Good news!! The deadline to apply for this job has been extended to November 24. 🗓️ Get your applications in soon!

M 3.6 earthquake 4 km S of Vallejo, CA Did you feel it? Report it! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

Job alert!!! My department (Geology at @wwu.edu ) is searching for a hydrogeologist at the assistant professor level (tenure track). Fabulous colleagues and students (undergrad and master's level), spectacular setting. Ping me with questions. hr.wwu.edu/careers-facu...

In the weeks before last week's school board election, I was spammed by texts froma dark-money group that wanted me to be afraid for high school girls sharing bathrooms with trans kids. At least my town overwhelmingly rejected that argument.

I have had intro geo students read some chapters of this to illustrate how science is relevant to people.

Ah, also noticed @jfleck.bsky.social 's Water is for Fighting Over is also on sale:

If you’re enjoying the #aurora tonight and want to teach your students about how some of them form check out this lesson I developed along with physicist Jim Schroeder for @scifri.bsky.social . 🍎 🎢⚒️ www.sciencefriday.com/educational-...

Submit them to Aurorasaurus!!! They're an NSF funded project out of University of New Mexico that takes crowdsourced aurora observations for research purposes: www.aurorasaurus.org

Durango, CO aurora.

Looking for examples of important national parks research that's been paused during the shutdown — especially long-term monitoring or projects with big stakes that now must contend w data gaps. Any ideas/examples? 🌲⛰️🐟

Anyone know why credentials are needed for the EIA interactive map now? atlas.eia.gov or www.eia.gov/state/maps.php indicates credentials needed? it used to be available to everyone. My students need this page to complete an assignment.

#OnThisDay Nov 10, 2025 just past midnight: About 20 miles south of Isle Royale, Edmund Fitzgerald and Arthur M. Anderson begin to encounter the storm. By 1:00 am waves are 10ft high and winds howl between 50-60mph.

I've never done 8 or 9, because I was never that kind of rebel (being on the math team as a girl was rebellion enough), and I just used my boom box in my dorm room (no swagger; see reponse to 8).

I was going to post some images of the really interesting hematite-ilmenite intergrowths caused by slow cooling of the original iron-rich ilmenite, but thought it would be a doomed effort

The bathymetry of eastern Lake Superior, the part that would be crossed by an ore carrier coming from the NW, trying to make Whitefish Bay in a storm, is fascinating. I have heard those N-S troughs explained as subglacially eroded tunnel channels, but there are probably other ideas out there.

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty Position in Low-Temperature #Geochemistry at University of New Mexico ⚒️ 🧪#geology unm.csod.com/ux/ats/caree...

For one journalist, moving out of the U.S. offers a new perspective on how ICE raids and gun violence have devastated her former home in Colorado. buff.ly/Ij7UrN6

🚨JOB ALERT : ENGINEERING SEISMOLOGIST 🚨 Come and work with us in the Seismic Hazards Program at the California Geological Survey! 💰 $6,488 - $12,215 / month 📆 Application due: 11/17/2025 calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

Volunteers Needed! Will you be at #AGU25? Consider leading a small group tour of the exhibit hall, focused on a theme or topic of your choice. These are science-focused discussions (no marketing!), with each tour ~30-60 min. Learn more & sign up by tomorrow: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

In the small-town school boards, the Durango school board members who supported trans kids won landslide victories over the groups supported by a transphobic, anti-diversity dark money group. www.durangoherald.com/articles/inc...

⚒️ Seems a good excuse to note that this whole part of the world seems to have been a mega-landslide (and probably relatedly, large explosive volcano) wonderland in the Cenozoic. In addition to Heart Mountain, Markagunt in Utah and now this one near Salt Lake City have been identified.

Deaf and Deaf-adjacent folks, I need some help. I have a student who needs to hire a writing coach that specialises in helping folks who are primarily ASL speakers write in English. Where do I look to find one who is able to assist with dissertation-level academic writing? Does anyone know someone?

Lake Superior fans vote cooper! Copper usage by the indigenous peoples from the Great Lakes region of North America has been radiometrically dated to as far back as 7500 BC Indigenous folks around the great lakes may have been some of the earliest people to mine copper in the world. (Wikipedia)

My dad's family lived on the Keeweenaw Peninsula during its mining heyday, and my first rock collection came from Copper Harbor. So I've got to vote for copper.

This is a plea to Massachusetts residents, particularly Cambridge residents and Harvard grads. I've spend the last 3 years looking at old maps of western Jamaica while researching the history of absentee sugar planters who lived in Massachusetts while enslaving thousands of people in Jamaica.

Come work with us! We have three openings right now.

Of all the impacts of government shutdowns, I know my classes are minor, but is anyone aware of links to energy infrastructure maps like the EIA Atlas, which apparently isn't accessible right now?

40 inches of rain is more than many of us receive annually (Denver gets ~14 in/yr, London gets ~25 in/yr, Beijing gets ~22 in/yr, NYC gets ~45 in/yr). Jamaica WILL need help

"Oil companies don’t care about the first 40 meters of the core" But archaeologists do. Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides. www.science.org/content/arti...

Rapid assessment led by CIRES researchers dives deep into Pagosa Springs' third-largest flood on record. The report compiled by Western Water Assessment includes scientific and historical context to help decision makers and emergency responders buff.ly/7pBWXlz

Sharing for conference organizers: I’ve been part of many Indigenous science sessions at the major science organizations— Ecological Society of America, American Geophysical Union, Soil Science Society of America, and now Living Data. I’m so appreciative to be part of these communities.

EVERYBODY GO READ THE AWS INCIDENT WRITE-UP! aws.amazon.com/message/1019...

California condor range expanding into the Bay Area and Santa Cruz Mountains, further south into Santa Barbara County too. 🪶 www.mercurynews.com/2025/10/20/f...

Hey, can you help me out? This October, we’re donating 2% of our revenue to K-12 teachers and librarians to help them stick their libraries with new, diverse books. We’re providing $500+ in books to at least 6 educators in San Diego County. We need your help to find them.

Big news out of @climatecentral.org today! We've brought back NOAA's billion dollar disaster dataset! Check out our interactive website and bookmark it because there's more to come! www.climatecentral.org/climate-serv...

Wake up babe sesame street just dropped some new iconic scicomm

The Colorado state constitution was originally published in English and Spanish (and German). coloradosun.com/2025/10/20/w...

~*~* journo request *~*~ : if Canvas being down ruined your week, i'd love to hear from you! teachers, students, whoever. dm me here, my signal is mollytaft.76, or my email is [email protected]

The most important thing universities should do in a world with AI is to greatly increase the number of professors, so that classes can be smaller and more class time can be spent directly interacting with students as people.

Mariners Win!!! "The City is Shaking!" # SeizeTheMoment @Mariners @MLB @TMobilePark @FoxSports

Geno Suarez hits a Grand Slam to put the Mariners up 6-2 and seal Game 5 of the ALCS! "The City is Shaking!" #SeizeTheMoment

@zzyzx.bsky.social We were playing Wrecking Ball by Gillian Welch during that at bat. Was riding high until the '89 quake hit the Santa Cruz Garden Mall

Today marks 36 years since the devastating Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California. This video about that event starts with a baseball game, ends with a love story, and features both Jose Canseco and @haroldtobin.bsky.social 🧪 youtu.be/ReqW_Vsq_JM?...

The Mariners seismometer is back. preview.pnsn.org/experiments/...

This was before SW Colorado got a third of its annual rainfall in a week.

SPREAD THE WORD! Nominations for the National Association of Geoscience Teachers (NAGT) Outstanding Earth Science Teacher (OEST) award are due February 1! nagt.org/nagt/awards/...

Recent @Mariners games have been shaking things up enough for our seismometers to notice but those waves are all in good fun. It's a great reminder that real quakes can happen anytime. Join us tomorrow (10/16) for @ShakeOut and practice what to do when the ground really moves.

I'm not sure which streams this is. I'm guessing streams on the west side of the La Plata Mountains? The flood warning dot on the Grand Junction NWS map is tiny. Mancos is the next town west of Durango on US 160.

Hey Colorado residents, particularly people in Fort Collins, but also those who are somewhat near: my sister and brother in law are running a study on an easy, portable method to help maintain indoor air quality during adverse outside events (like smoke or pollution).

There has also been heavy rain from thunderstorms . Navajo River and Little Navajo River drain the southern San Juan Mountains around Chromo. Navajo River flows through the Jicarilla Apache reservation, then back north to join the San Juan River above Navajo Lake.