Benjamin Cook
@dustybowl.bsky.social
Climate scientist studying drought, land surface processes, climate extremes. https://www.drbenjamincook.net/
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Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...
Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes
Tree-ring and planetary scientists are preparing for the big natural events thanks to a Big Idea Challenge grant and a new laboratory.
research.arizona.edu
November 25, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Unraveling the mysteries of ancient solar storms and earthquakes using tree rings research.arizona.edu/news/unravel...
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📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
November 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM
📢📢PhD position available!! 📢📢
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
"Improving future climate prediction through
modelling and data of Earth’s past"
At the University of Bristol, UK.
More details and how to apply:
shorturl.at/wKh2W
..or message me here directly.
AGU Journals Stop Asking Us to Do the Work of Checking Compliance With Your Open Science Policy Challenge
(difficulty impossible)
(difficulty impossible)
November 25, 2025 at 12:44 PM
AGU Journals Stop Asking Us to Do the Work of Checking Compliance With Your Open Science Policy Challenge
(difficulty impossible)
(difficulty impossible)
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Dartmouth is hiring climate science postdocs through the prestigious Provost's Fellowship!
Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090
Applications are due February 15, 2026.
Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.
Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090
Applications are due February 15, 2026.
Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.
Apply - Interfolio
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November 24, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Dartmouth is hiring climate science postdocs through the prestigious Provost's Fellowship!
Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090
Applications are due February 15, 2026.
Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.
Info: apply.interfolio.com/178090
Applications are due February 15, 2026.
Come join our collaborative and supportive climate community! Reach out to me ([email protected]) with questions.
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Led by Pete van Hengstum (Texas A&M), we have a new article out focusing on water balance ☔️ in the #Caribbean region over the past two millennia (+ implications for future changes under #climatechange), using a coastal Blue Hole in the Bahamas as a natural archive!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
Common Era time-transgressive forcing of Caribbean water balance - Communications Earth & Environment
The balance between precipitation and evaporation in the Caribbean region during the Common Era can be estimated through analyses of sedimentary foraminiferal assemblages that record submarine groundw...
www.nature.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Led by Pete van Hengstum (Texas A&M), we have a new article out focusing on water balance ☔️ in the #Caribbean region over the past two millennia (+ implications for future changes under #climatechange), using a coastal Blue Hole in the Bahamas as a natural archive!
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
www.nature.com/articles/s43...
1000% agreed. The idea that we have any reasonable confidence in (among other things) the hydrologic cycle response to stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is deeply unserious.
Fortunately, last time I expressed my concerns, I was assured that nobody is actually advocating SAI! (lolsob)
Fortunately, last time I expressed my concerns, I was assured that nobody is actually advocating SAI! (lolsob)
My issue with SRM, leaving aside the equity and governance issues (which are IMO insurmountable), is that most (all?) of the research on SRM is based in models which struggle to agree on how even relatively recent volcanic events (our only albeit quite imperfect analog) affect surface climate. 1/2
November 24, 2025 at 3:19 PM
1000% agreed. The idea that we have any reasonable confidence in (among other things) the hydrologic cycle response to stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) is deeply unserious.
Fortunately, last time I expressed my concerns, I was assured that nobody is actually advocating SAI! (lolsob)
Fortunately, last time I expressed my concerns, I was assured that nobody is actually advocating SAI! (lolsob)
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Tehran is having an historic drought due to a combination of factors, including climate change.
The ocean is not helping.
1/3
The ocean is not helping.
1/3
November 24, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Tehran is having an historic drought due to a combination of factors, including climate change.
The ocean is not helping.
1/3
The ocean is not helping.
1/3
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Free tonight? Pop on down to Greenlight bookstore in Brooklyn!
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
The Scientific American 2025 Nonfiction Panel
Brooklyn independent bookstore
greenlightbookstore.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Free tonight? Pop on down to Greenlight bookstore in Brooklyn!
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
greenlightbookstore.com/event/2025-1...
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I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet
bookshop.org
November 17, 2025 at 5:30 PM
I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
bookshop.org/p/books/huma...
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Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
Application — paleoCAMP
paleoclimate.camp
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Exciting news! Student applications for paleoCAMP 2026 are open! Are you a graduate student working on any aspect of past climates or environments? Apply to be part of our 2-week summer school in the eastern Sierra Nevada! More details here: paleoclimate.camp/apply
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Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Looking for a #PhD in #ClimateExtremes?
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
We are advertising a project attributing causes of recent #droughts using counter-factual storylines.
Based in #Edinburgh, working with Andrew Schurer, me, @gabihegerl.bsky.social, & @edhawkins.org
tinyurl.com/5n7b52fr
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In our new study @natwater.nature.com led by Yi Yao @ethz.ch, we show that irrigation expansion in many regions substantially decreases the net water influx from the atmosphere to land, further aggravating the existing drying trends caused by climate change www.nature.com/articles/s44...
Irrigation-induced land water depletion aggravated by climate change - Nature Water
The rapid expansion of agricultural irrigation raises concerns about exacerbating water scarcity, but land–atmosphere interactions are often overlooked. This study isolates irrigation impacts from oth...
www.nature.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:38 AM
In our new study @natwater.nature.com led by Yi Yao @ethz.ch, we show that irrigation expansion in many regions substantially decreases the net water influx from the atmosphere to land, further aggravating the existing drying trends caused by climate change www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Just published this new paper, with a bunch of fantastic colleagues, with many suggestions for "Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models." Access is free online. We have some great figures, thanks to Victor Leshyk. 🧪🌐🌳🌎
November 5, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Just published this new paper, with a bunch of fantastic colleagues, with many suggestions for "Improving the representation of plant water stress and water use in Earth System Models." Access is free online. We have some great figures, thanks to Victor Leshyk. 🧪🌐🌳🌎
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A new Atmospheric-Rivers Historical Data Record, from @CW3EScripps, is now being hosted by NOAA's NCEI, w/data for analyses like discerning the difference betwn West Coast IVTs strong enough to "look" like ARs that are ARs vs those due to other conditions.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
November 5, 2025 at 4:02 PM
A new Atmospheric-Rivers Historical Data Record, from @CW3EScripps, is now being hosted by NOAA's NCEI, w/data for analyses like discerning the difference betwn West Coast IVTs strong enough to "look" like ARs that are ARs vs those due to other conditions.
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346
Postdoctoral Scholar - Environmental Science & Policy
University of California, Davis is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ucdavis.edu
November 3, 2025 at 6:16 PM
🚨The Moore Lab at UC Davis is hiring!🚨
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346
Post-doc for a project with @adamsobel.bsky.social on the valuation of climate information for adaptation
Could be a good fit for an environmental economist or a climate scientist - flexible start date and location
Apply by Dec 1st: recruit.ucdavis.edu/JPF07346
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Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Compounding future escalation of emissions- and irrigation-induced increases in humid-heat stress - Nature Communications
This study shows that future exposures to moist-heat increase more rapidly than those to dry-heat, and irrigation can further amplify moist-heat-related health risks. Improving irrigation efficiency a...
www.nature.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Future changes in irrigation will reduce dry-heat stress (without reversing GHG trend) and will substantially amplify moist-heat stress (strengthening GHG trend).
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
New study @natcomms.nature.com led by Yi Yao @hydr-vub.bsky.social and @usyseth.bsky.social
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
October 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Climate change DEFINITELY affects hurricane:
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
STRENGTH: Warmer water is hurricane food
RAINFALL: Warm air holds more water vapor
SURGE: Warmer water expands, warmer ice melts, sea levels rise
PREDICTION: hotter seas mean faster intensification
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You'd think the Colorado River Basin dispute amounts to conflict between the upper and lower basin states based on most coverage, but Tribes and Mexico also have a big role here. We talked with Cora Tso and Sam Sandoval about these issues on Water Talk
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
Episode 74: Tribal and Transboundary Issues in the Colorado River Basin — Water Talk
A conversation with Cora Tso (Senior Research Fellow, Tribal Water Policy, Kyl Center for Water Policy, Arizona State University) and Prof. Sam Sandoval (University of California Agriculture and Natur...
www.watertalkpodcast.com
October 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
You'd think the Colorado River Basin dispute amounts to conflict between the upper and lower basin states based on most coverage, but Tribes and Mexico also have a big role here. We talked with Cora Tso and Sam Sandoval about these issues on Water Talk
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
www.watertalkpodcast.com/episodes/epi...
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I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
Laboratory Coordinator I - Geosciences
Maintenance and repair of the Organic Geochemistry Laboratory equipment, including but not limited to gas chromatographs, liquid chromatographs & ...
arizona.csod.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I am currently seeking a Lab Manager for our Organic Geochemistry Lab at the University of Arizona! Full time position with benefits. If you have a chemistry/biology/geology degree and like fixing things and working with students, this position could be for you! arizona.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...
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Two open faculty positions at CSU!
Topic areas: 1) climate dynamics and 2) applications of AI to atmospheric science.
Deadline: 1 December 2025.
Topic areas: 1) climate dynamics and 2) applications of AI to atmospheric science.
Deadline: 1 December 2025.
October 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Two open faculty positions at CSU!
Topic areas: 1) climate dynamics and 2) applications of AI to atmospheric science.
Deadline: 1 December 2025.
Topic areas: 1) climate dynamics and 2) applications of AI to atmospheric science.
Deadline: 1 December 2025.
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attn fellow furloughed folks
Among those who could benefit: Government workers furloughed without pay in the federal shutdown that has lasted a week so far.
Unemployed New Yorkers Get Benefit Boost
After years stuck at $504 per week, the maximum unemployment insurance payout set to hit $869 on Oct. 13 — helping more than half of those currently on the rolls.
buff.ly
October 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
attn fellow furloughed folks
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📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
📣 Postdoc opportunity alert! Join our dynamic community of Earth, environmental, and climate scientists as LDEO postdoctoral fellow. Principal criteria: scientific excellence + clear plan to investigate problems at forefront of Earth science. ➡️ Apply by Nov 7: lamont.columbia.edu/about/postdo...
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If you are interested to apply for #Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼 then please put your application in as soon as possible. The advert states that the application window may close early (I am just told about this at #coffee) 🙂
Thank you all for promoting this position.
Thank you all for promoting this position.
#Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼@openuniversity.bsky.social
Please apply, if interested 🙏🏼
Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Contract Type: #Permanent
Fixed Term Contract/End Date: Not Applicable
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
Please apply, if interested 🙏🏼
Closing Date: 20 October 2025
Contract Type: #Permanent
Fixed Term Contract/End Date: Not Applicable
jobs.open.ac.uk/job/Lecturer...
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
Lecturer in Earth Sciences
jobs.open.ac.uk
October 6, 2025 at 10:24 AM
If you are interested to apply for #Lecturer position in #EarthSciences 👇🏼 then please put your application in as soon as possible. The advert states that the application window may close early (I am just told about this at #coffee) 🙂
Thank you all for promoting this position.
Thank you all for promoting this position.
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⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:16 PM
⚠️new(-ish) paper in Journal of Climate⚠️ i evaluated CMIP6 models' Pacific decadal SST variability and teleconnections... big takeaway is that models under-simulate temporal PDO/IPO variability on decadal timescales, likely affecting precip trends in the Southwest
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
journals.ametsoc.org/view/journal...
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Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
www.science.org
October 2, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...