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Charles (CJ) Knoble
@cjknoble.bsky.social
CJ the EJ Guy (he/him)
Ph.D. Candidate at Montclair State University
Advancing Environmental Justice through GIS, Big Data, and Data Justice
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We had such a great time at the Mapping Your Local Environment workshop on Saturday with @planetdetroit.org and Detroit Data!

Community members learned to identify and challenge biases in data to build powerful narratives.

Photo credit: Liz Barney
April 2, 2025 at 1:24 PM
🤓 I’ll be defending my dissertation in person and on Zoom, Friday April 4th at 2 pm ET! #Geosky #BigData #EnvironmentalJustice

Learn more about my research and how to RSVP at the link below.

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CJ's Dissertation Defense
Thank you for your interest in attending Charles (CJ) Knoble's dissertation defense virtually. The defense will take place on Friday, April 4, 2025, from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET. This event will be held b...
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March 28, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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The U.S. authorities denied entry to a French scientist and then deported him because his phone contained message exchanges with colleagues and friends in which he expressed his “personal opinion” on the Trump administration’s science policies, said the French government. nyti.ms/4iAZR2l
March 20, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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A collaborative effort by policy experts across sectors such as environmental, climate, racial, public health, and economic justice, designed to address potential challenges to climate and environmental justice in the US under the current administration. justsolutionscollective.org/wp-content/u...
February 2, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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One day after the White House environmental justice website went dark, please join me in welcoming the father of environmental justice to Bluesky. Yes, sociologist @drrobertbullard.bsky.social literally defined the concept in his 1990 book, Dumping in Dixie: Race, Class and Environmental Quality.
Dr. Robert D. Bullard (@drrobertbullard.bsky.social)
Scholar, author of 18 books, co-chair of @NBEJN1, @EJHBCU Climate Change Consortium, Director of @BullardCenter and father of environmental justice. #HBCU
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January 23, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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While we archive data to ensure their availability, we also situate data within their political and economic contexts to support good scientific practice and democratic knowledge production for environmental justice.
envirodatagov.org/why-edgi-is-...
Why EDGI is Archiving Public Environmental Data – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
Governments worldwide collect and distribute data relevant to environmental challenges. For instance, the United States (US) federal government collects satellite imagery, climatological and weather r...
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January 16, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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In anticipation of a second assault on federal environmental information by Trump, we’re ramping up our website monitoring work, coordinating a multi-organizational data preservation effort, and expanding our civic data science tools.

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PRESS RELEASE: EDGI Works to Safeguard Federal Environmental Data and Information – Environmental Data and Governance Initiative
January 13th, 2025 - In anticipation of a second and likely more significant assault on federal environmental information by the Trump administration, the Environmental Data and Governance Initiative ...
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January 14, 2025 at 6:09 PM

We've published a study on the distribution of brownfields in New Jersey, showing a clear case of environmental injustice across correlation and regression analyses.

Read all about it in our open-access publication at the link below!

www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/16...

#EnvironmentalJustice #GeoSky
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December 2, 2024 at 4:15 PM
Can we trigger a response to the next Flint, Michigan faster by relying on Google searches?

Our new publication explored this question using a correlation analysis to examine keyword search frequencies during the crisis. Check it out!

#AcademicSky #GeoSky #EnvironmentalJustice

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From crisis to prevention: mining big data for public health insights during the flint water crisis
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November 25, 2024 at 4:10 PM
New paper published on trends in Education for Sustainable Development following the creation of the #SDGs !

I’m proud to be a coauthor on this work by Shih-Chieh. Check out the open access publication below 👇

sustainability.hapres.com/htmls/JSR_15...

#ESD #PhD
March 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
This Saturday, I’m excited to attend an #NYC public interest technology conference!
Join me at School of Data 2024 to talk about #civictech + #opendata + #servicedesign ! Panels, workshops, demos, office hours, & more.

Tickets, Scholarships, & Childcare at www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-school...
March 19, 2024 at 7:45 PM
It’s not too late! ⏰ Sign up for tomorrow’s free hybrid workshop, “Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI” hosted by maptimeDavis.

Hope to see you there! 🤓#GIS #EnvironmentalJustice
Free GIS Workshop Alert 🚨 #GeoSky #AcademicSky

I'm excited to be leading one of the upcoming #maptimeDavis workshops, "Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI!"

Read all about it and sign up at the link below👇 #EJ #GIS #BigData
#maptimeDavis: Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI
UC Davis DataLab
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February 29, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Free GIS Workshop Alert 🚨 #GeoSky #AcademicSky

I'm excited to be leading one of the upcoming #maptimeDavis workshops, "Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI!"

Read all about it and sign up at the link below👇 #EJ #GIS #BigData
#maptimeDavis: Practicing Critical GIS in the Era of Big Data and AI
UC Davis DataLab
datalab.ucdavis.edu
February 21, 2024 at 7:59 PM
Prepping for my first day of being an adjunct tomorrow, everyone wish me luck 🥹🙏
January 18, 2024 at 1:18 AM
Hey #geosky, yall ever wonder if it’s possible to detect environmental injustice using social media and remote sensing imagery? Me too, and now we have a published paper on just that 🥹

We went through 3 major and 2 minor revisions to get it done, but it’s finally here!! Check it out!
Bridging the Gap: Analyzing the Relationship between Environmental Justice Awareness on Twitter and ...
Mounting awareness of the discriminatory distribution of environmental factors has increasingly placed environmental justice at the forefront of discussions on sustainable development, but responses t...
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November 28, 2023 at 12:00 AM
A very merry #GISDay to those who celebrate, and a happy map year to all! 🗺️🧭🌏
November 16, 2023 at 3:40 AM
When you’re just trying to find a social media to watch animal videos and post about your research
November 6, 2023 at 5:56 PM