What kind of research specialty would I need to be able to get posted to the Îles Crozet for a season? https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Crozet_Islands

This is the problem with remote sensing. The *remote* part really undermines the need for fieldwork. #mapping #research #antarctic

Going to hold onto this and submit it for a 2050 museum exhibit on the brief pre-internet digital age.

#nintendo #80s #history #gaming #nes

<whispers> ndvi
<states> NDVI
<basso profundo> **NDVIIIIII**
<chanting> N.D.V.I. N.D.V.I. N.D.V.I.

(Punchline: A warming climate means that Switzerland has been getting more-vegetated over the past 30 years - especially fast in the past 15 - and we have tools to reliably measure this in other places as well:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20964471.2023.2268322 ) #mapping #climate #switzerland #dataviz #landsat

Great piece by @bretdevereaux on patterns of archaic colonialism - the "adventures" of the Greeks and Phoenicians - around the Mediterranean.

In which my favorite new time series metric makes an appearance: "Shipwrecks Per Half-Century" #history #greece #colonialism #mediterranean #dataviz https://acoup.blog/2023/10/13/collections-ancient-greek-and-phoenician-colonization/