An E(e)rie Eclipse
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2024
2023
The Missing Metric of the Climate Crisis
How bad figures and sloppy language give avoidable ammunition to climate change denial
Zoom, Zoom, Zoom… We’re Going to the Moon
A dream of generations is finally unfolding before our eyes—are we ready for it?
Adiós, Arecibo
Mourning and celebrating a scientific giant of my childhood
Asymptotic Intelligence
AI is growing smarter by feeding it the internet. What happens when it starts to eat itself?
2022
Contemplating conference considerations
Earlier this month, the 54th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences (DPS) of the American Astronomical Association took place in the very town...
Let Me Reintroduce Myself (without apologies to Gwen Stefani)
As it’s officially the start of a new school year, I think it’s time for a status update on where I’ve been and where things are going next. This past year w...
The Horizon Glow-Up
Recently, I began a project to try to compare remote sensing data (multiple radar datasets with different wavelengths as well as thermal infrared from Divine...
Topographic Corrections: Final Boss Edition
In a previous blog post, I talked about the many, many issues I’ve had with handling the complexity that is accurate modelling of the temperatures of planeta...
Analog Arcana
As I discussed in a previous post, electronics has been an on-again-off-again hobby of mine ever since a childhood friend introduced me to the world of passi...
BEAM me up!
Today I wanted to share a little bit about my journey with a subject tangential to science that I didn’t end up pursuing as a career, but that nonetheless ha...
2021
God Rest Ye MIDI Instruments
So, the semester is almost done, we’re in the home stretch on assignments, the snow is falling (well, was falling), and soon I’ll be on my first real break s...
T+50 days
Well well well, my little blogosphere echo chamber, we meet again. Almost two months into the semester, I figured I should take a moment to look back and tak...
Divination Explanation
Okay, I get it, y’all are probably tired as hell of me blabbing on about “LRO this” and “Diviner that”, but today I thought I should give an overview of just...
If that’s movin’ up, then I’m… movin’ out
Gonna be a short one today in all honesty, and the title may give you some clue why (and no, it’s not ‘cause Billy’s only 5’ 5”). As of this past weekend, I’...
The PhD at the end of the world
The title of this one is a little tongue-in-cheek, but it captures the spirit of a problem I’ve grappled with my whole life. I’ve been thinking a lot lately ...
Creating a website with GitHub Pages
I’ve finally started migrating my writing from Medium over to here, in order to have a centralized platform with all of my professional work in one place. Ha...