Joel Masselink
@jmasselink
nature, geospatial, current events, and sports
By the end of July, we've been losing about 2 minutes of daylight each day here in the DC area. It is perceptible especially as the evening light doesn't seem to last as long. I built this Streamlit app to enable you to check out what is happening where you live. sunrise-sunset.streamlit.app
This is pretty nuts: look at the new forest roads opened in 2024 & 2025 into the forest around Mongbwalu, DRC (centered in below image), the epicenter of the ongoing Ebola epidemic. Here's the link: nrtwur.users.earthengine.app/view/forest-...
this was fun to make - click anywhere to visualize a bird call! devoted-linnet.binstobins.online
Scenes from the National Mall today... literally can't walk across it.
The headlines on WaPo rn are batsh*t crazy. Is this what getting tired of winning looks like?
made this postcard about African Gray #Parrots for Birds to Binomials class led by @jerthorp.bsky.social used #Inkscape for the design which was slow but I'm getting handier with it.
I mapped my first Flock cameras in a local apartment complex. Would you feel safe if knowing that a nation-wide network of police were tracking every time you drove into or out of your home? #surveillance
Expansion of mining along the Ituri River inside of the Okapi Wildlife Reserve, DRC, from 2020 - 2025 using Sentinel-2 imagery. @giswqs.bsky.social's new QGIS Timelapse plugin simplifies this process: github.com/opengeos/qgi... #GISchat #conservation
One of those updates that I wish we wouldn't make on #OpenStreetMap Is it official? I think it is in the eyes of the US gov't but not the general public. www.openstreetmap.org/relation/146...
This is a wild ride: The "Forbidden Island" which is 160 sq km in area and has less than 100 residents. It is technically part of Kauai County but maintains its isolation with no paved roads, running water, or electricity. Owned by Sinclair family since the 1860s. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ni%CA%B...
#30DayMapChallenge Day 24: Places and their names Lake Chargoggagoggmanchauggagoggchaubunagungamaugg in Webster, Massachusetts. The rough translation is "You fish on your side, I'll fish on my side, and no one shall fish in the middle" in the Algonquian language of the Nipmuc.
#30DayMapChallenge Day 11 - minimal Transportation in Manhattan (ferries, rail, streets) Data from OpenStreetMap & Overture Maps Foundation
#30daymapchallenge Day 5: Earth A "press release" announcing Landsat 1's first image capture, of Fort Worth-Dallas, Texas on July 25, 1972.
On a roadtrip I stayed at a historic hotel which was in total disarray after hosting a 4-day retreat of #Blackstone I had to look up more to learn more about this group, whose CEO Stephen Schwarzman is worth ~$48 Billion. Plutocrats gonna plute...moving with the political winds...
How I slept after being sick much of the week and my spouse returning from 12 days of travel 😌
can we talk about the shitty "Gulf of America" map? www.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs...
A better pic of Senator Booker imploring several thousand to stay in the fight. He and Sen Schatz plan to block any State Dept/foreign policy nominees.
Senator Cory Booker speaking at rally in support of #USAID #saveusaid
Timeline cleanse. This goofy goat (or sheep?) with a massive underbite.
#30daymapchallenge Day 22 - two color Canals of Xochimilco in Mexico City An ancient network of canals built by the Aztec