What We Love About Critical Zone Research: Nancy Weinheimer - University of Wyoming

Discovering more about how life and soil interact fuels the imagination of Nancy Weinheimer member of the #CriticalZone Collaborative Network @bedrockzone, one of nine clusters in the CZCN along with the #BigData Cluster.

We spoke to her at the American Geophysical Union fall meeting in December 2022. #AGU22

#geology #SciComm

Read more about this work: https://criticalzone.org/bedrock/bedrock-saprolite-id

#Midjourney generated #illustrations using prompts from #science paper abstracts.

1-disentangle the interacting drivers of solute loading to streams

2-Anomalous patterns occurring in hydrological time series data

3-Salt marshes

4-space-for-time substitution

#TimeSeries #SciComm #CriticalZone

Outtakes from content created during #AGU22.

Outtake from illustrations we use in posts about #AGU22 sessions. This one was one of the ways #Midjourney responded when prompted to describe the #CriticalZone.

Design floods are modeling tool used by #CivilEngineers to plan how to build communities in areas that are hydrologically active.

Design floods are also very useful for #EnvironmentalScience research. At #AGU22 last year #UniversityOfVermont-based and Cluster collaborator Scott Lawson presented about work in this area: https://bit.ly/3KTuj9O

Good morning, #science!

These sticker-style illustrations were generated by #midjourney with a prompt about #science and #coffee

Some outtakes from #AIillustrations we shared on #AGU22 mornings last #December.

#AGU22 #keynote addresses available to stream now. Here's Carlos Alvarado Quesada, the president of #CostaRica who spoke on December 12, 2022.

https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Schedule-Events/Keynotes-Plenaries/#alvarado

#SciComm #SciencePolicy

What really happened at AGU?
A protest at the world's largest Earth science conference led to a high-profile climate scientist's firing. Was it justified?

Article in HEATED by Arielle Samuelson:
https://heated.world/p/what-really-happened-at-agu

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #AGU #agu22 #RoseAbramoff #heated

Outtakes from #midjourney generated illustrations for #AGU22 sessions which included #BigData Cluster researchers and collaborators.

Prompts (L-R)

1 - a terrain-based Bayesian wind redistribution model

2 - Anomalous patterns occurring in hydrological time series

3 - skyrocketing peaks plummeting peaks

4 - Soil gas and water chemistry data

#AIArt #CriticalZone #SciComm

There's a lot to like about the #CriticalZone. After all, it's the weave of #ComplexSystems that support life on #Earth.

From the #bedrock to the #treetops, it's full of lush plant life, beautiful geologic formations, your garden in the backyard.

But for Eric Parker, based at the University of New Hampshire, who is a hydrologist, there's no question about which part of the Critical Zone is his favorite.

#hydrology #EarthScience #AGU22 #SciComm

Realised today that the #AGU22 plenaries are publicly available - catching up by starting with Mika Tosca's Art and Science plenary. So good. https://www.agu.org/Fall-Meeting/Pages/Schedule-Events/Keynotes-Plenaries/#tosca

Open letter to #AGU demanding they step back on the disproportionate retaliation against @ultracricket and @ClimateHuman after #AGU22. Sign here ➡️ http://aguopenletter.com

So Will Smith gets away with an Oscar even if he smacks someone on stage, but scientists (@ClimateHuman and @ultracricket) non-violently spreading the word of #ClimateCrisis in #AGU gets expelled and removed from the programme? Strange times indeed.

#AGU22

Researcher Rose Abramoff unfurled a banner during the #AGU22 conference where she was presenting her work. The banner called for researchers to take action for #climate and raise awareness among the general public.
▶️ Dismissed from the conf.
▶️ Removal of already presented work from the proceedings (!)
▶️ Fired
🤯

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/opinion/scientist-fired-climate-change-activism.html

Outtakes from #midjourney generated illustrations for #AGU22 presentation sessions. Prompts are quotes from session abstracts presented by members of the #BigData Cluster.

(prompts L-R)

1 - soil gas and water chemistry data

2 - a noticeable deterioration of water quality

3 - unprecedented wildfires and reduced snowmelt runoff

4 - using AI techniques with a focus on detecting peak anomalies

#EarthScience #CriticalZone #biogeosciences #Science #SciComm

https://climatejustice.social/@ClimateHuman/109669249070807561

Should scientists be more activist!? A question that comes up a lot at our ESPartnership conferences. I wished that #AGU had used the action of @ultracricket and @climatehuman during #AGU22 to spark that crucial discussion, instead of expelling them.

https://www.businessinsider.com/climate-researchers-ejected-from-agu-fall-meeting-banner-activism-interview-2022-12?international=true&r=US&IR=T

This was at #AGU22 in Chicago in December. For two weeks after the action, I thought I might get fired as well. "I knew that I could face retaliation. But inaction during this critical time will have far greater consequences."

I was too far away from the convention center for #AGU22 and now I am too close (imo) to the convention center for #AMS2023.

Also, I realized that I have traveled via #Denver thrice for #NCAR workshops in the past and have never entered the city proper.

Outtakes from #midjourney illustrations for #AGU22 sessions.

(left to right)

1- #hydrological and #biogeochemical process understanding as a marble sculpture--ar 3:2
2- the promise of #DeepLearning techniques
3- a dynamic flow regime
4- design #flood hydrographs

#CriticalZone

Remarkable work here! (Was AGU session recorded?)
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RT @JoGiezi
If you are still at @theAGU this afternoon, I will be presenting our work with @pazjusticiavida et al. on Historical #Flood mapping in Bangladesh using #DeepLearning (CNNs and LSTMs)

https://agu.confex.com/agu/fm22/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/1129827

#AGU22
https://twitter.com/JoGiezi/status/1603802643922665483

Chicago wasn't all coffee. I did do some work at #AGU22.