Jed O. Kaplan

Looks interesting! What’s the paper about?

Happy to chat about these opportunities and/or life in Calgary if you’re interested!

Great thread and sub-threads to chase down on a Sunday afternoon. Interesting debate. Having just gotten out of my personal comfort zone to give a seminar on the history and current status of the SSP-RCPs and antecedent scenarios, I was glad to see it remains a very current topic for discussion!

You assert that "...the conveyor belt of currents in the Atlantic Ocean [is] responsible for Western Europe’s mild climate..." This idea is at the very least debatable. Richard Seager has argued for decades that it is not important at all, e.g., www.jstor.org/stable/27858...

A bowl filled with homemade fermented sour pickles.

Summer fermentation experiment homemade pickles. Taste is great but some are mushy. Any ideas to avoid mushy pickles?

It's not often that a senior professorship in paleolimnology comes long, but here is one great opportunity. Deadline September 10. If you consider applying and wonder what the process is like, feel free to reach out to me! www.queensu.ca/vpr/crc/oppo...

Pink and white cherry blossoms adorning the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial, Washington D.C.

It was a lovely day in late March.

I have been waiting for you to comment on this fire. I still vividly remember reading “Fire on the Rim” as a teenager. Looking forward to seeing your thoughts!

Really enjoyed this thread and got me thinking about how we could evaluate our fire model output in such a data-rich area. Wonder: what was more important for 20th century suppression, grazing or FS crews?

Highlighted section from https://open.substack.com/pub/balancedweather/p/latest-on-texas-hill-country-flood discussing how current cuts to NOAAs research programs will make forecasting extreme weather much harder.

Outstanding explainer by @wxmanms1.bsky.social. As someone who teaches intro meteorology and spends a lot of time discussing the challenges of predicting extreme weather, I was especially moved by the highlighted section. open.substack.com/pub/balanced...

Great explainer from my colleague Dan.

Cool diagram. Will use this next time I teach intro meteorology.

Photo of a mountainside rising out of a lake up to snowy peaks in the distance. In the foreground is a slope that has burned in a mixed severity wildfire where even the soil has burned away to bedrock in some places while in others there are still living stands of trees.

Mixed severity burn from 2022 at Kootenay Lake, British Columbia. Photo taken in spring 2025.

Good thread. Having thought about these issues a lot myself and recognizing that landscape scale wildfires are rarely all of one severity or another, I enjoyed this back and forth.

No. no. Just no.

Heartbreaking photo. I have so many great memories of inspiring times at the GISS lab in Manhattan.

Those were the days. I’ll never forget my two weeks in solitary confinement at the Penny’s Bay COVID detention camp.

Bell: Smith to Carney — Wanted Now, a pipeline to Prince Rupert, B.C. Premier Danielle Smith wants Prime Minister Mark Carney to fast-track a pipeline project to Prince Rupert, along with nixing tanker ban.

Alberta Premier demands @mark-carney.bsky.social build a pipeline to Prince Rupert. Besides the childish demanding, there are important marine geohazards reasons why that could be a spectacularly foolish idea ⚒️🇨🇦

calgaryherald.com/opinion/colu...

For the most part, these won’t be career positions but limited-term postings targeted at postdocs and other temporary staff.

I am also hiring in Calgary! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

World map of average density of lightning strokes from the period 2010-2024. The greatest density of lightning is seen in the tropics and subtropics of the Americas, Africa, and island Southeast Asia. The most lightning is in northeastern Colombia and Panama. There is almost no lightning in the Arctic and none at all in Antarctica.

I've released the 2025 update of the WGLC global lightning dataset today. Daily and monthly data lightning density and stroke energy covering the period 2010-2024 are now available! doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Coronation Mountain then.

PeakFinder - The mountains are calling!

When I'm wondering what mountains I see, I like the PeakFinder app www.peakfinder.com (no relation to the developer, just a satisfied user).

It’s hard to tell exactly what direction you are looking, but the highest mountain on southern Vancouver Island is Mount Arrowsmith (1819m) WNW of Nanaimo.

So much for your “light snowshower”

The interesting thing is that there is much more variability in the high temperatures than the low.

This bird's nest is made of candy wrappers and face masks. Here's what we can learn | CBC Radio Dutch doctoral student Auke-Florian Hiemstra excavated a bird nest, and made a startling discovery. From McDonald's lids to face masks, the nest was built with layers of human trash — the oldest piece...

#Amsterdam's canals don't meet most Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point criteria, and not all scientists agree with declaring the #Anthropocene anyway, but these feathered inhabitants' embrace of 'new' materials is terrifying. There's nothing encouraging about the common coot's adaptation.

SNOW = MONEY

Gippsland coast aerial view

Gippsland coast view of sea and rocks

Looking to start a PhD? Want to work with us on the Gippsland coast of Australia to study how people interacted with marine molluscs over thousands of years? If so, get in touch!

Deadline for applications is 27 March, 2025. #Archaeology #biodiversity #PhD

www.sydney.edu.au/scholarships...

Still controversial and many people don’t believe me when I say that.