Dr. Kim Hannula

Summary of what the PhD student will do. QR code in bottom LHS. Project part of our Leverhulme Trust funded project volcanic histories and the student will examine the cultural markers and response to to volcanic activity across the Eastern Caribbean. Understand local ways of knowing and remembering volcanic activity. Integrate scientific. And community knowledge for DRR - joining an interdisciplinary team from several universities.

We’re advertising a PhD studentship for folks with good knowledge of Caribbean culture and society, with background in geography, human geography, humanities or interdisciplinary geosciences as part of our @leverhulme.ac.uk funded ‘volcanic histories’ project

You do not need to register for GSA to attend this workshop virtually - please check it out!

At the 2019 reunion presentation about the geothermal heat pump, the presenter mentioned something about the geo department getting excited and wanting to collect data. I love that the data became senior theses and then advice for other colleges.

Long-Term Monitoring of a Campus-
Scale Geothermal Heat Pump System
Using Distributed Temperature Sensing

(Fun to see the Bald Spot @carleton.edu on the cover of GSA Today! This is the best kind of news to get about one's alma mater.)

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Storm clouds loom over high mountains sprinkled with snow. Orange, yellow, and green trees fills the landscape beneath the mountains.

A storm and fall colors in Colorado — a CIRES scientist snapped this photo of the San Juan mountains from Last Dollar Road near Telluride. #PhotoFriday

📸: Christina Kumler @purpal9.bsky.social / CIRES

It's going to take me extra reviewing time to make sure there isn't AI-generated garbage. Right now, I will have more trust for papers in slower-to-publish journals.

Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...

Published today: our new paper showing a 44-year trend of increasing global wildfire disasters (fatalities and economic losses) due to climate change-induced extreme weather. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

A Great Washington Shake Out bingo card. The free space is drop, cover, and hold on. Other spaces are filled with suggested activities such as telling a friend about shake out, registering for shake out, testing your evacuation plan, signing up for local emergency alerts, and learning about local hazards.

We're just 😱 2 weeks away 😱 from the Great Washington #ShakeOut. Looking for ways to shake up your ShakeOut game? Check out our bingo card for some good ideas and see if you can get a full house!

And don't forget to register at shakeout.org/washington/ to help us hit 1.7 million participants!

CATCHMENT CUP IS LIVE! Whose ready to learn about some new (and old) research catchments?!? First up: HEADWATER CATCHMENTS

VOTE HERE until 10/4: www.agu-h3s.org/rivercup

Are you a Cocorahs site? That looks kind of like one of their gauges.

I’m voting for the indicator mineral #Kyanite and the information it provides about metamorphic temperature and pressure, shown here with its pseudomorphs, Sillimanite and Andalusite.
#MinCup25

My other suggestion is to build more complex maps in gradually, and do a topo map exercise separately. There are some good suggestions in Journal of Geoscience Ed papers. I think from Heather Petcovic's research group?

I just read down, and with 44 students they would probably end up following the crowd. But maybe, hmmm, 11 different sets of points, and groups of four working together on a map?

Yes! For first-years (or new transfer students) you could use the questions to help them find useful places on campus (tutoring, financial aid, cultural centers, library...). Or reinforce whatever observations of nature you are making in class. Or leave it open-ended to encourage broad observation.

I would ask students to describe what they found at each spot. If they didn't have a lot of background in botany or geology or whatever, I would prepare myself to go back to the sites while grading to see if what they described made sense.

I'm guessing that starting with a map and finding things would be most appropriate. If I made one, I would find a handful (like four or five) places on campus (shrubs or boulders?), mark their location on a campus map, and stick small flags by them so students would know they found them.

What tools do you want them to use? Just a paper map, or a map and compass, or a map and GPS? And do you want them to start with a map and find things, or plot things that they find on a map?

Self-Generation Incentive Program The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

Got 40 mentors & 47 students signed up so far.
Need more of both, but particularly students.

Typical year, we get ~125 mentors & 250+ students. I know this year will not be typical.

Calling all landowners in Texas: consider having a Mesonet weather station on your property!
texaswaternewsroom.org/articles/cal...

A coarse-grained eglogite with green pyroxene, red garnet, and - unusually - deep blue kyanite. "The eclogite seen here is from the Eastern Alps in Slovenia. It has a kyanite component. The resulting rock is red and green and blue - a remarkable color combination." photo credit James St. John, https://www.flickr.com/photos/jsjgeology/52736773607/

here's a very unusual kyanite eclogite for voters' consideration

Undergrad is a time for taking unproductive sidequests and making mistakes, as part of the process of learning to think creatively and independently. Demanding publishable results interferes with the oportunity to really learn.

There should *never* be an expectation, written or unwritten, for undergrads to have publications. *ever*. Great if they have it, but undergrad experience are so varied that any expectation privileges specific kinds of undergraduate students.

I was worried about one of the chain drugstores turning people away. But when I picked up a prescription for my dad, the pharmacist asked me if I'd gotten my COVID (and flu) vaccinations. So there are local people working to encourage the vaccines, at least.

The Mountain Studies Institute in the San Juans!

Two geologists pointing out enormous coastal outcrops of steeply-dipping ribbon chert.

Closer view of the folded and steeply dipping cherts, with two geologists standing on outcrop.

Down-looking view of block-in-matrix melange of scaly mudstones with sandstone blocks.

Outcrop photo of brittle fault rocks at the top of the Yokonami melange, with pencil for scale. This has been interpreted as a fossil plate boundary fault zone.

Yokonami melange, a paleo-megathrust, and so, so much chert, near Kure, Shikoku Island, Japan

NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program (GRFP)

For those anxiously awaiting it: the NSF GRFP solicitation is out, with a November 14 deadline for Geoscience applicants: www.nsf.gov/funding/oppo...

GeoSPACE field program honored with national award for advancing inclusive STEM education GeoSPACE is the first geoscience field camp designed specifically to be accessible and inclusive for students and faculty with disabilities.

Exciting Announcement: Our program is the 2025 winner of the @agu.org Award for Advancing Inclusive Excellence in STEM! We are so thankful to our peers and former students that nominated us for creating geoscience field training opportunities for all ⚒️🌎♿
news.clas.ufl.edu/geospace-pro...

Aw, the dude is a hydrogeologist, too!

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I'm not a field geologist anymore because I got hit in a crosswalk by an SUV when everyone in the car was looking at their phones. (I was defensive walking, too! They stopped
and I thought they were waiting, but they were lost and looking at map apps.)