Our kids played on Newhaven West Beach when they were tiny - then the privatized port closed it to avoid having to fix the crumbling wall and steps. The only sandy beach in the area has been frustratingly out of bounds since 2008. c.org/PBhLJYYGH2

On my way by train from Rotterdam to Timișoara for #FOSS4GE, more or less tracing the same path as the heat wave, proving even meteorology can’t resist a good #FOSS4G 😅

🐄 In the Somerset hills you will find rather less bucolic scenes There you will find “An intensive dairy unit, home to at least 1,300 cows which, contrary to the popular image of milk production, do not graze in the fields which surround the farm“ www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2026...

1) Open this image up 2) Find the small, blue feature in the very middle Congratulations, you've spotted the Perseverance rover on Mars, photographed from orbit! 3) Trace the rover tracks as they wend their way across the surface

The map shows historic landfill sites closest to rivers & survey data from the UK Big River Watch highlighting water quality in these areas. 19% of surveys within 100m of an historic landfill site rates water quality as 'very murky'. 11% for all surveys in England & Wales Coincidence or correlation?

Sun and shadow across small valleys in the Driftless-like Root River basin of southeast Minnesota, on the summer solstice. View toward the southeast. I like how the sun at certain times brings out or obscures the unchanneled drainageways dissecting the slopes. #rayshader

Today is World Refugee Day. Here’s a poem called ‘Refugees’.

#brightonandhove #airquality on winter nights has been poor in recent years. Here are 2 #ESA #Sentinel5 satellite images showing levels of nitrogen dioxide. 1st image 16th Jan 2026, min temp +3.9degC. 2nd 5th Jan, min temp -2.9degC. Almost certainly due to concentrated urban burning of biomass

In this image I've used a relative elevation model to illustrate ground height in relational to the River Stour as it flows into Pegwell Bay, Kent. This #GIS technique brings alive the effects a #river has on its immediate locality, highlighting the meandering flow path as it reaches the sea. #qgis

A double win for children's health: - walking or cycling to school = more exercise - fewer cars on the road = less air pollution Children are often breathing in air at car exhaust pipe height, so they're particularly vulnerable to pollutants like PM2.5: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Just a superb piece of writing from Paul Howard www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer...

Where do young people go when they leave school? I've mapped how the population of 15-20 yr olds changed over 10 years at a local level. The UK map demonstrates how coastal & rural areas are most affected in losing young people #mapping #qgis #economicdevelopment theconversation.com/young-people...

I want to share sad news of the passing of my father David Lovelace last month. He was an amazing dad, an inspiration for me and others around him, and made a huge contribution to landscape history, mapping and nature conservation where I grew up.

After the wildfire near the Snake Pass summit at the beginning of May, our science team returned to the site to check on the sphagnum plugs we planted in the area over the winter. While our plastic monitoring equipment had melted in the heat of the fire, 98% of the sphagnum plugs didn't burn away.

INCREDIBLE! Humpback whale caught on camera breaching right next to a boat off Devon 🐋💙 "It was genuinely one of the most breathtaking wildlife encounters I've ever experienced at sea" 📽️👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...

It's all kicking off in Canterbury.

How off the chart are current French temperatures ? Quite a lot. Simple #dataviz using daily national temperature index since 1950 with #Rstats and #ggplot #climate

I never knew there was a security aspect to the importance of nature restoration. Interesting article on how wet, boggy ground and sinuous river courses can play their part in the defence of Europe #naturebasedsolutions #peatland #riverrestoration

Early this month, #CopernicusEU's #ImageOfTheDay shared two spectacular #Sentinel2 images of tidal dynamics at France's Passage du Gois: an island causeway completely flooded by the tide every day. Here's some quick outputs from our #DEAIntertidal coastal elevation workflow over the same area!

You have to wonder at what point people will start questioning why we have been poisoning the environment & ourselves for so long www.theguardian.com/environment/...

#Sentinel1D is now operational! Great news for #remotesensing as there will be 6 day coverage again Sentinel1 penetrates cloud cover, essential when applying to #floods & #peatland monitoring. Here's an image of the south-east UK. Its flipped due to how the satellite records the data. #openaccess

A Short Poem for Star Wars Day Her name was Yoda, A showgirl she was.

This tiny Temminck's Stint was briefly at Pett Level yesterday, but it couldn't be found this morning. It's a rare migrant and is probably half way to somewhere like Finland already! The second part of the video is at half speed. @sussexornitholo.bsky.social #stint

Fantastic woodpecker and bluebells show today in the #southdowns

The March 2026 #C3S Climate Bulletin reports the 4th-warmest March globally, 1.48°C above the pre-industrial level. Europe saw its 2nd-warmest March on record, while global-average SST reached 20.97°C, the second-highest for March. #CopernicusClimate More info ⬇️

Not all Easter eggs are made of chocolate. Some are hidden in QField. 👀🦄

Today’s poem is called ‘The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted’.

2025 was the EU’s worst wildfire season on record 1M+ hectares burned (≈ half size of Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿) ~2× more than 2024 7,200+ fires recorded Driven by extreme heat + drought fire seasons are getting longer This isn’t a one-off - it’s the new normal joint-research-centre.ec.europa.eu/jrc-news-and...

2nd exposure of the Artemis pic of the dark side of the Earth just dropped. Via @astrojaz.bsky.social My captions for the images: creators.yahoo.com/lifestyle/st... NASA’s Journey to the Moon photo gallery: www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour...

This is the complete opposite to the direction we should be going in. Allowing intensive farming to expand will increase animal suffering, undermine food security, increase pollution, fuel the climate crisis and put all of us at risk. Read more: https://bit.ly/4c0tF6e

Has anyone had an issue in #qgis with the align rasters tool. When I try and configure a layer there's a message stating to select a single layer (which I've done!) #gischat

Caution! - Stoat at work. Live from a North Dorset lane.... The Stoat escaped into the hedgerow - rabbit repositioned at the side of the road. Shame the van came - it's a very quiet lane... #Stoats

Good-humoured, peaceful marchers, calling for love & tolerance - must be the woke lefties www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Half a million strong. Together. The biggest march against the far-right in British history.

The number of North Atlantic right whale calves born this season is the highest in 17 years. www.fisheries.noaa.gov/national/end...

The England Land Use Framework published a couple of days ago is pretty good thinking but the test will be in change on the ground. A blog: markavery.info/2026/03/21/l... ... and a 🧵 below and a hat tip to @guyshrubsole.bsky.social

Well well well, what do we have here? Is that... real 3D data in my 3D ggplot? 🤫 #RStats #rayshader #rayverse

I was able to get out today for some #vgi collection on the Natural England #chalkstream dataset using the CrowdWater app. I recommend using it when you're walking near watercourses. Also used #qfield to record in #qgis. Great to be on the #southdowns - although the streams were a bit murky

A new study has found beaver damming to provide 10x more carbon storage for water courses than those without beavers. Methane emissions were also found to be minimal. Further evidence of the benefits of #naturalfloodmanagement #naturebasedsolutions theconversation.com/beavers-can-...

#TodayinHistory #dataviz #Onthisday #OTD 🎂Mar 16, 1813 John Snow born in Yorkshire, England 🇬🇧 1854: His dot map of deaths in Soho leads (eventually) to discovery of the water-borne source of a cholera epidemic. I celebrate his birthday with a couple of my favorite Snow Map re-creations

England’s chalk streams are among the rarest habitats on Earth & a crucial part of our natural heritage. In Basingstoke we are lucky to have beautiful rivers like the River Loddon. I believe securing UNESCO World Heritage status for chalk streams would build on the protections Government has made.

Day 75 of #365DaysOfMaps. March 16th is Artichoke Day. This map has layers! Artichoke Growth Regions 75/365 mapdesign.icaci.org/2026/03/happ...

#cafc at Oxford yesterday

Great to see and hear so many birds on Devil's Dyke today. What wasn't great was the amount of dogs not on leads where skylarks are nesting #nature #southdowns

Misty walk along the river Adur this morning. Saw an egret, oystercatchers, snipe, blackheaded gulls, skylarks on some beautiful #saltmarsh #nature #sussex

Very good article on how good #Sentinel1 #changedetection is in #mapping floodwaters. For a flood in Afghanistan, this methodology was able to detect 5 times the area shown by some products in the Global Flood Monitoring System. #remotesensing #GIS #geospatial

This spring sees the release of a documentary about the fight to defend and extend access to nature in England and Wales. OUR LAND, directed by Orban Wallace and shot by Gallivant Film, follows the Right to Roam campaign as we trespass estates and challenge removal of rights on Dartmoor and beyond.

Excellent video tutorial on creating animated traces in #qgis over on #reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/QGIS/comments/1rde0fm/comment/o7c29l7/ #gischat #movementdataanalysis #MovementData #mobility