Did you enjoy Imbri-YUM?
Did you hear the Orien-TALE?
Did you get Hertz-SPRUNG?
me too, because,
I LIKE BIG BASINS AND I CANNOT LIE

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CSDMS Data Components: data–model integration tools for Earth surface processes modeling Abstract. Progress in better understanding and modeling Earth surface systems requires an ongoing integration of data and numerical models. Advances are currently hampered by technical barriers that i...

I'd like to do a series of posts this week to highlight CSDMS Data Components.

Data Components are software that help connect data sources to numerical models. For more information on the idea behind Data Components and their implementation, see Gan et al. 2024: doi.org/10.5194/gmd-....

A rock with ripple marks

50-60 million year old wave ripples in sandstone with a filled tube worm burrow. Found near Carmel, California.

flic.kr/p/2s2oGfP

Gorgeous thin section images of inversely graded grain flows in the Navajo Sandstone, by Jim Elder ⚒️🧪 smallpond.ca/jim/sand/sam...

LASSIE: Análisis Autónomo de Superficies en Entornos Analógicos utilizando Perros Robots -- YouTube video by USCViterbi

Emocionada de poder compartir mis investigaciones cientificas con el projecto de NASA "LASSIE" en español!! WEPPPPAA! 🇵🇷🐕

youtube.com/watch?v=E022WWbCEJY&feature=youtu.be

In English here: youtu.be/1TZmVkF7X10

LASSIE: Análisis Autónomo de Superficies en Entornos Analógicos utilizando Perros Robots -- YouTube video by USCViterbi

Emocionada de poder compartir mis investigaciones cientificas con el projecto de NASA "LASSIE" en español!! WEPPPPAA! 🇵🇷🐕

youtube.com/watch?v=E022WWbCEJY&feature=youtu.be

In English here: youtu.be/1TZmVkF7X10

2027 IPAC Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship IPAC at Caltech partners with NASA, NSF, JPL and the world-wide research community to advance exploration of our Universe.

Big news drop on a Friday afternoon. 😅

@caltechipac.bsky.social 2027 Visiting Graduate Student Research Fellowship applications are open! The VGSRF is a 6-month predoc at Caltech working with IPAC scientists.

www.ipac.caltech.edu/page/graduat...

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I will celebrate when schools re-open all the offices, programs, scholarships, and groups they closed.

Have the best research group. One of the PhD students made a Puerto Rican theme tres leches cake for my birthday last week 🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷 WEPA!!!!

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Me holding a copy of my first popular science book, Time’s Second Arrow, coauthored with Robert M. Hazen

Time’s Second Arrow hits bookshelves in just under a month! Preorder your copy today 👉🏼 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Five years after the collapse of the Arecibo Telescope, a radio telescope is back online. The signal is back. 😀 #AreciboWow phl.upr.edu/wow/outreach #RadioAstronomy #Outreach

A graph of total number of submitted abstracts by year for the past six years inclusive.

For those of you what like graphs, here's a plot of total (absolute) numbers of abstracts versus year since 2021 to now. (There was no LPSC in 2020 on account of COVID-19, and I can't be bothered to go back to 2019 or beyond because it's late and I'm tired.)

LPI will not support the community by bending the knee.

I submitted an abstract to LPSC 2026.

I wanted to see how many abstracts were submitted this year. Mine went in at 11:58 pm Central, so is among the last to go in. It will be rejected, but for the student rate ($35) it was worth the experiment.

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PSCW 2026

Planetary friends!

Don't want to go to Houston in March, or support an institute that's bending the knee?

Then join us for the very first Planetary Science Community Workshop in Louisville, KY on April 14–16, 2026.

It's our community. Fight for it!

Details at the link:

planetaryworkshop.org

Life on lava: How microbes colonize new habitats Taking advantage of a "natural laboratory" in Iceland, a research team from the University of Arizona studied how microbes colonize fresh lava flows as soon as they cooled.

Life on lava: How microbes colonize new habitats

news.arizona.edu/news/life-la...

Lithified gravel overlying tilted layers of dolomite

A relatively more matrix supported breccia than it is typical for Mosaic Canyon.

Small rectangular pocket filled with lithified gravel

Apparent imbrication of angular cobbles in Mosaic Canyon debris flow deposits. Upstream is to the left

Mosaic Canyon debris flow deposits (sedimentary breccia). ⚒️

🚨 SAVE THE DATE 🚨

We're putting together a Planetary Science Community Meeting at the Kentucky Science Center in Louisville, KY on April 14–16 2026.

This is a grass-roots meeting for planetary scientists to gather, discuss, and organize to address pressing issues our community faces.

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Two intrepid field geologists walking towards a cracked road with two massive lava fountains going off in the distance.

Are you at #AGU25 and are interested in learning more about out the similarities and differences of the recent eruptions in Hawai‘i?

Stop by the posters of our @uhhilogeology.bsky.social undergrads, Lichen and Raymond, tomorrow morning and my talk tomorrow (Tuesday) at 4:45 PM in room 352.

Picture of 7 students standing in front of poster 2294 in the AGU poster hall. The poster title is readable and says Development & Optimization of the Venus Oxygen Fugacity Sensor

Hey AGU folks! I’m not at AGU but we’ve got a gaggle of undergrads (they call themselves the vfoxen)presenting the work they did this past summer and fall on VfOx- the oxygen fugacity sensor they are building to send to Venus on DAVINCI. Go check out their poster!

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Space artists: don’t forget to submit your work to The Art of Planetary Science exhibition by December 31st! The event is held in Tucson. Anyone can submit—all levels & types of human-made art. I’ll be submitting and attending again. 🐡🔭🧪

More details here: lpl.arizona.edu/art

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You: building your #AGU25 schedule
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Me: providing you a GIF-ed list of #AGU25 talks from GT Cryo group members and friends for you to add to your schedule 🧵

First PhD hooding today! Congrats to Dr. Emmy Hughes 🎉🎉🎉 @spacelover20.bsky.social

First PhD hooding today! Congrats to Dr. Emmy Hughes 🎉🎉🎉 @spacelover20.bsky.social

Seasonally Dependent Formation of Sulfates in the Basque Lakes, British Columbia, as Analogous to “Cold and Wet” and “Warm and Wet” Mars The Basque Lakes in British Columbia, Canada, are an analog for both “cold and wet” and “warm and wet” Mg-sulfate lakes on Mars Mineralogy varies based on season with hydrated sulfates forming in...

Early holiday treat 🎁 New paper led by PLANETAS member Emmy Hughes @spacelover20.bsky.social on salt seasonality in hypersaline lakes in Canada showing how cold forming Na sulfates could be climate indicators if found in martian paleolake sediments! ❄️

agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/...

New listings incoming shortly. ICYMI, stuff I listed last week at elakdawalla.etsy.com

Boiling Mud and Frozen Flows: How Mars’ Atmosphere Shapes Its Sedimentary Landscapes

Boiling mud & Frozen Flows! Write up from GT on our new paper: cos.gatech.edu/news/boiling...

Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s43...