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Sea Grant Holiday Cards are coming in. Should I rank them publicly this year? I probably will not.

So,

Mostly good, some I don't think cured all the way as they had a bit of a gasoline taste. I didn't roast any, I assume that'll make a difference.

Collected, cleaned, dried, cured and ate my first just this year.

Tom Kimmerer (@tomkimmerer) Black walnut trees, Jugulans nigra,  are abundant in much of North America. They are large, distinct trees highly valued for their wood. They bear some of the most delicious but infuriating nuts of an...

Black walnuts are a North American tree that produces the most delicious nuts of all our tres. Getting the nutmeat out of the fruit is infuriatingly difficult, but there are easier ways to obtain them. More at Our Trees.

A Forest Ranger standing near a prescribed fire in a field.

Forest Rangers, staff from DEC's Division of Lands and Forests, NYS Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation, and Albany Pine Bush conducted a prescribed burn of over four acres at the Albany Pine Bush on Oct. 28, and over 34 acres at Moreau Lake State Park on Oct. 29.

Op-ed: From docks to dinner plates, Sea Grant delivers real value for working waterfronts The Sea Grant program is key to the U.S. seafood sector’s continued growth

Across the country, #SeaGrant programs are helping coastal communities thrive—from sustaining fisheries to strengthening working waterfronts.

Learn more with this op-ed from #SeafoodSource:
www.seafoodsource.com/news/supply-...

#Seafood #WorkingWaterfronts #CoastalScience

Big U.S. West Coast earthquakes could come as a one-two punch Cascadia and San Andreas fault zones appear to generate synchronized earthquakes

Scary news for West Coast friends in my latest for @science.org. Disturbed ocean sediments off California suggest big earthquakes on the Cascadia fault can trigger big quakes on the San Andreas. The "Big One" could well become the "Big Two"...

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Two stickers staring "You can have my large woody debris when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."

YouTube video by PBS Terra America's Great Lost Tree Is Finally Returning

youtu.be/ADA6cuWy8Xg?...

Whoa, wildlife crossings got the Nathan Pyle treatment! Honestly, given what we know about the social lives of ungulate herds, the complexity of their spatial memories, and the importance of the lead female in dictating behavior, he’s not too far off. #roadecology

Earth’s future written in stone: How geoscientists in Ireland use Ice Age boulders to forecast climate change Researchers are chipping away at the mountains of climate change evidence in Ireland’s glacial geology.

Another great piece about our terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide research in Ireland by @francesmack.bsky.social and Cathy Ching from @medillschool.bsky.social

thebulletin.org/2025/09/how-...

A small fishing boat in the fog

View looking west towards the Sodus Point Dune. The lake is not visible due to the fog.

Some grass in the foreground looking across the channel to a work crew moving rocks into a shoreline project.

View down a pier with a sandy shoreline to the left. Not pictured: a lighthouse.

Sodus Point, yesterday

This is figure 4, which shows the evolution of the 2025 Santorini crisis.

A more than 30-day earthquake episode that struck Greece in January 2025 could be explained by the volcanoes Santorini and Kolumbo sharing a magma chamber, according to a paper in Nature. go.nature.com/4pDboC1 ⚒️ 🧪

Fun fact: One of my extension interns (c. 2015) worked there before getting a "real" job and I learned many things about The Olive Garden I would have rather not learned.

Went on LinkedIn (2/10, would not recommend) and it was just advertisements for prescription drugs. And mixed in between was a survey question about how useful the feed was in reaching my professional goals. Wellllllll

Kayaks on bank of a wide shallow river, riparian area is lush with green trees and white puffy clouds in sky

a wide shallow river, riparian area is lush with green trees and white puffy clouds in sky

Kayak on bank of a wide shallow river, riparian area is lush with green trees and white puffy clouds in sky

Fun time last week looking at a historic eel weir and mussel survey on the Schuylkill - underwater videos coming soon!🐟🐟🐟🐟

Seeing so much effort lately on freshwater mussels. Love to see it.

"Michigan Sea Grant is a smart investment" over an image of an interdunal wetland

Michigan Sea Grant is a smart investment! In 2018-23, we invested $3.5 million in 21 research projects that are addressing harmful algal blooms, boosting economic development in coastal communities, and more. buff.ly/EwCZQcp

A photo of fish with the text "Maryland Sea Grant provides crucial support for Chesapeake Bay research, our aquaculture economy, and Maryland's watermen community. - Maryland constituent"

Last week, details of the administration’s budget request for NOAA for fiscal year 2026 were released. Unfortunately, it proposes terminating the National Sea Grant College Program’s funding. Urge Congress to restore our funding for fiscal year 2026. Sign our support letter: MDSGo.org/support2025

The crown of the 25 June 2025 landslide at Granizal in Colombia. Still from a video posted to Youtube by Cubrinet.

The 25 June 2025 landslide at Granizal in Colombia. Still from a video posted to Youtube by Cubrinet.

A major landslide has occurred in the vicinity of Altos de Oriente and Manantiales, near to Medellín and Bello, in Colombia. It is believed that about 25 people died.
eos.org/thelandslide...
Images from a drone video on Youtube by Cubrinet

StoryMaps seems borked at the moment

The Atlantic's chilling secret: A century of data reveals ocean current collapse A century-old mystery of a stubborn cold patch in the North Atlantic is finally being unraveled. A new study links this anomaly to a long-term weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulat...

A study confirms what we have long argued: the spectacular Atlantic 'cold blob' is the result of a slowing of the Atlantic overturning circulation #AMOC, which transports warm waters into that region. That's the only part of Earth that resisted #globalwarming. 🌊
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

A heat wave is expected to hit Western New York this week. Escape the high temperatures at the Central Library with air conditioning (!), free WiFi & computers, books, movies & more.

See full Library hours here: www.buffalolib.org/hours/otd.php

Sand piles up above and below a guardrail in Sunset Bay, NY.

Attendees listen intently (I hope) to a DEC engineer discussing shoreline permitting.

A bright orange sunset along Dunkirk Pier on a lightly cloudy evening, showing the pier, slips and reflections within the quiet harbor.

Another successful Seiche workshop/information session - this time in Sunset Bay with attendees from all over Erie and Chautauqua Counties.

Residents learned about climate-driven shoreline events, building and maintaining dunes along the Great Lakes, and NYS DEC permitting.

Keep those around you informed, but please, post something nice once in a while. It is not - and cannot be - all doom.

Me prior to AI: I'm a failed academic
Me after AI: You know what, maybe this worked out for the best