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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · 5d
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Reposted by: Jed O. Kaplan, Andy Baker, Marc Strous

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🚨FOUR tenure track positions in my dept @ucalgary.bsky.social @ucalgaryscience.bsky.social in applied & computational geophysics, subsurface geochemistry, sedimentary geology, and sustainable soil science. careers.ucalgary.ca/search/jobs?...

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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!
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Bob Kopp @bobkopp.net · 24d
There are many ideas I agree with in this thread. But @mliebreich.bsky.social gets his guidance to science wrong.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 24d
6. Science. Scientists need to stop trying to scare people and focus on informing them. IPCC scenarios need to be plausible from an energy systems perspective, and they need to focus on the landing zone to which we might actually be headed. 24/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...

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There are many ideas I agree with in this thread. But @mliebreich.bsky.social gets his guidance to science wrong.
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Michael Liebreich @mliebreich.bsky.social · 24d
6. Science. Scientists need to stop trying to scare people and focus on informing them. IPCC scenarios need to be plausible from an energy systems perspective, and they need to focus on the landing zone to which we might actually be headed. 24/n about.bnef.com/insights/cle...
Liebreich: The Pragmatic Climate Reset – Part II: A Provocation | BloombergNEF
As the debate on transition deepens, Michael Liebreich details how a pragmatic climate and energy reset might unfold.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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You assert that "...the conveyor belt of currents in the Atlantic Ocean [is] responsible for Western Europe’s mild climate..." This idea is at the very least debatable. Richard Seager has argued for decades that it is not important at all, e.g., www.jstor.org/stable/27858...
The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth on JSTOR
Richard Seager, The Source of Europe's Mild Climate: The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe anomalously warm turns out to be a myth, American Scientist, Vol. 94, No. 4 (JULY...
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?
A bowl filled with homemade fermented sour pickles.
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by Jed O. Kaplan — Reposted by: Garry Peterson, Ellen C. Hopmans, Elena Litchman

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It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...
CRC Opportunities | Queen's University
Queen’s University invites applications for multiple Tier 1 and Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs (CRCs).
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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I have been waiting for you to comment on this fire. I still vividly remember reading “Fire on the Rim” as a teenager. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?
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Tom Swetnam @firescar.bsky.social · Jul 20
The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
low severity surface fire burning through a ponderosa pine forest
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Reposted by: Jed O. Kaplan, Juli G. Pausas, Tobias Kuemmerle , and 2 more

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The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18
low severity surface fire burning through a ponderosa pine forest
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Great explainer from my colleague Dan.
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Dr Dan Shugar 🇨🇦 @watershedlab.bsky.social · Jun 20
There was a tragic rockfall yesterday afternoon at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Here's a recent story from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about it. I'll try to explain my understanding of the event here over the next few minutes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... 🧪⚒️
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/one-dead-three-injured-in-banff-national-park-rockslide/🧪⚒️
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There was a tragic rockfall yesterday afternoon at Bow Glacier Falls in Banff National Park. Here's a recent story from @ctvnewscalgary.bsky.social about it. I'll try to explain my understanding of the event here over the next few minutes. www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/arti... 🧪⚒️
https://www.ctvnews.ca/calgary/article/one-dead-three-injured-in-banff-national-park-rockslide/🧪⚒️
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Cool diagram. Will use this next time I teach intro meteorology.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Mixed severity burn from 2022 at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. Photo taken in spring 2025.
Photo of a mountainside rising out of a lake up to snowy peaks in the distance. In the foreground is a slope that has burned in a mixed severity wildfire where even the soil has burned away to bedrock in some places while in others there are still living stands of trees.

by Jed O. Kaplan

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Good thread. Having thought about these issues a lot myself and recognizing that landscape scale wildfires are rarely all of one severity or another, I enjoyed this back and forth.
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gavin jones @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social · Jun 12
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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No. no. Just no.

by Jed O. Kaplan

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Heartbreaking photo. I have so many great memories of inspiring times at the GISS lab in Manhattan.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Those were the days. I’ll never forget my two weeks in solitary confinement at the Penny’s Bay COVID detention camp.
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Karen Grépin @karengrepin.bsky.social · May 20
How was Hong Kong able to keep COVID19 out for so long? Essentially by reducing inbound travel volume and using quarantine, everything else was basically theatrics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing the effectiveness of travel control measures in preventing imported COVID-19 cases reveals the critical role of travel volume
Although travel control measures have played a key role in mitigating COVID-19 spread in certain regions, few empirical observational studies have spe…
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How was Hong Kong able to keep COVID19 out for so long? Essentially by reducing inbound travel volume and using quarantine, everything else was basically theatrics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Assessing the effectiveness of travel control measures in preventing imported COVID-19 cases reveals the critical role of travel volume
Although travel control measures have played a key role in mitigating COVID-19 spread in certain regions, few empirical observational studies have spe…
www.sciencedirect.com
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Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦

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Bell: Smith to Carney — Wanted Now, a pipeline to Prince Rupert, B.C.
Premier Danielle Smith wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to fast-track a pipeline project to Prince Rupert, along with nixing tanker ban.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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For the most part, these won’t be career positions but limited-term postings targeted at postdocs and other temporary staff.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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I am also hiring in Calgary! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/
Work with me!
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
World map of average density of lightning strokes from the period 2010-2024. The greatest density of lightning is seen in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, and island Southeast Asia. The most lightning is in northeastern Colombia and Panama. There is almost no lightning in the Arctic and none at all in Antarctica.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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Coronation Mountain then.

by Jed O. Kaplan

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When I'm wondering what mountains I see, I like the PeakFinder app www.peakfinder.com (no relation to the developer, just a satisfied user).
PeakFinder - The mountains are calling!
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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It’s hard to tell exactly what direction you are looking, but the highest mountain on southern Vancouver Island is Mount Arrowsmith (1819m) WNW of Nanaimo.
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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So much for your “light snowshower”
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by Jed O. Kaplan

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The interesting thing is that there is much more variability in the high temperatures than the low.

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#Amsterdam's canals don't meet most Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point criteria, and not all scientists agree with declaring the #Anthropocene anyway, but these feathered inhabitants' embrace of 'new' materials is terrifying. There's nothing encouraging about the common coot's adaptation.
This bird's nest is made of candy wrappers and face masks. Here's what we can learn | CBC Radio
Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest piece...
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