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It's All About Mary

December 2, 2019April 3, 2019

Lately I’ve been reading about a lot of Mary’s, and I enjoy them all!

Tags environment, gender, gender equity, history, mountains, outdoors, Rocky Mountains, women

Monday Quote: Tessa Hadley

December 2, 2019December 10, 2018

I’ve been reading Tessa Hadley’s work in preparation for an interview, and am really enjoying her writing and perspective.

Tags Alice Munro, Barbara Kingsolver, book review, British, canlit, equality, feminism, gender, LA Review of Books, Longreads, Mavis Gallant, men, relationships, Tessa Hadley, The Rumpus, UK, women, writing

Wednesday on the Web – 9 Aug edition

December 2, 2019August 9, 2017

Better late than never, right? This past week I’ve been out riding my bike on the local rail trail, and it’s been smoky from the … Read more

Tags book review, corporations, dark ecology, Dark Mountain Project, democracy, gender, Karieva, Kingsnorth, Matthew Crawford, neo-environmentalism, philosophy, placemaking, scale, scicomm, science blogging, science communication, science writing

Wednesday on the Web – 2 August Edition

December 2, 2019August 2, 2017

What?? It’s August already? Where is the summer going?? Here on Vancouver Island we’re on our 46th day without rain, and are in the middle … Read more

Tags bcecon, bcwildfires, Canada150, cdnsci, diversity, drought, economy, gender, heatwave, maps, mentalhealth, mentalillness, outdoors, scicomm, timber, weather, wildfire, womeninSTEM, writing

The Perils of Writing About Women in Science

December 2, 2019March 1, 2016

Writing about women in science is a tricky business. While you want to champion their contributions across a range of research fields, you also don’t … Read more

Tags Canadian Science Publishing, cdnsci, Finkbeiner test, gender, Herzberg Medal, NSERC, women in science, writing

Environment writer interviews: Abby Palmer

December 2, 2019July 6, 2015

For background on this series, see my first post. So far we’ve talked with Rebecca Lawton, an environment writer based in California. Our second interviewee … Read more

Tags environment writing, gender, interview, nature writing, twitter, women, writers, writing

Environment writer interviews: Rebecca Lawton

December 2, 2019June 22, 2015

One of the many things I think about is what it means to be a writer – particularly a female environment writer. It seems that … Read more

Tags communication, environment writing, gender, interview, nature writing, water, women, writers, writing
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The Foothills Erratics Train is an AB treat. During last glaciation a giant ... rockslide occurred onto a glacier at Mt Edith Cavell @jasperNP. Carried to Hinton, then S for > 600 km to MT, the quartzite boulders were let down on the margin of the Foothills https://t.co/jFnHAkWRea https://t.co/JzBeIOVaP2

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Mauri Pelto@realglacier·
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January thaw in 2021 from 1/10-1/15 with daily max T of at least 3 C at Everest ... Base Camp has led to continued ablation and upward movement of snow line on area glaciers in mid-January! @EVER_WEATHER @NASA_Landsat @NatGeo
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