Sarah Cooley
Ocean advocate, community builder, climate scientist. I make sure the ocean interior is healthy so you don't have to.
- I'm excited that 2026 will be the start of an exciting new chapter for me. Can't wait to join the great folks at ESIP in making Earth science more collaborative and actionable!
- We’re pleased to share that Dr. Sarah Cooley will join ESIP as Executive Director in January 2026! Sarah is an ocean carbon cycle scientist by training 🌊, focusing on ensuring Earth system science is used to inform decision making and drive effective, real-world action. @co2ley.bsky.social 🧵
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyWhat’s a pirate’s favorite computer programming language? You’d think it’s R, but no, their first love will always be the C. Happy talk like a pirate day!
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley‘Seek Funding’ Step Added To Scientific Method
- I just went through this mini-course on LLMs/AI and it's worth the time! It expands on ideas that were kind of vaguely forming in my head and has a lot of great references for further reading. thebullshitmachines.com/index.html
- How many people are starting to make an “in case of flash flooding I’ll do this” plan (no matter how vague) when they receive a flood warning? 🙋🏼♀️
- 👏 Don’t 👏 be 👏 fooled! 👏 Climate change is still bad and needs action at all levels! But we KNOW how to act.
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- Relevant. Today I ran into a bunch of dead links at NCEI that made it tough for me to think how to cite my points using another authoritative source.
- Opinion: If scientific databases in the Earth and environmental sciences are not adequately supported, we risk losing and potentially needing to replace these resources, an extremely costly, yet preventable, outcome. buff.ly/WTgm4IC Read more: bit.ly/Eos-Jul2025
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThe Gulf of Maine has been buffered against drastic ocean acidification. But it won’t last forever. Comments from @damian-brady.bsky.social eos.org/articles/war...
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley"Women climate scientists are connected, productive, and successful but have shorter careers" Accessible, though paywalled at doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🧪
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyIf you don't know about mosquito dunks, you should! They're floating plant material containing a type of bacterium that only attacks mosquito larvae. Just put one in the water and stop mosquitos from hatching. They're inexpensive and highly effective. Signed, a friendly bluesky entomologist.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThe Upper Temperature Limit For Human Safety Is Lower Than We Thought #cdnpoli #ClimateChange www.sciencealert.com/the-upper-te...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThe national climate assessment "shows how climate is changing in the places where we live, in ways that matter to people's lives," @katharinehayhoe.com told me. It explains those effects in "clear and unmistakable terms." The reports' website disappeared on Monday. NASA will now host them online.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyLooking for trusted science, expert insight, or story-ready resources? Follow Climate Central’s staff on BlueSky for the latest on climate science, data, and storytelling tools 👇 go.bsky.app/2RstRoDat://did:plc:rvso2itxklrx7kn5qrwtkuy6/app.bsky.graph.starterpack/3lsyk6ikmek2e
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyFoundations: please step up and take over the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL). This is an absolutely essential scanned archive of all of the old journals and books from the 1500s to about 1920. Has been indispensable for my research. about.biodiversitylibrary.org/call-for-sup...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyGet your National Climate Assessment from archive -dot- org: web.archive.org/web/20250629...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyHere’s the first page of our new article on the value of NOAA to the United States, which starts on page ~175~ of this free PDF book. In the business, posting a full page of text with refs and footnotes as part of a giant PDF is called a ~teaser~ cepr.org/publications...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyI'm looking for a partner to co-lead Atmospheric Chemistry at ETH! New role for a mid-career person looking to make a change. Please contact me if interested. Job opening closes in a month! (and applying early is better than last minute!)
- We are searching for a Group Leader in Experimental Atmospheric Chemistry! You can find details in the link; please share with qualified colleagues! jobs.ethz.ch/job/view/JOP...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThis comparsion in the NYTimes today is pretty stark. China is racing ahead to be a high-tech exporter of 21st century technologies, while the US is doubling down on being a petro-state exporting the technologies of the 19th century: www.nytimes.com/inte...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleySad to see that leadership didn’t approve of my suggested post language (assuming since this is what is posted) that I submitted on my last day in May as the social media manager. Allow me share some of our team’s kind words here instead:
- Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
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- Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.
- Zero stars, do not enjoy this news
- The US Global Change Research Program a next target of Trump's destruction campaign. My sources report that globalchange.gov will go dark Monday. NOAA is archiving the National Climate Assessment at NCEI.
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley🚨Less than one in 12 African cities is covered by more than one piece of climate change research, and many are completely absent from the evidence base altogether, with major implications for climate assessments. A hugely significant study from @efesce.bsky.social and colleagues, in Nature Cities.
- If you are a fan of STEM and compost like I am, you’ll enjoy this post and the comments too.
- Reposted by Sarah Cooleythis is an utter delight
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThe #IPCC, established in 1988, is the United Nations body that assesses the science related to #climatechange. The #IPCC has 195 member countries & over 200 observer organisations. Here’s how nations use IPCC reports to shape climate policies in their country. youtu.be/71jiAm1bGJk?...
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley"There's a lot of evidence that shows that the stronger a community's social cohesion is, the better chances they have of resilience from climate hazards," said Rishi Sugla, a climate resilience scientist at the University of Washington. www.npr.org/2025/06/10/n...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyIf you think climate change has gotten worse during your lifetime, you're right and there's a good reason. If you're Gen X like me, more than 3/4 of fossil fuel CO₂ emissions have occurred in your lifetime. Even if you're a Millennial, it's at least half. 📊: @neilrkaye.bsky.social
- I joined my community’s homeowners association last year in hopes I could help build community in my own little corner of the world… this essay speaks to me!
- We’re at a crossroads in the US, poised between a politics of suspicion and retreat, and another founded on expansive relationships of mutual aid and collective solidarity. A new feature essay in The Guardian, adapted from my new book, Something Between Us. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyIf you are attending the One Ocean Science Congress #OOSC, make sure you do not miss the town hall "Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Removal Through Ocean Negative Carbon Emission Approaches". #mCDR #ScienceForTheOcean 🌊
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyA sea smoothed ball of Goniatite fossils. The shells of ancient relatives of Squid and Octopus that swam the seas over 300 million years ago. County Clare, Ireland.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyI asked people for their marine biology career advice questions, and I answered them a long with a team of colleagues. Please enjoy this post, which is by far the longest thing ever published on Southern Fried Science. Please share far and wide. 🧪🦑🌎🐟 www.southernfriedscience.com/marine-biolo...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyFrontiers | Development of deep-sea mining and its environmental impacts: a review
- 🌊 This is why I find the carbon cycle so interesting. Because it’s at the center of everything! Looking forward to reading this.
- Wrote a long book that comes out August. It covers from the origins of life at alkaline hydrothermal vents some 4 billion years ago through the Volcker Shock. I'm told pre-orders help, so if that sounds like your thing, buy one, won't you? www.harpercollins.com/products/the...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyReuters: Energy storage "expanding exponentially" thanks to lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries, which don't require cobalt or nickel.
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley@co2ley.bsky.social and I just explained ocean alkalinity enhancement to Kim Stanley Robinson, not something one does every day.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyAmong all the mayhem: truly historic news. Western nations need to understand that China is leading on decarbonisation. Doubtful that govts will concede it publicly, but this is where we are.
- NEW – Analysis: Clean energy just put China’s CO2 emissions into reverse for first time | @laurimyllyvirta.bsky.social Read here: buff.ly/6eAcjRU
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyWhat happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. It affects us all. The Arctic Monitoring and Assessment Programme (AMAP) has released their Summary Arctic Climate Change Update. Read it: www.amap.no/documents/do... Nobody can later say they weren't warned, again and again.
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley🧨 New study: #DeepSeaMining isn’t the treasure chest it claims to be. Turns out, it’s more like burning cash at the bottom of the ocean for metals we don’t even need. 💸🌊Nature’s verdict: high risk, low reward, bad idea. #DefendTheDeep #KeepItInTheSeabed
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
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- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThinking about devastating cuts to NSF: US gov-funded science has been the engine upon which most of the tech wealth was generated. But the oligarchs (currently hoarding much of that $) think it’s their own brilliance & not the accident of standing close to the scientific engine that made them rich.
- 🌊 Fantastic news! AGU and AMS will help get the messages out that NCA6 was going to convey! news.agu.org/press-releas...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyLots of people on my feed are concerned about the destruction of NOAA by the Trump administration and Elon Musk, but much of what I’ve seen people post about is the national weather service. That’s vital, but NOAA does so much more than that! My latest, for @ucsusa.bsky.social 🧪🌎🦑🐠
- Keep the free press! Donate (if you can) to help make up the loss of the 5-10% funding that this will cause!
- 🌊 Great big congratulations to @scottdoney.bsky.social as he is elected into the National Academy of Sciences! Scott has been a key mentor for me and so many others, teaching us to always ask hard questions and see through flimsy science. 👏
- Huge thanks to the many teachers, mentors, colleagues, postdocs & students who have supported my science career #UVA @usocb.bsky.social @whoi.edu @ncar-ucar.bsky.social @ucsandiego.bsky.social @sea1971.bsky.social @nasagoddard.bsky.social www.nasonline.org/news/2025-na...
- This is important for people who use Apple AirPlay a lot. Update your devices' software!
- Researchers reveal a collection of bugs known as AirBorne that would allow any hacker on the same Wi-Fi network as a third-party AirPlay-enabled device to surreptitiously run their own code on it. www.wired.com/story/airbor...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyWorking on the NCA5 was amazing. It was genuinely moving to be surrounded by so much dedication and sheer scientific and administrative *excellence*. I think we’ve forgotten how to believe in good things, but this was one of them.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyWhy we need a National Climate Assessment -- “For thousands of years, we humans have been making decisions based on the past: like driving down the road looking in the rear view mirror. But now, thanks entirely to human actions, we're facing a curve in the road greater than humans have ever seen.”
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyYes, we most figure out a way to still put the NCA together. Funders ASSEMBLE
- 🌊 Expert opinion below on deep sea mining… worth reading
- Thankful to my friend & colleague Victor Vescovo for his important statement on #DeepSeaMining in light of all the recent attention, including US efforts to pursue it outside of international law. In short, DSM will NOT achieve the economic or national security goals people think it will!!! 🌊 🦑
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- Reposted by Sarah CooleyI HIGHLY recommend reading NOAA's Deep Sea Mining State of the Science Fact sheet released in January "The scales of [DSM] impacts have yet to be determined, as well as what resulting impacts there may be to ecosystem-critical elements " sciencecouncil.noaa.gov/wp-content/u...
- ‘The next gold rush’: President Trump unlocks access to critical deep seabed minerals. Historic executive order will boost economic growth, support national security. noaa.gov/news-release/next-gold-rush-president-trump-unlocks-access-to-critical-deep-seabed-minerals
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyThis is still very clearly the climate story of the week, and possibly the year.
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley“This will hamstring international climate cooperation at the worst possible time,” said one official, referring to the upcoming COP30. It’s “just strategically fucking dumb when it comes to China,” that person added, saying the move would leave a leadership vacuum that China could fill.”
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyCan scientists trace climate losses back to the emissions from individual fossil fuel companies? Yes, we can. The inimitable @ccallahan45.bsky.social and I provide an 'end-to-end' attribution framework that can be applied in many climate accountability contexts: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- I'm trying not to spend money due to being jobless ATM but may have to dig in the couch cushions for some stray funds and head down to my local independent bookstore...
- I needed to write about something that’s giving me hope, so I wrote about Independent Bookstore Day which is this Saturday. lithub.com/something-go...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyCongratulations to @kimcobb.bsky.social for her election to American Academy of Arts and Sciences!
- I know I'm sharing to mainly other scientists, but please reshare this with others who aren't scientists so more people know what's at stake.
- NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social
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- YOU GUYS I HAVENT TOLD YOU ABOUT FATHOMVERSE YET EVERYONE SIT DOWN SHUT UP AND PREPARE TO BE AMAZED It’s an app called @fathomverse.bsky.social by the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute @mbarinews.bsky.social (not sponsored just a nerd)
- Reposted by Sarah Cooley“When knowledge is threatened, don’t just mourn it. Build around it. Not with rage but with the kind of resolve that moves through spreadsheets and shared documents, late nights and collective purpose. Because science is only as resilient as the people who refuse to let it die.”
- In lieu of a web story from NOAA about annual atmospheric CO2 trends, please enjoy and share this post from my esteemed former NOAA colleague @tdiliberto.bsky.social !
- Earlier in April, NOAA released the global concentration of CO2 for 2024 which was 422.7 ppm. CO2 concentrations grew by 3.7 ppm which was far and away the biggest increase on record. Why? Well, usually there is a story at NOAA that explains...Not this year though. gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends/...
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyToday is the big day! Happy #EarthDay from NOAA! Check out noaa.gov/Earthday, & visit noaa.gov any time for the latest Earth science news, scientific research discoveries & ways you can get involved to help our home planet.
- Reposted by Sarah CooleyGOOD NEWS - "Thank you to everyone who expressed their strong support for the Regional Climate Center program. Our funding has been restored by NOAA and the Department of Commerce." www.ncei.noaa.gov/regional/reg...
