Jed O. Kaplan

"The illegal shipments intercepted included materials such as e-waste, used batteries, waste oil, hazardous scrap metal, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), plastic waste, contaminated scrap paper, and other environmentally hazardous materials."
Textiles, too!

#BaselConvention
#YouWasteItYouOwnIt

It’s no longer meeting at the water cooler, coffee machine, or smoke break. Now we chat with our colleagues around the communal trash bins…

A look up the massive trunk of the world’s tallest tropical tree: 100.8 m tall Shorea faguetiana, Danum Valley, Borneo.

Put them on your students’ term papers when they did a good job.

For 200 bucks just take it. You’ll definitely find some use for that nice wood.

Assuming this is a manuscript in your area of expertise, I might be able to review it. You can invite me.

This was also my experience as an editor at a major journal.

Every university in Canada is currently looking for talent from abroad. Reach out to places you might go! www.canada.ca/en/impact-pl...

This is so important, and don’t forget that major land use change and deforestation occurred across Europe, Asia, and Africa long before even 1750.

Job seekers: Excellent thread from my colleague @watershedlab.bsky.social. If you’re considering applying for any of my open positions, jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/ consider reading this first!

Looking for: postdoc on quantitative history of China; postdoc on measuring wildfire fuels with LiDAR; PhDs on modeling fire in the boreal forest and the Pacific Northwest; MSc’s on earth system science; interns in many topics. Check it out!

This is truly hilarious.

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

I've updated the opportunities part of my website with fresh openings for researchers interested in climate and vegetation science, archaeology, history, and geography at all levels from undergraduate intern to postdoc. Take a look! jedokaplan.github.io/opportunities/

Increasing late Holocene dust deposition in West Africa is amplified by land use change Changes in dust deposition in West Africa over the mid- to late Holocene have traditionally been attributed to orbital forcing affecting the West Afri…

Could prehistoric farmers and pastoralists have caused skies to be dustier than normal? What feedbacks could that dust have had to societies downwind? This paper was a long time coming, and I am really glad to see it published!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

#envhist #envhum

Thanks for this detailed comparison. I use freedom mobile and am satisfied with the speed and the included roaming but I don’t stream much video.

🚨 Postdoctoral opportunities! 🚨

Hello #econsky! We are hiring 2 postdocs in the department of economics at UCalgary for those working in *electricity economics*

Term: 2 years
Pay: $80,000/yr + benefits + $10k research allowance
Start: July 2026

Details in next two posts 👇

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.