Beth Bartel

Love this!!!!!!! 😍

I even accidentally registered twice because I thought I must just have failed to register. It’s possible that instructions went to an old email but I also can’t figure out where my Personal page is in the IAVCEI system to change it :(.

The Great Quake and the Great Drowning | Hakai Magazine Mega-quakes have periodically rocked North America’s Pacific Northwest. Indigenous people told terrifying stories about the devastation but refused to leave.

It is #TsunamiPreparednessWeek in British Columbia - a great time to learn more about the past and prepare for the future, starting with stories and lessons passed down from those who have lived on this coast for 1000’s of years 🧪⚒️🌊
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Sun on Sunday in spring, Astoria, Oregon, view of a red building, and a doc on the shore of the Columbia river, with a ship on the river and a person walking onto the dock. White buds and blooms on branches in the foreground.

Sun on Sunday in spring, Astoria, Oregon.

Write a love letter to yourself. Tell yourself how proud of you you are with wonderfully specific examples. Tell yourself the things you adore about yourself. Adorn it with ❤️s & 💐 and tuck it somewhere semi-secret & find it any time you need to feel just a little giddy about how fantastic you are.

YouTube video by USGS GeoKids: Ella

“One of my favorite things about working for the USGS is that we are a science agency but we work on science to help our nation be more resilient, to help our nation be more prepared for natural hazards.”

Also, just 😍

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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS Shuttering IMLS would be "an act of monumental neglect, violating the very foundation of America and what it stands for as a country," the publishers assert.

Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚
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You can stop asking where the mass opposition is. It's everywhere. People poured out to protest not only what Trump has done—and what they fear he will do next.

The message is: crowd large.

Many politicians, administrators, and business leaders, in bowing to Trump, have drawn confidence and comfort from the perceived vibe shift.

Events like this puncture that delusion.

Do you think if we plotted awareness of the word “prerogative” it would peak in 1988?

Maybe with a bump in 2004?

Does anyone use that word anymore?

This kind of activity is linked to more far-reaching hazards (specifically, pyroclastic flows) that can impact surrounding communities. For official info see INSIVUMEH (monitoring) and CONRED (emergency management)

YouTube video by afarTV 🔴 Live Now: 24/7 Fuego Volcano Eruption in 4K Ultra HD

Incredible lava fountaining of Fuego 🌋 tonight. Live camera; as of midnight Pacific time it’s still going strong.

Fuego’s last large eruption like this was in May 2023. It was unusually quiet from mid-Jan until early this morning.

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Likewise! 😍

Calling on science-loving artists:

So loved talking with @parmvir.com for @2scientists.bsky.social — follow her and the podcast for accessible brainy 🧠 takes on science and scientists (and science communication) of all flavors.

and thus feel more informed and in control, and more confident in our decisions.

We can pay attention to our everyday behavior to better understand why people respond or don’t to warning messages for hazards. 🔥🌋🌊🌪️

People are much more likely to follow recommendations if we can see the reasoning behind those recommendations. Google’s alt route options and color coded roads are good examples of this design: when shown options and conditions, we see what we have to gain, what we have to lose, and why,

With full trust, we would have followed the directions and arrived sooner. But people rarely have full trust in anything (and generally with good reason; we prob all know from experience that sometimes nav systems lead us astray, for example).

My dad, without any clear indication of *why* the nav was rerouting us based on 1) what we would gain by following it’s directions or 2) what we would lose by not following its directions and 3) why (the reasons behind the rerouting) we should change our route, did not trust the nav.

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were no red areas to indicate big traffic backups. When we drove toward the second onramp, I did see the approach to it in red, and I did see alternative routes to show me a different route would be much faster, but there was no indication of why the traffic was backed up, e.g. an accident.

So…

Strike 2: The nav on my phone didn’t show alternative routes like it normally does so there was nothing to compare its choice to to help us make an educated choice.

Strike 3: the nav on my phone said nothing about *why* it routed us the way it did. There was no info about the closed onramp. There

And we were stuck in 10 minutes of traffic at the next closest onramp.

Here’s why I think this was and how I think it applies to hazard/crisis communication.

Strike 1: the nav didn’t agree with my dad’s mental map and his experience. So that caused skepticism. (Fair—nav’s are not perfect!)

The nav wanted us to turn before the onramp. “Why is it telling me to turn? No, I’m not doing that.”

Mine was saying the same. I said maybe it knew something we didn’t. This was true. The onramp was closed, so we had to reroute.

But my dad again didn’t like the nav’s route, so he ignored it…

Interesting drive to the train station with my dad yesterday that exemplified a few things about trust and information.

Dad was driving and told his car nav to show the route to the station. I had Google Maps on my phone do the same so I could help him.

But the maps didn’t agree w his experience…

Oh heck yes

Lovely to see you here! 🌈 🌋 💫

You know how we can sometimes prove our own unfounded fears?

I have yet to find my hair band.

Hi!! Isn’t is though? I don’t even know where to start. Which is maybe why I haven’t posted here yet really. Can I start with cats? Am I allowed to start simple?

So good to see you here too. That tells me it’s a good place to be.

Ah yes! That all makes sense. Her husband went to our college too and I ended up sharing a house with him and others in Boulder when he was a grad student and I had my first real job. And awww 🥰. That means a lot. Happy Thanksgiving!

🌋Introducing 'Volcano Cinema: of Eruptions and Other Stories', organised as part of the GCRF-funded 'Ixchel' project.

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So here's my challenge to all you geology instructors: ask your students why plates subduct and report back on their answers.

Pretty please!