NEW CLASS - Winter 2027 ERTH/ENVS 4601, Advanced Biogeochemical Cycles The course will focus on a biogeochemical toolkit, with a focus on isotopes and biomarkers and how these are used to investigate global biogeochemical cycles.

Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2026 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet (April 17, 2026)

Hey! That Vancouver tree data sure looks familiar …

Mountaintop Removal of Bloom’s Taxonomy. That’s what it feels like LLMs are doing to my courses some days.

Back to my long-running project of upgrading the style on my old river maps from the ca. 2010 style (for a book I never printed) to the more colorful poster style I've been using since about 2020. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/river-maps/

I have to talk to Dr. Mui about how much spare time students have in her projects class that they can engage in these shenanigans … 😉

How's your day going? I think need a coffee and a #GISChat while I wait for this not quite 4 of 8 billion points to finish processing pyramids ... 50 minutes elapsed.

This year's crop of ECCE Associates at Dalhousie is another great group. ecce.esri.ca/dal-blog/202...

EES at the 52nd AGS (Atlantic Geoscience Society) Colloquium and Annual Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia, Feb 6-7. Congratulations to Cameron Greaves for Best Grad presentation!

Come teach in a really cool, progressive unit on my home campus! @osuceoas.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, fixed-term, Assistant or Associate Professor of **Teaching** jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/176... #AcademicSky #geogsky #gischat ⚒️ 🌎

Calling all salamander lovers! Here is a great field opportunity with the Riley Lab in Sackville, NB for this summer and fall. Deadline to apply is March 2, 2026.

After going decades without strep throat, I’ve had two infections over about a year. A couple days ago I started getting symptoms presenting the same way as the last two go arounds. The sore throat more to one side, discomfort extending down the neck and up into the ear. 1/n

📍 What is the oldest profession in geography and why should you care about it in 2026? The #GLaDpodcast has answers (and 🔥 takes)! No spoilers 🤐 but @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I are joined this time by special guest @arobinson.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/02JW...

For those in #Halisky, check this out! I saw (and had a small part in organizing) a version of this many years ago, and it was FANTASTIC! I can only imagine it will be even better this year! ukings.ca/events/metro... @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social #SFF

What time is it? It’s avoid grading exams by spending all day making a Rappie Pie day. That’s a lot of potatoes peeled.

Sweet Jane’s. 10:25 am, December 18th, 2025. #Whamageddon.

Was happy to contribute to a module in this initiative (street tree distribution in Vancouver, BC).

Get ready for Fat Tony Season. Where the pretzel money is the final grade. And faculty are Fat Tony. Or maybe Marge. Ok. I’ll concede maybe this is an imperfect analogy but students are definitely Fat Tony’s wife. youtu.be/EMF1nuK71ks

It was a simpler time …

EES Students, We'd love to get your feedback. Take a survey on three upper-year Earth Science ERTH/GEOG 3302 – Quaternary Sedimentary Environments, ERTH 4350/5350 – Tectonics and ERTH 4153 – Petroleum Geology & Energy Systems and help inform and improve course offerings and scheduling.

Walked through Public Gardens to see the lights they’ve put up for the holidays. Immediately Whamageddoned. Not. Even. December.

Unacceptable.

Hey! I know that guy!

Real helpful buddy. Real helpful, guy.

If anyone is at #HALCON this weekend, stop by the @writersfedofns.bsky.social table and grab their zine. I have a fun little story in it. I believe it will also be made freely available on their website for a limited time.

Two PhD student positions on Fire Resilience of Amazon Forests (Application deadline Nov 26), Wageningen @masha-vandersande.bsky.social @w-u-r.bsky.social www.wur.nl/nl/vacature/...

A movie you’ve seen more than 7 times with a GIF

Well this is wild. #BlueJays.

Does this count as #gischat? I did find them on a Wednesday…

Appeared outside my door last night post class. These students get me.

Happy to share that the third paper from my PhD is now published! We estimated remote sensing-derived forest structural and functional integrity on Vancouver Island and examined the influence of anthropogenic pressure on these metrics. Open access here: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

There’s something that just seems appropriate about a team with the most come from behind victories in the season, falling behind 2-0 in the series, coming back and pushing to game 7, falling behind in game 7 and then getting the late lead. Fun, wild game.

Whelp … Dal is announcing a tentative agreement: www.dal.ca/dept/hr/labo...

Well that was some disappointing sportsball.

My department @geographieudem.bsky.social is looking for a professor in human geography specializing in the study of social-ecological transformations, political ecology, climate change, environmental justice and/or the geography of risks and infrastructures. Deadline November 10, share widely!

Our department at UBC is hiring for a professor of forest ecophysiology, including "tree ecophysiology; plant abiotic or biotic stress physiology; forest mortality and climate change responses; forest carbon balance; tree water relations; or nutrient use." Learn more at: tinyurl.com/5da56f5c

Sigh. www.saltwire.com/nova-scotia/.... “We don’t have endless pockets.” Maybe not, but you do appear to be contributing to past provincial surpluses by flatlining transfers or citing “increases” well under inflation. Eroding investment has led to the present crisis, and poor labour relations.

Starting out with geographic data in Python? 🌍🐍 Chapter 1 of Geocomputation with Python introduces vector & raster models + core tools (geopandas, shapely, rasterio). 👉 https://py.geocompx.org/01-spatial-data #geopython #python #gischat

Reading this release (www2.acadiau.ca/about-acadia...) makes me even more angry at the process we just endured. Acadia demonstrated both sides can commit to not only maintaining relationships but strengthening them. For me, relationships feel fractured and repair will take time. #KeepDalStrong

There is a growing movement as large as one household to have this card banned.

Whelp … may have to spring for a month of sports net.

A wee thread 🧵: Everyone I spoke to at Dalhousie today was upset by the president’s “short Friday note”: faculty, staff, students, unionized or no. The main reason? 1/6

Honestly, saying nothing would have been better than that “people are urging me to say something” email to faculty. #KeepDalStrong

It's interesting that anyone would be surprised by this. They are large language models, not large fact models. They are very good at language; it's unsurprising that they aren't terribly good at facts.

In the 2015-2016 academic year I taught 10 courses as a CUPE3904 sessional lecturer at TMU (formerly Ryerson). I came to Dalhousie on a 50% FTE limited term appointment and was taken aback at how far behind the local @cupe3912.bsky.social stipends were compared to 3904. 1/2

Assuming ratification, this was me last night. If it was any of my colleagues out there too, grading party at the pub this weekend?

Maybe that Guidance assist did the trick.

Thank you for your support - it has meant the world to all of us who have been locked out to have the support of the community! #KeepDalStrong