So much appreciation for the Canadian government employees who poured this much love into soil survey art. Thanks @geodermatologist.bsky.social for pointing me towards this goldmine!

Join us in supporting NIH and NSF in local papers across the country!

Please let the GEO/EAR community know: Program Directors and Mission Support who’ve been at NSF under two years were just terminated via Zoom. Even those of us whose offer letter stated one probationary year and whose government data states “permanent”.

purrr::quietly()

Happy National Maple Syrup Day! Celebrate by celebrating soil calcium biogeochemistry—an oldie but a goodie: research.fs.usda.gov/treesearch/4...

Saturday recreational tree climb. Trees are magic

Well played, Pantone, we see you naming a 2.5YR 5/4 color of the year for #WorldSoilDay

Where are all the podzols for #WorldSoilDay? Here’s one from a 200-year soil study in the Green Mountains, Vermont. The field tech was so proud of this pit—check the right angle on the side!

Here's some gorgeous wetland soil for #worldsoilday! This sample's got some ~Fe-bulous~ redoximorphic features & is a nice example of how wetlands paint with iron oxides 🧪🌎⚒️ #soilscience

Soil isn't just underground. With the help of networks of mycorrhizal fungi, soils are formed even on the most vertical cliffs. Underground Explorer Felipe Morales Armijo is working w/@spununderground.bsky.social to map vertical fungi across the cliffs of Mexico. Happy World Soils Day.

Happy World Soil Day! This year’s theme is “caring for soils”. We are all soil stewards. Here’s a soil I’m trying to build structure in through OM additions and de-lawnification

Happy world soils day! To celebrate, take a look at this soil profile that lives in my brain rent-free. It is an alluvial soil that has interacted with sulfide- and methane-rich, anoxic groundwater. These interactions have resulted in a lot of cool mineral transformations (and pretty colors)

So proud of my town. #Carrboro

I missed this post genre, it hits the same dopamine receptors as being in the woods with other naturalists

Thank you to farm workers for our food

Healthy peatlands are one of our best climate heroes, storing carbon for thousands of years. Healthy peatlands are gloriously mucky. Drained peatlands might grow food for some time but are a massive source of greenhouse gas emissions. Keep bogs wet - please share!

Sunday afternoon at the game lands. Highlights: Cortinarius caperatus, strongly expressed subangular blocky peds in a roadcut, and fall colors of sweetgum and muscadine.

#soilscience #pedology

My wife and I signed up for a neighborhood turkey trot. The proceeds go to the food pantry, and they give you $50 if you beat the record time. I’m losing my mind, the record is held by Shalane Flanagan en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shalane...

ICYMI... took me a few days to stumble upon this one go.bsky.app/HADDT8P

A fun way to start on a new platform: obscure memes related to a specific corner of a discipline that I didn't even know existed until college--soil science.

Megadiversidad de #suelos en el parque infantíl del Parque Nacional, #Bogotá #urbansoils #geodiversity

The second day of the #pedology tour at #SSSA led us to a Vertisol formed in alluvial sediments. The carbonate masses at the base of the pit were composed of gorgeous well-formed crystals. Check the carbonate precipitated on top of laminae in picture 2 💕

Wet times at the pedology field tour Guadalupe River Delta stop. Highlights: subaqueous soils, slickensides, and mollic epipedons #pedology #SSSA