I'm very sorry to hear of the passing of Dave Rowley: news.uchicago.edu/story/david-b-…. Dave was my introduction to Geology research, and his patience and kindness made me feel welcomed in both his research group and classroom. I'll also never forget this painting hung above his desk:

Cover of nature this week for Welbanks et al., on transiting planet WASP-107b! #JWST A fun one to be a part of, Luis Welbanks ! nature.com/nature/volumes…

2024/2025 51 Pegasi b Fellowship Applications open July 9th: hsfoundation.org/programs/scien… The fellowship offers up to 4 years of support for postdocs in planetary astronomy!! As a former #51PegasibFellow, I cannot recommend this amazing program enough.

.UMD Astronomy Ph.D. student Jordan Ealy was named a 2024 Rising Graduate Scholar by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education! Jordan studies the evolution of low-mass stars—the smallest stars in the universe. go.umd.edu/ealy

Kicking off the BrinMRC Summer School on Tracer Mixing Across Planetary Scales with Peter Driscoll from Carnegie EPL! I'm excited for the next two weeks focused on numerical simulations of planetary interiors, oceans, and atmospheres and discussions with our students/lecturers.

We've had a wonderful second and third days of the BrinMRC 2024 Summer School on Tracer Mixing Across Planetary Scales, featuring talks by Xi Zhang, Cheng Li, UMD's own Deep Ray (not pictured), Marianna Linz, and Daniel Lecoanet! We're also getting group projects going.

Day 4 BrinMRC studying Tracer Mixing Across Planetary Scales featuring Jake Gebbie with inferring ocean circulation from tracer distributions, Cheng Li presenting Mars' climate and chemistry, and Daniel Lecoanet discussing tracer mixing in stars, plus Maryland Dairy 🍦 ice cream!

We had a perfect end to the first week of our BrinMRC summer school on tracer mixing with UMD's own Richard Walker discussing mantle tracers, Baylor Fox-Kemper showing regimes in which oceanic tracers can be treated linearly, Xi Zhang applying tracer theory to exoplanets, and dinner!

We had a hot and humid but fun BrinMRC group outing to Great Falls Park this weekend! Some of us did the Billy Goat trail, which involved some scrambling next to the Potomac. A subset of us topped it off with a trip to the National Mall on Sunday, visiting Smithsonian’s NMAAHC and Smithsonian NMNH.

We started off Week 2 of the BrinMRC school on Tracer Mixing Across Planetary Scales today with two ocean talks in very different regimes by Wanying Kang (MIT EAPS) and Baylor Fox-Kemper (Brown DEEPS), and Deep Ray (UMD Math Department) discussed his work on AI for shock capturing.

We wrapped up our last full day of talks BrinMRC tracer mixing with Mingming Li (School of Earth and Space Exploration) telling us about the origin of LLSVPs, Jake Gebbie (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)) discussing the link between ocean tracers and climate, and Wanying Kang (MIT EAPS) on the dynamics of icy satellite oceans.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 AGU Session Reminder 🚨🚨🚨🚨 Deadline is July 31st ! Please consider submitting to session P002 - Atmospheres, Climate, and Potential Habitability of Rocky Exoplanets Invited speakers Giada Arney and Hilke Schlichting. Join us in D.C.! agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

🚨 AGU Session Reminder 🚨 Deadline is July 31st ! One week left!!! Consider submitting to session P002 - Atmospheres, Climate, and Potential Habitability of Rocky Exoplanets --- any and all rocky planet atmosphere things welcome --- agu.confex.com/agu/agu24/prel…

Join us at Yale Astronomy! We are conducting an open-rank search this year for a professor in Exoplanet Science 🪐

Congratulations Jamie L. Molaro!!! Very well-deserved.

Applications are open for Max Planck Research Group Leaders! this is an amazing opportunity to build an independent research group that comes with 2.7 MEuro support over 6 years. If you're interested in being hosted MPI für Astronomie, please contact me! mpg.de/career/max-pla…

I’m thrilled to announce in July 2025, I’ll be starting as an assistant prof in the Earth and Planetary Sciences Department at Stanford University ! 🎓🔬 I am currently seeking passionate postdocs and graduate students (see below)

Join Luis Welbanks at School of Earth and Space Exploration! I would if I could revert back to myself from 11 years ago.