Hotter than a hot tub!?
In this new paper we use clumped isotopes + detailed facies analysis to figure out what are original, toasty Cretaceous temperatures 🌞 vs. diagenesis 💥.
https://t.co/d1jYJeczOa
That’s a wrap on Newark Canyon Fm fieldwork w/ @annefetrow. Learned a ton about life and climate in Cretaceous mountains… central Nevada rocks! Pics to prove it, plus a lovely orange stromatolite for #FossilFriday@UMichPaleo@MichiganEarth
Exploring rocks and fossils in the hinterland of the Cretaceous North American Cordillera w/ @annefetrow. Newark Canyon Fm, Nevada. @UMichPaleo@MichiganEarth
Wrapping up another great week of water sampling out at Mono Lake!
Lots of snow up in the high Sierras after a cool spring means slow and steady run off into the lake.
Water samples? ✅
Evaporation pan set up for the season? ✅
Beautiful views? ✅
#longlivemonolake
Check out this timelapse video to see Mono Lake’s summer rise before your eyes. Mono Lake’s current level is 6383.2 feet above sea level, which is an astounding 4.7 feet higher than its December 2022 low point.
https://t.co/D5eyrr8CmC
We are so appreciative of being able to collaborate with the @Mono_Lake for this project and I am so excited to continue this work over the next few years!! #MonoLake#MonoBasin#waterisotopes
Proud advisor moment! Maddy did a great job presenting a poster on her senior thesis research today at the @BatesCollege Mt David Summit! Her project explores how we can use stable isotope and major cation geochemistry to identify evaporative hotspots in Mono Basin.
Really thought-provoking thread!! In my UG Enviro Policy and Decision Making minor, we were taught to use “stakeholder” as a blanket term to describe anyone with any connection to an environmental place/issue/policy. This makes me rethink the harm that language can do.
A fantastic guest lecture yesterday facilitated by @LinaPerezAngel where students in my @BatesCollege Paleoclimates class explored how El Niño has a heterogenous climate effect around the globe and how we can use proxies to look at ENSO in the past 🌦️🌬️🌊🌍 So fun and hands-on!
This research and ShortWave episode is so awesome!! Carbonates?✅ Chemical Weathering? ✅ Implications for infrastructure resiliency and sustainability? ✅ Really excited to use this in teaching!
I had a chance to chat with the good folks of @NPR about Roman concrete. It ends up that this material made long ago had a secret ingredient, which gave it a super power. This ancient concrete stopped itself from cracking. @NPRShortWave
https://t.co/e4iTURohlG
Are you talking about anti-racism in your workplace? Do you have a DEI committee working together on developing policies?
Give this a read to hear what Geoscientists of Color and existing theories of collaboration have to say about doing that well!
https://t.co/t7V6lpX9W1
INSANE conditions on Mt Washington, NH. 120mph+ winds and -95°F wind chill. It is above the tropopause, meaning that these are stratospheric winds.
Footage from the summit live stream 2:30-2:40pm. #nhwx
@glacier_glasses@BatesCollege These students are rock stars! We did get chased off the ice this weekend bc of subzero temps though… hard conditions for lake coring and water sampling
Last week’s Enviro. Geochemistry field trip braving the ME winter and wading into the deep end of real-world environmental sampling to assess the impact of road salt contamination on a local watershed! 11” of fresh snow and a few inches of ice can’t stop @BatesCollege EACS!
Last day of our @BatesCollege Stable Isotope Geochemistry class -- some collaborative (and only a little competitive) mega block diagram synthesizing! 🌄🌦️🌾Feeling very lucky to have had such a wonderful group of students this semester! #funwithisotopes#isodope