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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 20d

Happening tomorrow, 9/18, 11 am US ET. Dont miss it!

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · 29d

Upcoming #WARR talks on water chemistry + pollution in substantially modified urban streams flowing through densely populated landscapes

Drs. Elizabeth Herndon + Anne Jefferson @annejefferson.bsky.social

REgister: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · 26d

🚨 Call for Judges!

At GSA 2025 in San Antonio, GIDS Division @gsageoinfo.bsky.social is hosting a student poster competition (Session T42) with 10+ presenters.

🗓 Oct 20, 2025 | 3:30–5:30 pm
💰 Cash awards for winners

Sign up here: forms.gle/FEKfy6MrPLW6...

#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics #DataScience

Judge Sign-up Form for 2025 GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division Student Poster Competition

At the 2025 GSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division will host and sponsor the student poster competition session T42: A Showcase of Student Research in ...

forms.gle

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GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science @gsageoinfo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Contact [email protected], or visit this link (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) for more about volunteer guidelines.

Click this link to learn about Data Help Desk (www.esipfed.org/data-help-de...)

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GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science @gsageoinfo.bsky.social · Sep 5

Please consider volunteering to be a Data or Software Expert! Join us at the booth to answer questions or give a demo/tutorial of your choosing.

Please click this link to sign up for being a Data Help Desk expert at GSA 2025 (forms.gle/8kV3YLecjmtM...) by September 19.

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GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science @gsageoinfo.bsky.social · Sep 5

We are working with the @esipfed.bsky.social to bring a Data Help Desk booth to the upcoming @geosociety.bsky.social meeting, October 19-22, in San Antonio, TX. At DHD, people can learn about skills and techniques that help further their research and make their data and software more open and FAIR.

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Jul 7

This event is open to anyone interested in geoinformatics, data science, and cross-disciplinary research. Please share widely! @gsageoinfo.bsky.social

#Geoinformatics #DataScience #GSAWebinar #OpenScience

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Jul 7

The GSA @gsageoinfo.bsky.social Geoinformatics & Data Science Division is hosting a free webinar with 2023 M. Lee Allison Awardee Dr. Simon Goring.
🗓️ July 15, 2025, 12 PM EST
🎤 Talk + Q&A: “Building Community in Geoinformatics”
🔗 Register: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please share widely!

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Jul 7

The GSA @gsageoinfo.bsky.social Geoinformatics & Data Science Division is hosting a free webinar with 2023 M. Lee Allison Awardee Dr. Simon Goring.
🗓️ July 15, 2025, 12 PM EST
🎤 Talk + Q&A: “Building Community in Geoinformatics”
🔗 Register: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please share widely!

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 28

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream

www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream

YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 23

All the news I have been reading these days in the U.S. are driving me nuts. #HandsOffScience

Iveta Silova @isilova.bsky.social · Apr 9

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought that complying with authoritarian demands would protect their independence. It didn’t—and history is warning us again.
🔗 theconversation.com/universities...

#AcademicFreedom #HigherEd #Authoritarianism #DEI #TheConversation

Universities in Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union thought giving in to government demands would save their independence

Before the Nazis, German universities were among the best in the world. Step by step, the universities gave up their independence until they were instruments of the state.

theconversation.com

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 19

📢 GSA Geoinformatics & Data Science is seeking a Chair-Elect (2025–26)! @geosociety.bsky.social @gsageoinfo.bsky.social
Co-lead GSA GIDS program + help grow the community.
💡 You’ll become Chair the following year.
📧 Email [email protected] to learn more or nominate yourself!
#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 19

🚨 GSA 2025 Session T22: Fixing the Silent Leak
Legacy oil & gas wells—how do we find, assess & fix them?
📍 Field work
🧪 Lab analysis
📊 Modeling
🛠️ Mitigation
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Aug 5
Submit now!

@gsageoinfo.bsky.social @geosociety.bsky.social
#GSA2025 #OilAndGas #LegacyWells #EarthScience

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 16

I’m still working on editing the modules to ensure the code runs smoothly on cloud platforms like Google Colab. In the meantime, you are most welcome to download the materials and run them locally. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might benefit.

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 16

The Spring 2025 version of the course includes six modules:
• Module 1: Course Introduction and R Basics
• Module 2: Data Frames and Visualization
• Module 3: Geospatial Data Analysis
• Module 4: Supervised Machine Learning
• Module 5: Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Module 6: Deep Learning

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 16

I’ve wrapped up the first offering of my #machinelearning class that is designed to serve earth & environmental sciences students and beyond, I wanted to share all the teaching materials in case anyone wants to explore them. All materials can be accessed via this link (jaywen.com/courses/ear-...).

EAR 400 - Machine Learning in Earth and Environmental Sciences – Wen Group

a 3-credit course introducing machine learning in earth and environmental sciences

jaywen.com

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Dr. Rebecca Barnes (she/her) @waterbarnes.bsky.social · May 13

🧪Tune in Thursday at 11 AM Eastern for this month's #WARR talks- Drs Manuela Brunner & Jenny Druhan will explore how hydrologic extremes impact water quality
Register here: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

PennState College of Engineering supports the Women Advancing River Research lecture series.

Hydrologic extremes and their impacts on water quality
May 15, 11 AM ET

Manuela Brunner, ETH Zurich & SLF
Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois

QR Code that leads to registration: https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx

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Nandita @nanditabasu.bsky.social · May 5

Last few days to apply

Julie Mai @julieeemai.bsky.social · Apr 17

We are looking for a Research Software Engineer/Scientist to work between @nanditabasu.bsky.social and myself on watershed, water quality, wetlands and modeling, from the watershed to regional and global scales. Please reach out and apply..

www.linkedin.com/posts/nandit...

Research Software Engineer/Scientist | Nandita Basu

We are looking for a Research Software Engineer/Scientist to work between Juliane (Julie) Mai and myself on watershed, water quality, wetlands and modeling, from the watershed to regional and global s...

www.linkedin.com

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 5

🚨 Abstracts open for GSA 2025 Session T47:
Geoinformatics, Open Science & FAIR Data 🌍
Let’s rethink how geology shares & analyzes data.
🗓️ Early: May 15 | Final: Aug 5
Submit & spread the word!

#GSA2025 #OpenScience #Geoinformatics #FAIRdata
@gsageoinfo.bsky.social

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · May 2

🚨 GSA 2025 Student Poster Competition! Calling for abstracts!
Session T42 (Geo+Data Sci): geospatial, ML, big data, modeling, viz.
💰 Cash awards for top student posters!
🗓️ Early deadline: May 15 | Final: Aug 5
Please share with students!
#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics #DataScience @gsageoinfo.bsky.social

Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Apr 30

🚨 New paper! My PhD student Zanchenling Wang’s first paper in JGR: ML & Computation! 🎉 We present a new ML algorithm for end-member mixing analysis—tested on geochem, sediment & remote sensing datasets & benchmarked vs. other methods.. Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Inferring End‐Members From Geoscience Data Using Simplex Projected Gradient Descent‐Archetypal Analysis

We introduce simplex projected gradient descent-archetypal analysis (SPGD-AA), an unsupervised machine learning model for inferring end-members from mixed geoscience data SPGD-AA is intuitive, in...

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Apr 7

I did it last summer to move two mass specs. Feel free to connect by email! Happy to hop on a phone/Zoom call to elaborate on any aspect of it!

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Apr 7

My colleague Prof. Sam Tuttle at Syracuse University is looking to fill a postdoc position to investigate snowmelt processes using satellite remote sensing. Check out this link for details and application instructions: www.sujobopps.com/postings/108...

Postdoctoral Researcher - Earth & Environmental Sciences

The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University seeks applicants for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in snowmelt detection using satellite remote sensing. This is a fully ...

www.sujobopps.com

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Apr 2

📢 Research Opportunity: DeCODER announces mini research grants ($2,500) to investigate geoscience questions using science-on-schema!

🔍 Focus areas: low-temp geochemistry, ecological forecasting & deep ocean observing
⏱️ 6-month or less projects

www.earthcube.org/decoder-mini...

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Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · Mar 19

Happening tomorrow!

@waterbarnes.bsky.social

Li Li 李黎 @lireactivewater.bsky.social · Mar 12

WARR in March!
A panel on "Navigating smooth and choppy waters: collaboration stories and strategies" Led by Drs. Julia Perdrial, Lixin Jin, Lauren Lowman.

Please note we have changed to daylight saving time.

Register: psu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Recordings: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Mar 13

Credits go to Samantha Baxter at Fondriest Environmental for writing up this nice piece summarizing the work (and hardware) at Meadowbrook Creek in Syracuse. Thank @llautz.bsky.social for establishing the sites!
www.fondriest.com/news/monitor...

Monitoring Meadowbrook Creek: Real-Time Data Collection in an Urban Creek

Real-time monitoring led by Syracuse University in Meadowbrook Creek provides crucial data to protect water quality in Syracuse, New York.

www.fondriest.com

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Tao Wen 文涛 @jaywen.bsky.social · Mar 13

A nice day to restore the urban stream monitoring site #MeadowBrook

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