Hi colleagues!
I direct the Kentucky Climate Consortium, which hosts a monthly virtual Climate Chat featuring our members and relevant outside folks. Today’s talk by Rebecca Lindsey of climate.us, which is hosting and mirroring the resources no longer available on climate.gov might be of interest to many of you!
See below for details, including the Zoom registration link.
Cagle
Lauren E. Cagle, PhD
Pronouns: she/her
Director | Tracy Farmer Institute for Sustainability & the Environment<https://research.uky.edu/tracy-farmer-institute-sustainability-and-environment>
Associate Professor | Writing, Rhetoric, & Digital Studies<https://wrd.as.uky.edu/>
Affiliate Faculty | Environmental & Sustainability Studies<https://ens.as.uky.edu/> & Appalachian Studies Program<https://appalachiancenter.as.uky.edu/about-studies>
Director & Co-Founder | Kentucky Climate Consortium<https://www.research.uky.edu/climate-consortium>
University of Kentucky
1351 Patterson Office Tower
lauren.cagle<mailto:lauren.cagle>
January ‘26 Climate Chat
“Climate.us: Protecting the nation’s investment in Climate.gov and other federal climate information for the public”
January 30th
Zoom, 2-3PM
Register<https://us21.mailchimp.com/mctx/clicks?url=https%3A%2F%2Fuky.zoom.us%2Fmeeting%2Fregister%2FXRLq4-sOS_yidJo446vPZw%23%2Fregistration&xid=a34fb23f82&uid=187841014&iid=b9bd3eff38&pool=cts&v=2&c=1769713010&h=7c3fbba56d347ea349ce79d6b276e7521bba0be2a476eda681a2e398316734fa>
Federal websites like Climate.gov that are dedicated to public communication, education, and engagement are not optional add-ons to the federal science enterprise. They are integral to making sure the public reaps the maximum possible benefit from federal investment in science. In 2025, several high-profile federal climate websites have been taken offline, forced to remove content, and had their staff dismissed. After NOAA dismantled the team behind its Climate.gov website, several former team members launched Climate.us—a nonprofit successor to Climate.gov that will rescue its content and continue its mission. Project director Rebecca Lindsey will talk about the status of the effort, challenges the team is facing, and what’s next.
Rebecca Lindsey
Rebecca Lindsey is a science writer and editor from southern West Virginia. She has a biochemistry degree from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in journalism and technical communication from Colorado State University. For most of her 25-year career, she was a federal contractor, supporting education and outreach missions at NASA and NOAA. For the past decade, she was the managing editor of NOAA’s Webby-award winning Climate.gov website, and in late 2023, she became a federal employee as
the project’s program manager. She was fired in February 2025 along with hundreds of other NOAA probationary employees. In August 2025, she and several former teammates launched Climate.us—an initiative to build a non-profit successor to Climate.gov.