I guess I’m not driving to Lexington, KY Friday morning

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4-panel comic. (1) PERSON 1: We haven’t checked in on the geology department for a while. I wonder if they’re doing okay. (2) PERSON 2 with ponytail: I’ll go see what they’re up to. (3) [Person 2 opens door to room where a person is gesturing at a projector screen and explaining to two other people] PERSON 3: 49 million years ago, Heart Mountain, Wyoming slid sideways 15 miles like a giant stone hovercraft. (4) PERSON 2 [returning to Person 1]: ...They’re not okay. OFF-PANEL PERSON: Hey, *you* come up with a better explanation!

Heart Mountain

xkcd.com/3162/

This didn’t age well.

CLaSH is seeking an Assistant Director to help lead an ambitious, interdisciplinary effort to transform the science of and advance community resilience for hazards like landslides and flooding. Apply by November 15th. See also csdms.colorado.edu/wiki/Jobs

What about if you’re in here…

How is ‘river’ defined here?

5 pt

The landslide dam has failed: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/5864...

Usually sometime in mid October

Ah, yes a rock from the Middle-Absurdian Period on Mars...

Multidisciplinary team secures $3.6M grant to investigate health risks from flooding A cross-disciplinary team of WashU researchers has received a five-year, $3.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to expand its work studying the human health effects of flooding in com...

🥳🥳🥳 Thrilled to be part of this new effort to connect flood hazards to health risks through community-engaged research linking hydrology, microbiology, anthropology and data science.

We’re seeking PhD students + postdocs eager to dive in to this convergent research!

Awesome! Congrats!!

Research on cascading natural disaster hazards helps communities plan ahead for weather threats As natural disasters increase in frequency and strength, so does a phenomenon known as cascading hazards. Brian Yanites studies these hazards in order to ...

In the news at IU: Dr. Brian Yanites (@geomorphyuggs.bsky.social) is a principal investigator in the new Center for Land Surface Hazards, sponsored by NSF. Press release and more details: news.iu.edu/live/news/46...

Big news today! Super excited to be a part of this new initiative. Lots to come, so stay tuned! And follow @clashgeohazards.bsky.social !!!

I'd love to get/use induction, but I'm one of the people who can hear the high-pitched tone when they're cooking. It makes my skin crawl (like my ultrasonic tanks in the lab).

When is the last time you've seen a faculty job ad for a Quaternary Geologist? Not that it's dead or irrelevant, but it's just doesn't resonate with most folks. We sent out a survey, but there's enough 'old guard' around (I speculate) such that, I think, 60% wanted to keep the name. (2/2

I struggle with GSA. Awesome organization that does great things for students, but I agree QGG is becoming less and less relevant while the geomorphology community is booming. I'm not sure why. When I was on the QGG panel, I really pushed for a name change. (1/2)

Will Struble Tectonic Geomorphology and Surface Processes at the University of Houston

Can forests damp earthquake waves and thus limit co-seismic landslides? What does this mean for Critical Zone development? Postdoctoral position with Will Struble and a multi-disciplinary team (including me🌲🌲🌊🌳🪾). Position is open until filled.

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I'm not sure that's all run up. The pre-imagery clearly shows an active/unstable slope. The run-up may have simply undercut that slope, expanding that unstable area:

It's been around for over a decade at least. @opentopography.org has a nice overview: opentopography.org/blog/new-pac...

That tsunamigenic landslide is impressive.

Can we now stop saying that once suspended sediment returns to pre-event levels, then the system response is over? Great paper here with relevance to cascading hazards and landscape evolution.

Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake  - Nature Bedload can dominate river sediment flux after a major earthquake for a prolonged time period.

Nature research paper: Large riverbed sediment flux sustained for a decade after an earthquake

go.nature.com/3UsaAS8

Mandatory evacuations downstream in anticipation of Podul arriving. news.ltn.com.tw/news/life/br...

Comic. Various Experts Answer the Question “Where do babies come from?” Geneticist: Recent admixture event, roughly 0.001 kya. Astronomer: Low-impulse ejection from a parent body. Software engineer: Off-by-one error in the population calculations. Geologist: The area was originally a uniform plane, but the non-baby parts eroded at higher rates. Meteorologist: Moist ground-level turbulent mixing.

Where Babies Come From

xkcd.com/3127/

The influence of wildfire on debris flows in a landscape of persistent disequilibrium: Columbia River Gorge, OR, USA Debris flow erosion in rocky catchments of northern Oregon (USA) is found to be relatively insensitive to fire conditions.

shamelessly made a bluesky account so I could plug my first first-author paper (!) on postfire erosion in steep rocky catchments -- go check her out!

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

They need to bring back random sports like caber tossing during the day. Enough talking crap.

Out Now: August Issue of #GSAToday!

Lead article: Multi-agency effort forecasts & mitigates postfire debris flows in Glenwood Canyon, CO—26 in 2021, 3 in 2023, no major injuries.

Plus: GSA Connects 2025 updates, GSA news & Wonders of Geology.

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