Put that #AGU25 inspiration to work! Submit your abstract for the #EGU26 session Critical Zone Science Around the World: Innovations, Insights, and Collaborative Efforts. Spring in Vienna? Yes, please! 👩🏻‍💻: bit.ly/EGU26_abstra... 🌐🧪

A light blue graphic with white text advertising a presentation titled “accelerating critical zone science with an international network of networks“, for Wednesday afternoon, December 17.

At #AGU25 next week? I’ll present about the international #CZ-NoN project on Wednesday at 3:25 in session H33C-08. #criticalzone #hydrology #ecology #biogeoscience

A fun summary of a perspective piece I wrote just appeared in the Critical Zone News substack of the CZ-NoN project. #science #dust #soil #geology #earthscience

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YouTube Shhh. "Don't tell the other collectors," Dust^2 Cluster member Jeff Munroe says. Because out of all 20 instruments in the collector array in the southwestern U.S. this one, Dust 4, is Munroe's favorite. The reason why, and the difficulty of answering the question "where does the dust come from" in this stop along the Collectors Tour. More about determining the source of dust in "Isotope fingerprinting reveals western North American sources of modern dust in the Uinta Mountains, Utah, USA" published by Aeolian Research in 2019: https://bit.ly/3YOBQgI

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A year ago today I was well underway on my annual loop through the Intermountain West to empty the dust collectors I maintain for the DUST^2 project. In this video, I introduce DUST-4, my favorite collector of them all. #geology #criticalzone #science #utah #dust

Fall #foliage, #Nevada. #landscapephotography #drone #mountains

Having just returned from the spectacular Uintas, and with all respect to the Nebraska where I was born, I fully agree.

150 Years of Change: How Old Photos, Recaptured, Reveal a Shifting Climate In the heart of Utah’s Uinta Mountains, a team of scientists is re-creating historical pictures to study how much, and how quickly, ecosystems are changing.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/t.... A nice article in the New York Times today about a project I contributed to studying treeline change in the mountains of northern Utah using historical photos.

Mixing of natural and urban dust along the Wasatch Front of northern Utah, USA Scientific Reports - Mixing of natural and urban dust along the Wasatch Front of northern Utah, USA

Urban #dust in northern #utah, enriched with metals from human activities, mixes with natural dust from the desert before traveling to downwind #mountain watersheds, where it impacts #ecosystems and water quality. #criticalzone #geology #hydrology #openaccess

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Ashley Caves Project

If you will be in Vernal, Utah before the end of February, stop by the Uintah County Library to see photos by Thomas Holmes from our work on the Ashley Caves Project. Here’s a short video announcing the exhibit. #caves #caving #geology #utah https://youtu.be/Znwh8CUyExY?si=3XMez2nsSSqjxlal

A colorful block diagram showing layers of sediment and rock below the earth surface, with lines and connected nodes, representing the movement of matter, energy, and life through the critical zone.

Working on Critical Zone science and planning to attend the spring EGU meeting? Please consider submitting an abstract to “Critical Zone Science Around the World: Innovations, Insights, and Collaborative Efforts.” meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU25/sessio...

Loving the lake effect snowstorm off Lake Champlain this morning — a dagger pointed right at Middlebury!