BC Earth & Environmental Sciences

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[BC Earth & Environmental Sciences @BCEarthScience]

Senator Ed Markey visited our department this week to show his support for the work we are conducting in collaboration with the @ArmyERDC to study the sustainability of our nation's coastlines and inland waterways in the face of climate change. Go Eagles!

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

I was honored to visit my Alma Mater, Boston College, to see the amazing work scientists are doing to study climate change and our coasts. Now, we must follow the warnings of their research and save our planet.

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

A BC study led by @BCEarthScience Professor Xingchen (Tony) Wang finds that heavy rains deliver the largest amounts of fertilizer-derived nitrogen pollution to the Gulf of Mexico.

Learn more in @physorg_com:
https://t.co/Ot6GI9OGTO

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Magnitude 3.8 earthquake today near York Harbor, Maine.
New @raspishake stations we recently installed in NH:
R7591: Canterbury, NH Public Library.
S6080: Near Laconia, NH – picture of me installing it with our undergrad and grad students in 2023.

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Urban Seismology: Magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Cuba recorded across NY City area.

USGS “Yellow Alert”: Some casualties and damage are possible😢impact should be localized.

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Great experience to be involved in this collaborative effort with great international team of co-authors led by scientists at “CSIR-North East Institute of Science & Technology" in Assam, India.

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Thank you @raspishake for this wonderful surprise gift that I just received!

[Kat Wilson, PhD @kwilson_coasts]

Less than 1 month left to apply!

🦅We are looking for a colleague in the "Solid Earth Geosciences" to join our @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. Please share!
Apply here: https://t.co/YHBNhksm4o

[BC Earth & Environmental Sciences @BCEarthScience]

@Weston_Quakes

[BC Earth & Environmental Sciences @BCEarthScience]

A Rockslide-Generated Tsunami in a Greenland Fjord Rang the Earth for 9 Days:
New study published in the journal Science, co-Authored by an international team
of 68 scientists, including EESC Prof. Alan Kafka. https://t.co/9ktvPrvVft

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Bedrock exposed to the sky after being covered for centuries by prehistoric ice reveals that tropical glaciers have shrunk to their smallest size in more than 11,700 years, @BCEarthScience's Jeremy Shakun and a research team report. https://t.co/K6XtNAWZ0J

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Paleoclimatologist & @BCEarthScience Professor Jeremy Shakun and an international team report that the world’s glaciers are melting far faster than predicted, as ice no longer covers Andean bedrock. https://t.co/K6XtNAWZ0J

[Ethan F. Baxter @EthanRockStory]

🦅FACULTY JOB POSTING!
Come join our growing and thriving @BCEarthScience faculty at @BostonCollege. We are seeking a "Solid Earth Geoscientist" (aka. petrology+) to complement our departmental strengths.

Questions? Ask me.

Please share!

Apply here:
https://t.co/jPz9K48s6T

[Ethan F. Baxter @EthanRockStory]

🧑‍🔬JOB OPENING @BostonCollege
Director, Center for Isotope Geochemistry: clean room, two TIMS, Laser-QQQ ICPMS, DeltaV, MAT253, and room to grow. Join a great group of scholars at @BCEarthScience and Boston area.

Questions, ask me.

Please share!

Apply: https://t.co/4zANKALmKi

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Boston College climate researchers lead the most comprehensive assessment to date of the potent greenhouse gas. https://t.co/Or4g6w6gM9

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Motivated by the recent magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey, I have written a new variation of my blog “Why Does the Earth Quake in New England?”

This one is called:
“Why Does the Earth Quake in New York City?” - Here's the link:
https://t.co/TT2569weSV

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Emissions of nitrous oxide - a greenhouse gas more potent than carbon dioxide or methane - continued unabated between 1980 and 2020, according to a new report led in the U.S. by BC climate scientists. https://t.co/Or4g6w6gM9

[Ethan F. Baxter @EthanRockStory]

🎉NEW EPISODE ALERT!

The final episode of Every Rock Has A Story - Season Four - premieres tonight at 7:30 EST. See @kmgoodenough take us to a real lithium deposit in Sweden. Thanks to @UnitedLithium for letting us see these amazing rocks

https://t.co/AjMA4M25Ol

[Boston College @BostonCollege]

Congratulations to @BCEarthScience Professor Ethan Baxter as his "Every Rock Has A Story" season four has been nominated for a @NewEnglandEmmy in the Children/Youth Category. This is the second year in a row @EthanRockStory's series have been nominated. https://t.co/P1WSfK9YWg

[Ethan F. Baxter @EthanRockStory]

Lepidolite from a pegmatite in Maine! A source of LITHIUM for our green energy future.

Stop 4 of the Earth Materials field trip ⁦@BCEarthScience⁩

[Ethan F. Baxter @EthanRockStory]

Stop 3 of our Earth Materials field trip - look of those giant feldspar crystals! ⁦@BCEarthScience⁩

[Alan Kafka @Weston_Quakes]

Magnitude 4.8 earthquake in New Jersey today, recorded by @raspishake seismograph in Brooklyn, NY.