Engineer & Wildlife Scientist | My opinions are my own.
Bluemont, VA
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Little do most people know, this is the most sophisticated piece of technology at Space Symposium. #spacesymposium
It may also be a Dalek, or some lush version of the TARDIS 🤷♂️
Commercial companies rely on NOAA data too. With NOAA data small businesses can build value added services for users - improving reach &
use. Not that different than commercial broadcasters using NOAA data in their streams.
Support NOAA —> Supporting American Small Businesses !
Job cuts at @NOAA and @NWS puts American lives’ at risk – full stop.
This latest round of cuts shrinks the entire workforce by 20%. There is no world where this doesn’t affect the NWS’ ability to provide accurate weather reports that are used by your local meteorologist and the weather app on your phone.
As the only meteorologist in Congress, I will fight back against any attempt to undermine the public servants at NOAA and the NWS.
nytimes.com/2025/03/08/clima…
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Devastated to hear that many #NSFfunded REU programs have been cancelled. I am a scientist because of my REU summer. It gave me a chance to experience what it was like to be a researcher, and to show myself and others that I could do it!
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The National Weather Service saves lives
They deserve to be supported & protected because that's what they do for us 💙
Long time followers here know that I don’t do politics, and there’s no political content on this account. I vote; and that’s it. The world does not need another social media nitwit telling people how to think and vote. 
This post is not about politics, but about support for my friends that work for the National Weather Service, part of NOAA, a federal agency.
NWS meteorologists work long, hard hours serving the people of this country, not only during times of severe weather, but on the routine days as well.
Their surface and upper air observation networks along with computer models, radars, and satellites are critical for all meteorologists, including those of us in the private sector. 
Most NWS field offices are currently understaffed right now. I can only imagine morale is not especially high. 
Many high-level politicians follow this page, both Democrats and Republicans. I would encourage them and all of you to support my colleagues at the National Weather Service during this time. Their service is absolutely invaluable. 
If NWS products and services are reduced, we all suffer…especially during times of life-threatening weather. 
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Kate is a Park Ranger at Voyageurs National Park, a remote area near the Canadian border.
Her job was to protect boaters, campers and hikers who want to experience some of the most beautiful parts of our state.
Musk and Trump fired her on Friday. – at Minnesota, USA
ALT Kate Severson, a federal park ranger at Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota. Severson was one of the thousands of newly-hired federal workers to be abruptly fired Friday, February 14, 2025, as part of the Trump administrations push to downsize the federal government.
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We will develop and build GeoXO, the next-generation weather constellation from @NOAAsatellites. GeoXO will expand upon everything we've learned from the development of the GOES-R series and offer enhanced capabilities.
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With ongoing #NOAA and National Weather Service hiring freeze… heard from multiple staff that if this trend continues for the next couple of years, some local forecasting offices will shutter.
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Merely a few months after the successful balloon test flight of the Neptune-Excelsior capsule, @SpacePerspectiv faces shutdown amid financial troubles, furloughs, and allegations of mismanagement.
talkoftitusville.com/2025/01…
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Media accreditation is open for the next delivery to the Moon through @NASA’s CLPS initiative & Artemis campaign for the benefit of humanity. A six-day launch window opens no earlier than mid-January 2025 for the first @fireflyspace launch to the lunar surface.
The Blue Ghost flight, carrying 10 NASA science & technology instruments, will launch on a @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A @NASAKennedy. Media prelaunch & launch activities will take place at NASA Kennedy.
Learn more: nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-i…
#GiantLeapsStartHere
ALT Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission One lander, seen here, will carry 10 NASA science and technology instruments to the Moon’s near side when it launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as part of NASA’s CLPS (Commercial Lunar Payload Services) initiative and Artemis campaign. Credit: Firefly Aerospace
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Send me your dreams: gofund.me/ee14b574
I'm taking a flashdrive with me to space filled with your kids' dreams.
1 Dream = $5 donation to WV foster services.
Here's why I chose this issue: There is a Foster Care crisis in WV.
Our state has 4x the rate of kids in foster care than any other state.
@ameliaknisely has covered this issue closely and it needs all the support we can give.
We've raised $2000 so far.
Deadline to submit your dream: WEDNESDAY
More on the WV foster care crisis:
westvirginiawatch.com/2024/1…
ALT “It’s almost four times higher than any other state,” said Del. Jonathan Pinson, R-Mason, who is a foster parent. “That ought to get our attention as the Legislature.” There are 6,008 children in state foster care; many are teenagers. There aren’t enough Child Protective Services workers, foster homes or services for kids.
We've already raised over $1000 for children in foster care in WV! Thank you!!
I'm taking a flashdrive with me in the capsule and I want to FILL IT with your and your kids dreams.
Wish upon a star (literally) here: gofund.me/484af3f5
Starbound dreams for foster futures.
Likely aurora red glow to the North, seen from Northern Virginia #aurora - visible on camera only, 10 second exposure
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Job! I'm hiring a part-time remote entry-level Astronomy Market Analyst.
astralytical.com/jobs
