Mt Edgecumbe (known as Lùx to the Tlingit) is home to perhaps the funniest volcano-related April Fools day joke in history.
A dude named Porky helicoptered 70 oil-soaked tires into the volcano’s crater, spray painted “April Fool” in the snow and then lit the pile ablaze.
www.sitka.com/porky/
The unelected official heading the White House's Office of Management and Budget, Russell Vought, continues to prevent Americans from discovering new insights on:
1) how earthquakes happen.
2) how mineral resources may be found and exploited.
3) how our planet works.
An open letter organized by US-based researchers working in Greenland opposes any takeover of the territory
go.nature.com/3YBbU7d
Happy Perihelion! ☀️
Today is a big day for our little planet: it makes its closest approach to the sun of the entire year! This point in the orbit is called #perihelion. Then, on July 6, it will be at its most distant point in its orbit, which is called aphelion.
👀 Extra motivation to work on my paper dating Pleistocene lava flows and sea level change at Mt Edgecumbe 🌋 🌊 ⚒️🧪
A new report by the prestigious US National Academy of Sciences concludes that the EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding was accurate, has stood the test of time, and is now reinforced by even stronger evidence:
IPCC projections in the mid-1990s of global sea-level change over the next 30 years were remarkably robust - important for confidence in future projections.
The largest disparities were due to underestimated dynamic mass loss of ice sheets
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...
The Stanford Cosmogenic Isotope Lab is hiring a new (permanent) Lab Manager. Please share and apply if you are qualified. phxc1b.rfer.us/STANFORDSD1UPF
if ice melts in the mountains and no one can see that it's gone, is it really gone?🧪
eos.org/opinions/gla...
A graph Joe Rogan has brought up on SIX separate episodes of his podcast to disprove climate change explicitly says the opposite of what he claims.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1bM...
Officials in Juneau area now saying a glacial outburst flood release has begun from Suicide Basin into the Mendenhall River. NWS is now forecasting a crest of 16.6' on the river, higher than last year's record flood in Juneau.
Looks like even bigger cuts to research grants. 75% cut in GEO and 71% in OPP
Rock Identification xkcd.com/3068
One of the best parts of my job: writing recommendation letters for my incredible students. It’s so fun to reflect on everything they’ve accomplished and help them take their next step. Also, WAY easier to hype them up than write anything even remotely similar about myself 😆
This isn't mine at all, but the Magic School Bus TV cartoon, which inspired untold millennials including myself, originated as an NSF grant 🧪
www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...
Starting my first #MisconceptionMonday with a common one in seismology: do small earthquakes relieve the pressure on faults? Are small quakes a good thing?
🧵. Long 🧵. But hopefully worth it.
I often see this comparison of glaciers on Svalbard posted without attribution. It’s from a whole series comparing photos taken by the Norwegian Polar Institute in 1928 and by Christian Åslund, a Stockholm-based photographer, in 2002. See the others here:
www.christian.se/global-warmi...
Gallery page of Dan Carto's gorgeous flowing river meanders. https://dancoecarto.com/4k-rivers
Spending my lunch break perusing Dan Coe's gorgeous Lidar data meander river reconstructions 😍
dancoecarto.com/4k-rivers ⚒️ 🐡
