Dr. Kim Hannula

[V2cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (east Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Here, an eruption — a live, Hawaiian eruption.

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Backups rule.

I only spent four years doing my PhD.

It wasn't enough. There was a lot that I needed to learn before going on the job market, and I didn't learn it. I was a worse scientist and teacher for leaving too soon.

There are locals who oppose solar/wind/batteries/EVs because they want the money from oil and gas to come back (creating local wealth and cheap energy).

I wish I had written the letter to the editor saying that we could have cheap energy or oil jobs, but not both. And we could easily have neither.

This years's first Watch Duty fire notification just came through.

(Near the NM border, already contained. But still. It should be dumping snow.)

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I'm glad I drive a Bolt, and I'm getting more solar panels installed this month...

Normal faulting in the desert makes the most spectacular vistas. (See: east side of the Sierras.)

The drive from Del Norte to Poncha Pass is the most gorgeous drive in a gorgeous state.

Groundwater, ugh, typos.

We need to ban construction of data centers in all Colorado River Basin states. (There's enough transfer of water from the Colorado basin to other basins - South Platte, Rio Grande, the whole Arizona project - that I don't care if groudwater or other rivers are being used. It's connected.)

The reason the Middle East has so much oil is the same reason it’s all stuck there now A continental collision trapped oil within what is today Iran. The same collision explains why that oil is trapped behind the Strait of Hormuz now

Fascinating new piece by @sipappas.bsky.social looking at the geology behind the geopolitics:

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Enabling Fieldwork for All (EFFA) Framework: Supporting physical, social, financial, and psychological safety in the field Comprehensive review of fieldwork safety literature across disciplines yields synthesized recommendations.

Excited to share a new paper written by a AAAS Policy Fellow I mentor, Dr. Lisa Walsh.

“This review synthesizes literature on fieldwork safety across scientific disciplines, highlighting four facets of safety for leaders and researchers to address: physical, social, financial, and psychological.”

I've stayed at the Kingman KOA in a Sprinter van. It was fine as an overnight stop.

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Best profile picture ever.

It feels like, the more people love to do something, the more upset they get about it being done with AI. Writing from most of the SFF writers I follow, art from the artists, coding from you... and, I mean, using AI to look at ROCKS for me. (Or to teach. Or even to GRADE, or write recommendations.)

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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.

Hard to have more water stored in the upper basin reservoirs when it isn't snowing and the lower basin needs all the water to be sent down to Lake Powell anyway.

Just drove past a place called Purty Rock on I-40.

There is a monocline there.

As a structural geologist, I feel vindicated for my professional choices.

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LAST CALL, share widely — As part of the @agu.org Diversity & Inclusion Advisory Committee (AGU DIAC), we invite you to submit a nomination!

First step due Monday is brief; second phase takes more work but allows more time.

Happy to help, especially if it’s your first time nominating.

Folding of a single layer in an effectively anisotropic host: the role of viscosity stratification and confinement on growth rates and fold patterns We investigate how multilayer stack geometry and viscosity stratification influences fold shapes, focusing on the case of a competent layer embedded w…

Oops. Link to the paper:

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Here's a recent paper about modeling of multilayer fold shapes.

Structural geology text books usually have diagrams of rocks that deform like that.

And I haven't been there, but I've seen blocks from SW Texas/eastern NM (near Carlsbad?) that have folding like that.

The alt text says the block is in a Canadian museum; I don't know its geologic history.

But layers of material with different strength and viscosity can behave like that when they are shortened parallel to the layers. Gypsum beds in particular can fold like that.

This is like the cursed teeth pebble, but for structural geologists.

Yay!

All nights?