@ij_walker

Professor & geomorphologist, Dept. of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dad, cyclist, beach bum, erosion geek, dune nerd, made in 🇨🇦

 Santa Barbara, California, USA
geog.ucsb.edu/people/faculty/ian-walker
Joined March 2014
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Science (photo shoot) in action. #SANDLab does beaches @ucsantabarbara with @topomaddie @nitzanswet @UCSBgeog – at Goleta, CA
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Recent storm impacts on our Santa Barbara beaches. Impressive efforts underway to deliver sediment from upland retention basins. Unfortunately, these pics portend a future scenario the state asks us to prepare for... +3.5' of sea-level rise by 2050 @UCSBgeog @MSI_UCSB
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Quantifying wind dynamics, sand transport, and dust emissions in complex terrain is tough. Recipe = CFD + field verification + teamwork. Creative science solutions to solve air quality problems at Oceano Dunes! doi.org/10.1007/s10652-022-0…. @DRIScience @UCSBgeog @ODSVRA_PSB @GeoHilgy – at Isla Vista, CA
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Curious about #NatureBasedSolutions for coastal #restoration and how to evaluate success? New study on foredune restoration to solve longstanding air quality problem, Oceano Dunes, California. Team effort! @UCSBgeog @DRIScience @GeoHilgy @ODSVRA_PSB doi.org/10.1002/esp.5478
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Come join us @UCSBgeog! We have an info session on graduate school admission (Nov 9).
Trisalyn Nelson@TrisalynNelson18 Oct 2022
Interested in grad school at UCSB Geography? Join us Nov 9th for an admissions info session and learn how to make your application stand out geog.ucsb.edu/events/all/202… @UCSBgeog
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Here's where California’s cliffs are collapsing into the sea the fastest latimes.com/environment/stor…

Here's where California’s cliffs are collapsing into the sea the fastest

A new study pinpoints erosion hot spots along the entire California coast — and found that cliffs in Northern California are disappearing the fastest.

latimes.com
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Never underestimate the power of #RnR. Mahalo #Maui!
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Faculty & educators getting ready for the new academic year: Check out this new blog post highlighting OpenTopography's ready-to-use educational resources that facilitate integrating high resolution topography (#lidar) into classroom lessons & activities: opentopography.org/blog/educ…
Canyonlands, Utah created using the Rayshader Jupyter Notebook.

ALT Canyonlands, Utah created using the Rayshader Jupyter Notebook.

Hillshade of Mount Hood, Oregon from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.

ALT Hillshade of Mount Hood, Oregon from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.

DEM of entrenched meander along the Yakima River, Washington from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.

ALT DEM of entrenched meander along the Yakima River, Washington from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.

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Farewell to a true trail blazer. RIP Uhuru. – at Phoenix, AZ
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Training day with our new ⁦@Wingtra⁩ GenII #UAS with #RDOControls ⁦@UCSBgeog⁩ #SANDLab ⁦@GeoHilgy⁩ ⁦@envirogeography⁩ ⁦@carpinteria⁩ salt marsh reserve #UCNRS!!
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Ian J. Walker retweeted
Thomas Smyth@tag_smyth27 Jun 2022
"Air flow and sediment transport dynamics on a foredune with contrasting vegetation cover" Read how wind flow dynamics differ between native and invasive vegetation dunes in ESPL (@BSG_Geomorph) with @ij_walker @MikeGSilentT @alanaradd onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/… #coasts #dunes

Air flow and sediment transport dynamics on a foredune with contrasting vegetation cover

The influence of two adjacent, vegetation canopies on modifying wind flow and sediment transport potential on a foredune during the same wind event are examined. The taller and denser Ammophila...

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Hearty congrats to newly minted, always smiling, Dr. Zach Hilgendorf @GeoHilgy for a successful PhD defense today! "Landscape Evolution In Response to Dynamic Coastal Dune Restoration: Case Studies from the California Coast". 2/3 papers published. Let the collaborations continue!
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Dear university administrators everywhere. Please pick a lane and stay in it with #LearningManagementSystems. My career journey, spanning 3 institutions: Moodle-Blackboard-Canvas-Moodle-Blackboard... now Canvas. I think I see a pattern here.
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Ian J. Walker retweeted
Oded Rechavi
@OdedRechavi11 Jun 2022
We are grateful for the reviewers' helpful suggestions
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Two #mountainbiking #geomorphologists come upon a rock exposure. One says to the rock face, "What cracks you up?". The other says, "I hypothesize that carbonate precipitation and wetting/drying cycles does." Hence, a paper was born. doi.org/10.1016/j.catena.202… @UCSBgeog @ASU_SGSUP
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Take your daughter to work day… ⁦@UCSBgeog⁩ ⁦@TrisalynNelson⁩
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Just another day in the dunes with good mates @UCSBgeog
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ALERT! New @EarthPlusHumans episode on Equity, Empathy, and Equity in GIScience! With @deepseadawn & Goodchild!
Earth + Humans Podcast@EarthPlusHumans4 May 2022
In this special episode @TrisalynNelson sits down with Dr. Dawn Wright (@deepseadawn) and Dr. Michael Goodchild to discuss ways to accelerate ethics, empathy and equity in their field listen here: buzzsprout.com/1897445/10559… and read the radical paper: pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pna…

Ethics, Empathy, and Equity in GIScience - Earth + Humans

In this special episode, Trisalyn sits down with coauthors Dr. Dawn Wright and Dr. Michael Goodchild to discuss their radical paper Accelerating Ethics, Empathy and Equity in GIScience that was just...

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We have had 100 responses to our BIKE THEFT SURVEY and the data are so interesting. Help us get 1000 responses. Had your bike stolen? Live in North America? We want to know how bike theft impacted you! @AAG_TGSG @ucsantabarbara @UCSBgeog @SPARlabUCSB @SBBIKELab
BikeMaps.org@BikeMapsTeam25 Apr 2022
Help us understand how bike theft impacts bicycling activity. If you've had a bicycle stolen in the last 5 years, please take our survey! ucsb.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/f…
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Congrats Jordan Bryce @GeogSFU! Stellar MS thesis on #coastal evolution in a region of minimal Holocene relative sea level change in BC (Heiltsuk & Wuikinuxv territories). Great gig with @HakaiInstitute, former student @CoastalEamer, and colleagues @tracy_brennand @UCSBgeog
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