Ian Schuler

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Happy to have contributed to this paper. Forcing data NRT availability (or lack thereof) is an important limiting factor for the sustained mode of production of climate data and information. We need dedicated resources in support of climate forcing research & operation.

#Wildfires in Spain have reached record emissions in just one week according to our #CopernicusAtmosphere data. Heatwaves & drought are fueling fires, forcing evacuations & worsening air quality hundreds of km away. 🔥 Read the article for details atmosphere.copernicus.eu/spain-below-...

Went ahead and updated my map of cities with higher crime than D.C. to accommodate the two new states from the Deep South who are sending troops to the capital. In the five states there are 64 cities, home to 1.7 million people, that had more crime in 2024 than D.C. www.pbump.net/o/more-peopl...

Happy 🌹🌹 Day to all who celebrate. nspires.nasaprs.com/external/vie...

We are looking forward to seeing everyone at EO Summit next week! We had such a great time last year that we're back again to help out by facilitating sessions on environmental intelligence, deforestation, and nature-based solutions. If you'll be there also, we'd love to connect.

🔥 New on NASA's VEDA platform: the Fire Event Explorer shows how wildfires evolved over time—where they spread, and how wind shaped them. 🛰 Based on authoritative NASA data. 🧭 Built for exploration, analysis, and storytelling. 🧵1/4

I'll just take this moment to point out that the US Institute of Peace, just a few weeks ago, contained one of the finest concentrations of US expertise on India and Pakistan, and crisis management in South Asia.

Landsat could use your support. The mission's 50+ year data continuity is at risk. If you believe contacting elected representatives does anything, now would be a good time to apply pressure. 🛰️📡

Today was the last day at NOAA for hundreds of employees who took an early retirement offer. Collectively, an estimated 27,000 years of experience left the agency. It goes without saying they will be missed. Their decades of service is commendable & appreciated. m.youtube.com/watch?v=Si-R...

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

🌳🛰️ Our groundbreaking Biomass satellite lifted off on Vega-C #VV26 from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana at 10:15 BST/11:15 CEST on 29 April. The satellite is designed to provide unprecedented insights into the world’s forests and their crucial role in Earth’s carbon cycle.

We’re headed to the Cloud-Native Geo Forum next week and couldn’t be more excited! 👋 Say hi @yayyyimee.bsky.social @briannaritapagan.bsky.social @gadom.ski @kylebarron.dev, Sean & Ali. 🌀 Snag a zine too! 🔗 Get the rundown of our talks & sessions on the blog: developmentseed.org/blog/2025-04...

NEW: The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. By @abrahm.bsky.social

🎉 22 years of DevSeed! From open data scrappy to global partner, we’ve always led with purpose. 🛠️ Action-oriented 🩷 Build w/ love & pride 🌍 Open & collaborative 💫 Impatient for change Grateful to everyone on this journey w/ us. Fave memory or project? Drop it below — we’re feeling nostalgic

"See our planet better" means helping others do the same. This #EarthDay, we're celebrating our partners who turn pixels into impact with: 🌍 Earth models 👥 User-centered design 🤖 Agentic frameworks ☁️ Cloud infrastructure Learn about our environmental work: developmentseed.org/projects/top...

With today's Zarr Python release, switch to the new obstore-based backend for **3x faster** reading from S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure than the default fsspec backend. zarr.readthedocs.io/en/stable/us... developmentseed.org/obstore/late...

I share @rabernat.bsky.social excitement about icechunk!!! On top of delivering 100x performance, it can make impossible tasks possible. Why am I so excited to endorse #icechunk and #virtualizarr? bsky.app/profile/eart...

NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research’s main contract for its websites was not approved for renewal, so I’m told we should expect some of them to start to go down. “Lutnick's position on every contract is ‘no’ and agency reps have roughly a minute and a half to convince him otherwise.”

I've just released #eoAPI-k8s version 0.6.0 https://github.com/developmentseed/eoapi-k8s #eoAPI is a scalable geodata infrastructure based on #STAC and ready for the cloud. https://eoapi.dev/ The new version: * upgraded all of its components to the latest […] [Original post on 23.social]

NOAA’s office of Oceanic Atmospheric Research has had IT and other support contracts canceled in the last day or so that will fundamentally affect its operation. One source there said “It will seriously hurt our ability to improve weather forecasting and climate projections.”

Let's debunk this whole "space is hard" mantra. Looking at all NASA-led missions launched since 2000, only 4 out of ~60 missions experienced total failures. Two of these were due to issues with the commercial launch vehicle, & two were spacecraft issues. That is a *93% success rate.* (1/n)

As we push adoption of stac-geoparquet, we've found some cases where we might want to store multiple collections in the metadata. I made a light RFC here, if you're intersted: github.com/stac-utils/s... #stac

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

I worry that the focus on NOAA's weather predicting value is ignoring the millions of other ways NOAA researchers enrich communities and local economies. There are no oysters without NOAA. There are no blue crabs without NOAA. NOAA trains teachers. NOAA is the lifeblood of coastal communities.

All websites that depend on NOAA data should display something like this. earth.nullschool.net

The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within #NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (#NWS), is profoundly alarming. 1/11

The DevSeed team will be in DC next week, so of course, we're having a party! Join us for a laid-back, welcoming atmosphere to connect with fellow earth data enthusiasts. You'll also receive an exclusive print version of our new zine comic All are welcome, and please RSVP! lu.ma/e230t38z

Worried about losing access to US federal data that may go off-line, or already is? You’re not alone—but duplication isn’t the answer. Many ongoing efforts have already archived key datasets and many more are ongoing. Check out these existing resources and, if you can, support their work. 🧵

By definition, numerical weather models require international data. The atmosphere knows no geopolitical boundaries: any model that begins and ends at its country’s border is unable to generate reliable predictions until after a weather system crosses its boundaries. Which defeats the purpose!

If you’re a government employee, thank you for your service & here’s a resource you may find helpful. Stay strong. www.civilservicestrong.org

🧵 THREAD: Trump and Rubio have arrested the international humanitarian aid system and forced lifesaving aid programs to completely halt operations — despite an announcement earlier in the week claiming they had changed course. 1/

I want to point out that this is NOT a buy-out! Those who take the offer simply get permission to telework through September, at which point they lose their jobs. Media coverage of the details has been pretty misleading.

The USG will spend more taxpayer money this week purging mentions of DEI from outdated web pages then it would ever have spent in a year pursuing DEI.

When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most. www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...

2024 has been a year of growth and impact @d4dinsights.bsky.social from advancing data sharing for climate action to scaling Digital Earth Pacific. Check out our 2024 Year in Review: shorturl.at/hVxeF The challenge for 2025: How do we move faster from insights to action? Let’s keep building.

Worst memory from this date is my son calling me at work, begging me to come home, and then asking why I was whispering. “They’re right outside the door. I have to go, baby. I love you so much. Please don’t watch the news.”

Here’s a starter pack of geospatial companies. bsky.app/start/did:pl...

🤩 @pangeo.io hackathon kicking off at the @developmentseed.org office! Excited for some fun projects.

I'm honored to have reached the level of minor notoriety that someone has set up an imposter account in my name. ianschulerr.bsky.social is a fraud account. The extra R is for extra report-worthy

A beautiful imagining of the new interfaces we need for LLMs. Building AI-based products in earth observation, @developmentseed.org regularly invents entirely new design patterns to interact with AI capabilities. As we work more w/ earth-LLMs, its fun to see the great design thinking in this space

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If you're headed to DC for #AGU24 @agu.org, please come and say hi to the DevSeed squad; we'll be covering some incredible topics and tech: developmentseed.org/blog/2024-12...

Learn how open source software, tools and data are advancing open science in a very tangible way. The VEDA open science platform has reached a new level of maturity, which you can learn about through the various sessions & posters from us and our partners at NASA IMPACT. #AGU24

Big NASA AI news: The NASA/IBM geospatial AI foundation model now includes global data. That means end users can monitor disasters like landslides, floods, wildfires worldwide. 🌍