Dear Engineers, y’all are amazing. Bravo Bernoulli ✈️ Caught this absolute unit of a 747 landing at Dulles (IAD). Handling major crosswinds like a champ! Flight # DLH3W Boeing 747-830 arriving from Frankfurt

Superpower? Original: speak all languages fluently (still would be perfection) Revised: I’d want to know the full GEOLOGIC HISTORY of every planet that’s /ever/ existed. All-encompassing- formation, geo/ bio/ chem/ phys, climate, moons, + ending. Bet there’s some crazy stories out there.

“Geologists as Astronauts” (26:00 timestamp) Learn how NASA trains astronauts on Earth for lunar (& future Mars) missions. *Hey NASA- I’d love to help train future astronauts for Mars sedimentology/ geology. Aaand you already have my resume on record in Houston #DreamJob 🤝 🧪🪨🔭 #PlanetarySci

Happy #ArtemisII wet dress day 🚀 On deck: Weather briefing ~0915 ET (currently 35°F/ 2°C; expected high 56°F/ 13°C) Full L-minus/ T-minus list(s) in 🔗 🔭🧪 #PlanetaryScience

NASA #ArtemisII schedule change: Due to weather, the wet dress was shifted to Feb 2. That shifts the earliest launch window to Sunday, Feb 8. 🚀🧪🔭 #PlanetarySci

Hellllooooo our sweet lil’ Mars robot fam 👋 Your humans are back in contact. MAVEN, come on Buddy!

Happening today 🌊🧪 ACCF Offshore Critical Minerals Forum 📍Washington, D.C. U.S. agencies and industry holding panel discussions with a wealth of information re: offshore [non-energy] minerals- spans both (1) domestic resources + (2) domestic interests in the High Seas.

🛫 Flightradar24 is showing the snow plows at Dulles International Airport! THANK YOU to all the ground maintenance crews making our travel possible and safer 👏👏👏

Just announced 🌊🧪 Upcoming deep-sea surveys in American Samoa (via NOAA contractor, NV5); mobilization ~Feb 2026 Public deliverables include: bathy maps, photo/ video, and biological + geological samples

One of us. One of my own. A Veterans Affairs ICU nurse. He lived up to his oath until his last breath- when a coward took his life. Alex Pretti, we will never forget what you stood for. You were the good in our country 🇺🇸 Thank you for your service. I am utterly disgusted.

Late post for #CTDAppreciationDay 🌊🧪 Our amazing #AT50-37 STEMSEAS students wrangling the CTD on our transit from San Diego, CA to Dutch Harbor, AK. Joust, hook, + reel 🎣

If you would prefer to order @ashadevos.bsky.social's new book OCEAN: FROM THE SHORE TO THE ABYSS from your local independent bookstore, here's the link at @bookshop.org where you can do just that. bookshop.org/p/books/ocea... (cc: @thamesandhudson.bsky.social) 🧪🌊🏝️🐚 🪸🐠🐬🐋

The sun is going bonkers. Hop outside + hunt for those auroras. Check out the current image from KHO in Svalbard 🔭🧪

Highly recommend reading w/ the #Interstellar soundtrack in the background. Scientifically-dense + inspired a new list of my own research ideas. Love applying my paleoclimate knowledge to future climate- on geologic time scales. *Also wrote >75% of my dissertation to this soundtrack, so… 🧪🔭🌊

⏰ RISE + SHINE: Artemis II SLS + Orion roll out day When it comes to roll outs: ✅ Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast. Watch live below 🔗 🧪 #PlanetarySci

Science 🤝 Art Dr. Rhian Waller, U of Gothenburg-Sweden, on a recent R/V Skagerak expedition in the North Sea. Researching deep-sea, cold-water corals 🪸 Check out the gorgeous coral glass models by Alice Baker. *Rhian was also my R/V Atlantis roomie 🙌 🌊🧪

Excellent opportunity (also, I’d love to attend!) 🧪🌊 🔭 #PlanetarySci

#Crew11 preparing to undock. Fair winds on your 10.5-hr journey home... U.S. west coast splashdown! 🌎 Splashdown (San Diego, CA): Thursday, 1/15 0041 PT/ 0241 CT 🧪

On a meeting today... Trying to relay to our team that a colleague was on the train to NOAA HQ. Could not remember the town name. So I said, with ZERO hesitation: Y'all know, the "Fleetwood Mac" town!? Ah-ha <snaps fingers> = "Silver Spring". Yep, and I have a PhD. Somehow. 😂

Draft NSF Strategic Plan- FY2026–2030 💡Public Comment Period is OPEN Deadline: Jan 27, 2026 at 2359 ET Details, Plan draft, + specific NSF solicitation questions 🧪🌊

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Heyyyy MAVEN, we are still trying! MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) hasn't transmitted telemetry since ~Dec 6. Also, it's 1:4 orbiters leveraged to relay rover comms. Reminder- You can view Deep Space Network in real-time here (take a peek on Friday🤞): 🧪#PlanetaryScience

How about an Ice Giant (#QUEST)? Or maybe we settle on one of Jupiter's moons? I'd be game for a short holiday on Europa.

Our recent Aleutians R/V Atlantis expedition (AT50-38) directly supported: NOAA's National Ocean Mapping, Exploration, and Characterization (NOMEC) 🌊🧪 Now featured- alongside several incredible projects- in NOMEC's Winter 2025 Newsletter. 🚨NOTE: Newsletter includes NEW FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES!

Big week(s) coming up for human space flight: • Crew-11 early return (~01/14) • SLS/ Orion roll-out to pad 🤩 (~01/17) • Artemis II launch window on the horizon 🔗🧵 • Registration Open: 2026 Human Research Program Investigators' Workshop (04/07-09) 🔗🧵 🚀🧪 #PlanetaryScience

NASA announces expedited return schedule for Crew-11 (times EST): Wednesday, Jan. 14 3:30 p.m. – Hatch closing 5 p.m. – Undocking Thursday, Jan. 15 2:50 a.m. – Deorbit burn 3:40 a.m. – Splashdown 5:45 a.m. – Return to Earth media news conference

Hey #JMU Peeps- you’ll be seeing me soon! My colleague graciously invited me to be a seminar speaker. Excited to reconnect with faculty + students. See y’all in ✌️months.

Can’t imagine the stress of returning to Earth not feeling well. Keeping Crew 11 in my thoughts 🩵

NEW DEEP-SEA STUDY (public data) 🌊🧪 In conjunction with our USGS IAA, we awarded a new study to revisit #BlakePlateau 1970s mining test site(s). Includes geophys, CTD, + ROV discrete sampling (~900m water depth) to analyze long-term environmental impacts of DSM. ~Summer 2026. 👉 More details soon!

1 yr ago, I was sitting in an Ocean Engineering course at Texas A&M when I started receiving the alerts: I watched in horror as an orange polygon rapidly expanded- destroying my NASA-JPL colleagues’ homes and approaching the Lab. Friends are still trying to rebuild 💐 #EatonFire #PalisadesFire

🚨COBRA Webinar 🌊🧪 Deep-Sea Exploration and Research from AGU25 [Meeting is NOT being recorded, so please join tomorrow for a robust lineup of speakers] Tues- Jan 6, 2026; 1500-1630 EST Info + Registration (free; open to all) ⤵️

Indeed it has been. To keep the focus on early career & grad students: Please know what you are going through is tremendously challenging. It would be easy to throw in the towel, but I've witnessed incredible resilience and grit. So proud... Celebrate your wins! 😎🧪

Mars Teams- April's MEPAG meeting registration is open (in-person + virtual). Looking forward to catching up with the Mars community- I'm waaaay out of the loop right now. #planetaryscience 🧪

Laptop closed. 2 more days next week, then the laptop shuts until Jan 12. This year has been… intense. Some of the best + worst of times = bucket list opportunities contrasting w/ big life changes. 😮‍💨 Made it through- thanks to incredible support. Happy holidays, Everyone! 🎄2️⃣0️⃣2️⃣6️⃣ 🥂

UPDATE: Moving on to field work planning for our current emerging tech study. Testing a [notoriously cranky] sub-bottom profiler on an AUV for shallow-water (<30m) OCS sand/ mineral geophys surveys. Fun project w/ Aptim + Terradepth! Aiming to deploy summer 2026 (1/2) 🌊🧪

Excellent 🧵 on a new Titan pub (thanks @markpanning.seismology.space)! Shout-out to my NASA-JPL PSSS colleague who coauthored this Nature paper @bjour.bsky.social 🧊 Congrats to the entire Team! 🧪 #planetaryscience

One year ago, I received a call that so many STEM folks dream about. It was a call that felt truly surreal. That call led me to a Houston, TX Waffle House (+ gelato) with some of the most incredibly talented humans on this planet. What / a / year 👩🏻‍🚀

NASA #ArtemisII boarding passes Send your name on a loop around the moon with the Artemis II crew 🔗⤵️ 🚀🧪 #planetarysci

🚨 New video drop: ⛴️ 2025 USGS Hawai'i expedition (R/V Kilo Moana) Love seeing my happy colleagues/ IA teammates in their element 🌊🧪 This sampling expedition builds upon our previous 2023 E/V Nautilus mapping expedition #NA157 (+ a following NOAA expedition- thank you!). Mahalo Team 🌺

Hey Wisconsin (et al.) Friends: Gale crater, Mars is warmer than your backyard today 😬 (SE) WI: -17°C/ ~1°F Gale crater, Mars: -4°C/ ~25°F 🧪 #WIwx #NASA

Dear Loosey-Goosey Rossby Waves, The polar bears called. It’s time to go home. xoxo, The 🥶 Mid-Latitudes. 🧪

🪨 Deep-sea mining news out of Norway: Hot off the press (12/03/2025) 🌊🧪

Rhythmites in lacustrine sediments @ Gale crater, Mars, and what they might mean… about… past… 🌖[s- plural!?] 👀 #AGU25 (Really bummed I’ll be missing so many exciting presentations this year!)

Hej! Deep-Sea Team: 📆 COBRA Events @ #AGU25 (🔗 below) 🔦All events are top notch, so I'd like to shine an extra spotlight on the 2025-2035 Decadal Survey NSF Town Hall (12/17 @ 1300). The Decadal will guide ocean research over the next 10 yrs- please stay involved!!! 🌊🧪 (1/2)

#AGU25 Jen is presenting✌️posters [at her very first major conference] about her #STEMSEAS experience on the R/V Atlantis. 📍San Diego, CA ➡️ Dutch Harbor, AK (AT50-37) Please stop by + ask her about our 25ft seas! Consider that your secret handshake. So proud of her & our entire STEMSEAS crew 🌊🧪

🚨 New #NOAA website documenting on our 2025 Aleutian Islands, Alaska Expedition aboard the R/V Atlantis #AT50-38 - Learn more about our science objectives, sampling operations, HOV Alvin dives, cruise track/ mapping efforts, expedition team/ partners, and additional resources. 🌊🧪 (1/2)

We had a visitor. 🌊🧪

Blue Ridge Mountains (Virginia, 🇺🇸) putting forth a solid effort to mimic an emoji. 🌄

So... about today. Dr. Sylvia Earle was in the chat 🌊🧪 If you missed the live debate, the recording will be posted shortly. Highly recommend if you're interested in current happenings with deep-sea mining.

🚨 Upcoming live debate Deep-Sea Mining 🌊🧪 • Free to attend (🔗 to register below) • Includes a public Q&A session