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In Memoriam: Wes Hildreth, 1938-2025 The USGS California Volcano Observatory is saddened to announce the death of Edward Wesley (Wes) Hildreth III, in a vehicle accident on June 19, 2025, in rural western Nevada near Long Valley Caldera.

Sad news about a colleague of mine at the USGS and a legend in the volcanology field: www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

Trewly.

YouTube video by HUDchannel Live: The New Golden Age of HUD | Secretary Turner Unveils HUD’s New Building

Absolutely speechless as this press conference basically ignores that NSF is already working, living, loving this building. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zdct...

Not seeing nearly enough coverage of this.

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

This is how it’s done!
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A pale yellow lab on a red leash looks happily at the woman petting him. He is adorned with red white and blue pompoms and wearing a sign on each side. The visible sign reads "Pro Democracy, Pro Choice, Pro Science, Pro Women, Pro Dogs". Around him, protesterscmill about with similar signs.

A very important doggo from one of today's #NoKings protests. (The other side of his signs says "No tariffs on treats")

@weratedogs.com

Blue Dot: The golden state's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory Host Dave Schlom discusses one of his favorite topics, California's volcanoes, with two United States Geological Survey staff members from the USGS California Volcano Observatory based at Moffett Fiel...

If anyone wants to hear me and my observatory's monitoring chief talk California volcanoes, this week's NSPR Blue Dot podcast is out! 🧪⚒️🌋

Blue Dot: The Golden State's volcanic legacy: The USGS California Volcano Observatory | NSPR share.google/mko4KMElJXsU...

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Pls elaborate on Shia LaBeouf, I implore you

Imagine this thread, with added volcanoes, and you've got a decent idea of what my job feels like nowadays. I'm either depressed or angry, unable to plan, constantly on edge. Utterly maddening when all I want to do is help people.

Well, that's the presidential proposed USGS budget for FY26. It’s not just NSF and NASA that would be taking earth science research hits if it's enacted.

Okay, probably closer to 300. But yowie!

Not even in frame. That's gotta be over 400 meters

[V3cam] Kīlauea volcano, Hawaii (south Halemaʻumaʻu crater) YouTube video by USGS

Holy mackerel! Check out today's Kilauea eruption www.youtube.com/live/BqmpkUd...

Volcanic Unrest and Hazard Communication in Long Valley Volcanic Region, California The onset of volcanic unrest in Long Valley Caldera, California, in 1980 and the subsequent fluctuations in unrest levels through May 2016 illustrate: (1) the evolving relations between scientists mon...

There's a great paper by Dave Hill (former USGS seismologist) about the Mammoth crisis at link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...) He spent much of his career running the Long Valley Observatory (now CalVO) and working to repair trust in the USGS in Mammoth.

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Making hazard maps is HARD, too. So many questions to answer before drawing lines! Do you show where hazards have been or where they might go in the future? Will the volcano behave the same way it did in the past or throw you a curveball? Do you show the worst case or the most likely scenario?

I should point out that the USGS is not the agency that makes decisions about exclusion zones. Recommendations, yes, which do err on the conservative side, but it is the emergency managers' call where to draw the lines.

Volcano Watch — Colorful plumes – can we see volcanic gases? When volcanic gases are released into the atmosphere, resulting plumes sometimes appear to have a faint color. Is this color indicative of a certain gas present? Answering this question requires descr...

You can also get different plume colors depending on how the light is scattered by sulfate aerosols! www.usgs.gov/observatorie...

4 12x18 inch posters on a brick and concrete wall. The top left is pink and says funding science saves lives, written in microbes, next to a microscope. The one on the right says Biology is bigger than binaries, with a fish, a lily, and a bee. The bottom left says Protecting wildlife starts wtih you, with a bunch of adiorable woodland creatues in yellow, white and black, including an owl, fungi, a... um. weasel? salamanders, butterflies, slugs, and a rotting log. The bottom right says Will our oceans thrive or nosedive the choice is yours, with the ocean represented in a circle, half of which is dead and half of which is alive, including kelp and a mackerel

🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨

WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people.

4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic.

Get 'em Squidfacts.bigcartel.com

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We could say Childless Third Sex, or, and hear me out,

I've been knitting those too! The mini version. They're so satisfying.

Orogeny xkcd.com/3070

Seconding this. The USGS Volcanoes social media accounts and websites (www.usgs.gov/observatorie...) also have info, but VNS is the fastest source.

A female scientist looks at a flask. Text: They can’t fire science. Tell us your story. Link: bit.ly/faces_of_science

Looking for scientists to feature! Is your work affected by mass firings and defunding of federal science? Tell us your story!

Bit.ly/faces_of_science #sciart #scicomm

That's so cool! I studied hydrothermal alteration minerals in my PhD and Mammoth Mtn is one of the volcanoes I help monitor now - so put me first on the purchase list when these pieces hit your shop 😁

Just FYI - NOAA is responsible for Volcanic Ash Advisory Centers, but the U.S. Geological Survey monitors, alerts to, and heads the scientific response to volcanic eruptions.

I live in Silicon Valley and the obliviousness and waste when they could be doing some real good for the world is MADDENING.

Also this cute little goober. She's "helping". #geokitties 🐾

Becky Burke of Book Island (a picture book publisher in the UK founded by my fellow Tokarczuk translator Greet Pauwelijn) was "detained" by ICE at the Canadian border on 2/28. Her father asked that her story be shared in case someone can help her. He writes: