Eleanor 🌎🛰️🗺️🌲🌊
@ellaonearth
Clean Water Act, GIS/RS/EO, emergency response, public service, New England Aquarium, fiddle-playing, fantasy-reading, fishing, boating, pirates. From Fresh Water. Opinions my own.
We don’t see too many true bogs around here (mostly cranberry ones). They’re pretty magical in other places, though.
🦑 Aquarium Friday! 🪸Today we are talking blue coral, which means we’re talking Okinawa, C. Anne Claus, and the concept of “conservation-near”! 🛰️ IMO, this is an especially important lens when your work (like many of ours) involves a lot of remote sensing and mapmaking from far, far away.
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 Today, we talked about how smuggling fish is not a very cool thing to do, and about how there aren’t any alligator gar at Texas Roadhouse. That’s my bad!
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 (A stingray emoji would be really cute…) This week, one of our leopard whiprays was especially interested in interacting with guests. You can really see the size difference between the whipray (~10 feet long) and the other rays in the exhibit (~2 feet) in this photo.
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 The Aquarium has a new resident since I was last here — Astoria, a young giant Pacific octopus. She’s not quite as tiny as Tako was when he got here, but still has a lot of growing to do! ❤️
Another one! #gischat Dark ships are vessels that are not broadcasting AIS signals. Using 2025 data from @globalfishingwatch.org, this dashboard shows which protected areas have the most dark ship traffic. 💻 bit.ly/4uX94Ic
Having some fun making quick ArcGIS Dashboards today! This one is looking at land disturbance alerts in the critical habitat of our once-neighbors, Atlantic Salmon 🐟 These guys have been extirpated through most of New England because of human infrastructure development. 💻 bit.ly/4ebXxNY
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 Ahead of World Ocean Day this Sunday, the New England Harbor exhibit is almost complete. I met this cool sea cucumber who quickly joined my list of top ten Aquarium gallery residents.
Per @nstewwx.bsky.social, that loud boom in greater Boston may have been a meteor! You can see an anomalous flash in the GOES-19 animation below. Satellites are cool. For Earth, from space. ☄️🛰️🧪
More Clean Water Act fieldwork photos incoming! We were in Vermont and Rhode Island for the past couple of weeks, and were lucky enough to have (mostly) gorgeous weather. ☀️🌊🛶🧪
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 Last week was school vacation week, Earth Day, and North Atlantic Right Whale Day! The Aquarium was super busy and the weather was great, getting us all excited for summer.
Happy #EarthDay2026! 🌎🌱🌊🛰️🧪 In the doodle for today, Google uses satellite imagery to spell its name. You can go on the Landsat website and use imagery to spell YOUR name — or something equally fun! 🚫🧊 science.nasa.gov/mission/landsat/outreach/your-name-in-landsat/
Aquarium Friday 🦑, and I got to see 3 of my favorite aquatic noodles — Wilson the anaconda, and Thomas and Marie the moray eels. (Only one video per post here, so Thomas and Marie will be below 😉)
We got to take the Streamflow Duration Assessment Method training in North Carolina this week! Got some beautiful spring weather and met a lot of critters 🧪🌱🐸🦎
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 Huge news — we got a SECOND gar skull. The original is named Yorick, so we’ll have to keep with our “famous skulls” theme for the baby.
Aquarium Friday! The new fiddler rays got names today — Tasman, pictured here spy-hopping to see her visitors, and Viola, who’s down with her face in a vent. 🦑
In the crossover event of the century, my Clean Water Act employees came to the Aquarium yesterday! They had lots of questions about permitting and filtration 🦑😉❤️ It’s always a blast to visit at different times of the week. Apparently, one of the starfish in with Tako had been given a submarine…
We got to go to the Sea Rovers’ International Ocean Clinic today! Such a treat! 🦑
Aquarium Friday! 🦑 When we list all the sharks in the aquarium, these chain dogfish are often forgotten. But boy are they pretty — and local!
The Aquarium got some new, albeit hard to photograph, residents recently! 🦑 These tropical babies are Gulf Stream orphans. They were stranded in New England waters as temperatures dropped, then found and brought to us!
Got to make a cool map at work this week: data centers permitted (in any capacity) by the EPA. It's always a treat to use symbologies from @johnnelsonmaps.bsky.social! #gischat
Yesterday was #WorldWetlandsDay, and I have seen so much diverse beauty during fieldwork this year. How lucky we are to spend our time like this. ⚒️🌊🌱