Climate scientist at NASA JPL. Team lead of NASA Sea Level Change Team. Opinions my own.
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Joined August 2012
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Summer Research Experience for Undergraduates on the impact of wildfires and heatwaves on glaciers in Alaska at Carnegie Mellon University. Position is fully funded and dates are flexible. Please spread the word! @PolarImpact @WomeninPolarSci @CryoCommunity @PridePolar
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Great to organize this critical dialogue on Youth Day at #COP28 between youth delegates and @NASA’s Chief Scientist Kate Calvin & Dr @bhamlington, @VulnerableChil ‘s Brian Okabaki and @UNICEF’s Fabio Friscia on the importance of climate education & literacy based on science!
Promoting green skills and educating people of all ages, especially the youth is essential for a climate-literate future. Kate Calvin and Ben Hamlington of @Nasa contributed insights in today's panel session, shedding light on their methods for educating youth on climate change.
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What can satellite data do for you? 🌊🛰️🌏
Our new paper offers ideas on how coastal communities could use satellite data to dynamically adapt to sea level rise. sciencedirect.com/science/ar… @bhamlington, @daverounce, @R_Collini, @Lijnonline, @bobkopp, @scripps_climate et al.
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The island nation of Tuvalu, located in the South Pacific Ocean, is threatened with sea level rise.
This graphic shows higher than normal sea level (in red) around two of Tuvalu’s islands from the SWOT satellite on March 21, 2023. 🌊 go.nasa.gov/3PI1cbE
ALT Photo of the Niuoku Islet, part of the island nation of Tuvalu, taken from the International Space Station. The islet is oblong and has light blue water in the center surrounded by tan sand beaches. The rest of the image surrounding the islet is dark blue ocean water.
ALT Graphic showing SWOT data. There is an axis with latitude is on the left and longitude on the bottom. The islands of Nanumea and Nanumanga are depicted. Two swaths show where the SWOT satellite collected data. Dark red patches indicate higher sea surface height and there are red patches near Nanumea. A globe inset in the lower left corner shows where on Earth the data was collected in the South Pacific Ocean.
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Yesterday @Rising_Nations co-organized the important launch of @NASA special report written for #RisingNations on #Sealevel rise implications for 🇹🇻Tuvalu w/ @ROK_Mission & @Tuvalu_UN
Strong support expressed by @UN Ambassadors to advance #ClimateAction & address sea level rise
Check out this awesome tool that Phil Thompson (@uhmanoa) built on sealevel.nasa.gov. Connects future sea-level scenarios with other, natural sea-level variability to produce estimates of future high-tide flooding.
In the mid-2030s, every U.S. coast will experience increasing high-tide floods due to rising seas and a gravitational pull caused by the alignment of the Moon, Earth, and Sun - also called a "moon wobble."
See how this may impact you: go.nasa.gov/3SPOA24
ALT A globe of the Earth focused on North America, shows sea level measured by the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite. In this data visualization, the land masses are gray and the oceans are varying shades of red, orange, yellow and green. The largest and darkest sections of red areas surround the U.S. coastlines, indicating sea level that is higher than the global average. Small patches of blue and green areas indicate where sea level is lower than the global average. Overall, the red areas are much larger than than the blue and green.
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@NASAEarth missions are allowing us direct insights into global changes around the 🌎.
Consider sea level rise: Half of the sealevel rise is from melted ice, the other half from volume expansion due to larger water temperature. When it comes to the melted ice, half of it comes from polar regions, the other half from glaciers. None of this is theory, none of it conjecture. Just very tough and accurate measurements @NASA style, often with international partners as well.
Read more at: sealevel.nasa.gov/news/259/n… – at Park City, UT
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High-tide floods are already a familiar problem in many coastal cities in the U.S. If only we had a crystal ball to better predict what's coming... Now we do. 🔮
Track what the future has in store for U.S. coastlines: go.nasa.gov/3SPOA24
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It's now live and awesome, NASA
Sea Level Team's Flooding Analysis Tool. All y'all working on coastal resilience or addressing high-tide (nuisance flooding) check it out. @bhamlington
sealevel.nasa.gov/flooding-a…?
New from the @NASA Sea Level Change Team (N-SLCT)! Phil Thompson (U. of Hawaii) has built a flooding analysis tool along with his N-SLCT team led by @chrispiecuch and with @DangendorfSonke, @TWahl1981 and others. 1/5 sealevel.nasa.gov/data_tools…
The development process of this tool was really cool, as we were able to get feedback and implement suggestions from the N-SLCT Practitioner Board (sealevel.nasa.gov/science-te…), engaging in some co-development to make the tool as useful as possible to those that need it most. 4/5
Definitely check it out and let us know what you think, and congrats to Phil, @chrispiecuch, and their team on some great work! If you are interested in hearing more and are attending @AAASmeetings, Phil will be presenting Fri, March 3rd at 1pm ET: aaas.confex.com/aaas/2023/me…
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"Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans" | Our (
@Lijing_Cheng et al) new study in @AASjournal; this year we also show the consistent La Niña-like patterns of warming across recent decades.
link.springer.com/article/10…
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Why is sea level rising?
Global sea levels are rising as a result of human-caused global warming, with recent rates being unprecedented over the past 2,500-plus years. @NASAJPL’s Ben Hamlington explains how our warming planet is causing sea level rise. sealevel.nasa.gov/understand…
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Earth has about 370,000,000,000,000,000,000 (quintillion) gallons of water, with some sources easier to access and use than others. The water budget tells us where that water is – key information that helps better plan for the future.
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2nd OPERA workshop set for Sept 2. We provide a validation and product access update for the optical surface water & disturbance products (release Feb 2023), and an introduction on the Sentinel-1 coregistered SLC & RTC products (fall 2023). No cost sign-up jpl.nasa.gov/go/opera/announ…
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Catch me live from @Caltech in a couple of hours....
Rising Tide: Tackling Sea Level Rise from Above and Below - Josh Willis ... youtu.be/b7VTRTvBPjg via @YouTube
