Environmental Problem Solver, GIS Map Nerd, Aspiring Poet, Mediocre World Traveler, Coffee Enthusiast, Coastal Flooding Researcher, Dad. Tweets are my own.
Somewhere between US and NZ
Joined July 2012
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Joshua Sargent retweeted
🌊 Floods cause 44% of disasters, hit 1.6B people & cost $650B.
They’re systemic:
🔹 Climate shifts 🌧️❄️🌊
🔹 Urbanisation 🏙️
🔹 Deforestation 🌲
🔹 Marginalisation ⚠️
Solutions: governance, tech, social knowledge & nature-based solutions: ow.ly/iX0P50X6fF9
ALT Flood risk is a systemic challenge demanding systemic solutions
Joshua Sargent retweeted
Remembering its 25 years of faithful Earth observation, the USGS and NASA announce the decommissioning of #Landsat 7 from active service June 4th.
Read more here: ow.ly/WkTI50W4a0o.
Joshua Sargent retweeted
💧 This op-ed by @MumbaMusondam, @henkovink and Johan Rockström highlights a critical truth: water is the foundation of economic security, yet it remains undervalued and mismanaged.
As climate change disrupts the hydrological cycle, we must embed water at the heart of global governance and economic planning. The cost of inaction is too high.
Read more: nature.com/articles/s44221-0…
#WorldWaterDay #WetlandsMatter
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Which one are you?
Among scientists are collectors, classifiers, and compulsive tidiers-up; many are detectives by temperament and many are explorers; some are artists and others artisans. There are poet-scientists and philosopher-scientists and even a few mystics.
–Peter Medawar
Joshua Sargent retweeted
🚨New paper out in WRR where we develop the concept of 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘀𝗰𝗮𝗽𝗲𝘀 - landscape units of groundwater's social-ecological and Earth system functions - and map these globally. Important implications for groundwater sci and mgmt!
paper: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.…
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As extreme storms seemingly make the once-trusted model obsolete, experts weigh what data should inform future risk calculations to bolster resiliency. Read more on the #ASCESource: go.asce.org/3NZigbq.
I'm a cartographer for Halloween this year. Rescuing physical maps from retirement. #gischat
Joshua Sargent retweeted
NIWA is using machine learning to forecast flood inundation in a fraction of the time required to run physical models. 🕓🌧️
Read the full story here 👉 niwa.co.nz/news/forecasting-…
Joshua Sargent retweeted
The hydrological cycle links countries and communities 🌍
But for the first time in history, human activity is pushing the hydrological cycle out of balance ⚠️
Our new report explains why we need a new #EconomicsOfWater, starting with governing the water cycle as a global common good 👉 bit.ly/3ziFncU
Joshua Sargent retweeted
While most of Earth's tides are small, rising and falling just a couple of meters, some tides are nearly 10x larger.
Explore all of our planet's tides in this fantastic map from Dave Taylor, the latest in our collection of maps shared by our readers: maps.com/taking-stock-of-our…
🌊 This week, I was able to combine my #GIS and #flooding backgrounds together with my roles at both University of @waikato and @MasseyUni. 🗺
Joshua Sargent retweeted
Doing good science is 90% finding a science buddy to constantly talk to about the project.
Joshua Sargent retweeted
🌍Nature is powerful.
Nature-based solutions can help address the climate crisis. And by using them, we’re protecting nature and protecting people
via @ifrc
Joshua Sargent retweeted
📢Five upcoming #seminars, including this Wednesday by David Shuker (@univofstandrews)! 📢
Wide range of upcoming seminar topics:🐛#insect mating and evolution,🦠#microbe transport, 🌳#forest systems, and 🌊#ocean thermoclines.
waikato.ac.nz/research/insti…
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If your computer gets really hot and sounds like an airplane taking off, it's because it can't handle how awesome your maps are, true story
This is a "spatial" kind of beautiful. #GISchat
The Periodic Table for Spatial Analysis gisgeography.com/spatial-ana…
