Data, GIS, and Society Online Course

This looks interesting: The Data, GIS, and Society Online Course.

• The YouTube playlist
• The Course itself as a series of Esri Story Maps linked from an ArcGIS Experience

Ice Age Animations

These are really cool: visualization of the ice sheet(s) extend(s) across Europe during the last Ice Age. Notice the rising & lowering of sea level as well and its effect on land masses!

• Eiszeit-Europa
• IceMap

Can someone please make this for the Laurentide Ice Sheet?

Best Travel Weather

Here are some tools to help you decide when to travel & where as a function of the 'best' weather & climate:

• https://pack-lightly.com/tool/best-travel-time-worldmap/
• https://seasonmap.app/map

Ice in Antarctica

We know that ice started to form in Antarctica some 34 million years ago while that did not happen in the Northern Hemisphere until about 20 million years ago - why? Elevation! GHG concentrations and thus temperatures slowly declined over the last several 10s of millions of years. At the same time, Antarctica saw tectonic uplift and at some point the rising land and falling temperatures meant that the glaciation level dropped to below the land elevation and it became possible to snow to persist year-around - cool!

EDEN

EDEN = Extension Disaster Education Network

Could be useful in case we as GPS go into this direction.

The Ozone Hole: Bigger Connections

Well-done Cleo! This video offers great context centered around three important dates or decision points: 1959, 1987, and 2026. Watch the last minute or whole thing:

 

AI & Data Viz

Or, to make it simpler: Making charts with AI (as opposed doing it yourself with MS Excel). Good stuff here from the folks at Storytelling With Data: https://www.storytellingwithdata.com/ai-data-storytelling

485 Million Years!

Good WP article & PBS Terra video!

• The REAL STORY of Climate Skeptics New Favorite Graph
• Scientists have captured Earth’s climate over the last 485 million years. Here’s the surprising place we stand now.

What are the take-home messages? CO2 is the main climate driver and climate change is normal. Yep, but: the climate change we are measuring today is a) much faster than anything over the last 485 million years and b) caused by humans, not by nature.

Lean & AI

Lean is the hip thing in math these days, especially in connection with AI. That's all I know, but here's more: ‘It is incredible’: How AI is transforming mathematics

Pasterze Glacier (2016 - 2024)

Slop Tells & LLM Cliche Highlighter

Worried that your reports, slides, talks, etc. sound 'too AI' because you used too much AI to make them? Well, now you can use more AI tools to make your work sound 'less AI'. Great.

• Worried your writing sounds like AI? These tools can help
• Slop Tells
• LLM Cliche Highlighter

This reminds me a little of the good old EduBabble Generator & EduBabble Bingo.