The
@BanffMtnFest
kickoff was a fantastic end (start???) for the Canadian Mountain Assessment, and sharing the panel discussion stage with amazing, wise, and vulnerable colleagues was a highlight. Thanks again
@Graham_McDowell
and all contributors 🙏🙏
There really aren't any words for this. But there is grief. Sadness. Anger.
What's happening in Jasper tonight is going to keep happening. And it will get worse. Make no mistake, and call it like it is: this is a climate change disaster.
It's Friday, and I have been sitting on this news for a while, but as of 1 July 2021 I will be stepping up to Associate Professor
@unbc
#tenure
#promotion
Choked up on the radio talking about the heat wave, and the disproportionate effect climate change has on vulnerable, disadvantaged, and lower income populations. It just really hit me hard.
Hey canada: our systems aren't as robust as we think they are. We are not as insulated from the effects of climate change as we might have thought. But this is a 'teachable' moment: after the rescues and the cleanups, let's lead on climate mitigation and adaptation.
This is Albus. My oldest sister, who has loved this guy for 9 years, was recently moved into hospice care as her glioblastoma (brain tumour) continues its spread. Albus misses her, but we are going to take him for a visit today.
Outdoor learning is the best kind of learning! Getting ready for our GEOG 333 Field School with a hydrology chat at Shane Lake near
@UNBC
.
📷: Adam Hawkins
Shocking video of a mountain glacier collapsing in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.
Just a week ago Italy saw a deadly glacier collapse killing 11 people.
With a rapidly warming climate expect more sobering scenes like this in the future.
Losing a colleague, especially one as smart, and kind, and an absolute treat to spend three days in a tent, storm-bound on an icefield with, is tough. May his memory be a blessing to everyone who knew
@RogueChrisB
Was feeling ragey this morning. Twitter didn't help, nor did the virtual stack of 80 take-home final exams staring me in the face. But I feel better as I start to mark: these students have been put through the fucking ringer, and they are writing some amazing, insightful essays.
Well this is a first: getting emails from ResearchGate about copyright infringement for posting research papers that we worked on and that public dollars paid for.
Friendly reminder: we LOVE to email our publications to anyone who asks. Also, sci-hub.
@jengerson
Unchecked, COVID would have been an unmitigated public health disaster. It was only "kinda bad" because of the measures taken to contain it.
True story: Swimming at the pool tonight with the 10yo. A lifeguard looks at me and says, "Do you teach geography"? And I said "Yeah, did you take my class?" Friends, he not only took my class, he said it was one of his best classes in university.
As we move to online teaching again for the start of the January semester, can we please drop any and all demands or requests that students have their cameras on while we teach? It's an invasion of privacy and a massive overreach.
It's currently 11C above the average temperature for this day of the year in Prince George, it's too warm for a sweater outside, and it smells like a wildfire.
I have been silent. Horrified by the violence perpetrated on innocent people. Scared to say the wrong thing. Destroyed by the darkness and depravity of war. But I know this: a people's right to defend themselves cannot include genocide.
Breaking: a strong (G3) geomagnetic storm is ongoing.
You *may* see some green hues to the north in northern Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, upstate New York, northern Michigan, northern Wisconsin, South Dakota, Montana and perhaps Idaho.
Bigtime show in Canada right now!
Field work! Pouring concrete near Valemount for a weather station as part of our
@PICSCanada
project on snow packs, geohazards, and climate change. cc
@OwenTorgerson
It took thousands of years for the river to carve this channel in the bedrock. No matter what happens tonight, this river isn't going to stop.
#athabascafalls
#jasperNP
Are you thinking of pursuing a PhD studying alpine snowpacks, meteorology, and remote sensing? The Mountain Snow Hydrology Lab () at
@UNBC
/
@UNBCGeography
might be the place for you. DMs open, or contact me by email.
@LabMosh
So what does 4.5 m of glacier thinning look like (about 3.8 m w.e. of mass loss) for Conrad Glacier over the last year? Neither nouns like 'nuts' nor 'bananas' even comes close to describe the degree of mass loss we've seen. Bloody horrible might be a better descriptor to use.
Snowlines on Conrad Glacier, Purcell Mountains, appear to be about 3 weeks ahead of schedule compared with last year (28 July 2020 vs. 3 July 2021). Smoke from the
#BCWildfires
showing up in the 2021 scene.
#bcheat
@sentinel_hub
If this is the weather we end up with it could have huge implications for snowmelt, wildfires, and human health across a wide swath of western Canada. We need to be proactive, rather than reactive, to these events.
#BCwx
#ABwx
@designertweets
I recognized the footage because the Glacier View lodge video features the incredible voice of my bandmate
@ellenbraunmusic
(contact her for all your voice work needs)
Proud supervisor moment, watching Sara Darychuk (
@darychuk
) advance to her PhD candidacy through a fantastic set of written and oral qualifying exams, just in time for the long weekend 🥳🥳
@LabMosh
@UNBCGeography
Showered, put on a collared shirt (!), set the kids up for school work, prepped for my phone interview with
@nxnwcbc
, and set myself up in the garden. Realized the interview is tomorrow.
Still sitting in the garden.
New Journal of Glaciology (
@igsoc
) publication led by Dr. Kriti Mukherjee, with a bit of a cautionary tale. Take-home messages: ice dynamics are a must-have for mass balance modelling, and there are some potential errors in long-term mass balance observations from W. Canada.
One of the largest icefields in the Canadian Rockies just had a catastrophic year: mass loss over its entire area, as measured by repeat laser altimetry surveys from
@brianmenounos
@unbc
and
@HakaiInstitute
I'll be speaking with the fine folks at
@daybreaknorth
tomorrow morning about the ongoing 'snow drought'. It's still early in the season, but the 10-day forecast for central/northern BC doesn't hold a lot of water (pun intended)...
@garymasonglobe
This is insane. You can have an opinion about what the best options are for dealing with climate change, but having an opinion on the theory of climate change itself is like having an opinion on gravity.
Athabasca
#Glacier
(and my little sister) in 1986 (photo credit: me). One of the reasons why I study the
#cryosphere
was a family road trip through the Canadian Rockies. Another reason why is how fast things are changing.
#cryospherewednesdays
@EGU_CR
That word 'unprecedented' is going to get a massive workout...Absolutely insane what is happening BC tonight with wildfires and the line of storms that are ripping through the central interior and the northeast.
The fine folks at the River Forecast Centre have released an updated map of snow conditions in the major river basins of our province, and it's something else: