Martín Hoecker-Martínez

It is always surprising to me just how low the thermal conductivity of dirt is. Temperature sensors buried at (roughly) 10cm intervals in the Univ. of Redlands SURF www.redlands.edu/student-life...

youtu.be/E4OzdyxbOuU?... One of the best reasons to always cite your sources is because Dolly said that you should give other people credit for their ideas.

Something odd happened around the antarctic recently. There was a significant contraction (100's of thousands of square km) of sea ice area but we have yet to reach the date of the annual maximum.

🚨 The 2025 #BulletinAMS State of the Climate report is here, and the findings are critical. Earth’s greenhouse gas concentrations were the highest on record and record temperatures were observed across the globe. Read here: ametsoc.org/soc #StateoftheClimate2025

This summer my undergraduate summer researcher built a wind tunnel!

When will I use a Bessel function? At a drum show of course!

I believe every student can succeed in math, I believe every student can succeed in science, I believe "...math is the great equalizer..." I believe all it takes to learn math is "ganas" I believe students tienen ganas I believe we instructors, debemos tener las mismas ganas

This week's MetPy Monday tutorial demonstrates how to access GFS analysis data from a THREDDS Data Server: buff.ly/0LfaLnf

Helped retrieve javelins at a track and field event today. I remain successfully not skewered.

Alumni weekend!

We have a critical opportunity right now: NSF is requesting input on the future of NCAR, which is under threat of being dismantled. I just submitted my comments to NSF, and you can too, using AGU's easy instructions and form. agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

Note to self: Take advantage of opportunities to reach out to old acquaintances. I remember them fondly for a reason. It feels good to know they continue to exist out in the world.

Law enforcement use of lethal force is always a failure. At best, insufficient resources are deployed to make a scene safe. At worst, a violent individual has been allowed to cloak their wrath under the color of law. Either way introspection and reform are needed.

For Pez, like gifts during the holiday, the biggest joy is in the giving (well dispensing).

This is utter folly. NCAR hosts and maintains multiple basic tools the broad scientific community uses to process large data sets. This is the equivalent of salting the earth and putting towns to the torch. I struggle to understand the wanton needless destruction. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

NCAR is quite literally our global mothership. Everyone who works in climate and weather has passed through its doors and benefited from its incredible resources. Dismantling NCAR is like taking a sledgehammer to the keystone holding up our scientific understanding of the planet. Unbelievable.

Never forget the Buckingham π theorem

Thank you to the organizers who create a place in the public square for us to each raise our voice and join the chorus.

Interference fringes of a sodium lamp on a Post-It

Laying out moorings for the 2025/2026 observation season.

They finally came for a grant that I had a small part in. I knew it was a question of when. Thanks to those who shared their losses. Your openness helped me prepare for this and have realistic expectations.

9 d6s have an average of 31.5 7 d8s have an average of 31.5 3 d20s have an average of 31.5 My students will have to figure out how many rolls it takes to distinguish which set was rolled?

Someone please tell me there's alternate set of lyrics to "McCavity the Mystery cat" only it's about a curve's concavity and how at the inflection point "Concavity's not there!" youtu.be/XmFNbUfQGCs?...

Waves carry momentum and energy. Energy can dissipate in the roiling surf. The momentum (parallel to the beach) can live on as an along shore current where the waves break.

The best part of having colleagues is sometimes they invite you to join them in and play in their sandbox digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol18/i...

Ralph Keeling sked to appear tonight on @CNN in 10 pm Pacific/1 am Eastern broadcast on moves to cut funding to Mauna Loa Observatory, where Keeling Curve measurements have been made since 1958.

Our final updates have been posted to the Climate.gov website, and this will be our final post to our social media channels.

Do you know what's better than finding a reference for the narrow statistical error propagation task you are attempting? Finding that the text is open access! library.oapen.org/handle/20.50...

It's Flag Day. Put out your flags! ¡Alza las banderas!

del pueblo por el pueblo para el pueblo SIN REYES

I have had my moment of fame. I was named in a piece in the New York Times. I will now recede back into obscurity and return to posting about Fourier transforms of water temperature in a minor bay, mediocre visualizations of sea ice cover, flights of fancy, and other scientific trivia.