@TimAssal

Geospatial Ecologist | Integrated Remote Sensing & Monitoring 🛰🌲 Former academic Working to bridge research & land management 🌎 #scicomm 📢 Views are my own

 Fort Collins, CO
AssalLab.org/
Joined May 2013
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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
Sample of code to produce IMERG precipitation plot image taken from the "How to Directly Access GPM IMERG Data from an S3 Bucket with Python" cloud tutorials folder within the main directory at: https://github.com/nasa/gesdisc-tutorials/

ALT Sample of code to produce IMERG precipitation plot image taken from the "How to Directly Access GPM IMERG Data from an S3 Bucket with Python" cloud tutorials folder within the main directory at: https://github.com/nasa/gesdisc-tutorials/

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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/…

Getting scooped, crafting sustainable work habits: Science’s top personal essays of 2023

Our Working Life essays highlight the people behind the research and lessons learned as they overcome personal and professional challenges

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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…

Building More Sustainable Cities - with Lego

Familiar building bricks help students devise and visualize sustainable solutions for urban environments.

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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… 1/3
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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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UK COMET@NERC_COMET9 Feb 2023
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…

Open through 1 Feb: Recruiting new graduate student for fall 2023: Urban heat hazards

I am recruiting a graduate student for fall 2023 (preferably PhD-seeking, M.S. considered). The student would join our team investigating urban heat island/thermal dynamics in relation to surface...

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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:
Advertisement for a postdoctoral appointment at Clemson university. Starting salary is 48000 US dollar. The position will involve research on carbon and nitrogen dynamics following wildfires.

ALT Advertisement for a postdoctoral appointment at Clemson university. Starting salary is 48000 US dollar. The position will involve research on carbon and nitrogen dynamics following wildfires.

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