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Sonny Whitelaw

@ecomigrant.bsky.social

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Australian-born novelist & coastal geomorphologist migrated to Aotearoa New Zealand. Climate change researcher / technical advisor, curator of climatechange.org.nz and teacher of spec fic: www.thewriterscollege.com. Born 314 ppm.

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Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Google seems to be hedging their bets here in Aotearoa New Zealand

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Yep...I'm just inland from Tai Tapu and it's 20C. This photo of my house was in June a few years ago:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Moonrise outside my (home office) window.

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

I hope you don't mind; I've added a map of Aotearoa New Zealand for my reports.

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Yep…also taken yesterday

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

🫠'That's assuming that peace holds and traffic flows resume through the Strait of Hormuz.'

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

The flood mapping tool tells the story:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

The forecast 'cold blob' south of Greenland is not reassuring, either:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

I remember seeing it when I was researching sea level rise at Sydney University 1979-1981. It must have been in the University Library, as, of course, no Internet back then. You might already have seen this as well, from Aotearoa New Zealand: paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/r...

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

And this: from Aotearoa New Zealand:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

And then there's this, from Aotearoa New Zealand:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Fond memories of driving my son around in #Greenland

Two people in a red kayak paddling in calm waters with icebergs in the background

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Oxford (New Zealand) rainbow. (And my sheep).

Green paddock in foreground with sheep, lake a trees behind, full rainbow against a grey sky.

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Oxymoron

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Used the glare ( top image inverted) to photograph the partial eclipse of the sun with my iPhone.

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Good morning Venus & Jupiter

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Pity I live in New Zealand:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Aotearoa New Zealand. #showyourstripes

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Getting stronger

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

Oxford, New Zealand

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 18/04/2025

Seems to be inaccessible outside the US:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

What do penguins export to the US? Just wondering what the only inhabitants of McDonald and Heard Islands make.

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Screen grab from my WIP report: I cannot believe I just managed to draft this yesterday, or that I have to add the red text this morning:

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

‘My’ family of Paradise ducks almost all grown up (my backyard lake in New Zealand)

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

bsky.app/profile/jima...

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Sonny Whitelaw @ecomigrant.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

And in Oxford, Aotearoa New Zealand.