Dr. Cat Lambert

Not terrible for an exercise that doesn't let me use the words risk, geothermal, or communication!

...about what is right for them and their family and their place. Those talking about earth heat need to understand why people think the way that they do so that we can make better choices together that more people feel good about."

"I study how the heat inside the earth helps us heat homes and make power for people to use for their lives. Heat from the earth can be good but can also make bad things happen sometimes. When people decide if they like it or not, they decide using many different ways of thinking...

I had my students do a quick exercise in class with @xkcd.com's Simple Writer, where you're limited to the 1000 most common words in English. To make things fair, I wrote alongside them and did a quick research bio:

YouTube video by zentouro There’s no such thing as a natural disaster

Posting a reminder that no disasters are natural, & a certain one twenty years ago was especially not natural. So, you should not use the phrase. You can just say "disaster". (Although in this particular instance it was a catastrophe, not a disaster but... baby steps)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT9-...

Gross, creepy, and with a heaping side order of misogyny

Does anyone have 1 cigarette I can borrow

Alluvial fans....

Welcome to NEU 😅 I joined Comm Studies last year, if you'd like to chat!

Have any of you smart folks studied/written about the effects of family/friends/social pressures on people's disaster prep and decision to evacuate, particularly in this era of social media (and mis/disinformation)? This keeps coming up over and over in interviews with evacuees from the LA fires.

Poster #13 at the @comsher.bsky.social section in Salon 9, come say hi and learn about nature zines and how people construct identity through their experiences with nature and the environment!

These AI murals are a grimly amusing backdrop to the heavy AI focus at AEJMC:

A cursory USGS look-up reveals that this M8.8 tied for 6th largest quake ever recorded by instruments. Also, taxpayer-funded science and tech agencies save lives.

www.usgs.gov/media/images...

Image showing the meaning of each tsunami notification and the associated action.

And now the west coast of the US and BC has been put under a Tsunami Advisory. www.weather.gov/safety/tsuna...

Is that why his DJ van is trying to break everybody's eardrums? 😑

I understand for lots of reasons people aren't paying attention to the earthquake in Myanmar but the estimated death toll is as high as Cyclone Nargis in 2008 which killed 140,000 people which. That's roughly the population of Coral Springs, FL; Elizabeth,NJ; New Haven, CT or Pasadena,CA

One of the more galling aspects of the Liberation Day nonsense is that they couldn’t even find it within themselves to delay the 45% tariffs on Myanmar, which is currently dealing with an earthquake that killed more than 3,000 people and displaced countless more on Friday.

The new satellite imagery to the right of the surface rupture is perfectly aligned with the historical Google imagery. On the left, you can see the rupture and offset.

Update: The USGS has made a notable update to its ShakeMap. Now showing a substantially larger rupture that suggests major impacts for an even bigger portion of Myanmar.

3.71 million people now estimated to have felt Violent (MMI: IX) shaking. That is hugely concerning.

Strong aftershocks persist.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

I just used @5calls.org to urge my representatives to protect the EPA, you should too: 5calls.org

Information produced by the state is a public good. This administration seems dead set on destroying basically all public goods, from public health to education to weather forecasting. It’s breathtaking in its simplicity and its harm.

Kicking off Sustainability Innovation Week - drop by our table at the Expo in the Curry Student Center Ballroom from 1:30 to 3pm to learn about sustainability, #scicomm, and public engagement opportunities!

As my friend @drshepherd2013.bsky.social says, asking why we need a National Weather Service when we have apps and the Weather Channel is like asking why we need potato farmers when we can buy fries at McDonalds.

The U.S. has two tsunami warning centers, both operated by NOAA. Employees were terminated from these centers today. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center covers Hawaiʻi, and now it is less safe to be near the beach.

www.tsunami.gov

BREAKING: A federal judge in California has ordered OPM to rescind memos calling for the mass termination of probationary employees, saying the agency overstepped its legal authority and must inform other agencies it lacked the authority to issue such a directive.

Donate to Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza, organized by Akram Abdelwahed Hello, my name is Akram. I am 29 years old and from Gaza. After my father's … Akram Abdelwahed needs your support for Help the Abdelwahed family evacuate Gaza

It’s not for us to feel hopeless. You’ve already impacted this family’s ability to survive; the ask is to continue to believe in them!

With the occupation still blocking aid, surviving is still difficult in غaza. Every € has a real impact. Match my 10?

A yellow-gold square graphic. In the center is a circular photo of several people working at remote workstations with laptops and chargers. They’re in a building with lights, outlets, and cupboards. The image has an orange glow behind it. Around the image is the title, Spark Space, Gaza, decorated with illustrated plugs. The text below says, “We aim to create a safe, fully-equipped workspace with reliable electricity and fast internet, offering students and freelancers in Gaza the environment they need to continue their journey despite the hardships.” Below is the link https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza.

A challenge for Ramadan ‼️ today’s drive is to keep the lights on at this community workspace offering free internet & electricity for students.

They’ve asked us to raise £550 by Saturday to keep operating.

A modest ask in 3 days - I believe in us!💡 https://chuffed.org/project/spark-space-gaza

I made the following to showcase federal hazard resources awhile ago (it works better in vertical format):

Happy International Day of Women in Science. The National Science Foundation’s list of flagged words includes both “Women” and “Female.”

For US EPA EnviroScreen data accessibility: screening-tools.com/epa-ejscreen