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Photos featured by Blackwood Gallery

Pair of Arctic researchers walking

Several of my photos have been featured in the Blackwood Gallery’s newly-published broadsheet, Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (SDUK) Volume 4: Grafting. A PDF copy of the full publication is online here.

The vision of the SDUK project is:

“To productively collide with the present crisis, ideas cannot be constrained by disciplines. An ecology of knowledge based on the relationship and antagonism of “useful” ideas will be composed and circulated through THE SOCIETY FOR THE DIFFUSION OF USEFUL KNOWLEDGE (SDUK). The name of this innovative platform is borrowed from a non-profit society founded in London in 1826, focused on…  spreading important world knowledge to anyone seeking to self-educate…”

(See here for full details.)

Here’s my photo essay piece:

(You’ll want to use the controls on the bottom to go full-screen and/or zoom in: it’s meant to be printed in large format)

Blackwood Gallery Broadsheet SDUK Vol04 Shoring (Dan Weaver PEARL)

 

There are some interesting pieces in the issue. My favourite is by Skye Moret, who presents the colour pallet of Antarctica in a visually stunning and fascinating way. A version of her piece is also on her website here.

The printed publication has been distributed at libraries, bookstores and communities centres in the GTHA and across Canada.

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Vienna 2018

Cars leave streaks of light along the road curves around the downtown Vienna Opera House

I was in Vienna mid-April to attend a science conference, the European Geophysical Union meeting. I had the chance to explore the city a bit. The fantastic transit system made it easy to visit the sights around town.

Here’s a few highlights of my photos:

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Two recent cover photos

Recently my photography has been featured in two Canadian science journals.

In between taking measurements of the Canadian high Arctic atmosphere, troubleshooting instruments, and running communications for the research team at PEARL, I took plenty of photos. They’ve been useful for public talks, science communications, and general enjoyment. So far, my photos have found their way into a calendar, major news outlets, a variety of websites, and now the two cover photos.

First up was the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) Bulletin. Their December 2016 issue featured a photo of the PEARL research team installing instruments on the roof. These instruments were for satellite validation. I also contributed an article about the fieldwork and a small collection of photos. And, of course, the cover! You can find the excerpt I contributed here:

CMOS Bulletin – Dec. 2016 (Dan Weaver cover and article)

Here’s the cover only:

Canadian Arctic researchers install instruments for ground-based measurements of the atmosphere at PEARL.
CMOS Bulletin cover with my photo taken at PEARL

 

Next was the Physics in Canada Issue 01 of 2017. While it was the first issue of the year, it wasn’t published until June. In any case, my photo is on the cover! The photo is also taken on the PEARL roof. It features the protective enclosure of a sun tracking instrument that sends a beam of sunlight down into the infrared (IR) spectroscopy lab below. I spent plenty of time during campaigns both on the roof and within the IR lab.

Research from colleagues of mine filled the issue. However, there isn’t a way to provide direct links to specific issues on the PiC site.

The cover photo can be seen here:

Physics in Canada – 2017 Iss.01 – Cover (photo by Dan Weaver)

Suntracking instrument housing on the roof of the Polar Environment Atmospheric Research Laboratory (PEARL) in the Canadian high Arctic, near Eureka, Nunavut
Physics in Canada (Vol. 73, No. 01) with my photo on the cover.