American University Environmental Scientist | But really a Geographer | Remote Sensor | Late to "the twitter"
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If you're still on "X", please share widely: Open-rank tenure track position in environmental science, Washington DC. The Department of Environmental Science at American University, Washington, DC is inviting applications for a faculty appointment starting August 1, 2024.
Candidates can apply at the assistant, associate, or full professor level. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research focuses on environmental health and/or the global carbon cycle.
Apply by 10/16: apply.interfolio.com/130493
We (the Department of Environmental Science at American University) have an open position for a 9-month, full-time, non-tenure-track professorial lecturer position, beginning August 28, 2023. Check it out or send to your friends: apply.interfolio.com/127715
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For all you urban ecosystem or forest phenology folks still hangin' on the twitter, check out our new article using near-daily PlanetScope images in DC to monitor individual tree phenology. authors.elsevier.com/a/1h0FN…
Any drone researchers out there have access to (or know someone who has access to) a non-DJI drone that can fly a light hyperspectral camera? We're partnering with NASA for flights this summer but can't fly with a Chinese drone... 🤦♂️
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My department (Environmental Science at American University) is hiring a tenure track faculty member. Come join us in our beautiful, new building!
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I'm writing a "brief lit review" for a proposal. It has maybe 90% content overlap with the background section of an article for which I was first author. It would be REALLY silly to rewrite this from scratch. Can I just say: "lightly adapted from Alonzo, 2021"?
#AcademicTwitter
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The Google search: "list countries by population". Looks like this poor bot's excel spreadsheet is storing numbers as text. A lesson for us all.
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I golfed a full course of congressional districts in 78 strokes – 5 strokes over par! Tee off in @washingtonpost’s Gerrymander Invitational: wapo.st/minigolf
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Fav quote: "Maps, and in particular global maps, create a strong feeling of satisfaction, suggesting we now know it all."
Also... Dear students: please do not validate your classifications with your training data. All this other stuff, we can work up to that...
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Reference manager thoughts for 2022? Are you still a Mendeley person? Anyone like Citavi? I'm interested in better connecting literature to specific projects (tagging, my annotations). You will all make nice suggestions and I will think highly of you but then...
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... I will ignore all of this because it all seems too structured and I will continue pasting everything into one gigantic google doc. #AcademicTwitter #chaos
Massive DOE funding for urban climate studies potentially relating to equitable mitigation of the urban heat island. This is where I feel like I have something to offer but can't imagine leading something on this scale. Who wants to lead this thing?energy.gov/science/articles/…
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Next question that I thought would be easy to figure out: Is there no super-simple way to, say, start with a csv of lat/lon and one attribute, and map that attribute? Like something online? I just want non-GIS students to be able to make dang map! What am I missing?
What is the best phone app for very simple spatial data collection? Like: click one button to collect location and then enter data for one or two simple attributes. Any tips for maximizing locational precision? @grantdmckenzie @gissong @Yingjie_Hu @carlyziter @Matthew_Fagan
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What is the best phone app for very simple spatial data collection? Like: click one button to collect location and then enter data for one or two simple attributes. Any tips for maximizing locational precision? @grantdmckenzie @gissong @Yingjie_Hu @carlyziter @Matthew_Fagan
Update: I'm working with @Anecdata_org for now. Easy to set up a simple form. Easy to download a csv of results. Geolocation and time-stamping is automatic. For now, I really value the simplicity. Also, great support! Epicollect5 also seemed good from my quick perusal.
Fancy GPS alone does not mean stem-level accuracy is a given. I too have commonly used good old WGS84...
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Learning parenting strategy from reading about potential NATO responses to Russia in Ukraine: Our 6 y.o. is Putin. Paw Patrol is SWIFT. Once you take it away, you can't take it away again! What do you do?
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📢Seeking a Postdoc in my lab (American U. in DC) starting June 2022. Study urban tree 🫒 response to heat using hyperspectral, thermal, and/or high-res imagery from drones and cubesats! Do you know some remote sensing and like trees? Apply by 2/15/22: apply.interfolio.com/99255
This is 2021 and I still get generic error messages from @Esri for saving a raster with too many characters in filename UNLESS I add ".tif" to the end of the name to trick it. For the love of all geoprocessing, can, at least, the error message say, "add '.tif' to the end"
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Covid, murder hornets, cicadas, and now hurricanes spawning tornados that take out 50% of the trees (n=2, but still!!!) @jscaplan18 and I were studying at Temple U. It's still wearing its sap flow harness so maybe there's some never-before-seen tornado data...
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Just seeing @ZMEScience interpretation of our trees/cooling paper. Probably nicest one I've seen as far as communicating science correctly but going beyond the press release zmescience.com/ecology/even-…
Happy to share our new ERL paper showing that lower canopy cover from distributed trees can provide robust cooling in later afternoon and evening. This finding may promote more pragmatic and equitable urban tree planting.bit.ly/3iaYut2. Thanks @carlyziter for inspiration
Also inspiration from existing, valuable DC tree planting programs like RiverSmart Homes @DOEE_DC @CaseyTrees. We always knew these trees were good for the watershed but knew less about their heat mitigation benefits.