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A western toad, rescued from a pit trap,.

I don’t have anything to say that can help right now. But this toad believes in you. Stay strong. #herps

Invitation to Participate – Study on Mapping Tools in Fire District Operations I am conducting a research study examining how fire districts use mapping tools for response and planning, with a particular focus on the transition from traditional paper map/run/box books to web-…

I am currently recruiting Fire Departments for a study on your use of paper maps versus spatial computing options. If you are interested, please visit the official recruitment message and link to the survey. justincolegis.com/in... #GIS #FireFighting #FireResponse #SpatialComputing #HCI

Free poster download #ArcGIS #ExperienceBuilder: www.esri.com/content/dam/... #esri #esridev

FireEscape Demo Video showing my IGME 689 Final Project on a Fire Rescue game

This semester I have taken a #Games and #GIS class where we used the #ArcGIS SDKs for #Unreal and #Unity. It was a rough class with me having no experience in either. My final project is fire rescue simulation using a building scene layer found on #AGOL.

NEW: Devastating imagery from Jamaica, before & after Category 5 Hurricane Melissa.

Black River — near total destruction.

I am curious if you or or a fire department you work with still uses paper box books? #GIS #Greysky #FireDepartment #PublicSafety

1️⃣ Yes
2️⃣ No: We usa a mapping application
3️⃣ Sort Of: The Box Book is a PDF but not printed
4️⃣ What is a box book?

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Phelan-McDermid Syndrome Awareness day post. Click the link to find out more abotu the syndrome

Today is Phelan-McDermid Syndrome awarness day. It is a rare genetic disorder, which present a lot of different daily challenges especially around communication. My daughter was diagnosed about 3 years ago and knowing has answered some questions but left many others. https://pmsf.org

Since starting back to school after teaching a long while, I am realizing just how much good teaching pedagogy means to me. I have focused a lot over the years improving my pedagogy. It is so frustrating to have professors that struggle with the basics. I can see just how much that impacts learning.

Disasters have cumulative impacts that are often greater than the sum of the individual events. In the Gulf States, EVERY county has had at least 3 federally declared disasters since Hurricane Katrina, and some have had upwards of 20.

Disaster Mythology and Fact: Hurricane Katrina and Social Attachment - Binu Jacob, Anthony R. Mawson, Payton Marinelle, John C. Guignard, 2008 Misconceptions about disasters and their social and health consequences remain prevalent despite considerable research evidence to the contrary. Eight such myth...

Disaster Mythology and Fact: Hurricane Katrina and Social Attachment

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The recording of yesterday’s eulogy and Viking funeral for #ArcMap at the summer #gissig #MappyHour youtube.com/shorts/l...

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Mappy Hour Farewell to ArcMap The 2025 Summer Program for the Genesee River Finger Lakes GIS/SIG is a “Mappy” Hour on August 19, 2025 from 4-6 at the Lock 32 Brewing Company in Pittsford.  We will bid farewell …

GISSIG is hosting a #MappyHour Farewell to ArcMap next month. #GISSIG #GIS #ArcGIS #ArcMap gis-sig.org/2025/07/...

I wanted to wish everyone a happy #esriuc. I wish I could be there with you all. #GIS

In 2003, FEMA was absorbed into the Department of Homeland Security, which was created in the aftermath of 9/11. This change was part of a large-scale reorganization of the federal government to focus on terrorism. FEMA was still reeling from that reorganization when Katrina made landfall, said Sarah DeYoung, a professor at the University of Delaware’s disaster research center. “Many disaster scientists and experts agree that putting FEMA under the Department of Homeland Security, under their umbrella, rather than its own cabinet, with direct access to the president in terms of expertise and communication, is one of the reasons why Hurricane Katrina ended up being managed so poorly,” DeYoung said. Montano said that the reorganization in 2003 led to a brain drain of talented, expert staff from FEMA, which she sees echoed in the current climate at the agency. Reports suggest that FEMA has lost about a quarter of its full-time staff, including senior leadership like the head of FEMA’s storm response center, who submitted his resignation June 11. “The loss of that expertise within FEMA is something that you can’t rebuild quickly, and if you don’t have it in a response, things can go sideways very fast,” she said. Back in 2003, before Katrina, FEMA’s director Michael Brown wrote that the post-9/11 reorganization would lead to “an ineffective and uncoordinated response” during disasters. Brown resigned, disgraced, two weeks after Katrina’s landfall.

One of the reasons FEMA's Katrina response was so disorganized was that they'd recently been reorganized when the federal government created DHS after 9/11. Experts are saying a similar brain drain is happening now

Last night I posted something personal and somewhat vulnerable. I thank everyone who replied. It made me feel much better connected and just not alone in what I was feeling. In reflection, I do not know if impostor syndrome was the right term, but your replies did give some guidance. Thank you!

Thanks, I am studying Human Computer Interactions (HCI), and right now my research group is focused on internet collaboration tools within Emergency Management.

If I find out, I will let you know. Thanks

I struggle with this, and I think it is impacting my thinking on how to collaborate. I also think part is that I became so self-reliant because I had limited support professionally. I was everyone else’s support, but when I asked for help, I got very little.
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I have a serious question to those who have gone back to school after being a working professional for many years. How did you get over the imposter syndrome or feelings like you did not belong? I have finished my first year of my PhD and while most things are going well.
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Google Maps screen capture of a photo calibration target located at 40.852˚N, 109.629˚E. On the left are four squares about 50 meters across — two white, one gray, and one black. In the upper right are Tri-bar targets that are white stripes that are five times as high as they are wide, with gaps between them equal to their width. The smallest bars with visible gaps between them are 2 meters long — which means the effective ground resolving distance of the satellite that collected the image is about 40 cm.

Anyone curious about the ground resolving distance of Maxar (maybe Airbus) ultra-high-resolution satellites? Use this calibration target near Batou, China to find out!

Screen capture from Google Maps: maps.app.goo.gl/sP7ohqAEHkDU...

More info about calibration targets: clui.org/newsletter/w...

#gischat

this haptic display absolutely rocks. basketball is for everyone.

In the meantime, NHGIS (https://www.nhgis.org/) has much of the data you'll need, and will remain functional. NHGIS has the latest ACS data and Census data back to 1790 along with Census boundary files.

You can support NHGIS here: makingagift.umn.edu/...

I was just throwing together a flood inundation example and tried something new. I did a hillshade on the inundation layer and had a crazy idea to set the exaggeration to -3. It produced a cool visualization. #GIS #Flooding #EmergencyManagement

A standout sentence: "resilience is best understood as the sum of numerous individual decisions and strategies. It is neither inherent nor immutable, and there is no universal strategy that reliably works across all types of crises"

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#GreySky | #EMBsky

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GIS Helps Youth Make Their Voices Heard Students in the 2982 Miles to Go Program used Esri’s racial equity and social justice tutorials to learn GIS and improve their communities.

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Shoutout to @alambsinclair.bsky.social and @gisetc.bsky.social for creating and delivering such an impactful project.

Gridded NetCDF Basics – You Can Model Climate change with ArcGIS! Another post over break! This one also comes from a student’s suggestion on how to use Weather data in the form of gridded NetCDFs. This is a common format of the weather data provided by NOA…

One more "How To" post is available on my blog for the break. It is on the basics of using NetCDFs and ArcGIS Pro to model Climate Change. It is a simplistic analysis but it shows the power of NetCDFs and what is possible. #GIS #ClimateChange #RemoteSensing #ArcGISPro
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Moving your ArcGIS Online Content With many students graduating, I have had questions about how long will my ArcGIS Online account live and how can I move my work to another so I can keep a portfolio. Most schools only keep account…

I just posted a walkthrough on moving your content from one #ArcGISOnline account to another. http://justincolegis... #GIS