Melisa Diaz

Assist Prof @OhioState @ByrdPolar | Formally @CUBoulder @WHOI | Geochemist, cat enthusiast, amateur juggler, climber of rocks, mediocre soccer player 🇵🇷🇩🇴

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

New paper alert! 🚨
“Change at 85 degrees south: Shackleton Glacier region proglacial lakes from 1960 to 2020”

https://t.co/EEchZUMTE9

[CIFAR @CIFAR_News]

➕ Peter Crockford (@Earth2Pete), Melisa Diaz (@EarthMAD) and Oliver Warr (@geollygist) will join the Earth 4D: Subsurface Science & Exploration program.

https://t.co/tOaySmaFKK

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

This absolutely DOES NOT reflect the sentiments of most faculty at OSU. Shameful.

[Ohio State @OhioState]

Congratulations to Vice President-elect JD Vance, an alumnus of The Ohio State University and native Ohioan.

[McMurdo LTER @MCM_LTER]

Diana Wall's commitment to the next generation continues through a generous gift 🐛

https://t.co/OB2oH2Sp0n

#nematodes #ecology

[Jason K. Wallace, Ph.D. @DrJKWallace]

Usually I don’t talk about stuff like this because frankly it happens way too often. But not today…

As I pulled into the same faculty parking lot that I park in all the time @msstate, a white woman was coming out of my office building. Her car was parked next to the space I pulled into.

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

Lots of cool science from @MCM_LTER this week!
@USLTER

[McMurdo LTER @MCM_LTER]

Are you at #SCAR2024 (@SCAR_Tweets )?

Check out our teams’ presentations this week!

[McMurdo LTER @MCM_LTER]

Congratulations to one of our newest co-PIs, Hilary Dugan @hildug, for winning the @aslo_org 2024 Yentsch-Schindler Award!

Celebrate Dr. Dugan at the ASLO summer meeting in Madison this week!

https://t.co/llshyLUGdN

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

@DennyMondragon @osuearthscience @UWAtmosSci I’m super happy for her!!

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

Proud advisor moment 🥹

My two advisees are going to grad school!

@DennyMondragon was accepted for a PhD with me @osuearthscience, with a university fellowship!

And Sofia Vakhutinsky will start a MS @UWAtmosSci, continuing a legacy of success through #AGUBridgeProgram!

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

We're still accepting applications for this position!

Please share broadly with your networks and reach out with any questions :)

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

🚨New postdoc position in my lab!!

Part of a new #NASA IDS project with @Alienoceans, @CapComCatWalk and Chris German, we're hiring a postdoc for research at the ice-ocean interface.

Help spread the word!
@Ocean_Worlds @NowFlow @ArcticResearch @arctic

https://t.co/qQEi2srffI

[swm @sheathescholar]

Ohio State student protesters are being arrested for “criminal trespassing” on our South Oval, a public outdoor space we use every day for gathering, studying, playing, and relaxing.

#OhioState

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

🚨New postdoc position in my lab!!

Part of a new #NASA IDS project with @Alienoceans, @CapComCatWalk and Chris German, we're hiring a postdoc for research at the ice-ocean interface.

Help spread the word!
@Ocean_Worlds @NowFlow @ArcticResearch @arctic

https://t.co/qQEi2srffI

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

It takes more time, but I mark-up all HWs/exams, quickly review the marking for consistency, then go through and assign grades once I get a feel for how the class did on each question.

Helps me get rid of fatigue bias in grading.

Curious what others do!

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Students with last names later in the alphabet receive lower grades than those in the beginning.

Teachers give higher grades when they start and lower when they are tired of grading.

Teachers that grade Z-A give higher grades to late last names.

Delta is 0.6/100

[Johns Hopkins APL @JHUAPL]

Confirmed: Dragonfly is a GO! 🚁 🪐

@NASA’s #DragonflyMission to Saturn’s moon Titan has been confirmed, enabling the ocean world mission to progress through its final design to construction, testing and launch in 2028. https://t.co/iVvawS0XDS

@NASASolarSystem @NASAAstrobio

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

Woohoo! Denise is my first graduate student and I’m so proud of her for this amazing accomplishment!!

[Denise Mondragon (she/her) @DennyMondragon]

Successfully defended my master’s thesis today! 🇦🇶

[Denise Mondragon (she/her) @DennyMondragon]

Successfully defended my master’s thesis today! 🇦🇶

[WIRED @WIRED]

Jane Willenbring was the first to blow the whistle on sexual harassment and assault in Antarctica. Years later, women are still coming forward with tales of horror as a government investigation unfolds. https://t.co/VMqHmW9Gry

[McMurdo LTER @MCM_LTER]

Dr. Diana Wall, famed ecologist and Tyler Prize recipient, began working in the Dry Valleys in the late 1980s and was a co-PI of the project from 1993 to 2016. She touched the lives of many generations of students, postdocs, and scientists in MCM LTER. She is sorely missed.

[ARCUS @ArcticResearch]

We are pleased to announce the release of the ARCUS Annual Report for 2023. Get to know the researchers who make up the ARCUS community and discover the range of activities that have defined our collective efforts over the past year. Read it at https://t.co/SQlC9KDvvX

[Melisa Diaz @EarthMAD]

Extended until March 15!

[AGU (American Geophysical Union) @theAGU]

🌍 Calling AGU members: your voice matters in shaping scientific culture – inside the lab and out in the field. Take our survey to help us identify ways to make field environments more inclusive and supportive for everyone involved.

https://t.co/hx9gFbcwbe

[US-SCAR @USSCAR_tweets]

❄️👀US-SCAR is planning to host a series of online public workshops with NSF Antarctic Sciences and would like feedback from the US Antarctic Community on topics of interest.
🗓️Please respond by March 20, 2024.
➡️https://t.co/U4BYFgSAaN