Drew Lorrey

@NiwaWeather The sudden onset, precip rate, volume and size of hail were really impressive as was the lightning and thunder. Not ideal kiddo drop off conditions, but the pupils got a big kick outta it!

Some impressive hail stones in Riverhead, Auckland this morning from a thunderstorm! ⚡️ @DLorrey reported that the ground briefly turned completely white & that the stones were at least 1 cm across.

@davidjnash Get well soon Dave!

Well, I wasn’t expecting a night in Eastbourne A&E after waking up with acute deep pain in my side. Turns out to be a suspected kidney stone. NHS staff have been brilliant. Fortunately it was very quiet at 5am! Got some awesome pain killers and booked in for a CT scan now.

@pollenkat @NZSeds @MasseyUni @UCNZ @otago @WellingtonUni @EnvUoA Surprised to read that, I’d have thought it was a standard go-to move for RN 🤣

@DLorrey @NZSeds @MasseyUni @UCNZ @otago @WellingtonUni @EnvUoA We couldn't find snap crotch bodysuits that all matched...

(Most of) the NZ contingent at #INQUARoma2023. We have representatives from 5 of the 6 universities (@MasseyUni, @UCNZ , @otago, @WellingtonUni, @EnvUoA), 8 students, countless oral and poster presentations, and one gorgeous 8-month old!

@kate_g_evans Walked a decent length of that stream and also did GPR and passive seismic tomography over the former / current outlet and the surrounds a while back. Really should publish it …

@DLorrey I wondered!

Very cool if true

What have you done over the last 5 yrs (Sept, 2018-July, 2023)? Sadly my fav glacier (Klinaklini) has lost 5 Gt of water. 😪Cloudy shots omitted. B. Floyd @VIUniversity @UNBC @HakaiInstitute met station.

Really neat video by @InspireExplore with George Denton from @UMaine , who discusses early explorer contributions to understanding Antarctica and global climate. I’m forever grateful that George helped me get there as a student. nzaht.org/climate-insigh…

The 2023 Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowships are now worth $400,000 and include matched institutional support and increased research expenses! Apply by 3 August 2023: bit.ly/3Ncy2hY @royalsocietynz

We will have a vacancy on the #MarsdenFund Council next year for the convenor of the Earth Sciences and Astronomy panel. @MBIEgovtnz are recruiting for the position. Deadline 25 June. Please share! jobs.mbie.govt.nz/job/Marsden-Fu…

Very pleased to have been a (small) part of this cool research at @MasseyUni, led by Dr Mathieu Quenu, alongside @DLorrey, Mary Morgan-Richards, Steve Trewick, Emily Judd and Jonathan Tyler. massey.ac.nz/about/news/fos…

@Heaton_T_J @dr_eleanor_gee Yes, in my experience looking at subfossil kauri, they typically have root plates that are much smaller in diameter that are shallowly seated - with structural “peg roots” that are numerous. That’s why these trees are prone to wind throw. The model doesn’t reflect reality!

@DLorrey @dr_eleanor_gee What do they look like in reality? Much smaller?

I still haven't seen the model kauri. I need to go on an excursion to the biosecurity folks and have a look sometime...

Lovely to see mentor and colleague Paul Williams from @AucklandUni honoured with an ONZM today - an absolute legend in physical geography and especially speleothem research in Aotearoa

@tgatte @ed_hawkins @Azure @JordiRib1 I’d say yes. Prescribed constraints on the transcription specific to meteorological data could see immediate improvements of 15-20% just by constraining some categories (eg atmospheric pressure). Augmented training libraries would also push it up even more for some methods.

@DLorrey @ed_hawkins @Azure @JordiRib1 I wonder if we could do better than 69% accuracy today? Computer Vision OCR v4.0 is in preview. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/co…

Ever wondered about how much old weather data is not available to scientists? Just in the UK we have around 100 million daily rainfall measurements for the period 1850-1960 sitting in the Archives on hundreds of thousands of sheets of paper. Where is the AI tool to read these?

@ed_hawkins @tgatte @Azure @JordiRib1 @tgatte We tested recovery of tabulated meteorological data with @Azure through a project supported by Microsoft’s AI for Good programme - it shows potential, but additional constraints (more supervision) on the ML are needed. See our paper about it here: cell.com/patterns/pdfEx…

@tgatte @Azure @JordiRib1 My understanding is that accurately reading tabulated numerical data is a very different challenge from reading hand-written text. But AI is moving so fast that perhaps this is all solved now.

Did you know snail shells record evidence of climate and diet? New paper from @MasseyUni grad Mathieu Quenu, @NatSciMassey’s Mary Morgan-Richards and Steve Trewick, and @pollenkat, Emily Judd, @jonathanjtyler, Andrew Lorrey. Journal of Quaternary Science doi.org/10.1002/jqs.35…

@kate_g_evans @Jamienzherald @tommyhigham No it was not, unfortunately. 😢

@Jamienzherald @tommyhigham What happened with that? Was it saved?

I had a talk to Dr Mike Joy this morning. He’s one of our best-known scientists but found out Monday his role at Victoria University will be dis-established. “Pretty gutting” is how he put it. It’s been a sadly familiar story over the past few years 1/ nzherald.co.nz/nz/pretty-gutt…

Paper early online release on long-term changes to the southern hemisphere circulation and rainfall as the climate moves towards stablisation - with @AndrewKingClim The circulation and rainfall response in the southern hemisphere extra... sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I knew Aro Valley was damp but Jesus this is excessive