Cost per hr: Gripen - $5,800 F35 - $35,000. Lets say 1000hrs per year per plane. Gripen - $5,800,000 F35 - $35,000,000 72 planes Gripen - $417,600,000 F35 - $2,520,000,000 Gripen savings - $2,102,400,000 per year. That's $2.1 billion per year saved.

~100,000 years of rainfall… 💦

The Beaufort Sea (north of Alaska, northwest Canada) has iced over, with less than five percent of the basin remaining as open water as of November 11. Compare that to the 1980s and 90s, when it wasn't uncommon for "ice over" to happen in September. Data courtesy NSIDC. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

Found this very nice vintage Norco frame (3-butted) in condo garbage. Too big for me so built for my dad. First time building from a frame up (though it did have cranks already). Drilled out frame to put lugged brakes, and 1x10 drivetrain w 11x42 cassette. What do ya think? #cycling

A little zoom, enhance on some cool Permafrost landforms (nets) on Devon Island from Mavic 3E imagery. The borders of the polygons are wetter and so stuff grows there making them pop in the photos.

If the suburban councillors continue down the Landsdowne path, we know they are completely compromised in terms of representing interests of taxpayers of this city. We need to de-amalgamate yesterday. thehttps://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lansdowne-2-0-changed-my-vote

The disturbance from wild 🔥🔥 changes the surface energy balance and leads to permafrost thaw. Here is some real data visualised of one year of thawing and subsidence from a peatland site near Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, burned in the 2023 fires. Lateral thaw > top down

All legal and above board, just don’t talk about it!!

Just a cold, right?

America voted for this - “His replacement is highly unusual given that the office — created by Congress in 1946 to fund Navy and Marine Corps research — is typically run by a two-star admiral with extensive experience in technology, science, and engineering.” thehill.com/policy/defen...

Re: Yesavage

Breaking news! A very good boy 🤣 (my brother’s Halloween doggo)

We removed retaliatory tariffs. It didn’t help at all. Time to get the elbows back up.

And yet Trump’s approval rating is above 40%, tons of Americans are fine with it 🤡

There’s a high of 25 and *humidex* of 28 today in Ottawa. This is pretty wild for late October.

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

I walked 50k steps in the past two days in Bologna, which is good because I also gorged on lasagna, risotto, pizza, and pistacchio croissant 😅

Goodnight from the Amalfi coast 😍🤯

Biking is Tuscany, and eating and drinking wine and coffee, is very good.

Un glossaire pour mieux comprendre le #pergélisol dans un Nord en changement Faculté de foresterie, de géographie et de géomatique Pascale Roy-Léveillée Brendan O’Neill

Canada getting HIMARS 👀👀 www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

He can’t even quote Jesus correctly 😂😂

A fox family was hanging out outside our hotel in Yellowknife. I resisted the urge to pet them (barely). 🦊💛

Remember when Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet in 2015 and Russia did absolutely nothing even though they claimed it was not in Turkish airspace? When armed MiGs violate NATO airspace, I think of this.

Lots of ground ice on Prince of Wales Island, Nunavut. I mean, look at that terrain!

Our latest ground ice mapping. This time improved maps of the Mackenzie Valley and Delta regions, both areas with significant existing and proposed infrastructure. Behind the scenes we are modelling away in other areas toward Ground Ice Map of Canada V2 1/ www.researchgate.net/publication/...

I like shawarma and I just tried Osmows for the first time and I thought you should know I enjoyed it and I’m glad it’s in YYZ cuz it’s a tasty and affordable option. Thanks and goodnight.

I’m gonna miss the Permafrost Terminology Action Group of the Canadian Permafrost Association. Most of us made it to GeoManitoba 2025 for the Glossary launch and photo op 🙌 #scicomm

IT’S ALIVE! The Glossary of Permafrost Science and Engineering is released and available to all for free! Spread the news! You can download it here: canadianpermafrostassociation.ca/glossary-of-...

We made the big leagues

Too bad this wasn’t required reading, with a pass/fail quiz required, before the last election for every American.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

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And that’s it for heli work for the year. Next up more permafrost geophysical surveys at sites burned by wildfire in 2023 to continue monitoring the disturbance to the frozen ground.

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

The black flies were thick north of Yellowknife today, which is weird cuz it’s September

Here’s a really nice crinoid fossil we have downstairs at the Geological Survey.

But this is my favourite of the Dempster taken at the Yukon/Northwest Territories border, looking down “Hurricane Alley”. You can see how the dust from the road gets blown and deposited on the snow from strong winds coming off the mountains.

Dempster Highway, Northwest Territories, in the Richardson Mountains. I took this in 2017 and think it’s pretty neat how the road blends into the hills.

I'll see your alluvial fan, and raise you:

Here’s a really nice alluvial fan I thought you should see

"Washington is embracing what can only be called corporate socialism — profits privatized, losses socialized and taxpayers held hostage to the fortunes of politically connected firms," www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

A man, near the White House, who describes himself as a "retired disabled combat veteran," after burning an American flag tells bystanders "I am being detained because I expressed my First Amendment rights."

Not one mention about how Mayor Sutcliffe didn’t raise property taxes in line with inflation, and surprise, now there’s no money. www.ctvnews.ca/ottawa/artic...

It was neat to contribute, in a small way, to something completely different - a step toward paving the way for small modular reactor deployment in permafrost regions. kwnsfk27.r.eu-west-1.awstrack.me/L0/https:%2F...

Throwback to this video of a thaw slump headwall shedding debris on Peel Plateau, NT. Though the headwall looks dirty, it’s nearly pure ice, buried when the Laurentide Ice Sheet abutted the Richardson Mountains, and preserved in permafrost under a thin blanket of sediment. youtu.be/5GnC_Hvavqc?...

Witnessing the rapid and extensive thawing of permafrost in Svalbard is truly impressive but deeply concerning

Patterned ground. An example from Devon Island. Freeze-thaw processes in permafrost regions make for some nice arrangements on the otherwise quite barren landscape.

G’night from Devon Island, Nunavut. Hiked a LOT today (27,000 steps), up to a plateau so that we could see north into Radstock Bay. We saw tons of fossils. Rod got a hunk of granite for dating, and shells near the upper marine limit. Also flew drones and did veg surveys. I’m cooked 🫡💤🛌😴