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Assistant Professor @SyracuseUniversity | Geochemist | Environmental Data Scientist | he/him/his | https://jaywen.com

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In addition, thanks to the generous donation from Xiaogang (Marshall) Ma, all merchandise buyers will have the option to enter a lucky draw for a newly released, mineral-themed LEGO® set. You can check it out here: www.lego.com/en-us/produc...

Wishing you all safe travels - see you at GSA 2025!

18.10.2025 19:06 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

As you prepare for your trip to GSA 2025 @geosociety.bsky.social , I wanted to share some exciting news - our Geoinformatics and Data Science Division will have merchandise available for purchase at the divisional booth.

This year, we're offering three products: totes, hats, and bandanas.

18.10.2025 19:05 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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Thonis Family Assistant/Associate Professor in Critical Minerals and the Energy Transition The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor or a tenured faculty position at t...

My department at Syracuse University has announced an endowed faculty position in the broad field of Critical Minerals and the Energy Transition, at the level of Assistant or Associate Professor. The priority consideration date is December 1, 2025. Link to apply: www.sujobopps.com/postings/111...

16.10.2025 15:03 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Happening tomorrow, 9/18, 11 am US ET. Dont miss it!

@waterbarnes.bsky.social @devonkerins.bsky.social

17.09.2025 19:26 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Judge Sign-up Form for 2025 GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division Student Poster Competition At the 2025 GSA Annual Meeting in San Antonio, TX, the GSA Geoinformatics and Data Science Division will host and sponsor the student poster competition session T42: A Showcase of Student Research in ...

🚨 Call for Judges!

At GSA 2025 in San Antonio, GIDS Division @gsageoinfo.bsky.social is hosting a student poster competition (Session T42) with 10+ presenters.

🗓 Oct 20, 2025 | 3:30–5:30 pm
💰 Cash awards for winners

Sign up here: forms.gle/FEKfy6MrPLW6...

#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics #DataScience

11.09.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Contact datahelpdesk@esipfed.org, or visit this link (docs.google.com/document/d/1...) for more about volunteer guidelines.

Click this link to learn about Data Help Desk (www.esipfed.org/data-help-de...)

05.09.2025 13:57 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Please consider volunteering to be a Data or Software Expert! Join us at the booth to answer questions or give a demo/tutorial of your choosing.

Please click this link to sign up for being a Data Help Desk expert at GSA 2025 (forms.gle/8kV3YLecjmtM...) by September 19.

05.09.2025 13:56 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 1
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We are working with the @esipfed.bsky.social to bring a Data Help Desk booth to the upcoming @geosociety.bsky.social meeting, October 19-22, in San Antonio, TX. At DHD, people can learn about skills and techniques that help further their research and make their data and software more open and FAIR.

05.09.2025 13:54 — 👍 2    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

This event is open to anyone interested in geoinformatics, data science, and cross-disciplinary research. Please share widely! @gsageoinfo.bsky.social

#Geoinformatics #DataScience #GSAWebinar #OpenScience

07.07.2025 03:13 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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The GSA @gsageoinfo.bsky.social Geoinformatics & Data Science Division is hosting a free webinar with 2023 M. Lee Allison Awardee Dr. Simon Goring.
🗓️ July 15, 2025, 12 PM EST
🎤 Talk + Q&A: “Building Community in Geoinformatics”
🔗 Register: rutgers.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Please share widely!

07.07.2025 03:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 2
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Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream

www.youtube.com/live/CcWR6Cd...

28.05.2025 18:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

All the news I have been reading these days in the U.S. are driving me nuts. #HandsOffScience

23.05.2025 02:38 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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📢 GSA Geoinformatics & Data Science is seeking a Chair-Elect (2025–26)! @geosociety.bsky.social @gsageoinfo.bsky.social
Co-lead GSA GIDS program + help grow the community.
💡 You’ll become Chair the following year.
📧 Email twen08@syr.edu to learn more or nominate yourself!
#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics

19.05.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 GSA 2025 Session T22: Fixing the Silent Leak
Legacy oil & gas wells—how do we find, assess & fix them?
📍 Field work
🧪 Lab analysis
📊 Modeling
🛠️ Mitigation
🗓️ Abstract deadline: Aug 5
Submit now!

@gsageoinfo.bsky.social @geosociety.bsky.social
#GSA2025 #OilAndGas #LegacyWells #EarthScience

19.05.2025 15:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m still working on editing the modules to ensure the code runs smoothly on cloud platforms like Google Colab. In the meantime, you are most welcome to download the materials and run them locally. Please feel free to forward this to anyone who might benefit.

16.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Spring 2025 version of the course includes six modules:
• Module 1: Course Introduction and R Basics
• Module 2: Data Frames and Visualization
• Module 3: Geospatial Data Analysis
• Module 4: Supervised Machine Learning
• Module 5: Unsupervised Machine Learning
• Module 6: Deep Learning

16.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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EAR 400 - Machine Learning in Earth and Environmental Sciences – Wen Group a 3-credit course introducing machine learning in earth and environmental sciences

I’ve wrapped up the first offering of my #machinelearning class that is designed to serve earth & environmental sciences students and beyond, I wanted to share all the teaching materials in case anyone wants to explore them. All materials can be accessed via this link (jaywen.com/courses/ear-...).

16.05.2025 13:29 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0
PennState College of Engineering supports the Women Advancing River Research lecture series. 

Hydrologic extremes and their impacts on water quality 
May 15, 11 AM ET

Manuela Brunner, ETH Zurich & SLF
Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois

QR Code that leads to registration: https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx

PennState College of Engineering supports the Women Advancing River Research lecture series. Hydrologic extremes and their impacts on water quality May 15, 11 AM ET Manuela Brunner, ETH Zurich & SLF Jenny Druhan, University of Illinois QR Code that leads to registration: https://www.cee.psu.edu/events/women-advancing-river-research.aspx

🧪Tune in Thursday at 11 AM Eastern for this month's #WARR talks- Drs Manuela Brunner & Jenny Druhan will explore how hydrologic extremes impact water quality
Register here: www.cee.psu.edu/events/women...

13.05.2025 00:41 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

Last few days to apply

05.05.2025 00:51 — 👍 3    🔁 8    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 Abstracts open for GSA 2025 Session T47:
Geoinformatics, Open Science & FAIR Data 🌍
Let’s rethink how geology shares & analyzes data.
🗓️ Early: May 15 | Final: Aug 5
Submit & spread the word!

#GSA2025 #OpenScience #Geoinformatics #FAIRdata
@gsageoinfo.bsky.social

05.05.2025 01:09 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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🚨 GSA 2025 Student Poster Competition! Calling for abstracts!
Session T42 (Geo+Data Sci): geospatial, ML, big data, modeling, viz.
💰 Cash awards for top student posters!
🗓️ Early deadline: May 15 | Final: Aug 5
Please share with students!
#GSA2025 #Geoinformatics #DataScience @gsageoinfo.bsky.social

02.05.2025 04:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inferring End‐Members From Geoscience Data Using Simplex Projected Gradient Descent‐Archetypal Analysis We introduce simplex projected gradient descent-archetypal analysis (SPGD-AA), an unsupervised machine learning model for inferring end-members from mixed geoscience data SPGD-AA is intuitive, in...

🚨 New paper! My PhD student Zanchenling Wang’s first paper in JGR: ML & Computation! 🎉 We present a new ML algorithm for end-member mixing analysis—tested on geochem, sediment & remote sensing datasets & benchmarked vs. other methods.. Open access: agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

30.04.2025 20:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I did it last summer to move two mass specs. Feel free to connect by email! Happy to hop on a phone/Zoom call to elaborate on any aspect of it!

07.04.2025 15:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Postdoctoral Researcher - Earth & Environmental Sciences The Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Syracuse University seeks applicants for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in snowmelt detection using satellite remote sensing. This is a fully ...

My colleague Prof. Sam Tuttle at Syracuse University is looking to fill a postdoc position to investigate snowmelt processes using satellite remote sensing. Check out this link for details and application instructions: www.sujobopps.com/postings/108...

07.04.2025 15:19 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1
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📢 Research Opportunity: DeCODER announces mini research grants ($2,500) to investigate geoscience questions using science-on-schema!

🔍 Focus areas: low-temp geochemistry, ecological forecasting & deep ocean observing
⏱️ 6-month or less projects

www.earthcube.org/decoder-mini...

02.04.2025 19:35 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Happening tomorrow!

@waterbarnes.bsky.social

19.03.2025 21:04 — 👍 5    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Monitoring Meadowbrook Creek: Real-Time Data Collection in an Urban Creek Real-time monitoring led by Syracuse University in Meadowbrook Creek provides crucial data to protect water quality in Syracuse, New York.

Credits go to Samantha Baxter at Fondriest Environmental for writing up this nice piece summarizing the work (and hardware) at Meadowbrook Creek in Syracuse. Thank @llautz.bsky.social for establishing the sites!
www.fondriest.com/news/monitor...

13.03.2025 22:17 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A nice day to restore the urban stream monitoring site #MeadowBrook

13.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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a man in a suit and tie is saying no ! god ! please ! no . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying no ! god ! please ! no .
13.03.2025 02:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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White House budget proposal could shatter the National Science Foundation “This kind of cut would kill American science and boost China.”…

Call your representatives.

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

07.02.2025 17:48 — 👍 26    🔁 12    💬 1    📌 0

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