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Very convenient data, esp. if you otherwise have none. We tested the data extensively vs terrestrial water budgets and even against data from the @esaearth.esa.int CCI sea level budget. I might give it a try also as GRACE 'gap filler'

More info on #NoKings San Diego transit stats since I couldn't load this 300 page PDF on my phone yesterday. The last two protests before yesterday had about 30,000 extra trips over an entire normal Saturday, all within a couple hours.

A rare 4-car train operating on the San Diego MTS Green Line to handle post- #NoKings crowds. Four-car consists are typically reserved for major sports events. According to MTS Board meeting presentations, they carried an extra 30,000 passengers (15,000 round trips) during the last No Kings protest.

Literally just got off that ship a few hours ago (Nieuw Amsterdam). Here’s a pic from the crow’s nest:

Made this last night - park & ride transit options for San Diego County No Kings rallies tomorrow. Included locations that are transit-accessible and not already in just a big parking lot. It's somehow less painful to look at on mobile than desktop. alex-wenzel.github.io/transit-maps...

As usual, @douglasporter.bsky.social is the best source on No Kings march/rally details. See y’all downtown! dougporter.substack.com/p/no-kings-i...

Promachus hinei, a robber fly. These are indeed flies, but they are quite the predator. I have seen them take down dragonflies much larger than itself. But besides what they do, they are just beautiful creatures.

Long-tailed Skipper @riceuniversity.bsky.social

An Arabesque Orbweaver with dew on its web.

Rufous-tailed jacamar from Honduras. They are in the Piciformes order, which contains puffbirds, woodpeckers, and toucans. They feed on insects by catching them in flight from exposed perched.

Super high tide in La Jolla.

A red-throated loon and a western grebe turned up in Galveston, Texas. Both very rare birds this far east, but somehow they were together for a brief moment in time.

Osprey at Calumet Park in Bird Rock.

⏳ Almost 20 yrs of 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗖𝗘/-𝗙𝗢 data assimilation tell a fascinating story 🌍💧. Read our newest HESS review here: hess.copernicus.org/articles/30/...

Construction fencing is gone at VA. There are still barriers so I guess the area isn’t open yet, but hopefully it’ll be possible to walk directly between the hospital, UCSD, and the Trolley station soon.

Red-legged Honeycreepers. Honduras. They are a type of tanager. They feed on flowers and fruits, and like hummingbirds, they have a long tongue for probing into flowers. The vivid blue color is not from pigments but is a structural color, where nanostructures in the feathers scatter blue light.

@edyong209.bsky.social and I just had an amazing view of Buff-breasted Flycatchers and a Guatemalan Northern Pygmy Owl in the mountains of Honduras.

Stellar’s Jay from the mountains of Honduras. These look and sound different from those in North America. Seems like every mountain range has its own variant of Stellar’s Jay.

Home. Ocean Beach, San Diego, California #SanDiego #sunset #OceanBeach

The 3/10/1933 Long Beach quake killed 120 people and brought home the dangers from unreinforced masonry buildings. It led to the first seismic provisions in the building code and the passage of the Field Act that ensured strong seismic safety measures for public schools.

The syllabus is the best place to hide important information LOL

Paper alert 🚨📢 GRACE-like reconstruction of terrestrial water storage, starting from the 1980ies(!). Thx to #openaccess PubFund of @unibonn.bsky.social find it for free at Copernicus ESSD via doi.org/10.5194/essd... This work by PhD cand. C.Hacker is part of @crc1502-detect.bsky.social 1/n

Mission Bay HS is my alma mater. It is a bit weird to have the principal talk about their sports program before their academic offerings.

As a Coloradan, I say, he can go fuck himself over Tina Peters. She was charged, and convicted, in a heavily Republican area of Colorado. The judge is Republican as was a portion of the jury. Even Republicans wanted her in jail.

Tonight at Crystal Pier. Pacific Beach, San Diego, California #SanDiego #sunset #PacificBeach #CrystalPier

Ubehebe crater. A phreatomagmatic eruption, where magmas impinge upon wet sediment or groundwater causing rapid vaporization. Volume expansion during vaporization causes the water saturated overburden (roof) to explode. Sudden depressurization causes magma to then erupt catastrophically.

If your geology department needs an excellent guest speaker, see if you can get @julieelliott.bsky.social to talk. She gave a great seminar on various fascinating aspects of Alaskan tectonics today, from a geophysical, seismological, geomorphic, and volcanological point of view. Top notch! ⚒️

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

Why yes, use that leaf blower to remove water from the roof!

Last year, my kid discovered one of very few Pinguiculas ever in the country of Belize. Their closest relatives seem to be from the cloud forests of southeastern Mexico, but they look different. The Maya Mountains. We are just now putting all our observations together!

More hybrids. Today on the Texas coast. FulvousxBlack-bellied Whistling Duck. The barred rump is particularly intriguing.

Last night in Bird Rock

Ripples in the Cretaceous Aguja Formation in Big Bend National Park. These formation is mostly composed of marine shales and mudstones but there are occasional sandstone layers that mark brief changes in depositional environment.

Local reporting on Balboa Park parking continues to omit the fact that, combining both directions for routes 3, 7, 120, and 215, buses stop at Balboa Park: - Weekdays: Every 1 minute and 52 seconds - Saturdays: Every 2 minutes and 18 seconds - Sundays: Every 2 minutes and 30 seconds

San Diego peeps: @ridesd.org is doing a happy hour/panel with Green Drinks on oublic transit in the area. Good opportunity to touch grass and meet people interested in urbanism and decarbonization. luma.com/9d8th3jq

Senior citizen and teenager with a skateboard taking the 30 bus on Mission Blvd (San Diego)

Immature Rufous Hummingbird @riceuniversity.bsky.social. These guys are getting ready to fly north for the summer, perhaps as far as Alaska. Before doing so, they need to replace some of their worn juvenile feathers. This one is still growing in its central tail feathers and inner primaries.

San Diego: Fashion Valley Transit Center is closed. This is the plan for the most severe Mission Valley flooding, so probably a good idea to avoid that area if you can.

I spoke with @carlzimmer.com about our terminated grant on wildfire smoke and homes:

Happy Holidays from Pacific Beach.

Indigo Bunting (Passerina cyanea): This 13cm (5in) bird is native to the Americas. It winters in a range from South America to Florida, breeding from Florida up to southern Canada. It is a seed eating species. Terrific shot of this brilliant blue bird taken by Joe Povenz in the USA. #indigobunting

Well, I tried waiting for blue skies and yellow ginkgo carpets on campus, but the Tule fog/stratus robbed me of that vision, so here’s the consolation view yesterday.

Low tide at Tourmaline Beach viewed from Bird Rock

A Western Willet flying over me. In the fall, the Eastern Willets along the coast fly south to their wintering grounds and are replaced by Western Willets returning from the north. Willets are here year round, but the two species trade places every season. And yes, they are different species.

CVS phone AI just genuinely actually said "Villa Long Acting Jolla Drive".

View from Kate Sessions Park, San Diego

After seemingly disappearing for 5 days, our Allen's Hummingbird @riceuniversity in Houston, TX has returned. Where did to go to all this time?

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