Dr. Sam Anderson
@sam-science.bsky.social
postdoc at simon fraser university & columbia university // thinking and writing about heatwaves, glaciers, rivers, and us // canadian 🇨🇦 // he/him #climatechange #hydrology #LGBTinSTEM 🏳️🌈 #transrights 🏳️⚧️
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DAYS ON DEVON ISLAND | Polar Film Festival 2025 | Cinematic 4K Arctic Drone Footage
YouTube video by Sam Anderson
www.youtube.com
I submitted this short film to the 2025 Polar Film Festival to express some of the experiences we had during our time on Devon Island this past summer. The Canadian High Arctic is evocative and remarkable, and I'm so grateful to have spent that time in Nunavut!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or...
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves - IOPscience
On the mean precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves, Anderson, Sam, Chartrand, Shawn
doi.org
August 19, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Heatwaves can be dry, or wet, or dry-then-wet, or wet-then-dry, or wet-then-dry-then-wet, or...
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
It all depends where you are and what season it is! Our new paper dives into the cool world of heatwaves and precipitation.
doi.org/10.1088/3033... @ioppublishing.bsky.social @sfuscience.bsky.social
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Today's Climate Shift Index (CSI) is highlighting just how much climate change has made today's heat wave more likely to occur, especially for the warm nighttime temperatures.
Follow along with real-time and forecast CSI global maps from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Follow along with real-time and forecast CSI global maps from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
June 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Today's Climate Shift Index (CSI) is highlighting just how much climate change has made today's heat wave more likely to occur, especially for the warm nighttime temperatures.
Follow along with real-time and forecast CSI global maps from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
Follow along with real-time and forecast CSI global maps from @climatecentral.org at csi.climatecentral.org/climate-shif...
I spend most of my time thinking and writing and researching about heat waves. Being in one reminds me why -- extreme heat cuts deep.
June 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
I spend most of my time thinking and writing and researching about heat waves. Being in one reminds me why -- extreme heat cuts deep.
✨ Archive newspapers teach us about the social and physical impacts of historical climate extremes ✨
Last week at @egu.eu I presented my recent work in which I use archived newspapers across North America in addition to climate reanalysis data to reconstruct "the lost heatwave" of 1941.
Last week at @egu.eu I presented my recent work in which I use archived newspapers across North America in addition to climate reanalysis data to reconstruct "the lost heatwave" of 1941.
May 5, 2025 at 3:10 PM
✨ Archive newspapers teach us about the social and physical impacts of historical climate extremes ✨
Last week at @egu.eu I presented my recent work in which I use archived newspapers across North America in addition to climate reanalysis data to reconstruct "the lost heatwave" of 1941.
Last week at @egu.eu I presented my recent work in which I use archived newspapers across North America in addition to climate reanalysis data to reconstruct "the lost heatwave" of 1941.
Reposted by Dr. Sam Anderson
Huge congratulations to @lucymaloney.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social!
Vancouver’s two new City Councillors!! 🥳
Vancouver’s two new City Councillors!! 🥳
April 6, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Huge congratulations to @lucymaloney.bsky.social @onecityvan.bsky.social and @seanorr.bsky.social @copevancouver.bsky.social!
Vancouver’s two new City Councillors!! 🥳
Vancouver’s two new City Councillors!! 🥳
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do you or someone you know work at noaa and are dealing with the AWS contract debacle? i'd love to talk to you :) signal mollytaft.76, you can speak anonymously
April 4, 2025 at 3:10 PM
do you or someone you know work at noaa and are dealing with the AWS contract debacle? i'd love to talk to you :) signal mollytaft.76, you can speak anonymously
Headlines from The Globe and Mail in 1941 feel highly relevant in the modern day, too.
April 4, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Headlines from The Globe and Mail in 1941 feel highly relevant in the modern day, too.
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From #TDOV last year: "For the same reasons that trans people celebrate trans visibility .. so too do anti-trans actors fear it for awakening another person who questions or challenges the traditional heteronormative, sexist, racist version of capitalism we live in."
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
Who’s afraid of trans visibility? | Xtra Magazine
OPINION: On International Transgender Day of Visibility, we must call out Canada’s right for weaponizing the triumph of our visibility
xtramagazine.com
March 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
From #TDOV last year: "For the same reasons that trans people celebrate trans visibility .. so too do anti-trans actors fear it for awakening another person who questions or challenges the traditional heteronormative, sexist, racist version of capitalism we live in."
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
xtramagazine.com/power/identi...
On cascading extremes in climate and politics, through my experiences in the Canadian High Arctic last summer. Check out my latest in The Globe and Mail here: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0cdc78b...
On an island carved by climate extremes, I came to better understand our own polarization
The fractures in our social and political fabrics are, in some ways, not unlike the landscape of Devon Island, in the High Arctic: torn open and deepened by extremity, unhidden and cascading
www.theglobeandmail.com
March 3, 2025 at 4:25 PM
On cascading extremes in climate and politics, through my experiences in the Canadian High Arctic last summer. Check out my latest in The Globe and Mail here: www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/0cdc78b...
I submitted this short film to the 2025 Polar Film Festival to express some of the experiences we had during our time on Devon Island this past summer. The Canadian High Arctic is evocative and remarkable, and I'm so grateful to have spent that time in Nunavut!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
DAYS ON DEVON ISLAND | Polar Film Festival 2025 | Cinematic 4K Arctic Drone Footage
YouTube video by Sam Anderson
www.youtube.com
February 6, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I submitted this short film to the 2025 Polar Film Festival to express some of the experiences we had during our time on Devon Island this past summer. The Canadian High Arctic is evocative and remarkable, and I'm so grateful to have spent that time in Nunavut!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtoS...
Today I learned that the southernmost point of Nunavut -- Stag Island -- is deep in James Bay. This means that Nunavut extends further west than Alberta, further east than New Brunswick, near the North Pole, and further south than Edmonton.
The geography of this country is amazing. 🇨🇦
The geography of this country is amazing. 🇨🇦
February 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Today I learned that the southernmost point of Nunavut -- Stag Island -- is deep in James Bay. This means that Nunavut extends further west than Alberta, further east than New Brunswick, near the North Pole, and further south than Edmonton.
The geography of this country is amazing. 🇨🇦
The geography of this country is amazing. 🇨🇦
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Canada standing strong 🍁🇨🇦
February 2, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Canada standing strong 🍁🇨🇦
Reposted by Dr. Sam Anderson
After becoming increasingly enmeshed in the wildfire world, you start to notice things about the way we've systematically altered our relationship with the natural environment in a way that has increased the risk of destructive fires. And then you stop being able to unsee them.
January 17, 2025 at 5:34 AM
After becoming increasingly enmeshed in the wildfire world, you start to notice things about the way we've systematically altered our relationship with the natural environment in a way that has increased the risk of destructive fires. And then you stop being able to unsee them.
Hi! An introduction to my new followers:
1. I research how heatwaves impact rivers and water systems
2. I got into climate science because I love glaciers and snow, and I think it's nice when we have water to drink
3. I write about climate, water, and us
❄️🔥💧☀️
1. I research how heatwaves impact rivers and water systems
2. I got into climate science because I love glaciers and snow, and I think it's nice when we have water to drink
3. I write about climate, water, and us
❄️🔥💧☀️
January 14, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Hi! An introduction to my new followers:
1. I research how heatwaves impact rivers and water systems
2. I got into climate science because I love glaciers and snow, and I think it's nice when we have water to drink
3. I write about climate, water, and us
❄️🔥💧☀️
1. I research how heatwaves impact rivers and water systems
2. I got into climate science because I love glaciers and snow, and I think it's nice when we have water to drink
3. I write about climate, water, and us
❄️🔥💧☀️
Reposted by Dr. Sam Anderson
Hydrology Paper of the Day @sam-science.bsky.social on how extreme temperature events affect hydrology, streamflow, and glacier ablation in the context of climate change: British Columbia and Alberta, Canada; CNN-LSTM machine learning; and numerical experiments to explore processes and sensitivities
Glaciers, heatwaves, and machine learning come together in our new paper, out today!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
January 6, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Hydrology Paper of the Day @sam-science.bsky.social on how extreme temperature events affect hydrology, streamflow, and glacier ablation in the context of climate change: British Columbia and Alberta, Canada; CNN-LSTM machine learning; and numerical experiments to explore processes and sensitivities
Heatwaves aren't always dry -- and it turns out that the precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves vary strongly in space and time. Come learn more at the Global Environmental Change online poster session at AGU!
#climatechange #earthscience #heatwave #AGU24
#climatechange #earthscience #heatwave #AGU24
December 9, 2024 at 5:22 PM
Heatwaves aren't always dry -- and it turns out that the precipitation characteristics of North American heatwaves vary strongly in space and time. Come learn more at the Global Environmental Change online poster session at AGU!
#climatechange #earthscience #heatwave #AGU24
#climatechange #earthscience #heatwave #AGU24
From this summer's fieldwork on the remarkable Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic: three short videos, on the theme of "Water, Landscapes, and Us".
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Devon Island: Water
YouTube video by Sam Anderson
www.youtube.com
November 28, 2024 at 7:55 PM
From this summer's fieldwork on the remarkable Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic: three short videos, on the theme of "Water, Landscapes, and Us".
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Devon Island: Water
YouTube video by Sam Anderson
www.youtube.com
October 31, 2024 at 5:22 PM
From this summer's fieldwork on the remarkable Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic: three short videos, on the theme of "Water, Landscapes, and Us".
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Part 1: Water
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVg7...
Water management links local and federal interests. Federalism -- through finance, policy, and geography -- has long been key to reshaping the water landscape in Alberta. Here are some of my thoughts for The Globe and Mail at a moment of jurisdictional crossroads in the Prairies.
Opinion: Our federation helped make Alberta rich in water. Now, that dam is breaking
Albertans seeking sovereignty forget that the province’s agricultural success is a gift of pan-governmental cooperation – something they can’t lose sight of, in the face of serious water shortages
www.theglobeandmail.com
February 9, 2024 at 5:20 PM
Water management links local and federal interests. Federalism -- through finance, policy, and geography -- has long been key to reshaping the water landscape in Alberta. Here are some of my thoughts for The Globe and Mail at a moment of jurisdictional crossroads in the Prairies.
Glaciers, heatwaves, and machine learning come together in our new paper, out today!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
December 8, 2023 at 9:16 PM
Glaciers, heatwaves, and machine learning come together in our new paper, out today!
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
#hydrology #machinelearning #earthscience
Ice-wedge polygons in the Arctic reshape the landscape and its functioning -- perhaps surprisingly, Canadian cities have behaved in a similar way.
A fun piece to write and think about, but the main point is: "we would do well to see ourselves in once-frozen lands: perhaps then we will finally act."
A fun piece to write and think about, but the main point is: "we would do well to see ourselves in once-frozen lands: perhaps then we will finally act."
How Arctic landscapes and Canadian cityscapes share a similar pattern
While a seemingly remote and unfamiliar landscape, the Arctic shares many surprising similarities with contemporary Canadian cityscapes.
theconversation.com
October 5, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Ice-wedge polygons in the Arctic reshape the landscape and its functioning -- perhaps surprisingly, Canadian cities have behaved in a similar way.
A fun piece to write and think about, but the main point is: "we would do well to see ourselves in once-frozen lands: perhaps then we will finally act."
A fun piece to write and think about, but the main point is: "we would do well to see ourselves in once-frozen lands: perhaps then we will finally act."
*waiting intensifies*
October 2, 2023 at 8:05 PM
*waiting intensifies*
Hi BlueSky! To introduce -- I'm Sam 👋
I love rivers 💧
I love glaciers 🧊
I do not love climate change 🥵
I do not love heatwaves 🔥
In my postdoc I'm thinking about how all of the above interact 🤔
#hydrology #earth-science
I love rivers 💧
I love glaciers 🧊
I do not love climate change 🥵
I do not love heatwaves 🔥
In my postdoc I'm thinking about how all of the above interact 🤔
#hydrology #earth-science
September 26, 2023 at 2:42 PM
Hi BlueSky! To introduce -- I'm Sam 👋
I love rivers 💧
I love glaciers 🧊
I do not love climate change 🥵
I do not love heatwaves 🔥
In my postdoc I'm thinking about how all of the above interact 🤔
#hydrology #earth-science
I love rivers 💧
I love glaciers 🧊
I do not love climate change 🥵
I do not love heatwaves 🔥
In my postdoc I'm thinking about how all of the above interact 🤔
#hydrology #earth-science