@bensmets.bsky.social
Geoscientist – Remote sensing of Geohazards and Volcanoes | Assistant Prof. at Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Senior Researcher at AfricaMuseum (Belgium)
Great morning start, today, when I discovered this message on my whiteboard, written by two students from ENSG-Geomatique (France) happy of their internship at the AfricaMuseum. Thank YOU, guys! It was a pleasure to welcome you.
#africamuseum #geohazards #ScienceRocks
Climate.gov will likely soon shut down, as most of the staff charged with maintaining it were fired. 🧪
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Happy Earth Day to everyone!
The GeoRiskA team takes advantage of this international day dedicated to our planet Earth to share some examples of scientific activities on geohazards and disaster risks.
#EartDay #africamuseum #geohazards @belspo.be
ESA Sentinel-1 SAR amplitude change image highlighting the current flood (cyan colours) in Kinshasa, D.R.Congo. The extent within the city is probably much larger, as the backscattering of the buildings in densely urbanised areas tends to hide floods.
#flood #Kinshasa #DRCongo
Animation showing a north-south rupture in the ground west of the Irrawaddy River, Mandalay, Myanmar, after a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on 28 March.
In response to the disaster, #CopernicusEMS and the #DisastersCharter have been activated to provide satellite imagery to help relief efforts.
Last Tuesday, MSc students in Geography of @vubrussel.bsky.social and @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social came to the #AfricaMuseum to learn more about photogrammetry. The programme included a guest lecture by @adille.bsky.social on remote sensing of slow-moving landslides and a UAV demonstration
30.03.2025 09:36 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0What about the IAVCEI Scientific Assembly, next June/July in Geneva?
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What a speech!
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My tweet of last November: The "what have you done?" resonates everyday in my head. It is like we are in a bad James Bond movie, except that the powerful villain is #POTUS and Bond is not there to save us.
#saveUkraine #saveUSAID #saveNOAA #saveNASA #saveNIH #saveUSGS ... #saveEarth
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
As the Trump administration announces drastic policy changes, nowhere is the shock more palpable than in the field of global health
https://go.nature.com/3Q3yAZE
A five-step guide to communicating your science ethically and accurately
https://go.nature.com/3Et4j3V
Gel de l’aide américaine et lutte contre le paludisme : les « pires scénarios ont été dépassés »
06.02.2025 14:11 — 👍 27 🔁 9 💬 2 📌 1🚨New tenure-track position 🚨 – Professorship in 'Modelling of ice-sheet climate interactions' available to reinforce the Physical Geography research group of the VUB. Application deadline: 14 March 2025.
30.01.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0No more melted lava-like car's dashboard? 😉
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This Friday (24/01) at 12h00 Elise Dujardin will present her work on modelling urban gullies across Africa at the geo-webinar of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. Feel free to join online using the link below.
#Africa #AfricaMuseum #NaturalHazards #GeoRiskA
Happy to see the first paper of Ephrem Kamate published today. Congrats Ephrem. @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
