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Brendan O’Neill

@permafrostee.bsky.social

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Permafrost Research Scientist - PhD. Ottawa. Ground ice and effects of climate change. Also like bikes, EVs, and making cities better🌳 🚲. UVic and Carleton U Alum. Long Covid - rebuilt 🤖👁️🧠🦾🦿. слава україні ! 🇺🇦

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · Nov 13

Ice rich permafrost cores thawing in the lab. Imagine this happening slowly as permafrost thaws with climate change or disturbance and what this means for insfrastructure built above! (This was my most popular post on the bad place, let’s make it so here too!) #cdnsci #geoscience #cryosphere

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 19h

Good and you? 👍

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

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Université Laval @ulaval.ca · 2d

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

Un glossaire pour mieux comprendre le pergélisol dans un Nord en changement

Une équipe canadienne multidisciplinaire a publié un ouvrage de référence accessible gratuitement regroupant 355 définitions, auquel des membres professeurs et étudiants de l'Université Laval et du Centre d'études nordiques ont contribué

nouvelles.ulaval.ca

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 5d

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

U.S. State Department greenlights potential sale of $2.4B mobile rocket system to Canada | CBC News

The U.S. State Department has given Canada the green light to potentially purchase 26 M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.4 billion, ...

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 5d

Always big talk no walk.

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 7d

Its like Canada and high speed rail 🤣

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 8d

He can’t even quote Jesus correctly 😂😂

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 8d

Hegseth’s urgent meeting with the generals and admirals is a multimillion-dollar taxpayer-funded anti-DEI call to action stunt.

My wife and I were watching it live in bed, jaws dropped. I knew this was coming, but it’s quite something else to see and hear it live.

We’re a deeply unserious nation…

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 8d

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

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 8d

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.

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Ryan Robinson @ryanrobinson.ca · 9d

I see this headline and feel obligated to point out: speed limits are the law. The cameras already are quite literally being used to detect people committing crime.

But no, he means crimes like theft (of cars), not crimes against people using cars.

#OnPoli

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Ford, set to ban speed cameras, muses about cameras to fight crime instead | CBC News

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is set to soon ban speed cameras across the province, but is now musing about "cameras on crime" instead to target stolen cars and home invasion suspects.

www.cbc.ca

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 9d

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

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 10d

What are you asking?

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 11d

which allows a range of conditions to be represented for each pixel on what will be a new national map. End

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 11d

…represented in the area. It also shows how these units have been parameterized in the areas we’ve mapped in the past, and flags if params have differed among areas. Also made a tool so we can generalize outputs with bigger pixel size while storing sub pixel heterogeneity in the attribute table 3/

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 11d

We are learning lots along the way, and improving the model workflow to automate it. It’s now quite sweet: outline an area you want to model, and python code takes control of computer, downloads all surf geo maps, combines and rasterizes them, and spits out summaries of all the units and legends /2

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 11d

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/...

(PDF) Preliminary ground ice modelling of the Mackenzie Valley and Delta regions, Northwest Territories, Canada

PDF | New regional-scale ground ice modelling for the Mackenzie Valley and Delta regions, based on surficial geology aligned with the Geological Survey... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

www.researchgate.net

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 13d

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.

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 14d

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

Most of the Canadian Permafrost Associafion’s Permafrost Terminology Action Group

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

Thank you! Yes, I’m very happy with how the hierarchy, relations, and hyperlinks work in the pdf. Appreciate the kind comment ☺️

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

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-...

Dr Toni Lewkowicz launching the glossary!

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

There’s also a typo/wrong word just out of the picture… it’s not perfect, but it’s permafrost beer 😄

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Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

Yes. I do love a good English pub style ale. Just nice and malty, not much carbonation, oh so good

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

She’s a beauty 😍

Brendan O’Neill @permafrostee.bsky.social · 15d

I can only assume we must consider a 3 layer system with the ice wedge top at the permafrost table, even tho the layers are the same colour! 🤣

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