Writing

Scientific Publications

You can find all of my scientific publications on the Center for Watershed Sciences website.

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Reports, Policy Briefs, Books, and Book Chapters

GIS for Watershed Analysis: A Spatial Workbook (2017) – A pay-what-you-want book of in-depth tutorials on ArcGIS use for water and ecosystems analysis.

Sierra Climate Change Toolkit (2010)- A document I co-authored while I was at the Sierra Nevada Alliance. It help groups and agencies in California’s Sierra Nevada reduce their carbon footprint and prepare for and adapt to climate change.

Consumption, Climate Change, and the Environment (2013) – A chapter I wrote in a book of essays called Millenials Speak: Essays on the 21st Century.

LED Standard Traffic Signals (2007) – coauthered policy brief for the Roosevelt Institution’s 25 Ideas for Energy and the Environment series.

Congestion Charging in Metropolitan Areas (2007) – Policy Brief for the Roosevelt Institution’s 25 Ideas for Energy and the Environment series.

Blogging

I’ve written on many sites around the web, including for prior employers. Here’s some of my prior writing:

Truncating GeoJSON Coordinate Precision with Regular Expressions
Written on: This Site Published on 2020-07-09 By Nick
Ansible Deploys from Windows Using WSL, Hyper-V, and Vagrant
Written on: This Site Published on 2020-05-14 By Nick
Preliminary Analysis of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Harris County, Texas
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2017-09-01 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Preliminary Analysis of Hurricane Harvey Flooding in Harris County, Texas
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2017-09-01 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
New Baton Rouge flood map show limits of current risk and planning methods
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2016-08-29 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
New Baton Rouge flood map show limits of current risk and planning methods
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2016-08-29 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Troubleshooting Error 999999 in ArcMap and ArcGIS
Written on: CWS Help Website - ArcGIS Published on 2016-08-01 By Nicholas Santos
Setting Up Your Own Conda Env With ArcGIS Pro 1.3 – Switching from VirtualEnv
Written on: CWS Help Website - ArcGIS Published on 2016-07-11 By Nicholas Santos
A reckless disregard for facts and a hunger for retribution
Written on: Medium Published on 2016-06-09 By Nick Santos
I’m curious about how you see these cultural issues getting resolved.
Written on: Medium Published on 2016-03-19 By Nick Santos
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2015-11-08 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Finally, a one-stop shop for locating California’s fishes
Written on: California WaterBlog (CWS) Published on 2015-11-08 By UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences
Resolved: Windows 10 Technical Preview 10079 Update Error 0x8024401c
Written on: This Site Published on 2015-05-21 By Nick
Quirks: ArcGIS Snap Rasters and Converting Polygons to Rasters
Written on: This Site Published on 2015-04-17 By Nick
Things I learned at work today
Written on: This Site Published on 2015-01-13 By Nick
Getting to Sustainability: I Have Seen the Enemy, and He is Us
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2012-09-28 By Nick
What Does Environmental Consumption Look Like Internationally?
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2012-08-23 By Nick
Reducing your Impact with Product Substitution
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2012-08-20 By Kate
Environmentalism Can’t Succeed Without Good Citizens and Good Consumers
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2012-08-09 By Nick
What we’re about
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2010-10-21 By Nick
Principles of Environmental Consumerism: Intro
Written on: Environmental Consumer Blog Published on 2010-09-30 By Nick