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Dawn Jeannine Wright is an American geographer and oceanographer. She is a leading authority in the application of geographic information… more

Dawn J. Wright
H-index: 37
Environmental science 42%
Geology 17%
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by Dawn J. Wright

deepseadawn.bsky.social
On ocean exploration, Black excellence, and the power of nerdiness ...

New "Black Nerds Matter" podcast

#Blacksky 🌊 🦑 ⚒️ 🌎 🌍 🌏 #geosky #GISchat #geogchat

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GM-6... or

open.spotify.com/episode/1Pwg...
Banner for this episode of Black Nerds Matter showing picture of Dawn Wright with her new Black Nerds Matter coffee cup and t-shirt (both sporting a graphic of a young Black man SCUBA diving through a beautiful coral reef).
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by Dawn J. Wright

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Love 😍 this....

New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.

Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.

#WorkLifeBalance 🧪

www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains
Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband
www.theguardian.com
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Imagine, just for a moment, a climate future where the facts cannot be deleted...

If that sounds like an ideal future for you and/or your family make sure to check out our website (Climate.us) and give us a follow on our social media accounts.
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Help us show the Trump administration how unpopular their plans to open our protected areas to industrial fishing are

Please sign and share our petition

forms.gle/WfkshZpsqJGi...
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The Data Liberation Project launched the new logo to represent how we’re liberating public data for the public good. www.data-liberation-project.org
Data Liberation Project
The Data Liberation Project is an initiative to identify, obtain, reformat, clean, document, publish, and disseminate government datasets of public interest.
www.data-liberation-project.org
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by Dawn J. Wright

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Science to investigate the world’s most important carbon sink

by Dawn J. Wright

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We may have lost Jane Goodall, but for me, I will look to Jacinda Ardern, among others, for inspiration.
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Prime Minister | Official Trailer | HBO
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by Dawn J. Wright — Reposted by: Gavin L. Foster

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"Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them."

www.wired.com/story/former...
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Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters
Scientists have a lot of questions about our planet’s most important carbon sink—and a new project could help answer them.
www.wired.com
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by Dawn J. Wright

deepseadawn.bsky.social
From Netflix Insta: "Earlier this year, Dr. Jane Goodall, a UN Messenger of Peace, sat down for a deeply reflective conversation about her legacy & to immortalize her final words w/ the understanding that it would only be shared w/ the world after she passed."

“Famous Last Words” is now on Netflix
Banner for Famous Last Words, Dr. Jane Goodall, now showing on Netflix.
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by Dawn J. Wright

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By the way, I don’t see how Cathy Englebert survives in the long run either 😉🏀
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by Kate Starbird — Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, David Lazer, Shelly Lundberg , and 3 more

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A moment that calls for collective action… to reject this transparent attack on academic freedom.
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 6d
Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Marc Lynch, Robert W. Wallace , and 8 more

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Some schools will be starved of resources. Other schools will be offered bribes. The end goal is the same. To make the universities an extension of the Trump administration. Shame on any of these institutions willing to take the bribes.
Letters on Wednesday were going out to solicit agreement and feedback from Vanderbilt University, Dartmouth College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Southern California, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Texas, the University of Arizona, Brown University and the University of Virginia, according to an administration official.
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by Brendan Nyhan — Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Anna O. Law, Lisa W. Fazio , and 22 more

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Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy
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Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Rebecca Sear, Sanford F. Schram , and 1 more

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More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...
Censorship Is the Authoritarian’s Dream
The right to free expression must include the right to say horrible and evil things.
www.insidehighered.com
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by Dawn J. Wright

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This is a painting of Jane Goodall from that I had her sign for my mother Jeanne in 1999, when we both saw her speak at the TED 9 conference in Monterey, CA. I spoke in a session the day before. Jane and my mother were very close in age, and she was also an iconic heroine to both of us.
The painting described in the post with Jane in a thoughtful pose, resting her chin in her left hand. The autograph reads: “For Jeanne - Follow your heart, Jane Goodall”
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by Dawn J. Wright

deepseadawn.bsky.social
Dr. Jane Goodall was an extraordinary champion for nature. She holds a special place at Esri as a friend and advocate for using technology to protect and transform our world for the better. Her inspiration will always remain in our hearts.
Rest in peace, power, and warm chimpanzee embrace, dear Jane
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Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Joe R. Feagin, Zhang , and 18 more

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Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91
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by Dawn J. Wright

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🧪⚒️🌊 #geosky #geogchat #gischat 🦑
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National Center for Ecological Analysis & Synthesis @nceas-ucsb.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 1 week left to apply to #EDSsummit

Data + environment + community. This will be our final year hosting the summit!

Oct 8 deadline → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#earlycareer #envdatasci #openscience #EDSsummit #ClimateData #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience
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Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Karen R. Lips

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🚨 1 week left to apply to #EDSsummit

Data + environment + community. This will be our final year hosting the summit!

Oct 8 deadline → docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

#earlycareer #envdatasci #openscience #EDSsummit #ClimateData #EnvironmentalScience #OpenScience
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by Dawn J. Wright

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🎯😉
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science.org
For the third time in a dozen years, the U.S. scientific community is digging in for a potentially lengthy partial federal government shutdown that promises to disrupt research and funding programs. https://scim.ag/4pQ9y0K
U.S. scientists gird for yet another government shutdown
Political impasse to hobble research agencies—and perhaps enable layoffs
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by Dawn J. Wright

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♥️ this from geographer Milad Malekzadeh: "I no longer see success in science as being specialized in only 1 thing. True success is being the scientist who can recognize when their signature approach is no longer the best tool, [& have the courage to] change course." 🧪
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
You are more than your current research
Nature Human Behaviour - Milad Malekzadeh was once told that to be successful in academia, developing unique expertise was necessary. Over the years, he learned that diversification is more valuable.
www.nature.com
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by Dawn J. Wright

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Once more with feeling, as well as conviction and hard data:

"The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion"

greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
The Scientific Case for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
In light of attacks on DEI, we gathered articles that lay out the evidence in favor of fostering racially diverse and equitable schools, workplaces, cities, and societies.
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by Dawn J. Wright

deepseadawn.bsky.social
So proud of my colleague David Padgett for his work with GIS mapping & analysis to support environmental justice, HBCUs, and in training educators in NASA's GLOBE program.

amerisurv.com/2025/09/15/t...

#BlackSky #GISchat 🌎 🌍 🌏
The Pioneering Professor Who Transformed Community Advocacy - The American Surveyor
In the early 1990s, environmental justice advocates across the US struggled to prove that marginalized communities faced disproportionate exposure to pollution and other...
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by Rebecca Solnit — Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Rosie A. Fisher, Leah Stokes , and 1 more

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The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.
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WuTangIsForTheChildren @wutangforchildren.bsky.social · 9d
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Reposted by: Dawn J. Wright, Brendan Nyhan, Amy Bruckman , and 5 more

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“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

“He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.”

-Declaration of Independence
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 10d
Trump says he authorizes Hegseth to deploy the military to Portland, which he lyingly calls "war ravaged," and says he is authorizing "full force."
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump + At the request of Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, I am directing Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland, and any of our ICE Facilities under siege from attack by Antifa, and other domestic terrorists. I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary. Thank you for your attention to this matter! 506 ReTruths 1.62k Likes 9/27/25, 9:19
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by Dawn J. Wright

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Liz Taylor @subsealiz.bsky.social · 11d
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Environmentalist Sylvia Earle Says There Is ‘No Excuse in the 21st Century’ to Deny Climate Change
YouTube video by TIME
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Story idea: Front-page coverage in NYT, "Why Harvard has not yet caved."

(After two months of "Harvard about to cave" blind-sourced MAGA-friendly stories there.)
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youtu.be/xfgD5KH9uxk
Environmentalist Sylvia Earle Says There Is ‘No Excuse in the 21st Century’ to Deny Climate Change
YouTube video by TIME
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by Dawn J. Wright

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"Leaving [the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)] to 'fly blind' without a sound scientific foundation is a threat not only to America’s well-being but also to US leadership on the world stage."
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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The EPA’s shaken foundation
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was founded in 1970 during a period of pervasive pollution and environmental degradation. Based on a foundational principle to follow the science, its Offi...
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