Tuesday, February 4, 2020
Corona Virus Live Map and Dashboard
The 2019-nCoV Global Cases (by Johns Hopkins CSSE) is a great example of a live web map 'inside' a series of live dashboards, with the data served from a live Google Sheet.
Monday, February 3, 2020
Sunday, February 2, 2020
Optimism and Climate Change
Important comment in Nature: Paris taught me how to do what is necessary to combat climate change by Christiana Figures.
The key message: you need to present and demonstrate optimism - that's a 'contagious' mindset and leads to effective decision-making. Now we all move away from confrontational blaming and towards shared opportunities. To quote: "Optimism is about acknowledging difficulties - and losses - yet still designing a better future.
Sure - that all sounds a little naive, but maybe not: maybe this fundamental trait of leadership and negotiations is applicable not just for finding realistic and pragmatic climate change solutions, but also for issues such as those that we are having right now at Westfield State.
The key message: you need to present and demonstrate optimism - that's a 'contagious' mindset and leads to effective decision-making. Now we all move away from confrontational blaming and towards shared opportunities. To quote: "Optimism is about acknowledging difficulties - and losses - yet still designing a better future.
Sure - that all sounds a little naive, but maybe not: maybe this fundamental trait of leadership and negotiations is applicable not just for finding realistic and pragmatic climate change solutions, but also for issues such as those that we are having right now at Westfield State.
Race and racism in the geosciences
Excellent comment in Nature Geoscience: Race and racism in the geosciences
Saturday, February 1, 2020
Near-Shore Sediments
Great satellite image from NASA showing how much more sediment is in the water near-shore vs. farther off-shore: Eddy Extravaganza off the Italian Coast
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