Roland Duhaime

That was a great Celtics game.

Mosquito proboscis repurposed as a fine nozzle for 3D printing When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they needed

When engineers struggled to make 3D printer nozzles narrow enough for their needs, they turned to nature and found the proboscis of a female mosquito had exactly the properties they needed

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The most common early Spring ticks are actually left-overs from Fall. Adult blacklegged ticks first become active in Oct/Nov. If they don’t find a host, they're not killed by cold. When it warms, usually in March, they try again. Test what you know about early Spring ticks. bit.ly/TickSmart_Qu...

A misty lush green salt marsh with three great egrets & osprey nest on a foggy day.

Sunset over a salt marsh with orange lilies in foregrounded echoing orange clouds in sky.

Happy World Wetlands Day!
Grateful for all the beautiful salt marshes all around Boston that provide home & nourishment to sea life & other wildlife, mitigate floods & filter water, & sequester 10x more carbon than tropical forests. 💙
#WorldWetlandsDay
www.worldwetlandsday.org

For iterating bands in a raster in ArcGIS Pro, you can use ModelBuilder with the "Iterate Rasters" tool to process each band individually.

The flu stinks. Hope you feel better soon. 🤧

What can we do to mitigate wildfires in Rhode Island? - TPR: The Public's Radio Rhode Island was the site of two major wildfires in 2023, and the state saw over 40 forest fires this past fall alone. According to Brett Still, director of the Master of Environmental Science and Man...

Learn about wildfire risk in Rhode Island and what we can do to prepare. thepublicsradio.org/environment/...

Washington Power Outages PowerOutage.us tracks, records, and aggregates power outages across the United States.

Washington County, Rhode Island has over 1000 customers without power at the moment. No word on when it will be restored. poweroutage.us/area/county/...

The CVS App On Android was recently updated. The "Show Card" option is no longer on the home screen. Click the "Menu" button and then go to "Savings and Membership/Manage ExtraCare Membership." In the ExtraCare section, click on "Add to Google Wallet." Register barcode is now accessed in Wallet.

I agree. Most recently, I have seen examples of getting charged by the minute to use cloud resources. It is good that we still have options.

A view of the site https://maps.nimbo.earth/ for looking at vegetation health for a 100 ha section in Kingston, RI, using this NDVI online tool.

I am using the Nimbo online tool at maps.nimbo.earth to look at vegetation health in Kingston, Rhode Island. I am impressed with this tool.

Sign reading "No Beach Access" and "Stairs Damaged."

Coastal erosion has consequences. The stairs at the end of this path collapsed.

Flat white coffee with a decorative pattern of foam that reassembles a heart.

A kind person made this heart for me and I share it with you.

A virtual certificate with text "Celebrating 10M users on Bluesky, #177,975, Roland Duhaime ‪@rolandd.bsky.social‬, joined on Jun 30, 2023"

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #177,975! Cool.

Just the smells from that must be wonderful. Still waiting for Bluesky to add smellivision. ;-)

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A leftfield question: Is anyone working (or know anyone working) on phosphine emissions in wetlands?

I enjoyed playing pickleball for the first time today.

"The Mountain In The Sea" by Ray Nayler was wonderful.

Being from the eighties, I would call that boulder dash.🕹️

How does one go about getting invite codes for Bluesky?

The Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Rhode Island (coming soon) By Charles E. Clarkson, Jason E. Osenkowski, Valerie A. Steen, Roland J. Duhaime, and Peter W. C. Paton RHODE ISLAND DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT Division of Fish and Wildlife

Coming soon from RIDEM: https://dem.ri.gov/sites/g/files/xkgbur861/files/styles/max_650x650/public/2023-05/ri-bird-atlas2-cover.jpg?itok=oOQ1njzF

Nothin' but Bluesky from now on.