Fall 2024 Ecometeorology Lab #DesaiLab @UW_AOS group photo of most of the crew. Rest at flux.aos.wisc.edu

It's no exaggeration to say today brought a truly historical weather event to the Gulf Coast - lots of places all the way down to the water got over 6-8 inches of snow, shattering records going as far back as 1895 in some places. Let's review what caused this historic event 🧵

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Thomas Vonder Haar was selected to receive the 2024 AOS Distinguished Alumni Award for Outstanding Achievement! Learn more: aos.wisc.edu/news/Vonder-Haa…

We’re thrilled to announce Dr. Claire Pettersen was selected to receive the inaugural AOS Early Career Alumni Award! Learn more: aos.wisc.edu/news/Pettersen_…

Congratulations to UW–Madison Professor Judith Burstyn who will join the National Science Foundation Division of Chemistry as its division director in January 2025. Judith was the Irving Shain Chair in Chemistry and department chair From 2017 to 2021.chem.wisc.edu/2024/11/08/pro…

Hey folks: I, too, am pulling out of here slowly as I head for bluer skies. Hope to see you there.

inspired by @dmlmont and the Awesome Spectral Indices, Sadegh Ranjbar incorporated shortwave infrared into NIRv-type indices to better estimate GPP from geostationary satellites: our latest in @JGRBiogeo w/@DanielleLosos & more great colleagues: dx.doi.org/10.1029/2024JG008…

The red wave hit this year: a ~6% national swing to Trump, from 2020 margins. In Wisconsin, thousands of heroes pulled the swing down to 1.5%. More D votes statewide & in 46 counties. Tammy Baldwin won. Huge wins in the state legislature. Deeply grateful to all—it mattered. 🧵

ICOS is looking for a new Director General - could that be you? 🫵Check the details in the link below and apply by 30th November! ⬇️

America could wake up on Wednesday with all three branches of our government — the — Executive, Legislative, and Judicial — Trumpist. With this clip, take five minutes to ponder Germany’s memorials and the price that nation paid for being bamboozled by a bombastic autocrat. Listen to the heartfelt message of my German tour guides, for whom these memorials are like ghosts of mistakes made and evils allowed… ghosts that haunt their society still. These are the same guides who clink glasses in the beer halls and yodel from the hilltops with our American tour members. They admire America. They love America. And they are worried for America. If we vote for fascism, it’ll likely be won by one or two percent (or even less)…and perhaps just a few stadiums of people will tip the balance. And history has taught my European friends that the cost of a course correction is infinitely more heartbreaking after a wannabe dictator wins an election than before. We are all participants, we are all responsible, and we will all bear the consequences of our collective choice.

As we concluded our last 2024 specialty meeting, we want to extend a heartfelt thank you to our planning committees, presenters, and attendees for contributing to the advancement of weather, water, and climate sciences 👏 More on our upcoming meetings: bit.ly/3O3NKgB

Last chance: #FillTheHill ends today at 5 p.m. CDT. Fly on over to make a gift at uwflamingos.com/campaign/atm… and help ensure the continued excellence of AOS programs and resources. We're #9 right now on the L&S leaderboard – let's see how high we can go!

The flamingos are back – it's time to #FilltheHill! Make a gift at uwflamingos.com/campaign/atm…. Your support will make possible a research trip to Storm Peak Lab in Colorado for undergraduates enrolled in our AOS 404: Meteorological Measurements course. Will you join our flock?

The Department of Forest and Wildlife Ecology at @UWMadison invites applicants for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in Sustainability of Natural Resources. Spread the word! For further information and to apply: jobs.wisc.edu/jobs/assistant…

Hot off the press 🥁Review on upscaling of fluxes across space, time and spectrum @JGRBiogeo @BerkeleyBiomet @AmeriFlux @ICOS_RI @LICOR_ENV @NEON_sci @trevorkeenan @paulstoy @profdesai @koongyi @HyperSensLab @isp_uv_es @BAIEbgi @kazuhito_ichii agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…

Join us today for our Department Seminar at noon! Kiran V. Menon, AOS graduate student, will discuss "Boundary Layer Moisture Variability under Synoptically Active and Benign Conditions over a Dryland Ecosystem in the Southwest US." Livestream: youtube.com/watch?v=v7_45gHk…

From your favorite Wisconsin Elections Chair: Great news! So many of you voted that you overloaded our computer systems! Amazing! We worked with Dept. of Enterprise Technology and have created more server space so all should be running smoothly now. 1/

Fill The Hill 2024 launches on Thursday. You know it involves flamingoes, but do you know how it originated and why it's so important to the College and its students? We have answers: ls.wisc.edu/news/your-fill-t… @WisAlumni

Wisconsin! You can vote in-person starting TODAY! Get your vote in now and keep lines short on November 5.

Wisconsin friends, today is the 1st day of early voting! In addition to the all-important race at the top of the ticket, there is a constitutional amendment on the ballot. Here's some info about it from the WI League of Women Voters. my.lwv.org/wisconsin/novembe…