May 18, 1980 | 8:32 a.m. The ground shudders. A M5.1 quake hits beneath Mount St. Helens. Weakened critically, the north face bulge collapses outward. Within seconds, a pyroclastic density surge bursts through the disintegrating slope. The clock strikes zero.

⚒️ Article: Gas hydrate dissolution triggered by subglacial groundwater flushing during deglaciation www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Alex and I are big fans of Oregon in May! Great training hike for #SouthSister!

Fantastic day for a field trip! First time TA-ing a field trip, and I won’t lie, it was so fun exploring the formations without having to do an assignment ;)

Happy mother’s day to my mama and grandma, the two women who’ve showed me strength, drive, intelligence, and love all of my life. I am so lucky to be my mama’s daughter and grandma’s granddaughter.

Project Hail Mary gives me #sciencejoy in the best way. Just. Wow.

What do you need to talk to fourth graders?? Had the super cool opportunity to talk to my best friend’s class and it was a TREAT!! They had the best questions about #geology and hopefully they know everyone can be a geologist if they want to be! Fossils and rocks are cool y’all 😤

My first strawberry!!!

If you’re looking for a post-Earth day reading, my incredible friend Joellen Callahan published her FIRST first-author paper!! Social sciences and environmentalism- give it a read! (not open access…sorry!) muse.jhu.edu/article/988029

Happy Earth Day! So thankful to call this beautiful planet home, and to have the distinct honor to study it 💕

I'm moonscrolling

What’s lab work without Artemis II??

Today I learned that my story is featured on OSU’s home page! Scroll to the bottom and there I am. Seriously, this is SUCH a cool opportunity to highlight #disability advocacy in STEM, and particularly for me, the geosciences. oregonstate.edu

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

Another incredible shot from Artemis II. This is a solar eclipse from the moon.

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

I love science so much. WHAT AN EXCITING TIME!!!!

Whole office is glued to my monitor for Artemis II launch!

#NoKings in Corvallis, OR- photo doesn’t do it justice, stretching for several blocks and into Central Park!

Spring break in Oregon means hiking Smith Rock in the high desert and then skiing Mt. Bachelor the next day. So much love for these opportunities to explore the Oregon country (shoutout OPRD & USFS!!) (Not pictured, the 11 hour lab day I pulled to go adventure for two days lol)

After a term of forgetting my hobbies, my cousin came to visit me for spring break and it was SO. MUCH. FUN!! Enjoy our 0.5 tour of Oregon! 1. Rocky Creek, Oregon Coast 2. Lower North Falls, Silver Falls State Park 3. Multnomah Falls 4. Mt. Hood

Spring is here in Oregon, and I’m attempting a garden for the first time since I was a kid!

perhaps the best thing to ever happen to me while TA-ing

Happy International Women and Girls in Science Day- I wouldn’t where I am without the amazing women scientists who’ve paved the way and continued to show me exactly what being a scientist looks like! Now, some highlights of why I love being a #womeninscience!

It’s my birthday and my family hit it OUT of the park with this one! Holds true now and forever (and very apt when I’m in the depths of two proposals ;)

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

One of my favorite parts of grad school has been living in a bikeable community for the first time. A sunny day in the PNW means taking a ride to soak up that vitamin D!

It was a core lab day today! Can you guess how many meters of sediment core I moved today? (Spoiler: enough to count as my workout of the day!)

Last sunrise in the Lone Star State! Love being home, but ready (ish?) to get back in the groove.

Soaking in the couple days of sun I get while home in Texas before heading back to Oregon!

Happy new year! May this year be kind and everything you want it to be!

Very exciting day to wake up and see my name as a PUBLISHED author for the first time! As someone who is #DisabledinSTEM it was such an honor to be a part of this collaborative work on #selfdetermination!

That’s a wrap on #AGU2025 for me- about a million steps later and mentioning methane seeps and marine sediment cores every other sentence.

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Oh no... Seeing the direct tweet is even more frightening. Every day is a new crisis, and the repercussions are unimaginable.

The faces of #CEOAS science! Collect the full set of trading cards at #AGU2025 in New Orleans this week. Oregon State University is at the Exhibition Hall, Booth 303!

Guess who I found!!! Sofia and I did our #REU at JMU (U-ROCKS) back in 2024 when we both were hoping to become graduate students- and now we both are! #AGU2025

See you soon AGU!

Somehow it’s the last day of classes for my first term in grad school??

Happy Friendsgiving from Oregon! I’m so grateful to have made such amazing friends to celebrate with ❤️

Routine end of term shoutout to Zotero!! This term paper couldn’t happen without you.

It’s been a hot second since I updated here (first term grad school and all that), but today I learned that the first paper I ever helped write was accepted for publication!! I’m going to be published!!

Good? Election news?? Can it be??!

Whatever you think of the White House as a building or a symbol, the fact is that the image of it being torn apart on a whim two days after 7 million people hit the streets against autocracy is going to make a HUGE amount of people really, really angry, and that's an energy that should be harnessed.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

MSNBC captured the crowd from the Boston "No Kings" rally:

Grant Park Chicago. #NoKings

So proud of my ATX!!!!