#crossdiscipline — Public Fediverse posts

John McPhee’s Short Essay About A 1972 Rockefeller Civil Service Award Winner - Dr. Luna Leopold, The First Chief Hydrologist At The USGS
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https://www.jfklibrary.org/archives/other-resources/john-f-kennedy-speeches/rockefeller-public-service-awards-washington-dc-19580430 <--JFK's 1958 speech at the Rockerfeller Civil Service Awards
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https://www.usgs.gov/news/featured-story/lessons-learned-a-legend-luna-leopolds-view-river <-- shared details of Dr. Luna Leopold from the USGS
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https://fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/04/the-patch-by-john-mcphee.html <-- shared details of The Patch, by John McPhee
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https://eos.org/opinions/luna-b-leopold-geoscience-pioneer <--shared EOS retrospective of Dr Leopold
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I was reading - with a mug of tea - The Patch (link above) by John McPhee, a decades-old favourite author of mine - and came across this short essay amongst many fine others…
#spatial #datalover #measurements #metrics #hydrology #water #fedservice #fedscience #LunaLeopold #hydrologist #crossdiscipline #RockefellerCivilServiceAward #USGS #JohnMcPhee #writing #readingforpleasure #mission #opendata #mapping #waterresources #watersecurity #wateruse #watermanagement
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Identifying Environmental Risk Factors and Mapping the Distribution of West Nile Virus in an Endemic Region of North America
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https://doi.org/10.1029/2018GH000161 <-- shared paper
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[an older paper (2018) but a good one, including showing the versatility & usefulness of #FedScience spatial datasets]
#GIS #spatial #mapping #USA #WestNile #WestNileVirus #fedscience #NationalLandCoverDatabase #NLCD #virus #publichealth #arboviruses #environment #data #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #fedscience #geocoding #environmental #landcover #physiography #climate #weather #transmission #model #regressiontree #risk #hazard #riskmaps #elevation #humidity #rainfall #precipitation #disease #soil #integrated #opendata #mosquito #satellite #SouthDakota #pasturelands #crossdiscipline #virology #remotesensing #earthobservation #Pathobiology #Epidemiology
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The Top 100 Global Water Questions - Results Of A Scoping Exercise
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.04.009 <-- shared paper
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https://doi.org/10.5518/1144 <-- related research dataset repository
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#global #anthropocene #governances #scopingexercise #SDG6 #WASH #water #sanitation #researchpriorities #hydrology #environmental #climatechange #drought #waterresources #watermanagement #waterconservation #watercrisis #waterrights #watersecurity #community #urban #agriculture #irrigation #overuse #overpumping #pumping #economics #politics #political #wateranxiety #utilities #future #opportunity #growth #economy #sustainabledevelopment #health #research #security #safety #food #science #funding #society #appliedscience #ecosystems #ecosystemhealth #freshwater #surfacewater #groundwater #waterquality #pollution #humandevelopment #humanhealth #watercycle #changing #crossdiscipline #crossdisciplines #interdisciplinary #governance #production #UniversityOfLeeds