📣SAVE THE DATE📣 The external review of the IPBES #MonitoringAssessment is coming soon! 📆Opens 3 November 🗣️Who? Governments, scientists, experts, businesses, decision-makers, knowledge-holders, etc. Stay updated⬇️ https://www.ipbes.net/notification/EM/2025/47

I am delighted to welcome 3 new graduate students to EASEL lab this Fall: Lauren Hollinger (B-L), Andrew Callahan (B-R), and Alana Ginsburg (F-R). We kicked off the semester with some gelato with our most recent graduate Dr. Manan Sarupria (photo courtesy: Manan).

🎥 New experience (and FUN) filming for a documentary showcasing our NSF-funded project RISCC (Risks, Impacts, & Strategies for Coastal Communities) at Bowers Beach with Jon Cox & Ben Hemmings. 🌊 Also, respect for people doing summer outdoor shoots for a living!! 🥵 @geographers.bsky.social

I'm co-convening an American Geophysical Union (@agu.org) session on "Coastal Agroecosystems Under Change: Monitoring, Modeling, and Management." If you are planning to attend #AGU25 in New Orleans, please consider submitting an abstract to our session (due July 30) - session description 👇.

How can we create just & sustainable futures for people & nature? 🌍✨ 🧪 The @ipbes.net #TransformativeChange Assessment explores the deep shifts needed to tackle biodiversity loss. youtu.be/H9B4oO9CJAc

Got to hood Dr. Manan Sarupria (2nd PhD from #EASELlab) at the University of Delaware’s Doctoral Hooding Ceremony today!! Congrats, Manan!!! 💙💛 #UDGrad2025

Proud to present Dr. Manan Sarupria who successfully defended his dissertation today. I’ll miss our countless hours of brainstorming; will also miss him representing #EASELlab on different on/off-campus events, and his awesome science communication. @geographers.bsky.social #Geography #satellites

Despite the travel woes, I was able to chair 2 sessions on #coastal #landscapes (+our research on #saltwater intrusion, led by #EASELlab member Manan S.), to serve as an invited panelist on AAG session on “Introduction to Media” and to see/meet old/new friends/colleagues. @geographers.bsky.social

After 2 very stressful days*, I finally had a moment to cherish at #AAG2025! Meet current, former and future #EASELlab members: (L-R) Manan, Dustin and Lauren. @geographers.bsky.social *flight delayed-canceled after 8 hours of waiting-airport hotel-morning flight-hotel booking canceled-new hotel.

Fellow geographers: I am looking forward to seeing some of you at #AAG2025 this upcoming week. EASEL lab will be participating in several sessions (see below). Happy to chat during/after my sessions or over coffee. @geographers.bsky.social

A joint Earth science mission between NASA and its Indian counterpart is now scheduled to launch as soon as next March after being delayed to repair its main radar antenna. #nasa #India 🇮🇳

Rain-soaked holiday market in DC. #holidaylights

#BLOG and #EASELlab (+ friends) holiday dinner in DC. #AGU24 @climchem.bsky.social @kapuge9paleo.bsky.social

Had a quiet breakfast this morning after an intense week of brainstorming with fellow experts for the IPBES monitoring assessment and a ridiculous amount of coffee. BUT we have a near-finalized chapter outline and a plan moving forward. Am I ready for the holidays?! Oh yes!

Cafe in Montreal. #randomphoto

Looking forward to contributing to this important @ipbes.bsky.social assessment 👇🏽

👋🏽 everyone! If you are looking for a journal for your interdisciplinary #EarthSystemsScience research that advances our understanding of the interactions/coupling between Earth’s physical, chemical & biological processes, please consider Earth Interactions. Find more: www.ametsoc.org/index.cfm/am...

Hi Didi! Hi Tim! @riverthoughts.bsky.social #GeoWeek2024 #GeographyAwarenessWeek

It was a pleasure celebrating our Happy Mappy Day (aka #GIS Day) today with the GIS community here in DE. Congratulations to #EASELlab member Manan Sarupria for winning the poster award. @geographers.bsky.social

Oaxaca was amazing! Spending time with my community - Land System Science scholars - was just what I needed last week (and always!)

Día de Muertos in Oaxaca, Mexico: a much needed distraction right now!

On campus today! #Halloween

It’s spooky season! #halloween #fall #pumpkincarving

Delaware Public Media’s Kyle McKinnon discusses seawater intrusion in Delaware with UD professor and environmental geographer Pinki Mondal. @geographers.bsky.social www.delawarepublic.org/show/the-gre...

🚨 Call for Nominations! 🚨 ‌ @ipbes.bsky.social is inviting nominations for experts in biodiversity-inclusive spatial planning and ecological connectivity for its upcoming Spatial Planning Assessment. 🌍🧪 🗓️ Nominations Submission Deadline: 24 January 2025 ipbes.net/spatial-plan... ‌

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #825,877!

Check out this University of Delaware article on our new collaborative NSF-funded project. “We are at a point where we cannot be reactive; we must be proactive,” stressed Mondal. “We have waited long enough for this problem to become severe.” www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/...

Latest coverage of our #saltwater intrusion research by the Chesapeake Bay Journal, including quotes from me & colleagues + a video featuring farmers/landowners currently experiencing this issue. www.bayjournal.com/news/climate...

Pleased to share that I have been selected to serve as a Lead Author for the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) "Multi-Year Assessment on Monitoring Biodiversity & Nature’s Contributions to People." More on this assessment: www.ipbes.net/node/71113 #Geosky

Show me yours!! Find your name in Landsat images: landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...

I’m so glad #BLOG PhD candidate Isuri Kapuge got to experience Joides Resolution (fondly known as The JR) as the program comes to an end with this expedition. #ocean #sediment #PhD #research www.udel.edu/udaily/2024/...

I was featured in the 2024 edition of Innovation Delaware (Delaware Business Times) with some of my U. Delaware CEOE and DSI colleagues. #Geography #Satellites #Agriculture Magazine link: www.pageturnpro.com/Today-Media-...

Four years of reading and writing and revising. Just submitted the final manuscript for production!! #geosky #femsky Thanks to @mickodopolous.bsky.social from here and to the moon!

Can #conservation easements aid both #wildlife and farmers feeling the pinch of #saltwater intrusion? Natalie van Hoose covers our research for National Wildlife magazine: in print this summer/online: www.nwf.org/Home/Magazin...

Can't wait to get started on this NSF-funded project as a co-PI w/ Leah PalmForster & others, and to be a part of this $77.8M nationwide investment to build #climate #resilient #capacity. #UDelaware new.nsf.gov/news/nsf-ann...

2 NSF award notices - one last Friday and one today! I can get used to that feeling 😀 Next 4 years suddenly got very busy!! #research #coastal

Great coverage of SALT conference we co-organized last month & our Nature Sustainability paper by PBS News Hour, featuring my dear colleagues/collaborators Kate Tully & Jarrod Miller. Powerful comments from farmers/landowners. #Saltwaterintrusion #SeaLevelRise #SALT2024 www.pbs.org/video/tippin...

I had so much fun co-organizing #SALT2024 & moderating a session on “Landscape Evolution” that had 4 outstanding speakers - discussing #landscape evolution from local to global - Matt Kirwan, Manan Sarupria, Xi Yang, David Lagomasino. Watch Day 1 opening session here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFFH...

Can't wait to discuss all things SALT with fellow attendees, co-organizing the conference w/ colleagues (Jarrod M., Kate T., Keryn G., Becky E-N) & moderating a session on #landscape evolution. #SALT2024 #SaltWaterIntrusion #SeaLevelRise #Coastal www.agroecologylab.com/salt-confere...

Some of us from #Geography & #Spatial Sciences at the College Convocation today. Congratulation Graduates!! 🎓🎉 #UDGrad2024 @lbnaylor.bsky.social @mstwalter.bsky.social

From UD doctoral hooding ceremony. Congratulations Matt 🎉🎉@mstwalter.bsky.social. #UDGrad2024

🎉It’s time to celebrate Dr. @mstwalter.bsky.social who successfully defended his dissertation today. Matt is the 1st PhD student graduating from #EASELlab (after 4 MS students) & it has been a delight to know his innovative work, strong work ethics, but more importantly, his kindness and generosity.

Scenes from the Board of Trustees meeting today, where some of us became Associate Professors. For #EASELlab, credit goes to the current and former lab members!!! #Tenured

Delighted to see #EASELlab member Dustin Braden (Winter ‘23 MS #Geography, co-advised by @vargaslab.bsky.social) being featured in this UDaily article for his lead-authored paper in Environmental Research Letters. #Mexico #Forest #satellite

🎉7 MS/PhD defenses 🎉 scheduled this year during April-July (I'm a Chair or committee member). 🤯 I am excited for all these junior colleagues (and I need to hide for the rest of the summer and meditate) 🧘‍♀️

#EASELlab force is strong in Hawai’i at @geographers.bsky.social annual meeting. Congratulations to Manan Sarupria & @mstwalter.bsky.social for organizing a great session on #RemoteSensing featuring talks from #undergraduate student, #PhD students and #professor covering a range of topics.

Thanks to Delaware Environmental Institute for organizing yet another great research symposium. Dept of #Geography & Spatial Sciences was well represented by 7 grad & 6 undergrad posters (out of 63 total), authored by Manan S, Nusrat M, Naznin S, Endi K, Ryan E, Puja J, Sena A, Caira F among others.

Latest coverage of our research by WRDE Coast TV. Great storytelling by one of our alumni Alex Seymore (MET major, ‘17). @mstwalter.bsky.social @geographers.bsky.social #geosky TV coverage: www.wrde.com/news/saltwat... Digital media: www.wrde.com/news/saltwat...

Are you all ready to share your impactful research on COASTAL LANDSCAPES at GLPOSM5 at Oaxaca, Mexico (Nov 4-8)? Please consider submitting an abstract to my session “208R: Coastal Landscapes in Transition”. Abstracts are due March 15. #geosky #landscape #coastal event.fourwaves.com/osm2024/page...