This video shows how seismic waves from the M7.4 earthquake in Japan were detected across North America and Europe.
These ground motion visualizations are created by the @earthscope.org
Based on the student responses to end of month check in reflections I assign (points for completion), the students freely admitting to using AI as a tool to help them study are getting the least out of it. So far it’s been a tar pit for the most vulnerable students.
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Wanna move to Utah? Love being out in the field? The Utah Geological Survey his hiring a Project Geologist for a position focused on work mineral resource projects in Utah!
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Please apply if you're interested! Unfortunately only US citizens or legal residents
Canvas access is down with a multi factor authentication error.Wonder if it’s just our system or larger. Will be a mess for many of it’s not just a weekend maintenance issue. This sort of thing is why I am not all in on cloud stuff. #education
I’ve got this in the alt text, but I’m no paleosol expert so I am not sure if the clay smoothing is from ancient shrink swell, recent shrink swell (there’s plenty of popcorn weathering) or the tectonic uplift that tilted these rocks to a 55-60 degree dip. Or maybe all of the above.
Grey mud with shiny surfaces from the rock sliding around past itself, either from tectonic uplift or soil forming shrink swell processes over 200 million years ago.
Grey mud with shiny surfaces from the rock sliding around past itself, either from tectonic uplift or soil forming shrink swell processes over 200 million years ago. This one has white reduction spots, possibly associated with modern rootlets, but potentially ancient.
Fieldwork Friday…student is working on a Chinle stratigraphy project. We dug up some mudstones with slickenlines, thought I’d share.
Most educators work with/studied under plenty of faculty who didn’t consider workload or explain value and intent of the designed work the way the OP thoughtfully does. I hope your frustration feels recognized and you also have new perspective, something current AI isn’t designed to help discover.
Many students don’t realize going into college that the academic side of a 4-5 year degree is structured as a full time job with lots of variance for student abilities (30-50 hrs/wk). That’s a systemic issue to be considered from
multiple perspectives, especially given financial stress on students.
Everyone here probably agrees with you on those points at some level but the comments above show that good science educators are not fans of hyperbole (only 168 hours in a week!), something small classes with discussions would cover if education was properly funded and good teaching was rewarded.
And that’s with good insurance and a decent amount of free time to deal with bullshit.
May health care executives and the purchased government toadies who prevent this from changing be chased by St Luigi through their dreams until the end of time.
I got four different bills from three organizations for a colonoscopy, and they showed up separately over two months time. Only one of them was even partially “itemized”. That’s after hours on the phone before the procedure to even get a vague estimate of what was covered by insurance. Super fun!
RE alumni donations and corporate sponsorships, I’m skeptical that any of the athletics gifts do anything except fund more athletics. So money is coming in but very little of it does anything for the academic mission and it often parasitizes it. mindingthecampus.org/2026/01/26/c...
This is also because all might light weight pants are in the laundry basket and my other options are double front Carhartts or dress slacks.
It’s Friday and it might hit mid 80s F at 6000 ft elevation today. I’m going to wear shorts to work.
Juniper was my top suspect this week.
I definitely wouldn’t rule out a cold, as i’ve had a couple bouts of respiratory illnesses this spring and students have been even sicker all semester. This one does feel like allergies, though, with sneezing and itchy eyes.
Looks like loaded tankers sit 12-20 m deep in terms of draft:
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And they’re a lot taller than that, so if one were to sink in 75 m of water…
Been wondering about the bathymetry of the gulf that’s in the news. Apparently it plays an important role in recent goings on with various narrow waterways. It is, geologically speaking, very shallow.
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Not enjoying my sinuses at capacity due to spring snot runoff from distressingly early seasonal allergies. Pollen counts are purportedly low and the AQI ok, but the valley is dusty AF today (not windy) and, well, all the sneezing.
Yeah, I think it’s 10-15 minutes or so before west of Caliente
Sign for Oak Spring trilobite dig site (free) near Caliente, NV
Close up of trilobite sign with information on six species found there
Took a longish way home and noticed this spot. Only been through here once before and didn’t know about it.
Mountain ridge at sunset, with sun shining just over the edge of a peak
Yellow dog on top of rocks looking out over a valley.
Yellow dog looking at some rocks
We were going to hit the Kelso dunes and lava fields today, then head to Death Valley. But after we check out from the vet in Vegas might just head home and try again some other time. Plenty of fun to be had over spring break back at home.
Yellow dog on a hill top at sunset, head cocked sideways
Yellow dog with a puffy muzzle at a vets office.
Well, Mojave Ntl Preserve is beautiful but now we’re in Vegas because the dog woke up in the middle of the night with super puffy lips and an obvious allergic reaction to something. Not sure what. Swelling was down with just one Benadryl by the time we got to the vet, but now she’s on the good stuff
Pulled this snail fossil out of the pea gravel in my backyard today. Looks like some of the relatively common Cretaceous snails around here. ⚒️ #geology #fossil
Unbolivarlievable
I have said this before, but eliminating programs that teach a lot of students but don’t have many majors is like a restaurant not buying flour in its grocery delivery because people aren’t ordering flour on the menu.
The target wasn’t gypsum rich, but the immediately overlying and heavily deformed beds definitely are (there’s a whole gypsum mine down the road). The other overlying beds are shale, mudstone, and heavily fractured sandstones with carbonate cements.
That fault zone described in this article is geologically awesome, though. Great site for field trips. Not great for a well, unfortunately. Lots of uncertainly on the depth of the targeted strata…which is accessible way closer to the surface elsewhere, but with different property ownership.
Seems like “unattractive and economically challenging” is as damning (hecking?) a headline as you can get about local government in rural (until recently) Utah.
