The shape of a snowflake is determined primarily by the temperature and humidity at which it is formed. Rarely, at a temperature of around −2 °C, snowflakes can form in threefold symmetry —triangular snowflakes. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity Image credits: Kenneth Libbrecht, Caltech & NPR

At IGC2028, attendees will discuss the fascinating geology across the Americas. This week, we focus on legendary landscapes of the South America. DID YOU KNOW that spectacular flat-top mountains or mesas are located in northern of the South America? #IGC2028Canada Photo Credit: ©Wikimedia Commons

IGC2028 is grateful for the firm support of the Canadian Federation of Earth Sciences, an umbrella organization that represents a federation of Earth Science societies and associations across Canada including more than 10,000 Canadian geoscientists. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #Supporter

📢 Deep water seds: Haven’t you signed up for this's year's Deep Water Virtual Forum about Contourite Systems? It will be TODAY on November 6th, 4-7 pm GMT /10 am-1 pm CST. register.gotowebinar.com/register/454... Looking forward for this great event today!

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#TBT to the Open House at Cape Breton University this Fall 2025. Within the exhibition of CBU School of Science & Technology, prospective students and parents learned about our course offerings and Minors in Geology. Thanks to Graydon MacIsaac for showing his virtual outcrop models.

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Alice Wilson was Canada's first female geologist, the first woman geologist hired by the Geological Survey of Canada. 🧵1/2 #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #CanadianGeoscientists Photo credit: The Canadian Encyclopedia

Gros Morne National Park holds an almost complete record of Earth’s history. Watch the full documentary at www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O10... Video Source: UNESCO TV / © NHK Nippon Hoso Kyokai #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #CanadasUNESCOWolrdHeritageSites #UNESCO

Today, on International Day of Science, Technology & Innovation for the Global South, we honour and celebrate the ingenuity rising across the Global South. 🧵1/3 Photo credits: ©UNESCO #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #UNESCOWorldHeritageSite

This week we are continuing with the remaining Canada’s UNESCO World Heritage sites. Ever wanted to walk on Earth’s mantle? Don’t look any further. DID YOU KNOW that at Gros Morne’s Tablelands you can. 🧵1/2 Photo credits: ©Dru Kennedy #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #DidYouKnow #GrosMorne

To celebrate yesterday’s #beach day, here two different beach locations in #CapeBreton Island. 🏝️ 🏖️

Are you attending IMAGE '25 this week in Houston, USA? Don't missed out the social event organized by SEPM's Deepwater Research Group tomorrow on Tuesday August 26th at 7 pm in Room 371 A/D. Feel welcome to stop by, say hello, and find out the details about our Fall panel event.

🤔 Some Researchers Are Hiding Secret Messages in Their Papers, but They're Not Meant for Humans - www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/s... @smithsonianmag.bsky.social

Into the heart of the Yukon: serene beauty of Primrose Lake and dramatic peaks of Kluane National Park and Reserve — both part of Canada’s UNESCO World Heritage Sites. 🧵1/2 #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #Yukon #KluaneNationalPark Credit Photo: Rachel Bertsch

Bytownite is one of the less frequently identified calcic plagioclase feldspars, typically containing 70-90% anorthite, and commonly found in igneous and metamorphic rocks. #GeosciencesForHumanity #DidYouKnow #Ontario #Ottawa #Bytownite Photo credit: ©Ottawa Tourism

#TBT As a Senior Lab Technologist/Instructor in the GeoLabs at @cbuniversity & @CBU_SST, I'm honoured to be featured in the new digital resource that is now available for Canadian youth to consider a career in the Earth Sciences: careers.earthsciencescanada.com Check it out!

If you’re attending GAC-MAC2025 at OttawaU, check out two great presentations that I contributed and are held today. * TALK at 09:20 am (room DMS_4170): Katherine Boggs et al. on IGC 2028 Plans * Poster 84: Fiona D’Arcy et al. on EDIA efforts/outcomes & Earth Science in Canada

At the end of last week, Dr. Herbert Fournier & I welcomed several groups of high school students in grades 10 to 12 who visited our Cape Breton University’s campus. We had a fun outreach activity about “Exploring the Geology in your cellphones”. 1/2

Happy Earth Day!!!!! Bonne Journée de la Terre!!!!! #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #EarthDay Video Credit: SMULapidaryLab

DID YOU KNOW geology and art share a unique relationship? For over centuries, every texture of rocks, colour of minerals and every formation of the earth's landscape have inspired many well-known artists around the world. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #DidYouKnow #Geoarts

#TBT to an awesome recruitment/outreach session organized by Cape Breton University and School of Science and Technology on Monday April 7th 2025. Herbert Fournier & I visited the Centre scolaire Étoile de l'Acadie. Students from Grade 9-12 came to our Geology station to check various samples. 🧵1/2

Anticosti Island, now a UNESCO World Heritage Site, holds one of the world’s most complete and best-preserved fossil records, capturing the first mass extinction of life on Earth (447–437 million years ago). 🧵 #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity 📸 ©René Bourque

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The Ovens are a series of sea caves along the coast of Nova Scotia, that have developed on slate and siltstone from millions of years of wave erosion. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity

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We had our first meeting of the year and we're excited to tell you that we will be electing new Board members! Soon we'll call for nominees and elections so let us know if you'd like to be part of the new GeoLatinas Board!

🙂👏🏽Happy to contribute to this video project. Thanks to several of my students at Cape Breton University for providing audios and translation in their own mother languages.

Last Friday February 21st was the #InternationalMotherLanguageDay! Let us celebrate together our language diversity, cultural heritage, and appreciate each and every one! youtube.com/shorts/TFcGE... #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity 1/n

GeoLatinas started as a Twitter account in 2018. + 14k posts tell our story, and we are bringing them to BlueSky. Find again our Friday Features, links to podcasts and blogs, all here! Lets continue amplifying the voices of Latin American women in Earth & Planetary sciences 🧪👩‍🔬⚒️🔭 #WomenInSTEM

¿SABÍAS que el viernes 21 de febrero el mundo celebrará el #DíaInternacionalDeLaLenguaMaterna, un día dedicado a la diversidad lingüística y el patrimonio cultural? La conexión profunda entre la Tierra y las lenguas maternas, ¡celebremos este día especial! 1/2

DID YOU KNOW that on Friday, February 21st, the world will celebrate #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, a day dedicated to linguistic diversity and cultural heritage? As a deep connection between the land and languages, let's celebrate this special day! 1/2

Today we will honor in the International Day of Women and Girls in Science (Feb. 11) to our first female pioneer, Frances Wagner (1927–2016), one of Canada’s first female geologists, who mapped Canada’s mineral resources and paved the way for women in geoscience. #IGC2028Canada

Dr. Paul F. Hoffman, alongside Dr. Joe Kirschvink, pioneered the Snowball earth theory. In 2024 Dr. Hoffman was awarded the prestigious Kyoto Prize for his contributions in the geoscience field. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity 📸Paul Hoffman & Kyoto Prize ©Inamori Fndn.

The Snowball Earth hypothesis was validated by Dr. Paul F. Hoffman @seos-uvic.bsky.social, a Kyoto Prize's Laureate. He revealed how ice sheets melted, life adapted in extreme environments & carbon cycles shaped the planet's recovery. youtu.be/LU3nBvvZbWk #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity

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#TBT Two remarkable UNESCO World Heritage Sites in western Canada, Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump (a cultural heritage site) and Wood Buffalo National Park (a natural heritage site). #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #TBT #ExploreAlberta #TravelAlberta #UNESCO 🧵1/n Credits

This is Jasper Lake Sand Dune, a breathtaking spot of the #CanadianRockyMountainParks. Stunning landscapes at Jasper National Park are a testament to millions of years of mountain-building and glacial activity. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity 📸Jerry Demorcy

DID YOU KNOW that Canada is home to 22 UNESCO World Heritage Sites? With each telling a unique story of our rich geological, cultural and natural beauty. Let's also explore these wonders on the Western provinces. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity #DidYouKnow 🧵Credits 1/n

Hidden away just 37 km from Lake Louise, Bow Lake is a turquoise gem along the iconic Icefields Parkway within the UNESCO World Heritage Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks. #IGC2028Canada #GeosciencesForHumanity 📸 Banff National Park-©Jerry Demorcy / Bow Lake Falls-©Katherine Boggs

Back to the Late Neoproterozoic to Early Paleozoic when the ancient Iapetus Ocean existed. Photosynthetic microbes flourished and developed into the thrombolites preserved in Flower's Cove, western Newfoundland. 📸Simone Booker #IGC2028Canada #NewfoundlandandLabrador

Gros Morne National Park, western #Newfoundland, is designated as a World Geoheritage site because it shows one of the world's best and rarest exposures of the Mohorovicic discontinuity, a feature that is usually 5-70 km beneath the Earth's surface. 📸Simone Booker #IGC2028Canada

DID YOU KNOW? #Newfoundland is home to some exceptionally well preserved soft-bodied Ediacaran fossils! #MistakenPoint is home to the world's largest and oldest collection of biologically complex marine life fossils. 📸Simone Booker #IGC2028Canada #DidYouKnow

I’ll be chairing a special session ‘Social media geocommunication and digital resources to promote Geosciences’ at the Atlantic Geology Society Colloquium AGS2025. The abstract submission will be on January 10th 2025. DM me, if you are interested and need more details.

Hello! Hola! Olá BlueSky [EN] We are so excited to be in this space continuing our mission to embrace, empower, and inspire Latinas to pursue and thrive in careers in Earth and Planetary Sciences!

Sharing this amazing list of geolatinas in this platform! Feel welcome to add more names and pass along to your network: @caroll03.bsky.social @caballerogill.bsky.social @miriam-rslm.bsky.social @adriguatame.bsky.social @luud.bsky.social @francypants.bsky.social

Paper on submarine channels offshore New Zealand, led by Jake Covault; another example where the evolution of a submarine channel is not that different from what rivers do - until it gets filled by a debris flow 🧪⚒️