Sunrise from this morning over Lake Superior. The sea smoke was awesome. It was such a great solstice sunrise and official start of winter.
It was a little sketchy getting to this spot. Verglas covered the basalt and my crampons need sharpening.
#Photography #LandscapePhotography #seascape #NaturePhotography #LakeSuperior #Minnesota
During the #covid lockdowns, the Australasian #cave community set up a cave #climate monitoring project. The idea was to get a 'baseline' climate for when the caves were less visited. Everything is done on a volunteer basis.
Over two years later, many caves are still collecting data, which I process and which is made publicly available on the www.ackma.org website.
Today I was processing climate data from the tropical North Queensland Chilligoe Caves. Here's a sneak peak.
2022 has been a bit cooler than recent years due to the strong La Nina and Indian Ocean Dipole, and that is reflected in the cave climate. In this example, you can also see the cave temperature cooling in late winter, and warming to a maximum in late summer.
You can read more about the Chilligoe Caves here:
https://parks.des.qld.gov.au/parks/chillagoe-caves
#science #SciComm #caves #environment #earthscience #geology #ackma
Featuring spectacular limestone caves, small galleries of Aboriginal rock art, jagged limestone outcrops and an historically significant mining site, this park is rich in natural and cultural heritage.
If you're thinking of running your own Mastodon instance, EFF's Legal Director Corynne McSherry breaks down some of the common legal issues and practical considerations here:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
A growing number of people are experimenting with federated alternatives to social media like Mastodon, either by joining an “instance” hosted by someone else or creating their own instance by running the free, open-source software on a server they control. (See more about this movement and joining...
My cat loves to shred paper. I've come to accept that nothing is safe in the house but last night she found the sachets for my prescription migraine medication and, dammit cat, that stuff is $10 a sachet!
Am I gonna use whatever's left in the sachets to treat this migraine, cat teeth aside?
Yes, yes I am.
A statue honoring Henrietta Lacks whose whose cells resulted in countless medical breakthroughs will be built in her birthplace Roanoke #Virginia
The statue replaces Gen Robert E Lee
My cat's an indoor girl but I let her explore the balcony for the first time today.
Did I do this solely so she'd leave little cat pawprints in the snow? Yes, yes I did.
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