Tyler Hodder

Silica sand is a hot topic right now in Manitoba too.

We talkin’ bout sand!!! Have to love the versatility of sand.

Here is some interglacial sand overlain by till deposited during the Wisconsinan advance, Churchill River, HBL.

Pandemic divide remains, six years after initial outbreak I’ll start this column by saying if you’re expecting a diatribe assailing convoys, ‘science deniers’ and “anti-vaxxxers,” you should head on over to the horoscope page and enjoy it.

I hate to even give this article a post, but it's here if interested.

www.winnipegsun.com/opinion/dr-t...

If we want to have civilized conversations, then we need portray facts accurately. There are a number of things wrong with the Wpg Sun article today re: the Pandemic. The worst one is using conclusions and stats from a clearly withdrawn article. Do better @winnipegsun.bsky.social.

Nothing better than collecting it and burning it off. I’ll be honest though never knew it was maple syrup day today!

Extending the western Hudson Bay Lowland Quaternary stratigraphy, in Manitoba Canada, to at least Marine Isotope Stage 10 Quaternary stratigraphy can improve our understanding of glacial dynamics prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. This study uses a hybrid lithostratigraphy–allostratigraphy approach to decipher the strati...

Our new paper is out, in proper format, in CJES today. It's a continuation of our stratigraphic framework development in the southwest HBL, together with Paleo environment data (UofT) and optical dating (UFV).

Till-dominated stratigraphy with some rare interglacial beds exposed throughout the region.

Extending the western Hudson Bay Lowland Quaternary stratigraphy, in Manitoba Canada, to at least Marine Isotope Stage 10 Quaternary stratigraphy can improve our understanding of glacial dynamics prior to the Last Glacial Maximum. This study uses a hybrid lithostratigraphy–allostratigraphy approach to decipher the strati...

An updated view of the important stratigraphic record in the Gillam area of the western Hudson Bay Lowland.

doi.org/10.1139/cjes...

I made a grave error and bought a ‘3D puzzle’ rated 4+ for the kids. This horrific creation is impossible. Each piece changes. Whole thing makes me dizzy but we are committed at this point.

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I enjoy finding these relatively old literature comments.

I was 4! What a ride.

Global mean sea level over the past 4.5 million years Changes in global mean sea level (GMSL) during the late Cenozoic remain uncertain. We use a reconstruction of changes in δ18O of seawater to reconstruct GMSL since 4.5 million years ago (Ma) that acco...

It definitely piqued my interest to see Clark et al's reconstruction of sea level for the past 4.5 million years, something I first heard about several years ago. However, upon reading it, I am very surprised that this was published. 🧵 1/11

doi.org/10.1126/scie...

Yes, we get a lot of “is this a meteorite?” inquiries at the survey.

Most often, the rocks are obviously not meteorites.

However today someone strolled in with this material. This is by far the densest material that I have ever held. It puts a typical VMS Ni-Cu ore to shame.

Anyone?

Congratulations to Mr. Mesich who successfully defended his MSc today at UWaterloo. It's been a pleasure serving as your co-supervisor with Dr. Ross.

*Quaternary stratigraphy of the Gods and Yakaw river areas, northeastern Manitoba*

There was also the large (1 m) holes where trees have completely burned downwards. Not to mention the hollowed out trees. Wildfires are something else.

This also surprised me quite a bit. Was observed all over the area to some degree. May need a ‘wildfire’ parameter on your Boreal cosmo ages! Hah

Sometimes you see the full scope of the chaos, then wonder what type of stories geologist made up when they could only see parts of said story.

July was the smokiest month on record in Winnipeg with 189 hours of smoke at the Airport. Temperatures were average, but it was much drier than normal.

It was also the driest January to July on record at the Airport with 126mm of precip. Normal is close to 300mm

The relentless 2025 fire season continues to put northern Manitoba communities under siege. Flin Flon, Lynn Lake and Island Lake earlier this summer. Snow Lake and Leaf Rapids right now.

It’s terrifying to think how bad this is going to get in a warming world. The Boreal is already feeling it.

It’s a ridiculous letter, I mean the irony is off the charts: “…this worrisome trend can be reversed if proper action is taken.”

They ain’t going to like the fire situation in northern MB right now.

It’s not just the number, the size of some of the bigger active fires doubled in size today under favourable south winds

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This should be unbelievable. But it doesn’t seem like much is these days.

I’ve been keeping an eye on the fire near the Ruttan Mine since we were supposed to be heading there next week. It’s grown considerably over the past week. This whole area has been detectable within the last 24hrs.

The fire situation in northwest Manitoba is nuts. Hard to comprehend the scale of these blazes. Every red dot is an active fire within the last 1-3 hrs.

Only going to get worse with a balmy 28C and gusts up to 40 km/h tomorrow with more lightning to follow.

Lynn Lake, Leaf Rapids evacuated.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Just imagine the Signal chat these days….

Alright. Need to start posting on this platform.

Here is a lovely Omar erratic from the HBL.

#Quaternary

These Utah Mammoth jerseys are pretty awesome.

I think I may need to run our beer league team so I can make some executive decisions moving forward.