The USGS has released a report on lithium for the northern Appalachians. You can find the press release here: www.usgs.gov/news/nationa...

Some scenes from our geoscience and physics student presentations at #NCUR26 last week. Somehow I had never been to one of these. Recommended.

My annual listen on this day. "New Morning for the World" May need 2x this year. www.youtube.com/watch?v=R26x...

Just in the nick of time for 2025/kicking the new year off in style! I had the joy of working with Jeremy to effectively fully re-tool his MS thesis on the geochronology of the Slide Lake Shear Zone near Leadville, CO, and managed to drag a Colorado College Geology 1/5

Sublime weather for an outdoor poster session! Enjoying the #NNCI REU Convocation at UC San Diego for undergrads finishing their summer research. 🧪

Wet moose disguised as an outcrop.

The discourse surrounding precipitation changes in a warming climate (both public discussion and even scientific one at times) is complicated by widespread conflation of changes in averages vs extremes (and also actual vs *potential* evaporation/evaporative demand). [Thread]

Some #Colorado wildflowers, Mosquito Range.

Scenes fromTEM lab work at Virginia Tech #NanoEarth with a #ConcordU undergrad student last week. 🧪

⚒️ 🧪 Two weeks ago, a video appeared showing slip in the Myanmar earthquake - the first time this has ever been recorded on video. What can we learn from it? We deep-dive the science. earthquakeinsights.substack.com/p/remarkable...

Fanquakes at the Metallica concert at Va Tech last night! 🤘 🎸 www.si.com/fannation/co...

Well so much for that outcrop. Get thee gone geologists. ⚒️

Some microprobe time for mineralogy class. First use of newly upgraded Concord U probe with all digital SEM controls.

NSF has spent decades—and billions of dollars—trying to attract more women and members of underrepresented groups into STEM. Not anymore. scim.ag/3RUtgZg

Nearly 3,800 attendees, including many from colleges in NC and FL, which will be moving from the Southern Association to comply with state laws

Chicago today. #HandsOff

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LOL overheard mineralogy students today: amphiboles suck.

Tenure-track position in Geospatial Science / Phys #Geography / Surficial Geosystems at Concord Univ. Environmental Geosciences program! Seeking interdisciplinary environmental #geoscientist. ⚒️ #GISchat #geosky #aag jobs.concord.edu/postings/3243

What does an earthquake look like beneath your feet? This visualization shows seismic waves in action. We’re studying how such visuals improve public communication after major earthquakes. We'd love your input! Please take our short survey & share: ww3.unipark.de/uc/SIOseismi...

Looks like all staff at NSF HEGS Human Environment and Geographic Sciences were terminated. www.aag.org/wp-content/u...

“No one has ever seen a [presidential] transition in which one of the most valuable parts of our government enterprise is being taken apart," says Harold Varmus, former NIH director. Our latest, from the @nature.com reporters covering Trump 2.0: www.nature.com/articles/d41... 🧪

Ironically, this old kids homework emerged at the top of the scrap paper stack today.

Lots of bad news out there, but we have open positions in #chemistry (TT analytical/inorganic, open rank) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3235, #geosciences (postdoc tephra data mgmt) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3211, and #computerscience (TT cybersec/data analytics/etc) jobs.concord.edu/postings/3229 🧪⚒️

The 2025 Chemistry Faculty Jobs List has 481 tenure-track positions and 81 teaching positions: bit.ly/facultychemj... #facultychemjobs #chemjobs #chemsky 🧪⚗️ Faculty, if you know of tenure-track positions that I should be listing, or see an error, please e-mail me at [email protected]

The first sentence used to extend beyond the word STEM to say: "The U.S. National Science Foundation is committed to expanding the opportunities in STEM to people of all racial, ethnic, geographic and socioeconomic backgrounds, sexual orientations, gender identities and to persons with disabilities"

Wondering what P-2025 holds in store for climate and the environment? Here's a concise and disturbing summary. www.law.berkeley.edu/wp-content/u...

More twists in black plastic utensils story: The study overstated the potential exposure to flame retardants by an order of magnitude because of a math error, and now the whole journal has been de-listed from a science index for not meeting "quality criteria." arstechnica.com/health/2024/...

Evening view. #Sisimiut .

Dog town. Sisimiut Greenland.

Hyperspectral imaging and other field work at the edge of the 🇬🇱ice sheet today with Arctic REU ⚒️🧪

Time to make the most of a 2 day weather delay…. Stuffed Musk ox for scale.

Arctic REU faculty recon trip to the GL ice sheet to plan student projects.

Arctic REU on the way to our field sites for 2024. Mud, lakes, ice, rocks on the agenda. 🪨⚒️🇬🇱🧪

Arctic REU underway with 8 students with a campus intro in WV and some swimming under our local waterfall.

Perfect view.

🚨 It's not everyday that Greenland's subglacial geology is updated. Check out this very fat brick in the road towards resolving Greenland's under-ice geology! 👇 news: eng.geus.dk/about/news/n... article: doi.org/10.1029/2023... data: doi.org/10.22008/FK2... led by @joemacgregor.bsky.social

Here's the NJ earthquake I believe on our Raspberry Shake in southern WV.

Class GPR session. The rubberized running track on left side of Radargram set up a long reverberation - maybe contact between new rubber surface and old tarmac? Ringing on right is metal support structure below artificial turf I believe.

Summer 2024 Arctic REU Greenland applications are now open thru 2/12. Student projects include Ice-margin glaciology, sediment lake coring, climate change, geomicrobiology, structural geology, etc. Majors in geoscience and related fields graduating after Dec '24. Visit www.arcticreu.earth

US undergrad geology students: Summer 2024 Arctic REU Greenland applications open through 2/12/2024. Projects: Ice-margin glaciology, lake coring, climate change, geomicrobiology of glacial lakes, structural geology, Precambrian bedrock mapping. #NSFfunded #undergradresearch arcticreu.earth 🧪⚒️🌍

Do you teach geological and geo-engineering concepts like stratigraphy, structural geology, stereonets, dip & strike? If so, check-out the new 'Visible Geology App' from Seequent, that I am fortunate enough to help develop: lnkd.in/gYgn5qt8 for 1st access. #geology

Back from a great #GSW2023 conference. Lots of new friends and colleagues. Finally caught up on sleep...

Let me guess…they’ll cut math.

Sky scenery.

Nuuk

Interesting- Greenlandic huskies are the only breed allowed north of the more populated Nuuk area to keep the strain pure. Other dogs allowed in south but not these feisty pups.

Polygonal ice in the afternoon sunset. For geometric enjoyment only.

Brisk boat trip and research presentation for the public in the settlement of Sarfannguit pop. 87 today. Wonderful ppl and reindeer for lunch.