It gave its all.
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It gave its all.
Turn the sound on! π The USGS V1 camera at Kilauea now has *audio* and tephra is falling on it right now - www.youtube.com/live/tk0tfYD...
My PhD ended up requiring five field seasons to collect all the necessary data.
The one on the left looks like it wants to do you serious harm.
More than 30 years ago, I began teaching courses on data analysis in the earth sciences. 20 years ago, I started thinking about writing textbooks. Now there are six textbooks and many different course formats for you. Here are the options for you:
mres.uni-potsdam.de/2025/10/15/o...
Elevated water table triggering an idealised 3D-printed rotational landslide. Complete with a Monopoly house on top.
A paper, presenting six different 3D-printable landslide models, has now been submitted for review. Once it is published, they will all be made freely available.
Get printing!
IT'S IN THE SYLLABUS!
Time for my annual story time!! The TL;DR is that the links below will take you to donation opportunities for schools and other charities across Alaska that will be open for the duration of the Iditarod (starts Sunday). So bookmark the post below if you don't want to lose it. 1/
And here I was complaining about a loud thunderstorm that interrupted a work meeting when this was going on to the southwest of us. This is an early start to tornado season. Time to make sure the emergency kits are ready.
This delivery driver throws treats to all the dogs on his route to see if they can catch. Spoiler alert: some of them definitely cannot. Still 13/10 for all (TT: jezzyvi)
Ouch.
Alaskan glaciers are retreating faster than ever, threatening ecosystems, communities, and ways of life. βοΈ
Join me and others for a webinar on glacier loss, tipping points, and cultural consequences in Alaska.
π Monday, March 23
β° 18:00β19:30 CET
π futureearth.confetti.events/glacier-loss...
Well, in more pleasant news, the Fish Doorbell is back... π§ͺ
Happy International Polar Bear Day!
View from a small fixed-wing plane. A gray-blue strip of the North Pacific ocean fills the bottom edge of the scene. A narrow strip of beach is cut in half by a river emptying into the ocean. Tree-covered moraine rises behind the beach. A lake sits behind the moraine on the left of the image with the edge of the Malaspina Glacier (with alternating bands of dark moraine and white ice) is visible just behind the lake. The front of the St. Elias Mountains sits in the distance. Most of the scene is cloudy, but sun is shining down on the snow and ice of the mountains.
A beach, with grass and trees on the left and mist-covered surf on the right, fills the lower half of the image. The beach is a mix of rocks and sand with some driftwood. A line of tracks stretches long the beach. In the background, the snow and ice covered St. Elias Mountains rise.
A beach with gray sand and rocks. Very fresh bear tracks, with foot pads and claws quite visible, runs down the middle of the dry sand. To the right of the fresh tracks there are additional tracks that are partially worn away. This appears to be a popular bear route.
A yellow survey tripod holds a white GNSS antenna. A large yellow Pelican case at the bottom holds a GNSS receiver. A white garbage bag next to the Pelican case holds a battery to power the station. Vegetation, some of which was prickly, surrounds the tripod. Trees fill the background behind the site.
Going through old field photos and found these from a trip to survey a benchmark near the Malaspina Glacier. When we landed on the beach, we discovered that an unwelcome field assistant had recently come through. The pilot kept watch while I set up the site. #FieldworkFriday #FieldPhotoFriday βοΈπ§ͺ
"I destroyed this thing last year and that lady put it back up. Humans sure are slow learners."
Coulomb 4.0 is available! This open source MATLAB-based software provides an interactive way for you to explore permanent (static) stress changes. For details about what you can do with this latest version, please visit Temblor's latest article.
temblor.net/earthquake-i...
If you fly into FBX and drive down the Richardson, you can see the Denali fault pipeline crossing, Alaska Range, Wrangells, Glacial Lake Atna deposits, Chugach Mtns, glaciers, and old town Valdez (damaged in and abandoned after 1964 eq). And maybe some caribou. Pretty decent bang for the buck.
That was fun! Thanks for having me. You have a great group of students who asked excellent questions.
NASA Earth Observatory Image of the Day today is NISAR images acquired before and after the magnitude 7 Hubbard Glacier Earthquake in Yukon near the border with Alaska. It shows the huge number of landslides and avalanches in the mountains triggered by the earhtquake science.nasa.gov/earth/earth-...
Text head says Geology vs. Geodesy. Below there are two pictures. One is a GNSS site with eyeballs and angry looking eyebrows pointing towards each other. The other is a hillside showing geologic strata, a fault, and some folds. Eyeballs are placed at the ends of the folds with angry eyebrows. A frown mirrors the geologic strata. The ultimate showdown is on.
Just made this graphic for a talk. Why, yes, I am tired. Why do you ask? βοΈ
This was likely the view from several of my GNSS stations right before they were wrecked (and/or shoved off a cliff).
I remember getting my box!
I'm very pleased to have publically archived what I think is an exceptional seismic data set. 5 months from 8 stations on the ablation area of the West Greenland ice sheet, NE of Ilulissat. Very good data quality and uptime spanning the entirety of the ablation season.
ds.iris.edu/gmap/#networ...
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A zoomed in look at 4 scientists working with the a lava fountain covering the entire background.
A very tall lava fountain with tiny dots (people) near the base. The image is a bit forced perspective and we are not as close as it looks
Someone captured my colleagues an I servicing the cameras during KΔ«laueaβs episode 42. We stopped to discuss what we were seeing, but because I talk with my hands it looks like Iβm fixing to push someone inβ¦
Credit: Volcano Hideaways
Comic. Bad Map Projection #216: Zero Declination. A cylindrical projection distorted so that up is *magnetic* north. Distorted map with red arrows around the edges pointing different directions.
Bad Map Projection: Zero Declination
xkcd.com/3207/
Deadline extended to March 1! No geodesy experience required. Just interest in learning more and some prior experience in programming and/or math (calculus level or beyond). βοΈπ§ͺ
I was going on the 10 days and figured the March was a typo. Feb. 25 is fine with me.
