Don't Forget that FORAMS 2026 (in scenic Amherst Massachusetts!) abstracts are due on March 15! If you just submit this video as an abstract it'll probably be accepted.
sites.google.com/view/forams2...
Hopefully no tornadoes here or there.
A cheeky #Goniatite, on the prowl, looking for morsels. #SciArt #Paleoart
Applications now open for the Graduate Research Excellence Grants! These provide evolutionary biology research funds for early and advanced Master’s and PhD students. Proposals due May 18.
www.evolutionsociety.org/content/soci...
How's the state snowpack look? Well🫣 Dig into for yourself @CA_DWR : https://cdec.water.ca.gov/snowapp/sweq.action Our colleagues @NWSReno, @NWSSacramento, and @NWSHanford watch this information closely, since the Sierra is in their forecast ... https://x.com/NWSBayArea/status/2030674152999248144
Let me bother you with a few rivers.
Since the Fisk map is circulating again, I want to highlight a very good and probably underappreciated* paper by Aslan and Autin on how soils develop in this setting, through the interaction of pedogenic processes, sedimentation, and hydrology. doi.org/10.1130/0016...
*like so many good soils papers
In case anyone else needs one (yes you do), a portion of the proceeds go to support the Earth Science Women's Network
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Such a bad position to be in where you want to make sure folks are there, but if too much grade is just being there, then students fail or ask for all kinds of make-up.
Sed-strat?
Ohhh nooooo
I’m very proud of the Drawdown Explorer. In only six months, we have created the world’s go to resource for climate solutions.
And it’s only getting better! Check it out.
Tsunamigenic rockslide on your desktop?
This is a scaled and simplified model of the 2017 Karrat landslide.
I think it captures the dynamics of the tsunami generation quite well, though it is of course, very simplified.
#molluscmonday
An update to my Dimetrodon skeletal, plus proof that my blog does, in fact still work: www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/i-did-i...
As I told my undergrads at the start of the semester, I'm not asking you to write a paper about Little Rock's school desegregation because I don't know what happened there.
Little Rock is just the topic. The act of researching, writing and editing the paper is the whole point.
The data can also be downloaded and cited from their home on the Environmental Data Initiative, an open repository! portal.edirepository.org/nis/mapbrows...
A map of SF Bay showing the locations of several moorings in South and Lower South SF Bay
My colleagues at the Nutrient Management Strategy at @sfestuaryinstitute.bsky.social have published for the first time our moored station dataset, with 15-min biogeochemical data from 11 stations surrounding SF Bay, some of them going back to 2013!
www.sfei.org/data/san-fra...
Image depicts a knight against the dark silhouette of figures fighting in the background. The knight holds a rabbit protectively with their shield raised.
Part 3 in my weekly poster series for 2026 #art #knights
GlobalBuildingAtlas: an open global and complete dataset of building polygons, heights and LoD1 3D models
#climaterisk
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Reminder that applications for this unique summer undergraduate research internship are due tomorrow (Feb 13)!
Learn more and apply here: www2.whoi.edu/site/paleofishes/accessible-ichthyoliths-internship/
Lets continue to work towards building a better tomorrow, together.
Today we celebrate 20 years of the USGS Earthquake Notification Service with a Dog Day at the office! Hot dogs, cake, and a visit from ENS creator, Stan Schwarz. Thanks to all who keep us informed! To learn more about ENS, check out this link: buff.ly/uJi5Dk0
The Aftermath: Snowstorm
Reilly Fitzgerald
2020
A "They don't know meme." A basic black and white ms paint drawing depicts a man wearing a party hat and holding a drink standing in the corner at a party, while he watches four other people dancing and enjoying themselves. He has a slightly tired and bored expression, and text next him to says "They don't know there are millions of giant squid in the ocean"
Because giant squid (Architeuthis dux) in the deep sea and humans do not, we don't interact with them much, leading some to believe that they are rare.
However, the estimates for the total giant squid population are in the millions, with some of the higher estimates being over a hundred million.
Really excited to see this paper out!! Led by @vtcoop.bsky.social we show that if you use cold and warm paleoclimates together, you can reduce uncertainty in Earth's climate sensitivity by quantifying the pattern effect and more precisely constrain future climate change www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Can interactive web apps help biology students become better modellers?
peischllab.github.io/MEEW.html
We're running an ethics-approved, pre-registered study thanks to funding from the University of Bern.
Are you lecturing in the Spring?
Contact me to receive the survey link!
Do you care about the future of the US NSF and science in general? The agency is seeking feedback on the draft Strategic Plan. www.nsf.gov/od/updates/n...
A record of carbonate mass flux on continental crust is presented
PreꞒ/Ꞓ fundamental change in sedimentation:
"... relatively abrupt shift in the principal locus of CaCO3 burial, from short-lived oceanic crust during much of the Proterozoic to longer-surviving continental crust in the early Paleozoic"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
🧪 #Geology ⚒️ #Paleobio
