Dr. Dawn Wright
@deepseadawn.bsky.social
Seafloor mapper, Chief Scientist of smart mapping company Esri, Oregon State U. GIS/oceans professor, EC50, cyclist, 1st Black submersible diver to Challenger Deep, builds w/LEGO, raised in Hawaii. NAS, NAE, ORCID 0000-0002-2997-7611; She/her; views mine
Pinned
What did we see upon 1st touching bottom, at 10,900+m depth w/in #ChallengerDeep? A BEER BOTTLE! 😫 Further evidence that we MUST as humanity do BETTER by the ocean and for the health of habitats that we ourselves share & ultimately depend on!!! #ThereIsNoPlanetB #DeeperSeaDawn
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Montgomery Parks rebuilt their Atlas tool and reimagined their amenities based on what people told them they needed. Now everyone can find the right park and access the nature within it. www.esri.com/about/newsro...
November 17, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Montgomery Parks rebuilt their Atlas tool and reimagined their amenities based on what people told them they needed. Now everyone can find the right park and access the nature within it. www.esri.com/about/newsro...
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November 17–21 is #GeographyAwarenessWeek.
We'll be celebrating women in physical, human, and technical geography all week--scientists, cartographers, technologists, explorers/adventurers, and more. Oh my!
It's #GeoWeek.
#WomenInSTEM #geography #GIS #climate #water #cartography #geospatial
We'll be celebrating women in physical, human, and technical geography all week--scientists, cartographers, technologists, explorers/adventurers, and more. Oh my!
It's #GeoWeek.
#WomenInSTEM #geography #GIS #climate #water #cartography #geospatial
November 17, 2025 at 3:34 PM
November 17–21 is #GeographyAwarenessWeek.
We'll be celebrating women in physical, human, and technical geography all week--scientists, cartographers, technologists, explorers/adventurers, and more. Oh my!
It's #GeoWeek.
#WomenInSTEM #geography #GIS #climate #water #cartography #geospatial
We'll be celebrating women in physical, human, and technical geography all week--scientists, cartographers, technologists, explorers/adventurers, and more. Oh my!
It's #GeoWeek.
#WomenInSTEM #geography #GIS #climate #water #cartography #geospatial
Happy Geography Awareness Week! Raising awareness of the role that geography plays and of everyone's relationship with the environment.
See some of the environmental work carried out within the School of Education here voicesoftherainforest.leeds.ac.uk/blog
#GeographyAwarenessWeek #MapYourFuture
See some of the environmental work carried out within the School of Education here voicesoftherainforest.leeds.ac.uk/blog
#GeographyAwarenessWeek #MapYourFuture
November 17, 2025 at 4:40 PM
As stated by the great Craig McLean, former Chief Scientist of NOAA:
"...NOAA employees: if you really want to fight back against Trump’s harmful mission dissolution & oppression, go to work every day & do your resolute best work. That will really get to them!"
www.dailyfly.com/2025/10/23/j... 🧪 🌊
"...NOAA employees: if you really want to fight back against Trump’s harmful mission dissolution & oppression, go to work every day & do your resolute best work. That will really get to them!"
www.dailyfly.com/2025/10/23/j... 🧪 🌊
Judge Blocks Move to Cut $9 Million in Washington State Climate Funds
SEATTLE, WA – A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from cutting more than $9 million in climate resilience funding for the state of Washington. U.S. District Court Judge Marsha Pechman...
www.dailyfly.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 PM
As stated by the great Craig McLean, former Chief Scientist of NOAA:
"...NOAA employees: if you really want to fight back against Trump’s harmful mission dissolution & oppression, go to work every day & do your resolute best work. That will really get to them!"
www.dailyfly.com/2025/10/23/j... 🧪 🌊
"...NOAA employees: if you really want to fight back against Trump’s harmful mission dissolution & oppression, go to work every day & do your resolute best work. That will really get to them!"
www.dailyfly.com/2025/10/23/j... 🧪 🌊
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This is what healthy boundaries look like 🏔️ Being unreachable doesn't make you less accomplished - it might actually be why you're MORE accomplished. The always-on culture has us believing availability equals productivity, but this Nobel winner proves otherwise.
Love 😍 this....
New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.
Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.
#WorkLifeBalance 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
New Nobel Prize winner Fred Ramsdall was NOT around to accept his Prize yesterday.
Why? He was "off the grid," "living his best life" on a hiking trip.
#WorkLifeBalance 🧪
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Scientist learns he has won Nobel prize while on digital detox in US mountains
Fred Ramsdell’s wife switched on her phone and screamed – it was full of messages congratulating her husband
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
This is what healthy boundaries look like 🏔️ Being unreachable doesn't make you less accomplished - it might actually be why you're MORE accomplished. The always-on culture has us believing availability equals productivity, but this Nobel winner proves otherwise.
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It's Geography Awareness Week #geography and GIS Day is Wednesday. A great many activities happening. Check out some of them storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2426...
Geography Awareness Week
American Association of Geographers | Geography Awareness Week 2025 | November 17 - 21
storymaps.arcgis.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
It's Geography Awareness Week #geography and GIS Day is Wednesday. A great many activities happening. Check out some of them storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/2426...
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
From Jack-o-Lanterns to Thanksgiving pies, pumpkins figure prominently in fall festivities. Pumpkins are sensitive to climate conditions, though. Higher temperatures mean more heavy rain events, and bigger pest populations, which struck in 2015.
#ClimateForUs
#ClimateForUs
November 17, 2025 at 3:50 PM
From Jack-o-Lanterns to Thanksgiving pies, pumpkins figure prominently in fall festivities. Pumpkins are sensitive to climate conditions, though. Higher temperatures mean more heavy rain events, and bigger pest populations, which struck in 2015.
#ClimateForUs
#ClimateForUs
Thank you again to @andrewstoehr.bsky.social and Butler University for a great visit and for offering my talk as part of the unique “Butler Cultural Requirement” to students!
www.butlerartscenter.org/performances...
🌊 🦑 #AcademicSky
www.butlerartscenter.org/performances...
🌊 🦑 #AcademicSky
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 PM
Thank you again to @andrewstoehr.bsky.social and Butler University for a great visit and for offering my talk as part of the unique “Butler Cultural Requirement” to students!
www.butlerartscenter.org/performances...
🌊 🦑 #AcademicSky
www.butlerartscenter.org/performances...
🌊 🦑 #AcademicSky
The program for the 6th Spatial Data Science Symposium is now online. Registration will open soon. The symposium is Dec 4 & 5. Plan to check out the Thematic Sessions, Paper Sessions, Emerging Researchers Panel, Keynotes, and Interview. sdss2025.spatial-data-science.net/program.html
November 15, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Again, I tip my hat 🧢 to United Club for their gummy bear 🐻 selection 🥰
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Again, I tip my hat 🧢 to United Club for their gummy bear 🐻 selection 🥰
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
A new report has found that the world remains dangerously underprepared for future pandemics.
The Panel — co-chaired by National Academy of Medicine president Victor Dzau — recommends actions to address #pandemic threats as biological risks multiply.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/b9Wu50XrjRq
The Panel — co-chaired by National Academy of Medicine president Victor Dzau — recommends actions to address #pandemic threats as biological risks multiply.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/b9Wu50XrjRq
November 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
A new report has found that the world remains dangerously underprepared for future pandemics.
The Panel — co-chaired by National Academy of Medicine president Victor Dzau — recommends actions to address #pandemic threats as biological risks multiply.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/b9Wu50XrjRq
The Panel — co-chaired by National Academy of Medicine president Victor Dzau — recommends actions to address #pandemic threats as biological risks multiply.
Learn more: https://ow.ly/b9Wu50XrjRq
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
Climate.us project director Rebecca Lindsey is profiled in TIME100 Climate 2025. #ClimateForUs
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
November 13, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Climate.us project director Rebecca Lindsey is profiled in TIME100 Climate 2025. #ClimateForUs
time.com/collections/...
time.com/collections/...
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I'm excited about the Ecological Society's new Fakhri A. Bazzaz and Steward T.A. Pickett Mentorship Award for Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Ecology. Nominate your colleagues who have been outstanding mentors! Due Nov. 13 esa.org/about/awards... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
Ecological Society of America -
esa-awards.secure-platform.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:49 PM
I'm excited about the Ecological Society's new Fakhri A. Bazzaz and Steward T.A. Pickett Mentorship Award for Enhancing Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging in Ecology. Nominate your colleagues who have been outstanding mentors! Due Nov. 13 esa.org/about/awards... @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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November 12, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I **must** say that I am now totally head-over-heels in love😍 with Blue, the mascot of the Butler U Bulldogs!! And congrats on tonight’s men’s basketball 🏀 blowout over Chicago State!
November 12, 2025 at 3:32 AM
I **must** say that I am now totally head-over-heels in love😍 with Blue, the mascot of the Butler U Bulldogs!! And congrats on tonight’s men’s basketball 🏀 blowout over Chicago State!
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I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
November 12, 2025 at 2:44 AM
I am on my way home to Toronto and the aurorae are absolutely phenomenal.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
If you are anywhere in the northern half of the continent, get outside and look up! Or better still, put your camera on a 10 second exposure and point it up.
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com
November 11, 2025 at 9:29 PM
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
www.wired.com/story/heres-...
2026 Esri Global Operations Sustainability SUMMER INTERNSHIP available! This is an opportunity to join alongside the Esri team leading global operational efforts for a company committed to simply "doing the right thing" as an excellent global citizen!
Apply at:
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Apply at:
app.ripplematch.com/v2/public/jo...
November 11, 2025 at 2:05 PM
2026 Esri Global Operations Sustainability SUMMER INTERNSHIP available! This is an opportunity to join alongside the Esri team leading global operational efforts for a company committed to simply "doing the right thing" as an excellent global citizen!
Apply at:
app.ripplematch.com/v2/public/jo...
Apply at:
app.ripplematch.com/v2/public/jo...
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If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
November 5, 2025 at 11:54 PM
If we go on strike, our union of 12,000 workers are calling on customers to NOT BUY STARBUCKS.
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
Sign our pledge to not cross a picket line and we'll send you local calls to action - nocontractnocoffee.org
“Dawn @ Dusk” 😉 cruising around beautiful Indianapolis, in advance of guest lectures and meetings at Butler University.
November 10, 2025 at 11:09 PM
“Dawn @ Dusk” 😉 cruising around beautiful Indianapolis, in advance of guest lectures and meetings at Butler University.
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
Went to a great talk the other day where the speaker referred to "Watson, Crick, and Franklin" nucleotides & let's all adopt that terminology
November 10, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Went to a great talk the other day where the speaker referred to "Watson, Crick, and Franklin" nucleotides & let's all adopt that terminology
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
NASA may be quietly gutting an iconic campus with what it calls strategic closures, workers fear | CNN
Buildings at Goddard’s Maryland campus are being emptied and padlocked, sources say. NASA leadership has pushed back against the concerns.
www.cnn.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Have you heard about this?
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
"As the govt shutdown drags on, buildings at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (HQ for the Webb telescope among other missions) are being emptied without notice. Highly specialized equipment is at risk of being thrown away like trash."
h/t @climatebrad.hillheat.com
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Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Fung-wong: Super typhoon hits Philippines as nearly a million evacuate
Typhoon Fung-wong, with sustained winds of 185 km/h (115mph), made landfall on Sunday evening local time.
www.bbc.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Yet another record breaking storm supersized by a warming world 😢
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Climate change doesn’t create these storms: it makes them worse. They intensify faster, reach higher strengths and dump more rain.
That’s why climate action isn’t just about saving the planet: it’s quite literally about saving US.
Reposted by Dr. Dawn Wright
This: "One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. ...[H]e discovered nothing afterward, even as colleagues were cracking the genetic code or deciphering how DNA is translated into the molecules that make cells (and life) work."
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:54 PM
This: "One formative influence was Watson’s making his one and only important scientific discovery when he was only 25. ...[H]e discovered nothing afterward, even as colleagues were cracking the genetic code or deciphering how DNA is translated into the molecules that make cells (and life) work."
Understanding the nuance of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 4 dimensional chess…
November 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Understanding the nuance of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s 4 dimensional chess…