Last Tues we were celebrating @jinheum.bsky.social’s PhD viva 🥳 Many thanks to examiners @harrietallengeog.bsky.social @simon-blockley.bsky.social for your wisdom & support. Jinheum also had a paper out [https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3730] & starts a postdoc in 2 weeks. Congratulations Jinheum!

Day 3 Field School. Jensen Reservoir and Cretaceous Beach deposits, Del Bonita uplands outside the reach of the Laurentide Ice Sheet - a remnant periglacial landscape, and the Rocky Mountains. Hello Waterton and the Purcell Super Group, 1.3 Billion yrs old. Geologists- the ultimate time travellers.

Day 4: 1st geology field school. What a stunner of a day, Robin egg blue skies, perfect temperatures. The students are spoiled as they learn about the formation of the Rocky Mountains, visit the famous Frank Slide, and marvel at the bizarre melinite (Ti-rich garnets) bearing Crowsnest Volcanics.

Day 5: 1st yr geology field school, Fernie-Radium. My favourite day, I get to go home to the East Kootenays. The structurally curious Rocky Mountain Trench, big bad-ass Cordilleran ice sheet geomorphology, complexly deformed Devonian limestone, and travertine and tufa at Fairmont Hot Springs. ⚒️🧪

Next we stop at a favourite: Saskatchewan Crossing. #strataday. Loess, paleosols, and three (!) volcanic ash: Mazama, Mount St Helens Yn and Bridge River. Doesn’t get much better, unless you like glaciers. We finish at Athabasca Glacier. Beautiful but heart breaking in her steady retreat. 🧪⚒️

Day 6: 1st year field school, Radium to Jasper. Last full field day, starting at the Columbia River by Radium, type example of an anastomosing river. Critical wetland habitat. Mapping massive thrust faults in Sinclair Canyon, showing the growing of the Canadian Rockies, another favourite 🧵

Teaching EAS 110 First Year Field school. The badlands around Drumheller are as spectacular as ever. We also now have a mascot. #geology #fieldwork ⚒️

Athabasca Glacier (Rockies) 1917 | 2023 Most visited glacier in Canada! 🥇 First image dates back to 1906 📷 www.researchgate.net/publication/... Also known for subfossil wood 🌲 cdnsciencepub.com/doi/abs/10.1... And LIA record (max in 1844) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... mountainlegacy.ca

The Mauna Loa CO₂ record is the most iconic time series in the environmental sciences. Trump and his enablers are trying to kill it.

My latest: An inside look at EastGRIP, which drilled through the heart of Greenland's largest and most enigmatic ice stream. Featuring the amazing photography of Lukasz Larsson Warzecha.

Introducing a piece of Mt. Edgecumbe, Alaska, to the more lively Stromboli, IT, as part of a new volcano socialization program.

To say things are grim right now is an understatement. So we would like to share a bit of fun. In honour of VARG PhD @hanaayousif.bsky.social finally adopting her furry feline, we present "THE CATS OF VARG". We start with the cat of the hour, Pliny! Yes, in honour of Plinian eruptions. #cats 🌋

How do the scientists that work with ancient ice cores resist the urge to lick them