#AGU25 in New Orleans

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Come say hi at #AGU25 and hear about our work on post-wildfire water quality issues. eppro01.ativ.me/appinfo.php?... #AGU25

More soil celebrations! Soil properties greatly impact water storage & transport across the landscape. In eastern Oregon, geologic events have continually changed the distribution of soils & reshaped the hydrology. Here we’re looking at the changes induced by basalt flows & recent ash deposits.

Happy International Soils Day! With likely 100k plus soils worldwide directly and indirectly supporting humanity, it’s difficult to overstate how important they are to our wellbeing. Don’t let soils go unnoticed, dig into how soils impact your lives! soilhealthinstitute.org/our-work/ini...

Spent the week at the USFS Starkey Experimental Forest in north-central Oregon (near La Grande). Extensive old basalt flows capped by ~7500 year old ash deposits that drastically changed the distribution of vegetation, making for interesting hydrology today.

Car Size xkcd.com/3167/

One of the benefits of doing a lot of 3D printing for work is knowing how to accessorize your pumpkin for #Halloween

Post-fire debris flow characterization to understand sediment impacts on river and reservoir water quality.

The rise in punk and hardcore’s prevalence in Alberta is to create a voice against the UCP, says one vocalist. 🎤 #abpoli 

Geologic Periods xkcd.com/3120/

You’re welcome. And thanks, Bellingham.

Submit to our fall GSA session, T186. Critical Zone Science: Intersection of Processes Linked to Geomorphology, Ecology, Fire and Climate

Philanthropies ... rely on a solid base of federal support for science to make their own relatively small contributions impactful. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A New Generation of Tiny Tracking Tags Offers a Fresh Look at the Lives of Little Fish www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a...

Patchy burn severity explains heterogeneous soil viral and prokaryotic responses to fire in a mixed conifer forest journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.... #jcampubs

Family is on vacation so I get to work from home a little. It has its benefits ❤️

Good idea!

New in @science.org: Natural hazards aren’t “one and done.” They alter the landscape, changing the likelihood of follow-on events. We argue there’s an urgent opportunity for geomorphologists—working with other disciplines—to better understand and forecast cascading hazards.

Summer rains (and snow) on severely burned hill slopes. We’ve seen several slumps and debris flows throughout the Boise NF this spring/summer.

Life is hard if you are a GNSS station on a volcano with lots of fumaroles – everything wants to corrode you. This station was part of a National Science Foundation funded project (details below). Under the FY2026 proposed budget, NSF Earth Science funding would take a 64% hit. #VolcanoMonday 🧪⚒️🌋

Latest Blatten aerial survey 4:30 pm! 🚁 Authorities expect the lake to overflow the dam this night or at last early tomorrow morning! 🌊 They have partially emptied a dam lake 6 km down the valley and are ready to evacuate Gampel/Steg in the Rhone valley during the night 🎥 SRF

These tactics, as we note, are not new (see my 2015 @nytimes.com op-ed linked below (www.nytimes.com/2015/12/08/o...). But Republicans, polluters and plutocrat overlords are taking it to a whole new level now.

Seeing Blatten buried again and again, from every angle... Properly staggering! 😮😱

FACTSHEET about Birch Glacier collapse by glaciologists of ETHZ @vaw-glaciology.bsky.social 🧊❄️ Don't miss that read! 🙏 polybox.ethz.ch/index.php/s/... 📷 Pomona

Good news! Northwestern University scientists have delivered a one-two punch against Lyme disease in two recent studies published in Science Translational Medicine. The research reveals a more effective treatment option and explains why some patients experience symptoms long after treatment.

Seismic transects in Dry Creek Experimental Watershed. Teaching a summer field course on soils and geophysics with fellow @boisestate.bsky.social faculty Qifei Niu. Students are killing it!

My USDA soil health and rural development program was frozen and then terminated this semester. My amazing colleagues at Boise State stepped up to temporarily support me and my staff. I’m working on 4 short-term projects until I find something permanent. Scattered but some great summer fieldwork 🏔️

The next XPrize…

No, he doesn’t care at all about state rights. He never did 🍭🍭 www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

US scientists must stand together | Science And I would add: and they deserve our solidarity abroad Remember that your country could be next... www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

listen up, climate policies have resulted in the avoidance of greenhouse gases and global emissions would be way higher had we done nothing here is a wall of text from the IPCC report with evidence www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/w... IPCC AR6 WG3 Chapter 14 Cross Chapter box 10 (14-43, line 39)

Dr. Jen Pierce is seeking a PhD student for a newly funded project at Boise State. FROM FLAMES TO FISH: DEVELOPMENT OF A REPRODUCIBLE MODEL OF CO-MANAGEMENT FOR WILDFIRE AND AQUATIC SPECIES AT ZENA CREEK RANCH, IDAHO. See LinkedIn post for details: www.linkedin.com/posts/david-...

Being stewards of the Earth requires collaboration. By partnering with agencies across the state, we can be more effective in taking care of Washington’s air, land, water, and the communities we serve. @doh.wa.gov @wsdot.wa.gov @wadnr.bsky.social @wsdagov.bsky.social

“…infatuation with institutional neutrality is just making cowardice into a policy.”

Post #fire debris flow impacts on river water quality and downstream food webs. Spring melt and new debris flows starting. Anyone interested in doing some complementary #eDNA sampling? This is a Blue Ribbon fishing area in case that’s incentive 😅

Made a post about What Worked and What Didn't at last night's Climate Change Crafting night! Every time I run a new type of event, I learn something. I write these posts almost like a lab notebook so YOU can run science community events wherever YOU are! Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/126134...

Such a cool discussion on Dunning-Kruger effect. Wondering how this breaks out by gender, especially for the highly skilled individual. My experience in academia tells me we are or are perceived as being really bad about this (male academics,that is).

Check it out! myediblehabitat.com/garden-journ...

I’ve had 1k new followers this week, 2k overall. Humble but not insignificant If half the people here bought a garden journal, ~$19, it would pay for 3 months of our mortgage, giving me time to find a new job because my grants were frozen Great example of how coming together makes a difference ✊

Welp… “A federal news website for federal employees, Government Executive, reported the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) would consolidate ten regional offices down the three and cut the agency's research arm, which employs about 1,500 people.”

I’ve got to say, I’m pretty pissed off. I shouldn’t be packing boxes. I shouldn’t be leaving academia and now unemployed. Adding salt to the wound, my daughter starts college this year and will lose her faculty dependent tuition waiver. So much planning and hard work gone.

@myediblehabitat.bsky.social please take a look below!

Imaging wildfire-induced carbonates (CaCO3) to determine formation process. Are they from plant calcium oxalates? What is the fate of this mineral ash in Drylands? Is it important to carbon cycling? Paleothermometry? Terrestrial weathering rates?

Every part of this is senseless and destructive.