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Promotional graphic for the DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Program. The background is a dark blue gradient with flowing wave-like patterns in blue and gold. At the top, white text reads: “DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship Applications Now Open.” Below, a yellow box with black text says: “Seeking Disabled Mentees and Dedicated Mentors to Champion Inclusion in STEM.” At the bottom, white text states: “Applications due December 5th.” In the lower right corner, there is the DisabledInSTEM logo.

It's that time of year again... time for #DisabledInSTEM 2026 Mentorship applications! I'm so excited to be running this program for the sixth year and seeing the growth over the years!

Mentee form: forms.gle/um5DvYnBi3tn...
Mentor form: forms.gle/BvaxnQm8uhUR...

Applications due December 5th!

Our new #OpenAccess paper 'Sediment-stressed reefs over the past 420 Myr', led by Tanja Unger, has been published in The Depositional Record

Understanding natural and anthropogenic sediment influx to reef systems is critical to planning protection strategies
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

leaf shaped animal fossil with sickle shaped branches meeting a a zigzagged axis Charnia brasieri sp nov

Shaped of the currently valid species of Charnia and their branch types

seafloor reconstruction of Charnia brasieri as a procumbent organisms living among microbial matgrounds

This #FossilFriday I’m excitedly sharing a new #Ediacaran #Charnia brasieri named for my PhD Supervisor & friend Martin Brasier who died 2014. I’ve wanted to name something for him ever since but I wanted it to be something special. When I saw the first one from Inner Meadow I knew it was the 1 🧵

Great talk by Dr Romain Vaucher from James cook uni - on using sediment records from shallow water systems to help understand the habitats and environments of fossils and understanding climate change. Thanks for showing the complex Fitzroy estuary in central qld, Romain.

Sooo @plosone.org lost my reviews. You guys are #clowns
Not able to answer emails for 50 days, not respecting your editors, your authors nor your reviewers. Submission is retracted.
Publish #Diamond #Openaccess 💎

🚨 New Paper 🚨

Tournier et al. assess the potential seismicity hazard of the Poso depression, Sulawesi island, through a paleoseismological analysis of mass transport deposits preserved in lake sediments archive.

Read the full publication here: oap.unige.ch/journals/sdk...

#Factfriday Guild of Diamonds

Check out our sister journals Volcanica, @weareseismica.bsky.social , @wearetektonika.bsky.social , Geodynamica, @sedimentologika.bsky.social , and @weareagc.bsky.social . We are thankful for their support and happy to pass on knowledge to the upcoming journals.

Characterization of the 1966 Camp Century subglacial core: a multiscale analysis Abstract. In 1966, drilling at Camp Century, Greenland, recovered 3.44 m of subglacial material from beneath 1350 m of ice. Although prior analysis of this material showed that the core includes glaci...

Cool new paper from Cat Collins and our Greenland lab group. Using CT scans to study frozen soil from below the Greenland Ice Sheet. Open access. Thanks NSF for supporting this research.

❄️🧪💙📚
#scicomm
#climate
#UVMresearch
#science
 🌎 🔬 ⚒️
#ClimateHealth
#NSF

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Paul Bierman, Geoscientist My passions are telling stories and solving the mysteries of our planet

My book, When the Ice Is Gone: What a Greenland Ice Core Reveals About Earth's Tumultuous History and Perilous Future, comes out in paperback Friday. As the planet heats, our team's science becomes ever more relevant. Lose Greenland's ice and every coastal city is underwater.🧪
www.paulbierman.net

Congrats of Jesper on his new paper, Siberia glacier dating. OPEN ACCESS

A late Pleistocene glacial maximum during MIS 3 in the Chersky Mountains, central northeast Siberia

Thanks NSF for supporting UVM Community Cosmogenic Facility!🧪 #nationalsciencefoundation

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

and the Trump admin policies are going to make this that much worse.🧪

Amazing 💚

The Ramsay Climate Conversation

Sunday August 10, 12-2pm

RSVP: www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/ramsay_clima...

#Ramsay #yyc #ClimateConversations #Climate #EnergyTransition

Rocket leaving the launch pad

Confirmation of solar array deployment for the MTG-S1 satellite. Marks beginning of two key Earth Observation missions: MTG-S1 for improved data for weather forecasting & storm detection; Copernicus Sentinel-4, for enhanced air quality monitoring over Europe.

Details 👉 www.esa.int/Applications...

‘Completely unexpected’: Antarctic sea ice may be in terminal decline due to rising Southern Ocean salinity Scientists once thought Antarctica might hold onto its sea ice as the world warmed. No longer.

"What we found was astonishing" - more surprises from the Southern Ocean and why it matters.

from Alessandro Silvano

theconversation.com/completely-u...

Our PhD student Manuel Zolchow from the applied geophysics group at Kiel University just published his second paper in the Journal of Applied Geophysics:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

I also cover the impressive results of the paper in this video presentation

youtu.be/BvyDcPEsWnc?...

Tailgate covered in fossil fish slabs

Fossil fish slab

Tiny fossil fish on limestone

Slabs of multiple fossil fishes

Went fishing in the Eocene today!

Met up with my sister’s family and took them on a fossil dig 🤓

It is sourced in deglacial glaciolacustrine sediments along the Takhini River. This more vertical view shows the mobility of the flows and active zones in the head scarp. The left side of the main slide and the entirety of the satellite slide are active. In 2023 it retrogressed 13 m.

This is what a direct hit of a 90-mph #tornado does to a mobile home! Wait for it... house falls right back into place.
Video via Martha Hicks in Largo

Richard Bambach will always be remembered as a champion of functional-ecological way of thinking in macroevolution. Way before the modern trend in analyzing functional diversity.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
🧪 ⚒️ #Paleobio #Geology #EvoBio

Biomass satellite returns striking first images of forests and more Today, at the Living Planet Symposium, ESA revealed the first stunning images from its groundbreaking Biomass satellite mission – marking a major leap forward in our ability to understand how Earth’s ...

It is well worth taking a look at some of the first striking and beautiful Biomass images at ESA. I like the landscape in Gabon, but there are also rivers, volcanoes, and a glacier if they're more what you're looking for: www.esa.int/Applications...

Webinar This Thursday: How Do Fire Managers Use Information?: Developing Practical and Usable Weather and Climate Information for Southwest Wildfire Management
Thursday, June 26th at 11:00am AZ / 12:00pm MT
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

A box model diagram, showing a 3D "wedge" of landscape. On the model, each talk is represented. There is a city and a lignite mine in the background, with some horses on the far mountain. The meandering river is dammed, and has sandmining, subsidence, and anthropogenic alteration along the beach. A spit and lagoon, island, and reef represent the other fascinating coastal talks. In the foreground is a deep sea corer, and to the right of the image are mined tunnels and some surface spoil heaps. Each feature is labelled with the time at which the equivalent talk occurs, details of which may be found in the programme.

🌍ASN 2025 #Conference registration is OPEN!🌍

Sediment processes are no longer simply natural, they involve #economies, #cities, #engineered #environments, and much more!

Join us in expanding our understanding of #sediment system complexity: anthrosednet.com/2025-confere...

#Anthropocene #ASN25

Bay Area breakthrough in imaging earthquakes with 1000 times more accuracy could revolutionize how we prepare for tremors Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory could ‘revolutionize’ earthquake monitoring and provide researchers the ability to find hidden faults and looming threats in Bay Area cities.

"with the interrogator in place, each 10-meter segment of fiber optic cable captured seismic waves – the equivalent of 8,000 seismometers" ⚒️🫨
www.mercurynews.com?p=12047196/

From EMSC

🔔#Earthquake (#sismo) M2.4 occurred 11 mi NE of San Francisco (#California) 2 min ago (local time 18:36:27). More info at:
📱https://m.emsc.eu/#app
🌐https://m.emsc.eu/?id=1815479
🖥https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake_information/earthquake.php?id=1815479

Here's the 2023-2024 global warmth in context (via @hausfath.bsky.social). Shown is a comparison of global surface temperature obs w/ IPCC ("CMIP6") climate model simulations, through March 2025 (2023-2024 temperatures slightly exceed multimodel mean)

Climate Change and Harmful Algal Blooms: Insights and perspective Climate change is transforming aquatic ecosystems. Coastal waters have experienced progressive warming, acidification, and deoxygenation that will int…

Not sure the divisive language is called for. But dang. I have to admit the algal problem is a new one on me. Seems like research on the climate connection is fairly new (and I’m fairly old).

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Thin section image of Hawaiian beachrock - cross-section of a small gastropod partly filled by fibrous aragonite cement. Shell wall is layered - the thickest layer is radial calcite-aragonite crystal structure. Its neighbour (right) is a foraminifera. Plane polarized light

Thin section image of Hawaiian beachrock - cross-section of a small gastropod partly filled by fibrous aragonite cement. Shell wall is layered - the thickest layer is radial calcite-aragonite crystal structure. Its neighbour (right) is a foraminifera. Plane polarized light ⚒️🧪🌊

📢 The final ArcticDEM & REMA release is here - and it might be the last. Funding cuts put vital polar data at risk. Help us rally support: take the survey! 🔗https://z.umn.edu/pgc-dem-survey #PolarScience #SavePolarData