Dealing with the Dread of Climate Change

Annual average global temperature from the Berkeley Earth reconstruction, along with an interpolated trend for the future. 2023 stands out as being substantially above the long term trend. Gavin Schmidt (one of the world's most respected climate scientists), in a commentary published in Nature, expressed his shock on the unprecedented warming that happened in 2023. … Continue reading Dealing with the Dread of Climate Change

Job Quest – the beginning

A stack of possibilities. It has been about half a year since the end of my last postdoctoral fellowship. Although I have kept an eye out for new academic positions, I mostly have used this period of "unemployment" to finish off some lingering projects, to travel around to see friends and family, and to train … Continue reading Job Quest – the beginning

Musings of a geoarchivist

All of the geoscience data, I go nom nom nom! I sometime ponder what title my line of work should be grouped in. I often say "Earth scientist" because it is the most generic. But is there a better way to describe my work? I sometimes dabble in geophysics, examining the deformation of the Earth … Continue reading Musings of a geoarchivist

Southeastern South American sea level in the Last Interglacial

Selfie in front of a Last Interglacial beach deposit in Caleta Olivia, Argentina. It was windy! Yesterday was a happy day, as I had my first publication of the year. It is a compilation of sea-level data from the Last Interglacial for Uruguay, Argentina and one site from Chile. There is a long heritage of … Continue reading Southeastern South American sea level in the Last Interglacial

Georeferencing in QGIS

QGIS is a great program and is a viable alternative to the old stalwart, ArcGIS. However, one aspect of ArcGIS that is vastly superior to QGIS is georeferencing maps. In ArcGIS, when you want to georeference a map, you simply load up the map, along with another pre-georeferenced image or map, click on the map … Continue reading Georeferencing in QGIS

ICESHEET 1.0

Comparison of the (a) true and (b) reconstructed topography of the modern Greenland Ice Sheet, using ICESHEET This post refers to some hints and tricks to run my ice sheet sheet software, which I called ICESHEET. This was published a few weeks ago in Geoscience Model Development, but due to the chaos of moving and … Continue reading ICESHEET 1.0

Model of the western Laurentide Ice Sheet

I started my PHD in July 2010. On March 12, 2016, the paper that summarizes over five years of work was finally published. Before going on what it is about, you can download your own copy of the paper from this link until May 1st. After that, it is behind a paywall, but feel free … Continue reading Model of the western Laurentide Ice Sheet

Primer: Ice on the Earth’s surface

I started this blog to be able to share what I do with the world, in a way that is hopefully accessible to everyone! First though, I should introduce the subjects that I am interested in. The first topic I am tackling is "ice on the Earth's surface". Reading the reactions to news stories of … Continue reading Primer: Ice on the Earth’s surface

INQUA conference in Nagoya

I currently have the pleasure to attend the 2015 INQUA Congress (International Quaternary Association). This is one of the largest gatherings of people who work on geology and climate change for the past 2.5 million years. Although I still question the wisdom of holding a conference in Nagoya in July (temperatures are currently in excess of … Continue reading INQUA conference in Nagoya