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#FachBücherFreitag – Sommer-Edition

#ReadingforPleasure – Lesefreude in guter Gesellschaft

Freitag, 22.08.2025
12:30–13:30 Uhr online

Ob Essay, Lyrik, Roman, Biografie, ... alles ist willkommen.
Ein Termin zum Abschalten, Eintauchen und einfach Lesen. Denn Lesen schafft Verbindung zu Ideen, zu anderen und zu sich selbst.

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@SketchnotesAG @kleinerKomet @a_koschinski

#Lesefreude #fokus #Lesenverbindet

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#FachBücherFreitag – Sommer-Edition

#ReadingforPleasure – Lesefreude in guter Gesellschaft

Freitag, 08.08.2025
12:30–13:30 Uhr online

Ob Essay, Lyrik, Roman, Biografie, ... Alles ist willkommen.
Ein Termin zum Abschalten, Eintauchen und einfach Lesen. Denn Lesen schafft Verbindung zu Ideen, zu anderen und zu sich selbst.

Weitere Infos/Zoom:
verbindung-schaffen.de/fachbue

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@SketchnotesAG @kleinerKomet

#Lesefreude #fokus #Lesenverbindet

Bild: KI generiert

John McPhee’s Short Essay About A 1972 Rockefeller Civil Service Award Winner - Dr. Luna Leopold, The First Chief Hydrologist At The USGS
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jfklibrary.org/archives/other- <--JFK's 1958 speech at the Rockerfeller Civil Service Awards
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usgs.gov/news/featured-story/l <-- shared details of Dr. Luna Leopold from the USGS
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fiddlrts.blogspot.com/2020/04/ <-- shared details of The Patch, by John McPhee
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eos.org/opinions/luna-b-leopol <--shared EOS retrospective of Dr Leopold
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I was reading - with a mug of tea - The Patch (link above) by John McPhee, a decades-old favourite author of mine - and came across this short essay amongst many fine others…
#spatial #datalover #measurements #metrics #hydrology #water #fedservice #fedscience #LunaLeopold #hydrologist #crossdiscipline #RockefellerCivilServiceAward #USGS #JohnMcPhee #writing #readingforpleasure #mission #opendata #mapping #waterresources #watersecurity #wateruse #watermanagement
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Reading Material With Lunch, Etc – Getting Back To My Roots
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doi.org/10.4324/9780429270284 | Thornes, J. B., Brunsden, D. (1977). Geomorphology and time. London: Methuen
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I saw this book on another post - and so went and found a copy at a 2nd hand book shop…
Looking forward to lunches at work with a cup of tea and maybe a couple of rainy Sundays at home…
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#geomorphology #text #book #landforms #learning #refamiliarisation #readingforpleasure #framework #model #processes #geology #water #hydrology #weather #climate #erosion #time #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #temporal #qualitative #quantitative #change #stochastic #evolution