What org is running this?

UWG student, Cam, whose capstone work I supervised, presented at our Scholars’ Day research symposium. He used borehole cuttings and geophysical logs to snoop around for a subsurface carbon capture system near Brunswick, GA. This isn’t my wheelhouse, so it was fun to learn about this system.
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Hey folks! If you happen to be building seminar/colloquia series and you want someone who can talk volcanoes and magmatic systems, ping me! I have highly technical stuff on zircon geochronology as well as high accessible stuff like how to figure out the most dangerous volcano on the planet.

Four hands hold small fossil shark teeth

Connor explaining upper Eocene depositional systems to a group of UWG students and alums.

Andrew and Tim standing in front of a pier at sunset.

IWG student standing beside a large uprooted cedar tree along a beach on south Jekyll island.

The final 1.5 days of our UWG alumni-student field trip involved walking modern beaches of Jekyll Island and checking out Eocene carbonate outcrops in the upper coastal plain. Ironically, our students have historically found 4x more shark teeth in the Eocene than at “Shark Tooth Beach” on Jekyll.

Jekyll Island things…

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Also scoped out some Pleistocene shoreline deposits and nice views of modern bars along the Altamaha River.

Day two: field lecture from Andrew Ivester on relict dunes at little Ocmulgee State Park. Next, a Carolina bay (not pictured, it’s hard to see from ground level). We walked the crest of the dune SE of the bay, where tortoise burrows and archaic period? artifacts abounded. ⚒️

Walls of a deep rock quarry exposing Paleozoic or Precambrian? granitic gneiss overlain by Cretaceous sediments.

Tim Chowns gesticulates toward the quarry outcrops below.

Group photo of UWG students, alums and faculty/staff wearing ppe.

Day one of our Alumni-Student field trip to the Georgia barrier islands kicked off with the best view of the coastal plain unconformity from the Ruby Quarry.
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Nice! 👍

Permian trackway South Kaibab Tr View this scan by @cmason in 3D on Scaniverse.

Hey Tony @ichnologist.bsky.social is this seemed like a conspicuous block, the white paint, displayed along the South Kaibab Trail, Coconino SS (I think). Reptile trackway?

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Potentially influencing my the decisions too.

Denison students examining rocks in the Grand Canyon.

Hey! We are hiring a 3 year visiting assistant professor in (broadly) geomorphology and GIS. Come join us in Earth & Environmental Sciences at Denison University! Get your application in before May 5. You can check out the details here: apply.interfolio.com/183740

Light colored Kaibab limestone in foreground, across the canyon are several cliff dwellings built into a recessed layer.

Small shallow pool of water reflecting reddish water carved rock

Small brown colored bird. A wren

People venturing upward at a canyon wall.

Walnut Canyon National Monument, one of my new favorite spots on the rim, and the West Fork of Oak Creek. Two special canyons, each with unique aspects in the ways you experience them.
Oh yeah, the birb is a canyon wren(?).
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Oh yeah! Congrats on the job here! That’s rad!
I’ll have to think/plan ahead next time we’re up here.

👋 we’re doing some tourist things around Flag now. Heading to Tucson in the morning. Where are you these days?

Oh yeah! dream fieldwork.

Bighorn sheep along South Kaibab Trail

Glimpse of the Colorado River from Skeleton Point, South Kaibab Trail

Geologic map showing part of the south rim Grand Canyon

Grand Canyon

We did a short but steep hike down ~2000 ft of the canyon today. It. Ruled.

Seeing the faulted Supergroup in contact with the inner gorge basement and then the overlying Tapeats is just too incredible.

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Permian aged red aeolian sandstones with continuous thin white colored beds. Somewhere near Teapot and Pointed Dome.

overhung promontory of light colored cross bedded Permian sandstone.

A view looking northeast of the mortise of The Teapot. Sedona.

A geologic map with shades yellows (Tertiary volcanic) and reds (Permian sedimentary units).

The hike today… did not disappoint 🙌

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Is that a bug on the windshield in center field of view?

The best

Yeah, working on those too.

That last bullet point.

Oh lord. Don’t say their name out loud.

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The outlier 60% “most” being the year after pandemic. Kinda understandable, but sentiment tracking toward most preferring walkable now.

This camera operator understood the assignment

Fossil shark and ray teeth of various kinds.

fragments of fossil bones and odd puckered looking things.

Fossil gastropods and odd bone fragments.

A dozen or so fossil fish, probably shark, vertebrae

Here’s the yield of our five hour fossil hunting trip on Morris Island SC. A dozen shark teeth, lots of shark vertebrae, some phosphatic bones and gastropods, and some fossils we’re calling cat b-holes, for lack of identification (second image). ⚒️

Did some beach combing today around Charleston SC. ⚒️🦈🦷

Here’s the blunt reality — reasonably-sized electric vehicles need to be the future of cars, but cars can’t be the future of urban mobility.

Fewer cars.
Less driving.
More inviting mobility choices.
Better communities and cities.

These are the 4 pillars of the REAL urban transportation solution.