Historical satellite imagery provides crucial insights, not only for penguin colonies but also for establishing realistic baselines to support conservation efforts and effective management across broad spatial scales. academic.oup.com/bioscience/a...

We've detected penguin guano stains across Antarctica with cold-war era spy satellites. Remarkably, data from the Cape Washington colony shows exceptional stability, defying decades of environmental change. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Back in my happy place: sending more fully equipped students out to explore lakes in the Black Forest—waters which, to my knowledge, have never been touched by aquatic ecologists. Let the discoveries begin. 🛶🧪🌲

Phew, grateful for the ballot tracking feature at myvote.wi.gov! This is as close as I’ll get to an ‘I Voted’ sticker, but I'll take it. 🗳️✨ #AbsenteeVoting #Democracy

🌱 Why shouldn't you rely on this map to gauge climate change's impact on your garden? 🗺️ Because its colors rely on a location's distance to arbitrary zone boundaries, not actual shifts in which plants are suitable at that location. #GardenersBeware #ClimateChangeMapping

-The existing declassified image archive should be scanned, rectified, and made freely available to maximize its scientific use.
-Other global reconnaissance archives which are valuable for research (e.g. Misty) should also be declassified.
Give these images a second life! (4/4)

Fully unlocking this imagery could help us better understand the resilience of the environment to developments like WW2, the green revolution, and ongoing climate change. But more needs to be done… (3/4)

Modern remote sensing helps us assess ecological change across broad spatial scales, but with a limited timespan. New developments in the processing of historical spy satellite images can extend our baselines into the past to capture major changes prior to the 1980's… (2/4)

Spy satellites from the 1960’s and 70’s spied on soviet bombs. But now they are helping scientists better understand long-term environmental change. (1/4) tinyurl.com/tv5mcfu8