270 → 280 ppm: ~5000 yrs 280 → 290: ~100 290 → 300: ~40 300 → 310: ~30 310 → 320: ~23 320 → 330: 12 330 → 340: 8 340 → 350: 6 350 → 360: 7 360 → 370: 6 370 → 380: 5 380 → 390: 5 390 → 400: 5 400 → 410: 4 410 → 415.7: 2 We are in a climate emergency.

If you care about #climatechange, you want Jay Inslee in the presidential debates! Please help him out! (some comments by yours truly on the importance of his candidacy here: philly.com/columnists/att…)

In the wake of this afternoon’s storm, there is widespread tree damage from the Lincoln Memorial to the Washington Monument and around the Tidal Basin and Hains Point. Crews are in the scene to begin cleanup. Please be careful as you move around the National Mall this evening.

The Imperial Supercell. Men and women were weeping. Nebraska last night #NEwx #9wx #COwx

US Plug in electric vehicle sales from 2012 to the present - dynamic, competitive market! dms.licdn.com/playback/C4E05…

“autonomy granted to PhD students...improves their long-term performance but decreases short-term performance. Because the latter effect costs supervisors...this creates an incentive conflict between supervisors and students” We need a new reward system. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Cross-sections of Greenland and Antarctica – both drawn to the same scale. Source: opentextbc.ca/geology/chapte…

This is an amazing visualizations by Alex is declustering crises showing global temperatures from 1850 to today, and different pathways we might take in the future. This definitely wins the award for best warming stripes in my book!

Congrats Dave!

#TrumpWentPostal Postal Crisis Ripples Across Nation as Election Looms nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/…

Congrats to Dana Brenner on her tour de clump through the classic Alta Stock metamorphic aureole! Clumped‐Isotope Geothermometry and Carbonate U–Pb Geochronology of the Alta Stock Metamorphic Aureole, Utah, USA... agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

Clumpers take note: One model to rule them all! A disordered kinetic model for clumped isotope bond reordering in carbonates - goo.gl/scholar/b7fWxN #ScholarAlerts

Hot off the press: IPL postdoc Tyler Huth’s work on speleothem D17O: ID’ing kinetic effects, reconstructing parent waters ⁦@MatthewLachniet⁩ ⁦Julia Cole⁩ ⁦Ben Passey⁩ ⁦@naomi_levin⁩ ⁦Sarah Truebe⁩ David McGee, Rhawn Denniston sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

We’re recruiting ⁦Michigan EARTH⁩ grad students! Opportunities include 1) dual clumped isotopes & triple oxygen isotopes in speleothems, 2) reconstructing the ecology and landscapes of Pliocene hominins. See link for more info. Apps due Jan 7 sites.lsa.umich.edu/isopaleolab/jo…

Thure Cerling just received the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence, the University of Utah's highest honor given “to honor excellence in teaching, research and administrative efforts, collectively or individually, on behalf of the University." #isocamp

Congratulations again to #IsoPope Thure Cerling for yet another recognition of his many contributions.

Please share! We've been approved to search for a new assistant/professor assistant curator, to be jointly appointed between Michigan EARTH and UM Paleontology. We're especially interested in researchers with expertise in mammals or invertebrates.

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