Dr. Sparks ✨

This LEGO statue makes me feel like I'm in an old video game. It fits with the whole retro vibe of being at the AZ Mills mall I guess.

My cat-cus tattoo to commemorate my old boy kitty Spirit (RIP), a successful defense, and the whole family together in Arizona.

It's good! The conference ended yesterday, so I am taking the weekend to see some sights.

Lyric from "Cranes in the Sky" by Solange Knowles

Vienna, Austria. The view is to the northwest of the sun setting behind Nussberg and Leopoldsberg (vegetated hills) with several cranes (machines) in the middle ground, and trees and buildings in the foreground.

🎼🎶 Sometimes, I don't wanna feel those metal clouds 🎶🎵

Two weeks ago I lost my special little buddy. I miss him dearly but he's at peace now 🌈 ❤️

That's today's affirmation.

I will not underestimate the comforting potential of two chonky cats and some leftover birthday cake.

2 aerial photos of geologic features: upper is of the Cascade Volcanoes; lower is of the Canadian Rockies near Banff.

Need Earth Sci photos? Just uploaded 30+ aerial images to geologypics.com, all for free download. I shot them in 2023--mostly on flight from Munich to SFO to Eugene so they're wide-ranging. Please share to other instructors (or anyone for that matter)! #geology #EarthScience #photos

I led every route for the group this weekend out in Red Rock Canyon, except for this one. Exhausted and overexposed, I gave up and handed it over to my brother who bagged his first lead ever 🥹

Landscape of sun going down behind craggy peaks, clear blue sky, desert vegetation, and red rocks in the foreground.

The sun fell behind a distant range as I made it to the top of the last climb of the day 🌄

Something Worth Saving The author recounts a recent weekend trip to Prescott, Arizona, for rock climbing and camping. They volunteered with the Arizona Mountaineering Club to teach anchor safety. The piece discusses the SaveSullivans campaign, which seeks to protect Upper Sullivan's Canyon, highlighting its ecological and cultural significance, alongside its popularity for outdoor activities.

The #SaveSullivans campaign is a conservation effort in Arizona.

Donate here: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/30-0914323/save-sullivan-s-campaign

A female Pileated Woodpecker working hard to find some tasty ants.

Multicolored and jagged woody material extending radially from the center

Exposed giant sequoia root flare, Mariposa Grove, Yosemite National Park

So how small are the zircons that we date in the lab? Here's a Fish Canyon Tuff zircon on a $5 bill for comparison!

NASA has recently released updated websites for data!

Check out the new Science, Earth, and Planetary data sites!

#OpenScience #NASA #AGU24

science.data.nasa.gov

earthdata.nasa.gov

planetary.data.nasa.gov

This is Yuma. She's an amateur geologist. Brings home one carefully selected rock a day. For science. 13/10

Large black and white polydactyl cat cuddles a stuffed elf while resting on a stuffed brown chair's armrest

He has a new friend and they are inseparable.

#CatSky

Most things, really

Bearded Reedling Male staring me out at a very cold and drab Oare Marshes LNR today.
#UKwildlife #birds #ukbirding #ornithology #beardedreedling

A square collage of nine small squares with various nature-inspired textures and patterns, including leaves, bark, ferns, and other organic designs.

Some of the fabulous colours, textures and patterns I came across at Harcourt Arboretum when I visited there a couple of weeks ago, including tree bark, bracken ferns, leaves, fungi, and peacock plumage. #nature #photography #art

View from the summit of Pico Pequeno, a volcanic cone that sits on Pico Alto (with the volcanic crater seen in the mid-ground of the photo), the tallest *peak* in Portugal - on Pico Island - part of the Azores 🌋

Under Pressure Last month, I spent a few days in New England. There’s something extraordinary about Fall in a place with four seasons – shortly after I returned to central Arizona, it finally dropped …

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Climbing at the "Corndog Wall", Granite Gardens, Granite Dells, Prescott, AZ

When you wake up and your models set to run overnight all fail because the supercomputer goes offline, it's like losing your wallet (a recoverable inconvenience).

If those same models all finish overnight, it's like winning the lottery (more data than manageable at once).

What a roller coaster 😬

Introduce yourself with some jobs you have done apart from what you do now:

Lake cabin keeper-upper
Small child overseer
Diaper change assembly line manager
Kitschy "down-under" food exchange program leader
Defunct recorded film media slinger
Sandwich Artist (only actual job title)

Desert sunsets do not disappoint.

(from Stovepipe Wells Campground, Death Valley National Park)

I need help building up this earth and space science playlist!

What are your favorite geology-inspired (loosely defined) songs?