Dan Shugar
@WaterSHEDLab
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Ice cream maker, geomorphologist, professor. science @ intersection of steep slopes, gravity, & climate. He/him. same handle on fediscience and bluesky
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Being part of the recovery of Nun cho ga, the baby woolly mammoth found in the permafrost in the Klondike this week (on Solstice and Indigenous Peoples’ Day!), was the most exciting scientific thing I have ever been part of, bar none.
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Pro tip from the Director of Environmental Sciences at the University of Calgary: please don’t do this
it’s not camping unless u bring 10 jumbo rolls of plastic wrap 👍 👍
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It’s only a Freedom Convoy if it comes from the Freedom region of France. Otherwise it’s just sparkling selfishness.
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I am doing my best to counter the trend of male academics being super productive during Covid and submitting 17 articles or whatever. So far my count is zero.
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I’m doing a project on elderly geology. If you are a rock and over 250 million, please DM me.
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Pet peeve: people who strap speakers to their backpack so everyone can enjoy their crappy music while hiking.
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Apologies in advance to anyone I am disappointing. I have taken on too much.
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WOW. This video from Facebooker Trevor Chelsea of the breaching
#ChilcotinLandslide
dammed lake is incredible. BC Government's Connie Chapman reporting estimated peak flows in Chilcotin River of 8000 m3/s. For reference, normal for this time of year is ~150 m3/s.
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You mean like this? CONSIDERING THE PDF IS EDITABLE, yeah, it was very easy to do this. Took me literally 43 seconds.
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BC in the midst of what will no doubt be the worst/costliest disaster in Canadian history, by a country mile, and still not a peep from
@jkenney
. Empathy doesn’t cost anything, premier.
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The most incredible thing about Nun cho ga is the preservation…toe nails, hide intact, hair, trunk, intestines…
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As a geoscientist that studies landslides I must say I am disappointed
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Well, this really doesn't seem very good. Highest EVER covid numbers in Edmonton's wastewater. No new data from Calgary.
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Searching for a scientist named 'Spice' with which to write a Shugar & Spice paper. Please send my way.
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Look what came home from school today with the 6yo. Now I am truly confused. I thought COVID was done with in Alberta.
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As seen on FB, some large gravel the size of small gravel
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Anyone want to submit a manuscript entitled “on the goings on at the home of an academic and parent during the covid-19 pandemic” and it’s just endless screaming for 4,000 words? I’m thinking nature communications.
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On Feb 7, a torrent of water, debris, & ice cascaded down Ronti Gad, Rishiganga, & Dhauliganga valleys in Uttarakhand, India. Today in
@sciencemagazine
,
@waterSHEDlab
& colleagues provide a comprehensive explanation of the event & ensuing disaster 1/n
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Breaking news: Regina is only jurisdiction in Alberta to pilot new curriculum. Full story at 11.
#ABed
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Amber Alert issued for 52-year-old premier - The Beaverton
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Watching first episode of The Great North and i think I've a new favourite
@Nick_Offerman
quote: "Quick, line up behind me in order of bravery". It's as if Shakespeare himself has moved to Alaska and grown a hefty chin pelt.
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We were able to study the permafrost section that the mammoth came out of…
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And as soon as we finished up, the skies opened to an absolute downpour with lightning, hail, mud that seemed to come from the ground upwards.
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Hi
@shandro
@CMOH_Alberta
see above? You have an editable PDF for these ridiculous non-passports. They are not worth the paper they’re printed on. This is spectacularly, mind-bogglingly bad.
@ByJamesKeller
@CBCFletch
@picardonhealth
@JenLeeCBC
@drdagly
@RachelNotley
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Incredibly grateful to miner Brian from Treadstone and to Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in for the opportunity to be part of this
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Over the past 48 hrs in Alberta, we’ve had the announcement of new 1.4 GW solar installation and the elimination of 1500 jobs from an oil and gas company. The writing is on the wall. We need to do better at transitioning our economy and workforce to the reality of what’s coming.
Suncor Energy Inc. says it is cutting 1,500 jobs by the end of the year in an effort to reduce costs and improve the company’s lagging performance.
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Discovered by placer miner who called Grant Zazula
@yukonberingia
, who put out call to any geologists in area to recover before it thawed. We were incredibly lucky to be in Dawson w Jeff Bond & Derek Cronmiller from Yukon Geol Survey. Was a fast drive down 60km of mining roads.
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If Albertans decide to divorce ourselves from CPP based on the silly assumption we're entitled to 53% and then learn that we only get 15%, boy oh boy will they be pissed. But by then it'll be too late. I BEG you fellow Albertans to do some homework and use some common sense here.
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This is one of those ‘wait for it’ things
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Yesterday, Apr 29, was the 120th anniversary of the deadliest landslide in Canadian history. A short thread about the Frank Slide.
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People that think there's a massive organized effort by ballot counters to rig election are the same that think there's massive organized effort by scientists to dupe you about climate change. They've obvs never witnessed a faculty meeting. We can't even agree on the muffins.
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There is not a single valid reason for journals/authors to put figures at the end of a manuscript when in review. Put them in-text where they belong. thank you for coming to my Ted Talk.
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WOW -
@planetlabs
has updated image of
#UttarakhandDisaster
. Looks like massive dust deposition over much of W side of the valley and the trigger appears to be the landslide scar that I discovered a few minutes ago. So NOT a typical GLOF.
@davepetley
@BhambriRakesh
@irfansalroo
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Prospective grad student's current supervisor refuses to write a recommendation letter for that student to study elsewhere for next degree...only if they stay at current institution. Wow - don't be that guy. Holy cow.
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Dramatic increase in flow in Chilcotin River downstream of
#ChilcotinLandslide
, following overtopping few hours ago. The river has now flowed onto the adjacent terrace. These images are from just over one hour apart and we're still in very early stages of the flood.
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Think I can say "a dog's breakfast" in a paper? As in: "Due to complicated tectonic history, the regional bedrock geology is a dog's breakfast". Yes/No
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Apropos of nothing in particular here are the 29 real estate listings in and around Athabasca, Alberta. 18 of them are raw land.
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There it is -
@UCalgary
remaining online until after reading break (Feb 28). Glad to see the University is taking omicron seriously.
#covid19AB
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I just learned tonight that some people do their taxes in Powerpoint. They do their taxes...in Powerpoint.
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Reminder that I'm looking for grad students for F21. Ideally a PhD student interested in geohazards or rapid geological/geomorphic change in alpine environments. If you've been in touch already, no need to email me again as I already know about you. Canadians preferred but open.
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Gorgeous highres
@planet
SkySat satellite image of
#ChilcotinLandslide
dam from today (Aug 6), about 24hrs after the lake began overtopping the dam. Can easily see logs floating in the lake, as well as the bathtub ring on the N side of the lake, indicating the lake's high point.
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Looking for 1-2 grad students for Sept '21
@UofC_Geoscience
to work on geomorphology, geohazards & cryosphere projects. MSc looking at deposits from contemporary turbidity currents & PhD or MSc on glacial hazards (focus TBD). Your ideas also welcome!
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It's only Ivermectin if it comes from the Cote d'Iver region of France. Otherwise it's just sparkling horsey paste.
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Re-upping this.
@twitter
@verified
when can we expect scientists and other academics to qualify, without having to be an influencer?
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'She's perfect and she's beautiful': Frozen baby woolly mammoth discovered in Yukon gold fields | CBC News
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Absolutely humbled to have received the Early Career Research Excellence Award from
@UofC_Science
!
The list of
@UofC_Science
Awards of Excellence is out, and the Department of Geoscience has shone again! Congratulations to Dr. Dan Shugar (Early Career Research), Dr. Masaki Hayashi (Established Career Research), Dr. Dave Eaton (Established Career Scholarship)… 1/2
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First satellite imagery
@planet
of Chilcotin Landslide from Tuesday night. The impounded lake is ~2km long, and the landslide debris itself blocking about 700m of river. The Fraser River gauge at Big Bar, some 90km downstream, has leveled out after dropping to ~1470 m3/s.
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Choosing which grad students to admit is one of the hardest decisions I (and others) make as a prof. So many excellent applicants but only so much time and $ to go around. Know that if you are not offered a spot, it very likely has nothing to do with you not being 'good enough'.
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Just had a delightful Zoom chat with a keen high schooler who had read
@KHayhoe
's Saving Us and wanted to study geoscience or environmental science, to help...well, save us. The kids are alright.
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There has been a lot of confusion in the past 24hrs surrounding the term 'glacier burst' and exactly what happened to cause the
#UttarakhandDisaster
flood. Analysis by myself and colleagues suggested a landslide that took out part of a hanging glacier. 1/n
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Drop a cool photo of you doing your job
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Tweeps, is there a really good reason why we split the Results and Discussion sections? I know it's just the way it's always been done, but WHY?
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Your daily reminder that some of us, while appearing healthy as a horse, are actually immunocompromised. Wear your damned masks, people! This isn't a drill.
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Pretty amazing photo of a split tree, where half is on a relatively stable part of the slope, and half is on the part of the slope that's moving downhill at a faster rate. This is from MSc student
@JacksonBodtker
's work on a slowish-moving landslide near Dawson City, Yukon.
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Not sure if anyone has asked this, but what's the best glacier? Answers must be accompanied by pics/imagery.
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Lake dammed by
#ChilcotinLandslide
continues to grow. As of Aug 1's
@planet
satellite overpass, the lake was ~9km long, and noticeably larger than on July 31. Downstream of the dam, Chilcotin River bed looks very dry. (images from July 21, 31, Aug 1).
@brianmenounos
@nathancullen
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Made a thing, influenced by The Artiste
@geo_coe
: Satellite=>DEM=>REM. Bella Coola River, data from LidarBC.
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I made a thing to explain what glacial lakes are and why that's important. Accompanies our new
@NatureClimate
paper, out today
@LEGO_Group
@NASA
@ucalgary
🧵
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This looks like it could be from a (unnamed?) glacier flowing from Trisul peak.
@planetlabs
imagery from Feb 7 (L image) shows lots of dust/moisture in the air (same as in the videos), which is not present on Feb 6 (R).
@BhambriRakesh
@davepetley
@irfansalroo
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Good: Starting Jan. 22, ALL Canadians must be fully vaccinated to enter the U.S.
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For my PhD, I worked on one of the landslides triggered by the Denali Earthquake.
3 November, 2002: the M7.9 Denali
#earthquake
caused unusual effects to distances of 3500+ km across western
#Canada
. Shaking caused people to feel dizzy/seasick, chandeliers swayed, water wells turned muddy, ice in lakes broke and seiches were generated
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Hello 153 new followers - please don't get your hopes up. Mostly geomorphology (the science of scenery), ice cream, and anger with our provincial government's ineptitude to be found here.
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Working on a paper about a landslide on a glacier and was reminded of one of the first such landslides I visited as a grad student. Figured I should do a little thread about these phenomena. We went to work on this one, which came down during an earthquake in 1979. 1/?
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Feeling extremely grateful to have been awarded the 2023
@KillamTrusts
Emerging Research Leader Award in the
@NSERC_CRSNG
category from
@UCalgary
today
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Even if fully vaccinated, the CDC recommends that only one space after a period be used.
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Unfortunately the 2nd satellite image is a bit cloudy, but here is a
@planet
comparison of the confluence of the Chilcotin and Fraser rivers btwn Aug 4 & 6 showing pretty substantial change due to the breach of the
#ChilcotinLandslide
dam. Look at that sediment!
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Actrually, it looks like it may have been a landslide from just W of the glacier. See here. Possibly from the steep hanging glacier in the middle of the Google Earth image.
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Today
@planet
acquired a mostly cloud-free SuperDove satellite image of
#SouthLhonakLake
to
#Chungthang
dam (
#Teesta3HEP
), giving us the first good view of the devastation caused by the Glacial Lake Outburst Flood (
#GLOF
). 1/n
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OTD, May 18, 1980, Mount St Helens (Lawetlat'la) blew her lid resulting in the deadliest volcanic eruption in US history, one of the largest debris flows in recorded history, & blanketed much of the Pacific Northwest in ash (which did not magically stop at the 49th parallel).
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This story is amazing - Bradford Washburn's camera from 1937 expedition found on glacier in Yukon!
@ParksCanYukon
@Cryospheric
@griffpost
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You can imagine my disappointment when I opened this thread and realized it was not about geology
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Dawson city and the confluence of Yukon and Klondike rivers
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I’ve reached the stage of my fly fishing career where I’d like to start catching fish
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Huge job announcement
@ucalgary
: Canada Excellence Research Chair (up to $1M/yr for 8yrs) in Mountain Watershed Sustainability. Calgary is rapidly becoming Canada's university for watershed science. Come be part of it! Please RT.
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Watched the ‘participaction’ episode of
#sonofacritch
last night and I distinctly remember once getting a bronze and convincing (or trying) everyone it was actually gold-ish. I can’t be the only one.
#canadafitness
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If you too are confused about how the 1987 Montreal Protocol resulted in stabilizing of the ozone hole, you should enrol in my environmental science course. Amaze your friends with your newfound knowledge!
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@SkyfiApp
@mouthofmorrison
How about 60.809185°N, -138.553894°E, which is an island that's no longer an island in a valley where a river isn't really a river anymore. It's where this occurred: and has changed immensely since I was last here in 2017.
@hakaimagazine
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I think today is the day I delete my ResearchGate account.
We are pleased to announce our new partnership with
@MDPIOpenAccess
that will see 10 of MDPI’s journals benefit from an enhanced presence on ResearchGate through our innovative Journal Home offering.
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@HamillHimself
My wife and I took a belated honeymoon to Tunisia (about 10y after getting married). The careful observer will note what's on my green tshirt.
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Putting googly eyes on expensive scientific equipment is wrong and we should definitely not do that.
Some immature idiot did this to the shaking incubator. Honestly, grow up. Also it definitely wasn’t me.
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Area 6yo tells father: “you basically don’t do any work. You just do science” Full details at 11.
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