Thanks to all who attended today's Commencement ceremony. Congratulations to our graduates! #Caltech2024

Quite possibly the nerdiest commencement speech ever.

And with a good joke that didn’t catch on (took me a while too, I am getting old): in case of setbacks, “swiftly shake it off”

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

So true!

Westerman: Do you know how much electricity in the US comes from non-carbon emitting sources? Buttigieg: Even if all of that electricity came from fossil sources, it would still be cleaner because EVs are more efficient Westerman: I think you need to go back and look at physics

What a soccer quarter final, it felt like a final. Finally fun again to watch Germany play and fight. Congrats Spain

I provide some context to the nice recent vegetation water content (via VOD) paper(s) by Yitong.YAO Christian Frankenberg Vincent Humphrey and others. I am super excited to see so much use of satellite vegetation optical depth (VOD), which has really taken off recently agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/20…

This is everything.

A Nature Communications paper years in making, but I am proud of the finding: it refreshes my idea how "shallow" seismology can be! And potentially useful too! Yan Yang Zhichao Shen Resnick Sustainability Institute at Caltech Seismic Detectors Measure Soil Moisture Using Traffic Noise - caltech.edu/about/news/sei…

A true transPlant ⁦Caltech⁩

The MPI in Jena has a PostDoc opening to specifically explore the potential of SIF in combination with other biophysical variables to evaluate vegetation stress from local to continental scale! bgc-jena.mpg.de/en/career/15-2…

Caltech is seeking an outstanding atmospheric scientist to join our faculty. If your research focuses on dynamics of climate change, atmospheric chemistry, cloud physics, or related areas, we'd love to hear from you! ⁦Caltech⁩ applications.caltech.edu/jobs/atmospher…

Like it or not: Germany’s energy system is fully operational, with more than 50% renewables. And we are shutting down – not building – coal & nuclear plants. Coal will be off the grid by 2038 at the latest. PS: We also don’t eat cats and dogs. #Debate2024

We currently have three open tenure-track faculty positions at Columbia University in the area of Earth Science! Two are teaching focused in the Dept of Earth & Environmental Sciences (DEES) and one is a research focused position at LDEO.

Curious about our Carbon-I satellite mission? It is an Earth System Explorer concept study in Phase A, one of four mission concepts of which two will be selected. Anna Michalak and I will present in our first webinar on March 16, 9-10am PST. Sign up here carbon-i.github.io/News/webinar.h…