Soil Scientist 🇺🇦
@dylanbeaudette
Soil science, soil survey, soil conservation, aviation, dad.
This wizzard is leading the current round of NRCS RIFs, masked as a reorganization. If the reorg happens as planned, NRCS and the US Soil Survey will be ruined. 100+ years of hard work protecting our nation’s soil resources, squandered. Your tax dollars wasted, our future food supply jeopardized.
Yuck. In a perfect “cherry on top” ironic flair: there is an option to have copilot summarize this idiotic email.
Well done @olivia.science, these are the concise responses many of us understand intuitively but may not be quick enough on our feet to articulate when necessary. olivia.science/ai/#allies
Accidental art while working with landform classification (geomorphons), generated in GRASS GIS, visualized in QGIS. The colors and patterns are strangely prescient: human greed spilling both blood and oil, contaminating social and natural systems.
Playing with the ggraph package. There are some neat layouts available; I find the circle-packing layout is especially interesting. Here are the first four levels of Soil Taxonomy, with circle size proportional to "area mapped" in the US.
Summary of fall colors in the Sierra Nevada foothills, within a single leaf.
Soil depth functions that never were. Experiments with the beta distribution, R, a pen, and paper. Hard work done by an uneven surface and AxiDraw.
Fall colors in the Sierra Nevada, sorted according to perceptual distances (CIE dE2000) and divisive hierarchical clustering. R packages used: cluster, grDevices, ape, farver, aqp.
I needed something outside of politics for a few hours. Adding family mineralogy classes (from Soil Taxonomy) to SoilWeb/STE in the next release. These are very broad groupings of soil minerals that can have profound effects on use/management. kaolinitic (R), siliceous (G), smectitic (B):
Two levels of organization (horizon designation / moist soil color). Visually interesting, but harder to make and interpret that the standard (rectangular) treemap.
Experimenting with the {WeightedTreemaps} package for visualizing soil color proportions. Added the blue color for sanity check. Cell area proportional ~ soil color (Munsell) frequency. Positioning of colors is based on average human color perception of color similarity. github.com/m-jahn/Weigh...
At this point, I feel safer with this many messages in my inbox.
Great reference, thanks for sharing. You can imagine the damage caused by future runoff or dust. You can "see" the Red Hills in imagery, or have a look at the local Soil Survey. Details in ALT text. casoilresource.lawr.ucdavis.edu/gmap/?loc=37...
Fire above Sonora, CA. Thankfully just about contained. View from the office.
A section of the Yukon River in Alaska, as it might appear in an 8-bit video game.
More soil colors, this time from the eastern edge of the San Joaquin Valley. East of Modesto, CA. These soil colors are from the detailed soil survey of the US. See if you can spot the valley--foothill interface.
Just some pretty soil colors, related to variability in parent material, drainage conditions, and sediment redistribution by water.
Found this beauty on a free book pile at the library. A little dated but a nice counterpoint to the genAI slop-coding nightmare.
These people are insufferable. They aren’t even trying to sound convincing. Can we just skip to this: