Amy Frappier

@ClimateKristin The scientific discovery of global environmental change caused by people is a 'new Copernican revolution' Finding the meaning of our changed relationship with nature is a deep challenge to culture way beyond science. We don't have 300 years to process this, and youth can lead 1/

@oz4caster @BMcNoldy @oz4caster there's a good open source textbook covering physical oceanography and marine geology by Paul Webb at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island geo.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Oc…

@BMcNoldy Thanks. I'm trying to learn more about oceanography. From bits and pieces picked up over the years I understand it to be quite complex, including insolation, evaporation, salinity, sea ice formation and melting, currents, waves, as well as convection, conduction, and radiation.

The ocean heat content averaged over the Caribbean Sea is not only a record for the date (again), it's the highest it's been through August 2 (that record was set in 2023). It's as high as the average on September 2. The anomaly just keeps increasing too.

@PaulRoundy1 !!!

@AmyFrappier I found out later it rolled five times.

My mom & dad walked away from this. Someone on the highway didn't stop for them turning.

@5berto @FishroomSci @Reviewer_No_2 oddly enough, giraffes love it! helps cure giraffe wasting disease. Looks like you have enough for a whole herd! Knotweed is tough, wrecked my neighbor's driveway. punched right through it! btw, glyphosate applied to leaves/stems w kitchen sponge wand will kill just that plant

@NWSAlbany south side of Saratoga Springs, about 2:50-3pm today

👀 1.8cm Hail! and graupel too! gotta 📸 quick! The kid booked it home from the bus stop, and luckily made it just as ice started pelting down After a couple of rainless weeks of accumulating pollen and the dusty smoky skies, even a little rain is so welcome! #thunderstorms

@PaulRoundy1 no frost here, but sadly my m. basjoo is MIA. I doubt there's much chance of sprouts at this point

We had frost again this morning. Ridiculous.

@jer_science AdventureTime! perfect weekend for it!👋 from a bit north of Albany

Starting this Saturday, my brother and I are riding from Buffalo to Manhattan. I am extremely excited.

@PaulRoundy1 looking better than mine! The 'trunk' looked decent, but I am still waiting for any new shoots to emerge.

@AmyFrappier They are damaged, but not dead.

Tents are in place for the banana trees.

@PaulRoundy1 main trunk looks decent. hope to see those new sprouts soon!

Spring.

@john_luczaj My Sed/Strat is an upper level undergraduate course, pre-req is intro geo or oceanography. Students are 1st -4th year. I use Nichols and Stow, both great! I supplement figs from Boggs, P&S, FaciesModels + local index fossil illustration plates + lots of photos/video/animations

For those of you who teach Sedimentology or Stratigraphy, what textbook do you use? Boggs is now over $260 and 11 years old. I can't seem to find an open sed/strat textbook.

@PaulRoundy1 Our HS had the same 'swatting' hoax. glad it was relatively easy to tell it wasn't credible

My daughter has been sitting under a desk at a locked down school for 40 minutes. There's a vague threat to schools in the region. Nothing actually in progress.

@Matthew94091812 @jelistrop @PaulRoundy1 Antihistamine 👍 I'm terribly allergic (like multiple trips to the ER), so apparently soap doesn't cut it for me

@AmyFrappier @jelistrop @PaulRoundy1 For poison ivy, soap works for me, both for removing oil after exposure and for relieving itching. I have used Technu before realizing soap worked too. After the rash appears, removing histamine stops the itching for awhile. The rash eventually goes away if not scratched.

I used to be an organic gardener. I still maintain some of the habits I developed at that time that happened to work. But I realized that many of the claims of the organic movement, including those against glyphosate, were misleading or completely wrong.

@PaulRoundy1 IPM is so much more effective, but takes expertise and information. Sadly, it's much easier to just douse huge fields with pesticides. Too bad there's no 'weather service' for pests. Co-op Extension has good local resources, but lacks data/models to influence the big growers

@PaulRoundy1 A different, reasonable concern is the development of resistant pests/weeds from widespread, persistent, heavy applications in agribiz. Not so relevant to backyard gardeners... until eventually poison ivy becomes harder to kill

@jelistrop @PaulRoundy1 Glyphosate breaks down in the environment within days to weeks, preferable to persistent herbicides. Leaves/green stems absorb, blocks woody plant root uptake. It's perfect for poison ivy! Avoid non-target plants- use a kitchen sponge applicator on leaves only, doesn't take much

@Matthew94091812 @jelistrop @PaulRoundy1 Only detergent, not soap removes the poison ivy oil urushiol, which binds like heck to skin. Tecnu works wonders shortly after exposure! Once there's a rash, detergents fail, but Zanfels removes bound oils, stops further irritation. Saved dad's job interview. $$ but worth it!

@jelistrop @PaulRoundy1 I sympathize with you regarding poison ivy! I've rubbed soap into the affected area gebtkybfir several minutes. Then wash it out for several minutes. Some people use oatmeal.

@Reviewer_No_2 Happy birthday, here's to another free trip around the sun!

@KathyBenison @john_luczaj I'm going to give this a go in next year's sed/strat class! I'm thinking it's a perfect introduction project to kick off week 1. 🤔They'd likely design different experiments week 1 vs later, so 🧠⛈️ concepts/samples to introduce? What weeks in the term do your projects start/end?