Twenty years ago, an eruption occurred in Alaska that had a profound impact on my career: the 2006 eruption of Augustine Volcano. At the time, I was an undergraduate at WWU studying geology, with no long-term plans, taking things one quarter at a time.

Just letting everyone know that I am based in the US for the next 2 months in PST time zone. I am available for talks, seminars, and trainings if anyone is interested.

Had the pleasure of meeting several of the old time park guys out at the volcano yesterday along with my friends daughter! Now back to work.

I am home in Hilo and since I always miss activity I didn't prepare. Does anyone who anyone on island with some sound equipment with a known response? I wanted to get some audio frequency range records of a fountain. Thanks!

Tomorrow I’ll be working on my personal DEI initiative for science literacy for local/Indigenous girls in Hawaii: I’m taking my niece to the beach.

Me: Ok I am finally in the same place for more than 3 days and can get some work done. My laptop: Would you like a blue screen? Yes lets do that.

I mean my first response is always can we get a nap room?

Seriously when it comes to Nature what are we even paying for? It has become so much easier to find papers with the internet so its not accessibility, it is horrendously expensive, and they cant even catch HUGE issues in their peer review and editing process? What are we paying for?

Holy CRAP. Retired engineer takes random pics of *kids*, without consent or attribution, bins them into “autistic” or “not autistic”, and uploads that “data” for free on Kaggle. Well over a HUNDRED papers are published, 38 in Springer Nature, 25 in IEEE, using it. And no reviewers objected? WTF.🧪

Yes I am back on my bullsh** and by that I mean chasing shiny new signals when I see them! lol

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/05/m... I want to look for this signal too!

I have a soft spot for bolides too. How am I supposed to get anything done now that I don't have to block everything out for working on the thesis!? www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/12/05/m...

I'm supposed to be packing up to move and all I want to do is watch the fountain and play with data!

The thing about submitting a PhD thesis when you are a non traditional student is... now I finally have time for... all the other work I have been putting off...

We have reviewed a magnitude 6.0 event that occurred at 08:11 AM AK time, northwest of Anchorage and at 43 miles depth. This event was felt widely throughout south-central Alaska, and as far as Fairbanks. For more information, please visit https://earthquake.alaska.edu/event/ak2025xjbvhj

An explosive #eruption of Hayli Gubbi #volcano, located SE of Erta'Ale in the Afar Rift (Ethiopia), began at ~08:30 UTC on Nov 23. Eruption onset was fortuitously captured by a @planet.com overpass at 08:31 UTC. Hayli Gubbi has no record of Holocene eruptions. Toulouse VAAC reporting ash to ~15 km.

Excellent thread by @geophysichick.bsky.social ! This sort of thing always reminds me though that this is part of the tradeoff for public real-time data. We can and should expect this sort of nonsense. I absolutely understand why some places chose to not have public data.

Getting clocks synched between seismic stations is crucial for various applications, including methods to monitor active volcanoes. A new #SRL paper looks at decadal data from Marapi volcano in Indonesia to assess clock errors. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

⚡️Solar storm incoming! We are actively monitoring severe space weather events, occurring on 11-12 November. Severely disturbed geomagnetic conditions are expected to persist for at least 24 to 48 hours. 🔗 www.esa.int/Space_Safety... @operations.esa.int @science.esa.int

NOAA is undercutting their own agency from providing timely tsunami warnings. This affects more than just Alaska- many earthquakes and tsunamis that originate there impact communities across the Pacific.

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The 28 March earthquake in Mandalay, Myanmar, caused fatalities across a broad swath of the country and beyond. This special issue of Science features papers exploring the risk and reasons behind the anomalously fast, sustained rupture. https://scim.ag/3JnMTbO

⚒️ 🧪 Today, Science released a special issue about the M7.7 earthquake that struck Myanmar in March. We were invited to write a perspective about the four research papers in the special issue. Find our post, including the text of our perspective, here:

Solid advice here but I disagree with the first point for one reason: accessibility. Having text as 2 or 3 short bullet points on your slide will help deaf and HoH folks (such as myself) follow your talk as they might not be able to hear you.

Introducing Cardinal, an open-source Python code that can processes seismic and infrasound array data in discretized time–frequency space. ⚒️ pubs.geoscienceworld.org/ssa/srl/arti...

Hey #TeamInfrasound I always enjoy my alerts this time I got a youtube video! @bennjordan.bsky.social did a video and has some awesome ambient anthropogenic recordings! youtu.be/UTvr8L5v8u8?...

We have a #MinCup25 champion!! Congratulations, #Kyanite! www.mineralcup.org/2025 After eight years of competing, another few hours to verify votes was nothing, right? Amazing first run, #Tugtupite, and better luck next year.

I was heartbroken to hear of the end of TTBOOK. I have been listening to "To The Best Of Our Knowledge" for what feels like my whole life. I don't think its possible to express the impact it has had on my life. It has 35 years of compelling ideas and interviews in their archive www.ttbook.org

Jane Goodall’s legacy: three ways she changed science

I AM SO EXCITED

#AGU25 session schedule is out! Looks like December 18 is Infrasound day! Oral I: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... Oral II: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... Posters III: agu.confex.com/agu/agu25/me... #TeamInfrasound

I am always happy to chat away about #infrasound! You never know when someone might bring up a colleague who you didn't know about who worked in the field back in the day when things were less... open...

#MinCup25 Final: After a month of learning and laughter, we’re at the final match to determine the 2025 Mineral Cup Champion! We have blue blades of #kyanite up against optical magician #tugtupite. Vote: www.mineralcup.org/2025/vote/r5... Results: www.mineralcup.org/2025/results...

Every year at Tucson Gem show, I gaze lovingly at the tables of the perfect shade of green. Every year, I find a little Dioptase cave that I want to curl up in like a tiny dragon. Also, I once saw a tiny gem cut Dioptase for $80. I cry over not purchasing it. #MinCup25 Vote Dioptase!

Related! #MinCup25 #Hematite

Here's the @auscope.bsky.social Seismometers in Schools recording this morning's M7.8 Kamchatka earthquake. Data and network visualisation is from SRC's Seismosphere. The 24-hour single station view from Nhulunbuy in the Northern Territory shows the seismometer detecting the earth ringing for hours!

The reason I started saying this is b/c many of my students haven’t had opportunities to actually think for themselves or collaboratively come to consensus to shape an idea. I blame this on k-12 standardized tests/worksheets and poor/uneven implementation of NGSS (what science ed *should* be).

Great to see this new work by Sam Mitchinson published this week! He quantified the uncertainty in expert classification of volcano seismic events, with important implications for ML model accuracy. 🌋

Modern spectrograms are awesome but there is just something so cool about older ones like this.... Liu (1985) the signal from the May 18, 1980 eruption of Mt St Helens in China!

The best way to start the day is with an email from someone saying they are using your research. 🥰

Everyone writing about Perseverance today should be asking how many of the scientists and engineers who were involved in this discovery no longer work for NASA bc of Trump.

Very excited that my new earrings came this morning! These are custom from cursivecraft.co.nz I love them!

Natasha Kozyreva, treasured Alaska Earthquake Center family member, passed away on August 30th. She leaves an enduring legacy. Researchers using our catalog are working with data shaped by Natasha’s careful hand. Read more about her: https://earthquake.alaska.edu/staff-spotlight-natasha-kozyreva

Pro tip: keep a document of ideas for projects and papers. BUT split them into things YOU want to do vs. something SOMEONE should do (you would be ok not being involved). You can also have a list of things that would be a good student project. Then when you have an idea it has a home.

My email to the amazing scientists I was working with at NOAA to locate things in the archive bounced as undeliverable. 💔

Seriously excited about the lineup we have for #TeamInfrasound at #AGU this year. Its going to be a different mix (obviously) but still a very strong set of talks. Just in case you need a little bright spot today!

Snap, crackle and pop! Love the booming explosions from the summit vent in the background.

Hark! Is that a mineral list I spy? www.mineralcup.org/2025/mineral... Lots of new contenders this year as we increase to 75% turnover for #MinCup25.