Mastodawn

A ‘Waylaid' Teaching Diorama – USGS “Geology For Land Use”
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For about 3 years, this gorgeous diorama has ‘just’ been sitting in a corner of a (common) hallway.
I can’t help but wonder its history:
• What prompted its creation?
• Who was the artisan (truly!) that created it and used those components and focus?
• When was it created? (late 1960s as an educated guess????)
• Why was it seen as useful / in what setting? (as I am sure it was)
• How was it funded?
(never mind that I want to claim it for my office, space notwithstanding…)
#geology #landuse #trainingaid #education #diorama #oldschool #fedscience #fedservice #education #technical #professional #spatial #landform #geomorphology #usecase #appliedscience #geoscience #USGS
@USGS

Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Dec 5

Its nice to encouraging stories like this - and exciting.

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/05/agriculture-revolution-soil-farming-earth-rover-program?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

#SustainableFarming #AppliedScience #ecosystems #soil #SoilStructure

Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture

I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

The Guardian

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Nov 5

A Five-Year Milestone - Reflections On Advances And Limitations In GeoAI Research
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https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~yhu42/papers/2024_AnnalsofGIS_GeoAI.pdf <-- shared 2024 paper
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jag.2025.104368 <-- shared 2025 paper
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[GeoAI has changed markedly since this 1st paper was written, but there is still much value in what it states]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #AI #spatialanalysis #GeoAI #theory #perspectives #Giscience #geography #advances #limitations #model #modeling #spatiallyexplicit #realworld #usecase #application #problemsolving #AAG #research #appliedscience #generalizability
@AAG

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Oct 30

The Myth And Reality Of ‘Physics-Based’ Models In Geosciences
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https://geoaiunpacked.substack.com/p/the-myth-and-reality-of-physics-based <-- shared technical article
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“Across hydrology, fire, weather, and climate science, models are often described as physics-based—a phrase that evokes rigor, transparency, and trust. Yet, beneath the surface, much of what drives these models are empirical relationships and parameterizations rather than direct solutions of physical laws. These assumptions are necessary to make the equations computable, but they also introduce biases, tuning artifacts, and uncertainties that can propagate through every layer of simulation.
This doesn’t mean physics-based models are flawed or obsolete; rather, it highlights the complexity of modeling natural systems…”
#GeoAI #datadriven #physicsbased #model #modeling #usecase #appliedscience #accuracy #appropriateness #simulation #naturalsystems #hybrid #physicalrealism #hydrology #fire #weather #climate

fuzzle @ cccfr Aug 31, 2025

cooking in #elab #cccfr
something* something*
"süppchen is fertig ..."

#appliedscience #diy

(((JaneinNJ)))Aug 31, 2025

Now I get it. Couldn’t figure out why the current White House occupant and company are so desperate to kneecap scientific research. Good explanation. #repression #science #autocracy #basicscience #appliedscience #research https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/science/trump-science-autocrats.html?unlocked_article_code=1.iU8.FVsN.4GHPs6N0Wtq2&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Historians See Autocratic Playbook in Trump’s Attacks on Science

Authoritarians have long feared and suppressed science as a rival for social influence. Experts see President Trump as borrowing some of their tactics.

The New York Times

Helge Wurst Jul 19, 2025

[Ben Krasnow] #AppliedScience idly opening an entire field of dual-material-printing PLA-CF gears with TPU skin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuVgGrun1V0

💧🌏 Greg Cocks Jun 25, 2025

Trans-Oceanic Distributed Sensing Of Tides Over Telecommunication Cable Between Portugal & Brazil
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https://lnkd.in/gBPpBchx <-- shared paper
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[not something I know much about technically - so what better reason to read a paper!? What a fascinating & clever repurposing idea]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #geophysics #geophysical #remotesensing #model #modeling #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #cable #transoceanic #cable #tide #waves #tsunami #earlywarning #repurposing #usecase #appliedscience #appliedtechnology #fibreoptic #microwave #modulation #submarine #telecom #telecommunications #sensor #realtime #monitoring #measurememnt #marine #ocean #temperature #tidal #climate #climatechange #naturalhazards #risk #hazard #currents #circulation #infrastructure

Die Forschende Hochschule Hof Jun 5, 2025

🧪 Now we’re talking – Episode 5:
Meet the gel permeation chromatograph! This machine helps us understand how big (or small) molecules really are 🧬 — and plays a key role in basic research at Hof University of Applied Sciences.

🔗 https://t1p.de/dz3ut

#dieforschendehochschulehof #hierwirdknallhartgeforscht #ScienceMastodon #LabTalk #MolecularScience #Chromatography #ResearchTools #AppliedScience

MalcolmMielle May 30, 2025

Wanna use computer vision for more than image rendering?

Pre-print alert: we published on arxiv our preprint on building FEA-compatible voxel-based RGB+Thermal 3D models, effectively bridging computer vision and simulation in one framework (https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.04448).

While there is still some limitations to this work (e.g. related to surface reconstruction) I hope this work can be the catalyst to more research in using computer vision in #AppliedScience !

👩‍🔬 Thanks to all the co-authors: Etienne Chassaing, Florent Forest, and Olga Fink.

See some teaser images from the paper, where we run FEA on a 3D model built from computer vision without post-processing!

#computervision #fea #simulation #voxel #thermal #sustainability