are some things you can do to help! (1/6) 🧪
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but hearts are breaking, and wars are raging on, and i have taken my glasses off
June 12, 2025 at 11:20 AM
but hearts are breaking, and wars are raging on, and i have taken my glasses off
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✨There’s still time to share your voice in the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey, closing June 20!✨
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.
🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.
🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
June 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
✨There’s still time to share your voice in the 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey, closing June 20!✨
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.
🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
Help shape how we support the Earth sciences community. The survey should take no more than 15 minutes, and will really help us understand your needs.
🔗 Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
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We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
June 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
We at NSF Unidata are pleased to announce that we have now received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) for the next year of our five-year award. This allows us to end the current furlough of our staff and resume our operations. buff.ly/GafcZts
Omfg…
🚨🚨 Friday night news drop from National Science Foundation!! 🧪
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
NSF just released its detailed budget request for next year: nsf-gov-resources.nsf.gov/files/00-NSF...
We knew it was going to be bad...and it lives up. Guts direct NSF support for a **quarter million people**
🧵 on some highlights...
May 31, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Omfg…
Those maps though 😍 #python
Tornado activity to date has been above average. How does La Niña make tornado-friendly weather more likely? Our guest blogger explains: www.climate.gov/news-feature...
May 29, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Those maps though 😍 #python
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and the grass wasn't green enough here after watering it with my tears
May 24, 2025 at 3:15 AM
and the grass wasn't green enough here after watering it with my tears
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NWS meteorologists will do everything they can to uphold the NWS mission and save lives despite already being stretched so thin. The government needs to stop treating them as our enemies.
As a severe weather outbreak became increasingly likely Friday, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Jackson, Kentucky, made the decision to call everyone in and staff the overnight shift, according to Tom Fahy, who represents the NWS Employees Union.
Short staffing at NWS in Kentucky did not affect tornado warnings for deadly storms, union says | CNN
The Jackson, Kentucky, office is one of at least four such facilities across the country that is so short-staffed that it is no longer routinely operating 24/7.
www.cnn.com
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
NWS meteorologists will do everything they can to uphold the NWS mission and save lives despite already being stretched so thin. The government needs to stop treating them as our enemies.
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could it be that i've changed or did you?
May 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
could it be that i've changed or did you?
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✨Reminder: The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses✨
Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
NSF Unidata Community Survey
2025
arcg.is
May 12, 2025 at 3:08 PM
✨Reminder: The 2025 NSF Unidata Community Survey is still accepting responses✨
Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
Your input is vital to help shape how our program center supports the Earth systems science community, especially as we prepare to resume work.
🔗 Take the Survey: arcg.is/zLOSW
#PoweredByUnidata
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nevermind, i hit the snooze on my alarm 20 times, i was just so tired
May 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
nevermind, i hit the snooze on my alarm 20 times, i was just so tired
It truly does take a village to do the impossible job of raising good-natured, healthy, and inspired children 🩷
gracias to the village
the aunties, godmamas,
next-door saints
who never stop loving
on birthdays,
on breakdowns,
on every in-between.
you held us
when life got heavy,
raised us
even when we weren’t yours
happy mother’s day
to the women who built us
with grace,
with grit,
with love that don’t quit
the aunties, godmamas,
next-door saints
who never stop loving
on birthdays,
on breakdowns,
on every in-between.
you held us
when life got heavy,
raised us
even when we weren’t yours
happy mother’s day
to the women who built us
with grace,
with grit,
with love that don’t quit
May 11, 2025 at 4:44 PM
It truly does take a village to do the impossible job of raising good-natured, healthy, and inspired children 🩷
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Super fun project that is wrapping up this July. Get in touch if you want to re-vamp your fall courses.
📝New eLearning: Supervised Machine Learning Readiness 📝
Get started with ML in the Earth systems sciences with this self-paced no- and low-code learning series. Enroll for free today on NSF Unidata eLearning!
elearning.unidata.ucar.edu/course/view....
Get started with ML in the Earth systems sciences with this self-paced no- and low-code learning series. Enroll for free today on NSF Unidata eLearning!
elearning.unidata.ucar.edu/course/view....
May 8, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Super fun project that is wrapping up this July. Get in touch if you want to re-vamp your fall courses.
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🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
May 8, 2025 at 1:52 AM
🧪 Data update on NSF grant terminations
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
Including last Friday's terminations, STEM education grants now account for...
54% of terminated NSF grants (751 of 1381)
75% of terminated NSF funding ($590M of $783M)
The next generation of scientists is being targeted.
#WithoutNSF #SaveNSF
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such a cold, cold world (hello cold world) and it's got me down, but i'll get right back up as long as it's spins around, hello cold world
May 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
such a cold, cold world (hello cold world) and it's got me down, but i'll get right back up as long as it's spins around, hello cold world
THIS BURNS ME UP
I had an NSF grant abruptly cancelled on Friday, joining so many of my colleagues in STEM education research. Our grant was about improving STEM course office hours, with work underway to develop and test strategies to leverage office hours to promote student learning and success. 1/3
May 6, 2025 at 11:43 AM
THIS BURNS ME UP