Chris Oostenink
@ceeayeoh.bsky.social
Environmental Systems Science, teacher, Forest Ecol, Limnology, and Stream Restoration. Have a love/hate relationship with the Grateful Dead's version of El Paso (tastes best w/Dark Star). Upstate NY by birth, NW CT by duration, Mainer in my heart.
Great work and a great thread! So many excellent examples and insights to follow up on👍👍👍
1/🚨New chapter in Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics: Spatial Environmental Economics
🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?
Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.
🌍 How do spatial forces affect the environment? How does enviro shape spatial outcomes?
Thread, chapter explore this nascent subfield via stylized acts, models, building blocks for rsrch. w Clare Balboni.
January 26, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Great work and a great thread! So many excellent examples and insights to follow up on👍👍👍
I know that this risks being "too soon" -- but does anyone have a definitive reading on planning, urban(re)development, etc. in Post-Katrina NO that provides key insights into things that went right and wrong there; and how we might learn from that experience when comes to what's next in LA?
January 13, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I know that this risks being "too soon" -- but does anyone have a definitive reading on planning, urban(re)development, etc. in Post-Katrina NO that provides key insights into things that went right and wrong there; and how we might learn from that experience when comes to what's next in LA?
Incredible! I will never stop being fascinated by this sort of detective work -- so many tools and insights being brought to bear to create these reconstructions.
1/ This cool new study decoded each of the 20,000 days of this giant clam, written in the daily increments of its shell during the 53 years of its life, unlocking environmental and climatic conditions…
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Except this clam lived 10 million years ago!
#Paleosky🧪🦑🌊
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
January 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Incredible! I will never stop being fascinated by this sort of detective work -- so many tools and insights being brought to bear to create these reconstructions.
Wow! This is an epic lesson in systems dynamics! Beautifully presented — thank you 👨🍳💋
Here's the reality about the #LAFires this week: this isn't the first time ANY of these places have burned. Not even close. In 2018, we mapped CA fire history to look at fire frequency across SoCal. Santa Monica Mtns area burns more than anywhere else -- up to once per decade in a given spot. 🧵
January 9, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Wow! This is an epic lesson in systems dynamics! Beautifully presented — thank you 👨🍳💋
Awesome, painstaking, detailed work! Kudos!!
📣 Just published in @conphysjournal.bsky.social with @jacobbowman.bsky.social, Chris Wilson, and Graham Raby
How much does upper thermal tolerance vary among wild populations of brook trout? What drives this variation? 🌡️
🧵1/5
doi.org/10.1093/conp...
How much does upper thermal tolerance vary among wild populations of brook trout? What drives this variation? 🌡️
🧵1/5
doi.org/10.1093/conp...
Local conditions drive interpopulation variation in field-based critical thermal maximum of brook trout
Abstract. Individual- and population-level responses to thermal change will be pivotal for species’ resilience and adaptive responses to climate change. Th
doi.org
January 9, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Awesome, painstaking, detailed work! Kudos!!
such an excellent question! I'm sorry I don't have any answer for you, but I'll be eagerly following this, and hoping it generates some good material for you!
In my upcoming sophomore Environmental Problem Analysis seminar, I'm doing a section on "writing to learn" that will have an emphasis on how LLMs are being used and how should they be used.
What articles have you come across, written for students, about AI and the value of writing/reading?
What articles have you come across, written for students, about AI and the value of writing/reading?
December 30, 2024 at 9:02 PM
such an excellent question! I'm sorry I don't have any answer for you, but I'll be eagerly following this, and hoping it generates some good material for you!
Fantastic! This will absolutely feature in early lessons in my intro courses 👍👍
In case anyone is interested in modifying this for their own purposes, I just put it up on Github: github.com/evanpeck/bar...
December 28, 2024 at 5:42 PM
Fantastic! This will absolutely feature in early lessons in my intro courses 👍👍
**Many** hours on the team bus back in the day on one of those!
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate, and especially those ODBs who once had this on their Christmas list!
December 25, 2024 at 5:45 PM
**Many** hours on the team bus back in the day on one of those!
This is a great thread...yeah, it rambles, but stick with it (especially until you get to the exchange at the end)
Rambling thoughts about agroecology, industrial agriculture, farming, and the future of food
December 17, 2024 at 10:52 PM
This is a great thread...yeah, it rambles, but stick with it (especially until you get to the exchange at the end)
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If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access data from satellites like #Landsat or #Sentinel2, tune into our very first #OpenDataCube community talk next week by Caitlin Adams: how to easily load satellite data for anywhere on the planet using the #OpenSource #odcstac Python package! 🛰️🚀
December 12, 2024 at 6:23 AM
If you've ever been frustrated by trying to access data from satellites like #Landsat or #Sentinel2, tune into our very first #OpenDataCube community talk next week by Caitlin Adams: how to easily load satellite data for anywhere on the planet using the #OpenSource #odcstac Python package! 🛰️🚀
Fascinating work (as always) out of Dr. Gill's lab!
December 13, 2024 at 4:36 PM
Fascinating work (as always) out of Dr. Gill's lab!
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How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
December 12, 2024 at 11:56 PM
How do rare plant species respond to habitat fragmentation?
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
We've been testing this question for the past 18 years, through demographic studies of a half dozen longleaf pine savanna groundlayer species in the SRS Corridor Project fragmentation experiment 🧪
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Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
December 10, 2024 at 6:30 PM
Here is how daily global surface temperatures have changed since the 1940s.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
Note that global temperatures show a modest seasonal cycle due to a higher proportion of land are in the Northern Hemisphere.
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A tangential note on the topic of "teach kids that a chatbot is not a search engine, goddammit." I've spent the past 3 months in my first-year courses teaching principles, practices, questions of evidence, conceptualization, and citation. 1/
December 10, 2024 at 7:04 PM
A tangential note on the topic of "teach kids that a chatbot is not a search engine, goddammit." I've spent the past 3 months in my first-year courses teaching principles, practices, questions of evidence, conceptualization, and citation. 1/
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The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
December 10, 2024 at 1:05 PM
The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better.
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
All three statements are true at the same time. Understanding this is key to solving big global problems.
We believe data & research can help us understand both the problems we face & the progress that’s possible. 🧵
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Superb opening plenary by Nathalie Seddon setting out a framework for connecting features of indigenous local knowledge to ecological principles #BES2024
December 11, 2024 at 9:53 AM
Superb opening plenary by Nathalie Seddon setting out a framework for connecting features of indigenous local knowledge to ecological principles #BES2024
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This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
December 10, 2024 at 12:57 PM
This is so spot on. As a climate scientist and public intellectual, I see or experience these often
Incredible work! Just finished working with my Forest Ecology class on a Coarse Woody Debris field survey…this is a great summation of why we were doing what we were doing!
Dead wood and the circle of life (by Jeroen Helmer)
December 8, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Incredible work! Just finished working with my Forest Ecology class on a Coarse Woody Debris field survey…this is a great summation of why we were doing what we were doing!
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So, I’ll answer my own question. After already dropping $13M in taxpayer dollars into Lake Darling, it’s still so polluted we are now gonna (literally) dump another ~$3M in chemicals (alum) to try and stop algal blooms. And we will spend more money doing the same on other lakes, too. Insanity.
December 7, 2024 at 5:48 PM
So, I’ll answer my own question. After already dropping $13M in taxpayer dollars into Lake Darling, it’s still so polluted we are now gonna (literally) dump another ~$3M in chemicals (alum) to try and stop algal blooms. And we will spend more money doing the same on other lakes, too. Insanity.
A work of art on so many levels 🥲
December 3, 2024 at 9:32 PM
A work of art on so many levels 🥲
Love the idea of a "Cone of Plausibility" & I couldn't agree more with this take -- would love to see the spread of more optimistic visions of the future (Hello "Star Trek") and less the dystopian hole we seem to have crawled into.
We must distinguish between the opportunities for a better future we'd have if we were making sensible decisions today, and the kinds of opportunities we're actually likely to have.
The cone of plausibility on climate futures is mainly limited by greed, delay and incompetence.
The cone of plausibility on climate futures is mainly limited by greed, delay and incompetence.
December 1, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Love the idea of a "Cone of Plausibility" & I couldn't agree more with this take -- would love to see the spread of more optimistic visions of the future (Hello "Star Trek") and less the dystopian hole we seem to have crawled into.
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For my dataz literacy folks: How are we teaching people how to read charts now and how has it changed over time? Is there a #dataviz equivalent of phonics vs whole word chart learning? I'm reading some articles about the current challenges with traditional literacy and wonder if we have it too.
December 1, 2024 at 7:39 PM
For my dataz literacy folks: How are we teaching people how to read charts now and how has it changed over time? Is there a #dataviz equivalent of phonics vs whole word chart learning? I'm reading some articles about the current challenges with traditional literacy and wonder if we have it too.
Astounding. Terrifying. What has become of our country?
From a couple weeks ago, this is terrifying and infuriating and I hope he got paid $10/word for it.
My Life As a Homeless Man in America
An extraordinary firsthand account.
www.esquire.com
November 29, 2024 at 9:30 PM
Astounding. Terrifying. What has become of our country?
Simply some of the best writing you'll ever be likely to see
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Kudos to writer J.B. MacKinnon (jbmackinnon.bsky.social) (I think that's them?). Too bad about Hakai Magazine (@hakaimagazine.com) but looks like they have a strategy in place to continue in some form!
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Kudos to writer J.B. MacKinnon (jbmackinnon.bsky.social) (I think that's them?). Too bad about Hakai Magazine (@hakaimagazine.com) but looks like they have a strategy in place to continue in some form!
The Other Side of the World’s Largest Dam Removal | Hakai Magazine
Removing dams from the Klamath River in Northern California seems like a clear win for fish and rivers. Why do some locals hate it?
hakaimagazine.com
November 28, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Simply some of the best writing you'll ever be likely to see
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Kudos to writer J.B. MacKinnon (jbmackinnon.bsky.social) (I think that's them?). Too bad about Hakai Magazine (@hakaimagazine.com) but looks like they have a strategy in place to continue in some form!
hakaimagazine.com/features/the...
Kudos to writer J.B. MacKinnon (jbmackinnon.bsky.social) (I think that's them?). Too bad about Hakai Magazine (@hakaimagazine.com) but looks like they have a strategy in place to continue in some form!
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Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
November 20, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Trying something new:
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...
A 🧵 on a topic I find many students struggle with: "why do their 📊 look more professional than my 📊?"
It's *lots* of tiny decisions that aren't the defaults in many libraries, so let's break down 1 simple graph by @jburnmurdoch.bsky.social
🔗 www.ft.com/content/73a1...