Just days after Hurricane Helene flooded the southeast, the National Academies released a report on our ability to predict extreme rainfall: https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/27460/chapter/1 It's not an encouraging document. Current extreme rain models are based on decades-old science and ignore the climate crisis. The report does include a thoughtful plan for NOAA, the U.S. Corps of Engineers and many other public and private organizations to fix this problem over the next decade. #climatecrisis #hurricane #Helene

Congrats to the MIT Museum and its enthusiastic community for another successful Cambridge Science Festival! Here's Sunday's Science Carnival, seen from above. #museum #STEM #Cambridge #Boston

we have sown the wind and will reap the whirlwind #climatecrisis #climatechange #Helene #hurricane

Quiet morning in East Boston. #Boston #harbor

The Australian Oyster Reef Revival A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.

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The Australian Oyster Reef Revival | Hakai Magazine

A successful restoration project on the Adelaide coast is raising hopes for the future of a long-lost ecosystem.

#environment #ocean #ecosystem #coastal

Looking forward to the Digital Collections Summit 2024, held by MuseumNext, which does a great job on these virtual events.

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MuseumNext : Digital Collections Summit 2026

If you’re struggling to keep up with the ever changing nature of museum collections, this virtual conference is for you. Museums around the world...

(Am not a museum professional but have been lucky enough to do several freelance projects with the MIT Museum, and occasionally blog about museums.)

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#museum

Well, this is timely: Boston's "Deployables Day" will demonstrate the uses of temporary flood barriers, useful bandaids that will be increasingly popular in an era of storms such as Helene.

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Deployables Day

Join us for Deployables Day, a citywide training exercise on temporary flood protection Boston is among the most vulnerable cities in the country t...

#climatechange #climatecrisis #flood #Helene #sealevelrise

Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers A series of dams and years of conflict have transformed the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, which gave rise to some of the world’s earliest civilizations. Kurdish photographer Murat Yazar focused his lens on these rivers of his homeland and on the people who live alongside them.

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Eye on the Fertile Crescent: Life Along the Mideast’s Fabled Rivers

A series of dams and years of conflict have transformed the Tigris and Euphrates&#...

#environment #climatechange #ecosystems #river

Outstanding WaPost story on Galveston: Where the sea wall ends The ocean is eating away at this barrier island and others like it. But humans, who have held their ground here for over a century, are planning new condos. https://wapo.st/3ZyomGs (shared, we hope) "Since 2010, Galveston has experienced a burst of sea level rise, which has added a staggering 8 inches to the ocean’s height here... The rise is being exacerbated by fast-sinking land." #climatecrisis #climatechange #sealevelrise

#silentsunday #CapeCod