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.”
NSF is open again!
A few comments:
*Please be patient.
During a shutdown NSF employees cannot open computers or respond to emails.
*Merit review will continue. However panels won’t resume until after Dec 8th.
*POs remain excited and committed to advancing science and the scientific workforce.
I’m trying to work through these things on my own, hopefully keeping myself out of that queue!
A heartfelt thank you to all of you who submitted proposal reviews in the last several weeks.
Your service is greatly appreciated, and it relieves our re-entry work load.
If you have an outstanding review, now is a great time to submit your comments.
I auto-sort aggressively. I saw a count of about 250 before my computer rebooted. Now I can’t get back into my email.
Yay, now there’s another reboot scheduled for 8:03 am.
As an indicator of how things will go in the coming days, it took 3 tries to boot my computer, at which point my power went out.
Today many federal employees will get back to work for the first time since Sept 30. That’s 43 days of unread emails, missed obligations, and extraordinary stress.
If you need something from me, please be patient with as I work through my inbox and sort through shifted priorities/timelines.
![Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic7wdqg4w6qfevbqzzq4esd6237pojsnpwsrbb7gaxsxobqaiwazm)
Comic. Someone is claiming to predict the exact date of a future earthquake. Should you listen? [flowchart: start] → NO (There are big earthquakes constantly, so if anyone ever *does* figure this out, it will be immediately obvious that their method works and then the world’s seismologists will not shut up about it. You won’t need this flowchart.)
Earthquake Prediction Flowchart
xkcd.com/3165/
Need a break from teaching???
Why not have a class viewing of my Landscapes Live talk?
Topics are landscape evolution, weathering, landslides, reading signals in deposited sediment
youtu.be/kr-T-Xoxp_4?...
I’ve never been successful on Ohio’s site. I have to go into the DMV every single time.
GEO friends! Come hear the latest updates and ask your questions from Earth Science at NSF. You won’t see me in this webinar, but I’m still here.
These webinars have been a highlight of my summer. Come hear the latest in EAR next Monday.
When the ground starts shaking, don’t panic like a CEO caught on the kiss cam. 👀 Take protective actions your HR director would approve of: Drop, Cover & Hold On. Unlike ducking out of frame at Coldplay, these steps actually protect you from harm—whether it’s falling debris or falling reputations.
I think it’s mostly for the jurors.
US Earth Science people: Our June webinar felt so good, we’re making it a series. Join us next Tuesday 7/15 (and again in Aug & Sept) to hear from NSF staff and to get (most of?) your questions answered. www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
I’m here for it as long as I can start without checking email/Teams
NSF’s Division of Earth Science ran a bracket of disaster movies, and we can confirm this conclusion.
US Earth Scientists: We know you have questions, come get them answered directly from NSF/EAR POs! Tuesday, June 17, 2p Eastern. Register here: www.nsf.gov/events/nsf-d...
Rita Parai at the podium in front of a slide surveying oceans in the solar system.
Thanks to @ritaparai.bsky.social for a spectacular public lecture at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum. She makes a strong case for measuring noble gasses in the atmosphere of Venus.
Hello everyone interested in Mineralogy, Crystallography, Petrology: The Mineralogical Society of America is now on Bluesky! Our website: msaweb.org.
You got this! Please send me a zoom link if it will be hybrid
Apparently surface rupture during the Myanmar 2025. I'm very surprised by the weak shaking along the rupture. I'm not sure if this is the main rupture (I would say no - nonetheless, VERY COOL). Author unknown, location Thazi (to be confirmed)
A GNSS antenna mast consisting of three legs stretched out and one center pole and with a gray antenna radome sitting on top is installed on a green grassy area. Behind the mast is an array of three solar panels with a large tan plastic case that contains batteries, a GNSS receiver, and other electronics. A house and a trees fill the background. This permanent GNSS site was installed after the M7.1 Anchorage earthquake in 2018.
A while cylindrical antenna mast with a white GNSS antenna on top sits on a grassy ridge. In the distance, a yellow tripod holds another GNSS antenna. Ocean and mountains stretch off in the distance. This campaign GNSS site (yellow trip) and continuous GNSS site (white mast) were installed after the 2021 M8.2 Chignik earthquake offshore the Alaska Peninsula.
For #FieldworkFriday, I want to highlight the critical role of NSF’s RAPID funding mechanism. RAPID grants have allowed me to quickly get equipment out in the field and recording irreplaceable data after M7.1 (in 2018) and M8.2 (in 2021) earthquakes along the Alaska subduction zone. 1/3
**BIG NEWS in the geology world!** For the first time, scientists spotted an active eruption along the mid-ocean ridge!!
They visited the hydrothermal vent the day before, where a vibrant ecosystem thrived in the sweltering water. The next day, everything was gone. ⚒️🧪
My latest for @nytimes.com
I’m so sorry to see this.
“Brain, what are we going to do tonight?”
“The same thing we do every night. Change a flat tire.”
Not like anything else happened today, right?
View from inside a city bus, showing the bike riding in style on the front.
I’m such a public transit nerd. I’m almost giddy that I get to sample a new bus system (Fairfax County) when a great bus driver rescued me and my bike with a flat tire.
Anchor Bolts xkcd.com/3078
To better understand mantle magma supplies deep beneath volcanoes, scientists must catalyze research progress to address grand challenges, write @magmatist.bsky.social, @compucian.bsky.social, + colleagues from @whoi.edu and @carnegiescience.bsky.social. cc @sz4d.bsky.social
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