Will Smith

Did some glacial landslide PhDing in a past life. Now use EO data to assess natural risks/hazards 🛰️

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@Rock_Avalanches @IAEG_World Are they armchairs?!? Now that is conference hospitality!

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@Rock_Avalanches Sosio et al. 2012 "Modelling rock avalanche propagation onto glaciers" has a figure in it with a very crude linear relationship

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

In 2019 this was a 4 page mini paper. Five years later and it's 15 pages long. Don't they grow up so fast.

If anyone wants a shapefile of the new inventory see: https://t.co/pCQcfLXG56

[Stuart Dunning rockavalanches.bsky.social @Rock_Avalanches]

New paper: supraglacial rock avalanches in Glacier Bay (AK) are underestimated, summer triggered, and 58% went into accumulation areas @wdsmith140 @WaterSHEDLab @ebessettekirton plus ex- and non-twitter authors https://t.co/cmxOWRWot9

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@WaterSHEDLab @Rock_Avalanches @GlacierBayNPS @alaska_avo Excuse my shoddy annotations, I haven't got the best tools to hand

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@WaterSHEDLab @Rock_Avalanches @GlacierBayNPS @alaska_avo September 2003, it's visible in a Landsat 5 image

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@iamdonovan If you uninstall it using cmd prompt (can't uninstall any other way) and then search for anything within the start menu, it tries to open Edge and subsequently gets stuck in an infinite Edge-opening boot loop 😢

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

New version of GERALDINE (v1.11) available at: https://t.co/nCW4IDmu9i

This version adds Landsat 9 imagery (tier 1 and 2). Landsat 9 real-time imagery (for rapid monitoring) will be added once it becomes available on GEE.

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@moulinology @DrMikePJ Avalanche probes are great for finding crevasses, so you don't pitch your tent on one. I've also found its best to dig a 1-2ft deep trench, to pitch the tent in, which prevents you having to re-pitch it after only a day or two (depending on ablation rates). Good luck!

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@drkatewinter Congrats Kate, hope you're doing well!

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

There's a more balanced viewpoint (as far as I can tell), in this article but ironically I can't see it because it's behind a pay wall https://t.co/LTP4MLmwSt

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

Who said 30+% profit margins can't be spent on a bit of harmless lobbying?

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

'Illegal' Sci-Hub website 'a threat to university security' - police warn https://t.co/zXsI1rxvcs

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@Dr_TRob @Rock_Avalanches I was lucky to survive his incessant moaning.

Reminded me of the NASA experiment where they exposed spiders to caffeine... There's never been so much clarity during discussions

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@Rock_Avalanches I see the bitterness hasn't receded...

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@KAnderson_RS Yes, it basically gathers all the images within your specified time frame and the year before your specified time frame, creates a maximum debris extent mosaic of these two image stacks, differences them, and clips the final mosaics to the RGI v6.0

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@beckieestewart If you close your eyes, it's already dark and nothing can hurt you

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

This is quite a contrast to this morning when I was trying to run some samples on the AAS, and the acetylene gas became over-pressurised

#DeckTheWallsWithExplodingAcetylene

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

Do you like landslides, glaciers and terrible acronyms? Then have we got the tool for you!

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

Do you like landslides, glaciers and terrible acronyms? Then have we got the tool for you!

[EarthSurfaceDynamics @EGU_ESurf]

New research article: GERALDINE (Google Earth Engine supRaglAciaL Debris INput dEtector): a new tool for identifying and monitoring supraglacial landslide inputs https://t.co/IqzyvQ4bQV

[Will Smith @wdsmith140]

@sledge_ross @DevinH_13 Oh how I wish there was video evidence of you attempting to evade both the singular sandar skua and the swarm of skuas a day later #skuad