In the Fall 2025, I was in a cohort for completing the Digital Marketing Bootcamp through Jelly Academy. This was an opportunity made available through public funding for taking courses and boosting skills in Digital Marketing. I started this course with some knowledge through some basic social media management, managing a YouTube channel (outside of…
Did you know that you can process rasters in R in multiple ways? By raster processing, we mean reading a raster file into R and performing some calculations with it. This can be as simple as finding the minimum value in the raster or as complex as using multiple rasters in a conditional function to…
Blackbird and Heron were featured in a University of Waterloo News Bulletin item on the future of climate resiliency. This article discusses how Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other technologies, such as Blackbird, may hold the key to climate resiliency. The article features Heron Hydrologic co-founder and Blackbird developer Dr. Robert Chlumsky, as well as University…
The long-awaited Ontario Lake and River Routing Product (OLRRP) v2.0 is now available! This product covers the Province of Ontario with a set of discretized basins that are directly useful in hydrologic modelling and other related applications, including complete lake and reservoir information within the Province (a non-trivial benefit). The product can be further simplified…