Chris Greene
@chrissgreene.bsky.social
Maritimer, Mapper, Maddeningly Mundane. Into GIScience / Systems, Remote Sensing, Urban Trees. Senior Instructor at Dalhousie U.
Backups for the win: "hacker deleted Romania's entire land registry database after a failed extortion attempt" https://cybernews.com/security/hacker-deletes-romanian-land-registry-database/ Bit of a deja-vu, right? #gischat
Hacker wipes European country’s entire land registry database, paralyzing real-estate market
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![Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreignozmqxt3egpltuwgoabt5phhaczxcim2ntx7n62c5opnnb3fqga)
If only we had a way to communicate info to people without them having to show up in person and find their plans quashed. cc @hfxgov.bsky.social @hfxrec.bsky.social
Looking to update your email signature? Create your name in Landsat imagery from NASA to include a fun way to sign off in messages! buff.ly/DFPdTu9
Well, there’s an odd thing to be woken up by on the Halifax peninsula …
📢 The geocompx project has a new (and fully reproducible) logo! geocompx is a community-driven initiative for reproducible geocomputation across languages, building open resources for spatial data analysis, modeling, and visualization in R, Python, Julia, and […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]
“Spinning” display of LiDAR point cloud image around COGS. Displayed on a large monitor in one of our hallways.
NEW CLASS - Winter 2027 ERTH/ENVS 4601, Advanced Biogeochemical Cycles The course will focus on a biogeochemical toolkit, with a focus on isotopes and biomarkers and how these are used to investigate global biogeochemical cycles.
Congratulations to all those who received awards at the 2026 Earth and Environmental Sciences End-of-Year Awards Banquet (April 17, 2026)
Mountaintop Removal of Bloom’s Taxonomy. That’s what it feels like LLMs are doing to my courses some days.
Back to my long-running project of upgrading the style on my old river maps from the ca. 2010 style (for a book I never printed) to the more colorful poster style I've been using since about 2020. somethingaboutmaps.wordpress.com/river-maps/
I have to talk to Dr. Mui about how much spare time students have in her projects class that they can engage in these shenanigans … 😉
How's your day going? I think need a coffee and a #GISChat while I wait for this not quite 4 of 8 billion points to finish processing pyramids ... 50 minutes elapsed.
This year's crop of ECCE Associates at Dalhousie is another great group. ecce.esri.ca/dal-blog/202...
New Project: Map
Although I was exposed to GIS very early on in my undergraduate degree, Fall 2025 was the first time that I actively began studying GIScience. As with many ‘introductory’ classes, there was a lot of heavy lifting when it came to learning geospatial jargon and thinking spatially. Grappling with different types of joins and Boolean […]
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EES at the 52nd AGS (Atlantic Geoscience Society) Colloquium and Annual Meeting in Truro, Nova Scotia, Feb 6-7. Congratulations to Cameron Greaves for Best Grad presentation!
Come teach in a really cool, progressive unit on my home campus! @osuceoas.bsky.social invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, fixed-term, Assistant or Associate Professor of **Teaching** jobs.oregonstate.edu/postings/176... #AcademicSky #geogsky #gischat ⚒️ 🌎
Assistant or Associate Professor of Teaching: Geography and Geospatial Science
The College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences invites applications for a full-time (1.00 FTE), 9-month, fixed-term, Assistant or Associate Professor of Teaching position. Reappointment is at t...
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Calling all salamander lovers! Here is a great field opportunity with the Riley Lab in Sackville, NB for this summer and fall. Deadline to apply is March 2, 2026.
After going decades without strep throat, I’ve had two infections over about a year. A couple days ago I started getting symptoms presenting the same way as the last two go arounds. The sore throat more to one side, discomfort extending down the neck and up into the ear. 1/n
📍 What is the oldest profession in geography and why should you care about it in 2026? The #GLaDpodcast has answers (and 🔥 takes)! No spoilers 🤐 but @darribas.bsky.social, @levijohnwolf.bsky.social & I are joined this time by special guest @arobinson.bsky.social. open.spotify.com/episode/02JW...
Episode 29: The oldest profession in geography
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For those in #Halisky, check this out! I saw (and had a small part in organizing) a version of this many years ago, and it was FANTASTIC! I can only imagine it will be even better this year! ukings.ca/events/metro... @kingsbookstore.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social #SFF
Come experience a special screening of Metropolis with LIVE music! | University of King's College
King's CSP and HOST programs, in collaboration with the Upstream Music Association will present Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis with live music.
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What time is it? It’s avoid grading exams by spending all day making a Rappie Pie day. That’s a lot of potatoes peeled.
Sweet Jane’s. 10:25 am, December 18th, 2025. #Whamageddon.
Was happy to contribute to a module in this initiative (street tree distribution in Vancouver, BC).
Dr. Dawn Wright@deepseadawn.bsky.social · 8mo agoAre you a GIS instructor in need of new material? Check out the free Guide to the Geographic Approach, a workflow-based curriculum that teaches applied problem solving & GeoAI. Use a whole module or just grab a video or the snippets on ethics or AI! www.guidetothegeographicapproach.com #GISchat
Get ready for Fat Tony Season. Where the pretzel money is the final grade. And faculty are Fat Tony. Or maybe Marge. Ok. I’ll concede maybe this is an imperfect analogy but students are definitely Fat Tony’s wife. youtu.be/EMF1nuK71ks
Fat Tony - Where's The Money? -from Simpsons S08E11
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