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Genie Bey has taken a new position as RISA program specialist in the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Climate Program Office. NOAA’s Regional Integrated Sciences and Assessments (RISA) program supports research teams that help expand and build the nation's capacity to prepare for and adapt to climate variability and change.

Kimberley Miner has accepted a role as Systems Scientist with the new Earth Systems Observatory at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA is working with countries around the world to pioneer the Earth System Observatory-- a virtual constellation able to sense the hydrology, land-surface change, atmosphere and so much more-- at finer scales than we have ever seen before. Learn more about the mission

Editor's note: This is an excerpt from an original article in the Grist Fix Solutions Lab by Sarah Hsu and Gaurab Basu. Read the full article here.

Camila Bustos, 2020 Switzer Fellow, was interviewed in the A Matter of Degrees podcast on how law firms, consultants and PR agencies enable dirty energy.

"The report unequivocally concludes that land- and ocean-based actions that capture carbon must be in addition to, and not in lieu of, ambitious reductions of emissions from fossil fuels," said Doreen Stabinsky.

Sarah Smith gave the following testimony at the June 15th EPA listening session on regulating methane emissions from the U.S. oil and gas sector.