NEW CLASS - Winter 2027
ERTH/ENVS 4601, Advanced Biogeochemical Cycles
The course will focus on a biogeochemical toolkit, with a focus on isotopes and biomarkers and how these are used to investigate global biogeochemical cycles.
Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2026 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet (April 17, 2026)
… familiar in that this specific module for the “Guide” was designed from class labs in my GIS Applications class. 😉
Hey! That Vancouver tree data sure looks familiar …
Looks like it might be a dark-eyed junco on first glance.
Closeup of the Allan and Harvard traffic diverted where a safety vest wearing pylon Racoon has emerged to spread street safety and road rules awareness.
I also documented said Safety Racoon for posterity this morning.
Mountaintop Removal of Bloom’s Taxonomy. That’s what it feels like LLMs are doing to my courses some days.
A stylized map of North American rivers. Everything is constructed of 45° angles, like a classic transit map. The background is a series of pale greens denoting each country. The rivers are dark blue and highly simplified, with tick marks indicating where cities are along the rivers.
A stylized map of North American rivers. Everything is constructed of 45° angles, like a classic transit map. The background is a series of greens, pinks, and yellows denoting different colors. The rivers are dark blue and highly simplified, with tick marks indicating where cities are along the rivers. Versus the original, this one is more colorful and the text is a clearer and cleaner and in a different typeface.
Back to my long-running project of upgrading the style on my old river maps from the ca. 2010 style (for a book I never printed) to the more colorful poster style I've been using since about 2020.
somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/river-maps/
They were just starting up when I left at 4:30 or so.
A thick slush covered roadway on a university campus post-weather event.
Campus clearing sure hasn’t started yet.
Photoshopped Spirit Halloween costume package of a geospatial professional with Dr. Greene’s face inserted as a replacement. Favourite quote “spatial join that shit and move on” included.
I have to talk to Dr. Mui about how much spare time students have in her projects class that they can engage in these shenanigans … 😉
A screen capture of an ArcGIS Process Window in the midst of processing 8.5 billion points in a lidar dataset.
How's your day going? I think need a coffee and a #GISChat while I wait for this not quite 4 of 8 billion points to finish processing pyramids ... 50 minutes elapsed.
To be fair, though, aren’t those flags a community driven project and not a municipal program? It underscores the lack of priorities the city puts on pedestrian safety and the measures residents implement to cover the gaps even if an imperfect tool.
This year's crop of ECCE Associates at Dalhousie is another great group. ecce.esri.ca/dal-blog/202...
That’s actually is close to my GIS class(es) structure. Three prep videos at about 20 minutes each. About 60-70 minutes as in class active learning where we work through simplified examples, discuss and answer questions. Then lab section later in the week. Works well with 3rd/4th year undergrads.
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EES at the 52nd AGS (Atlantic Geoscience Society) Colloquium and Annual Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia, Feb 6-7.
Congratulations to Cameron Greaves for Best Grad presentation!
Come teach in a really cool, progressive unit on my home campus! @osuceoas.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, fixed-term, Assistant or Associate Professor of **Teaching**
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#AcademicSky #geogsky #gischat ⚒️ 🌎
I sincerely think that the COVID emergency is what thwarted an attempt to union bust the DFA. And—if I recall correctly—there was emphasis on early (incorrect) enrolment estimates used to justify an opening offer of 5% wage reductions. That almost certainly informed a quick draw lockout this time.
And not to mention the mountain of salt they are putting down in one round rather than more frequent applications of smaller amounts …
Calling all salamander lovers! Here is a great field opportunity with the Riley Lab in Sackville, NB for this summer and fall. Deadline to apply is March 2, 2026.
Ethernet in the LSC has been up and down all week. I’ve had one three hour lab section have nearly a 30 minute delay because downloads were so slow. Put the lab data on four USB drives and got 20+ students taken care of before the Brightspace downloads of the same data were even at 25%.
Turns out, positive for strep. It seems … silly … to me that in a province with a doctor shortage (our family is on the wait list) that the test as a precaution is the lower cost to the system as a whole. Had I waited and it got worse, how much more costly to the system would treatment be? /end
Booked an appointment at a pharmacy. In assessment screening I was was told I didn’t meet a threshold score and didn’t qualify for a swab at a cheaper price. But I could choose to do it anyway at a higher cost. So I did, because it sure seemed like the past two infections. 2/n
After going decades without strep throat, I’ve had two infections over about a year. A couple days ago I started getting symptoms presenting the same way as the last two go arounds. The sore throat more to one side, discomfort extending down the neck and up into the ear. 1/n
📍 What is the oldest profession in geography and why should you care about it in 2026?
The #GLaDpodcast has answers (and 🔥 takes)! No spoilers 🤐 but @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I are joined this time by special guest @arobinson.bsky.social.
open.spotify.com/episode/02JW...
Samesies. Just before I woke up / got up this morning. Mine were about lab software setup for first week labs not being done. And on and on.
For those in #Halisky, check this out! I saw (and had a small part in organizing) a version of this many years ago, and it was FANTASTIC! I can only imagine it will be even better this year! ukings.ca/events/metro... @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social #SFF
I have thoughts. But I also have been occupied in completing my work from a semester disrupted by a lockout, and have not had near enough downtime to process.
I also struggle to identify those small acts of caring and kindness that were a commitment of said recent Order recipient post lockout.
