Superb, elegant diagrams by Page Quinton & Michael Rygel to illustrate key ideas in sedimentology & petrography: commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pa... ⚒️📊

In the latest play from Project 2025, the Trump Administration has announced plans to dismantle the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), a $368 million network of more than 900 instruments that continuously monitor the ocean. This is a deliberate destruction of critical scientific infrastructure.

This is not how a society should science

Happy grant submission day, to those who celebrate. 🎉 💰 🤞

The contrast between SEI scores/comments from university classes and these tiny, adorable handwritten thank you cards from an elementary school I visited! 😭❤️ ⚒️

Family sending me pics like this from their vacations ⚒️

T-minus one day…. 👀

Today I was notified that our program received a large-ish (for us) internal grant to purchase new equipment that shoots x-rays into rocks/soil. It is gratifying news and I’m excited to integrate this instrument into future teaching and research. ⚒️

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

Combing through grad-school era field photos and found some nice shots. Golden hour, footwall of the Clark strand of the San Jacinto fault, southern Santa Rosa Mtns. Classic. ⚒️

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

UWG student, Cam, whose capstone work I supervised, presented at our Scholars’ Day research symposium. He used borehole cuttings and geophysical logs to snoop around for a subsurface carbon capture system near Brunswick, GA. This isn’t my wheelhouse, so it was fun to learn about this system. ⚒️

Hey folks! If you happen to be building seminar/colloquia series and you want someone who can talk volcanoes and magmatic systems, ping me! I have highly technical stuff on zircon geochronology as well as high accessible stuff like how to figure out the most dangerous volcano on the planet.

The final 1.5 days of our UWG alumni-student field trip involved walking modern beaches of Jekyll Island and checking out Eocene carbonate outcrops in the upper coastal plain. Ironically, our students have historically found 4x more shark teeth in the Eocene than at “Shark Tooth Beach” on Jekyll.

Jekyll Island things… ⚒️🏝️

Day two: field lecture from Andrew Ivester on relict dunes at little Ocmulgee State Park. Next, a Carolina bay (not pictured, it’s hard to see from ground level). We walked the crest of the dune SE of the bay, where tortoise burrows and archaic period? artifacts abounded. ⚒️

Day one of our Alumni-Student field trip to the Georgia barrier islands kicked off with the best view of the coastal plain unconformity from the Ruby Quarry. ⚒️

Hey Tony @ichnologist.bsky.social is this seemed like a conspicuous block, the white paint, displayed along the South Kaibab Trail, Coconino SS (I think). Reptile trackway? ⚒️ scaniverse.com/scan/afuotha...

Hey! We are hiring a 3 year visiting assistant professor in (broadly) geomorphology and GIS. Come join us in Earth & Environmental Sciences at Denison University! Get your application in before May 5. You can check out the details here: apply.interfolio.com/183740

Walnut Canyon National Monument, one of my new favorite spots on the rim, and the West Fork of Oak Creek. Two special canyons, each with unique aspects in the ways you experience them. Oh yeah, the birb is a canyon wren(?). 🏜️⚒️

We did a short but steep hike down ~2000 ft of the canyon today. It. Ruled. Seeing the faulted Supergroup in contact with the inner gorge basement and then the overlying Tapeats is just too incredible. ⚒️🏜️

The hike today… did not disappoint 🙌 ⚒️🪨🏜️

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Job Alert 🚨 Tenure track structural geologist. Have a passion for structural geology, undergraduate education, and being employed? Please, apply to work in our Program! The GSA ad expires tomorrow but the internal deadline is April 6. ⚒️🧪🥼🔬🪨 www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/edu-...

This camera operator understood the assignment

Here’s the yield of our five hour fossil hunting trip on Morris Island SC. A dozen shark teeth, lots of shark vertebrae, some phosphatic bones and gastropods, and some fossils we’re calling cat b-holes, for lack of identification (second image). ⚒️

Did some beach combing today around Charleston SC. ⚒️🦈🦷

Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility. Fewer cars. Less driving. More inviting mobility choices. Better communities and cities. These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.

#geosociety ad for a new TT Assistant Professor of Structural Geology ⚒️🧪🔬🪨 Application due March 26th. Come work with us! 😃 www.geosociety.org/GSA/GSA/edu-...

Structural geologists: Cody would be great to work with.

Search for Job Opening ID (295558) Assistant Professor Geology ⚒️

Calling Structural Geology job seekers 🚨 Our University is hiring a full time TT Assistant Professor of Geology ⚒️🧪🔬 careers.hprod.onehcm.usg.edu/psc/careers/...

Things should clear up for the morning commute once silicate weathering has been shut down for long enough that slowly accumulating volcanic CO2 catastrophically deglaciates the entire planet

@comptonscatter.bsky.social here ye gan wor kid #Crinoid #Kaiju

The spring peepers are really loud 🐸🔊

Apropos this, I watched One Battle After Another last night. I don’t know what I thought the movie would be about, but it’s basically current events.

Screaming into the void, but make it Colombian bird.

Anyone familiar with these Pb concretions in outcrop?

Some Eocene marine fauna from another field stop.

A relatively important outcrop in our region containing the nonconformity between Precambrian and Paleozoic basement rocks and the overlying late Mesozoic coastal plain sediments.

Amazing. No notes.

Between the Rillito and Santa Cruz Rivers.

For #writers and writing-curious folks on here, how about a peek behind the curtain on this story? What does it take to bring a #scicomm feature like this one together? Short answer: time, and lots of people. Long answer: keep reading... 1/5

I went to South America for the first time since I was 8 years old. Cartagena was amazing, and I look forward to returning. Here are several pics

What are some interesting aspects of the geology of Cartagena, Columbia? ⚒️

Wait till they learn about the mantle 🫠

Thankful to experience and learn about this planet. 🌎 ⚒️

Any Geo folks have suggestions advice for portable handheld XRFs? Looking to get into that game. ⚒️

Here's the GVP page of Hayli Gubbi in Ethiopia: volcano.si.edu/volcano.cfm?.... Plume from the eruption can be seen in this Aqua/MODIS image cross the Red Sea to the Arabian Peninsula. #eruption #volcano

Copper State 😍