Geodes boosts reading fluency for NYC first-graders

This week's teaching session on the MSc Space Syntax is a guest lecture: Representing society using maps. Dr Griffiths' module, Investigations in Spatial Morphology, “invites students to consider spatial morphology as a distinctive epistemological proposition in understanding the relationship of people to built environments. It engages students in critically evaluating diverse source materials and their construction as ‘evidence’ for undertaking interdisciplinary research with a strong spatial-morphological dimension.” This session will bring examples from my book Mapping Society: The Spatial Dimensions of Social Cartography (download free: https://lnkd.in/e82657B5) to illustrate what maps can reveal or conceal about a social reality. The students will learn that by acquiring contextual information about the circumstances which led to the map being drawn and then used, they can use their sources of mapped data more critically. See also my blog post, Mapping Intoxication: https://lnkd.in/eeEiV4Ci

📢 #Editor_Choices' paper of #Water journal 📄 Application of Dynamic Programming Models for Improvement of Technological Approaches to Combat Negative Water Leakage in the Underground Space ✍️ Sérgio Lousada, Svitlana Delehan and Andrii Khorolskyi Find out more 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wWWC0

📢 #Editor_Choices' paper of #Water journal 📄 Baffle-Enhanced Scour Mitigation in Rectangular and Trapezoidal Piano Key Weirs: An Experimental and Machine Learning Investigation ✍️ Chonoor Abdi Chooplou, Ehsan Kahrizi, Amirhossein Fathi, Masoud Ghodsian and Milad Latifi Find out more 👉 https://brnw.ch/21wXe2s

New paper: Estimating ground-level CO2 levels in Europe using satellite data With the aim of enhancing local CO2 monitoring for policies that promote the wellbeing of people and planet, this paper develops and illustrates a methodology using satellite data trained on ground-level observations. Together with Oskar Åström, Dr. Carina Geldhauser, Ola Hall and Alexandros Sopasakis Find the paper here: https://lnkd.in/dUESnd4A The Department of Human Geography, Lund University The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University, CIRCLE, Lund University

🌟 New paper where the authors propose a methodology to enhance local CO2 monitoring by integrating satellite data from the Orbiting Carbon Observatories. 🌟  

AGU members can log in to their member profile page to receive digital access to this quarter’s free ebook, Muography: Exploring Earth's Subsurface with Elementary Particles. This book examines the applications of muography, a remote sensing imaging technique, and how it can complement conventional geophysical observations. Read: https://lnkd.in/gsMafM7x

🔍 Suggested Mechanisms/Key Themes to Extract & Apply You may want to draw from the above studies to craft your scientific‑spiritual article in these themes: • Recruitment & communication strategies: how ants decide/coordinate foraging, nest moves (e.g., Planqué et al.). • Scaling of colony size → behaviour transitions: e.g., group to mass raiding, small nests to supercolonies (PNAS paper). • Spatial colony structure (polydomy, polygyny): multiple nests, multiple queens, colony network (Temnothorax, Tapinoma). • Recognition & identity within colony networks: chemical cues (CHCs) that allow ants to differentiate nestmates vs invaders (BMC Biology paper). • Drivers of invasion success: genetics, environment, human influence, microbes (Elsevier Review). • Nest architecture & built structures: how ants build and maintain nests, with implications for systems, architecture, stability (Buildings Review). • Analogy to human/biological systems: you may frame many of these ant strategies as metaphors for human communication dynamics, settlements, network building, “magnetism” or resonance themes you’re interested in.

It's true. The term "scientist" was coined in 1834 partly to describe the work of Mary Somerville. William Whewell, a Cambridge don, created the gender-neutral term to celebrate Somerville's ability to synthesize and connect different scientific fields, as the traditional term "man of science" did not apply to her. Before 1834, there was no single word for a practitioner of science. But when Whewell reviewed Somerville's book, On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, he recognized her unique ability to link disciplines like mathematics, astronomy, geology, and chemistry. #polymath #womeninscience #storytelling

Excited to share that our recent publication in Journal of Geoscience Education, "Successes and challenges in developing an educational program to engage underrepresented college students in environmental science research" will be open access for the month of November! The goal of this paper was to provide resources, examples, and lessons learned to folks who are developing Earth Science education programs at the undergraduate level. Developing and leading AUGR, the program described in this paper, was the most meaningful (and most fun!) part of my PhD, and I am so grateful for the wonderful students who partook in the program and made it what it was! If you are interested in Earth Science education, and particularly in inceasing access and inclusion for folks with marginalized identities in geo and environmental fields, consider checking out this paper while it's open access! Figure by Shay Taylor (my little sibling!) showing the stages of the AUGR program. Access the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eaF3M8Zg Huge thanks to the Gund Institute for Environment and Advancing GEochronology Science, Spaces, & Systems Diversity in Geoscience (AGeS-DiG) for the funding that supported this project.

The University of Calgary’s Technology Lab is now open thanks to GPSIA member Trimble Inc.! 💻📋 The Schulich School of Engineering’s geomatics department supports research in positioning, navigation, and location systems, covering topics such as satellite navigation, mobile mapping, and real-time geospatial. The lab provides a space for students to put this research into practice. With Trimble’s cutting-edge hardware and software donations, students and industry teams can explore the future of geospatial technology. Trimble’s own Stephanie Michaud, P.Eng., who serves on the School’s Geomatics Engineering Advisory Committee, said “working on projects where I could visualize the real-life applications of the theory we were studying, helped me learn faster and apply that learning more easily.” From research to application, the University and Trimble are investing in tomorrow’s geospatial tools and the next generation of PNT leaders! Read more about the lab here: https://lnkd.in/eEeDNrAf