Today’s the #AGU25 day! @colgate.edu undergrad Rylie Berwanger ‘26 presents a model for the origin of banded pumice at Augustine Volcano. Poster V31C-0072.

Not at #AGU25 this year, but everyone who is, please do this! I still contend that posters are infinitely better than talks at engaging people in conversations about science! Please pass that joy on to the next generation of researchers!

🚨Get ready for the opening of our #AGU25 program!🚨 Monday December 15th opens with a diverse suite of 🌋 sessions on offer. From volcano-climate impacts to hydrothermal systems; from planetary habitability to critical minerals: Monday has something for everyone!

En route to #AGU25! Posters V31C-0072 (magma mixing & crystal cargo, Berwanger et al) and V41-0090 (eruption intensity, Koleszar et al): awesome work by @colgate.edu undergrads (blastlab.org) + colleagues at @wwu.edu + USGS-AVO. Geochemistry, grainsize data, field photos: something for everyone!

Someone asked me if the footage of 1,000ft lava fountains on Kīlauea was AI. PLANET EARTH IS INFINITELY SUPERIOR TO ANYTHING THAT SOULLESS ENVIRONMENT-KILLER COULD EVER CONJURE FROM PILLAGING REAL ART. Ahem. No, it's not AI. Volcanoes are just that incredible.

Attending #AGU25 next week? Make sure to stop by the inclusive science events happening all week long! Thanks @agu.org !!

The #VGP executive committee wants to make sure students attending #AGU25 get as much out of the conference as they can. So, we are excited to announce a student feedback program! Register using the link below to get feedback from at least one committee member during the conference. bit.ly/4oQXTwW

When it comes to climate change, "games can empower the belief that people can make a difference," says Volha Kapitonava of Positive Impact Games. "The key ingredient that makes this possible, in my opinion, is joy." www.gamesindustry.biz/joy-is-the-r...

Honestly, the topic of the article is less important than this synopsis right here. It is why (in my mind) this country finds itself in such dire straits.

No OSPA at this year's #AGU25, which is disappointing, because it made sure that students had at least 3 scientists come to their poster, ask questions, and provide anonymous (hopefully productive) feedback afterwards. Does anyone know why it was dropped? @hydrology-agu.bsky.social or @agu.org

Scientists now believe that the human brain--a magic goo for worrying--can also be used to do other things

If you have registered to #AGU25, please bookmark the AGU Security page, which will have updates & resources re:immigration enforcement operations announced for New Orleans: www.agu.org/agu25-neworl... We hope you can come to AGU25 because when science is connected, science is unstoppable.

Yes. And. There are other ways you can help yourself & your community stay healthier as access to vaccines gets more limited. So, you know, *do that*. (Clean the air & mask.) Some of us have done that all along bc vaccines weren’t enough to protect us (or elders, young children, babies, & carers).

White board sketch from class on Tuesday: ⚒️

Going to finish this #AGU25 poster really soon, but whenever I go looking for a particular outcrop-in-the-field photo I get distracted looking through ALLL the photos again! New details appear every time. Pic from 2024 on Augustine Volcano, with @colgate.edu and @wwu.edu field teams.

AGU go-ers, see you in New Orleans Join us for a lively networking event - meet peers, talk science, grab your limited-edition swag! Refreshments & appetizers available SUN DEC 14 | 6–9 PM | Tulane River & Coastal Center (1 block from Convention Center SZ4D activities @AGU & register: bit.ly/43pJHTx

The @colgate.edu BLAST (Bubbles, Lavas, and Silicic Tephras) research group is heading to @iavcei.bsky.social 2025! Come and chat about geochem/componentry/explosivity/grainsize on Monday and Friday afternoons: Poster 1.7.23 (Monday, Koleszar et al) and Poster 3.4.26 (Friday, D'Errico et al).

10-year-old kiddo made a pastry ternary, but both parents are geologists so...

Come find fault with our students! I mean, come find faults *with* our students. Colgate Earth and Environmental Geosciences is seeking a Visiting Assistant Professor in Structural Geology. Review starts May 16. apply.interfolio.com/167020 NB: No interesting structures in the photo, just seds. 🧪⚒️

But little by little I kept moving it forward until I had more energy to make it a reality this past year. So if you can relate in any way to that story, I just want to say that I see you & I am here cheering you on...one day your project too will make it into world. 6/6 #disabledacademic

Today’s firings from NOAA/NWS are unconscionable & make us all less safe. It is wild to see certain weather bros for the first time realize politics affects them. I hope this inspires them to be more proactively engaged in politics instead of loudly and proudly declaring themselves above politics.

Some folks have asked, given recent news, “how do I show my friends/family the impact of NSF?” We have some easy Fact Sheets for you! Here’s a brief thread about this website: new.nsf.gov/about/fact-s... which hosts a ton of useful one-pagers.

I prefer “Chicxulub’s Splash Pool” but the app isn’t flexible that way.

Many areas are seeing record snowfall this winter, thanks to global warming--or rather, global weirding! How so? It hasn't been cold enough for lakes other than Erie to completely ice over yet. As cold air sweeps across them, it's picking up moisture and dumping massive snowfall on the other side.

There are so many things wrong with this country but there were so many things right with it too. Watching the good things get destroyed in the service of rich white men is gut wrenching

Hello Bluesky community! #ESWN is a non-profit providing opportunities for peer mentoring, community building, and career development for scientists, educators, and professionals who contribute to and support the earth, space, and environmental sciences. Give us a follow and say hi!

An hour in the woods to battle the Sunday Scaries.

Really excited about this— Wingspan (and the dragon version, Wyrmspan!) are favorites in our household.

Time to edit the syllabus for Dangerous Earth to include this! (The first hazard covered in the course is impacts from space)

So many in my area complaining that their roads "aren't clear" and I'm confused about the expectation. A plow doesn't get every molecule of snow up. And if it stays way below freezing, nothing left behind will melt. Do they expect pristine asphalt? Not trying to dunk on them, I'm just so confused.

woot! Super excited about #volcano science at #IAVCEI this summer. Colgate BLAST (Bubbles, Lavas, and Silicic Tephras) is submitting two abstracts, featuring five @colgateuniversity.bsky.social undergrads plus colleagues from WWU and USGS-AVO!

Planning your climate or environment syllabus? I like to show short videos so students & I can visualize some of the things we're talking about. Here are some of the ones I like:

Acquisition of a 3D printer: kiddo was jazzed about articulated dragons/axolotls/fidgets; I was jazzed about bits and bobs for streamlining #lab work! This little green widget means no more juggling tubing while carefully tipping a full 8-gal bucket to siphon water off of sieved tephras. #geology

Loaf pans of data! Looks like a unimodal normal distribution for this tephra sub-layer (c. 750-year-old pumice from Augustine #Volcano).

Working on the syllabus for "Dangerous Earth" and getting super excited to revisit these excellent books with students @colgateuniversity.bsky.social! "Quakeland" - @kathryn-miles.bsky.social "Disasterology" - @samlmontano.bsky.social "Eruption" - Steve Olson "Asteroid Hunters" - Carrie Nugent

On reflection, I would much rather have pumpkin spice in everything than AI in everything.

Hey Everyone, The IAGD was on Twitter/X for more than a decade. It's hard to switch platforms and lose all of that, so please give us a follow here! We are working to make the geosciences a more inclusive place for everyone, especially people with disabilities.

Kiddo's version of a #GreatShakeOut infographic to illustrate the importance of Drop-Cover-Hold On - perhaps not as elegant as the real infographics, but still gets the point across for #earthquake #hazards 😂

I'm a #volcano person, but my classes this semester are currently doing aqueous & soft rock #geology. Side quests are fun (road salt in waterways! lobe-finned fish go terrestrial!), but back to #tephra soon! Pic: 2024 on Augustine Volcano w/ @colgateuniversity.bsky.social undergrads & WWU colleagues

My general strategy for programming in R: If task x takes y minutes to do manually, grumble about it for at least a year before spending the 1-2 hours automating it in R. I've found this strategy holds true for all values of y...

It must be getting close to the end of the semester if my Sedimentary and Surface Processes class is using Syracuse salt potatoes as a tool for understanding the chemistry of evaporite deposits. IAP --> Ksp --> delicious. Those salt crusts are tasty and educational. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salt_po...

Data wrangling (extremely common in geochem!) and taste-testing (extremely uncommon in geochem!) - students in Colgate Univ GEOL303: Geochemistry are comparing 12 different “sea” salts. Samples queued up for analysis on the ion chromatograph. Data soon!

An analytical bingo: powder the rocks, weigh the rocks, dissolve the rocks, dilute the rocks, then realize there are PRECISELY enough samples to completely fill a single sample tray. Similar life events: a chips-and-salsa coincidence, a shampoo-and-conditioner serendipity. #geology #geoscience ⚒️🌋

Grading Pup is weary.

The sound of connecting to dial-up internet just emanated from a distant corner of the coworking space. All the millennials popped their heads up from their computers like a flock of prairie dogs being activated by a long-forgotten ancestral call.

Kiddo got a "diamond painting" kit so we gave it a try and... this skill set is hilariously reminiscent of picking mineral separates for melt inclusions/in situ geochemistry. I'll let him finish a few more of these Pokémon, then it's straight to the lab to pick some plag! #geology #geochemistry ⚒️ 🌋

It's weird that some people ask to sit in the aisle seat. You can watch planet earth from seven miles up, and you'd rather just not?

Successful day of cooking adventures in the lab! Sample digestions (dissolving rocks in hot acid— definitely cooking!), working on the ICP-MS (plasma *definitely* cooks), and calibrating the ion chromatograph (okay “cooking” is a stretch for this one). #geology #geoscience ⚒️ 🌋

The 3 branches of science

Seeing the innards of the mass spec is usually a sign that the mass spec isn’t doing the desired mass spec-y things 😐 #geology ⚒️🌋