Scott Robeson
Climate, statistics, and environmental change @IUBloomington and @IUGeography. Alum of @UDCEOE and @UBCgeog. Subsistence farmer. All views my own.
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A neuroscientist's quest to reduce waste in research labs » Yale Climate Connections
Allison Paradise is helping labs cut energy use and improve sustainability.
Defining pyromes and global syndromes of fire regimes
Fire is a ubiquitous component of the Earth system that is poorly understood. To date, a global-scale understanding of fire is largely limited to the annual extent of burning as detected by satellites. This is problematic because fire is...
Southern Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides)
Southern Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides) is an aromatic perennial that is native to Georgia. Butterflies are very fond of it.
Scott Robeson
Circling back on this as @taxosplitter tells me that this plant is Southern Mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides). Butterflies love it so gonna help it spread!
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Histogram Equalization in Python and matplotlib – Geophysics Labs
Scott Robeson
@CColose Hard to say about a specific colormap choice (usually depends on the story you're trying to tell), but it's worth looking at histogram equalization of the colormap
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When Does Weather Become Climate?
Flexible definitions of the word “climate” may impede policy discussions on climate change. Closing apparent gaps between “climate” and “weather” may help reduce the ambiguity.
Alabama To Allow Sandhill Crane Hunting After More Than 100 Years
The season begins later this year. The state joins Tennessee and Kentucky as the third state east of the Mississippi River to permit sandhill crane hunting.
Scott Robeson
Sandhill Crane populations are slow to recover and they finally have somewhat. As a result, state DNRs decide to start killing them *again*? Bad idea, Alabama (and Tennessee and Kentucky).
We do not need or want this in Indiana, @INdnrnews.
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A beginners guide to scientific publishing and the open access movement
Since the onset of the internet the scientific publishing system has continuously changed. Yet, many of the flaws in the system remain…
The IPCC land and climate report fails miserably | George Monbiot
It vastly underestimates the carbon cost of meat and dairy. We can’t keep eating like this, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Nonnative plants reduce population growth of an insectivorous bird
Nonnative plants lack an evolutionary history with native fauna and support insect communities that are less abundant and diverse, and this may change food availability for vertebrate consumers. Most insectivorous birds are absent or declining in...
Scott Robeson
Wow, missed this article when it came out. Striking that even small amounts of nonnative plants can degrade habitat enough that some native birds (here, Carolina chickadee) aren't able to reproduce above replacement levels.
pnas.org/content/115/45… pic.twitter.com/WXMTTg0cyK
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Hunting for feral figs
The gem-like fruit are best when found free in the urban wilds.
Economics of the disintegration of the Greenland ice sheet
This study integrates an economic model of climate change with a small structural model of the Greenland ice sheet (GIS). As such, it provides a methodology for incorporating large earth system changes into standard economic cost–benefit or...
Climate change research threatened by University of Alaska budget cuts
Gov. Mike Dunleavy slashed university funding by $130 million, alarming Alaskans, scientists and climate specialists.
California Professors Create Seesaw Across US-Mexico Border to Allow Children to Play Together
Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello's drawings from 2009 finally came to life when they designed the seesaw between the U.S. and Mexico border
A way oversized DC:AC ratio seen in the wild!
Swinerton Renewables & SolarFlex have announced a 26.4 MWac solar project, which public documents show is bigger than 48.6 MWdc - meaning a greater than 1.8:1 DC to AC ratio.
First off-shore PV project launched in the North Sea
A floating solar array will be located in the North Sea near an aquaculture and an offshore wind power facility. The €2 million pilot project is being developed by a consortium including Tractebel, Jan De Nul Group, Deme, Soltech and Ghent...
A critique of the objective function utilized in calculating the Thrifty Food Plan
The Thrifty Food Plan (TFP) is the basis of benefit allocations within the USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), which administers nearly $70 billion in benefits to over 42 million people annually. To produce the allocation of...
Scott Robeson
USDA’s Thrifty Food Plan administers $70 billion in benefits to over 42 million. There are simple ways to make it better match actual food consumption.
New research in @PLOSONE by Angela Babb, Dan Knudsen, and me. @IUGeography
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