
Geospatial Ecologist | Integrated Remote Sensing & Monitoring 🛰🌲 Former academic Working to bridge research & land management 🌎 #scicomm 📢 Views are my own
Fort Collins, CO
Joined May 2013
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Tim Assal retweeted
For those who weren't there to smell it, watch as Cosmo the corpse flower blooms 👀
Thousands flocked to #ColoradoState over Memorial Day weekend to see a rare corpse flower during a bloom that was eight years in the making.
Learn and see more ➡️ col.st/SrhXf – at Fort Collins, CO
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Find #Jupyter Notebook tutorials that show you use NASA's GPM IMERG precipitation datasets, MERRA-2 datasets and services and tools from NASA's Goddard Earth Sciences Data and Information Services Center (#GESDISC) and more. go.nasa.gov/44M7exO
#Python #CloudComputing
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A unique (and highly recommended) post-doc opportunity in Panamá with STRI for someone working in restoration ecology or applied ecology, that features an intriguing balance between research and outreach with indigenous communities. Please share widely! @stri_panama
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Have you tried Cloud Score+ yet for removing clouds from Sentinel-2 imagery? ☁️
@googleearth finished backfilling the entire Sentinel-2 collection earlier this year and we've just implemented it in Climate Engine 🛰️
Learn more about Cloud Score+ here: medium.com/google-earth/all-…
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The updated #LandsatNext specs are wild!🤯
🌈 26 total spectral bands, including #Landsat 8/9 and #Sentinel2 compatible bands
🌳10 brand new application-specific bands
🔥 5 thermal IR bands!
📏10-60 m resolution (including 10 m SWIR!)
⏱️6 day revisit
pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2024/3005/f…
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Just published our latest Data Paper on Androcymbium europaeum monitoring data! @BioDataJournal
doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e1139…
This comprehensive dataset offers insights into population dynamics & herbivory effects on this endemic plants in Andalusia.
#OpenScience #DataPublication
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Leaving academia. Getting scooped. Crafting sustainable work habits.
Here are @ScienceMagazine's most read personal essays by scientists in 2023:
#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter
science.org/content/article/…
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👏👏👏Read the recently published paper in Coasts MDPI
Title: Rapid, Landscape-Scale Assessment of Cyclonic Impacts on Mangrove Forests Using MODIS Imagery
mdpi.com/2673-964X/3/3/17
@MODIS time-series
@mangrove ecosystem
@Coasts_MDPI
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Job alert!
The WY-MT WSC is recruiting for 2 Hydrologist GS-11/12 positions in both the Cheyenne and Helena. We are in need of hydrologists in the following fields: geomorphology, hydrogeology, geochemistry, geospatial/remote sensing, data science.
usajobs.gov/job/748963500
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The qgisprocess package is now on CRAN: buff.ly/3PaZ23O
Now you can also read qgisprocess cheetsheets (created by Antony Barja) at
buff.ly/3QPIEa3.
#rspatial #qgis #rstats
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Dream Job! Come work with me as a ~tree ring scientist~ at the New Mexico Landscapes Field Station in Santa Fe. Great balance of field and research. Cool people, cool place. Reach out to me with any questions. Job closes Aug 8 or after 75 applicants.
usajobs.gov/job/739274500/pr…
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"Look, our city can't just change its car-dominated streets to accommodate people. We are not Amsterdam!!"
#Paris: "Wait. Hold our 🍷/🥖"
~Rue de Rivoli
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Check out this article on Dr. Jen Mapes’ Urban Sustainability class and her creative incorporation of Legos into the student experience: kent.edu/today/news/building…
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🌲🔥📏🛰️When measuring burn severity in forests, how do widely used field +satellite indices capture effects of short-interval reburns? Our new open access paper in @fireecology, led by Saba Saberi as a core part of her MS research explores this +more fireecology.springeropen.com…
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Reading the news coverage of the @UCU #FourFights strike, I get the impression that many people don’t know what University lecturers do (and why would they?), so here’s a thread on it. I’m a psychologist, so let’s start with the work of the average psychology lecturer. 🧵👇1/18
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Me trying to explain #LandsatNext.
3 satellite constellation with overlapping swaths to increase revisit frequency in a new orbit (WRS-3!), observing 26 bands (superspectral!), several of which are higher spatial resolution (10m!), including 4 20m SWIR & 5 thermal bands! #Landsat
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The range offset map from Sentinel-1 shows the two ruptures clearly
Data available at
gws-access.jasmin.ac.uk/publ…
We should have complete coverage for this terrible event by tomorrow morning. The scale of the event is frightening and our thoughts go out to everyone in the area.
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Please RT - Still open! Looking for geography grad student research assistant to work on a NASA-funded urban heat hazard project. Details here: talbright68.wixsite.com/albr…
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📣 POSTDOC OPPORTUNITY 📣
Come work with us @HarvardForest using #remotesensing and landscape simulation modeling to understand the past, present and future of forest ownership and management in northern New England 🌲🛰️🔮
ℹ️ bit.ly/3X33W47
#EOchat @NSF @USLTER
RT 🔁🙏🏻
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We are hiring a postdoc to work on wildfire biogeochemistry for a 3-year DOE-funded project at @SavannahRiverFS. The position will be based out of Clemson University and will work closely with the US Forest Service and Oak Ridge National Lab. Full ad below:

































