Nate Bogie

I am not a super fan of AI by any means but two things I love: copy and paste formatted citation and it will make you a bibtex entry, make a picture of any data table into a .csv file in seconds.

Yes, I now regret not reading for pleasure for ~6 years during grad school. Don't do that. Have a life outside of school, including personal/individual hobbies.

How does lava sound when it comes to the surface of the Earth? Listen to a lava flow oozing out of its effusive vent high on the southwestern side of #Etna, 28 August 2025. That day no visits by tourists were allowed on the site, which permitted this (relatively) clean recording

It is firmly in the “somebody’s making an active decision to downplay this” territory.

What masochist didn't put sequential page numbers or links in the table of contents of the NSF PAPPG? Sorting through over 200 pages for the correct section and sub section is making my brain hurt unnecessarily.

Live from NASA GISS, kicking-off the Weather and Climate 100-hour livestream YouTube video by The Weather & Climate Livestream

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

"Thinking time —the time needed to concentrate without interruptions has always been central to scholarly work. It is essential to designing experiments, compiling data, assessing results, reviewing literature and, of course, writing. Yet, [it] is often undervalued."
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This is insane, it is a race to the bottom.

Biggest commitment to a 3 second joke I've ever seen

Are you a researcher in Brazil who's interested in coming to Berlin to work on global change, soil or fungi?

Things are scary, but make sure you vet your info. Don't forget the CRAAP test:
Currency, Relevance, Authority, Accuracy, Purpose
library.csuchico.edu/sites/defaul...
I teach it to all of my students.

If you're at #AGU24 and you want to learn about how we can use semi-continuous isotopes to better understand aspen and spruce water use in an alpine system, check out Raymond Hess's poster: H43M-1043 with @matthiasprenger.bsky.social

As a member of a geology dept. in a geologically interesting/active place, this earthquake/potential tsunami is all over local news (exhaustively), ppl texting me with q's about what to do. Yet, students enrolling to study earth sciences in decline. We need good people to study this stuff!!

Ridership Of Bay Area Caltrain Is Up Drastically Following A Transition To New Electric Trains It’s not due to return-to-office mandates, either. Better trains and service are just more appealing

Make transit appealing, comfortable, accessible, people will ride. jalopnik.com/ridership-of...

thanks @globalstewards.bsky.social I finally got in touch with someone - very random, I filled out a scathing review to UPS when they sent me a generic "can we please have your feedback" email from a separate, domestic package. They called me and they are working on it. Thanks for the suggestions.

A local trend... www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Millbrae Voters Recall Council Members Who Didn’t Oppose Affordable Housing | KQED Stemming from a bitter debate over plans to turn a hotel into supportive housing, the recall effort against two Millbrae City Council members appears to have passed.

Its a local trend... www.kqed.org/news/1199721...

Just as hurricanes haul water from the oceans onto land in the hydrologic cycle,
Salmon haul nutrients from the ocean back onto mountains in the nutrient cycle.
The Great Migration of millions of animals in the Serengeti is another large nutrient cycle

The fact that R constantly is changing its geospatial packages and you are constantly having to relearn the same task in a new package with slight tweaks. I don't know if "real" GIS people even use R? It just integrates easily into my other analyses.

EGS does lead to induced seismicity, however...
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.... Def. a disproportionate impact on local communities. But overall the system works quite well up there. I didn't watch the debate, however, so I may lack context for your skeet.

UPS effectively has no way to contact them (waiting on phone for ~45 minutes to talk to someone who just gives me the number of the contractor there...who has created this problem) and a broken "help" link on UPS website. Anyone ever dealt with this.

This is a long shot, but I have a small shipment of research equipment sent to a collaborator being held up in customs in Côte d'Ivoire by UPS asking for paperwork that has never existed.

Cue me trotting out the stats again: over 300,000 people work in US libraries. We are in every state. Coal mining, by contrast, employs less than 50,000 people across a few states. Politicians don't promote libraries because nobody gets rich off owning them but we are everywhere.

SE Minnesota has a lot of agriculture (livestock & corn are the main culprits) as well as a lot of karst. That is a TERRIBLE combination for water quality.

Livestock generates manure. Corn requires a lot of fertilizer. Both manure & fertilizer are overapplied, causing massive water quality issues.

underrated.

I was commissioned to build this model in support of a presentation about geotechnical engineering. The goal is to illustrate the flow paths that groundwater... Groundwater Flow Demonstration Model

As I wrap up my hydrogeology course, question for you hydrogeologists and civil engineers...how useful do you think teaching flownets is? I feel like conceptually you can understand subsurface flow with a nice demo like this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ezo.... do you use flownets?

We need more goats

Checking my very simple exam question through ChatGPT relating dry and wet masses of a soil core and it cannot get it correct. Decided to present the AI answer and make the exam question "How did ChatGPT get the calculation wrong?" Fun!

“We have to get children back outside and playing again!”

Sweetie, your generation made it illegal for children to go outside unaccompanied. Your generation sells military tanks as “cars” and your generation removed urban centers and places the population in strip malls

Yes, absolutely.