That's what I keep telling people! Clearly this sort of work needs more funding(!) to figure it out!

Earthquake! Little rattler, M3.3, close to where the other recent one was last week, probably San Jacinto fault related. (Was it two events?)

Sat in a seminar wondering why people who work on changes to the AMOC seem completely unable (or unwilling) to explain what they are doing, why they are doing it, what any of their terminology means, or what the practical consequences of any of their findings will be for people.

Took the opportunity to preview the new LACMA gallery today. A more artistic way to cross Wilshire Boulevard, for sure!

Earthquake! Really close by! earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

This article pretty much covers all the scepticism I have with AI and the tech bros who are pushing it on us. It's a great read.

Coachella day 3, and the slow starts seemed to be getting slower. Outfit theme is blue and white patterns.

We are planning some exciting new things for the ISCE+ course – e.g. processing data using ISCE3, making the most of NISAR standard product interferograms – alongside the 'classic' theory and data analysis content. Keep an eye out for the registration announcement if you are interested!

Coachella day 2: taking it a bit easier today, what with the creaking bones and everything. With that in mind, the theme of today's outfit was "skulls". Or was it a tribute to California's 4th most interesting creeping fault?

Coachella, day 1 recap. First, one of the better outfits I've assembled in recent years, if I do say so myself.

Remember to like this post and follow me on Insta* *I'm not active there

Introducing Camp Ladybug, a well appointed base for attending live music with decor chosen by a local entomologist 🐞🐞🐞

Arrived in Pasadena for the SSA annual meeting!

Saw it all live on TV when I got home from school in the UK. About 8 years old. Not something I'll ever forget. Yikes. Watched the Artemis launch with some students on campus today, and it was all I was thinking about. Still, there were NASA themed donuts and they made it to orbit, so exhale...

Normal service would appear to be resumed! (Fancy getting yo' asses over to my house? We've got plenty of dead grass that needs eating!)

Xkcd does it again! m.xkcd.com/3221/

I just wrote a response to the Dear Colleague Letter and so should you. (In essence I quoted a bunch of the questions in the letter and answered 'no' to all of them...)

Get on with burning all of that oil, then! Sea level rise in no time! (Actually, please don't.)

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

See also: science grant funding, graduate student fellowships...

2026 basically

Spent the last couple of days having great discussions and conversations with colleagues at Scripps, as well as presenting our group's results on the Kamchatka earthquake! Also ate in some splendid locations! Thanks for the hospitality and interest!

Paid summer internships in #geodesy! This year, the MSU Undergraduate Summer Geodesy Internship program is looking for students with prior experience in geophysics, programming, and/or higher mathematics (geodesy experience not required). More info below. Apply by Feb. 15. ⚒️🧪 bit.ly/4quoUrt

This is vandalism. Senseless vandalism.

Come and work with us!

Want to learn more about NISAR (the new joint India/US synthetic aperture radar satellite mission)? Franz Meyer from UAF/Alaska Satellite Facility will be giving an online talk to introduce NISAR and its capabilities on Jan. 21. More info and registration below. ⚒️🧪 uaf-accap.org/event/vaws-i...

“It is no small thing to have the opportunity and permission to use all one's strengths” 🧪

From @AGU.org: Senators are working on legislation to save NCAR, but we need extra support for these 8 states. Your Senators in Alabama, Alaska, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas, and Wyoming need to hear from you.

I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons

Time to repurpose #AGU25 as a mass mobilization in support of NCAR, NSF, NOAA, NASA, USGS, DOE BER, and the Congressional power of the purse.

Attendees of #AGU25! If you are at a loose end at 3:05, come to room 357 and hear UCR postdoc Axel Periollat present our work on the interseismic locking of the Kamchatka subduction zone (as shown below) and its agreement with slip in the 1952 and 2025 earthquakes! Do come along!

GEOSCIENTISTS OF NEW ORLEANS: I will be presenting this poster (#0267) on our EarthScope-supported and quite awesome annual InSAR short course this afternoon. Do stop by! #AGU25

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

wow who was he up against

"Today was a day of note, I gave the 40th and final lecture, And now, I think I'll head downtown, And drink a pitcher."

Monitoring crustal deformation: sometimes in the lithosphere, sometimes on your pie plate. 🍁🍂 Happy Thanksgiving from EarthScope!

Our preliminary analysis of the satellite observations of the #hayligubbi #eruption is now available online: comet.nerc.ac.uk/event-respon.... Details of the eruption onset, SO2 emissions and precursory deformation.

Activity at Hayli Gubbi began in July when there was an eruption at Erte Ale. Magma propagated 30 km south passing under Hayli Gubbi. Since then, there has been a small plume, quasi-continuous SO2 emissions and uplift. Details in @uk-comet.bsky.social event response report: tinyurl.com/y3nfdfj8

DONKEYS ON CAMPUS. THAT IS ALL.

We invite our community to read a summary of our proposal for the NSF National Geophysical Facility (NGF). The summary provides a broad overview of the scope included in the new facility. ➡️ NSF NGF proposal summary: https://loom.ly/OZaj1hs

The four-legged lawn service is currently working at *my* house. Bet you're jealous!

I knew it was Ray Wilkins, obvs, but Hugh Dennis? Gil Scott-Heron?! And the orange man was a Proper Actor! That's simply wonderful, Ralph. Smashing. T'riffic. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

Fellow seismologists, we're going to get a lot of mileage out of the latest @xkcd.com

At the empty USGS booth at GSA. More out of view on both sides

Envious of the neighbors' lawn service

In Oakland at the UC Office of the President for a meeting, and the chances are good that we will be shaking out later on...

OK, so who turned all the power off? Holding office hours in the dark ain't all that much fun (not that anyone is here of course).

A lot of comments on Mars rovers or Moon landings, but it's important to remember that the planet NASA studies most is Earth. This is less about cutting flashy things like moonwalks and more about keeping communities in the dark on climate, weather, agriculture, pollution, natural hazards, and more.

Pomona, what's up? (Very excited about this one!)