Professor & geomorphologist, Dept. of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara. Dad, cyclist, beach bum, erosion geek, dune nerd, made in 🇨🇦
Santa Barbara, California, USA
Joined March 2014
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Come join us @UCSBgeog! We have an info session on graduate school admission (Nov 9).
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…
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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…
ALT Canyonlands, Utah created using the Rayshader Jupyter Notebook.
ALT Hillshade of Mount Hood, Oregon from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.
ALT DEM of entrenched meander along the Yakima River, Washington from the OpenTopography OpenLandform Catalog.
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"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
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ALERT! New @EarthPlusHumans episode on Equity, Empathy, and Equity in GIScience! With @deepseadawn & Goodchild!
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…
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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
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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We're excited to announce that Earth + Humans, the new podcast from @ucsantabarbara geographer @TrisalynNelson has launched
It's all about sustainability, resilience, and life on planet Earth-through the lens of geography!
Follow @EarthPlusHumans for more information
Humans have a complicated relationship with planet Earth. We're talking all about that relationship in our new #podcast Earth + Humans. Give us a listen wherever you get your podcasts!
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💥Earth+Humans podcast is back! Check out our new episode with @kathy_baylis on agriculture & climate change.
Find out if climate related food insecurity will require dietary changes, like curbing your coffee addiction. @UCSBgeog @SPARlabUCSB
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I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, diverting myself in now & then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.🚀
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Barrier Beaches and Breaches- a new model for barrier breaching in non-tidal environments. Our new paper in the @IAGLR Journal of Great Lakes Research. Results of a coastal monitoring project led by Jenny Gharib and @AlexB_Smith sciencedirect.com/science/ar… – at Windsor, Ontario
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From the wind tunnel to the beach. Had a pretty good couple of weeks. Happy Friday!
@mark_schmeeckle @ij_walker
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Please RT. Special Issue of #ESPL @BSG_Geomorph on #Coastal #Dunes: links between #aeolian processes & #landforms. Abstracts: June 16; Papers: Dec 16. Lucky to be part of a great editing team with @IreneDelgadoFe2, @tag_smyth, Bailiang Li, Christy Swann onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page…
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If you are planning to use an RTK-enabled Drone/UAV for your research and not sure about its accuracy, this paper can be a useful guide:
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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Recoding now available!!!! 🔔🔔🔔🔔
Dangermond Emerging Trends in GIS Panel!
@Esri @UCSBgeog @GISEd @spatialUCSB youtu.be/NGq3CiKbjh0
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Super cool seeing my name in @ScienceMagazine and thank you to @aaas and @AAASmeetings for a great experience!
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We are hiring up to 5 interns for our summer internship program! Spend the summer helping protect California's coast and ocean and advancing equity in all our work. Apply by April 19. lnkd.in/gP5ZpT8
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Just a reminder that this is next week! 😎 Are y’all as hyped as we are for this lineup!?
Let's talk about GIS! Join Jack Dangermond, Michael Goodchild, @TrisalynNelson, and Krzysztof Janowicz to discuss trends in GIS.
geog.ucsb.edu/events/all/202…
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Welcome to “Máaz.”
My team is working with the Navajo Nation and @NNPrezNez, who are sharing their language to help us informally name features I’m exploring on Mars, like:
tsé łichíí (red rock)
yéigo (diligence)
séítah (amongst the sand)
Learn more: go.nasa.gov/3rEKXO4
