Laura Blackstone

There Might Not Be a Map for That: Budget Cuts Threaten Geological Surveys

Nice to get to talk to the New York Times @nytimes.com about funding challenges around publicly available precompetitive geoscience data acquisitions and geological mapping right when these data are more vital than ever for national and economic security: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/c...

20.06.2025 15:11 — 👍 18    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

Belated AGU post — it was so great to hear about the work of others and to share my work with the wider community!

06.01.2025 07:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I took these photos using my phone. For the zoomed in photos, I pointed my camera lens through my binoculars. This technique produced some great pictures, as well as a lot of accidental images of my binoculars hahaha

06.01.2025 07:41 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I thought these flowers looked really neat with the lava lake surface in the background

06.01.2025 07:38 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

So grateful to have been able to witness this beautiful event

06.01.2025 07:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Image of Kilauea volcano erupting at night

Zoomed in image of Kilauea erupting at night, showing the primary lava fountain

Another zoomed in image of the primary lava fountain

Another image of the primary lava fountain

A few pics I took of Kilauea erupting during 12/24/24

06.01.2025 07:34 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Recently switched over. Restarting the process of painstakingly curating a feed filled with exclusively geophysics 🌋 and cute animal pics 🦦

22.11.2024 19:35 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0