Jed O. Kaplan
@jedokaplan.bsky.social
Researcher, naturalist, educator, cook, father, explorer, traveler. University Professor and Canada Research Chair in geoscience. 🇺🇸🇧🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦 https://jedokaplan.github.io/
Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!
🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...
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October 3, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!
Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!
There are many ideas I agree with in this thread. But @mliebreich.bsky.social gets his guidance to science wrong.
6. Science. Scientists need to stop trying to scare people and focus on informing them. IPCC scenarios need to be plausible from an energy systems perspective, and they need to focus on the landing zone to which we might actually be headed. 24/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
September 14, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!
Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?
August 26, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?
It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...
CRC Opportunities | Queen's University
Queen’s University invites applications for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).
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August 17, 2025 at 2:41 PM
It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...
Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?
The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
July 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?
Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
July 6, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...
Great explainer from my colleague Dan.
There was a tragic rockfall yesterday afternoon at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Here's a recent story from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about it. I'll try to explain my understanding of the event here over the next few minutes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... 🧪⚒️
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/one-dead-three-injured-in-banff-national-park-rockslide/🧪⚒️
June 21, 2025 at 4:50 AM
Great explainer from my colleague Dan.
Good thread. Having thought about these issues a lot myself and recognizing that landscape scale wildfires are rarely all of one severity or another, I enjoyed this back and forth.
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June 12, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Good thread. Having thought about these issues a lot myself and recognizing that landscape scale wildfires are rarely all of one severity or another, I enjoyed this back and forth.
Those were the days. I’ll never forget my two weeks in solitary confinement at the Penny’s Bay COVID detention camp.
How was Hong Kong able to keep COVID19 out for so long? Essentially by reducing inbound travel volume and using quarantine, everything else was basically theatrics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing the effectiveness of travel control measures in preventing imported COVID-19 cases reveals the critical role of travel volume
Although travel control measures have played a key role in mitigating COVID-19 spread in certain regions, few empirical observational studies have spe…
www.sciencedirect.com
May 21, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Those were the days. I’ll never forget my two weeks in solitary confinement at the Penny’s Bay COVID detention camp.
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Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
Bell: Smith to Carney — Wanted Now, a pipeline to Prince Rupert, B.C.
Premier Danielle Smith wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to fast-track a pipeline project to Prince Rupert, along with nixing tanker ban.
calgaryherald.com
May 17, 2025 at 1:57 AM
Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...
I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
April 14, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
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#Amsterdam's canals don't meet most Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point criteria, and not all scientists agree with declaring the #Anthropocene anyway, but these feathered inhabitants' embrace of 'new' materials is terrifying. There's nothing encouraging about the common coot's adaptation.
This bird's nest is made of candy wrappers and face masks. Here's what we can learn | CBC Radio
Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest piece...
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April 8, 2025 at 6:33 PM
#Amsterdam's canals don't meet most Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point criteria, and not all scientists agree with declaring the #Anthropocene anyway, but these feathered inhabitants' embrace of 'new' materials is terrifying. There's nothing encouraging about the common coot's adaptation.
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Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch!
Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
February 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch!
Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD
www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...
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Interesting different views on whether scientists are also responsible for communication of their work and its importance.
Time for scientists to retreat into literal ivory towers, latin curses stitched into their heavy robes, laboratories bedecked with bubbling glassware and minimum of ten lasers piercing the smoke, muttering and mumbling polysyllabic incantations.
March 12, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Interesting different views on whether scientists are also responsible for communication of their work and its importance.
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And this sort of story is exactly why any ideas anyone has about a brain drain from the US as science is cut is likely not happening.
Today's university slashing and burning is Edinburgh, where about 10% of the budget will be cut. There'll be another case every single day until UK govts actually do something. A country so stupid it actively trashes one of things it's good at and famous for.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Edinburgh University to seek £140m in savings
Unions said the plans would result in "devastating cuts" and called for Edinburgh University to use some of its assets instead.
www.bbc.com
February 25, 2025 at 11:30 PM
And this sort of story is exactly why any ideas anyone has about a brain drain from the US as science is cut is likely not happening.
Headed home from Tucson after an intense week of biome modeling with @elkezeller.bsky.social, dreaming about vegetation of earth millions of years ago. Thanks to @leafwax.bsky.social for making this happen! And great to see you and the new lab @thirstygecko.bsky.social!
January 28, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Headed home from Tucson after an intense week of biome modeling with @elkezeller.bsky.social, dreaming about vegetation of earth millions of years ago. Thanks to @leafwax.bsky.social for making this happen! And great to see you and the new lab @thirstygecko.bsky.social!
Ok ok I’ll admit that I was on local television early this morning to talk about the California wildfires and climate change.
Also in 2025 scientists have to explain why “but plants need carbon” is not an argument.
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January 14, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Ok ok I’ll admit that I was on local television early this morning to talk about the California wildfires and climate change.
“If every urban fire that is put out is a problem solved, many wildland fires put out are problems put off.” Wise words from @sjpyne.bsky.social www.stephenpyne.com/blog/posts/4...
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January 9, 2025 at 7:59 PM
“If every urban fire that is put out is a problem solved, many wildland fires put out are problems put off.” Wise words from @sjpyne.bsky.social www.stephenpyne.com/blog/posts/4...
Are you interested in understanding the links between climate change, vegetation, and wildfires? Would you enjoy working with computers? I am hiring paid interns and graduate students: jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ Look forward to hearing from you!
Work with me!
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January 2, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Are you interested in understanding the links between climate change, vegetation, and wildfires? Would you enjoy working with computers? I am hiring paid interns and graduate students: jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ Look forward to hearing from you!
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This is the only international wildland fire social conference - combined again with the Fire Safety Summit! Come join us in Calgary Fall 2025
December 15, 2024 at 12:32 AM
This is the only international wildland fire social conference - combined again with the Fire Safety Summit! Come join us in Calgary Fall 2025
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40% of the world's waste still ends up in open dumps. We know such dumps deliver a sizable contribution, up to 10%, of manmade GHGs. But as @profkatespencer.bsky.social explains below for the UK, with climate change we can expect further poisoned gifts.
theconversation.com/as-floodwate...
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As floodwaters rise, toxic contaminants released from old landfills pose more of a hazard to nature and to us
As floods get more severe and more frequent as a result of climate change, the risk of toxic pollutants being released from old landfills rises.
theconversation.com
December 10, 2024 at 8:58 PM
40% of the world's waste still ends up in open dumps. We know such dumps deliver a sizable contribution, up to 10%, of manmade GHGs. But as @profkatespencer.bsky.social explains below for the UK, with climate change we can expect further poisoned gifts.
theconversation.com/as-floodwate...
theconversation.com/as-floodwate...
Tidying up the other day. Procrastinating, I arranged my transit passes - some quite classic by now - in geographical order.
December 3, 2024 at 5:01 AM
Tidying up the other day. Procrastinating, I arranged my transit passes - some quite classic by now - in geographical order.
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Want to come to @ucalgary.bsky.social and have awesome colleagues like @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmtheodor.bsky.social @molszyns.bsky.social @jedokaplan.bsky.social and myself? Consider applying for this! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1497629... 🧪 #academicsky
Assistant Professor in Data-Driven Modelling for Ecology and Water Conservation in
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Assistant Professor in Data-Driven Modelling for Ecology and Water Conservation in
Calgary,
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November 21, 2024 at 3:54 AM
Want to come to @ucalgary.bsky.social and have awesome colleagues like @shastingssimon.bsky.social @jmtheodor.bsky.social @molszyns.bsky.social @jedokaplan.bsky.social and myself? Consider applying for this! careers.ucalgary.ca/jobs/1497629... 🧪 #academicsky
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Can the state of Washington hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires? 🔥
Can WA hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires?
Overgrown and unhealthy forests are widespread across Central and Eastern Washington as climate change has primed the region for worse wildfires.
www.seattletimes.com
September 29, 2024 at 10:09 PM
Can the state of Washington hack and burn its way out of a future of megafires? 🔥