Shawn Carter
@shawncarter.bsky.social
Test fit of a 3D printed #Copernicus #Sentinel-1 SAR satellite. It's about 30cm across the solar cells. Next steps, black undercoat, gold and silver leaf application and metallic paints for the small doodads. Solar cell paint, fingers crossed, if my idea works will look like glass.
November 21, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Test fit of a 3D printed #Copernicus #Sentinel-1 SAR satellite. It's about 30cm across the solar cells. Next steps, black undercoat, gold and silver leaf application and metallic paints for the small doodads. Solar cell paint, fingers crossed, if my idea works will look like glass.
My first daylight saving time with Betty... Oh. My. God. This cat thinks she is going to absolutely starve. Less than a year ago, she literally was starving, a bad ass kitten of the streets, now a pampered suburban cat of leisure. How soon we forget, lol.
November 3, 2025 at 12:11 PM
My first daylight saving time with Betty... Oh. My. God. This cat thinks she is going to absolutely starve. Less than a year ago, she literally was starving, a bad ass kitten of the streets, now a pampered suburban cat of leisure. How soon we forget, lol.
The GloFAS forecast hydrograph for a river in southeast Cuba is remarkable. The 25th quantile of the hydrograph is north of the 100 year flow. That upper tail..that's Noah's Arc territory. If it validates, #HurricanMelissa is bringing epic flooding after the wind destruction.
October 28, 2025 at 2:44 PM
The GloFAS forecast hydrograph for a river in southeast Cuba is remarkable. The 25th quantile of the hydrograph is north of the 100 year flow. That upper tail..that's Noah's Arc territory. If it validates, #HurricanMelissa is bringing epic flooding after the wind destruction.
As a Duval native, in this horrible year:
October 7, 2025 at 11:28 AM
As a Duval native, in this horrible year:
Here's an extreme example along the cliff side exposed by Hurricane Creek in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. We're a couple of hundred miles from the Gulf, but this used to be near the shoreline a long time ago. I get an unsettled feeling every time I walk by here.
August 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Here's an extreme example along the cliff side exposed by Hurricane Creek in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama. We're a couple of hundred miles from the Gulf, but this used to be near the shoreline a long time ago. I get an unsettled feeling every time I walk by here.
I need to talk to my fellow Alabamians about taking more pictures of long leaf pine and big leaf magnolia over bloody sweetgum trees. I mean a fragrant flower bigger than your head deserves more love than the spiky hateball sweetgum.
July 23, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I need to talk to my fellow Alabamians about taking more pictures of long leaf pine and big leaf magnolia over bloody sweetgum trees. I mean a fragrant flower bigger than your head deserves more love than the spiky hateball sweetgum.
My brain immediately to marijuana reading this headline and I was so confused...
July 9, 2025 at 1:48 PM
My brain immediately to marijuana reading this headline and I was so confused...
National Water Center highlighting a rare Catastrophic Flood Impacts tag on the National Flood Hazard Outlook. #NOAA #NWS #flood www.weather.gov/images/owp/F...
April 2, 2025 at 1:41 AM
National Water Center highlighting a rare Catastrophic Flood Impacts tag on the National Flood Hazard Outlook. #NOAA #NWS #flood www.weather.gov/images/owp/F...
Sentinel 2 got a good look at it as well. You can view in the Copernicus Browser here browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=7&lat=3...
March 15, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Sentinel 2 got a good look at it as well. You can view in the Copernicus Browser here browser.dataspace.copernicus.eu?zoom=7&lat=3...
Made a quick script to grab the footprints of #Sentinel2 imagery from the past 24 hours and convert that into a geojson and symbolized my cloud cover. Blue for blue clear skies gradating to white for cloud covered. That will save time looking on Copernicus Browser in the mornings.
March 13, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Made a quick script to grab the footprints of #Sentinel2 imagery from the past 24 hours and convert that into a geojson and symbolized my cloud cover. Blue for blue clear skies gradating to white for cloud covered. That will save time looking on Copernicus Browser in the mornings.
I feel this mood and every time I do...
March 10, 2025 at 9:56 PM
I feel this mood and every time I do...
What did I do last week? I'm a physical scientist in NOAA and I work as a remote sensing specialist and snow hydrology expert. This of course isn't an exhaustive list of what I did, just the first five things I could think of to answer the requirement.
March 3, 2025 at 5:41 PM
What did I do last week? I'm a physical scientist in NOAA and I work as a remote sensing specialist and snow hydrology expert. This of course isn't an exhaustive list of what I did, just the first five things I could think of to answer the requirement.
A few gravity wave formed clouds highlighted by the rising full moon.
January 13, 2025 at 11:58 PM
A few gravity wave formed clouds highlighted by the rising full moon.
Great Montanan art by Charlie Russell, titled Waiting For A Chinook. There really is often a very interesting pattern of warmer air over Western Montana and Wyoming from the downsloping from the Rockies.
January 12, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Great Montanan art by Charlie Russell, titled Waiting For A Chinook. There really is often a very interesting pattern of warmer air over Western Montana and Wyoming from the downsloping from the Rockies.
Compare the amount of NEVI compliant stations to 50-125kw/h stations. EA stations which make up a significant portion of those NEVI compliant stations, frequently have 1 or more pedestals offline (that pesky 15% failure rate). There's room for improvement and we should demand it.
January 4, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Compare the amount of NEVI compliant stations to 50-125kw/h stations. EA stations which make up a significant portion of those NEVI compliant stations, frequently have 1 or more pedestals offline (that pesky 15% failure rate). There's room for improvement and we should demand it.
There's always an XKCD to explain things.
December 2, 2024 at 7:39 PM
There's always an XKCD to explain things.
It's been a week. But here's a beautiful flower I snapped a few months ago in Anchorage, AK.
November 9, 2024 at 12:45 PM
It's been a week. But here's a beautiful flower I snapped a few months ago in Anchorage, AK.