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@Esri Director of Imagery & Remote Sensing Solutions ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ท๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ | @UCSB Research Faculty ๐Ÿ““ | @LadiesOfLandsat Founder ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป| Prev: @USGS Mendenhall Fellow ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ๐Ÿ“ˆ

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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Last night was a thrilling evening on #CapitolHill celebrating #Landsat50 with @NASA Earth Science Director @KarenStG and @AsstSecTrujillo ! @LadiesOfLandsat were able to share their research with congressional staff & promote the next 50 years of #Landsat and #WomenInSTEM !
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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โ€ผ๏ธ I am incredibly excited to tell you Iโ€™ve taken the position of @Esri Director of Imagery and Remote Sensing Solutions โ€ผ๏ธ This position is centered around building bridges between #GIS and pixels & finding connections between #data and usersโ€ฆa true dream! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿš ๐Ÿ—๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ‘ทโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€โš•๏ธ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿซ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ง๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Itโ€™s a go for #Landsat9 !! ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
I am SO excited ๐Ÿฅณ to finally announce that I've been awarded the @USGS Mendenhall Fellowship! This dream position will work jointly with the @USGS_EROS #LCMAP team and @ucsantabarbara @climatehazards linking #Landsat spectral temporal features ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ to spatial #climate ๐ŸŒฆ๏ธ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ data!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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Fresh from my PhD! @NASA_Landsat spectral-temporal features show change from veg ๐ŸŒพ to non-veg ๐Ÿ’ฆ wetlands & are powerful #remotesensing #timeseries classification model inputs. GIFs are ๐Ÿ‘Œ for #dataviz but Hovmollers = 4 dimensions of wetland change over 32 yrs in a single plot!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Landsat TM: thematic masker! Wearing my @LadiesOfLandsat mask for the #Landsat9 launch and launch events! ๐Ÿ˜ท๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿš€
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Humbled and honored to be in the 2022 cohort of Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars!! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ๐ŸŒ  What has been truly solidified for me recently is the incredible community we have in the #geospatial #remotesensing #EO world and I'm so grateful to be a small part of it! ๐Ÿค—๐Ÿคฉ๐Ÿ’ช
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Geospatial World Rising Stars
2 years
The cats are out of the bag!! Introducing the Geospatial World 50 Rising Stars 2022 >> Join us to congratulate these young champions who are proactive and passionate about the value of #geospatial to the society, the environment and the economy. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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Representation matters! The @LadiesOfLandsat of the Summer 2022 #Landsat Science Team meeting! ๐Ÿ’ช ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ›ฐ @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat @USGS_EROS #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Tonight I FINALLY got to meet the incredible @LadiesOfLandsat Lead Organizer (and good friend!) @flasmendes in person for the first time after working together online for over 2 years!! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฅฐ๐Ÿฅณ #WomenInSTEM @ForestSAT
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
A dense #cyano #HAB has been sitting on Utah Lake (36,000 ha) for a month now. With daily revist, the @eumetsat @CopernicusEU #Sentinel3A #OLCI allows us to monitor #waterquality conditions on a daily basis so that health departments can stay informed and protect the public โš ๏ธ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
๐Ÿ“ข Sentinel-2! Sentinel-3! #MachineLearning ! #PublicHealth ! This talk has it all! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿฆ ๐ŸŒ€โš ๏ธ Join my @geoaquawatch webinar on Thursday 4/28 to learn about what @nima_pahlevan and I have been up to in mapping #cyanoHAB time series from space. Info ๐Ÿ‘‰
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
On #WorldWetlandsDay salt marshes are drowning from sea level rise across the planet. Weโ€™re using 7 band ๐ŸŒˆ multi-temporal #UAS ๐Ÿš imagery linked with #Landsat data to map #wetland vulnerability and flood inundation risk over time in these extremely valuable ecosystems ๐Ÿ›ฐ ๐ŸŒพ ๐ŸŒŠ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
So excited to head to #Dublin for the @googleearth #GoogleEarthEngine users summit! Iโ€™ll give a lightning talk on my (nearly) finished PhD work & how we can use GEE & @NASA_Landsat spectral-temporal features to map and monitor #wetlands ! #eeus18 #LadiesofLandsat #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
A true honor to visit @Interior Assistant Secretary @AsstSecTrujillo with @LadiesOfLandsat in Washington DC this week for the beginning of @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat 50th Anniversary celebrations #Landsat50 ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐ŸŽ‚๐Ÿฅณ ๐Ÿ“ธ from the beautiful office of @SecDebHaaland ! #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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How it started โžก๏ธ How itโ€™s going @USGS_EROS Visitor โžก๏ธ Mendenhall Fellow ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ—บ #WomenInSTEM #timeseries
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Kicking off my 4th (!) @ForestSAT conference in Berlin ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช with some absolute rockstars of #Forest #RemoteSensing ๐Ÿคฉ๐ŸŒฒ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ›ฐ @lauraduncanson @flasmendes @LadiesOfLandsat #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Thank you so much @USGS_EROS for having me on your podcast! I talk about @LadiesOfLandsat & use #NIR #SWIR #Landsat bands + #TasseledCap indices ๐ŸŒˆ to compare how we should be expanding all perspectives in #RemoteSensing ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐ŸŒ. Listen to me giggle about how much I โค๏ธ Landsat ๐Ÿ”—โฌ‡๏ธ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
An insane honor and delight to be interviewed about @LadiesOfLandsat by THE @MarcEvanJackson (AKA Landsat Steve from Kong: Skull Island ๐Ÿฆ) at Vandenberg Air Force Base. If you squint, you can see #Landsat9 ready for takeoff in the background! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿš€ #CountdownToLaunch
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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True story: as a student I first saw Meghan present this at @SWS_org & was convinced my life was over because she was working in the same #wetland #Landsat universe as me & doing it way better. In the end she made MY work better and became a close friend #CommunityOverCompetition
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Ladies of Landsat
2 years
. @mhalabisky1 et al. (2018) classify wetlands using their temporal pattern from a #Landsat time series using segmentation, object-based image analysis #OBIA and a random forest classifier in Washington, USA #LoLManuscriptMonday
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Happy #StPatricksDay ! Donโ€™t have anything green? No worries, you can have this RGB #UAS imagery of a lake-wide #cyano harmful algal bloom #HAB ๐Ÿฆ ๐ŸŒ€ taken by my grad student @NathanGuymon ! #waterquality #remotesensing
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
I, for one, welcome our new #drone overlords (overladies?)...especially when they help us save critically threatened coastal salt marsh #wetlands with #remotesensing ! ๐Ÿš๐Ÿ’ง๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ—บ #sheflies #uas #scientistswhoselfie @DJIGlobal @MicaSense @WomenandDrones @WorldOfDronesEd @TheDroneGirl
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
A quick RGB #UAS #drone flight in our #saltmarsh #wetlands in Massachusetts shows just the *slightest* signs of spring #phenology ๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ•“ Leaf-off #remotesensing imagery allows the gorgeous sinuosity from the creek to come through ๐Ÿ’ฆ๐ŸŒ€ @LadiesOfLandsat @UMassECo #WomeninSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
1 year
At the Winter #Landsat @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat Science Team meeting, the always-eloquent @mikewulder talks about the breadth of accomplishments of the current team - too many to fit on one slide! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Happy #WomenInScienceDay ! Thankful for all the amazing women in my life, especially the Discoveries in #RemoteSensing editorial board. Our @SlackHQ channel has turned into a safe space to share experiences as #WomenInSTEM & uplift/support each other across 5 continents! ๐ŸŒ ๐Ÿ’ช
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
It's hard to describe how deeply inspiring it was to interview Virginia, esp. on launch day. Not only is she the original @LadiesOfLandsat , she also invented satellite multispectral #EO technology and calibration as we know it. DYK #Landsat #TM came before #MSS ? Listen for more!
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USGS EROS
2 years
Our newest episode of Eyes on Earth is live! Follow this link to hear from Virginia Norwood, known as the "Mother of @USGSLandsat " - Follow this link for every episode - ... or find us on Apple podcasts or Google podcasts
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Today my advisor, Dr. Warren Cohen, retires after 30 yrs in the @forestservice @usfs_pnwrs ! An #OG #RemoteSensing scientist & longtime member of @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat #LandsatScienceTeam , he's graduated 21 students (including @GeoTrendRob ) & I'm so proud to be one of them!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
A warm welcome to our newest @LadiesOfLandsat , @nikkitulley ! Nikki works with the #NavajoNation Drought Project & @NASAJPL @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat @ClimateEngine @uarizona to bring indigenous knowledge + #datascience to her community's water resources #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Hiked up to find this young bull #moose enjoying some quiet time in one of my favorite high elevation (2,700 m) #wetland marshes in the @UWCNF this afternoon. Sea level to alpine, wetlands are magic! โœจ๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ’ฆ #nature #mountains
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Kaleidoscope of colors created from @NASA_Landsat #TasseledCap Spectral Temporal Features! Made using #GoogleEarthEngine @googleearth #timeseries stacks, landscape shows expansive #wetlands of Malheur @USFWSRefuges in E. Oregon #painttherainbow #womeninwetlands #ladiesoflandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Wow! Even just our @LadiesOfLandsat panel practice this morning for the @USGS National Imagery Summit was extremely powerfulโ€ฆcanโ€™t wait to have a conversation about diversity, equity, justice & inclusion with these amazing women next week. Register now so you can listen & chat!
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NASA Landsat
3 years
Are you attending @USGS 's 2nd National Imagery Summit next week? This free, virtual event will feature a broad range of talks by #Landsat data users focused on Landsat & Society. Tuesday, Aug. 31โ€“Thursday, Sept.2 Register here:
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
So happy to have my @USGS_EROS Mendenhall advisor, the wonderful Dr. Heather Tollerud, visiting here at @UCSBgeog @climatehazards !! โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ With @jesslynbrown1 , Iโ€™m so lucky to have two supportive @LadiesOfLandsat advising me from @USGS ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป๐Ÿ›ฐ #WomenInSTEM #WomensHistoryMonth
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
I am forever and always a summer girl ๐ŸŒž but staring at the turquoise water of this winter #wetland RGB #UAS imagery has me ๐Ÿคฉ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
4 years
Career & life bucket list check off!! This summer Iโ€™ve been leading a #geospatial #aquatic ecology research project in the gorgeous @ZionNPS ๐Ÿž Weโ€™re studying a benthic #cyano #HAB along a 50 km stretch of river with #hyperspectral imagery ๐Ÿ“ท, toxin ๐Ÿงช, & genetic ๐Ÿงฌ๐Ÿ”ฌanalysis.
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Had my snazzy @googleearth #GalsofGEE shirt on for my last ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ race before my dissertation defense! The shirt answers both geographical and existential questions! ๐Ÿ“๐ŸŒŽ #10K #RacetotheFinish #LocationServicesEnabled #PhDLife #LadiesofLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Hey thatโ€™s me!! ๐Ÿ™‹โ€โ™€๏ธ On #WorldWaterDay Iโ€™m happy to be talking about four of my favorite things in this new @NASA_Landsat video: #water , #HABs , #Landsat , and @nima_pahlevan !! Take a look to see how we use satellite data to protect recreation and drinking water! ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ›ฐ
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NASA Goddard
3 years
Harmful algae blooms threaten our health. @USGS / @NASA_Landsat can check for blooms from space, making it possible to test if a bloom is dangerous. Detection of a 2017 bloom in Utah helped save an estimated $370K in healthcare & related costs! ๐Ÿ’ง #WorldWaterDay
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Dr. Kate Fickas
5 years
One of the best parts of being post-PhD is the meaningful, no-pressure conversations I get to have with my advisor @TheRealWBC ๐Ÿต He continues to help me be fearless! Today we chatted about life, love, Landsat @NASA_Landsat , and the Normalized Difference Water Index #PostdocLife
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay ! Wetlands don't always 'behave' with consistent spectral harmonics ๐ŸŒˆใ€ฐ๏ธ - they're messy - and that's why I โค๏ธ them! Here's #Landsat SR NIR from a @WV_Refuges wetland showing inter- and intra-annual variability. ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐ŸŒพ๐Ÿ’ง @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
๐Ÿšจ Starts this week! I'm excited to talk about @LadiesOfLandsat in the Day 2 session exploring "EO at the Edge" & if you want to join me in building #Landsat spectral features for #wetland applications on the @OpenDataCube , register for the Women's Sprint #hackathon ! Details โฌ‡๏ธ
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Open Data Cube
3 years
Join us at the 2021 Open Data Cube Conference:
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Behind the scenes! I got to sit down and talk with @google filmmakers about the power of women in remote sensing and @LadiesOfLandsat ! Thank you for championing #GenderEquality in earth observation, @rebeccatmoore ! @googleearth #eeus18 #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Excited to represent @LadiesOfLandsat in the โšก๏ธ talks today with some amazing company! ๐Ÿ›ฐ ๐Ÿคฉ ๐Ÿ’ช #StrongerTogether #CommunityOverCompetition #WomenInSTEM
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Sheryl Rose Reyes
2 years
The @ISPRS_SC will be starting the Forum Track in the @isprs Congress! In partnership with the @LadiesOfLandsat & @isprs , join us in the forum on Women in #RemoteSensing #Photogrammetry & #SpatialInformation Science ๐Ÿคฉ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Itโ€™s #GEE #LandTrendr in the flesh! Delighted to test out the temporal segmentation @eMapR_Lab algorithm API with @GeoTrendRob . You can find the repo here ๐Ÿ‘‰๐Ÿป #eeus18 @googleearth
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Congratulations to Dr. Applegate for his confirmation and swearing-in as Director of @USGS ! Iโ€™m proud to work for a department and agency that values scientific leadership as a top priority (and that knows the power of #RemoteSensing and @USGSLandsat !)
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@USInteriorPress
US Interior Press Team
2 years
NEW: David Applegate has been sworn in by @SecDebHaaland as Director of @USGS . Davidโ€™s experience will ensure @Interior continues to develop the climate science needed to understand the Earthโ€™s past, present and future climate.
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
DYK that cyanobacteria ๐Ÿฆ  ( #cyano #HABs ) absorb the orange ๐ŸŸง spectra ๐ŸŒˆ because of the pigment phycocyanin? We use a special pink dye to calibrate our in-situ phycocyanin #waterquality sensors to connect them to #remotesensing ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ data for #aquatic monitoring! ๐Ÿงช #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
So excited and grateful to be the #RemoteSensing keynote for this #DataScience #OpenScience summit! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Interested in #hydrology and #aquatic data science? ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ“ˆ๐Ÿ“Š @mishafredmeyer is a brilliant community and open data organizer...this FREE workshop in two weeks is not one to miss!
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USGS Data Science
2 years
Less than 2 weeks till the #AEMONJ #DSOS22 workshop & summit! Want to learn about #RemoteSensing #targets #rstats #EarthEngine #python #modeling ? Registration is FREE & will run July 25-29! @USGS will be there, come learn about our work!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
#recap : this @SpaceX #Falcon9 #Dragon is carrying 5800lbs of science and resupply cargo to the @ISS_11_20_98 This is one of the last Dragon1 missions, with a new model rolling out soon ๐Ÿ‰๐Ÿš€ #countdowntolaunch #DragonCRS14 #NASASocial
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
And meeting up with @GeochicasOSM โ€™s amazing co-founder @mapanauta while @flasmendes ordered us Brazilian cuisine made for a (delicious ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท) evening of total empowerment ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป Iโ€™m so grateful for these women, opportunities, and experiences! #CommunityOverCompetition
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
I promise I was much more excited to be here than my face shows! I am SO PROUD to represent @LadiesOfLandsat and #WomenInSTEM in the discussion of @UNEP big data in #SDGs and environmental science & policy. Thank you @Steven_Ramage for the invitation & @axelthrelfall for the Qs!
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Steven Ramage
3 years
The moderator view of @axelthrelfall leading session with Kate @LadiesOfLandsat and @DMastracci from GEO Indigenous Alliance at the UN Science Policy Business Forum ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ #LNOB
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Landsat Science Team member Justin Huntington @watermapper uses raster hydrographs to examine stream flow over time to begin to attribute @climate_engine @NASA_Landsat ET model change maps. Important for water consumption monitoring and conservation! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ’ฆ #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
5 years
What a rockstar๐Ÿค˜๐Ÿฟ! Not only is Dr. Thomas is an original @LadiesOfLandsat and brilliant part of #WomenInSTEM before #STEMinism was a thing, she's also part of the first #Landsat digital image processing team. Read about her story in a Q&A by another #LadyofLandsat Laura Rocchio.
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NASA Landsat
5 years
A Face Behind Landsat Images: Dr. Valerie L. Thomas managed the development of early Landsat image processing software systems & formatting standards for the CCTs used to store early #Landsat imagery. #TBT #BlackHistoryMonth #LadiesOfLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
#LadyofLandsat and #LST member Martha Anderson @MarthaA64539622 from @USDA uses @NASA_Landsat evapotranspiration maps to monitor crop stress in grape vineyards! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ‡ ๐Ÿท
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Dr. Kate Fickas
4 years
I donโ€™t sweat the tall stuff on my nightly work commute in @ZionNPS ๐Ÿš—๐Ÿœ #WomenInSTEM #fieldwork #UAS #WomenInRemoteSensing #waterquality @LadiesOfLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
@LadiesOfLandsat @map_andrew Exactly 3 years to the month when I opened the @LadiesOfLandsat account!!! ๐Ÿ˜ญ๐Ÿฅฐ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Starting them young...the cutest and newest member of @LadiesOfLandsat !! ๐Ÿ˜ #BabiesofLandsat
@morganahcrowley
Morgan Crowley, PhD
3 years
Today is the most special #InternationalWomensDay of my life. I get to spend it holding my 4-day-old daughter and dreaming about her future! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿค— #ChooseToChallenge #IWD2021 #MomInSTEM #AcademicMamas #AcademicParents #PhDChat #EOChat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
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Iโ€™m SO incredibly proud of my #wundergrad Sophia @soupatrupa for passing her @uohonors thesis! Her work focused on using U-Net transfer learning #deeplearning โš™๏ธ to segment features in wetlands from #UAS imagery (before #SAM !) ๐Ÿงฉ๐ŸŒพ๐ŸŒŠ #WomenInSTEM @DamesOfDrones @LadiesOfLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Matt Hansen, #LST member from @UMD_GLAD , shows off his global maps of bare ground change using the entire @NASA_Landsat archive. โ€œBare ground can be a targeting mechanism for richer metrics of change such as urbanizationโ€ ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿข #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
I had an AWESOME time speaking at the @CLEH2OAlliance 's Water #data Forum today, talking innovations in #remotesensing for #waterquality ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฆ ๐ŸŒŠ ๐Ÿ—บ๏ธ Wish I could spend more time chatting with my fellow panelists from @NASAJPL @geoaquawatch @MinnesotaWater & @USouthFlorida !
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Assistant Secretary Trujillo has been a tremendous supporter of @LadiesOfLandsat and is doing brilliant work at @Interior . Please give her a follow! #WomenInSTEM
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Tanya Trujillo
2 years
Hi Twitter! ๐Ÿ‘‹ Tanya Trujillo here, @Interior Assistant Secretary for Water and Science. I'm excited to be here to highlight the excellent work of @usbr and @USGS and share our collaborative efforts with partners to protect America's water supplies and invest in robust research!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
. @watermapper and I LOSING OUR MINDS because we just got to see Landsat 9 OLI-2 being built at @BallAerospace !!! ๐Ÿ—๐Ÿ›ฐ #babysatellite #LandsatScience #itsonlyrocketscience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
8 months
It was an honor to be invited to speak on my @USGSLandsat Mendenhall research for leaders like @USGS Director Applegate at the @USGS_EROS 50th Anniversary ceremony! ๐Ÿฅณ๐Ÿ“ก๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ Also surreal to be able to add a @LadiesOfLandsat sticker to the Centerโ€™s living time capsule!โณ๐Ÿงฐ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
I'm excited to present at the @ASPRSorg @SDSUGeography Spring Technical Meeting tomorrow! Tune in on #EarthDay ๐ŸŒ to hear me talk about how time after time โณ the #Landsat temporal domain helps us understand complex ecological patterns! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿ‚ @LadiesOfLandsat
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Krista West, Ph.D.
2 years
๐Ÿ–ฅ On behalf of the @ASPRSorg Pacific Southwest Region & the @sdsugeog Student Chapter of ASPRS, youโ€™re invited to our Apr 22nd Spring Technical Meeting. We have an amazing speaker lineup! The event is free, but you must register. Link:
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
New #LST member Volker Radeloff from @UWMadison presents results from #topographic correction of @NASA_Landsat imagery in the Caucasus Mountains ๐Ÿ›ฐโ›ฐ โ€œTopo correction is feasible and valuable for broad scale mapping!โ€ #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Food production chart for the future: #spacefarming on the moon, mars, and cis-lunar gateway platform. #funfact @NASA_Astronauts can have picky taste buds ๐Ÿ˜‹ #itsonlyrocketscience @NASA @SpaceX #SpaceXCRS14 #DragonCRS14 #NASASocial
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
A HUGE 'thank you' to everyone who attended @ForestSAT2018 & posted presentations and to all others who enthusiastically followed along remotely. I managed three @Twitter accounts this week & it only reinforced what an amazing, inclusive, and brilliant community we have ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒ๐ŸŒŽ
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ForestSAT
6 years
A very special thanks to @katefickas (assisted by @morganahcrowley ) for all the live streaming and follow up interviews with the keynote speakers. Stay tuned as we upload videos for those who missed them. #ForestSAT2018
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
All the groups in one place! ๐ŸŽ‰ If youโ€™ll be in #Berlin for @ForestSAT 2022, come celebrate @LadiesOfLandsat ๐ŸŒ @SistersofSAR ๐Ÿ›ฐ @WomenofWaves ใ€ฐ @DamesOfDrones ๐ŸŽฎ @GeochicasOSM ๐Ÿ—บ It will be a wonderful night at @UP42_ ! Spots are filling up quickly, sign up while you can!
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Ladies of Landsat
2 years
โœจAre you going to @ForestSAT ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐ŸŒฒ 2022?โœจ Save the date and join us for a wonderful social evening at @UP42_ with some amazing #EOChat organizations! When โžก๏ธ Tue, August 30, 19:00 CEST Where โžก๏ธ UP42 GmbH - Ohlauer StraรŸe 43, 10999 Berlin Registration โžก๏ธ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
1 year
My grandmother was a professional artist and her colorful influence is present in my every day life ๐ŸŽจ Taking this @theAGU workshop from artist Francesca Samsel @UTAustin on artistic color theory for data visualization ๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ“Š has been a soul hug way to start #AGU22 !!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Need a pick-me-up today? I highly encourage you to watch our newest @LadiesOfLandsat case study video highlighting the inspirational @nikkitulley ๐Ÿคฉ Nikki grew up without running water ๐Ÿšฐ and now uses #Landsat to help her Navajo Nation community monitor this valuable resource ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ
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Ladies of Landsat
3 years
Yรก'รกt'รฉรฉh! We are extremely honoured to share with you the life and science of @nikkitulley of the Navajo Nation and @uarizona ! Learn about Nikkiโ€™s incredible journey in the 4th video of our @USGS Human Dimensions series highlighting #Landsat users. ๐Ÿ”—๐Ÿ‘‰
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
@Steven_Ramage Iโ€™m a #postdoc with @USGS_EROS @ucsantabarbara @climatehazards who is passionate about using #EO ( @NASA_Landsat , @eumetsat , #UAS ) to link water and #wetland resource management with #LULC change, predictive #climate modeling, and #conservation ! ๐Ÿ›ฐ ๐ŸŒง โ˜€๏ธ๐Ÿ’ง
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Thank you to my co-moderator @morganahcrowley & our amazing panelists: Dr. @flasmendes Dr. @CLNakalembe @nikkitulley Sylvia Wilson Prof. Crystal Schaaf What an inspiring conversation we had about #Landsat , local communities, parenthood, & the future of remote sensing ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿคฉ
@USGSLandsat
USGS Landsat
3 years
This afternoon, @LadiesOfLandsat lead important conversations about diversity in the Remote Sensing sphere. Founder Kate Fickas reminds us of the key questions she asks when thinking about inclusion in #STEM fields: Who's at the table? Who's missing? How can we support them?
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
โ€œDepending on the metrics you use, it really changes your interpretation of the data!โ€ Mike Wulder @mikewulder gives his #LST talk on moving towards disturbance informed time series change in Canadian forests with @txominhermos and @Joanne_C_White ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐ŸŒฒ๐Ÿ”ฅ #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Wow! Incredibly honored to be featured on @CBS @CBSUnstoppable with @MirandaCosgrove for #WorldSpaceWeek ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ ๐Ÿš€ My first jump into #TikTok (๐Ÿ‘ต๐Ÿป) and already 41K views of folks learning about #RemoteSensing and @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat !! ๐Ÿคฉ #WomenInSTEM
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
An exciting day! @USGS Director and @NASA astronaut Dr. Jim Reilly visits the #LST meeting and emphasizes the importance of the @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat missions! โ€œI can tell you what itโ€™s like to be a satelliteโ€ ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
A huge THANK YOU to the @SistersofSAR organizing team @Go__pika @SAR_ahBanks @LDR1 for being the embodiment of #CommunityOverCompetition and featuring @LadiesOfLandsat for #IWD2022 and supporting us so fiercely ๐Ÿ’ฅ both in front and behind the scenes ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿป๐Ÿ›ฐ #BetterTogether
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Sisters of SAR
2 years
#IWD2022 โ™€๏ธ! @katefickas is the founder & co-director of @LadiesOfLandsat . She started the group in 2018 to help build a community of support for #women & #underrepresented scientists in #EO & #RemoteSensing !๐Ÿ‘‚to her #EyesonEarth podcast๐Ÿ‘‰: #WomenInSTEM /2
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
I am so incredibly proud and grateful to @zhuotingwu @nikkitulley @M_Stuhlmacher @YunYang_Water @cherylldoughty and @CStraubResearch (but missing @morganahcrowley !) for being there to help represent the diverse #Landsat scientific community ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ’š
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Thanks for the share @NASAEarth ! Keeping folks safe to enjoy their favorite summer water activities is one the best parts of my #RemoteSensing research and one of my favorite @USGSLandsat @NASA_Landsat uses! ๐ŸŠ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿšฃ๐Ÿปโ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿ„โ€โ™€๏ธ ๐Ÿ’ง๐Ÿ›ฐ #EOChat
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NASA Earth
3 years
Water is an important source for drinking, traveling, and recreation. With @USGS / @NASA_Landsat , we can monitor blooms of potentially harmful algae in lakes -- including popular swimming, boating, and fishing spots -- from space. #WorldWaterDay
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Listen here: And so many thanks to the @LadiesOfLandsat mentioned in this @morganahcrowley @JodyVogeler @mhalabisky1 @CStraubResearch and all who have supported this group for three years! ๐Ÿ’ชโค๏ธ I am only a small part of what this group has accomplished!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Day 2 of #remotesensing #conservation articles for #EarthWeek ! Blehyl et al. 2017 in #RSE // Assessing landscape connectivity for large mammals in the Caucasus using Landsat 8 seasonal image composites // ID'd wildlife corridors in protected areas ๐Ÿป๐ŸฆŒ๐Ÿ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
I have to end this incredible day with a shoutout to the what made this possible: @NASA_Landsat . This coin has been to every ground station and continent (except Antarctica) ๐ŸŒŽ Today it went to its first (and hopefully not last) launch in my possession ๐Ÿ›ฐโค๏ธ #LadiesofLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Dr. @flasmendes is an amazing human, rockstar scientist, and passionate champion of inclusion in #EO . I am so lucky to know and work with her ๐Ÿคฉ Please have a listen to this podcast to hear her speak on decolonizing #EO and many other important topics! ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ’ช
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Flรกvia Mendes, @[email protected]
2 years
I am very grateful for @ajggeoger and @map_andrew 's invitation to record the podcast @eoscenefrom that I am a big fan! Many thanks!!! We talked about #diversity #inclusion in #EOchat from my perspective (from #Brazil *I'm not an expert in the field*) and my experience abroad.
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Stunning and epic blog post by @gartn001 analyzing the statistics of @Twitter engagement at @googleearth #eeus18 using #rstats // Iโ€™ve never been a labeled data point before!! ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ“Š #WomeninSTEM #GalsofGEE
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Philipp Gรคrtner
6 years
I finished a small blogpost on the twitter timeline during the Google Earth Engine User Summit 2018. Who tweeted when the most? Engagement Scores? #EEUS18 #EarthEngine #rstats #rtweet
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Dr. Kate Fickas
5 years
pip install @pyladies from pyladies import #STEMism print ("Hello, who run the world?!") Cheers to #WomenInScienceDay ! For my first race of the year (last week) I wore my @ThePSF #Pythonista ๐Ÿ shirt to represent #WomeninSTEM !! ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™€๏ธ๐Ÿ’ช๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป @WomenWhoCode @LadiesOfLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
#GoogleEarthEngine co-founder and #LST member Noel Gorelick gets around! Over 40 @googleearth training sessions around the world this year ๐ŸŒ๐Ÿ’ป. He came directly to Colorado from a training session for @SilvaCarbon in #Brazil ๐Ÿ‡ง๐Ÿ‡ท. โ€œIโ€™m tiredโ€ #LandsatScience
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Want to take your own #ScientistsWhoSelfie picture in #ZionNationalPark ๐Ÿœ๏ธ? Apply for this paid summer internship with @NatlParkService @ZionNPS to help us linkย ย  #cyanobacteria #HAB genetics ๐Ÿงฌ & toxins ๐Ÿงช to drones & satellites ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ! Closes Jan 24:
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Short write up on part of my #PostDoc project at @UMassAmherst (still on the road to #PhDone but started next job because #ILikeAChallenge )! We're linking #Landsat time series, #UAS & insitu #biophysical params to conserve & monitor coastal #wetlands ๐ŸŒพ๐ŸŒŠ
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6 years
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Happy #WorldWetlandsDay ! I am proud and grateful to be able to study and fight for these amazing and important ecosystems in my research. #GIF of 30 years of annual @USGSLandsat Max #TasseledCapWetness at the @KlamathRefuge , one of my #PhD study sites and a critical wetland.
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
I met @CStraubResearch at the #LandsatScienceTeam meeting last year (my lastโœˆ๏ธ travel) and this creative project with her, @morganahcrowley , and @HeartwoodV helped me get through quarantine alive. We are all so delighted to share these gorgeous (and jazzy ๐ŸŽถ) videos with you!
@LadiesOfLandsat
Ladies of Landsat
3 years
๐ŸŽ‰ We are SO excited to share the newest video from our @USGS Human Dimensions collab highlighting @LadiesOfLandsat ! ๐Ÿ‘€ to learn about the AMAZING life & career of @africa_science & how she uses #Landsat to connect #Space2Village with @SERVIRGlobal ๐Ÿ›ฐ๐ŸŒŽ โžก๏ธ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
Proud and thrilled don't begin to cover how I feel about hard my dear friend @morganahcrowley has worked for this moment! An absolute rock star!
@morganahcrowley
Morgan Crowley, PhD
2 years
Whelp, I have officially submitted my PhD dissertation for examination! A week early from my goal and with my napping baby upstairs. Itโ€™s a good day! #ParentsinSTEM #MomsinSTEM #AcademicTwitter #AcademicChatter #PhDChat #PhDLife @OpenAcademics @PhDVoice @PhD_Balance @Momademia
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
This group has blown me away with the quality of free and open content, tutorials, and tools on all things #aquatic #data analysis, #datascience , #modeling , and #dataviz ๐Ÿ’ฆโš™๏ธ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ๐Ÿ“Š Please give them a follow to be part of a cutting edge and inclusive community ๐Ÿ‘‡
@HackingLimno
Hacking Limnology
2 years
๐Ÿšจ NEW TWITTER ACCOUNT! ๐Ÿšจ We're super excited to announce that #AEMONJ #DSOS have a joint twitter account! The goal of the account is to help share #limnology #ecology #hydrology #openscience #datascience & promote others' work! Give us a follow & tag us for retweets!
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Great fun using the new #GoogleEarthEngine User Interface API ๐ŸŽฅ // Allows you to control knobs and widgets under the hood so that your users can interact with your maps and products (such as elevation searches)! Tutorials at #eeus18 @googleearth
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
Touched down in #Boulder for the @NASA_Landsat @USGSLandsat Science Team meeting! First order of business was finding the nearest #wetland running trail! Boulder Creek didnโ€™t disappoint! ๐Ÿƒ๐Ÿผโ€โ™€๏ธ๐ŸŒณ๐Ÿ’ฆ #WomeninWetlands @LadiesOfLandsat
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Dr. Kate Fickas
2 years
@mikewulder Be still my heart! ๐Ÿคฉ
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
@eumetsat @CopernicusEU GIF quality turned to rubbish on @Twitter ; a legend for anyone curious - denser bloom seen in red.
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Dr. Kate Fickas
3 years
Hey all you @LadiesOfLandsat ๐Ÿ“ข๐Ÿ“ข! I'll be carrying these cards๐Ÿ“‡ all around to the #Landsat 9 launch events...think of it like a traveling mini-poster session ๐Ÿชง Get your research, science, and information out there and seen by many different people! Fill out your card now! โฌ‡๏ธ
@LadiesOfLandsat
Ladies of Landsat
3 years
Calling all Ladies of Landsat and allies! Want to be part of the #Landsat9 Launch ๐Ÿš€ ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ even if you can't be there in person? We're creating LoL 'Trading Cardsโ€™ to be displayed at meetings, events, and even local TV throughout launch week! To submit ๐Ÿ‘‰
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
The ultimate in nerd cuisine ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป ๐Ÿช #eeus18 @googleearth
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Dr. Kate Fickas
6 years
The office view perks of #Dissertating in the summer ๐Ÿ™Œ๐Ÿป // Road to PhDone #FinalCountdown #PhDLife #LadiesofLandsat
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