Dr. Lori T. Sentman
@loritsentman.bsky.social
NOAA climate scientist 23 yrs numerical modeling @ GFDL Princeton. Climate-biogeochemistry. @RutgersSEBS alum, runner, ⚾️ coach, boy mom.
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Grateful to return to GFDL and carry on essential NOAA climate modeling & research
November 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Grateful to return to GFDL and carry on essential NOAA climate modeling & research
I’m grateful to be part of this exciting and important collaboration! We linked new isotope data and NOAA GFDL Earth system model simulations to further constrain the timing of the CAS closure. Collaborative integration strengthens our evaluation and understanding of key climate impacts.
Early Pliocene Shoaling of the Central American Seaway Reconstructed From Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes - Farmer - 2025 - Paleoceanography and Paleoclimatology #stableisotopes agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Early Pliocene Shoaling of the Central American Seaway Reconstructed From Foraminifera‐Bound Nitrogen and Oxygen Isotopes
Foraminifera-bound nitrogen isotopes trace the early Pliocene restriction of nutrient exchange across the Central American Seaway Geochemical data indicate four phases of seaway shoaling between ...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I’m grateful to be part of this exciting and important collaboration! We linked new isotope data and NOAA GFDL Earth system model simulations to further constrain the timing of the CAS closure. Collaborative integration strengthens our evaluation and understanding of key climate impacts.
There is nothing more definitive as this.
"The possible elimination of the lab, called GFDL, in concert with potential cuts to other NOAA operations, threatens irreparable harm not only to global understanding of climate change and long-range scenarios for the planet but to the country’s safety, competitiveness and national security."
White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On
Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.
www.propublica.org
April 24, 2025 at 5:12 PM
There is nothing more definitive as this.
April 23, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
April 13, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Our rising seas. This is only going to get harder to ignore.
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
This NASA visualization was created by svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5520/
While there’s a long list of things here that don’t sit right with me, the biggest is that I’m supposed to sit back take this and not voice an opinion.
That being said, at this point I can only muster WTF?
Obviously, this is my personal opinion and by no means reflects NOAA of coarse!
That being said, at this point I can only muster WTF?
Obviously, this is my personal opinion and by no means reflects NOAA of coarse!
Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the NOAA, according to internal documents and people with knowledge of the situation.
White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled
A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.
www.nytimes.com
April 12, 2025 at 1:32 AM
While there’s a long list of things here that don’t sit right with me, the biggest is that I’m supposed to sit back take this and not voice an opinion.
That being said, at this point I can only muster WTF?
Obviously, this is my personal opinion and by no means reflects NOAA of coarse!
That being said, at this point I can only muster WTF?
Obviously, this is my personal opinion and by no means reflects NOAA of coarse!
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the NOAA, according to internal documents and people with knowledge of the situation.
White House Plan Calls for NOAA Research Programs to Be Dismantled
A Trump administration budget proposal would essentially eliminate one of the world’s foremost Earth sciences research operations.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Trump administration officials are recommending the elimination of the scientific research division at the NOAA, according to internal documents and people with knowledge of the situation.
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Justification for funding cuts 😳
“Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I: This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth.”
“Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I: This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth.”
This administration continues to outdo itself by doing really really dumb things. Princeton has one of the best climate modeling groups in the world, and this administration just cut their funding justified with some anti-science bs.
Ending Cooperative Agreements’ Funding to Princeton University
On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick announced that nearly $4 million in funding is ending to Princeton University after a detailed, careful, and thorough review of the...
www.commerce.gov
April 9, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Justification for funding cuts 😳
“Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I: This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth.”
“Cooperative Institute for Modeling the Earth System I: This cooperative agreement promotes exaggerated and implausible climate threats, contributing to a phenomenon known as “climate anxiety,” which has increased significantly among America’s youth.”
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%... www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
Canceled contract means NOAA research websites slated to go dark
NOAA is under a mandate to slash its IT costs.
www.axios.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Slew of NOAA websites set to go dark at midnight tonight due to a canceled cloud services contract. NOAA under pressure to cut its IT costs by 50%... www.axios.com/2025/04/04/n...
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“While GFDL is most famous for its work on climate, the lab has also played a central role in weather forecasting…These models have so-called dynamical cores — the guts that determine how the model’s simulated atmosphere moves from one moment to the next — that were developed at GFDL.”
With NOAA Cuts, a Proud Legacy and Vital Science Are at Risk
For more than 50 years, NOAA has pioneered climate research and been instrumental in advancing modern weather forecasting. Now labeled by Project 2025 as part of the “climate alarm industry” and facin...
e360.yale.edu
March 31, 2025 at 2:54 AM
“While GFDL is most famous for its work on climate, the lab has also played a central role in weather forecasting…These models have so-called dynamical cores — the guts that determine how the model’s simulated atmosphere moves from one moment to the next — that were developed at GFDL.”
No words
It’s dispiriting to see the future leaders of climate research at institutions like GFDL fired indiscriminately (...)
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
Artificial intelligence cannot compensate for a lack of human intelligence
www.science.org/content/arti...
NOAA firings hit the birthplace of weather and climate forecasting
Dismissed researchers were improving severe weather predictions
www.science.org
March 15, 2025 at 7:38 AM
No words
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
This is a timely GAO analysis of issues facing the NOAA and AFRC Hurricane Hunters. While the recommendations and summary read bland, the report itself nicely details how we’re barely scraping by with current resources. Forecasts will suffer without new funding, let alone cuts to the program.
Hurricane Hunter Aircraft: NOAA and Air Force Should Take Steps to Meet Growing Demand for Reconnaissance Missions
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the Air Force fly Hurricane Hunter aircraft into tropical cyclones and winter storms to...
www.gao.gov
March 15, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This is a timely GAO analysis of issues facing the NOAA and AFRC Hurricane Hunters. While the recommendations and summary read bland, the report itself nicely details how we’re barely scraping by with current resources. Forecasts will suffer without new funding, let alone cuts to the program.
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.
Guest opinion: Robert Hart, Kerry Emanuel and Lance Bosart: We need NOAA now more than ever
The recent seemingly arbitrary and capricious reductions to NOAA are seriously jeopardizing the future of the country and, more generally, the property and lives of hundreds of millions of tax-payi…
www.dailycamera.com
March 12, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Nice piece by three heavyweights on the academia side of meteorology explaining NOAA’s critical importance.
Reposted by Dr. Lori T. Sentman
Last month observed the 2nd warmest (after 2024) global mean sea surface temperature on record for the month of February.
Graphic using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...) 🌊
Graphic using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...) 🌊
March 11, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Last month observed the 2nd warmest (after 2024) global mean sea surface temperature on record for the month of February.
Graphic using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...) 🌊
Graphic using @noaa.gov ERSSTv5 data (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/ext...) 🌊
102 years ago today F5 ripped through TN
March 11th, 1923:
A devastating estimated F5 tornado struck Chester and Madison counties in western Tennessee. Per Tom Grazulis, "about a quarter of Pinson was obliterated, just leveled and swept away." Twenty people were killed.
A devastating estimated F5 tornado struck Chester and Madison counties in western Tennessee. Per Tom Grazulis, "about a quarter of Pinson was obliterated, just leveled and swept away." Twenty people were killed.
March 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
102 years ago today F5 ripped through TN
Check out the NASA Sea Level Projection Tool!
You want to know about this NASA Sea Level Projection Tool, which allows you to visualize and download the sea level projection data from the IPCC 6th Assessment Report (AR6).
IPCC AR6 Sea Level Projection Tool
Visualize and download global and local sea level projections from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Sixth Assessment Report.
sealevel.nasa.gov
March 11, 2025 at 6:30 AM
Check out the NASA Sea Level Projection Tool!