Matthew Morriss

I've updated my RiverREM GUI to now work successfully with a custom centerline shapefile. You can find V1.0.1 on github at the link below (for windows only right now)
github.com/morrismc/REM...
@dpmanchee.bsky.social

A few issues have been raised with the REM code I shared a few days ago. I'll try to fix those early next week when I'm back in the office!

thanks for the issue! I'll try to update next week after the holiday here in the US!

Let's hope so!

If you want to try my tool, which currently is only working on windows, please take a look at my latest v1.0.0 release: github.com/morrismc/REM...

everything should be projected in UTM!
if you have any issues, please log them on GH!
#ClaudeCode
@opentopography.org

opentopography.org/blog/new-pac...

the open topography tool requires a bit more python know how and I've been using it for years. But with some new coding tools out there now, I wanted to put together a GUI interface for making REMs, linked in next post

Relative elevation models are both compelling visualizations of fluvial systems but also frankly useful for geologic mapping of terraces or quantifying zones of potential flood inundation. Several years ago Open Topography coded up an method for using python to make REMs (see below) 🧵

If you're not watching the Olympics, you should be! A quick dashboard made with #Claude for the Women's 3000 m speed skate. Highlighting the time per lap of each of the top four contenders. Gold Medal winner Lollobrigida is in a league of her own! #Olympics

SLC is ideal for outdoor dining. Why are we stuck inside? [ANALYSIS] - Building Salt Lake I was recently in Durham, North Carolina. Along with my family, we ate outside three times – without trying. We simply walked to a restaurant and asked to sit outside. By contrast, when we got home to...

SLC is ideal for outdoor dining. Why are we stuck inside? [ANALYSIS] buildingsaltlake.com/slc-is-ideal... via @buildingsaltlake.bsky.social and @rockiceandsnow.bsky.social

SLC is ideal for outdoor dining. Why are we stuck inside? [ANALYSIS] - Building Salt Lake I was recently in Durham, North Carolina. Along with my family, we ate outside three times – without trying. We simply walked to a restaurant and asked to sit outside. By contrast, when we got home to...

Wrote an OP-Ed about the lack of outdoor dining in SLC. I was able to quantify that SLC has a great number of days throughout the year when eating outdoors would be ideal - why doesn't our built environment reflect that? (written on personal time) buildingsaltlake.com/slc-is-ideal...

Turns out there have been other years with bad dry spells but we've been riding out a pretty bad one!

Much has been made of our dry winter thus far in the Northern Wasatch. Here's some fun SWE curves from two #SNOTEL sites. Not the worst year YET but not looking good....

distracting myself from the trying moments by vibe coding fun plots

This line graph illustrates the percentage change in agency staff levels from the previous year for nine major U.S. federal scientific and health organizations between the fiscal years 2016 and 2025. The agencies tracked include the CDC, Department of Energy, EPA, FDA, NASA, NIH, NIST, NOAA, and NSF. For the majority of the timeline between 2016 and 2023, the agencies show relatively stable fluctuations, generally staying within a range of +5% to -5% change per year. However, there is a dramatic and uniform plummet starting in the 2024–25 period. Every agency depicted shows a sharp downward trajectory, with staffing losses ranging from approximately -15% to over -25%. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) shows the most significant decline, dropping to roughly -26%, while the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shows the least severe but still substantial drop at approximately -15%.

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.

www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Been a WARM winter in SLC, no appreciable snow at the airport thus far.... thankfully getting some in the mtns.

gonna leave this one here.

made in concert with Gemini

My brother sent me this

New seafloor mapping offshore Kodiak Island, Alaska, reveals extensive submarine landslides In summer 2025, a research team led by the USGS worked with the NOAA ship Rainier to map a large swath of seafloor offshore of Kodiak Island, Alaska, along the Alaska-Aleutian Trench.

New seafloor mapping offshore Alaska in the Alaska-Aleutian subduction zone! #USGS #NOAA #MarineGeohazards 🧪⚒️🌊

Its a map that put together a lot of existing 500k maps. not yet a seamless national product...

Yes, yes I do want to see this new geologic map!

just had a friend who was there recently! yikes!

Will Struble Tectonic Geomorphology and Surface Processes at the University of Houston

Can forests damp earthquake waves and thus limit co-seismic landslides? What does this mean for Critical Zone development? Postdoctoral position with Will Struble and a multi-disciplinary team (including me🌲🌲🌊🌳🪾). Position is open until filled.

willstruble.com
#CZScience #Postdoc

Does anyone know a way to project terrace location and elevations onto a river long profile, both of which were done without using Matlab/Python/R? Basically a GIS based framework?

congratulations!

The barrier lake of the 21 July 2025 landslide in the Matia'an valley in Taiwan. Image by etaiwan.news.

The 21 July 2025 rock avalanche in the Matia'an valley in Wanrong, east Taiwan is generating a lake that could have a volume of 86 million cubic metres at the point of overtopping. This poses a threat to at least seven downstream communities.
eos.org/thelandslide...

The influence of wildfire on debris flows in a landscape of persistent disequilibrium: Columbia River Gorge, OR, USA Debris flow erosion in rocky catchments of northern Oregon (USA) is found to be relatively insensitive to fire conditions.

shamelessly made a bluesky account so I could plug my first first-author paper (!) on postfire erosion in steep rocky catchments -- go check her out!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

NISAR has lifted off! And been successfully placed in its orbit! Good job, ISRO! Woohoo!

Although large earthquakes generates strong shaking over a wide area, this is somewhat mitigated by the rupture being offshore. But if the rupture breaks the ocean floor, it generates destructive a tsunami that can spread across the ocean basin in the hours that follow.

NISAR LAUNCHED!!! congrats to all those involved!