Ryan Porter

[Arizona Daily Sun @azds]

Geologist Becky Beers waited two years for the 2021 monsoon. Her wait began in summer 2019 when the Museum Fire burned 1,961 acres of steep ponderosa forest above Flagstaff. That year, Beers was working alongside a team of scientists that… https://t.co/ppj2dLODRz

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Seismic recordings of debris in the Museum Fire burn area from last Friday.

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Happy Halloween and #tbt to when we climbed into these dark caves for science.

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@NASAGoddard @UofMaryland @NAU @NASA_Marshall @USGS “Volcanoes in Arizona?!”, you ask? Yes! Flagstaff is in the center of the San Francisco Volcanic Field, a cluster of 600 small volcanoes. The last eruption was ~1000 years ago and formed Sunset Crater. https://t.co/43PxoOs4nf. Here's a @NASA_Landsat image of the field.

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Today, we’ll be using a good old-fashioned hammer as a seismic source. It’ll make the ground ring and our seismometers will see it over 100 meters away!

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Hi Expeditions friends! We’re a group of geophysicists from around the USA here in Flagstaff, Arizona for the week to study the volcanoes of the region! We hail from
@NASAGoddard, @UofMaryland, @NAU, @NASA_Marshall, and @USGS.

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SP Crater Field Work https://t.co/H8IfJREhJj

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Mexico Earthquake https://t.co/x2MsPcZdRr

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North Korea Nuclear Test https://t.co/cNjGeIO2hM