Climate scientist leading the Oceans & Climate Lab @CUBoulder | Associate Professor @CUBoulderATOC | Fellow @CIRESnews | Editor-in-Chief @theAGU GRL

Boulder, CO
Joined March 2015
To help contextualize the newly released #IPCC Report, here's 800,000 years of Earth's CO2 history in 30 seconds.
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Here the roundup of all three open faculty positions in climate science at CU Boulder in a single thread. (1 of 3) Assistant Professor of Polar or Cryospheric Sciences Units: CIRES + [department flexible] jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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(2 of 3) Associate Professor of Arctic Sciences and Environmental Intelligence Units: [institute flexible] + [department flexible] jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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(3 of 3) Assistant Professor in Boundary-Layer and Coupled Earth System Processes with Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence (AI) Unit: Department of Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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And yet one MORE tenure-track job at CU Boulder. This time, the hire is squarely in my department: Atmospheric & Oceanic Sciences. Assistant Professor in Boundary-Layer and Coupled Earth System Processes with Physics-Informed Artificial Intelligence (AI) jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Another tenure-track faculty job at CU Boulder. This time both the institute and the department are flexible and will depend on candidate's expertise. Yes, @CIRESnews and @CUBoulderATOC are both on the list. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Tenure-track faculty job alert at CU Boulder! Hire is through @CIRESnews and departmental affiliation will be decided in consultation with the new hire. jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDe…
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Heard on a call this morning... For #AGU26 community, if you're presenting a poster this year, there are changes to the format! We're going square.
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El Niño... wait for it! With observations updated through September. Long-term observations (HadISST back to 1870, gray) Satellite record (OIv2 back to 1982, black) Dynamical model ensemble mean from the IRI plume (red).
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My take on the current status, forecast, and impacts of El Niño 2026 - written for general audience I heard radio hosts laughing crazily about "Godzilla" El Niño this morning. I laugh about that, too. I don't even love the word "super" before El Niño. Anyway, here's what's up.
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ONI takes an average of SST anomalies over a broader region in the eastern equatorial Pacific. As of the close of August, we were already just a few tenths of a degree Centigrade from breaking the previous ONI record (2.5°C), set in the winter of 2025/26.
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Typo: This should have referred to the previous record being "winter of 2015/16." Duh.
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That 3.5°C would beat the previous record (winter of 2025/26) by about 1°C, which is a lot—40% stronger.
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Typo: This should have referred to the previous record being "winter of 2015/16." Duh.
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Sea level: Sea level anomalies play an important dynamical role in ENSO development, but it’s also a societally relevant impact. Along the coastline stretching from Mexico to Peru, the sea level is currently elevated by about 200 mm (8 inches) relative to normal.
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