Wrapping up the semester in "Science, fiction, and our environmental future" with a discussion of the hope/solar punk of Becky Chambers and some synthesis on their thoughts on the next 10-20 years.

No 👏🏻 Anticipatory 👏🏻Obedience 👏🏻

After years of pondering it I’m finally offering a course on Science, fiction, and environmental futures! Novels on the top R, excerpts and chapters below, inspiration to the L. Can’t wait to see what the class thinks!
#scifi #futures #climatechange #adaptation

The scene in Hudson Valley NY - that’s the Hudson River out there

A 22° halo and Jupiter while waiting for some Geminid meteors to show up.

Coming to #AGU24 next week? Come see what our amazing students and post-docs have been learning about green infrastructure and agrivoltaic systems!

Great morning connecting in person with the Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership, learning about t climate vulnerability, tree planting, soil mapping, including a panel on upcoming MD state climate legislation priorities

We leverage multiple spatial datasets from Baltimore, MD to see how stewardship affects the implementation of green infrastructure & changes in tree canopy over time and how this varies with socio-demographic patterns. Combined spatial-temporal analysis is a new direction for STEW-MAP research (2/4)

Good morning! Solar halo over Laurel Maryland on a chilly fall day.

Let’s go!

Excited to speak on a UMD researcher panel at today's AgriSolar Summit put on by Maryland Department of Agriculture. We'll be sharing some preliminary results from our focus groups on agrivoltaic perceptions and barriers with practitioners in Montgomery County, MD

Hi #AGU23 - stop by poster 2053 this afternoon and learn about how @QIANYAO352 is using new approaches to define catchments to better model the outcomes of our stormwater management and IoT monitoring project with @mdhDuBois & @sirjLab

Ghosh - Adoption of words “resilience” & “adaptation” meant to imply a sense of objectivity but is also #dystopian because it represents one specific view of climate futures unfolding

Ghosh @GhoshAmitav suggests to #AGU23 that deterministic and predictive modeling represents the views of a class of experts and also likely misses a lot of human behavior, social systems dynamics, etc.

Great workshop on Solar power & Ag yesterday hosted by @MdAgDept to get the conversation started on dual use and trade offs. Nice to see broad agency perspectives from MarylandDNR, MDEnergy Admin, Dept of Planning, UMD_AGNR & industry partners - lots of practitioners in the room too!

So proud of Elad Shdaimah- masterful (ha!) defense of his MS thesis “Invasive Liana Hedera helix (English Ivy) Impacts on Ecological Characteristics and Nutrient Cycling in Baltimore Forest Patches” yesterday!

Got a tour of UDC’s Agrivoltaics demonstration site today to get some ideas for what we can do in Montgomery County, MD

First ‘skeet’ coincides with gearing up for fall semester for the profs (and middle schoolers too)