The NOAA Ship Ferdinand Hassler leaving Norfolk Virginia for a seafloor mapping campaign.

The NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson leaving Norfolk.

I just wrapped up another blog post on a fun side project I had been thinking about for a while but just now had some time off during the holidays to put it together. This one is called ChatBathy. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

Who doesn’t love a shipwreck fly-through?

Check out my new mobile app I built! Available on the iOS App Store. apps.apple.com/us/app/taped...

Check out this playlist I made with TapeDeck Time Machine! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Alternative Rock from May 1, 1998.

Check out this playlist I made from TapeDeck Time Machine, mimicking what was on an alternative rock radio station in July 2002 (when I was 18). open.spotify.com/playlist/4tT... Feel free to make your own for free at tapedecktimemachine.com #90s #2000s #alternativerock #nostalgia

Tired of your old playlists on Spotify or Apple Music? Try out my new website, which uses an algorithm to mimics what was on the radio on aa given day It’s a work in progress, and I’d love to hear your feedback, especially for the Spotify playlist export. tapedecktimemachine.com #spotify

I don’t know who needs to know this but if you haven’t heard Yellowcard’s newest album, you’re missing out. music.apple.com/us/album/hon...

So, I created a website that curates a playlist in YouTube or Apple Music, that tries to simulate a radio playlist based on a chosen day and genre. I invite you to try it out (fyi- it’s buggy and under construction). Try your favorite genre and a date around 16th bday! tapedecktimemachine.com

A NOAA autonomous survey vessel in Norfolk, Virginia’s Elizabeth River today. #NOAA

Waving goodbye to the NOAA Ship Ferdinand Hassler getting underway from Norfolk, Virginia to continue a seafloor mapping campaign to update NOAA nautical charts. #NOAA

Shoutout to the authors of the Rayshader R package for making it easy to visualize bathymetry or elevation DEMs with just a few lines of code.

Here’s a cool way to explore high density sonar depth point-cloud data that will be used to update nautical charts. anthonyklemm.github.io/potree_viewe...

How can a raster attribute table help maritime navigation? medium.com/@anthony.kle...

A new blog post on shipwrecks and AI. And me teaching myself how to train and fine-tune an AI model to try and detect wrecks in bathymetric surfaces with YOLOv8. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

This is Mertarvik, Alaska, population 300. It’s a new town. Its residents, the vast majority of whom are Yup’ik, began moving in around 2019. The move was by necessity: The nearby village where many residents previously lived, Newtok, is sinking, its riverbanks eroding. THREAD 🧵

An interesting write up about the current situation at the National Geodetic Survey, an agency first founded by Thomas Jefferson’s administration in 1807. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

Welcome back home to Norfolk, TJ!

Robot boats being readied in Norfolk for mapping projects with NOAA Ship Thomas Jefferson

VA Beach sunrise

Trying to weather the churning waves right now.

Happening Now: MASSIVE protest in Utah — Protesters have gathered to protest Donald Trump and Elon Musk. One sign: “Protesting fascism like it’s 1930!” 📍Salt Lake City, UT

Hands Off rally Norfolk Virginia #handsoff

My NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament bracket picks are usually awful. I always lose in my friend group each year. This year I decided to build out two different ML models (logistic regression and LSTM) to predict the bracket picks instead. Here's how it's going so far: medium.com/@anthony.kle...

Gotta love Der Spiegel‘s absolute poetry of a headline: www.spiegel.de/ausland/dona...

Here‘s some insight on what it’s been like for me working as a federal employee right now at NOAA. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

New blog post on automated outlier detection in crowdsourced bathymetry data. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

Thought I’d share some cool crowdsourced bathymetry I saw today in an area east of the MS River delta (the underlying bathymetry model is from NOAA BlueTopo).

Seen on a walk today in our neighborhood. Sigh. What could’ve been is now a ripped up sign washed up on the river bank next to our house in the area with the fastest relative sea level rise on the east coast.

In “Way of the Kings” there’s a cursed king who doesn’t know whether he will wake up a genius or an idiot each morning. That’s how I am now with anger. Today I am very angry.

NOAA carries a two century legacy of America’s first government science agency www.southernfriedscience.com/noaa-carries...

A new blog post is out. It was inspired by a conversation with a neighbor who told me they didn’t believe in sea level rise. I talk about USGS and NOAA water level data and explore data from my local USGS water level gauge that is installed on a bridge next to my house. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

Die wissenschaftlichen Belege für eine bereits laufende Abschwächung der für unser Klima in Europa so wichtigen Atlantikströmung sind stark - auch wenn eine Restunsicherheit bleibt und es dazu gelegentlich noch Diskussionen in der Fachwelt gibt. scilogs.spektrum.de/klimalounge/...

Ever wondered how all types of boaters, from weekend fisherman to ocean-going tugs, can help map the sea floor using equipment already installed on board? The crowdsourced bathymetry movement unites all mariners in our quest to map the sea floor and fill in the gaps of our collect knowledge.

For those interested in GIS and marine science and have ever been baffled how to use a Variable Resolution bathymetric surface/BAG and integrate the data into a more traditional GIS workflow, here‘s a tutorial on how to use them without specialized software. medium.com/@anthony.kle...

For your situational awareness, every $1 spent on NOAA yields $9 in benefit to the US economy.