
Sean A. McKenna, PhD 🇺🇸 🇮🇪
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Sean A. McKenna, PhD 🇺🇸 🇮🇪
@samcken64
Director Hydrologic Sciences @DRIScience; Data Science/Climate/ML+Physics/Energy/Ireland/Trail Running/Family/Cheesehead Previous: @IBMResearch @SandiaLabs






Introducing Curiosity Lab by DRI! Satisfy your curiosity in this season by exploring the wonders of science and celebrate how it shapes our lives and deepens our understanding of the world. Thank you to our community partner @NVHumanities. Tickets: dri.edu/curiositylab



The U.S. just found a lithium goldmine—40M tons under the McDermitt Caldera. As global demand for lithium-ion batteries surges, the $2B Thacker Pass project could challenge China’s dominance and mark a shift toward domestic energy independence. oilprice.com/Metals/Commodi…



@MarioNawfal How does wikipedia even survive now that everyone gets their knowledge via LLMs and GPTs?

New study: An analysis of 400 occupations found that taxi and ambulance drivers had the lowest proportion of deaths from Alzheimer’s—raising the possibility that constant stimulation of the hippocampus, used for navigational and spatial processing, might be protective

A climate solution story if ever there was one: Building a geothermal heating system in Framingham, Mass. insideclimatenews.org/news/21122024/…

















