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Jeff Atkins
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Research Professor @ Virginia Commonwealth University and displaced Forest Service scientist; ecosystem ecologist with a remote sensing problem; standard time apologist; lover of loud, noisy, weird music. Views and opinions my own.
It's great to see the kids so excited and R and coding.
October 31, 2025 at 12:14 PM
The Charlottesville Beat Breast Cancer event is not widely attended, but enjoying the head-to-head drum off between two school's drumlines.
September 17, 2025 at 10:07 PM
These bullet points are the same you'd have seen on GOP mailers 20 years ago.
September 3, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The real question to me after day one of Post. Fest is how did We Lost the Sea (from Australia) end up with equipment from ...trail of dead?
July 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Consider submitting to our #AGU25 session on Forest structural complexity (B44). Submissions close on July 30th at midnight EDT.
#lidar #ecology
@jingfengxiao.bsky.social
July 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Seems, unless I am reading wrong, Forest Service research budget held at $300M for FY26: appropriations.house.gov/news/press-r...
July 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Oh yeah total impulse as it is hanging out with a few other impulse buys (forgive the poor wiring, haven't been able to redo the board yet 🤣)
December 3, 2024 at 1:48 PM
Who did you name your pet(s) after?

#caturday
November 23, 2024 at 9:09 PM
Saturday morning breakfast prep music
November 23, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Amazing @chatpileband.bsky.social show in Richmond tonight. And the obvious Virginia movie you forgot was Dirty Dancing (filmed in Mountain Lake, VA but "set" in the Catskills)
November 21, 2024 at 5:48 AM
Guys, any idea what the heck this pentagon shape in Colorado is? Post from Reddit r/forestry. Seems to have appeared between 1994-1999. Looks like a regen or disturbance experiment maybe?
www.reddit.com/r/forestry/s...
November 15, 2024 at 10:01 PM
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #1,171,156!

Honestly didn't know I was this early.
September 19, 2024 at 1:41 AM
So we bought a rainfall simulator.
April 24, 2024 at 7:11 PM
Excited to be giving a talk as part of the Savannah River Ecology Lab's seminar series today on novel applications of remote sensing in forest ecology and conservation work
October 25, 2023 at 4:12 PM
Carlos Silva outlining our NASA CMS project focusing on creating a multiscale, 4D carbon dynamics monitoring system for the Brazilian Cerrado.
September 27, 2023 at 10:48 PM