I did finally get on the board with some nocturnal birding, in the form of displaying American woodcocks at dusk! Meanwhile, some of my friends relocated the American three-toed woodpecker(s) today at the spot down the road from where I was looking (i.e. the traditional spot). The original finder had them back there a few […]

If you need to find the index of an item in a list that matches e.g. a part of a string you’re searching for… indices = [i for i, s in enumerate(lines) if ‘gs4row’ in s] This will return a list of indices, telling you where in the list “lines” the string “gs4row” occurs.

I copied this over from last week’s post, because this is the part I’m still working on. There are pros and cons to not having marathon debugging sessions. Sometimes you lose your place and need to take more time to get back to it. On the other hand, sometimes you get a fresh perspective by […]

A coronal hole high speed stream a few days ago put us on alert for some activity. I was lucky enough to catch my 1st sub-storm while driving on North Shore Drive! As I was driving, the sky practically exploded in front of me so I immediately pulled over and cut off my headlights. Not […]

Today, I went here for strikeout #2 for American three-toed woodpeckers.

I went on an unsuccessful chase of American three-toed woodpecker this weekend, but saw many great birds along the way.

My first example was basically just running the script until it crashed, conveniently having the problematic values assigned to the variables at the end of the run. From there, I could run lines individually outside of the functions that were crashing, and see where it hung up. This time, I’ll actually use the debugger. Amazingly, […]

This is the Python edition. I’m working with a script called StellaR.py and when I run it for myself with the Stella model I’m working with, I get this… Traceback (most recent call last):   File “StellaR.py”, line 717, in <module>     main()   File “StellaR.py”, line 541, in main     convT=convWrite(conv)   […]

Last month, a paper came out with several authors from the NRRI looking at how to assess wetland condition in the Great Lakes (Uzarski et al. 2017). It’s in keeping with the papers sent out this week for avian journal club (Chin et al. 2015, Howe et al. 2007). Interestingly, unaffiliated authors in the same […]

This is a post my nerdy, hobby astronomy self has been sitting on for awhile. I follow the basics of aurora forecasting, but mostly lean on experts commenting in some of the groups I follow. Of course, I can’t content myself with this; I need to know more, especially because the science behind it seems […]