“I went around the corner to see if spring was there.” “Did you find it?” asked Toad. “No,” said Frog. “There was only an old worm asleep on a tree stump.”

Portland Maine 01/30/2026

Nevermind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college… - Geology of Maine by Sea Kayak - Experimental Music - Buddhism - Scanning Electron Microscopy - Hula Dancing

Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release: "I have spent my entire life covering the news. I will not stop now ... I will not be silenced."

Iconic. youtu.be/hyPFxh_XXwY?...

Large mountain daisy (Celmisia semicordata, I think) blooming on the south facing slope of a moraine in Kā Tiritiri o te Moana/Southern Alps. I love the tough, silvery leaves of this plant.

The ocean freighting industry is woke now (the containers spell Renee, for Renee Good). www.reddit.com/r/Tacoma/com...

Absolute banger of a comment on r/military: www.reddit.com/r/Military/c...

Hope you all have ways of self care on days like this.

First day back in the field in Kā Tiritiri o te Moana/Southern Alps. Photo: UMaine graduate student Katie Westbrook documenting a boulder that dropped off a glacier as it receded rapidly toward a near-modern position from its Ice Age configuration, we think about 17,800 yrs ago.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

New oldest dated rock art in the world, from Sulawesi (Indonesia). People have always made art! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09968-y

❄️ 💧 New paper out in @igsoc.bsky.social Journal of Glaciology: "Monitoring glacier evolution and assessing glacial lake outburst flood (GLOF) susceptibility in the Bolivian Andes" lnkd.in/e2tWUXeu #glaciers #climatechange #climate #andes #glofs #Bolivia (1/2)

NEW: I'm releasing tomorrow's show tonight. It's too important. An internal DHS memo instructs ICE to kick your door in without a proper warrant. Please share widely: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TsZY...

I admit that, upon reading ‘The acidic orange sludge…’, I initially thought this was about something (someone) else. Interesting piece about extracting REEs from polluted streams while simultaneously cleaning the waters.

Thank you @shennabellows.bsky.social!

Whoa. Just clicked on ‘Air Force One’ under Discover… 👀

The pup was not going to let me pack for fieldwork without a good dose of guilt.

Fractal romanesco broccoli FTW.

What a colossal WASTE America! open.substack.com/pub/johnpavl...

My former M.S. student, Mariah Radue, is featured in this PBS Wyoming Chronicle eposode about the Gros Ventre Slide. I couldn’t be more proud! For her thesis, Mariah reconstructed the deglaciation of the Potanin Glacier, western Mongolia, from its Ice Age maximum. ⚒️🧪🌊 youtu.be/hzAPKEB0J5U?...

But the best part of this story is that the Danish resistance in WWII took his name, so he really did awaken and save the day.

An important summation of the firehose of news over the last week… It is hard to keep this all on the radar, but it is important that we try.

Check out Torben’s flashy new kicks…

It's the Southern Hemisphere's turn to burn in their summer, but climate change is making it worse just like in the Northern Hemisphere. "There's no way to describe what we're living through. Every five minutes a new fire starts. It's hell,"" www.cbs19news.com/argentina-wi...

Bobby Weir with the Wood Brothers and Mikaela Davis on harp. NPR Tiny Desk Concert, early March 2020 (just before the world shut down). youtu.be/4l_gUwdPrNY

Common Sense, published 250 years ago today.

“Then God way up in heaven, for whatever it was worth Thought he'd have a big old party, thought he'd call it Planet Earth Don't worry about tomorrow, Lord, you'll know it when it comes When the rock and roll music meets the rising, shining sun.” RIP Bob Weir

R.I.P. ❤️

Insects on snow… The warm weather this week brought out the snow fleas (springtails) as well as insects that looked like water bugs (?)… The springtails carpeted the snow surface! 1/3

“If we permit discrimination, prejudice, or hate to rob anyone of his democratic rights, our own freedom and all democracy is threatened.” open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Occupational heat stress and adaptation among outdoor workers: a narrative review of global evidence and policy responses This narrative review synthesizes evidence from 42 peer-reviewed articles and 13 policy documents published between 2014 and 2025.

News got you down? How about this little pick-me-up from my friend Brian Menounos at @unbcgeographyensc.bsky.social "What we're finding is that these glaciers are disappearing much faster than previously projected." 🧪⚒️ www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

One way or another This darkness got to give.

⚒️ Article: Periodic marine oxygen oscillations occurred through the middle Ediacaran Gaskiers Glaciation, likely stemming from increased organic carbon burial destabilizing ocean redox systems www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Happy Perihelion to all that celebrate! Today at 12:15 pm EST, Earth achieved its closest approach to the Sun for the year. In about 11,000 years or so, perihelion will be experienced in July, thanks to Earth’s precessional cycle. January 3rd, 2026: 🌎——🌞 July 6, 2026: 🌞———🌍

The Treasury is being looted before our eyes.

Four years of oceanographic conditions (300 m depth) monitored beneath Antarctic sea ice by this BGC-Argo float!! 🌊🧪

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YEM ❤️

Torben and I had our last run of 2025 earlier today. Good riddance to 2025. We are looking forward to 2026.

The story for November sea surface temperatures continued with the ongoing weak La Niña in the east-central tropical Pacific, as well as the persistent anomalous warmth spreading across the midlatitude regions in both hemispheres. Data from NOAA OISSTv2.1 (www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/opt...) 🌊

My daughter asked me why Trey’s mouth was agape during Diving Sky. I said he was ‘lost in the music.’ She saud: ‘He’s lost?!’ I quickly reframed: “He’s *in* the music.” #phish

We got out for our first ski of the season this morning.

Santa’s identity has been shaped by the state our Union. Another incredible piece by @hcrichardson.bsky.social.

Santa was just spotted in Augusta, Maine! Already in Quebec. I should get to bed and hope that he is kind enough to swing back our way…

For this #fieldphotofriday, I share a photograph of Pia fjord, Cordillera Darwin, southern Patagonia, 2012. I was very fortunate to work here with Brenda Hall, Tom Lowell, George Denton, and the late Charlie Porter. Our paper on the chronology of rapid deglaciation is now published. Link follows…1/

Dear Santa . . .

Happy winter soltice to my friends in the Northern Hemisphere, and Happy summer solstice to my friends in the Southern Hemisphere. Looking forward to celebrating Perihelion on January 3rd!

Happy Solstice to all. Next stop: Perihelion.