Alexa Terrazas

🧚🏼‍♀️✨ 🌎 paleoclimatology PhD student @ucla into lakes, Plio-Pleistocene hydroclimate, & isotopes fellow @nsfgrfp & @cdls_ucla︱🇲🇽 - 🇺🇸 she/her

[Alexa Terrazas @paleoclimaterra]

ran my first ever samples for clumped isotopes yesterday, woohoo!! 👩🏽‍🔬 kinda feels like a big grad school moment so had to document it #1styear #pliocene #lakes #paleoclimate

[Dave Toussaint @engineco16]

#PalisadesFire 100's of homes lost, each one of these blocks hold 30+ homes.

[Science Magazine @ScienceMagazine]

Estimating past global temperature is important for understanding the history of life on Earth and for predicting future climate.

Now in Science, a new reconstruction of Earth’s temperature history over the past 485 million years—based on a method that combines diverse physical proxy data with climate model predictions—reveals a much wider range of climate variability across the Phanerozoic eon than previously understood. https://t.co/LBqF16RejK

[Sarah Feakins @SFeakins]

Small earthquakes wake you up, but this one shook the coffee out of my cup at breakfast... Geology problems.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Sobering satellite imagery of the wildfire outbreak rapidly escalating across Southern California.

This is getting bad.

[Lulu Duxbury @lulu_duxbury]

Translating palaeoscience into real change through policy - something that has been on my mind for a while. An absolute pleasure to involved in this project - thanks @PhilippaHiggin5!

https://t.co/A9fBCp09Ds @JMIPublicPolicy

[Peter Cox @coxypm]

Absolutely everything in these statements from @DonaldTrump is false, so it's difficult to know where to start, but let me try:
1. Scientists *did not* think the world was going to cool in the 1920s - first predictions of global warming were actually in the late 1800s. (1/3).

[Gordon Inglis @climategordon]

New paper led by Dan Lunt (@ClimateSamwell) in @CommsEarth that highlights the benefits of using the paleoclimate record in the model development and evaluation cycle, in particular for screening models with too-high or too-low climate sensitivity.(https://t.co/NkPKprUhdE)

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Palm Springs, California just hit a searing 124°F (51.1°C), a new all-time record for the city.

This is a historic heatwave for California.

[Sammy Roth @Sammy_Roth]

Add this to the "yikes" department: Increasingly extreme temperatures are making it harder for helicopters to rescue people on scorching days in national parks, because the air is too thin for the copters to take off: https://t.co/rxesHawCpe via @thatsMohrlikeit

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Mexico just hit a searing 52°C (125.6°F), tying the highest temperature ever recorded in Mexico.

The unprecedented run of heat in 2024 continues in Mexico.

[Colin McCarthy @US_Stormwatch]

Unbelievable satellite imagery of a massive dust storm (haboob) roaring across New Mexico and northern Mexico.

This dust storm, generated by severe thunderstorms, is over 200 miles in length!

[bear bear @robertnulrich]

I know I'm not active on here anymore, but I'm popping back to share that I've walked for graduation. :)

Ph.D. defense coming later this summer!

[Climate of the Past @EGU_CP]

New research article: Aerosol uncertainties in tropical precipitation changes for the mid-Pliocene warm period https://t.co/iPzI7lE5tH

[Climate of the Past @EGU_CP]

New research article: The role of atmospheric CO2 in controlling sea surface temperature change during the Pliocene https://t.co/jvqjxAE7li

[Dr. Joan Dudney @dudney_joan]

"Fixing" #climatechange by bulldozing sensitive species in #aridlands is NOT a #climatesolution! That's supplanting one crisis with another—biodiversity loss. We must do better!

[geosociety @geosociety]

The May issue of #GSAToday is now available! Explore the intersection of seismology & pop culture in ‘Beast Quake (Taylor’s Version): Analysis of Seismic Signals Recorded during Two Taylor Swift Concerts in Seattle, July 2023’ by Jacqueline Caplan-Auerbach et al.

Learn about the innovative upcycling of mining waste in ‘Facilitating the Critical Mineral Future: Valorization of Kaolin Mining Waste through Partnerships’ by Paul A. Schroeder et al.

Discover helpful tips about maintaining mental health during finals & much more in the May issue of GSA Today! You can read the full issue here: https://t.co/Kjb3bSV7kW

#TaylorSwift #Seismology #MentalHealth #CriticalMinerals #Geoscience #Geology #EarthScience #GeologyRocks

[People's City Council - Los Angeles @PplsCityCouncil]

Over a thousand students out today at @USC to protest the school’s decision to not allow valedictorian Asna Tabassum to make a graduation speech.

The students will not be quiet.
LET ASNA SPEAK!

[Kyle Armour @karmour_uw]

I'm excited to share a new paper in @ScienceAdvances led by UW's @VTCoop showing that the last ice age provides much stronger constraints on Earth's climate sensitivity and future warming when ice-sheet driven temperature patterns are accounted for. https://t.co/Wr1yPiRgsT

[Curiosity @MAstronomers]

Dust storm on Mars! Image from orbit taken by China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft.

[Climate of the Past @EGU_CP]

New research article: CO2-driven and orbitally driven oxygen isotope variability in the Early Eocene https://t.co/WMEaUtFfo6